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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 165
/ Week: 24
June Averages: 78° \ 42°Today: Average Sky Cover: 0% RED FLAG
H 79°… L 48°… Ave. humidity: 24%
Wind: ave: 3mph; Gusts: 35mph
Average High: 79° Record High: 92° (1974)
Average Low: 41° Record Low: 25° (2001)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1642 - 1st
compulsory education law in America passed by Massachusetts
1777 - Continental
Congress adopts Stars & Stripes replacing Grand Union flag 1834 - Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr, Springfield, Vermont
1846 - California (Bear Flag) Republic proclaimed independence from Mexico
1850 - Fire destroys part of San Francisco
1881 - Player piano patented by John McTammany Jr (Cambridge, Mass)
1907 - Norway adopts female suffrage for middle class women only
1938 - Dorothy Lathrop wins 1st Caldecott Medal (kid books author)
1940 - Auschwitz concentration camp opens (3 million killed there)
1942 - Walt Disney's "Bambi" animated movie is released Thumper's 1st job
1954 - Pres Eisenhower signs order adding words "under God" to the Pledge
2013 - Hassan Rouhani is elected President of Iran
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Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Windy, windy day. Couldn’t keep the front door open in the
afternoon, as the wind kept slamming it shut. My wrist is much better today…and
only one pain pill.
FB had a post from a HS class member that they are making a full
length movie about Freddie Stienmark, another of my classmates. Freddie was an
incredible athlete who passed during his senior year at Texas of bone marrow
cancer. There has been a book out about him for over a decade. Now another
classmate has written a screen play that will be out in the future. Should be
quite a movie. I must say I was a little shocked when I read that the classmate
writing the screen play lives in Phoenix and is a big Tea Party leader down
there. Guess I won’t be contacting him in the near future.
My brother and his wife sent me a nice package with gifts from
their trip to Russia. A CD, some Russian Tea, a beautiful Christmas decoration—a
painted egg, some chocolate, and a Russian collapsible silver shot glass in a
case. Very cool. Everything will be enjoyed. They always find unique stuff.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
If
PACK
+ KNIT + STAY + ELMO = KITE Then
THAW + FLIT + GNAT+ DIET = ?
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
of Chinese millionaires who plan to emigrate or have already emigrated: 64
Minimum
amount that Chinese citizens have moved in offshore bank accounts since 2002:
$1,000,000,000,000
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Until coffee gained popularity, beer
was the breakfast beverage of choice in most urban areas of the United States.
Presidential
Fun Facts…
James Knox Polk: Graduated University of North Carolina (1818).
Greatly expanded the western U.S. in 1848 through a treaty with Mexico ending a
two year war and giving the U.S. control over most of present-day Arizona,
California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Before the advent
of anesthetics and antiseptic practices, Polk survived a gallstone operation at
age 17.
Ben
Franklin on Character…
Sincerity. Use no
hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly, and, if you speak, speak
accordingly.
Common
misused words...
They're
and their--Same
with these; they're is the contraction for they are.
Again, the apostrophe doesn't own anything. We're going to their house,
and I sure hope they're home.
Pen Names
of famous authors…
Stephen
King--Pen name: Richard Bachman
Even Stephen King has written under a nom de plume. The king of
horror published seven novels under his pen name, the first one published in
1977. He says, “I did that because back in the early days of my career there
was a feeling in the publishing business that one book a year was all the
public would accept.” King explains that he came up with his pseudonym on the
fly while on the phone with his publisher. He had a Richard Stark book on his
desk, and a Bachman Turner Overdrive song was playing. He combined the two
names and Richard Bachman was born. The move allowed King to publish several
novels a year. In 1985, a bookstore clerk named Steve Brown noticed the
similarities between the two author’s styles and, after some snooping,
determined that they were the same person. Stephen King soon confirmed this,
and announced that Bachman had died of “Cancer of the Pseudonym.”
The World
as 100 people…
Nutrition:
Overweight--21Adequate--63
Undernourished--15
Starving --1
Joke-of-the-day
A tour bus driver
drives with a bus full of seniors down a highway, when a little old lady taps
him on his shoulder. She offers him a handful of almonds, which he gratefully
munches up.
After approx.15
minutes, she taps him on his shoulder again and she hands him another handful
of almonds. She repeats this gesture about eight times.
