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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 32/ Day: 218
Today: H 77°…L 51°
Wind: ave: 2mph;
Gusts: 18mph Ave. humidity: 66%
Average Low Average High
51° 81°
Record Low Record High
36° (1953) 90° (1983)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st case of motion sickness in space reported…1961
1st person to be executed by electric chair…1890
Bob Mathias, US, wins decathlon at London
Olympics…1948
Carl Lewis wins 2nd (long jump) of 4 gold
medals in Summer Olympics…1984
Great Bell is cast in the Great Clock of
Westminster (Big Ben)…1856
Holy Roman Empire ends; it was neither holy, Roman,
nor an empire…1806
Norwich University is founded in Vermont as the
first private military school in the United States…1819
Mount Tongariro, New Zealand, erupts for the
first time in a century…2012
Prometheus, the world's oldest tree [5000
years old], is cut down in Nevada…1964
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Mondays are not usually great days. Not a bad day, just a typical Monday. Still awaiting today’s shower, it has clouded up and is looking like it will be coming later tonight. Ah, while I am writing this a nice gentle rain, no thunder, no lightning…just a soft rain. Nice!My ‘new’ financial advisor called and he is meeting with me tomorrow. He will be coming to my house, which I’m not really excited about. I prefer meeting in an office or a meeting room someplace. It is how I have always done my finances. I’m not signing any papers or giving him any new information. My message is that his company did not provide me with accurate information regarding my accounts. The company never explained to me that all my investments with their company were not available to anyone in the company except my local broker. That just doesn’t sound right. I’ll see what he has to say.Back in January, while on my ‘killer hike’ to see the amazing gorillas, the big toenail on my right foot turned black and had a split…a typical ‘injury’ from up and down hiking. It has taken since then to finally get rid of the purple color under the nail and the split. There is a Chinese guy, the owner, at the local nail salon that does an excellent job. He also gives the best foot/leg massage I have ever had. So nice not to look at the ugly toe while I wear my Tevas.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Below are incomplete words. Place three (3)
letters in each bracket so that you can complete the word on the left and begin
the word on the right. Good luck.
unf (_ _ _ ) est to (_ _ _) tures hic (_ _ _) ful eit (_ _ _) etic fee (_ _ _) eder he (_ _ _) ful
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Tongue
Twisters
E Ed had edited it. The epitome of femininity
Ever wonder where the name came from?
Samsung
This Korean colossus is a relative newcomer to consumer tech, starting the Samsung-Sanyo Electric Company as recently as 1969. Its roots go back to 1938 though, when founder Byung-Chull Lee started up a dried fruit, vegetable and fish export business. By the late 1970s, Samsung’s interests included petrochemical, construction, textile and ship-building industries, the company owned a string of hotels and was exporting color TVs.A decade later it was also making planes, dabbling in space technology and making the world’s smallest video recorders. Today Samsung is vying with Sony for title of world’s biggest consumer electronics maker and spends £0.85 billion a year on R&D. Samsung is the Korean name for ‘three stars’ - which is handy, as that’s the review score many of the company’s products get ;-)
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Percentage increase in per-student spending at major public US colleges since 2005: 23In per-student spending on college athletes: 61
Songs with Double Meanings:
- Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison - Key Double Lyric of song:"Slipping and a-sliding..... with you, my brown-eyed girl" (1) "Brown eyed girl" is drug slang for brown heroin and the song is about the love for the drug. "slipping and a sliding" is a description of using a needle for injection..... But if you know how the song was first written and titled* by Morrision, then that isn't likely; (2) Main/real meaning: The song is about a interracial relationship, a white guy making love to his black girlfriend. *Note: The original title was "Brown Skinned Girl", but because the song was being released in the 1960s, Morrision's new record company made him rewrite the song so radio stations wouldn't have a problem with the song's story of an interracial relationship (a big deal back then). The song ended up being banned by some stations anyway for the lyric "Making love in the green grass".
- Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones - Key Triple Lyric of song: "Brown sugar, how come you taste so good!" (1) About making it with black slaves in the US South during the days of slavery; (2) Song is also about using heroin, as "brown sugar" is drug slang for brown heroin; (3) "Brown sugar" also is: Unrefined sugar that still retains some molasses, which gives it a brownish color. Note: The song isn't about this kind of sugar, however, some of the lyrics are written as a play on words to that meaning, and therefore suggesting that it could also mean this, too.
