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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 136 / Week: 20
May Averages: 68° \ 34°Today: Average Sky Cover: 0%
H 73°… L 41°… Ave. humidity: 22%
Wind: ave: 9mph; Gusts: 19mph
Average High: 67° Record High: 80° (1970)
Average Low: 34° Record Low: 16° (1955)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1532 - Sir Thomas More
resigns as English Lord Chancellor
1568 - Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England 1792 - Denmark abolishes slave trade
1817 - Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1860 - Chicago: Republican convention selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate
1864 - Last battles at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia (6,666 casualties)
1866 - US Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime)
1868 - By one vote, US Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1879 - Antonin Dvorák's "Slavic Dancing" premieres
1891 - George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam
1903 - 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF
1910 - US Bureau of Mines forms
1920 - Joan of Arc (Jeanne D'arc) canonized a saint
1939 - Food stamps are 1st issued
1965 - Spaghetti-O's 1st sold
1985 - Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
2005 - Kuwait permits women's suffrage in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
♫ Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
One of the best spring days all season. So nice to be able to go
outside in short pants and sandals.
I had lunch with our retirement group. Cheryl is headed to CA for
the HS graduation of her oldest grandson. Very nice. Mary is headed to Phx for
a weekend with one of her college girlfriends. Mary is continuing her battle with
various insurance companies regarding a medication she is taking. BD/BS had
been paying for the meds but suddenly decided that it was not approved for her
particular skin condition and would no longer pay for it. Lots of phone calls
to lots of various people involved, and she is getting nowhere. At $5K per
month she was getting the only relief she has had in several years. Medicare
will pay if she pays about $10K/year for part D, the manufacture won’t pay
because they say BC/BS said they would pay. It is turning into quite the
bureaucratic battle.
On Tuesday I needed more Lipitor. So I left a message with my Dr.
to renew the script. On Wed I called the pharmacy to see why it hadn’t been
filled. They said the Dr. didn’t send the script. They faxed the Dr. for a
script This morning I got a text message from the pharmacy saying that the Dr.
still hadn’t sent the script. I called the Dr.
and got some story about 2 mailboxes on the phone and she had just heard
the message a few minutes ago and was faxing the info to the pharmacy. She
claimed she never got a fax from the pharmacy. Then about 15 minutes later I
got a text that my script was ready. This renewal process is becoming a real
pain in the rear. Thank goodness I’m living in Flag where it is no big deal,
rather than the Rez where it would have been a 150mile roundtrip for a script.
Good news for all Natives last night…the Senate approved the first
Federal Judge who is Native (Hopi). Diane Humetewa is the FIRST Federal Judge
in our country’s history. So hard for me to wrap my mind around that…230+ years
before a Native is given a judgeship…really? Charles Curtis (Kaw tribe) was
Hoover’s VP in 1929.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Below are four epitaphs (writing on gravestones). From the
writings, can you tell the occupation of each person?1. Here lies Mortimer Bibbs.
He took part of ours and gave it to big brother, but he always had good form.
2
. Here lies Dirk McDuff, who toppled giants with weapons of steel. If only he'd heard his partner's shout before the giants found their revenge.
3. Here lies Suzy Smelt. She constructed many a bomb but mostly brought smiles to our faces.
4. Here lies Ethel Grant. She spent her whole life fighting with what she will now become.
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
Danny Trejo
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Portion
of the 30 professions projected to grow faster over the next 10 years that
require postsecondary education: 2/3
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Chinese judges in the 15th century
used darkened lenses (sunglasses) to hide their facial expressions in court.
Largest
Animals in the world…
The
Largest Bird in the World: The Ostrich
Arabia. A large male ostrich can reach a height of 2.8 m (9.2 ft),
weighing over 156 kg (345 lb). Eggs laid by the Ostrich can weigh 1.4 kg (3 lb)
and are the largest eggs in the world today. They can also run at maximum
speeds of about 97.5 km/h (60.6 mph), making it both the fastest bird on land
and the fastest two-legged animal in the world.
Oldest
Trees in the World…
Patriarca
da Floresta
This tree, an example of the species Cariniana legalis named
Patriarca da Floresta in Brazil, is estimated to be about 3,000 years old,
making it the oldest non-conifer in Brazil. The tree is believed to be sacred,
but its species is widely threatened due to forest clearing in Brazil, Colombia
and Venezuela.
Travel
Destination Info…
Countries
that Take in the Most Money from Tourism
1) United States - $94.2 billionInternational tourists spent the most money visiting the United States in 2009 with receipts totaling $94.2 billion dollars. Tourists come to the United States to see the great natural wonders like the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone and Yosemite National Parks as well as the great tourist cities like New York, Washington DC, Las Vegas, Chicago and San Francisco. The most visited tourist attraction in the United States is Times Square in New York which is visited by some 35 million tourists per year.
