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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 122 / Week: 18
Today: L 34°…H 61°… Ave. humidity: 28%Wind: ave: 13mph; Gusts: 28mph
Average High: 63° Record High: 84° (1947)
Average Low: 31° Record Low: 17° (1972)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1536 - King Henry VIII
accused Anne Boleyn of adultery & incest
1776 - France & Spain
agreed to give weapons to American rebels 1833 - Czar Nicolas bans public sale of serfs
1865 - Pres Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture of Jefferson Davis
1878 - US stops minting 20 cent coin
1885 - "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
1890 - Territory of Oklahoma created1932 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (Good Earth)
1938 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
1946 - Prisoners revolt at Alcatraz, 5 die
1949 - Arthur Miller wins
Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"
1966 - Pulitzer prize
awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days) 1974 - Former VP Spiro Agnew disbarred
1994 - Dr Kervokian found innocent on assisting suicides
2000 - President Bill Clinton announces accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted to the United States military.
2011 - Osama bin Laden, is killed in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
♫ Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Another windy spring day, but not as cool as it has been. We headed out for Cameron about 11am this
morning. Our friend from Tuba didn’t make it, but a group of 5 from Tuba were
there celebrating their upcoming retirement. Caught up on all the latest rumors
from Tuba. Ten staff I know are retiring this year, so after 7 years there are
very few staff members I know still at the school. My counselor is retiring, my
good friend is retiring, and three other staff I supervised are retiring. While
I was sitting at my office window, my little neighbor boy, about 6 years old,
just got a pair of Navajo Moccasins from his grandparents. So cute to watch the
grandparents put them on him, and for him to walk around the parking lot with
them. Biggest smiles I have seen in a long time.
The lunch was so nice, to have fry bread and stew…it’s been over a
year since we trucked up there and I sure miss good fry bread. The restaurant
has been there for decades. They have done a lot of remodeling in the past year
and the small curio shop is not huge with lots more Navajo made jewelry and
Navajo bead work. Prices are still ‘tourist prices’ but that is their business.
A small beaded necklace could be bought at the school for about $5 is selling
for $20. The signs are much clearer as to ‘Native American Made’, Navajo Made’,
‘Replica’. Nice to see. The food is still as good, or maybe even better than it
has been. The next biggest change was the wait staff. Very friendly, very
helpful, and good at their job. I was the slow eater today, mostly because the
ladies only ate about half their food—the Navajo Tacos are huge. The waitress
came over when the ladies were through, took their plates and left the bill. No
bill for me. Hmmm. When I finished eating, she came back and put my bill down.
I said ‘Oh, I figured you forgot my bill.’ Her response, ‘you were still eating
and it is not polite to leave the bill when you are still eating’. Wow, she got
a nice tip for that.
So happy to see Crossfire back on CNN. It has been gone since the
plane went down. Sure nice to hear 30 minutes of opposite opinions on a
relevant subject.
I knew yesterday was very windy here in Flag. Learned this morning
that wind was clocked at 80mph up on our peaks. Thank goodness it wasn’t that
bad.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Find
the names of 5 planets hidden in the following sentences:
1.
"What hurts?" asked the doctor. "It's my ear," the patient
cried.
2.
"Steven, use the screwdriver to build those shelves."
3.
Everyone takes a turn during Monopoly.
4.
"Cassie, you ran us over with your bicycle!"
5.
"Sam, arsenic is poisonous. I read the definition in the dictionary."
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
Larry Gaatlin--Broken Lady
Lesley Gore-You Don't Own Me
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
of revenue made on the NFL’s pink breast cancer awareness merchandise that goes
to cancer prevention: 11
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Though the U.S. only
makes up 5% of the world's population we house nearly 25% of the
world's prison population.
Number
One Country in the world…
United Arab Emirates:
Not Dying
The
record for lowest death rate is owned by a truly unexpected nation. By far, the
fewest people overall die in the United Arab Emirates.
And we mean by far. While there are dozens of countries that
best the mighty United States (Qatar, Nepal, Laos, Pakistan, Aruba and Iran all
have lower overall mortality rates,) the UAE is the only country around with
less than one death per thousand citizens.
Joke-of-the-day
One of the girls
in the office is approaching her 39th birth- day and the rest of the stiffs
were giving her a little hazing about it. "Just think," one of the
other hens observed, "you're an official cougar now."
"What's
that?" she asked.
"Cougars are
those sexy, middle-age women who hang out in bars and pick up young studs for a
good time."
