2-15-14

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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 07 / Day: 046   

Today: L 26°…H 65°… Ave. humidity: 41%

Wind: ave:   10mph; Gusts:  22mph  

Average Low: 19° Record Low:  -10° (1942)

Average High: 46° Record High:  65° (1996)

Quote of the Day

 

Today’s Historical Highlights

399 - Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death

1768 - 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia

1799 - 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania

1869 - Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped

1870: The second intercontinental railroad starts . It also goes through Indian lands.

1879 - Congress authorizes women lawyers to practice before Supreme Ct

1898 - USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die

1903 - 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America

1913 - 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC

1932 - 3rd Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY

1936 - Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic figure skating gold

1950 - Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released

1955 - 1st pilot plant to produce man-made diamonds announced

1965 - Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf

2005 - YouTube is launched in the United States.

2013 - Over 1,200 people are injured after a meteor breaks up over Chelyabinsk, Russia

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

 

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

A good day…again. Got several calls from friends and made several calls to wish friends a happy Valentine’s.  Got many e-notes for the e-cards I sent. Always nice to have friends remember…or at least that’s my philosophy. While florists in the East are having trouble delivering, here in Flag it was a nice spring day.

 

I find it interesting because most of the major news network’s headquarters are in a storm, everything that happens becomes ‘breaking news’, but when we have a big storm here in Flag, we barely make the Phoenix news. It takes at least 3 feet of snow to make the national news, and then only for a 30 second story. Hey…individually, we are just as stressed as any individual on the East coast…and it is just as hard for us to get groceries, travel the roads, or anything else.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

Turn the word "THINK" into "BRAIN" by changing one letter at a time - each new word must be a real word. The answer is 8 words, counting the ‘think’ and ‘brain’

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Cinderella (1950)

• Ethel Merman

• M*A*S*H Tribute Henry Blake

• Sonja Henie 1936

• THE OLDEST FIREMAN-Kroman & Conway

Remembering TV’s great shows:

"Gunsmoke": James Arness's Matt Dillon kept the peace in Dodge City in TV's longest-running Western.

Words Shakespeare invented

hot-blooded ROMEO AND JULIET: Act 3 Scene 1
BENVOLIO to MERCUTIOI’m begging you, good Mercutio, let’s call it a day. It’s hot outside, and the Capulets are wandering around. If we bump into them, we’ll certainly get into a fight. When it’s hot outside, people become angry and hot-blooded.

OK Then…

Harper’s Index 

Percentage by which the average NFL fan’s saturated-fat consumption goes up the day after a loss by the local team: 16

Unusual Fact of the Day

Clarence Birdseye founded his frozen food empire with $7. It bought him an electric fan, cakes of ice, and buckets of brine.

Joke-of-the-day

At a fabric store, a pretty girl spots a nice material for a dress and asks the male clerk: How much does it costs? “Only one kiss per yard,” replied the male clerk with a smirk. “That’s fine,” said the girl. I’ll take ten yards.” With expectation and anticipation written all over his face, the clerk quickly measured out the cloth, wrapped it up, and then teasingly held it out. The girl took the bag and pointed to the old man standing beside her, and smiled, “Grandpa will pay the bill.”  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

PLANNING A HOSPITAL

A hospital should have four to four and a half beds for every thousand people in the community it serves.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

 ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico horse racing regulators are disciplining a trainer because four horses tested positive last July at Ruidoso Downs for a prohibited drug that's an ingredient of Viagra.

Racing Commission Executive Vince Mares says the Sunland Park board of stewards ordered that John Stinebaugh be suspended for 16 years, fined $40,000 and be required to forfeit $8,000 in purses.

Stinebaugh has until Thursday to appeal the ruling issued Monday by the Sunland Park board.

The Albuquerque Journal (http://bit.ly/1hivlJQ ) reports that the prohibited drug was Sildenafil, which increases cardiac output.

The affected horses can't race until mid-May. That's because they're now on the state veterinarian's list for 90 days.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• There are 62,000 miles of blood vessels in the human body – laid end to end they would circle the earth 2.5 times

• At over 2000 kilometers long, The Great Barrier Reef is the largest living structure on Earth

• The risk of being struck by a falling meteorite for a human is one occurrence every 9,300 years

• A thimbleful of a neutron star would weigh over 100 million tons

• A typical hurricane produces the energy equivalent of 8,000 one megaton bombs Facts  

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

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Celebration of Love Week
Children of Alcoholics Week
Jell-O Week
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
Random Acts of Kindness Week 
International Flirting Week
Love a Mench Week
National Green Week

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World Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week9 
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Great Backyard Bird Count
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National Condom Week 
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

Today Is                                                                       

·        Angelman Syndrome Day-- neuro-genetic disorder 

·        National Hippo Day

·        Remember The Maine Day

·        Susan B. Anthony Day

·        National Gum Drop Day

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·        National Day (Serbia-1804 Uprising)

Today’s Events through History  

1932 - George Burns & Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show"

1980 - Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 500m in 38.03 sec

1995 - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion

2001 - First draft of the complete Human Genome is published in Nature

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Ken Anderson, NFL quarterback (Cincinnati Bengals) is 65

Jane Seymour, [Joyce Frankenberg], England, actress (Dr Quinn) is 63

Melissa Manchester, Bronx, vocalist (Don't Cry Out Loud) is 63

Remembered for being born today

1564 - Galileo Galilei, Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist

1710 - Louis XV the Well-Beloved, Versailles, King of France (1715-74)

1809 - Cyrus Hall McCormick, inventor (Mechanical reaper)

1820 - Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette

1882 - John Barrymore, [Blythe], Phila, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)

1907 - Cesar Romero, New York, American actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11)

1927 - Harvey Korman, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles)

1964 - Chris Farley, actor (SNL, Wayne's World, Coneheads)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

1905 - Lewis Wallace, US diplomat/writer (Ben Hur), ulcers, 1905, @77

1965 - Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), cancer, 1965, @49

1973 - Wally Cox, actor (Mr Peepers, Hollywood Squares), heart attack, 1973, @48

1984 - Ethel Merman, singer/actress (Kid Million), glioblastoma. 1984, @76

1996 - McLean Stevenson, actor (M*A*S*H, Hello Larry), heart attack, 1996, @66

Brain Teasers

THINK  THICK  TRICK  TRACK  TRACT  TRAIT  TRAIN  BRAIN 

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  §