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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 168 / Week: 25
June Averages: 78° \ 42°Today: Average Sky Cover: 30% RED FLAG
H 73°… L 38°… Ave. humidity: 16%
Wind: ave: 23mph; Gusts: 56mph
Average High: 80° Record High: 92° (1940)
Average Low: 42° Record Low: 24° (1995)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
860 - Swedish
Vikings attack Constantinople
1264 - The Parliament of Ireland meets at Castledermot
in County Kildare, the first definitively known meeting of this Irish
legislature. 1541 - Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland
1730 - 7 CHEROKEE representatives will meet with King George II of England at Windsor Castle - acknowledge him as the sovereign of the CHEROKEE people.
1873 - Susan B Anthony fined $100 for voting for President
1948 - American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights
1981 - The AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals
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How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Getting so tired of these strong winds…and the attached fires.
There is another fire in Oak Creek that seems to be under control. Then there
was a downed power line on the mountain near my place that started a small fire
that was quickly under control. It was on another part of the mountain, but
still very frightening.
I did a bunch of laundry today, so I again have clean clothes to
wear. It was a little harder to carry the laundry with my wrist brace, but the
wrist seems to be getting better.
I watched most of the Ghana/US soccer game yesterday…so nice to
see USA win. Then today Mexico beat Brazil. Another good game.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Monday--100
PenniesTuesday--4 quarters
Wednesday--10 dimes
Thursday--20 nickels
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Amount
a Texas safari club raised for the protection of black rhinos by selling a
permit to hunt a black rhino: $350,000
Unusual
Fact of the Day
The term "paparazzi" comes from Paparazzo, a fictional
freelance photographer in the 1960 Fellini film La Dolce Vita.
Presidential
Fun Facts…
James
Buchanan: Graduated Dickinson College (1809). Secretary of State under
Polk. In 1857 Buchanan recommended a pro-slavery Kansas constitution. The
constitution was rejected and Buchanan lost northern support. 1858 northern
candidates opposing Buchanan won a majority in both houses of Congress. 1859
John Brown was seized at Harpers Ferry and hanged for his attempt to start a
slave revolt. February 4, 1861 seven southern states formed the Confederacy. By
the time Buchanan was 30 years old, he had amassed a fortune of $ 300,000. He
was never married, so the duties of White House hostess were performed by his
niece, Harriet Lane. One of his eyes was nearsighted and the other farsighted.
As a result he always cocked his head to the left. Buchanan tired of being
president and refused to run for reelection.
Ben
Franklin on Character…
Tranquillity. Be not
disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable.
Pen Names
of famous authors…
Nora
Roberts Pen name: J.D. Robb
Best-selling author Nora Roberts already had years of success
under her belt before she began churning out books under a pen name. As
explained on the author’s website, using the pseudonym offered a new writing
challenge, and an opportunity to delve into a genre outside Roberts’
wheelhouse. While she’d previously focused on romance novels, after taking up
the pseudonym, Roberts began publishing futuristic science fiction books, all
part of the In Death series, beginning in 1995. After the twelfth book of the series
hit shelves in 2001, Roberts finally revealed that it had been her all along.
The series is still going strong — and the books continue to publish under the
name J.D Robb, despite the fact that everyone now knows J.D. Robb is really
Nora Roberts.
Facts
about SPACE…
The
Ancient Light
According to an estimate that the light we see on earth is
millions of years old. It has always been falling on the earth since the start
and will continue to fall till the end. Who is behind this light? Or what made
this light? Well, it is a question that is best left for you to answer.
Joke-of-the-day
A man started a
new job at a zoo. He was given his first job by the zoo owner – to clean out
the large tropical fish tank, which contained many exotic species.
While removing
some gravel from the tank with his spade, he accidently hit one of the fish and
killed it. Worried about losing his job for this mistake, he decided to hide
the evidence. He took the fish and fed it to the lions because lions eat
anything. The zoo owner did not notice the missing fish and gave the man a new job – to muck out the chimps. He was in the middle of mucking out when two of the chimps became a bit over familiar and, in an attempt to get them away the man lashed out with his spade, killing two chimps. In his panic he decided to hide the evidence and fed the unfortunate chimpanzees to the lions because lions eat anything.
The zoo owner was pleased with the man’s work and as his final task for the day he asked him to collect honey from the zoo’s beehives. The man tried hard to do this without upsetting the bees, but some got angry and stung him. He grabbed his spade and whirled it above his head, squashing and killing several dozen bees. Plagued with guilt, he fed these to the lions as well because lions eat anything.
The next day, a new lion arrived at the zoo. He enquired of the existing residents “what’s the food like here?” One of the zoo’s resident lions said, “Oh, it’s great. Only yesterday we had fish, chimps and mushy bees.”
