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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 171
/ Week: 25
June Averages: 78° \ 42°Today: Average Sky Cover: 3%
H 79°… L 46°… Ave. humidity: 31%
Wind: ave: 11mph; Gusts: 19mph
Average High: 79° Record High: 92° (1936)
Average Low: 43° Record Low: 30° (1979)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
451 - Germans
& Romans beat Attila the Hun
1214 - The
University of Oxford receives its charter1782 - Congress approves Great Seal of US & eagle as its symbol
1863 - 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1895 - 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin) from an American University
1911 - NAACP incorporates (NY)
1942 - Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
1943 - National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes
1944 - Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
1963 - US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1971 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Heritage Golf Open
1990 - 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran
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Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
A much better day today as far as the wind goes. It was actually
pleasant to be outside and enjoying the weather.
I went to the Walk-In Ortho clinic here in Flag. Wow, what a deal.
The Summit Center does all kinds of ortho stuff with a two story building full
of MDs and PA’s. The walk-in took about 30 minutes to fill out all the forms,
then about a 10 minute wait, then about 25 minutes with the PA. He threw in a
new possible diagnosis—pseudo-gout. He took new X-rays and took my wrist and
pushed, pulled, had me push and pull. He said there was not enough swelling to
take out any liquid or crystals, so he just said it might be gout or
pseudo-gout. Wait 2 weeks and come back if it still hurts. The pain is not that
bad but I really don’t like the idea that no one knows what it is. I’m dealing
with that with my angioedema after three specialists. On a philosophic level,
the wrist is worse because the minor pain is always there. My PCP says he doesn’t
think it is gout or pseudo-gout since the wrist brace is working well. With
real gout, according to him, I wouldn’t be able to have the brace touch the
wrist. His office manager was not a work, and he is getting more than upset
about her many ‘family emergencies’. I told him that I supervised on the Rez
for many years, and sometimes you just have to put your foot down. He wants a
new blood draw, but he had patients and I don’t think he really knows how to do
the office manager’s part of the computer system. I’ll call tomorrow.
Cheryl, Mary and I had our weekly lunch. Then we went over to Mary’s
to see the guys working on her new deck. What an amazing project…a raised paver
outdoor area with a nice retaining wall. Much larger than I thought it would be
and is going to be a great place to relax during the summer months.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Each
pair of definitions is for two words, where the second word is the first word
with a letter deleted (example: brand & band). The length of the first word
in each pair is provided, along with the position of the deleted letter to
obtain the second word.
1)
to interfere in a harmful or disruptive manner (6 letters) & (delete 3rd
letter) to decrease gradually in width or thickness
2)
a line that deviates from straightness in a smooth continuous fashion (5
letters) & (delete 4th letter) a remedy3) a type of bird (5 letters) & (delete 1st letter) a length measurement
4) to penetrate, as by stabbing (6 letters) & (delete 4th letter) a part separated from the whole
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Number
of golf courses worldwide that are operated by the US Military: 151
Unusual
Fact of the Day
The hood ornament of a Rolls Royce is named "The Spirit of
Ecstasy."
Presidential
Fun Facts…
Andrew
Johnson: No formal education. Vice President under Lincoln. On May 29,
1865 issued Amnesty Proclamation, pardoning all Confederates except those with
property in excess of $ 20,000 and certain Confederate leaders. On December 6,
1865 the 13th amendment, officially abolishing slavery, was ratified. On march
30, 1867 the U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $ 7.2 million. Johnson was
married at a younger age than any other president. He was 18 on May 5, 1827 and
Eliza McCardle was 16. He is the only president to serve in the Senate after
his presidency. He was host to the first Queen to first the White house. Queen
Emma of Hawaii. Johnson was the only president to be impeached by the House,
but on March 26, 1868 was acquitted by the Senate by a one-vote margin. Has was
buried beneath a willow tree he planted himself with a shoot taken from a tree
at Napoleon's tomb.
Ben
Franklin on Character…
Humility. Imitate
Jesus and Socrates
Pen Names
of famous authors…
J. K.
Rowling Pen name: Robert Galbraith
J.K. Rowling, author of the famous Harry Potter series, assumed
her pseudonym in order to “publish without hype or expectation.” She called it
a “liberating experience” and “a pure pleasure to get feedback from publishers
and readers under a different name.” In 2013, Rowling published The Cuckoo’s
Calling under her pseudonym.
