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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 149 / Week: 22
May Averages: 68° \ 34°Today: Average Sky Cover: smoky
H 77°… L 52°… Ave. humidity: 36%
Wind: ave: 4mph; Gusts: 27mph
Average High: 73° Record High: 86° (2000)
Average Low: 37° Record Low: 22° (1918)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1453 - Constantinople
falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire
1733 - The
right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City.1765 - Patrick Henry historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of "Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1849 - Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
1851 - Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
1876 - Interior Department is told to cooperate with the War Department so the military can round up the "hostiles" whenever they may appear on a reservation or an agency.
1900 - Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co
1911 - 1st running of Indianapolis 500
1968 - Truth in Lending Act signed into law
1980 - Larry Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year
1989 - Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty
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Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Another warm and smoky day. Sinus drainage is a little better,
thanks to a netie pot. Still not pleasant.
A couple of days ago I got a reminder text from Walgreens.
Yesterday I renewed 2 scripts, but only one was available yesterday. About 1p I
get a text that both are ready. Then 30 minutes later I get a renewal. Don’t
know what it is for, but followed the instructions in the text and found out
nothing. So I called, and the first lady had no idea what it was. Then off to a
supervisor. He knew nothing, so he sent me to the corporate offices. Corporate
blamed it on the store, so on to the next level supervisor. When I said I was
tired of the bureaucratic blame game, she said she didn’t understand. Then she ‘opened
a trouble ticket’ so I could speak to her supervisor. That took way too long. Now
I have to wait 2 business days to get a call from another bureaucrat.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
What
James Bond Movie Titles do the following represent?
1)
Crystals of C R Ever Ever Ever Ever.2) Female Sheep reincarnated just once.
3) AuDigit
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Number
of Academy Award winners in the past 20 years who thanked God in their
acceptance speeches: 7
Who
thanked Harvey Weinstein-cofounder of Mirimar: 37
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Venus and Uranus rotate on their axes
in a different direction than the other six planets.
Strange
Things That Washed Up On Beaches…
1 - A
Giant Lego Man
In late October, 2011, a strange body was found washed up on a
beach in Florida. The most notably strange things about the body in question
are that it was eight feet tall and was in fact a giant fiberglass Lego man.
The iconic bucket-shaped yellow head and claw-like hands were there, as was a
cryptic message printed in block letters on Mr. Lego’s trapezoidal chest which
read “NO REAL THAN YOU ARE.” This strange, grammatically challenged piece of
flotsam was eventually tracked back to an eccentric Dutch artist named Ego
Leonard.
Presidential
Fun Facts…
FOURTEEN
PRESIDENTS served as vice presidents: J. Adams, Jefferson, Van Buren, Tyler,
Fillmore, A. Johnson, Arthur, T. Roosevelt, Coolidge, Truman, Nixon, L.
Johnson, Ford, and George Bush.
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VICE
PRESIDENTS were originally the presidential candidates receiving the
second-largest number of electoral votes. The Twelfth Amendment, passed in
1804, changed the system so that the Electoral College voted separately for
president and vice president. The presidential candidate, however, gradually
gained power over the nominating convention to choose his own running mate.
What
happens every minute on the internet machine…
EMAIL: 204
million sent
INSTAGRAM: 360
million every second
Joke-of-the-day
A beautiful woman
in her thirties was passing through customs in London, when the customs
official asks her what the reason for her trip to London was.
Business or
pleasure, he asks? Sadness and pleasure! She says to the officer!
Why?
Well, my 75 years old husband has just died and I came to his funeral!
My condolences, says the officer!
It must be a very difficult and painful time you're going through!
Not really, this is my pleasure! I'm so sad because only now I found out that he was dead broke and did not leave a dime, a penny, not even a Will for me!
Rules of
Thumb:
CHOOSING A CHANDELIER
The diagonal
dimension of a chandelier in inches should equal the diagonal dimension of the
dining room in feet. Also, the diameter of the chandelier should be at least 12
inches less than the diameter of the dining room table.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) - A California woman gave birth to a healthy
five-pound, nine-ounce baby boy on Thursday, even though she wasn't able to
welcome him into the world herself. Melissa Carleton has been in a coma for
than 10 weeks, but she was still able to bring West Nathaniel Lande into the
world via cesarean section at a San Francisco hospital. The 39-year-old has
been in a semi-comatose state since she underwent emergency surgery to remove a
large brain tumor. "I was just so happy to have a healthy baby, healthy
son," Brian Lande, Carleton's husband, told NBC News. "It's a feeling
of immense relief joy and immense sorrow for Melissa not able to be awake for
it." Now that the baby has been delivered, Carleton will be transferred to
a brain rehab clinic and begin undergoing intense therapy in an effort to wake
her. Carleton's future is uncertain, but Lande is hopeful that she will recover
and be able to meet West. "I want her to know she did an amazing job, and
she loved the baby hard for two months," he said. "I'm so grateful to
her and I miss her. We can now work on getting her to wake up and get back to
us and be a mom."
