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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 28/ Day: 188 Today: H 81°…L 57°
Wind: ave: 5mph; Gusts: 22mph Ave. humidity: 52%
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Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
12,000 police occupy university in Mexico City…1977
127°F (53°C), Parker Ariz (state record)…1905
1st comic book "The Wasp," is
published…1801
Beginning of the civil war in Biafra…1967
British Museum founded by an Act of Parliament
(opens in 1759)…1753
Chocolate introduced…1550
"God Save the King" is 1st sung…1607
Construction begins on Boulder (Hoover) Dam…1930
Land Grant Act endows state colleges with
federal land…1862
Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st
American saint…1946
Retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy
25 years after her death…1456
Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the Supreme
Court…1981
Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the
Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe,
Missouri. It is described as the
greatest forward step in the baking industry since
bread was
wrapped"…1928
University of Delaware invents "junior
year abroad" (at Sorbonne)…1923
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Lots of thunderstorms Saturday here in our small mountain town. Sadly, that means flooding for the many people who live below a burn area in East Flagstaff. A lot has been spent to stop the damage, but it sounds like a few of the streets are flooding. The problem is that the flooding brings debris from the mountain and leaves lots of sand, silt, and foliage in the drainage ditches and on the neighborhood streets that flood.Talked to my brother this afternoon. He and his wife are back from Mexico and had a great time. As with any vacation, they are looking forward to a good night’s sleep and a day to rest before returning to the grind of work tomorrow.I have flown on the Boeing 777 many times. Watching the crash results in SF certainly gives me pause. These people were in the air for about 12+ hours and were tired and excited to get off the plane. Thankfully I have never had a hard landing in that plane, but have been on a flight that I think is about to land when it suddenly heads back up. Not a pleasant experience. While there are lots of exits and flight crews are trained well, the aisles are narrow and with over 300 people trying to get out all at once is frightening and adding a fire would make it worse. Amazing photos to see people carrying bags as they went down the slide and ran from the plane. Really? Seems to me that the most important thing is to get off the plane alive, not to grab your computer or trinkets or duty free. But then again, don’t know what I would do in that situation.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Take the given words, and by moving a single
letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms.
For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating
two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Rode - Can 2. Font - Farce 3. Tory - Stale 4. Dire - Cash 5. Self - Shill
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Oxymorons
Evaporated milk Even odds Exact estimate Extensive briefingOk, then?
Harper’s Index
Rank of Saudi Arabia among nations with most viewers per capita on You Tube: 1
Picture of the Day: Street Markets
Unusual Fact of the Day
Norwegian cross country skier Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset attributed his disappointing silver medal in the 4×10-kilometer relay at the 2010 Winter Olympics to less-than-focused preparation. “I think I have seen too much porn in the last 14 days,” he said.Joke-of-the-day
Notice on the bulletin board at the wrestling arena: “There will be a rehearsal for tonight’s bout at 2pm.”
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
PLAYING POKER
An old rule of thumb says that when your turn comes to call, don't do it - raise or fold. Not always, of course, but amateurs will call a lot more often than professionals.
Yeah, It Really Happened
DALLAS - A retired teacher from Dallas who wore the same outfit for yearbook picture day for 40 years says he started the trend by accident and kept it up on a dare. Dale Irby, 63, said the whole stunt started out in 1974, when he wore the same outfit for picture day as he did the year before, the Dallas Morning News reported. "I was so embarrassed when I got the school pictures back that second year and realized I had worn the very same thing as the first year," said Irby, an elementary school gym teacher. Then, his wife dared him to wear the outfit -- a patterned polyester shirt and coffee-colored sweater -- again for a third year in a row. "After five pictures," he said, "it was like: 'Why stop?'" Irby wore the same outfit every year until he retired from Prestonwood Elementary this year. "He took his job so seriously in teaching good sportsmanship -- both in athletics and in life," Prestonwood principal Pam Aitken said. "He taught a lot of kids to be fair and respectful of others. That's a great legacy to leave."
Somewhat Useless Information
- The first American satellite in orbit, Explorer I, was launched February 1, 1958.
- The first man-made object to circle the earth was Sputnik I, launched in 1957.
- The International Space Station weighs about 500 tons and is the same size as a football field.
- The three most recently discovered planets were Uranus in 1781, Neptune in 1846, and Pluto in 1930.
Calendar Information
1-7
National Education Association Week
National Unassisted Homebirth Week
4-7
National Unassisted Homebirth Week
4-7
4-10
Freedom Week: 4-10
7-13
Be Nice To New Jersey Week
Creative Maladjustment Week
National Farriers Week
Nude Recreation Weekend
7-13
Be Nice To New Jersey Week
Creative Maladjustment Week
National Farriers Week
Nude Recreation Weekend
Today Is
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Chocolate Day
·
Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day
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Global Forgiveness Day
·
Tell The Truth Day
^^
·
Japan: Tanabata/Star
Festival (celebrates the meeting of the deities Orihime and Hikoboshi
(represented by the stars Vega and Altair respectively))
·
Solomon
Islands: Independence Day (1978 from Australia)
·
Spain: Running
of the Bulls (since 14th c)
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Tanzania:
Saba Saba Day (1954 founding of the Tanganyika African National Union
Today’s Events through History
Coordinated terrorist bomb blasts strike
London's public transport system during the
morning rush hour killing 52 and
injuring 700…2005
Coronado attacks the Zuni village of Hawikuh in what
becomes New Mexico…1540
Doors' "Light My Fire" hits #1…1967
Oñate’s expedition is at the village of the
San Domingo Pueblos. According to their
journals, leaders from seven different
Pueblo groups meet in a council with Oñate.
The journals also says the tribal
leaders pledge allegiance to Spain…1598
Travelers checks patented…1891
US annexes California…1846
US annexes Hawaii…1898
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Doc Severinsen, [Carl], bandleader/trumpeter
on the Tonight Show is 86
In their 70’s
Ringo Starr, [Richard Starkey], Beatles
drummer is 73
In their 60’s
Shelley Duvall, actress (Popeye, Faery Tale
Theater) is 64
Under 30
Michele Kwan, figure skater (Oly-94,
Oly-silver-98) is 33
Remembered
for being born today
Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented programmable
loom [1752-1834]
Gustav Mahler, Austrian composer/conductor [1860-1911]
Joel Siegel, film critic [1943- 2007]
Today’s Historical Obits
Syd Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist
of the band Pink Floyd…pancreatic cancer…2006…at 60
Keefe Brasselle, actor (Be Our Guest)…liver
disease…1981…at 58
William Curtis, English botanist (Botanical
Magazine), dies at 53
Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (Sherlock
Holmes)…heart attack…1930…at 71
Thomas Gray, English poet (Elegy) …1771…at 54
Allen Lane [Williams], English publisher
(Penguin Books)…cancer…1970…at 67
Henri Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A….heart
attack…1890…at 75
Answer: Brain
Teasers
1. Rod - Cane 2. Front - Face 3. Story - Tale 4. Die - Crash 5. Shelf - Sill
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel
free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet
sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned
that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there,
many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events
occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be
totally accurate.
§ And That Is All for
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