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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 04 / Day: 022   

Today: L 20°…H 49°… Ave. humidity: 44%

Wind: ave:   7mph; Gusts:  18mph  

Average Low: 17° Record Low:  -30° (1937)

Average High: 43° Record High:  62° (1970)

Quote of the Day

 

Today’s Historical Highlights

 1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican

 1599 - The Spanish attack the ACOMA PUEBLO

1690 - Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French

1938 - "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner premieres (NJ)

1939 - Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University

1946 - US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency

1947 - 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA KTLA TV

2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in US history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

2006 - Evo Morales President of Bolivia, becomes the first indigenous president.

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

 

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

31 days with no precipitation in Flagstaff…too long for my likes. While I don’t like a whole lot of snow all at once, a little moisture every few days sure would be nice. Another small brush fire within the city limits happened yesterday.

 

Another polar vortex for the eastern US. That means lots of cold for them. This is the 2^nd vortex of the year, and I haven’t heard of that term before this year. However, a little checking and found that the term was first described in 1853 and it was ‘’discovered” in the US in 1952. It sure is cold and miserable for lots in the US while we enjoy a very mild winter.

 

Christie is being given a pass on the bridge thing, because he didn’t know and he has so many people working for him, he can’t know what everyone is doing. President Obama is blamed for the website mess and he has many more people working for him. Strange politics coming from the conservatives.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

Fill in the grid below with valid words using the letters: AAEEIIMMPPTT. The grid, when completed, reads the same across as down.

L _ _ _ _ D _ _ _ _ A _ _ _ _ E

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Bill Bixby Tribute

• Duke Kahanamoku Feature Story

• Rowan & Martin Laugh In - Ending Jokes

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ekOXs1-7k

• Take Kerr | Healthy Personal Science

Actual Complaints… These are actual complaints received from dissatisfied customers by Thomas Cook Vacations (based on a Thomas Cook/ABTA survey):

"I compared the size of our one-bedroom suite to our friends' three-bedroom and ours was significantly smaller."

Suggested New State Mottos:

• Kentucky: Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names

• Louisiana: We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign

Remembering TV’s great shows:

"I Love Lucy" 

No 'splaining necessary. We've loved zany Lucy, hotheaded Ricky and the loyal Mertzes for as long as we can remember. Whether in the candy factory, stomping grapes or cavorting with Harpo Marx, Lucille Ball showed generations of funny ladies and gents how it's done.

Auction Prices

Some guy's name. A law-school dropout saddled with debt auctioned away his name on eBay, allowing the winning bidder to legally rename him for two years. The bidding started at $75,000. "If you want my first name to be ‘Bob’s Supermarket’ and my last name to be ‘.com’ I’m cool with that," Jason Madsen wrote on his eBay entry.

OK Then…

 

Harper’s Index 

• Number of science books published in the United States in 1972: 16,923

• In 1982: 7,900

Unusual Fact of the Day

The Gideons, who went on to place millions of Bibles in hotels, prisons, hospitals and military bases, first did so at the Superior Hotel in Iron Mountain, Montana, in 1908.

Joke-of-the-day

Four best friends met at the hospital since their wives were giving births to their babies. The nurse comes up to the first man and says, "Congratulations, you got twins." The man said "How strange, I'm the manager of Minnesota Twins." After awhile the nurse comes up to the second man and says, "Congratulations, you got triplets." Man was like "Hmmm, strange I worked as a director for the "3 musketeers." Finally, the nurse comes up to the third man and says 

"Congratulations, you got twins x2." Man is happy and says, "Ironic, I work for the hotel "4 Seasons." All three of them are happy until they see their last buddy jumping all over the place, cursing God and banging his head on the wall.

They asked him what's wrong and he answered, "What's wrong? I work for 7up"!

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

RECUPERATING

For every day you spend in the hospital, plan on one week to recuperate.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

A 37-year-old Santa Cruz, California woman was arrested on suspicion of DUI after a man wearing only boxer shorts was spotted clinging to her SUV's roof rack. 

Completely understandable.

Several people called police to report the man. He was standing on the running board of a silver Toyota Highlander with his hands on its roof rack, witnesses said. 

Officers caught up with the woman, Sonja Helena Landis, at the Skypark dog park. Apparently she and the man knew each other. Landis, who was in the dog park, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol.

While bizarre, all of this makes a certain kind of sense. What does not make sense is that the man in his underwear, clinging to the exterior of a vehicle cruising down the road, was NOT arrested. You would think, if anybody was under the influence of alcohol it would be the naked guy hanging onto a car.