Somewhat
Useless Information
In
April 1866, women from Columbus, Miss., laid flowers on the graves of both
Union and Confederate soldiers. It was recognized at the time as an act of
healing sectional wounds. In the same month, up in Carbondale, Ill., 219 Civil
War veterans marched through town in memory of the fallen to Woodlawn Cemetery,
where Union hero Maj. Gen. John A. Logan delivered the principal address. The
ceremony gave Carbondale its claim to the first organized, community-wide
Memorial Day observance.
Waterloo,
N.Y., began holding an annual community service on May 5, 1866. Although many
towns claimed the title, it was Waterloo that won congressional recognition as
the "birthplace of Memorial Day."
Gen.
Logan, the speaker at the Carbondale gathering, also was commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic, an organization of Union veterans. On May 5, 1868, he
issued General Orders No. 11, which set aside May 30, 1868, "for the
purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of
comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion."
From
the practice of decorating graves with flowers, wreaths and flags, the holiday
was long known as Decoration Day. The name Memorial Day goes back to 1882, but
the older name didn't disappear until after World War II. Federal law declared
"Memorial Day" the official name in 1967.
On
May 30, 1868, President Ulysses S. Grant presided over the first Memorial Day
ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery-which, until 1864, was Confederate Gen.
Robert E. Lee's plantation.
On
Memorial Day weekend in 1988, 2,500 motorcyclists rode into Washington, D.C.,
for the first Rolling Thunder rally to draw attention to Vietnam War soldiers
still missing in action or prisoners of war. By 2002, the numbers had swelled
to 300,000 bikers, many of them veterans.
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
25-31
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories
Hurricane Preparedness Week
Black Single Parents Week
Today
Is
Ascension of Baha'u'Llah
End Of The Middle Ages Day - 1453
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers End Of The Middle Ages Day - 1453
Learn About Composting Day
Put A Pillow On Your Fridge Day
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Admission Day (Wisconsin-1848-30th)
Ratification Day (Rhode Island-1790)
Today’s Events through History
1916 - Official flag of president of US adopted
1942 - Bing
Crosby records "White Christmas", greatest selling record to date 1978 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Golden Lights Golf Championship
Today’s
Birthdays
Al Unser, auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1970, 71) is 75
Anthony Geary, actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital) is 67John Hinckley Jr, shot & wounded President Reagan is 59
LaToya Jackson, /model is 58
Annette Bening, actress (Grifters, Bugsy, Valmont) is 56
Adrian Paul, London, actor (Dance to Win, Highlander) is 55
Melissa Etheridge, singer/songwriter/guitarist is 53
Anthony Azizi, TV actor is 45
Remembered
for being born today
1736-1799 - Patrick
Henry, US, patriot "Give me liberty or give me death"
1826-1903 - Ebenezer
Butterick, inventor (tissue paper dress pattern) 1903-2003 - Bob Hope, [Leslie Townes Hope], British\American entertainer
1906-1964 - T.H. White, British author
1917-1963 - John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mass, (Sen-Mass), 35th Pres
Today’s Historical Obits
Margaret Chase Smith, 1st woman Rep & Sen (R-Me), 1995, @97
Archibald Cox, Watergate special prosecutor, 2004, @91 Barry M. Goldwater, AZ Senator\presidential candidate, 1998, @89
Mary Pickford, actress, 1979, @87
Harvey Korman, American actor, 2008, @81
Baha'u'llah [Mirza HA Noeri], Persian founder (Baha'i), fever, 1892, @74
Dennis Hopper, actor and director, cancer, 2010, @74
Fanny Brice, Zeigfield Girl, stroke, 1951, @59
Brain Teasers
1) Diamonds Are Forever ( Crystals of Carbon = Diamonds. Four x
Ever)
2) You Only Live Twice ( Female Sheep = Ewe)
3) Goldfinger (Au is symbol for Gold and fingers are digits)
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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