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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 32/ Day: 221
Today: H 76°…L 45°
Wind: ave: 5mph;
Gusts: 20mph Ave. humidity: 68%
Average Low Average High
50°
81°
Record Low Record High
39° (1950) 90° (1980)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st horses arrive in Hawaii…1803
1st person, Usain Bolt, to win the 100m and 200m
sprint in back to back Olympics…2012
1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV
network, Alabama…1956
25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona,
Spain…1992
Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated
cartoon Dizzy Dishes…1930
Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year
journey, 1st ship to carry US flag around
the world…1790
Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and
it takes two centuries to complete…1173
Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin
Olympics…1936
Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European
settler in Bronx…1638
Opening of the Sistine Chapel…1483
Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald
Ford becomes 38th pres…1974
Smokey Bear debuts as spokesman for fire
prevention…1944
US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton
Treaty…1842
US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man"
on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki…1945
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
A nice lunch with Cheryl, her sister and Mary. Her sister is visiting from Ann Arbor. Tomorrow they head for CA to see Cheryl’s son and his family. Then she leaves on Tuesday back to Ann Arbor. She has Cheryl’s sense of humor and is having a good time in AZ. Mary is spending the weekend in Flag as her husband is running a 1/2 Marathon on Saturday. She had some cute pics of her grandkids and three of the four are off to school.Big puffy clouds with very dark bottoms are surrounding us right now. I’m sure there will be rain sometime tonight. It chilled off enough last night that I had to almost close my bedroom window. Then I woke up at 2:30 because it was too hot. It is time to clean my deck again as all this rain has dropped a lot of pine cones and pine needles…green ones…onto the deck. Won’t take too long to clean it up.What a shock…Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been researching marijuana studies and made some interesting discoveries. He apologized for his anti-weed statements in the past and said that his problem was that he had just been looking at studies that were anti-marijuana. His new belief is that the majority of the studies used flawed assumptions at the beginning of their studies. Hmmmm. He is not saying that it should be available over the counter, but does believe that it has definite medical advantages and should no longer be listed as more dangerous than alcohol.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
I can be repeated,
But often not in the same way.
I can't be changed,
But can be rewritten.
I can be forgotten,
And can also be lost with death.
My first is in horses,
But not in ponies.
My last is in pretty,
But not in beautiful.
What am I?
But often not in the same way.
I can't be changed,
But can be rewritten.
I can be forgotten,
And can also be lost with death.
My first is in horses,
But not in ponies.
My last is in pretty,
But not in beautiful.
What am I?
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Tongue
Twisters
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
And chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
And chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
Ever
wonder where the name came from?
Sharp
The Japanese LCD TV giant took its name from one of its first ever products - the Ever-Ready Sharp propelling pencil (later the Ever-Sharp pencil), which made its debut in 1916. The company was originally named Hayakawa Brothers Shokai, partly after Tokuji Hayakawa who had invented the pencil in 1915. Sharp first moved into consumer electronics in 1925 when the company began mass-producing crystal radios - the first Japanese manufacturer to do so.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Amount NIH has awarded in grants since 2011 to study the correlation between obesity and homosexuality: $1,520,000
Songs with Double Meanings:
Happiness Is A Warm Gun - The Beatles Key Triple Lyric of song: "Happiness, is a warm gun, bang bang shot shoot!" (1) The "warm gun" is a firearm, such as a revolver, after being discharged; (2) A "warm gun" means the person just shot up heroin with a needle; (3) Main/real meaning: It's about love making. The "warm gun" is the male penis.
Hey Jude - The Beatles Key Double Lyric of song: "The minute you let her under your skin then you begin to make it better". For years most Beatle fans believed this song was about heroin addiction, and "letting her under your skin" was about shooting up H. That wasn't the case. The song, written by Paul McCartney, was written for John Lennon's preteen son Julian, after his parents broke up. Perhaps the false story about it being about H was because McCartney never told anybody for years, other than John, what the song was really about. Anyway, this is not a true double meaning lyric.
Unusual Fact of the Day
Al Capone's business card reportedly said he was a furniture salesman.Joke-of-the-day
Two men are drinking in a bar. One turns to the other and says, "I bet you $100 that I can bite my eye."The second fellow thinks to himself, I guess he's had about enough, so he replies, "OK, you're on."The first man takes out his glass eye and bites it. So the second man has to pay. Awhile later the first man says, "I bet you $100 I can bite my other eye."The second man thinks, well, he can't have TWO glass eyes; he obviously can see. So he says, "All right, you're on."The second man promptly takes out his false teeth and bites his other eye.