Of course, he wasn't operating the vehicle, so I guess it was legal.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• During the World War II and Nazis’ plan to eradicate all Jews from Europe, Danes saved almost all of the Danish Jews. In 1943 around 7, 500 Danish Jews were about to be deported to German concentration camps. Danish citizens spontaneously decided that this would not going to happen and started planning their fellow citizens’ rescue risking their own lives. Almost all of the country’s Jews could finally escape the clutches of the Nazis and find refuge in neutral Sweden.

• The pupil is a hole located in the center of the iris of the eye that allows light to enter the retina. But do you know under what conditions does it expand? Well, it is said that the pupils of our eyes dilate and grow larger when we see someone we’re attracted to. Do you agree?

• “Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair”, is an idiom of popular culture as the famous German fairy tale ”Rapunzel” by the Brothers Grimm was parodied. But how long is Rapunzel’s hair? So, how long is Rapunzel’ s hair so that the prince can climb and ask her to marry him? The answer is 70 ft long!

• Rapunzel and the prince plan a means of escape, wherein he will come each night and bring her silk, which Rapunzel will gradually weave into a ladder.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

16-26

Sundance Film Festival
17-23

National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
18-19

Bald Eagle Appreciation Days
18-26

International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week  
Week of Christian Unity
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt For Happiness Week
19-24

National Activity Professionals Week   
National Nurse Anesthetists Week
National Handwriting Analysis Week
20-24

No Name Calling Week  
Sugar Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        Answer Your Cat's Questions Day

·        Celebration of Life Day

·        Roe vs. Wade Day 1973

^^^^^^

·        Unity Day (Ukraine-1919-E & W Ukraine unite)

Today’s Events through History  

1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrive at the Vatican

1517 - Turks conquer Cairo

1599 - The Spanish attack the ACOMA PUEBLO

1690 - Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British against French

1771 - Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain

1814 - 1st Knights Templar grand encampment in US held, NYC

1816 - Lord Byron completes "Parisina" & "Siege of Corinth"

1881 - Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's Needle" erected in Central Park

1938 - "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer-winner premieres (NJ)

1939 - Uranium atom 1st split, Columbia University

1943 - Battle of Anzio: Italy; Allies stopped on beach

1946 - US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence Agency

1947 - 1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi opens, Hollywood CA KTLA TV

1953 - Arthur Miller's "Crucible," premieres in NYC

1957 - Mad Bomber (George P Metesky) accused of 30 explosions, arrested

1962 - Organization of American States suspends Cuba's membership

1964 - World's largest cheese (15,723 kg) manufactured, Wisconsin

1968 - "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" premieres on NBC

1968 - NBA announces it will expand to Milwaukee & Phoenix

1982 - 75% of North America is covered by snow

1985 - Cold wave damages 90% of Florida's citrus crop

1998 - World League of American Football becomes NFL East

2002 - Kmart Corp becomes the largest retailer in US history to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

2006 - Evo Morales President of Bolivia, becomes the first indigenous president.

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Piper Laurie, [Rosetta Jacobs], Detroit Mich, actress (Twin Peaks) is 82

Graham Kerr, chef (Galloping Gourmet) is 80

Linda Blair, actress (The Exorcist) is 55

Diane Lane, actress (The Perfect Storm, Lady Beware, Lonesome Dove) is 49

Remembered for being born today

1561 - Francis Bacon, London, statesman/essayist (Novum Organum)

1788 - Lord [George Gordon Noel] Byron, English romantic poet (Don Juan)

1875 - D.W. Griffith, director/producer (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance)

1909 - [Sithu] U Thant, Burma, 3rd UN Sec General

1931 - Sam Cooke, singer

1934 - Bill Bixby, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother of pres JFK, RFK, & Ted,1995,@104

Rose Mary Woods, American Watergate scandal figure,2005,@87 

Bill Mauldin, WWII cartoonist (Willie & Joe),2003,@81

Victoria, [Alexandrine], Britain's Queen,1901,@81

Duke Kahanamoku, 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold),heart attack,1968,@77

Telly Savalas, actor (Kojak), prostate cancer,1994,@70

Lyndon B Johnson, 36th US President, heart attack. 1973,@64

Heath Ledger, Australian actor OD,2008,@28

Brain Teasers

The words are limp, idea, meat, and pate. L I M P I D E A M E A T P A T E

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  §