Joke-of-the-day
A kindergarten
pupil told his teacher he’d found a cat, but it was dead. “How do you know that
the cat was dead?” she asked her pupil.
“Because I pissed
in its ear and it didn’t move,” answered the child innocently.
“You did WHAT?!
?” the teacher exclaimed in surprise.
“You know,”
explained the boy, “I leaned over and went ‘Pssst!’ and it didn’t move.”
Rules of
Thumb:
USING PHOTOGRAPHIC
FILM ON A SUNNY DAY
A good guide for
exposing film on a clear day with the sun at your back is to set the aperture
at f16 and the shutter speed to the ASA of the film.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
ARLINGTON, Mass. (UPI) - A 60-year-old Massachusetts woman was
arrested for operating under the influence for the seventh time after she
allegedly handed the police chief a liquor receipt instead of her driver's
license during a traffic stop. Arlington Police Chief Frederick Ryan reportedly
saw Brenda Drinkwater driving the wrong way through town while "another
man was driving behind Drinkwater repeatedly honking his horn and yelling at
her to stop," according to the Arlington Patch. Ryan also observed Drinkwater
forcing cars off the road, so he pulled her over. "Approaching the car,
the Chief asked Drinkwater for her license and registration, and she reached
into her purse and handed him a credit card and a receipt from a liquor store
for a bottle of vodka," police said in a statement. "The Chief then
saw an open bottle of vodka on her passenger seat and could clearly smell the
odor of liquor on her breath." When Drinkwater got out of her car, she was
"extremely unsteady" and failed "a number of sobriety tests."
In addition to the DUI charge, Drinkwater was also charged with operating
negligently as to endanger, drinking from an open container while driving and
failure to keep to the right.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Since
the 17th century Switzerland produces great amounts of chocolate every year, as
it is considered to be a place with international reputation for high quality.
It
was after the Second World War, when Switzerland started outsourcing production
and today it has many famous international brands.How about consumption within Swiss people? They eat the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos of chocolate per person per year!
If
evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands? ~Milton
Berle
I
am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no
more wars. ~E. M. Forster
All
women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That’s
his. ~Oscar Wilde
How simple a thing it seems to me that to know ourselves as we are, we must know our mothers names. ~Alice Walker
Only
mothers can think of the future – because they give birth to it in their
children. ~Maxim Gorky
Our
mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of
course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our
journeys even when they are no longer with us. ~Maria Shriver
What
good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is
usually best after all. ~Benjamin Spock
Girls
are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on
their well-being. ~Miriam Makeba
I
grew up in a makeup chair. And to see the women around me getting ready was so
aspirational. It’s about mothers and daughters, a girl watching her mom at a
vanity table. ~Drew Barrymore
Babies
don’t need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs
to be taken care of. ~Amy Heckerling
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
Bats Day Biographer's Day
Endangered Species Day
International Virtual Assistants Day
O. Henry Pun-off Day
NASCAR Day
National Bike to Work Day
National Defense Transportation Day
National Endangered Species Day
National Piercing Day
National Pizza Party Day
National Sea Monkey Day
Wear Purple For Peace Day
Today’s Events through History
1875 - Quake in Venezuela & Colombia kills 16,000
1914 - American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes
in Kansas City 1948 - Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
1986 - "Top Gun" premieres
Today’s
Birthdays
Danny
Trejo, actor is 70
Barbara
Lee, US singer (Chiffons, He's So Fine) is 68Pierce Brosnan, actor (Remington Steele, 007) is 61
Debra Winger, actress (Officer & Gentleman) is 59
Olga Korbut, gymnast (Olympic-2 golds-1972) is 59
John Salley, NBA star is 50
Janet Jackson, singer, Michael's sister (Control) is 48
Tracey Gold, actress (Carol-Growing Pains) is 45
Tori Spelling, actress, author is 41
Megan Fox, actress (Transformers) \ model is 28
Remembered
for being born today
1801-1872 - William
H. Seward, Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre
1804-1894 - Elizabeth
Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten) 1832-1901 - Philip Danforth Armour, founder (Armour Foods)
1905-1982 - Henry Fonda, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond)
1907-2004 - Robert Tisdall, Ireland, 400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1932)
1913-1987 - Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer
1919-1987 - [Wladziu Valentino] Liberace, pianist (Liberace Show)
Today’s
Historical Obits
Levi P. Morton, US -VP under Benjamin Harrision, 1920, @94
Sammy Davis Jr, singer/actor (Golden Boy), cancer, 1990, @64
Eliot Ness, American federal agent, heart attack, 1957, @54
Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street), organ failure, 1990, @53
James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), heart attack, 1955, @45
Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), cancer, 1984, @35
Brain
Teasers
1. Mortimer was a tax man.
2. Dirk was a lumberjack (and died because he didn't hear his
partner yell "Timber!").
3. Suzy was a comedienne.
4. Ethel was a maid, always fighting dust (referring to
"ashes to ashes and dust to dust").
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
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