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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 137 / Week: 20
May Averages: 68° \ 34°Today: Average Sky Cover: 90%
H 77°… L 46°… Ave. humidity: 32%
Wind: ave: 8mph; Gusts: 24mph
Average High: 68° Record High: 82° (1970)
Average Low: 34° Record Low: 20° (1943)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1536 - Anne
Boleyn's 4 "lovers" executed
1590 - Anne
of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland 1620 - 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair (Turkey)
1756 - Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or French & Indian War)
1875 - 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
1884 - Alaska becomes a US territory
1904 - Maurice Ravel's "Shéhérazade" premieres in Paris
1920 - 1st flight by Dutch airlines KLM (Koninklijke-Luchtvaart-Maatschappij)
1928 - 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
1946 - Harry Truman seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
1957 - School desegregation law, Brown v Board of education
1970 - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on reed raft Ra
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How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
A quiet Friday…didn’t do a whole lot…the overcast sky kinda
drained me of wanting to do very much. Or maybe it was because it is one of the
hottest days so far this year.
Had to chuckle with one of Rachael Maddow’s posts today. It seems
some very conservative people planned a protest on DC today to return the
current corrupt government to the basics of the constitution. They called their
demonstration “Operation: American Spring”. Their website and publicity said to
expect 10-30million demonstrators to show up and peacefully overthrow the
current corrupt government. As Rachael pointed out, they did have the demonstration
and did have between 10-30million people show up. The actual number
demonstrating was about 15 crazies which is in fact between 10 and 30,000,000 .
Probably won’t make the evening news.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
You
are an adventurer and come across two caves: one on the left and one on the
right. One of the caves has treasures; the other, most certain doom. You see an
imp passing by and ask which cave has the treasure. The imp said, "Two
caves you came across. Many have failed to pick the right one. It contains
treasure of many kinds. What is left, to tell, is the other cave, with terror
and death lurking around." Which one should you pick?
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
Amy Purdy & Derek Hough – Jive (11 min)
and worth a watch
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
change since 1980 in the rate of labor-force participation among US women: +5.7
Among
US men: -7.7
Unusual
Fact of the Day
One of the drugs Nazis experimented
with in 1944 was D-IX, a cocaine-based compound that included both an
amphetamine and a morphine-related chemical to dull pain. Nazi doctors found
that test subjects could march 55 miles before having to rest. Luckily, the war
ended before production could begin.
Largest
Animals in the world…
The Heaviest
Flying Bird in the World: The Dalmatian Pelican
The Dalmatian Pelican (Pelecanus crispus) is a member of the
pelican family. It breeds from southeastern Europe to India and China in swamps
and shallow lakes. This is the largest of the pelicans, averaging 160–180 cm
(63-70 inches) in length, 11–15 kg (24-33 lbs) in weight and just over 3 m (10
ft) in wingspan. With a mean weight of 11.5 kg (25 lb), it is the world’s
heaviest flying bird species on average, although large male bustards (terrestrial
and ground-running birds) and swans can exceed the pelican in maximum weight.
Oldest
Trees in the World…
Olive
Tree of Vouves
This ancient olive tree is located on the Greek island of Crete
and is one of seven olive trees in the Mediterranean believed to be at least
2,000 to 3,000 years old. Although its exact age cannot be verified, the Olive
Tree of Vouves might be the oldest among them, estimated at over 3,000 years
old. It still produces olives, and they are highly prized. Olive trees are
hardy and drought-, disease- and fire-resistant — part of the reason for their
longevity and their widespread use in the region.
Travel
Destination Info…
2) Spain
- $53.2 billion
Spain is second on the list of countries where international
tourists spent the most money but at $53.2 billion Spain is a distant second to
the United States. International tourists come to Spain for the beautiful
summer resorts, hotels and beaches along both the Atlantic Ocean and the
Mediterranean Sea as well as to visit religious sites and to see the Pyrenees
Mountains and open plains.
Joke-of-the-day
A young executive was leaving the office late one evening when he
found the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his
hand.
“Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very sensitive and important document here, and my secretary has gone for the night. Can you make this thing work for me?"
"Certainly," said the young executive. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.
"Excellent, excellent!" said the CEO, as his paper disappeared inside the machine. "I just need one copy..."
“Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very sensitive and important document here, and my secretary has gone for the night. Can you make this thing work for me?"
