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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 161
/ Week: 24
June Averages: 78° \ 42°Today: Average Sky Cover: 0%
H 82°… L 48°… Ave. humidity: 16%
Wind: ave: 7mph; Gusts: 28mph
Average High: 78° Record High: 87° (1910)
Average Low: 40° Record Low: 28° (1998)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1639 - 1st
American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1719 - Jacobite
Rising: Battle of Glen Shiel. 1793 - Washington supersedes Philadelphia as US capital
1801 - Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute
1854 - The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate
1898 - US Marines land in Cuba during Spanish-American War
1902 - Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan
1905 - 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me
1943 - FDR becomes 1st US president to visit a foreign country during wartime
1947 - Saab produces its first automobile.
1963 - US President JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women
1977 - Apple Computer ships its first Apple II computers
1977 - James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from prison
1981 - Sebastian Coe of England sets 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence
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Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Monday started off very well. My unexpected check finally arrived.
Even a little more than I thought it would be. No big plans, just into my
savings account till something really interesting comes along.
The grounds crew was around this morning.. still not happy with
their lack of ability to clean up all of the pine needles in the rock piles in
front of our units. They did do a good job on the parking lot which is now much
cleaner.
Also came a jury duty notice for the county. I just ended my city
jury duty a couple of weeks ago, now it’s county jury duty. Doesn’t start until
July 1 and is ‘good’ for 90 days. Don’t have to do anything until a summons
arrives.
News was talking about an American who was detained in North Korea
for spreading Christianity, by leaving a Bible in a hotel room. What? Americans
can travel to North Korea? Really. So I looked it up on the internet machine
and there are many tours for Americans to visit N. Korea, with no state
department issues. A one week tour costs about $3000 from Beijing. Not quite
ready for such a tour, but certainly interesting to know that Americans can
travel there.
Today would have been my parent’s 75th anniversary.
They had a great 55 years together and raised two sons. Still miss both of
them.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Which
country, from group A, belongs in group B?
GROUP
A
AustraliaCyprus
France
Great Britain
Hong Kong
Japan
GROUP
B
United
StatesChina
Egypt
Kuwait
Norway
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
change since 2012 in the number of books US schools considering banning: +53
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Baseball anthem "Take Me Out To
the Ball Game" actually has two main verses. During the 7th-inning
stretch, fans traditionally sing just the refrain. Jack Norworth had never been
to an actual baseball game when he wrote the song.
Presidential
Fun Facts…
Andrew Jackson: No formal education. Was first man elected from
Tennessee to the House of Representatives, and he served briefly in the Senate.
Placed 2,000 of his political supporters in government jobs and established a
"kitchen cabinet" of informal advisors. In 1835 he made the final
installment of national debt making Jackson the only president of a debt free
United States. He was the only president to serve in both the Revolutionary War
and the War of 1812. He was the only president to have been a prisoner of war.
He was the first president to have been born in a log cabin. First president to
ride a railroad train. Wounded in a duel at the age of 39, Jackson carried the
bullet, lodged near his heart, to his grave.
Ben
Franklin on Character…
Order. Let all
your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
Common
misused words...
Number
and amount
I goof these up all the time. Use number when you can count what
you refer to; "The number of subscribers who opted out increased last
month." Amount refers to a quantity of something you can't count;
"The amount of alcohol consumed at our last company picnic was
staggering."Of course it can still be confusing: "I can't believe the number of beers I drank," is correct, but so is, "I can't believe the amount of beer I drank." The difference is I can count beers, but beer, especially if I was way too drunk to keep track, is an uncountable total—so amount is the correct usage.
Pen Names
of famous authors…
Stanley Martin Lieber--Pen
name: Stan Lee
If everything had gone according to plan, Stan Lee would have been
known for writing classic American novels, not comic book series like
Spider-Man, X-Men, and the Fantastic Four. Born Stanley Martin Lieber, he
became an assistant at Timely Comics in 1939, and, according to his
autobiography, he used use the pen name Stan Lee because he wanted to save his
real name for more serious, literary work, later in life. As it happened, that
serious, literary work never came. Lee adopted his pseudonym officially and
became the most famous comic book author of all time.
The World
as 100 people…
PHONES: 75 have
cell phones; 25 do not
Joke-of-the-day
What is stress?
Stress is to
refuse to accept a circumstance in your life for which you have no control,
stress is measure by the amount of energy that you invest resisting those
circumstances. Stress is to waste energy attempting with your thoughts and
feelings to change a person, an event or a circumstance surrounding you. The
trick to avoid stress is to realize that no amount of effort can ever change
the circumstances while they are happening to you, no matter how bad, do not
oppose the moment instead, accept and feel what is occurring.
