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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 32/ Day: 217
Today: H 77°…L 54°
Wind:
ave: 8mph; Gusts: 21mph Ave.
humidity: 64%
Average Low 51° Average High 81°
Record Low 35° (1976) Record High
90° (1944)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
"American Bandstand," begins network
TV (ABC)…1957
1,500 Iroquois attack the village of Lachine,
in New France…1689
1st travelers checks issued (American Express)…1891
Arab terrorists open fire at Athens airport,
kills 3 injures 55…1973
Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in
Japan)…1945
Comic strip "Andy Capp" made its
debut…1957
Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie,"
by Harold Gray, debuts…1924
Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on
Bedloe's Island (NYC)…1884
Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English
colony in North America)…1583
Gunman opens fire on Wisconsin Sikh temple
kills 6 people and committing suicide…2012
Joan Benoit (US) wins 1st Olympic marathon for
women (2:24:52)…1984
Oregon country divided between US &
Britain at 49th parallel…1846
Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic
controllers who struck…1981
Standard Oil of New Jersey is established…1882
US Army abolishes flogging…1861
William Wallace captured by the English near
Glasgow and transported to London
for trial and execution…1305
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Another wet day here in Flagstaff. Not knowing any better, this summer has me thinking we are living in a much more tropical area. Behind my deck little mushrooms are beginning to appear. Hardly the stuff we are used to seeing in a high desert. Also the infamous rocks in our front area are getting little green weeds growing around them. I’m sure mold is going to be our next summer outdoor surprise. Today I had 3 separate 20 minute fairly heavy showers about an hour apart.While the embassy/consulate closings around the world were a surprise, some must have left Americans traveling in those countries a little more than ‘on edge’. One of the closings was in Dubai. Dubai is a tourist haven for the very rich throughout that part of the world as well as Americans and Europeans. I can’t believe the terrorists would want to upset any of the Emirates by bringing fear to the many money spending tourists. We closed all the UAE embassies so something must be up.My Native neighbors, with whom I share a sidewalk, have had a very busy summer. I don’t mind, except in the evening, when I have my window open in the living room while I watch TV. There is an almost constant stream of young families coming and going...not a problem…unless the toddlers are crying or yelling or the parents are continuing their loud conversations all the way to the parking lot. It is almost never in anger, but lots of loud laughing, joking, and making plans. When I close the window, everything is fine, so I’m not going to complain.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain TeasersAccording to U.S. law, there are officially designated days that all U.S. flags are to be flown at half-mast (for example: Memorial Day). The President and state governors also have the right to declare certain days that flags are to be flown at half-mast.There is a particular group of U.S. flags that are never lowered to half-mast and appear to "violate" this U.S. Law. These flags were erected by U.S. Military personnel, but those troops will never be accused of doing anything wrong for those violations.These flags are currently displayed today, and they have been for numerous years. Where is this particular group of flags displayed?
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Tongue
Twisters
D
Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps.
^^
A dozen double damask dinner napkins.
^^
Draw drowsy ducks and drakes.
Ok, then?
Don't pamper damp scamp tramps that camp under ramp lamps.
^^
A dozen double damask dinner napkins.
^^
Draw drowsy ducks and drakes.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
- Number of students currently attending the 13 Washington DC public schools expected to close this year: 2633
- Number of students who are white: 2
Songs with Double Meanings:
Back Door Man - The Doors - Key Triple Lyric of song:"I'm your backdoor man, the men don't know, but the little girls understand" (1) Having an affair with a married woman. In this case the "back door man" is meant as a person who is sneaking around and "using the back door" when visiting the lady in question so nobody knows of his visits (or, his exiting the home fast by the back door, while her husband came home unexpectedly - through the front door); (2) Having anal sex; (3) Having sex with underage girls. In this case, the lyric:"I eat more chicken than any man ever seen" seems to cover this, as "chicken" is sex slang referring to children under the legal age of sexual consent.
Behind Blue Eyes - The Who- Key Double Lyric of song: "No one knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man behind blue eyes" (1) The song is about a lonely man and his sad life (2) The song was written by Pete Townshend, who has blue eyes, and is about how he is seeing things in life through (or behind) his own two eyes.
Unusual Fact of the Day
Maine is the only state to border only one state.
Joke-of-the-day
One friend to another, “My new horse is very well-mannered.”“That’s nice.”“Yes, isn’t it? Every time we come to a jump he stops and lets me go first!”
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
STORING HEAT
IN A GREENHOUSE
Containers of water are excellent for storing heat in a solar greenhouse. Start with 1 cubic foot of water for each square foot of greenhouse glass.
