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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 135 / Week: 20
May Averages: 68° \ 34°Today: Average Sky Cover: 0%
H 61°… L 36°… Ave. humidity: 41%
Wind: ave: 14mph; Gusts: 27mph
Average High: 67° Record High: 81° (1937)
Average Low: 34° Record Low: 20° (1968)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1536 - Anne
Boleyn & brother accused of adultery and incest
1602 - Cape
Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold 1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers harmonics law
1730 - Robert Walpole becomes effectively Britain's 1st prime minister
1791 - Maximilien Robespierre proposes the Self-denying Ordinance.
1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in US
1862 - US Department of Agriculture created
1869 - National Woman Suffrage Association forms
1905 - Las Vegas Nevada founded
1911 - Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)
1918 - The Finnish Civil War ends.
1934 - US Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for Dillinger, dead or alive
1940 - McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino
1948 - Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq & Saudi-Arabia troops attack Israel
1963 - Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
.2013 - The Eurozone records a recession for the sixth straight quarter
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Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Great day with a slight cool breeze. Another day to enjoy here in
Flag.
Got a call this morning that today is Tuba’s 8th grade
promotion, tomorrow is the K promotion, and Friday is the last day of work for
staff. This must be a record early end to the year. When I was working the
school ended just before Memorial Day. Times have sure changed. They must have
started classes in early August to get in their required days. That cuts most
teachers out of the second session of summer school at local universities.
A country of Free Speech certainly makes the news cycle
interesting. Some crazy old guy is getting a lot of press for his crazy
comments about the Clippers, Blacks, and his girlfriend and now he says Anderson
Cooper is a racist. Just a crazy person rants. Then there is crazy Carl Rove
saying that Hillary’s medical mess a few years ago left her with TBI…after
saying, at the time of the incident, that she was faking it to avoid testifying
during the first of many Benghazi hearings. Get your story straight and keep
with your story.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Birbal
was jester, counselor, and fool to the great Moghul emperor, Akbar. The
villagers loved to talk of Birbal's wisdom and cleverness, and the emperor
loved to try to outsmart him. One day Akbar (emperor) drew a line across the
floor. "Birbal," he ordered, "you must make this line shorter,
but you cannot erase any bit of it."Everyone present thought the emperor had finally outsmarted Birbal. It was clearly an impossible task. Yet within moments the emperor and everyone else present had to agree that Birbal had made the line shorter without erasing any of it. How could this be?
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
Eddy Arnold-The Wayward Wind
OK Then…Enjoy this series of 5 maps
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
of students enrolled in a massive open online course who view no more than one
lecture: 49
Percentage
who complete the course: 4
Percentage
of students enrolled in such courses at UPenn last year who had already earned
a college degree: 79
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Jason Varitek & Ed Vosberg are the
only people to play in the World Series, College World Series Championship
Game, and Little League World Series.
Largest
Animals in the world…
The
Largest Lizard/Snake in the World: The Green Anaconda
The most massive living member of this giant reptilian order is
the Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus) of the neotropical riverways. The maximum
verified size is 7.5 m (25 ft) and 250 kg (550 lb), although rumors of larger
anacondas persist. The Reticulated Python (Python reticulatus) of Southeast
Asia is longer but more slender, and has been reported to measure as much as
9.7 m (32 ft) in length.
Oldest
Trees in the World…
The
Senator
The Senator, located in Florida, is the largest bald cypress tree
in the United States, and it is widely considered the oldest of its species
known to exist. It is likely the largest U.S. tree of any species east of the
Mississippi River. Estimated to be around 3,500 years old, the Senator was used
as a landmark for the Seminole and other native tribes. The Senator's size is
particularly impressive because it has endured many hurricanes, including one
in 1925 which reduced its height by 40 feet. The tree gets its name from Sen. M.O. Overstreet, who donated the tree and surrounding land in 1927.
Travel
Destination Info… Germany #1
International tourism expenditure in 2010: $77.7 billion
Percent change from 2009: +0.7%Market Share: 8.5%
Per Capita Expenditure: $952
Joke-of-the-day
Ol' Fred had been
a faithful Christian and was in the hospital, near death. The family called
their preacher to stand with them.
As the preacher
stood next to the bed, Ol' Fred's condition appeared to deteriorate and he
motioned frantically for something to write on.The pastor lovingly handed him a pen and a piece of paper, and Ol' Fred used his last bit of energy to scribble a note, then suddenly died.
The preacher thought it best not to look at the note at that time, so he placed it in his jacket pocket.
At the funeral, as he was finishing the message, he realized that he was wearing the same jacket that he was wearing when Ol' Fred died. He said, "You know, Ol' Fred handed me a note just before he died. I haven't looked at it, but knowing Fred, I'm sure there's a word of inspiration there for us all."
He opened the note, and read, "Please step to your left -- you're standing on my oxygen tube!"
Rules of
Thumb:
WEARING JEWELRY AND
MAKE-UP
Teenage girls should
lay out the jewelry they want to wear, then put away one-third of the items.