Rules of
Thumb:
FINDING A FULL MOON
Full moons will be
in the south around midnight. Before midnight, they will be more and more in
the direction of sunrise; after midnight, they'll be more and more in the
direction of sunset - true for both hemispheres.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
Frantic zoo keepers rushed to call an ambulance after a vet shot a
tranquillizer dart at a man dressed as a gorilla.
Police on the Spanish island of Tenerife received a call from a
panicked member of the public, who said that a gorilla had escaped from its pen
in Loro Park zoo, and was seen running around the theme park. A vet was called, and on spotting the creature fired a tranquillizer dart at its leg with enough sedative to fell a 200 kilo beast.
But to his horror, the vet - who had only been in the job for two months - realized that the creature was in fact an employee of the zoo, dressed in a gorilla suit, who was staging a mock escape to practice their emergency routines.
The 35-year-old man was taken to the island's University Hospital after the shooting. He was said to be in a serious condition, having suffered an allergic reaction to the tranquillizer, but was expected to make a full recovery.
Somewhat
Useless Information
"National
Doughnut Day" (the original spelling) began on the first Friday in June in
1938 as a fundraiser for the Salvation Army, and it still is today. National
Donut Day as it is now known commemorates Salvation Army female volunteers
known as "donut lassies," who provided writing supplies, stamps,
clothes-mending and home-cooked meals, and of course, donuts, for soldiers on
the front lines of World War I.
Those
lassies had limited resources, so they could fry only seven at a time until the
Salvation Army's Ensign Margaret Sheldon and Adjutant Helen Purviance cleverly
thought of frying donuts in soldiers' helmets.**
American prisoners of war at Son Tay prison camp tricked their North Vietnamese captors into giving out donuts by telling them that the birthday of the United States Marine Corps was once referred to as National Donut Day.
**
In the early '50s, Frank Sinatra used to call the Bay Shore bakery to place weekly orders from Entenmann's.
The largest donut ever made was a 1.7 ton American-style jelly donut measuring 16 feet in diameter and 16 inches high in the center.
Doughnut vs. donut: The now-accepted spelling of "donut" did not overtake the more traditional "doughnut" until Dunkin Donuts stores dotted the nation a few decades ago, according to Grammarist.com. One-third of Americans use "donut," with most preferring "doughnut."
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
8-14
International Clothesline WeekNational Body Piercing Week
National Flag Week
Jim Thorpe Native American Games
Men's Health Week
National Automotive Service Professionals Week
Today
Is
National Yo-Yo Day
Alcoholics Anonymous (Founders) DayBall Point Pen Day
Iced Tea Day
World Pet Memorial Day
**
Day of Portugal (Portugal- commemorates the death of national literary icon LuÃs de Camões in 1580.)
Today’s Events through History
1966 - Mamas & Papas win gold record for
"Monday, Monday"
2001 - Pope
John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint Saint Rafqa
Today’s
Birthdays
Philip
Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh/Prince, Mr Elizabeth II is 93
F
Lee Bailey, attorney (Sam Shepard case, OJ case) is 81Jeff Greenfield, media commentator (Firing Line, Nightline) is 71
Ron Glass, actor (Ron-Barney Miller) is 69
Dan Fouts, NFL QB (San Diego Chargers) is 63
Elizabeth Hurley, actress (Christabel) is 49
(Piyush) Bobby Jindal, politician; Louisiana Congressman, Governor is 43
Tara Lipinski, figure skater (1997 World Champ) is 32
Remembered
for being born today
1688-1766 - James Francis Edward Stuart 'The old Pretender', claimed thrones of England and Scotland as James III/James VIII (d. 1766)
1710-1768 - James Short, Scottish mathematician
1895-1952 - Hattie McDaniel, 1st African American actress to win Oscar (Gone With The Wind)
1914-2005 - Saul Bellow, author (Mr Sammler's Planet, Nobel 1976)
1922-1969 - Judy Garland, [Frances Gumm], actress/singer (Wizard of Oz)
1928-2012 - Maurice Sendak, author/illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are)
Today’s
Historical Obits
Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), suicide, 1993, @77
Ray Charles, Grammy winning gospel and blues, liver disease, 2004,
@73Spencer Tracy, actor (Father of Bride), heart attack, 1967, @67
John Gotti, American gangster, cancer, 2002, @61
Michael Rennie, actor (Day the Earth Stood Still), stroke, 1971, @61
Nathaniel Pryor, Sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition, 1839, @59
Alexander the Great, Macedonian king, fever or excessive wine323BC, @32
Brain
Teasers
France.
The countries in group A all drive on the left hand side of the
road, France belongs in group B, as they drive on the right.
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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