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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 01 / Day: 007   

Today: L 20°…H 41°… Ave. humidity: 43%

Wind: ave:   14mph; Gusts:  14mph  

Average Low: 16° Record Low:  -17° (1913)

Average High: 42° Record High:  65° (1914)

Quote of the Day

 

Today’s Historical Highlights

1608 - Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia

1714 - Typewriter patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)

1785 - 1st balloon flight across English Channel (Blanchard & Jeffries)

1822 - Liberia colonized by Americans

1830 - 1st US Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)

1914 - 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal

1929 - "Buck Rogers," 1st sci-fi comic strip, premieres

1929 - "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure comic strips, 1st appears

1934 - "Flash Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts

1959 - US recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government

1968 - "GE College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV

1969 - US Congress doubles president salary

1972 - William Hubbs Rehnquist, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1990 - Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

A nice Monday, but still a little chilly for my taste. Still waiting for some of the snow to melt, it’s the snow that sits in the parking lot in the shade for the winter. It should be gone by May. It is not a lot of snow, just enough to be a small bother, but not enough for me to go out and break up the ice and shovel.

 

Finished paying for my Cuba trip in March. Getting excited. Sure to be an interesting trip…with lots of culture and educational experiences. I also spent some time getting my Christmas pictures off my phone and onto my computer.   Also found some Canada trip pictures I had never downloaded from the phone. Now the phone has no pictures so guess it is time to start snapping again. So easy to download these days, and fairly easy to start the new year by organizing everything into the right folders. Ready for 2014 pictures.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

The following two 4x4 grids each contain a 12-letter word. Each word is formed by a chain of letters. A word can begin with any of the letters. The second letter of a word is adjacent (either horizontally, vertically, or diagonally) to the first letter, the third letter is adjacent to the second, and so on. No letter can be used more than once. Four letters in each grid will be unused.

SXED AFOD AMRY LDEH

NWBR TEIL DECA NNIP

Hint: The first word starts with ‘F’ and the second word starts with ‘B’

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• The Boatman - Alan Ramsay, Sr

• The History of Nikola Tesla - a Short Story

• Eldee Young & Co. - Mr. Kicks

• Wild Man Blues Henry Red Allen

• St. Bernadette's Incorrupt Body

Odd Lawsuits…

Unpredictable Weather

In 1996, an Israeli woman sued a TV station for predicting the wrong weather forecast. She was dressed improperly for her commute, and had to go home and change, causing her to be late for work. She asked for $1000, and actually won the case.

Suggested New State Mottos:

Alabama: Yes, We Have Electricity

Something to Ponder in your free time…

Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?

OK Then…

Harper’s Index 

Rank of sterilization among methods of birth control used in the United States: 1

Percentage increase since 1975 in births by Caesarian section in the United States: 121

Unusual Fact of the Day

"Sternutation" is a fancy word for the act of sneezing.

Joke-of-the-day

A plane was taking off from Kennedy Airport. After it reached a comfortable cruising altitude, the captain made an announcement over the intercom, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Welcome to Flight Number 293, non-stop from New York to Los Angeles. The weather ahead is good and, therefore, we should have a smooth and uneventful flight. Now sit back and relax - OH, MY G-D!"

Silence followed, and after a few minutes the captain came back on the intercom and said, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I am so sorry if I scared you earlier; but, while I was talking, the flight attendant brought me a cup of coffee and spilled the hot coffee in my lap. You should see the front of my pants!"

A passenger in Coach said, "That's nothing. He should see the back of mine!"  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

BUILDING A STONE WALL

You should plan on ordering (or collecting) two cubic yards of stone for every cubic yard of finished wall.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

According to police, the host of the New Year’s Eve party became upset when the victim (that is the soon-to-be nine-toed lesbian) told her about an altercation with a male partier around 3 a.m.

Accusing her of ruining the party, the female host punched the woman repeatedly until the victim attempted to flee. They then continued the altercation in the street. Having wrestled one another to the ground, the fight ended in gruesome fashion when the host bit off the little toe of the victim's left foot.

A friend of the victim drove her from the Dorchester district to the Boston Medical Center for treatment.

Officers received a call from the hospital around 5 a.m. reporting an assault and battery.

Detectives are investigating the incident, which left both women with scratches on their arms. The victim, whose name was not released, also had scratches on her forehead, neck and chest.

The cause of the initial fight was the victim approaching the man's girlfriend and asking her if she would like to "hook up". He grabbed her round the neck before releasing her.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The 1900 Olympic Games included croquet, fishing, billiards and checkers. Tug-of-war was an Olympic event between 1900 and 1920.

• In a 1936 Ping-Pong tournament, the players volleyed for over two hours on the opening serve.

• The first tennis balls were stuffed with human hair.

• In the 1880s waterskiing was known as plankgliding.

• Boxing rings are called rings because they used to be round.

• Karate was invented in India. It was not introduced to Japan until about 1917.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

5-11

Home Office Safety and Security Week
National Folic Acid Awareness Week
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
7-10

International 3-D Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        Harlem Globetrotter's Day

·        I'm Not Going To Take It Anymore Day

·        International Programmers' Day

·        National Tempura Day

·        Orthodox Christmas

^^^^^^

·        Nanakusa (Japan- Japanese custom of eating seven-herb rice porridge)

Today’s Events through History  

1610 - Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede

1782 - 1st US commercial bank, Bank of North America, opens in Philadelphia

1784 - 1st US seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia

1896 - Fanny Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook

1946 - Cambodia becomes autonomous state inside French Union

1949 - 1st photo of genes taken at U of S California by Pease & Baker

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Kenny Loggins, singer (& Messina-This is it, Footloose) is 66

Erin Gray, actress (Silver Spoons, Buck Rogers) is 64

Katie Couric, television journalist, author and talk show host is 57

Nicolas Cage, [Coppola], actor (Moonstruck, Racing with the Moon) is 50

Dustin Diamond, actor (Screech-Saved By Bell) is 36

Remembered for being born today

1800 - Millard Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president (1850-53)

1879 - St Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous), 1844(?), religious visionary

1903 - Alan Napier, Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman)

1908 - Red Allen, jazz trumpeter and vocalist 

1912 - Charles Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family)

1936 - Eldee Young, US bassist (Young Holt Unlimited-Hang on Sloopy)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Seton Howard Frederick Lloyd, archaeologist (Iraq) in 1996 @93

Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor) in 1943 @86

Trevor Howard, actor (Ryan's Daughter) of bronchitis in 1988 @74

Allan Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd) in 1758 @71

Lou Hoover, U.S. First Lady of heart attack in 1944 @69

Caleb Blood Smith, 6th U.S. Secretary of the Interior of long illness in 1864 @55

Catherine of Aragon, 1st wife of King Henry VIII of poison/cancer? in 1536 @50

Brain Teasers

The words are FORMALDEHYDE and BICENTENNIAL.

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 Now  §