11/10/13

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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 46/ Day: 314   

Today: L 26°…H 61°… Ave. humidity: 41%

Wind: ave:   5mph; Gusts:  21mph  

Average Low: 23° Record Low:  5° (1946)

Average High: 53° Record High:  71° (1973)

Quote of the Day

 

Today’s Historical Highlights

"Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV…1969

1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room…1908

1st observance of National Book Week…1919

1st Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)…1891

Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corp (for scholarly & charitable works)…1911

Artist Peter Max pleads guilty to tax fraud & time served…1997

Charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University)…1766

Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English…1674

Gottlieb Daimler's motorcycle, world's 1st, unveiled…1885

Henry Morton Stanley uses the immortal words 'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'…1871

Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington…1954

Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)…1938

Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner…1950

UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism…1975

US table tennis team arrived in China…1971

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Clear blue sky. Nice fall day for a walk around the neighborhood. And now that things are so much brighter, it is even better. I can now see better without my glasses than with them. So cool.

 

As I headed out on my walk, I was a little surprised to see a Navajo Hand Trembler on the front sidewalk doing something for my neighbors. Several people were around her and she was quietly doing her thing. I have seen this done many times on the Rez, but it was kinda nice to see it happening here in Flag. Sorry that the residents are having a problem, but hopefully they found the answers they were looking for.

 

Good talk with my brother and his wife as we try to set up Christmas travel. They are doing well and excited about getting together for the Holidays. Unfortunately Laura’s sister and brother-in-law are calling it quits after 2 kids and about 15 years together. Laura says it is very amicable and they will have houses a couple of blocks from each other. Kids, K and 4^th, seem OK, but are way too young to really understand what is going on. We always spent many hours at their house over the holidays, so we’ll see how it works out this year. Those two kids, along with a few others have always made Christmas more exciting.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

Where can you finish reading several books before you finish even one sentence?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Russell Means: Prove Me Wrong

• Stringbean Akeman: Chewing Chewing Gum

• The Rifleman-Chuck Connors Calls Out A Two Bit Gunfighter

• Miriam Makeba - The Click Song

• Shane Classic Gunfight

Very Strange Laws…

• In Hawaii you will be fined for riding in the back of a passenger car without a seatbelt, however you can ride in the bed of a pickup truck with no safety equipment

• You may only have one alcoholic drink in front of you at a time

• Billboards are outlawed.

• All residents may be fined as a result of not owning a boat.

• Coins are not allowed to be placed in one’s ears.

OK Then…

 

Harper’s Index 

• Inflation adjusted amount by which tuition and fewws at the average public research university have increased since 1988: $18,500

• Percentage o fthat increase attributable to administrative costs: 40

Unusual Fact of the Day

Curly ad-libbed his first “woo-woo-woo!” He used it when he forgot his lines.

Joke-of-the-day

Some boy scouts from the city were on a camping trip. The mosquitoes were so fierce, the boys had to hide under their blankets to avoid being bitten. Then one of them saw some lightning bugs and said to his friend, "We might as well give up. They're coming after us with flashlights.  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

HOW MUCH SHELF SPACE 6 GIGS WOULD TAKE

600 gigabytes of data will fill about six floors of an academic library.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

25-year-old John Knight was driving his Volvo station wagon down Church Street through San Francisco's Noe Valley neighborhood at about 10:30 in the morning when he came across a strange scene.

A heavyset woman stood wrapped in a blanket, surrounded by medical personnel. 

Suddenly, the woman whipped the blanket off and threw it at the medics, revealing that she was completely naked, Knight said. Then she turned around and noticed Knight, still stopped and now shocked behind the wheel, about 50 feet away.

"She walks directly to me," he said. "She walks up the hood of my car and she begins stomping on my windshield, completely naked."

The woman, who Knight estimated to weigh about 250 pounds, cracked his windshield with the first stomp. She got a couple more in before plainclothes officers pulled her off and hand-cuffed her as she screamed, Knight said. 

Apparently the woman had stripped on a commuter train earlier in the morning for no good reason, and it was pure coincidence that Knight pulled up to that intersection at that exact moment.

"They (the insurance company) didn't really know what to make of it." Knight said.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• When Margaret Thatcher died in April 2013, there was a song which got to the top 10 UK charts. 
The song was ‘Ding dong the witch is dead’! However, the sales uptick was not a coincidence, as it was partly organized  by a 4, 000 members Facebook page.

• The famous American writer Edgar Allan Poe was taken to the Washington Medical College in 1849, after he was found in  on the streets of Baltimore delirious, “in great distress, and… in need of immediate assistance”, as Joseph W. Walker, said. The night before he dies, he repeatedly calls out the name “Reynolds”, without being known to whom he was referring. Moreover, his final words were “Lord help my poor soul’, according to several sources.

• Can you think of a random Doritos flavor? In Japan supermarket aisles you will probably find it, as there are 26 different flavours of Doritos that cannot be found in other countries. These flavors are: crispy salmon, corn soup, heart shaped, seaweed, winter cheese, seafood italiana, fresh basil and smoked fresh ham italiana, yuzu, winter crab, garlic, teriyaki chicken, sesame chicken, tacos, savory butter, steak, mayonnaise, fondue, fried chicken, butter and soy sauce, cheese and almond, salty, sausage, tuna mayo, wasabi mayo, coconut curry.

• Jian Feng from China successfully sued his wife for giving birth to an ugly daughter by accusing her of infidelity and that he could never be the father of such an unattractive child. Once the DNA test proved that he was indeed the father of the ugly daughter, then his wife revealed a big secret: Before they met she had undergone about $100,000 worth of cosmetic surgery in South Korea. Finally, the judge agreed ordered the ex-wife to fork over $120,000!

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

7-13: Dear Santa Letter Week / Pursuit of Happiness Week
10-16:   Geography Awareness Week / National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        Area Code Day (1947)

·        Guinness World Records Day

·        International Tongue Twister Day

·        Marine Corps Birthday (1775)

·        Sesame Street Day

·        Windows Day (Microsoft)

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·        Panama: First Shout for Independence (1821)

Today’s Events through History  

Failed palace revolution in France against Richelieu…1630

France ends forced worship of God…1793

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Robert F. Engle, American economist, Nobel laureate is 71

Dave Loggins, singer (Please come to Boston) is 66

MacKenzie Phillips, actress (Julie-1 Day at a Time) is 54

Remembered for being born today

Martin Luther, Eisleben Germany, founded Protestantism [1483-1546] 

Claude Rains, London, actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca) [1889-1967]

Jane Froman, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen) [1907-1980]

Richard Burton, South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf) [1925-1984]

Roy Scheider, actor (Jaws, French Connection, Marathon Man) [1932-2008]

Russell Means, Native American activist [1939-2012]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Dino De Laurentiis, Italian film producer…2010…@91

Jack Palance (Volodymyr Jack Palahniuk), actor…2006…@87

Norman Mailer, novelist (Executioner’s Song)…2007…@84

Miriam Makeba, South African singer/anti-apartheid activist…heart attack…2008…@79  

Chuck Connors, US NBA/baseballer/actor (Boston Celtics)…cancer…1992…@71

Stringbean (David Akeman), country singer/banjoist (Hee Haw)…murdered…1973…@58

Cornstalk, Shawnee chief…murdered…1777…@57ish

Brain Teasers

Prison. You'll have plenty of time to read plenty of books during a prison sentence.

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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