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
SALARY IN CENTS PER MINUTE
An employee's salary in thousands of dollars per year is roughly equal to their salary in cents per minute (subtracting holidays and vacations).
Yeah, It Really Happened
BRINDISI, Italy - Italian authorities said thieves used a bulldozer to break into a supermarket and escape with safes filled with money. Investigators said the masked thieves used trucks to block off access to the rear of the supermarket in Brindisi when it was closed overnight and the bulldozer crashed through the gate and metal door to get to the room where the safes were kept, ANSA reported Monday. The truck drove off with the safes, which were believed to contain more than $132,000, police said. Police said the incident was recorded by security cameras, the Italian news agency said.
Somewhat Useless Information
- By 1850, the manual coffee grinder found its way to most upper middle class kitchens of the U.S.
- Caffeine is on the International Olympic Committee list of prohibited substances. Athletes who test positive for more than 12 micrograms of caffeine per milliliter of urine may be banned from the Olympic Games. This level may be reached after drinking about 5 cups of coffee.
- Citrus has been added to coffee for several hundred years.
- Coffee as a medicine reached its highest and lowest point in the 1600's in England. Wild medical contraptions to administer a mixture of coffee and an assortment of heated butter, honey, and oil, became treatments for the sick. Soon tea replaced coffee as the national beverage.
- Coffee beans are similar to grapes that produce wine in that they are affected by the temperature, soil conditions, altitude, rainfall, drainage and degree of ripeness when picked.
- Coffee is generally roasted between 400F and 425F. The longer it is roasted, the darker the roast. Roasting time is usually from ten to twenty minutes.
- Coffee is graded according to 3 criteria: Bean quality (Altitude and Species) Quality of preparation Size of bean
- Coffee is grown commercially in over forty-five countries throughout the world.
Calendar Information
4-10
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
8-11
8-11
National Hobo
Week
Today Is
·
Kool-Aid Day
·
International Day of The World's Indigenous
People NCAI and Google partner for
the first ever Indigenous Mapping Day.In partnership with the National Congress
of American Indians, and in honor of the United Nation's International Day of
the World's Indigenous Peoples, Google Map Maker, Google Earth Outreach and the
Google American Indian Network are proud to present Google's first ever
Indigenous Mapping Day
·
Nagasaki
Day
·
Perseid
Meteor Showers
·
Veep Day
·
Worldwide Art Day
^^
·
Singapore:
National Day (1965 Independence from Malaysia)
·
South
Africa: National Women's Day
Today’s Events through History
Arikara warriors attack an American expedition, a force of 500
Sioux warriors finds the
Arikaras and a battle takes
place. Colonel Henry Leavenworth soon arrives with his
force of 200 soldiers
and reports his men kill fifty Arikaras and
the Siouxs kill
fifteen,
Sioux lose two
warriors…1823
English Ft William Henry, NY, surrenders to
French & Indians troops…1757
Gandhi & 50 others arrested after passing
of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India
Congress…1942
Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into
baseball's Hall of Fame…1971
US President George W. Bush announces his
support for federal funding of limited
research on embryonic stem cells…2003
Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of
Holland/Zealand/Utrecht…1559
Today’s Birthdays
Gillian Anderson, actress (X-Files) is
45
Eric Bana, TV actor is 45
Sam Elliott, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty)
is 69
Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, Milk
Money, Now & Then) is 56
Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ/TV
panelist (Gong Show) is 70
Remembered
for being born today
Robert Aldrich, US director/producer (Dirty
Dozen) [1918-1983]
Whitney Houston, singer (One Moment in Time,
Bodyguard) [1963-2012]
Jean Piaget, Swiss pioneer developmental
psychologist/zoologist [1896-1980]
Robert Shaw, England, actor (Deep, Jaws,
Sting, Black Sunday) [1927-1978]
Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer [1757-1834]
Pamela Lyndon Travers, Australian writer (Mary
Poppins) [1899-1996]
Today’s Historical Obits
Jerry Garcia, rock vocalist (Grateful Dead)…heart
attack…1995…at 53
Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel
1946)…1962…at 85
Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer…cancer…2003…at
57
Bernie Mac, comedian, actor…cardiac arrest…2008…at
50
Joe O'Donnell, documentary photographer,
photojournalist…2007…at 85
Ted Stevens, Alaska: Senator…plane crash…2010…at
86
Raymond Washington, founder of Crips, California
gang…drive by…1979…at 25
Brain
Teasers
History
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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