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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 155 / Week: 23
June Averages: 78° \ 42°Today: Average Sky Cover: 45%
H 82°… L 46°… Ave. humidity: 21%
Wind: ave: 11mph; Gusts: 28mph
Average High: 75° Record High: 89° (1990)
Average Low: 38° Record Low: 23° (1908)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
781 BC - Oldest
Chinese recording of a solar eclipse
1070 - Roquefort
cheese created in a cave near Roquefort, France1783 - Montgolfier brothers launch 1st hot-air balloon (unmanned)
1784 - Madame Elizabeth Thible becomes the first female balloonist.
1789 - US constitution goes into effect
1892 - Sierra Club forms in SF
1871 - General George Crook takes command of the Department of Arizona, believes the Indians should be treated fairly, but kept under control.
1912 - Massachusetts passes 1st US minimum wage law
1919 - Senate passes Women's Suffrage bill
1942 - Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
1944 - 1st British gliders touch down on French soil for D-Day
1965 - Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1984 - Bruce Springsteen releases "Born in the USA"
♫
Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Quite the nice day here. Took a walk and enjoyed the beauty of our
little mountain town.
Still have a little cough, but getting better by the hour. My
primary care guy charges $125/visit…paid by insurance. He is an MD. The Urgent
Care place charges $200/visit and I was seen by a PA. Insurance pays for me.
While I was there yesterday a young man, about 25, came in and said he had no
insurance. He wondered how much to get some antibiotics. He was told $200 for
the visit and whatever the pharmacy would charge for the meds. He said he only
had $100. The lady repeated that is was $200 and he left. I followed him
outside and told him about a free clinic in town. He thanked me and headed off.
Sad that the Urgent Care place didn’t tell him where he could get care.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
What
is strange about the words in the group below, apart from the fact that they
are all four letters long?
NEARLAME
ARMS
CAME
DEAL
GAIN
WINE
SCAR
HIND
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Factor
by which the length of the average US job interview process has increased since 2000: 2
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Carter Lake, a unique Iowa town bound
by the Nebraska state line, is nestled among land legally within city limits of
Omaha, Nebraska.
Heard by
Flight Attendants…
“Have we landed yet?”
“Do you have a
writing pen?”
Presidential
Fun Facts…
George Washington: No formal education. The only president elected
unanimously. He received all 69 electoral votes. At his inauguration,
Washington had only one tooth. At various times he wore dentures made of human
teeth, animal teeth, ivory or even lead. Never wood. In addition to the
nation's capital and the state, 31 counties and 17 towns are named in his
honor. He stood 6 feet and 2 inches tall, weighed 200 pounds and wore size 13
shoes. He is the only president who didn't live in Washington, D.C. during his
presidency. During his presidency the Judiciary Act of 1789 established the
federal court system, the Bank Act of 1791 established a nation wide banking
system, the Bill of Rights became law on December 15, 1791.
Common
misused words...
Criteria
and criterion
"We made the decision based on one overriding criteria,"
sounds pretty impressive but is wrong.Remember: one criterion, two or more criteria. Although you could always use "reason" or "factors" and not worry about getting it wrong.
Things
you might not know about games…
They forgot the potato!
What we now know as the beloved Mr Potato Head used to be a
vegetable dress-up toy. The original version consisted only of legs, arms, a
few sets of eyes, a moustache (of course), and a pipe. A player, however, had
to provide the potato, or, as the box said, “any fruit or vegetable.”
Joke-of-the-day
Little Johnny's
class were on an outing to their local police station where they saw pictures,
of the ten most wanted men, tacked to a bulletin board. On the way out of the
police station Little Johnny said to the officer, "it was so nice of you
to put my daddy's picture up there."
Rules of
Thumb:
CHECKING AN EGG
When placed in a
bowl of water, a fresh egg will sink and lie on its side. An egg that's not
fresh but still edible will sink and stand partially erect on its tapered end.
A rotten egg will float.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
Only in Florida: (1) Calvin Rodriguez was arrested in Port St..
