Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 158
/ Week: 23
June Averages: 78° \ 42°Today: Average Sky Cover: 10%
H 83°… L 45°… Ave. humidity: 14%
Wind: ave: 2mph; Gusts: 9mph
Average High: 76° Record High: 89° (1985)
Average Low: 39° Record Low: 24° (1954)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1099 - 1st
Crusaders arrive in Jerusalem
1494 - The
"new world" is divided by the Catholic church.1654 - Louis XIV crowned King of France
1769 - Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass State of Kentucky
1832 - Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1863 - Mexico City captured by French troops
1893 - Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
1929 - Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1930 - NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
1942 - Battle of Midway ends: Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan
1965 - Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995
1969 - "Johnny Cash Show" debuts on ABC-TV
1972 - "Grease" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 3,388 performances
1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
2012 - 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, were found under a pub in London
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Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Summer weather has certainly arrived. Now we wait for the
monsoons. Right now the low humidity is really disturbing for our forest. It is
in Stage 2 restrictions which means that no open flame anywhere in the forest. Guess
we will see.
VA doctors were so afraid of retaliation regarding the secret
waiting list that any emails had to have a code word so the government wouldn’t
know what the doctor was telling the media. Really? Guess the NSA thing isn’t
all it is cracked up to be.
Watched the NBA game last night…the San Antonio air conditioning
went off and the court side thermometer read over 90°. LeBron had severe
cramping and limped off court and had to be ‘carried’ by 2 on the team. Very
bothersome for sure. But then this morning Gatorade put up a picture on FB that
the players who drank Gatorade had no problems…since LeBron took his name to
another drink company…Cheap shot.
Thank you NPR…again. I was wondering about the prisoner exchange
when McCain was released. He was released as part of the negotiations in Paris
to end the war. Both the US and VietNam agreed to ‘release’ prisoners from the
war. It is not technically a prisoner exchange. Also McCain refused to be
released several times in a prisoner exchange, fearing that it would be used as
propaganda. Interesting.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Always
old, sometimes new. Never sad, sometimes blue. Never empty, sometimes full.
Never pushing, always pulling. What am I?
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
of Americans who want the government to provide a job to any citizen who cannot
find work in the private sector: 47
Unusual
Fact of the Day
12+1 = 11+2, and "twelve plus
one" is an anagram of "eleven plus two."
Heard by
Flight Attendants…
“How do I move my seat forward?”
Presidential
Fun Facts…
James Madison: Graduated College of New Jersey (now Princeton
University; 1771) Secretary of State under Jefferson. Citing continued attacks
on its ships, the United States declared war on Britain in June 1812. British
troops burned the White House 1814. First president who had prior service as a
congressman. First president to wear trousers rather than knee breeches. He
stood 5 feet 4 inches, the shortest president.
Common
misused words...
Farther
and further
Farther involves a
physical distance; "Florida is farther from New York than Tennessee."Further involves a figurative distance; "We can take our business plan no further."
So, as they say in the South, "I don't trust you any farther than I can throw you." Or, "I ain't gonna trust you no further."
Things
you might not know about games…
They are
drawn from nature
When Satoshi Tajiri was growing up in a rustic Western Tokyo
suburb in the 1960s and ’70s, he spent many hours outdoors. Young Satoshi grew
fascinated with insects and bugs and collected as many as he could, earning him
the nickname Mr Bug. This childhood hobby later became the inspiration for the
hugely popular Nintendo Game Boy game, Pokémon, where you have to collect and train
species of these Pocket Monsters to pit them against those of other players.
The World
as 100 people…
Literacy:
83 can read and write; 17 unable to read and writeJoke-of-the-day
Three leaders of
the big beer companies meet for a drink. The president of Budweiser orders a
Bud. Miller's president orders a Millers and the president of Coors orders a
Coors. When it is Guinness turn to order he orders a soda. Why didn't you order
a Guinness everyone asks? Nah Guinness replies. If you guys aren't having a
beer neither will I.
Rules of
Thumb:
MOVING TO A NEW PLACE
The urge to fix up a
house you've just moved into is strongest during the first 30 days. To save
money, wait for a month before you do any repairs.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
SHANGHAI (UPI) - You don't need be a scientist to see that it's
the brain that sets humans apart from the rest of the animal kingdom. Humans
may not be the fastest or biggest, but they're the smartest, clever enough to
populate the globe.
