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Flagstaff
Almanac:
Week: 08 /
Day: 049
Today: L 20°…H 58°… Ave. humidity: 43%
Wind: ave: 14mph; Gusts: 26mph
Average Low: 19° Record
Low: -11° (1942)
Average High: 46° Record High: 65° (1977)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1678 - John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" is
published
1688 - Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in
Germantown, Pa
1735 - 1st opera performed in America, "Flora," in
Charleston, SC
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy Inverness Scotland
1804 - 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University, Athens
Ohio, chartered
1856 - American (Know-Nothing) Party abolishes secrecy
1857 - Insurrection of Chinese in Sarawak, Borneo
1885 - Mark Twain's "Adventures of Huckleberry
Finn," published
1908 - 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued
1929 - The first Academy Awards are announced.
1930 – Flagstaff astronomer Clyde
Tombaugh discovers Pluto
1954 - The first Church of Scientology is established in Los
Angeles
1960 - 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw Valley, Cal
1968 - 10th
Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble, France
1979 - -52°F (-47°C), Old Forge, New York (state record)
1979 - Snow
falls in Sahara Desert
1998 - 2
white separatists arrested in NV plotting a biological attack on NYC subways.
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
A federal holiday…flag hung…refuse to go to any stores that are open. I must admit that when I was working I would come into town on this holiday to some things that I couldn’t do on weekends…when some stores used to be closed on weekends. I lived 75 miles or more from Flag back in those days and it was difficult to get some things done just on Saturday or Sunday. It isn’t like that anymore…don’t know of any businesses that aren’t open on Saturday or Sunday. Not sure about State offices. Anyway it was a good day to enjoy our spring weather. Windows could be opened a little for most of the day. Fresh air coming inside is always nice.Awaiting yet another form to fill out for the Cuban trip…seems like Cuban travel office wants to be sure we really want to go. Now they are also requiring that we have travel insurance. That is yet another twist to the many requirements to get there.As I was growing up I was taught that everyone has a good side, that might be hard to find. As I got older I learned that cultural differences play a big role in determining ‘right from wrong’… or ‘good from bad’. For example, it is wrong/bad to enter a Navajo home to borrow a cup of sugar without first finding out how everyone is doing. Cutting to the chase is seen as poor etiquette. When I have heard about the repressive regime in North Korea, I have been skeptical figuring it was mostly cultural differences. Then the UN put out a frightening report today about the horrific conditions in political prisons. The report is not the first time the UN has gotten involved in internal matters in a country…one example is the apartheid issue in South Africa. So, now that I have been informed from a reliable source that used many personal accounts, the world needs to stand up and help the people in the N. Korean political prisons.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Lovely and round, I shine with pale light, Grown in the darkness, A lady's delight.
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
Remembering
TV’s great shows:
"Sesame Street": This boulevard of sweet dreams has weaned wee ones on the joys of learning — through Muppets magic, animation and music — for more than 40 wondrous years.
Words
Shakespeare invented
neither a borrower nor a lender beHamlet: Act 1, Scene 3 LORD POLONIUS: … Neither a borrower nor a lender be;For loan oft loses both itself and friend,And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry.This above all: to thine ownself be true,And it must follow, as the night the day,Thou canst not then be false to any man.Farewell: my blessing season this in thee!
Bizarre
Punishments
Wearing A Sign
Trying to effectively punish your kid for bad grades is usually quite difficult—unless you’re the Florida parents who forced their son to wear a signbroadcasting his less-than-impressive scholastic achievements. Michael Bell Jr. was given a sign by his parents proclaiming: “Hey, I want to be a class clown. Is it wrong?” The back of the sign read: “I’m in the 7th grade and got three Fs. Blow your horn if there’s something wrong with that.” The teen was then forced to stand on a popular street corner in Miami for several hours.After failing math, civics, and language art, Bell Jr. spent his whole spring break on the corner with the sign, even inspiring other parents to try out the punishment as well. A second Florida mother decided to punish her son by having him stand on a Tampa street with a sign saying: “I did four questions on my FCAT and said I wasn’t going to do it…GPA 1.22…honk if I need (an) education.” Unsurprisingly, many honked in support of the punishment, although others viewed it as cruel and overly humiliating.
Strange
Obsessions of famous people
Immanuel Kant: Rigid Schedule
Obsession was a way of life for Immanuel Kant (1724–1804). While Kant is often noted for his hypochondria, he had an even more intense and prolonged obsession with his daily routine. In 1783, just after purchasing a home, Kant decided that it was necessary to structure his daily schedule. Thus began the rigid routine Kant would follow until his death in 1804.Timed precisely, Kant would awaken just before 5:00 AM, drink a cup of tea, and smoke exactly one pipe. He would then work on his lectures and writings until his lectures began at 7:00 AM. After his lectures ended at 11:00 AM, Kant worked on his writings again until his 1:00 PM lunchtime.After lunch, rain or shine, Kant took his legendary one-hour walk in the heart of Konigsberg. The walk was so consistent that it is said his neighbors could set their clocks by it. The path Kant walked was later named the Philosophengang, or “The Philosopher’s Walk.”After his walk, Kant would sometimes socialize with a friend or two, and then he would head home to work and read until 10:00 PM, at which time he went to bed.
