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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 181 / Week: 27 
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 15%
    H 84° L 54° Ave. humidity: 34%
    Wind: ave:   6mph; Gusts:  21mph  
    Average High: 82° Record High:  92° (1990)
    Average Low: 46° Record Low:  31° (1913)
   
Quote of the Day
Historical Highlights for Today
1520 - The Spaniards are expelled from Tenochtitlan.
1755 - Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants
1834 - Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)
1865 - 8 alleged conspirators in assassination of Lincoln are found guilty
1894 - Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1894 - London's Tower Bridge opens
1906 - Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection Act adopted
1910 - Russia absorbs Finland
1914 - Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa
1936 - Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" published
1938 - Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1
1940 - "Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears
1940 - US Fish & Wildlife Service forms
1953 - 1st Chevrolet Corvette manufactured
1960 - US stops sugar import from Cuba
1971 - 26th amendment-18 is voting age
1974 - Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects to west
1981 - China's Communist Party condemns late Mao Tse-tung's policy
1988 - Brooklyn dedicates a bus depot honoring Jackie Gleason
1990 - East & West Germany merge their economies
  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Rambling Thoughts   
Another nice warm day here. Spent a little time outside, caught up on the news, enjoyed some good soccer matches.
OMG…our ice cream man has a new song…today it is ‘It’s a Small World’. Back in the 80’s we took 8th graders to Disneyland. On one of the trips I was in the Small World ride with a bunch of students. The ride got stuck, but the music played on, and on, and on for about 40 minutes. Hearing it always brings back memories of those great trips, and my hatred of that song.
Federal Law, passed and signed in 1988 by GW Bush states that unaccompanied children who cross the border must be  cared for in the US until their parents are located. The current crisis is because of the horrific conditions in Central America. Why the US didn’t see this coming is still beyond my comprehension.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Mischievous Casey is delighted when people write her name incorrectly. She sounds so sincere as she very carefully spells it out: "C for chaos, A for arpeggio, S for scenery, E for empty, Y for ____."
Which of the following words is she most likely to select to help with 'Y'?
Young
Youth
Yacht
Yikes!
Yahoo!
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s Index 
Number of states that have passed stricter drunk driving laws since 1982: 44
Unusual Fact of the Day
A National Weather Service study indicated that more than eight out of every ten people injured or killed by lightning were men.
Trivia about AZ…
The Castilian and Burgundian flags of Spain, the Mexican flag, the Confederate flag, and the flag of the United States have all flown over the land area that has become Arizona.
Interesting facts about Islam…
Allah is not the God of Muslims only. He is the God of all people and all creation. Just because people refer to God using different terms does not mean that they are different gods. Spanish people refer to God as "Dios" and French people refer to God as "Dieu", yet they are all the same God. Interestingly, most Arab Jews and Arab Christians refer to God as "Allah". And the word Allah in Arabic appears on the walls of many Arab churches.
Weather Facts…
Circumhorizontal arcs (loosely known as fire rainbows) are the rarest of all naturally occurring atmospheric phenomena.
People Facts…
There are 189 people named 'Lol' in the U.S.
Historical Facts…
There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World War Two.
Joke-of-the-day
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk, and the next Twenty-four years telling them to sit down and shut up! 
Rules of Thumb:   
EXHALING
A healthy adult should be able to completely exhale a deep breath in three seconds.
Yeah, It Really Happened
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Apparently, some turtle species breathe out of their butts. Talk about bad breath.
Until recently, however, scientists didn't really know why some turtles -- most notably Australian Fitzroy river turtle and the North American eastern painted turtle -- took in air through the back end. Chalk it up to another one of nature's cruel but hilarious jokes.
But now, scientists have an explanation. As always, the answer is evolutionary problem solving.
The turtles in question hibernate for an extended part of the winter in frigid waters, sometimes for as long as five months. That requires a lot of breathing underwater. Unfortunately, a turtle's shell -- the product of ribs and vertebrae that slowly flattened out and fused together over time -- is built for protection, not to support the muscle system that enables the robust pulmonary setup gifted to so many mammals.
A turtle's muscles are built to help it emerge from the gaps in its shell, not to contract and expand lungs, inhaling and exhaling oxygen. Thus, breathing in and out in the normal fashion requires a lot of work for the turtle -- muscle exertion that causes a buildup of acid. And too much acid in the body is a bad thing.
Luckily, the turtle's cloaca -- the rear end hole (not an anus) that allows the reptile to excrete, urinate, and lay its eggs -- features two sacs, or bursa, which more efficiently absorb oxygen. Though the Australian Fitzroy river turtle, North American eastern painted turtle, and other rear-breathing turtles can breathe through their mouths if they feel so inclined, the bursa help them take in oxygen without expending as much energy and producing as much acid byproduct.
In related news, other turtles pee through their mouths.
Somewhat Useless Information   
When being at a public place like a restaurants or a shop you’d better wash your hands quite regularly, if possible, as there are several extremely dirty objects!
The five dirtiest things when you are at a public place, are the following:
  • A restaurant menu
  • The handle of a toilet door
  • The ‘push’ button on a soap device
  • A supermarket trolley
  • Ketchup and mustard plastic bottles in restaurants
Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
27 -7/4
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness Week
Today Is  
Descendants Day
Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
Meteor Day
National Bomp Pop Day-1953
National Handshake Day
NOW (National Organization For Women) Day
Please Take My Children To Work Day
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Armed Forces Day (Guatemala)
Independence Day (Congo-1960-from Belgium)
Revolution Day (Sudan)
                                                      
Today’s Events through History  
1893 - Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered
1945 - 17-day newspaper strike in NY begins
1966 - Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa
2012 - Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt
Birthday’s Today                                                        
Billy Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10k (Olympics-gold-64) is 76
David Alan Grier, comedian (In Living Color, Boomerang) is 58
Vincent D'Onofrio, character actor is 55
"Iron" Mike Tyson, youngest heavyweight boxing champ is 48
Michael Phelps, American swimmer (16 Olympic medals) is 29
Remembered for being born today
1768-1830 - Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, 1st lady (1817-25)
1914-1995 - David Wayne, actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)
1917-2010 - Lena Horne, Brooklyn actress/singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz)
1917-1975 - Susan Hayward, Bkln, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa)
1934-1997 - Harry Blackstone Jr, magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion)
1943-1976 - Florence Ballard, Detroit, rocker (Supremes)
Historical Obits’ Today                                                           
Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister, 2012, @96
Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy), 1995, @89
Robert McCloskey, children's book writer and illustrator, 2003, @88
James Oglethorpe, founder of the state of Georgia, 1785, @88
Lillian Hellman, playwright, (Little Foxes), heart attack, 1984, @79
Buddy Hackett, American comic, stroke, 2003, @78
Chet Atkins, country guitar player and producer, 2001, @77
Mary Livingstone, [Sadye Marks] Comedienne, (Jack Benny), 1983, @77
Elmer Layden, one of Notre Dame's legendary 4-horsemen, 1973 @70
George "Spanky" McFarland, child actor (Our Gang), heart attack, 1993, @65
Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded , 1685, @55ish
Brain Teasers                                         
Youth
All her choices of "helpful" words sound as if they begin with another letter - K-os, R-peggio, C-nery, M-pty ... and so, U-th!
Although technically correct, it confuses people, and they often make mistakes!
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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