FYI: Any blue text is a link. Click to check it out!
Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 173
/ Week: 26
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 10%
H 82°… L 54°… Ave. humidity: 28%
Wind: ave: 5mph; Gusts:
28mph
Average High: 80° Record High: 94° (1954)
Average Low: 44°
Record Low: 31° (1947)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1559 - Jewish
quarter of Prague burned & looted
1675 - Royal
Greenwich Observatory established in England by Charles II
1745 - Bonnie
Prince Charles sails to Scotland
1844 - Influential
fraternity Delta Kappa Epsilon is founded at Yale University.
1847 - Doughnut
created
1873 - Prince
Edward Island joins Canada
1874 - Game of lawn tennis introduced
1915 - BMT,
then Brooklyn Rapid Transit, begins subway service
1939 - Princess
Elizabeth meets Prince Philip of Greece
1940 - France
falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarms
1940 - 10,000 Afrikaner women march in protest of South Africa's
involvement in WWII
1944 - US President Franklin Roosevelt signs
"GI Bill of Rights"
1970 - President
Nixon signs 26th amendment (voting age lowered to 18)
1982 - Manhattan
institutes bus-only lanes
1985 - "Smuggler's Blues" by Glenn Frey peaks
at #12
1990 - Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations
Special Committee against Apartheid in New York, saying that nothing, which has
happened in South Africa, calls for a revision of the position that the
Organization has taken in its struggle against apartheid; he adds that a
democratic, non-racial SA is within reach
1992 - 2
skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg identified as Tsar Nicholas II &
Tsarina Alexandra
♫
Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
What a great first day of summer. The Geek Squad called at 7:45a
to say they would be at my house about 10a. They arrived at 9:50 and were
finished with the setup by 10:25. Amazed at how they were able to program
everything so quickly. It has a great picture and works very well. It is much
bigger than my last TV, which is also nice.
Tonight our discussion group meets to talk ‘US Trade’. Not a
subject I am really up on, but the articles gave me a good basic understanding
of what has been going on since WWII. It was good to see how all the changes
have been good for the US, and how a few have hurt the US in the short time,
but helped us in the long run. Should be a lively group as the leader tonight
is a staunch libertarian and I’m sure he will disagree with many of the pros
mentioned in the article. Always good to hear the many sides of a topic.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Boy:
Can I dig a hole?
Dad:
Well sure, why not?
Boy:
Can I climb a tree?
Dad:
Yes, sir!
Boy:
Can I jump off the roof?
Dad:
Of course!
Boy:
Can I fly in the sky?
Dad:
Yes, son, you can!
Boy:
Can I go into space?!
Dad:
Erm. No, I'm sorry, son. You can't do that.
What
is the conversation talking about?
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Factor
by which a straight Canadian male teen is more likely to attempt suicide if his
school dos not have a gay-straight alliance: 2
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Printing the phrase "In God We Trust" on U.S. currency
was a mandate handed down by Abraham Lincoln's Treasury Secretary Salmon Chase.
During his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt attempted to remove the slogan
because he, as a devout Christian, felt that putting God on money was a
sacrilege.
**NEW**Trivia
about AZ…
Arizona is a right-to-work state. The law states no person shall
be denied the opportunity to obtain or retain employment because of
non-membership in a labor organization.
**NEW**Interesting
facts about Islam…
"Islam" means "Peace through the submission to God".
Presidential
Fun Facts…
Rutherford Birchard Hayes: Graduated Kenyon College (1842) and
Harvard Law School (1845). On September 8, 1880 Hayes arrived in San Francisco
to become the first president to visit the West Coast. He was the first
president to graduate from law school. Mrs. Hayes, Lucy Ware Webb, was known as
"Lemonade Lucy" because she refused to serve alcohol in the White
House. The first telephone was installed in the White House by Alexander Graham
Bell himself. The first Easter egg roll on the White House lawn was conducted
by Hayes and his wife. He kept his campaign pledge and refused to run for a
second term.
Pen Names
of famous authors…
Samuel
Langhorne Clemens-Pen names: Mark Twain, Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, Josh
Clemens assumed a number of pen names before settling on Twain,
after years of working on Mississippi riverboats where the term "mark
twain" was shouted out as a way to mark the depth of the river, as
measured on a rope. In Life on the Mississippi, Twain explains, "I was a
fresh new journalist, and needed a nom de guerre; so I confiscated the ancient
mariner's discarded one, and have done my best to make it remain what it was in
his hands."
Facts about
SPACE…
Moons, Moons and Moons
It is said that earth has a number of moons. The most recent estimates
assert that the earth has at least 4 moons. The views of the experts are again
different in this regard.
Joke-of-the-day
Three men wanted to cross a river. They had no idea how to cross
it, so one man knelt down on his knees and prayed "Lord give me the power
and strength the cross the river." suddenly the man became very strong and
swam across the river. The next man thought: if it worked for him, it'll work
for me. So he knelt down and prayed "Lord give the skills and the strength
to cross the river." the man built a canoe and rowed himself across the
river. The last man thought: if it worked for both of them, I know it'll work
for me. So he also knelt down and prayed "Lord give me the wisdom and
knowledge to cross the river." He turned into a woman and walked across
the bridge.