At the ninth time
he asks the little old lady why they don't eat the almonds themselves,
whereupon she replies that it is not possible because of their old teeth, they
are not able to chew them. "Why do you buy them then?" he asks
puzzled. Whereupon the old lady Answers, "We just love the chocolate
around them."
Rules of
Thumb:
THE RULE OF CLOSED-TOE SHOES
The louder the noise
a pair of closed-toe women's shoes makes on a hard floor, the less comfortable
the shoes.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
The Washington state Medical Quality Assurance Commission says it
has suspended the license of a Seattle anesthesiologist accused of frequently
exchanging sexually explicit texts during surgeries.
A statement issued by the state Health Department says Dr. Arthur
K. Zilberstein is accused by the commission of compromising patient safety by
his "preoccupation with sexual matters" while he was on hospital
duty.In addition to the allegation of sexting during surgeries when he was the responsible anesthesiologist, the commission has accused Zilberstein of improperly accessing medical-record imaging for sexual gratification and having sexual encounters at his workplace.
Because what is sexier than an x-ray picture of your johnson.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Food
and sex have been linked throughout history. Some foods are thought to have
sexual powers because they resemble human genitals. Casanova was said to offer
oysters to his potential partners to whet their sexual appetite.
Several
ancient cultures viewed the apple as a feminine symbol and found a resemblance
between the two halves of a vertically cut apple to the female genital system.
Alternatively, an apple cut horizontally resembled a pentagram, which was
considered key in revealing knowledge of good and evil.
Ancient
Egyptian priests would eat figs at the moment of their consecration ceremonies.
The Indians consecrated the fig tree to Vishnu, and the fig tree sheltered
Romulus and Remus (the traditional founders of Rome) at their birth. The fig is
also a fertility symbol and the Arab association with male genitals is so
strong that the original word "fig" is considered improper.
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
12-19
Nursing Assistants Week12-15
Superman Days
US Open Golf Championship
Duct Tape Days
13-20
National Hermit Week14-22
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week
Today
Is
Army's Birthday—1775 founded
Dollars Against Diabetes Day(s): 14-15
Family History Day
Flag Day --1777
International Young Eagles DayDollars Against Diabetes Day(s): 14-15
Family History Day
Flag Day --1777
Magic Circles Day
Missing Mutts Awareness Day
National Bourbon Day
Pause for the Pledge Day
Pop Goes The Weasel Day Banana Split Days: 13-14
Poultry Festival 13-14
Queen's Official Birthday
(World) Blood Donor Day
World Juggling Day
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Day
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Rice Planting Festival (Japan)
Today’s Events through History
1923 - Recording
of 1st country music hit (Little Old Log Cabin in the Lane)
1962 - The European Space Research Organisation is established
in Paris - later becoming the European Space Agency. 1989 - Nolan Ryan becomes 2nd pitcher to defeat all 26 teams
1989 - Zsa Zsa Gabor arrested for slapping Beverly Hills motorcycle patrolman
Today’s
Birthdays
Marla
Gibbs, actress (Florence-Jeffersons) is 83
Joe
Arpaio, still sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona is 82Donald Trump, billionaire/master builder (Trump Towers) is 68
Eric Heiden, US speed skater (5 Olympic gold medals 1980) is 56
"Boy George" O'Dowd, androgynous vocalist (Culture Club) is 53
Yasmine Bleeth, actress (Baywatch) is 46
Chris Onstad, American cartoonist is 39
Remembered
for being born today
1811-1896 - Harriet
Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1864 -1915 - Alois
Alzheimer, German psychiatrist (Alzheimer Disease) 1909-1995 - Burl Ives, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1919-2009 - Gene Barry [Eugene Klass], actor (Bat Masterson)
1925-2004 - Pierre Salinger, newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy)
1928-1967 - Ernesto "Che" Guevara, revolutionary and physician
Today’s
Historical Obits
Kurt Waldheim, Austrian politician and statesman, 2007, @88
Mary Cassatt, American Impressionist artist, 1926, @82 Marlin Perkins, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom), 1986, @81
Alan Jay Lerner, Broadway librettist, cancer, 1986, @ 67
Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian poet/essayist (Nobel 1959), stroke, 1968, @66
Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian, Spanish Flu, 1920, @56
Brain
Teasers
WIND.
Take the last letter of the first word, second to last letter of
the second word, etc. PacK + knIt + sTay + Elmo = KITE
ThaW + flIt + gNat + Diet = WIND.
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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