Facts
about SPACE…
Big
Dipper
The big dipper about which a number of people talk is not a
constellation. According to some reliable sources it is a form of asterism. It
can be defined as some pattern in which starts from groups. It should also be
noted that an asterism might contain stars from a number of constellations.
Joke-of-the-day
The National Game
warden put out a warning to all hikers in his area. Warning that they should
wear small bells on their boots so not to startle the bears. To distinguish the
grizzly bear the notice read-- small bear’s droppings are small with nut and
berries in it. Grizzly bear droppings are much larger with nuts and berries and
little tiny bells in it.
Rules of
Thumb:
THE TRASH RULE OF THREE
You have to look
through a wastebasket three times to find a missing piece of paper.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
PARMA, Ohio (UPI) - "Check point ahead! Turn now!"
That's the message that was written on a sign that Doug Odolecki was holding up
while standing on an Ohio street corner on Friday night. The final two words of
that sign earned Odolecki a ticket and a court date because they were allegedly
obstructing official police business. Odolecki was warning drivers in Parma
about the upcoming drunken-driving checkpoint for about an hour before Police
Lt. Brian McCann asked him to remove the last two words from the sign. When
Odolecki refused, he was given a ticket by officer James Manzo. Odolecki told
Cleveland.com that McCann and Manzo "tried to be a civil as they could
knowing they were violating someone's rights." Attorney John Gold is
representing Odolecki pro bono, because he supports "the police
accountability activist movement." "The problem here is not the sign
in general. It's the part of the sign that instructed drivers to turn that the
officers had an issue with," Gold said. "But I think regardless it's
protected speech under the First Amendment."
Somewhat
Useless Information
Solstice
comes from the Latin (sol, sun and sistit, stands). For several days before and
after each solstice, the sun appears to stand still in the sky as its noontime
elevation does not seem to change. At the solstices the sun's apparent position
on the celestial sphere reaches its greatest distance above or below the
celestial equator, directly overhead at noon at the Tropic of Cancer.
***In the Northern Hemisphere the longest day and shortest night of the year occur on June 21, marking the beginning of summer. At winter solstice, about December 22, the sun is overhead at noon at the Tropic of Capricorn; this marks the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. For several days before and after each solstice the sun appears to stand still in the sky, i.e., its noontime elevation does not seem to change from day to day.
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
13-20National 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
National Flip Flop Day
Take Your Dog To Work Day
Ugliest Dog Day
UN World Refugee Day
World Productivity Day
World Juggling Day
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Admission Day (West Virginia-1863-35th state)
Flag Day (Argentina)
Today’s Events through History
1675 - Start
of "King Philip's war
1756 - Siraj ud-Daulah Nawab of Bengal takes
Calcutta from the British 1819 - 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1907 - 1st Portland Rose festival
1950 - Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1980 - "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi opens in 594 theaters
1982 - Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz)
Today’s
Birthdays
Martin Landau, Brooklyn, actor (Mission Impossible) is 86
Danny Aiello, actor (Moonstruck, Radio Days) is 81John Mahoney, actor (Fraiser) is 74
[Morna] Anne Murray, singer (Snow Bird) is 69
Bob Vila, television presenter is 68
Lionel Richie, singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover) is 65
John Goodman, actor (Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe) is 62
Nicole Kidman, Honolulu, actress (Dead Calm, Far & Away) is 47
Remembered
for being born today
1723-1816 - Adam
Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian
1770-1840 - Moses
Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author 1891-1976 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
1907-1984 - Lillian Hellman, playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
1909-1959 - Errol Flynn, actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood)
1924-2001 - Chet Atkins, Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me & My Guitar)
1925-1971 - Audie Murphy, most decorated American WW II hero/actor
Today’s
Historical Obits
Bob Stump, AZ politician, 2003, blood disease, @76
Bruno Frank, writer, heart attack, 1945, @58Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello), heart attack, 1963, @52
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead, 1947, @41
Brain
Teasers
1) tamper & taper
2) curve & cure3) finch & inch
4) pierce & piece
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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