Rules of
Thumb:
RUNNING A CLUB
Don't expect more
than one-third of any professional-club members to attend a meeting. Build up a
large membership so there are enough members around to make up for those who
are away or otherwise engaged.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
WASHINGTON (UPI) - It was right there all along -- a massive
reserve of water buried deep in the Earth.
Scientists have long theorized a mass of hidden water was
somewhere below, but a group of geologists from Northwestern University are the
first to offer evidence.
The geologists found the water while studying a vast stretch of
Earth's mantle called the transition zone. The vast underground region extends
across much of North America. The water, enough to fill the oceans three times
over, is hiding in a mineral called ringwoodite some 400 miles beneath Earth's
crust.
Steve Jacobsen, who co-authored the study detailing the discovery,
says the water explains a lot about why our planet looks and acts the way it
does.
"Geological processes on the Earth's surface, such as
earthquakes or erupting volcanoes, are an expression of what is going on inside
the Earth, out of our sight," Jacobsen said.
"I think we are finally seeing evidence for a whole-Earth
water cycle, which may help explain the vast amount of liquid water on the
surface of our habitable planet," he explained. "Scientists have been
looking for this missing deep water for decades."
By studying seismograph records and conducting a number of lab
experiments that replicated deep-Earth pressures and their effects on rock,
Jacobson was able to show that water could be fused into and trapped by the
crystalline structure of ringwoodite.
The study was published this week in the journal Science.
Somewhat
Useless Information
According
to scientists Bing Bang occurred about 13.798 ± 0.037 billion years ago, which
is considered to be the age of the universe.
Bing
Bang Theory is a cosmological model on the development of the universe first
proposed by Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian catholic priest.
Lemaitre
was a priest, as well as astronomer teaching physics at the Université
catholique de Louvain and called his ‘hypothesis of the primeval atom’.
~~
Could
you imagine your life eating nothing but pizza? Dan Janssen, a 38-year-old
woodworker from Maryland, has eaten only pizza for 25 years and he’s still
alive!
During
his teenage years he decided to give up “regular food” due to religious reasons
and he started eating only pizza. “I’ve been eating pizza exclusively every day
of my life for the past 25 years, and I’m not just talking about a slice of
pizza every day. I usually eat an entire 14″ pizza, and I only eat cheese
pizza. I never get sick of it. If I go to one pizza shop or another brand, it’s
like eating a completely different meal”, Dan Janssen said.
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
14-22
Worldwide Knit (and
crotchet) in Public Week
22-28
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week
Today
Is
Global Smurfs Day
National Chocolate
Eclair Day
Stupid Guy Thing Day
~~
Antifascist Struggle Day (Croatia-1941-to rid the country of Germans/Italians occupying forces)
Antifascist Struggle Day (Croatia-1941-to rid the country of Germans/Italians occupying forces)
Today’s
Events through History
1870 - 1st
Boardwalk in America invented
1911 - King
George V crowned king
1936 - Virgin Islands receives a constitution from
US (Organic Act)
1943 - WEB
DuBois becomes 1st Black member of National Institute of Letters
1947 - 12"
rain in 42 mins (Holt, MO)
1977 - Walt Disney's "Rescuers" released
1983 - "Monty
Python's The Meaning of Life," released in France
Today’s
Birthdays
Kris
Kristofferson, singer/actor (Amerika) is 78
Lindsay
Wagner, LA Ca, actress (Bionic Woman) is 65
Meryl
Streep, actress (Sophie's Choice) is 65
Cyndi
Lauper, singer (Girls Just want to have Fun) is 61
Clyde
"Glide" Drexler, NBA Guard (Rockets, Trailblazers) is 52
Amy
Brenneman, actress (Janice-NYPD Blue) is 50
Kurt
Warner, American football player is 43
Carson
Daly, American television personality is 41
Remembered
for being born today
1757-1798 - George
Vancouver, surveyed Pacific coast from SF to Vancouver Island
1856-1925 - Henry
Rider Haggard, author (King Solomon's Mine, She, Dawn)
1903-1934 - John Dillinger, Indianapolis Indiana,
notorious bank robber
1906-2001 - Anne
Morrow Lindbergh, author/aviator, (Gift from the Sea)
1906-2002 - Billy Wilder, director (Some Like It Hot,
Apartment, Stalag 17)
1907-1958 - Mike
Todd, film producer
1918-2005 - Cicely Saunders, Nurse, physician ,founded
the 1st modern hospice
1922-2002 - Bill
Blass, fashion designer (Nancy Reagan)
1928-2014 - Ralph
Waite, actor and director (Cool Hand Luke, The Waltons)
1941-2006 - Ed
Bradley, CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes)
1948-1988 - "Pistol"
Pete Maravich, NBA star (Atlanta Hawks)
1954-1977 - Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico &
the Man)
Today’s
Historical Obits
Dody Goodman, comedienne, 2008, @93
Fred Astaire, actor/dancer (Royal Wedding, Let's Dance), 1987, @88
Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman), columnist, 2002, @83
Pat Nixon, 1st lady, 1993, @81
George Carlin, American comedian, actor, heart failure, 2008, @71
Dennis Day, actor/tenor (Jack Benny Show), ALS, 1988, @71
David O Selznick, producer (Gone With the Wind), heart attack,
1965, @63
Judy Garland, actress (Wizard of Oz, Easter Parade), overdose,
1969, @47
Brain Teasers
The sky is the limit
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
Now §