For make-up, they should lay out everything they'd like to use, then put away
all but two items.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
BEIJING (UPI) - According to some reports, Chinese teenagers have
taken to walking heads of cabbage on leashes as if they were dogs in order to
battle depression and loneliness. The vegetable walkers were spotted at the
Midi Music Festival in Beijing. Apparently walking a cabbage is a good way to
strike up a conversation with another person who has decided to make a
vegetable their pet. "It's not about finding a boyfriend or girlfriend,
just about having someone to talk to and share things with, a statement of youth
isolated in the big cities," said Beijing University psychiatrist Wen
Chao, the Austrian Times reported. "The idea is simple -- you feel as
lonely and as simple as a cabbage, so you begin to act like one and befriend
one. And in that acceptance comes change." It could be said the teens are
stopping themselves from feeling blue by going green. "I feel I can
transfer my negative thoughts about myself to the cabbage, go for a walk with
it and come home feeling better about myself," said cabbage-walker Lui Ja
Chen. "In fact afterwards, I can throw the cabbage away and feel that I
have tossed my feelings out with it." Other media outlets say they cabbage
walkers were just engaging in performance art. The Culture Trip reports that
the cabbage walk was simply an art project by Chinese artist Han Bing. Han's
website reports the Chinese cabbage is "a quintessentially Chinese symbol
of sustenance and comfort for poor Chinese turned upside down."
Somewhat
Useless Information
With
the term ‘lobsters’ we often refer to
the clawed lobsters of the family Nephropidae and are one of the most profitable
commodities in coastal areas they populate as they are highly prized as
seafood. Lobsters live in all oceans,
have hard protective exoskeleton and they are estimated to live up to 60 years.
However,
lobsters’ blood is colorless and it turns blue when exposed to oxygen!
Have
you ever wondered why the continents’ names AfricA, AustraliA, AsiA, AmericA,
AntarcticA, ArcticA, Europe start and end with the same letter?
It
is really impressive, however, we still do not know the reason.A possible explanation is that most words are of Latin derivation and according to the rules of Latin, most female nouns end in -a, whereas, most male nouns end in -er or -us.
Did
you know that a typical adult human skeleton consists of 206 bones?
However,
the count of bones also changes with age, as multiple ossific nuclei joined by
synchondroses fuse into fewer mature bones, during the third decade of life.The craniofacial bones are counted separately despite the synostoses, which occur naturally in the skull.
Where can someone find the smallest bones in the human body? In our ears! Bone in our ears are located in the middle ear and are called the ossicles, which include the malleus, incus, and stapes.
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
Universal Family Week
Food Allergy Awareness Week
National Hospital Week
National Nursing Home Week
National Police Week
National Return To Work Week
National Transportation Week
National Women's Health Week
Reading is Fun Week
Salute to Moms 35+ Week
12-18
American Craft Beer Week
Children's Book Week
National Bike to Work Week
National Dog Bite Prevention Week
National Etiquette Week
*Work At Home Moms Week
13-17
Neuropathy Awareness Week
13-19
Salvation Army Week
Neuropathy Awareness Week
National Stuttering Awareness Week
Today Is
Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season
Hyperemisis Gravidarum Awareness DayInternational Day of Families
International MPS Awareness Day-- body's inability to produce specific enzymes
National Chocolate Chip Day
National Tuberous Sclerosis Day
Nylon Stockings Day
Peace Officer Memorial Day
Straw Hat Day
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Hollyhock Festival (Aoi Matsuri - Japan)
San Isidoro Day (Mexico\Spain) patron saint of farmers; of Madrid;La Ceiba, Honduras
Today’s Events through History
1930 - Ellen
Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (SF to Cheyenne)
1963
- Grammy Awards: I Left My Heart In San
Francisco, Robert Goulet wins 1969 - Associate Justice Abe Fortas resigns from Supreme Court
Today’s
Birthdays
Anna
Maria Alberghetti, Italy, singer/actress is 78
Trini
Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist is 77 Lainie Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress is 74
George Brett, KC Royal 3rd baseman (1980 AL MVP) is 61
Lee Horsley, actor (Matt Houston) is 58
Emmitt Smith, running back (Dallas Cowboys) is 45
David Charvet, actor (Melrose Place) is 42
Remembered
for being born today
1565-1621 - Henrick
de Keyser, architect/master builder of Amsterdam
1856-1919 - Lyman
Frank Baum, NY, children's book author (Wizard of Oz) 1859-1906 - Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903)
1889-1970 - Bessie Hillman, founder (Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America)
1902-1976 - Richard J Daley, (Mayor-D-Chic)
1905-1994 - Joseph Cotten, actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse)
1909-1984 - James Mason, England, actor (Lolita)
1915-2009 - Paul A Samuelson, economist 1970 Nobel
1918-2008 - Eddy Arnold, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime)
1940-2010 - Paul Rudd, actor (Conn Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
Today’s
Historical Obits
Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author, 2012, @83
June Carter Cash, American musician and singer, after surgery,
2003, @73 Jerry Falwell, American evangelist, heart attack, 2007, @73
Theodore H White, US journalist (Making of Pres), stroke, 1986, @71
Edward Flanagan, priest and founder of Boys Town, heart attack, 1948, @ 61
Emily Dickinson, US poet, feebleness, 1886, @ 55
Brain Teasers
Birbal simply drew a line longer than the first, which made the
first line shorter than the second.
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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