But just as there's no such thing as a free lunch, bigger brains
don't come on the house. According to a new study, human intelligence came an
evolutionary price. Modern humans sacrificed brawn for brains. In analyzing more than 10,000 different metabolites -- intermediates and products of metabolism -- in tissue samples from humans, chimpanzees, macaques and mice, researchers found that the human brain evolved up to four times faster than that of chimps. Muscle evolved eight times more quickly.
But whereas the human brain became bigger and more capable, human muscle became less efficient.
"It's a rather drastic change in both brain and muscle," said Philipp Khaitovich, a researcher at the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences. "Of course, muscle was the most surprising. It was the control tissue; [we thought] muscle should be the same. But it turned out to be even more dramatic."
"Even after so many years studying evolution, here's something that's still completely new, something that people didn't know about and something that's very fundamental," Khaitovich said.
The study helps explain why humans, even in peak physical shape, aren't nearly as strong as chimps and other monkeys of similar size.
"Amazingly, untrained chimps and macaques outperformed university-level basketball players and professional mountain climbers," Rolad Roberts, a scientist with the Public Library of Science, told National Geographic. "Weak muscles may be the price we pay for the metabolic demands of our amazing cognitive powers."
The study was published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Biology.
Somewhat
Useless Information
The
mathematical model of the 20th century space-time continuum theory combines
space and time into a single idea, where space is three-dimensional and time
has the role of the fourth dimension.
The
American author, poet and editor Edgar Allan Poe was one of the first to
suggest that space and time were one.In 1848 he wrote an essay of 90 pages on cosmology called “Eureka” in which he stated that time and space were one using no mathematics.
Apart from Poe, after some years H.G. Wells, Albert Einstein, as well as Hermann Minkowski dealt scientifically with this issue.
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Did you know that in the Parliament of Rwanda 57 percent of the MPs are women?
It is the only Parliament in the world where women represent a majority in government.
Voter Anne Kayitesi told the BBC’s Focus on Africa: “You see men, especially in our culture, men used to think that women are there to be in the house, cook food, look after the children… but the real problems of a family are known by a woman and when they do it, they help a country to get much better.”
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Did you know that the Taj Mahal in India is made entirely out of marble integrating a complex of structures?
Its construction started in the 17th century and it was completed in about 20 years by thousands of artisans and craftsmen.
The supervisors during the construction of Taj Mahal were Abd ul-Karim Ma’mur Khan, Makramat Khan, and Ustad Ahmad Lahauri.
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
6-8
Great American Brass Band Week
Today
Is
Horseradish Days: 6-8
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
National Lemonade Days: 6-8
National Trails Day
National YoYo Day
Positive Power of Humor and Creativity Days: 6-8
Turtle Races Day
Xterra Off-Road Triathalon
VCR Day
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Boone Day (Ky)
National Day (Malta-1964 from UK)
Today’s Events through History
1692 - Earthquake
in Porte Royale, Jamaica, kills 3,000
1866 - Irish
Fenians raid Pigeon Hill, Quebec 1946 - US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel
1954 - 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
1955 - 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
1970 - The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
1975 - "Thank God I'm a Country Boy" by John Denver hits #1
Today’s
Birthdays
Tom
Jones [Sir Thomas John Woodward], Welsh singer (What's New Pussycat) is 74
Ken
Osmond, actor (Eddie Haskel-Leave it To Beaver) is 70Liam Neeson, N Ireland, actor (Schindler's List, Les Miserables) is 62
Prince, [Rogers Nelson], , rocker/actor (Purple Rain) is 56
Bear Grylls, British survivor is 40
Michael Cera, Canadian actor (Arrested Development, Superbad) is 26
Remembered
for being born today
1778-1840 - George
Bryan "Beau" Brummel, English dandy
1811-1870 - James
Young Simpson, Scotland, obstetrician (used chloroform) 1843-1916 - Susan Elizabeth Blow, US, pioneered kindergarten education
1909-1994 - Jessica Tandy, London, actress (Birds, Cocoon)
1917-1995 - Dean Martin, singer/actor (with Jerry Lewis)
Today’s
Historical Obits
[Francis] Max Factor Jr,
makeup inventor, 1996, @91
Jim McKay, American sportscaster, 2008, @86Chief Seattle, Suquamish tribe leader, 1866, @86ish
Zasu Pitts, actress (Life With Father), cancer, 1963, @65
Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), cancer, 1968, @61
Robert Bruce, King of Scots, TB-stroke(?), 1329, @53
Judy Holliday, comedienne (Adam's Rib), cancer, 1965, @42
Brain
Teasers
The Moon
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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