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
- Percentage change in the S&P 500 since its pre-crisis peak: +8
- In the price of financial stocks: -44
Unusual
Fact of the Day
During WWII, Tootsie Rolls were added to soldiers' rations thanks to their durability in all weather conditions.
Joke-of-the-day
Q. How do you know when a man is going to say something smart? A. It will start with "She said..."
Rules of
Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
DESIGNING A SUBMARINE
A submarine will move through the water most efficiently if it has a length-to-beam ratio of between 10 to 1 and 13 to 1.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
-- South Korea is a well-known hub for cosmetic beautification surgery, with a higher rate per capita than the U.S., but the procedures can be expensive, inspiring many young women recently to resort to do-it-yourself procedures for their professional and romantic upgrades. A December Global Post dispatch noted that some might try to force their eyes to stay open without blinking (using a novel $20 pair of glasses for hours on end) as a substitute for costly "double-eyelid" surgery. Also in use: a $6 jaw-squeezing roller device for the face to push the jaw line into a fashionable "oval" form. One teen told the reporter she applies an imaginative contraption to her face for hours a day to pressure her nose into more of a point, which is considered a desirable Western look. [Global Post (Boston) via Denver Post, 12-19-2013]
Somewhat
Useless Information
1. Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself – and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That’s what real love amounts to – letting a person be what he really is.--Jim Morrison2. Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.--Bruce Lee3. Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.--Aristotle4. Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.--Oscar Wilde5. Where there is love there is life.--Mahatma Gandhi6. I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.--Martin Luther King, Jr.7. I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.--Mother Teresa8. A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.--Ingrid Bergman9. Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.--Albert Einstein10. We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.--Friedrich Nietzsche
Calendar Information
Great Backyard Bird Count
☼14-21☼
☼14-21☼
National Condom Week
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week
☼16-22☼
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week
☼16-22☼
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week)
Through With The Chew
National Date (fruit) Week
National Justice for Animals Week
National Engineers Week
National Entrepreneurship Week
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week)
Through With The Chew
National Date (fruit) Week
National Justice for Animals Week
National Engineers Week
National Entrepreneurship Week
Today Is
·
Battery Day- (Volta's birthday)
·
Cow Milked While Flying In An Airplane Day
·
Great
Backyard Bird Count (Feb. 18-21)
·
Pluto Day (Planet
is Discovered by Clyde Tombaugh)
+++++
·
Independence
Day (Gambia-1965-from UK)
·
National
Democracy Day (Nepal-1951)
Today’s Events
through History
1797 - Trinidad is surrendered to a British fleet
1884 - Police
seize all copies of Tolstoy's "What I Believe In"
1915 - Germany begins a blockade of Britain
1972 - California Supreme Court abolishes death penalty
2013 - $50 million worth of diamonds stolen--armed
robbery at Brussels Airport, Belgium
Today’s
Birthdays
Barbara Hale, actress (Della Street-Perry
Mason) is 92
George Kennedy, actor (Cool Hand Luke,
Airport, Blue Knight) is 89
Yoko Ono Lennon, [Mrs John Lennon], Tokyo, singer
and artist is 81
Cybill Shepherd, actress (Moonlighting, Last
Picture Show) is 64
Juice Newton, [Judy Cohen], vocalist (Angel of
the Morning) is 62
John Travolta, actor is 60
Vanna White, [Rosich], TV host (Wheel of
Fortune) is 57
Matt Dillon, actor (Flamingo Kid, Tex, Kansas)
is 50
Dr. Dre, [Andre Romelle Young], rapper and
record producer is 49
Molly Ringwald, actress (16 Candles, Pretty in
Pink) is 46
Remembered
for being born today
Mary I Tudor, [Bloody Mary], queen of England
(1553-58)
Nikos Kasandsakis, Greek writer and
philosopher (Zorba the Greek, The Last
Temptation of Christ)
Wendell Wilkie, Presidential candidate
(R-1940)/author (One World)
George "The Gipper" Gipp, football
star (Notre Dame)
Enzo Ferrari, racing car manufacturer, Modena
Bill Cullen, TV game show host (over 20
different games)
Jack Palance, [Walter Palanuik], actor (City
Slickers)
Helen Gurley Brown, US author/publisher and
editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan
Today’s Historical
Obits
Charles Lewis Tiffany, American founder of
Tiffany & Co., 1902, @90
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Italian
sculptor/painter (David), 1564, @88
Harry Caray, sportscaster (Chicago Cubs),
1998, @83
Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor, 1294, @78
Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], actor,
leukemia, 1977, @71
Thomas Hazlehurst, English soap and alkali
manufacturer, 1942, @63
Martin Luther, biblical scholar/religious
reformer, stroke, 1546, @62
Robert J Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, cancer,
1967, @62
Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver,
racing crash, 2001 @49
Brain
Teasers
A pearl.It is pretty and near spherical, usually white, grows in an oyster, and worn by ladies as jewelry.
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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