Unusual Fact of the Day
The flashlight fish projects light that’s created by luminescent bacteria that live in the pockets below its eyes.
Joke-of-the-dayDoctor: What’s wrong with your bother? Boy: He thinks he is a chicken. Doctor: really? How long has this been going on? Boy: Five years. Doctor: Five years! Boy: We would have brought him in earlier, but we needed the eggs.
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
THE RULE
OF MARTINIS
One is too many, two are just right, and three are not enough.
Yeah, It Really Happened
Authorities say a 12-year-old boy in Johnstown, PA used a BB gun to rob a 10-year-old who was running a lemonade stand.Johnstown Sgt. Patrick Goggin says the 12-year-old approached the stand with what appeared to be a handgun in his pocket and threatened the younger boy. Goggin says the boys "got into a wrestling match over the money box" before the older boy took $30 and ran away.30 bucks? That one hell of a lemonade business.Three other children chased the boy home and helped police track him down. That is when police determined the boy had a BB gun.Police aren't identifying the suspect because he'll be charged in juvenile court where most cases remain confidential.
Somewhat Useless Information
- The country of Bhutan issued a group of postage stamps in 1973 that were actually phonograph records. These stamps had native folk songs recorded on one side that could be played on a record player.
- Around 1883, the U.S. witnessed early forms of product placement in the form of a stamp. Advertising for various products was printed on the back of the three-cent stamps.
- During the Apollo 11 moon flight in 1969, the astronauts had a die of a postage stamp, which they pulled an impression of when they touched down on the moon. Once the die was returned to earth, it was used to produce the 10-cent airmail stamp issued in September of 1969.
- As the first country to issue stamps, Britain is the only country to have stamps without its name printed on it.
- The most popular U.S. postage stamp sold over 120 million copies. It was a 1993 stamp of rock singer Elvis Presley.
- "Black on Magenta," the 1856 1 cent British Guiana stamp, is the most rare and expensive stamp in the world. It is valued at $3 million today, but it hasn't been sold since 1980 when it went for $1 million.
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
·
Hiroshima Day
·
National Fresh Breath (Halitosis) Day
·
National Root Beer Float Day
·
National Night Out
·
National
Mustard Day
^^^
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Bolivia: Independence
Day (1825 from Peru/Spain)
·
Japan: Peace
Festival (remembering both bombings since 1945)
Today’s Events through History
1st American to fight in World War I enlists
in the French Foreign Legion…1914
Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo
Jiménez de Quesada…1538
Hundreds of Comanches, led by Buffalo Hump, surround, and attack Victoria,
Texas…1840
John Cabot returns to Bristol from
North-America…1497
Kiowa land in Oklahoma is opened for white
settlement, effectively dissolving the
contiguous reservation…1901
President Ghulam Ishaq Kahn dismisses Prime
Minister Benazir Bhutto in Pakistan…1990
Today’s Birthdays
Soleil Moon Frye, actress (Punky Brewster)
is 37
Geri Estelle Halliwell, "Ginger
Spice" singer (Spice Girls) is 41
Remembered
for being born today
Lucille Ball, comedienne/actress (I Love Lucy,
Mame) [1911-1989]
Leo Carrillo, actor (Cisco Kid) [1881-1961]
Alexander Fleming, London, bacteriologist
(penicillin; Nobel 1954) [1881-1955]
Hoot Gibson, western actor (Horse Soldier,
Last Outlaw) [1892-1962]
Robert Mitchum, actor (Winds of War, North
& South) [1917-1997]
Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist [1881-1972]
Jon Benet Ramsey, little beauty queen [1990-1996]
Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], bootlegger
[1902-1935]
Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet Laureate of Great
Britain [1809-1892]
Andy Warhol, pop artist; film producer
(Frankenstein, Bad) [1928-1987]
Today’s Historical Obits
Cedric Hardwicke, stage and TV actor…emphysema…1964…at
71
Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and
conductor…respiratory arrest…2012…at 68
Rick James [James Ambrose Johnson, Jr] funk musician ("Super Freak")…
heart
attack…2004…at 56
Ben Jonson, English playwright and poet…1637…at
65
Harry Reasoner, newscaster (60 Minutes)…blood
clot…1991…at 68
Brain
Teasers
unfold - oldest topic - pictures hiccup - cupful either - heretic feeble - bleeder heart - artful
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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