Yeah, It Really Happened
NANTUCKET, Mass. - Officials on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island said they do not know the identity or motive of a "prankster" who left a shark carcass on a pub's doorstep. John Smith, Nantucket's public works operations manager, said his office got a call at 7 a.m. Thursday to remove a dead shark from in front of the Sea Dog Brew Pub and he had to call in a front-end loader to cart away the 6-foot-long, 100-pound shark, the Boston Herald reported Friday. "In the summertime, there's always somebody who's a prankster," Smith said. He said a prankster filled a street with small "black back" tuna a few summers ago. "Fortunately this doesn't happen that often," he said. Sea Dog Brew Pub manager Jimmy Agnew said he was also perplexed by the shark. "It just made for an interesting day," he said. Agnew said a couple of people had to be removed from the bar before it closed at 3 a.m., but he didn't think any of the incidents were severe enough to result in a dead shark delivery. Smith said the carcass is being sent to be processed at a landfill and will eventually become topsoil.
Somewhat Useless Information
- 10 percent of all human beings ever born are alive at this very moment.
- A person afflicted with hexadectylism has six fingers or six toes on one or both hands and feet.
- A poll of 3,000 Americans found that for 41 percent, the thing they're most afraid of is speaking before a group of people. 32 percent stated they were afraid of heights.
- A Saudi Arabian woman can get a divorce if her husband doesn't give her coffee.
- About 10% of the world's population is left-handed.
Calendar Information
1-7
National Farmers'
Market Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Rock for Life Week
Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Resurrect Romance Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Rock for Life Week
Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Resurrect Romance Week
Exercise With
Your Child Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
(This is sponsored by the FCC and has to do with phone & mail fraud.)
Single Working Women's Week (Week always has the 4th in it)
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
Intimate Apparel Week
National Bargain Hunting Week
Psychic Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
(This is sponsored by the FCC and has to do with phone & mail fraud.)
Single Working Women's Week (Week always has the 4th in it)
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
Intimate Apparel Week
National Bargain Hunting Week
Psychic Week
Sturgis Rally
Today Is
·
Assistance Dog Day
·
International Beer Day
·
National Oyster Day
·
National Underwear Day
^^^
·
Croatia: Homeland
Thanksgiving Day (1995 end to the Republic of Serbian Krajina, a self-proclaimed
Serb entity in Croatia.)
Today’s Events through History
1st American to swim English Channel (Henry
Sullivan)…1923
Bobby Gentry releases her only hit "Ode
to Billy Joe"…1967
Enlistment increases from 3 months to 2 years…1861
Forces under Maya King Jasaw Chan K'awiil I (Sky Rain) defeat an army from
Calakmul under Maya King
Yich'aak K'ak' (Fiery Claw)…695
Moody Blues release "Nights in White
Satin"…1972
Pontiac's War: Battle of Bushy Run - British
forces led by Henry Bouquet defeat
Chief Pontiac's Indians at Bushy Run…1763
War of 1812: Tecumseh ambushes 200 Americans causing
them to flee and retreat…1812
Today’s Birthdays
Loni Anderson, actress (Jennifer-WKRP in
Cincinnati) is 68
Patrick Ewing, Kingston Jamaica, NBA center
(NY Knicks/Olympic-gold-92) is 51
Maureen McCormick, actress (Marcia-Brady Bunch)
is 57
Erika Slezak, actress (Viki-One Life to Live)
is 67
Remembered
for being born today
Neil Armstrong, X-15 pilot, 1st Moonwalker
(Gemini 8, Apollo 11) [1930-2012]
Selma Diamond, Ontario, comedienne
(Selma-Night Court) [1920-1985]
John Eliot, "Apostle to Indians,"
Bible translator, baptized [1604-1690]
John Huston, director/writer (African Queen,
Chinatown) [1906-1987]
Guy de Maupassant, France, author (Boule de
Suif) [1850-1893]
Joseph Merrick, the "Elephant Man" [1862-1890]
Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days)
[1911-1969]
Today’s Historical Obits
Richard Burton, Welsh actor (Cleopatra)…cerebral
hemorrhage…1984…at 58
Judy Canova, singer/comedienne (Chatterbox)…cancer…1983…at
69
Sir Alec Guinness, British actor…2000…at 86
Edgar Guest, US poet/newspaperman…1959…at 77
Carmen Miranda, singer/actress (Down Argentine
Way)…heart attack…1955…at 42
Marilyn Monroe, actress…drug overdose…1962…at
36
Brain
Teasers
These flags are on the moon.The first of these U.S. flags were deployed to the moon on July 20, 1969 by NASA astronauts. There are a total of 6 US flags deployed to the moon surface, one for each visit to the moon (Apollo 11, 12, 14, 15, 16 & 17). We can only assume they are still standing and were not knocked down when the lunar modules' engines fired.
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.
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