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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 151 / Week: 22
May Averages: 68° \ 34°Today: Average Sky Cover: 40%
H 77°… L 46°… Ave. humidity: 51%
Wind: ave: 5mph; Gusts: 19mph
Average High: 73° Record High: 89° (2002)
Average Low: 38° Record Low: 23° (1988)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1621 - Sir
Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
1759 - The
Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions 1790 - US copyright law enacted
1837 - Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
1893 - Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
1900 - US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion
1907 - Taxis 1st began running in NYC
1911 - R.M.S. Titanic launched, Belfast
1913 - 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
1931 - 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
1941 - 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
1958 - Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
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Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
The smoke has dissipated at lot around our little mountain town…finally.
After over a week of fairly dense smoke, things are looking up. The people who
returned to Oak Creek discovered that their electricity had been off during the
entire evacuation. I’m sure there was lots of lost fresh and frozen foods, and
what a mess to have to clean up. Much better than the alternative, but certainly
not a pleasant clean up task.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
What
is represented by this:
Jack's
SaturdayYour Tuesday 92
Bob's Sunday
Your Thursday 24
Jill's Wednesday
Your Friday 70
Alison's Monday
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
of all criminal defendants in the US who forgo trial by pleading guilty: 97
Percentage
of US convicts exonerated last year who had previously pleaded guility without
a trial: 17
Unusual
Fact of the Day
In contrast to his exotic look and
mannerisms, Andy Warhol was born and raised not in Europe, but in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania.
Heard by
Flight Attendants…
Where are the
lines between the states? You would be surprised how many people think there
are actual lines between the states like on a map.
On night flights
we will go through the cabin with trays of orange juice and water. Passengers
will look at the tray and say: “Which one is the orange juice and which is the
water?”
Presidential
Fun Facts…
JAMES BUCHANAN was the only president never to marry. Five
presidents remarried after the death of their first wives——two of whom, Tyler
and Wilson, remarried while in the White House. Reagan was the only divorced
president. Six presidents had no children. Tyler——father of fifteen——had the
most.
What
happens every minute on the internet machine…
Spotify: 14 new
songs
WordPress: 347 new blog posts
Joke-of-the-day
The boss was
concerned that his employees weren’t giving him enough respect, so he tried and
old fashioned method of persuasion: He brought in a sign that said “I’m the
Boss” and taped it to his door. After lunch, he noticed someone had taped
another note under his. “Your wife called. She wants her sign back!”
Rules of
Thumb:
PLANNING A POND
The value of a
finished pond is roughly three times the cost of constructing it.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The news out of Washington yesterday: expect
aliens in 20 years.
Leading alien experts arrived on Capitol Hill on Tuesday donning
not tin foil hats but suits and ties, probably ones with little planets and
spaceships on them. The experts -- scientists at the California-based Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute -- addressed Congress as part of hearing hosted by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Specifically, the experts brought committee members up to speed on the ongoing search for alien life -- not the little green people from the movies, but microbial life within our own solar system and intelligent life beyond.
The experts are optimistic.
"At least a half-dozen other worlds (besides Earth) that might have life are in our solar system," explained Seth Shostak, an astronomer from SETI. "The chances of finding it, I think, are good, and if that happens, it'll happen in the next 20 years, depending on the financing."
"It would be bizarre if we are alone," said Dan Werthimer, director of the SETI Research Center in Berkeley.
Shostak and Werthimer said we will likely discover alien life in one of three ways: by discovering microbial life within our own solar system, by detecting radio signals from distant life forms, or by analyzing the output of methane or oxygen in the atmosphere of exoplanets.
But the scientists likely broke the hearts of several hundred True Believers when they denied aliens had already visited Earth.
"I don't think that that would be something all the governments would have managed to keep a secret," Shostak said. "If they were really here I think everyone would know that."
Somewhat
Useless Information
Continuously
inhabited for over 7,000 years, Athens, the Capital of Greece, is one of the
oldest cities in Europe. It is also the birthplace of democracy, Western
philosophy, the Olympic Games, political science, Western literature,
historiography, major mathematical principles, and Western theories of tragedy
and comedy.
Voting
in Greece is mandatory for all Greek citizens, although there are rarely
sanctions for citizens that do not vote.
Currently,
Greek men must serve from one year to 18 months in any branch of the armed
forces.
According
to Greek mythology, Athena and Poseidon agreed that whoever gave the city the
best gift would become guardian over the city. Though Poseidon gave the gift of
water, Athena's gift of an olive tree was deemed by the other gods to be more
valuable.
The
world's third leading producer of olives, the Greeks have cultivated olive
trees since ancient times. Some olive trees planted in the thirteenth century
are still producing olives.
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
What You Think Upon Grows Day
Wicket World of Croquet Day
World No-Tobacco Day
Today’s Events through History
1868 - 1st
Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
1969 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give
Peace a Chance" 2012 - Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency
Today’s
Birthdays
Clint Eastwood, actor \mayor is 84
Peter Yarrow, singer, (Peter, Paul & Mary) is 76Joe Namath, NY Jets QB is 71
Sharon Gless, actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey) is 71
Tom Berenger, actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me) is 65
Gregory Harrison, actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run) is 64
Lea Thompson, actress (Caroline In The City) is 53
Brooke Shields, model/actress (Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan) is 49
Colin Farrell, Dublin, actor (In Bruges, Minority Report) is 38
Remembered
for being born today
1819-1892 - Walt
Whitman, poet (Leaves of Grass)
1894-1956 - Fred
Allen, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show) 1898-1993 - Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking)
1908-1993 - Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places)
1912-1983 - Henry M "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-Wash)
1941-2003 - Johnny Paycheck, singer (Take This Job & Shove It)
Today’s
Historical Obits
Arlene Francis, television personality, 2001, @93
Jean Stapleton, actress (Edith Bunker), 2013, @90Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, 1910, @89
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champ/actor, 1983, @87
Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer, 1809, @77
Tito Puente, American musician, 2000, @77
Timothy Francis Leary, Harvard prof/LSD guru, cancer, 1996, @75
George Tiller, abortion doctor, assassinated, 2009, @67
Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, hanged, 1962, @56
Brain Teasers
Your days are numbered.
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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