Rules of
Thumb:
RAISING YOUR CHILDREN
Parents teach more
by example than by words. Reading parents have reading children; achieving
parents have achieving children.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) - The list of things that don't contribute to
glacier melting keeps getting shorter. Now, the list-keeper can cross off
"underground volcanoes."
According to a new study by researchers at the University of Texas
at Austin (UT), the Thwaites Glacier of Western Antarctica -- which recently
made the news headlines for its accelerated melting and structural
vulnerabilities -- is also being eroded from beneath by geothermal heat
released by underground volcanoes. Ice-penetrating airborne radar clued the researchers from UT's Institute for Geophysics into the fact that geothermal heat sources are more extensively distributed beneath Antarctica than previously thought. They also learned that Antarctica's hotspots put out a much larger amount of heat than expected.
Beneath the Thwaites Glacier, geothermal sources give off an average of 114 milliwatts per square meter, with 200 milliwatts per square meter emanating for the most concentrated hotspots. (A square meter is roughly the equivalent of ten square feet.) Similar underground volcanoes in North America give off only around 65 milliwatts per square meter.
"It's pretty hot by continental standards," said researcher Don Schroeder, speaking of Antarctica. Schroeder helped author the new study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
But Schroeder and co-author Don Blankenship say more research is needed to accurately predict how and at what rate geothermal warming will contribute to the predicted collapse of the Thawites Glacier -- as well as the rest of the West Antarctic ice sheet.
"It's the most complex thermal environment you might imagine," said Blankenship. "And then you plop the most critical dynamically unstable ice sheet on planet Earth in the middle of this thing, and then you try to model it. It's virtually impossible."
Somewhat
Useless Information
Asia
is Earth's largest continent at approximately 17,300,000 square miles
(44,806,812 sq km). Africa comes in second at about 11,700,000 square miles
(30,300,000 sq km). However, Continental Drift Theory suggests that the
continents have moved over the years through the process of plate tectonics.
Many geologists believe that, during the Mesozoic era, all of the continents
combined to form a supercontinent known as Pangaea which would have dwarfed the
largest continent today. It is believed that Pangaea began to break up about
200 million years ago.
~~~With a toothy coastline of 2,650 miles (4,265 km), Chile accounts for more than half of the western coastline of South America. This razor-thin country is wedged between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes, the Earth's longest mountain range.
~~~
The Tigris river runs through Baghdad. It is about 1,150 miles (1,800 km) long. The name "Tigris" comes from Old Persian and translates as "the fast one".
~~~
Brazil is the largest and most populous country in South America. It is so large, in fact, that it borders every South American country except for Ecuador and Chile. Brazil covers nearly half of South America and is larger in area than the continental United States of America.
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
12-19
Nursing Assistants Week13-20
National Hermit Week
14-22
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week
15-21
Animal Rights Awareness Week
Universal Father's Week
Meet A Mate Week
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Animal Rights Awareness Week
Universal Father's Week
Meet A Mate Week
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Today
Is
International Panic Day
International Sushi Day World Juggling Day
~~~
Evacuation Day (Egypt- 1956 the last major contingency of British troops left Suez)
Today’s Events through History
1928 - Amelia Earhart becomes 1st female to fly across
Atlantic Ocean
1945 - William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) charged with treason
1967 - Monterey International Pop Festival rocks Southern California
1979 - US Pres Carter & Soviet Pres Leonid Brezhnev sign SALT II treaty limiting nuclear weapons
Today’s
Birthdays
Lou Brock, one-time baseball stolen base leader (St Louis Cards) is
75
Paul McCartney, musician and member of The Beatles is 72Carol Kane, actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Simka-Taxi) is 62
Blake Shelton, Country Singer is 38
Remembered
for being born today
1799-1880 - William
Lassell, discoverer (satellites of Uranus & Neptune)
1854-1926 - Edward
Wyllis Scripps, publisher/journalist1877-1960 - James Montgomery Flagg, illustrator ("I want you" Uncle Sam)
1903-1965 - Jeanette MacDonald, actress and singer (When I'm Calling You)
1906-1985 - Kay Kyser, orchestra leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege)
1910-1998 - E G Marshall, actor (Playhouse 90, Chicago Hope)
1915-2004 - Red Adair, oilman (fought oil fires in Kuwait)
1917-1981 - Richard Boone, actor (Paladin-Have Gun Will Travel)
1942-2013 - Roger Ebert, film critic (Siskel & Ebert at the Movies)
Today’s
Historical Obits
José Saramago, Portuguese writer, Nobel Prize laureate, 2010, @87
Ethel Barrymore, [Blythe], actress (None but the lonely), heart
attack, 1959, @79 Samuel Butler, British writer (Erewhom), 1902, @66
Brain
Teasers
Another day, another dollar.
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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