"I'm
married!" she shot back indignantly.
Satan saw me
standing in my office doorway and listening in to the conversation, "Hey,
TZ, what's the name for a male version of a cougar...you know...those pathetic
forty and fifty-year-olds who hang out at the clubs and try to score with
really young women?"
"They're
called men."
Rules of
Thumb:
MOUSE-PROOFING YOUR
HOUSE
A mouse can squeeze
through a space little bigger than the width of a pencil, or widen it by
chewing. If you want to patch such holes, leave the patch smooth or the mouse
will be able to pry it out.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
ALEXANDER COUNTY,
N.C. (UPI) - An elderly North Carolina man lost his hand after he was struck by
a plane while riding a lawn mower at Taylorsville Airport in Alexander County.
The pilot of the plane, 84-year-old Edward Eugene Sisson, didn't see
74-year-old John Rufty on his lawn mower until just before impact. Rufty's left
hand was severed by the propeller of the plane during the collision. State
Highway Patrol Sergeant Brian Owenby told the New York Daily News that Sisson
was touching down on the airport's grass landing strip on his way to visit
family in the area. No one was on hand to warn Rufty about the plane because
the airport doesn't have a traffic controller. "(Rufty) wouldn't have been
able to hear or see the plane coming," Owenby said. "And the pilot
was unable to see the driver until just before impact." The National
Transportation and Safety Board and the Federal Aviation Administration are
investigating the incident but no charges are pending at this time. Sisson was
not injured during the accident.
Somewhat
Useless Information
European
wines are named after their geographic locations (e.g., Chassagne-Montrachet
Morgeot and Bordeaux) while non-European wines (e.g., Pinot Noir and Merlot)
are named after different grape varieties.
In
the Middle Ages, the greatest and most innovative winemakers of the day were
monastic orders. The Cistercians and Benedictines were particularly apt
winemakers, and they are said to have actually tasted the earth to discover how
the soil changed from place to place. Their findings are still important today.
Wineskins
were a common way to transport wine in the ancient world. Animal skins (usually
pig) were cleaned and tanned and turned inside out so that the hairy side was
in contact with the wine.
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
1-7Choose Privacy Week
2-4 Toad Suck Daze
Today Is
International Space Day Martin Z. Mollusk Day (prognosticating hermit crab will take historic creep onto 9th St. Beach, NJ)
No Pants Day
Roberts Rule of Order Day
Tuba Day
Today’s Events through History
1497 - John Cabot departs to
North-America
1918 - General Motors
acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware. 1932 - Jack Benny's 1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
1956 - US Methodist church disallows racial separation
2013 - Rhode Island becomes the tenth US state to legalize same-sex marriage
Today’s
Birthdays
Engelbert
Humperdinck, [Arnold George Dorsey], singer is 78
Lesley
Gore, singer (It's My Party) is 68Larry Gatlin, country singer (Gatlin Bros-Broken Lady) is 66
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson, professional wrestler and actor is 42
David Beckham, English footballer is 39
Remembered
for being born today
1729-1796 - Catherine
the Great [Catherine II], Empress of Russia
1779-1839 - John
Galt, Scotland, novelist (Ayrshire Legatees, Lawrie Todd)1837-1923 - Henry Martyn Robert, parliamentarian (Robert's Rules of Order)
1885-1966 - Hedda Hopper, American gossip columnist
1892-1918 - Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen [The Red Baron], WWI fighter ace
1895-1943 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist
1903-1998 - Benjamin Spock, pediatrician (Common Sense Book of Baby Care)
1907-1993 - Pinky Lee, children's show host (Pinky Lee Show)
Today’s
Historical Obits
J. Edgar Hoover, 1st Director of the
FBI, heart attack, 1972, @77
Jack Kemp, former US Congressman \
1996 VP candidate, cancer, 2009, @73Leonardo Da Vinci, artist/scientist, 1519, @67
Lynn Redgrave, British actress, breast cancer, 2010, @67
Jack Barry, game show emcee (Joker's Wild), heart attack, 1984, @66
Osama bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda, killed, 2011, @54
Joseph McCarthy, anti-communist US senator, hepatitis, 1957, @48
Brain
Teasers
1. "What hurts?" asked the doctor. "It's my ear," the patient cried.
2. "Steven, use
the screwdriver to build those shelves."
3. Everyone takes a turn
during Monopoly.
4. "Cassie, you ran
us over with your bicycle!"
5. "Sam, arsenic
is poisonous. I read the definition in the dictionary."
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 §