"Certainly," said the young executive. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.
"Excellent, excellent!" said the CEO, as his paper disappeared inside the machine. "I just need one copy..."
Rules of
Thumb:
ESTIMATING THE COST OF A DOCTOR VISIT
The fee for a
routine office visit is the same price as a first-class postage stamp
multiplied by 100.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
GASTONIA, N.C. (UPI) - A North Carolina woman was arrested and
charged with misuse of the 911 system after she allegedly called emergency
dispatchers because she was given a flatbread pizza that was made with marinara
sauce instead of pizza sauce. Bevalente Hall allegedly called 911 after Subway
employees wouldn't refund the money she paid for a "flatizza" pizza
that was sauced incorrectly. "It's terrible, and I got my receipt,"
the 37-year-old says in the call. "And I told them I can't eat that kind
of sauce." In the 911 call, Hall says she wants report the incident to
investigators with Channel 9. "They made my mom another sandwich without a
problem, but say they won't make me a sandwich," Hall said, the Gaston
Gazette reported. Hall's husband told Channel 9 that his wife called 911 after
being yelled at by an officer.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Contrary
to popular belief, excavated skeletons show that the pyramid builders were
actually Egyptians who were most likely in the permanent employ of the pharaoh.
Graffiti indicates that at least some of these workers took pride in their
work, calling their teams "Friends of Khufu," "Drunkards of
Menkaure," and so on--names indicating allegiances to pharaohs.
[]
Although
popular legend blames Napoleon and his troops during the French campaign in
Egypt (1798-1801) for having shot the nose off the Great Sphinx, in fact this
story just isn't true.
It
is not known who destroyed the nose of the Sphinx. There are sketches of the
Sphinx without a nose in 1737, over 60 years before Napoleon reached Egypt and
hundreds of years before the British and German armies of the two World Wars.
The only person known to have damaged it was an Islamic cleric, Sa'im al-dahr,
who was lynched in 1378 for vandalism.
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
11-17
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
Pack Rat
Day
Armed Forces DayMike, The Headless Chicken Day
Morel Mushroom Day
National Learn To Swim Day
Preakness
World Hypertension Day
World Information Society Day
World Telecommunications Day
World Neurofibromatosis Day (NF Day)
[]
Constitution Day (Norway-‘ Syttende Mai’-1814)
Today’s Events through History
1733 - England
passes Molasses Act, putting high tariffs on rum & molasses imported to the
colonies
1845 - Rubber
band patents 1865 - International Telegraph Union (later the Internat’l Telecommunication Union) is established.
1989 - Vincent Van Gogh's "Portrait of Dr Gachet" auctioned for $825M
Today’s
Birthdays
Taj Mahal, singer/songwriter (Real Thing) is 72
Bill Paxton, actor (True Lies, Big Love-HBO) is 59Bob Saget, , comedian (Full House, America's Funniest Home Video) is 58
Sugar Ray [Charles] Leonard, boxer (Olympics-gold-76) is 58
Jim Nantz, Sports broadcaster is 55
Enya [Eithne Ní Bhraonáin], Irish singer and songwriter is 53
Craig Ferguson, Glasgow, actor, writer and comedian is 52
Sasha Alexander, American television actress is 41
Derek Hough, dancer (DWTS) \ singer is 29
Remembered
for being born today
1749-1823 - Edward Jenner, England, physician,
discovered vaccination
1868-1920 - Horace Elgin Dodge, American automobile
manufacturer1889-1959 - Alfonso Reyes, Mexican poet/historian/diplomat
1912-2004 - Archibald Cox, special prosecutor (Watergate)
1936-2010 - Dennis Hopper, actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider)
Today’s
Historical Obits
1992 - Lawrence Welk,
conductor/accordionist, 1992, @89
1829 - John Jay, 1st Chief Justice of the United States,
1829, @83 1886 - John Deere, blacksmith and manufacturer, 1886, @82
1510 - Sandro Botticelli, Renaissance painter, 1510, @65ish
2012 - Donna Summer, American singer, cancer, 2012, @63
1875 - John C. Breckinridge, US VP, cirrhosis, 1875, @54
1727 - Catherine I, Empress of Russia, fever, 1727, @43
Brain
Teasers
You should pick the right one. As he said, it has treasure of many
kinds. The left one lurks with death and danger, as he said.
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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