Lucie, Fla., in May as the man who had been using a shaved key to steal a
series of cars from parking lots. His spree came to an abrupt halt as he sped
away from police in a stolen Honda Civic only to crash into a huge alligator in
the road. (2) On May 1st, trappers called to Pine View School in Osprey, Fla.,
south of Sarasota, removed four alligators (one, eight feet long) from the
campus while classes were in session (but without disruption). (3) Beachcombers
in the Gulf of Mexico town of Redington Beach, Fla., were treated on May 17th
to the sight of a full-grown elephant treading water about 20 yards offshore.
(The animal had momentarily gotten free after being unloaded for a commercial birthday
party appearance.)
Somewhat
Useless Information
The chances of you dying on the way to get your
lottery tickets is greater than your chances of winning.
You are about 1 centimeter taller in the morning
than in the evening! The can opener was invented 48 years after the can.
A donkey will sink in quicksand but a mule won't.
Pentheraphobia is a fear of a mother-in-law.
In 2007, an unmanned yacht was discovered drifting
off the coast of Australia. The engine was running, a laptop was running, the
radio and GPS were working and a meal was set to eat, but the three-man crew
were not on board.
In 2008, a Japanese man noticed his food going
missing, so he set up a webcam and found that a woman had been living in his
closet for a year
The widow of the inventor of the Winchester rifle
built a house with mazes and dead-end staircases to confuse the ghosts of the
people who were killed by her husband's rifles.
A surprise inspection of a men’s prison in Acapulco
unearthed 100 plasma TVs, 2 sacks of marijuana, 2 peacocks, 100 cockerels… and
25 women.
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
1-7
Black Single Parents WeekEnd Mountain Top Removal Week
National Business Etiquette Week
National Headache Awareness Week
National Sun Safety Week
National Tire Safety Week
Pet Appreciation Week
Rip Current Awareness Week
Today
Is
Audacity To Hope Day
International Day of Innocent Children Victims of AggressionNational Tailors Day
Old Maid's Day
**
Flag Day (Finland)
Today’s Events through History
1812 - Louisiana
Territory officially renamed "Missouri Territory"
1825 - Unseasonable
hurricane hits NYC 1907 - Automatic washer & dryer introduced
1929 - George Eastman demonstrates 1st technicolor movie (Rochester NY)
1956 - Speech by Khrushchev criticizing Stalin made public
1967 - Monkees take home an Emmy for their Outstanding comedy Series
Today’s
Birthdays
Ruth
Westheimer, Germany, sex therapist is 86
Bruce
Dern, actor (Nebraska, Silent Running) is 78Robert Fulghum, American author is 77
Parker Stevenson, actor (Falcon Crest, Stroker Ace) is 62
Noah Wyle, actor (Dr John Carter-ER) is 43
Russell Brand, actor is 39
Angelina Jolie, actress (Girl, Interrupted) is 39
Remembered
for being born today
1906-1966 - Richard
Whorf, actor/director (Yankee Doodle Dandy)
1908-1976 - Rosalind Russell, actress (Mame, Take a
Letter Darling) 1917-1985 - Charles Collingwood, news commentator (CBS, Chronicles)
1917-2004 - Robert Merrill, Brooklyn, baritone (NY Metropolitan Opera)
1924-2006 - Dennis Weaver, actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered)
1937-2006 - Freddie Fender, Mexico, country singer (Feelings)
Today’s
Historical Obits
John Wooden, basketball player and coach, 2010, @99
Dik Browne, cartoonist (Hi & Lois, Hagar the Horrible), 1989,
@71
Brain
Teasers
The words are made up entirely of abbreviations for states in the
United States of America.
NE AR
LA MEAR MS
CA ME
DE AL
GA IN
WI NE
SC AR
HI ND
AL = Alabama
AR = ArkansasCA = California
DE = Delaware
GA = Georgia
HI = Hawaii
IN = Indiana
LA = Louisiana
ME = Maine
MS = Mississippi
ND = North Dakota
NE = Nebraska
SC = South Carolina
WI = Wisconsin
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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