6-24-14


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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 175 / Week: 26 
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 0%
    H 81° L 48° Ave. humidity: 29%
    Wind: ave:   7mph; Gusts:  22mph  
    Average High: 81° Record High:  94° (1974)
    Average Low: 44° Record Low:  32° (1975)
       
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights

  451 - 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1322 - Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time
1441 - Eton College founded by Henry VI
1497 - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)
1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England
1664 - The colony of New Jersey is founded.
1692 - Kingston, Jamaica, founded
1841 - Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
1853 - Gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce 
1880 - First performance of "O Canada," song becomes national anthem of Canada
1894 - Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1901 - 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
1916 - Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.
1938 - 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1949 - "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1963 - 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1980 - Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
2004 - Capital punishment is declared unconstitutional in New York
2010 - John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in tennis history.

  Today’s Birthdays:   

How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Called my PCP to tell him I was picking up the paperwork for the new blood screen. Left a message and went over about an hour later. The front office lady couldn’t find it, so I had to wait almost an hour. This is what I like about my PCP…he spends a lot of time with his patients. I decided to do the blood draw tomorrow.
On Sat. my brother got a letter from ‘ing’ that my mom had a policy with them. He sent me a copy. I called this morning and they emailed me the copy. Then I went to the mailbox and my letter arrived. No idea how much it is for, but another nice surprise.
My wrist must be getting better, as I am doing this blog without the wrist brace I’ve been wearing for two weeks. Still some pain, but not as bad as it has been.  I figure I better try it so the wrist joint doesn’t atrophy.
OK, how naïve does the IRS leader think we are…all emails about the scandal were lost when her computer crashed…really?!?

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

023456789 lives ever ever ever ever

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today





Jackie Gleason Tribute

OK Then…
Harper’s Index 

Minimum number of child neglect and abuse cases filed in AZ since 2009 that have been closed without investigation: 6551

Unusual Fact of the Day

Publisher Harlequin prints a line of romance novels set in the world of NASCAR.

Trivia about AZ…

Arizona leads the nation in copper production.

Petrified wood is the official state fossil. Most petrified wood comes from the Petrified Forest in northeastern Arizona.

Interesting facts about Islam…

Islam is not a cult. Its followers number over 1.5 billion worldwide. Along with Judaism and Christianity, it is considered to be one of the three Abrahamic traditions.

Facts about SPACE…

Metallic Attraction
It is believed that if two pieces of metals will come in contact with one another in space, they will be stuck. In other words, they will be somewhat merged into one another. It might sound weird, but it is a fact about space that we cannot deny.

Joke-of-the-day

60 above - Floridians wear coats, gloves, and wooly hats.
Chicago people sunbathe.
50 above - New Yorkers try to turn on the heat.
Chicago people plant gardens.
40 above - Italian cars won't start.
Chicago people drive with the windows down.
32 above - Distilled water freezes.
Lake Michigan's water gets thicker.
20 above - Californians shiver uncontrollably.
Chicago people have the last cookout before it gets cold.
15 above - New York landlords finally turn up the heat.
Chicago people throw on a sweatshirt.
0 degrees - Californians fly away to Mexico.
Chicago people lick the flagpole and throw on a light jacket over the sweatshirt.
20 below - People in Miami cease to exist.
Chicago people get out their winter coats.
40 below - Hollywood disintegrates.
Chicago's Girl Scouts begin selling cookies door to door.
60 below - Polar bears begin to evacuate Antarctica.
Chicago's Boy Scouts postpone "Winter Survival" classes until it gets cold enough.
80 below - Mount St. Helen's freezes.
Chicago people rent some videos.
100 below - Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
Chicago people get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg.
297 below - Microbial life survives on dairy products.
Illinois cows complain of farmers with cold hands.
460 below - ALL atomic motion stops.
Chicago people start saying. . ."Cold 'nuff for ya??"
500 below - Hell freezes over.
The Chicago Cubs win the World Series.

Rules of Thumb:   

HANGING CABLE
Wires or cables strung from point to point or pole to pole assume a catenary curve with a sag 1/20 of the span. A lesser sag signals excessive tension in the wire or cable. A greater sag calls for more poles, closer together.

Yeah, It Really Happened

BRA, Italy (UPI) - An Italian thief in Bra has been placed under house arrest for stealing brassieres and underwear from washing lines in town. The alleged thief was busted after bagging bras and pinching panties that had been left out to dry on lines and balconies in the northern Italian town. The 28-year-old conducted his undergarment-snatching operation overnight. When police searched the suspect's home in nearby Pocopaglia, he allegedly had "a house full" of women's underwear, La Repubblica reported. According to the paper, he had harassed a former girlfriend in the past. According to the Local, a 64-year-old Italian man was also arrested for stealing 17 bras from a supermarket in August. Renzo Cavalieri's arrest came only months after he was released from a year-long sentence that he had received for stealing underwear. "I have no idea why I keep stealing bras," he reportedly told police.

Somewhat Useless Information   

Sushi has been around since the second century A.D. It started as a way to preserve fish in China and eventually made its way to Japan. The fish was placed in rice and allowed to ferment and then the rice was thrown away. Nowadays, the rice is usually one of the most important parts of the role and the fresher the fish the better.

The method of eating raw fish and rice started in the early 17th century. The rice was seasoned with rice wine vinegar, which allowed for the sushi to be eaten right away, instead of consumers having to wait months for it to be prepared.

The highest price ever paid for a sushi grade Bluefin Tuna was $396,000 for a 754 pound fish ($526/lb). It was caught on January 4th, 2011 at the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo. The new record beat the previous holder 10 years to the day.

The word "sushi" actually means to the rice seasoned with vinegar, sugar, salt. "Sushi" does not mean raw fish.

Japanese traditionally eat miso soup at the end of the meal to aid in digestion.

Even though most people in the U.S. use chopsticks to eat sushi, it's traditionally eaten with the fingers.

Calendar Information        

This Week’s Observances:

22-28
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  

Celebration of the Senses
International Fairy Day or Faerie Day  
Museum Comes To Life Day
National Columnists Day
Take Your Dog to Work Day
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John's Day (Latvia-midsummer)
Macau Day (China-
1662-defeat of Dutch invasion)


Today’s Events through History  

1610 - Membertou (MICMAC) becomes the 1st Indian Catholic
1817 - 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1939 - Pan Am's 1st US to England flight
1947 - Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold
1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open
1966 - Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
2012 - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Jack Carter, Brooklyn, comedian/actor is 91
Billy Casper, golfer, 3-time PGA Player of Year ('66, '68, '70) is 83
Jeff Beck, singer/guitarist (Jeff Beck Group) is 70
Peter Weller, actor (Robocop) is 67
Mick Fleetwood, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac) is 67
Joe Penny, actor (Riptide) is 58

Remembered for being born today

1797-1864 - John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx
1893-1971 - Roy O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company
1895-1983 - Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight champion

1912-1990 - Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review)
1932-2001 - David McTaggart, co-founder (Greenpeace)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist, 2005, @83
Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th US President, cancer, 1908, @71
Jackie Gleason, comedian (Honeymooners), cancer, 1987, @71
Chris Benoit, professional wrestler, suicide after killing family, 2007, @40

Brain Teasers                                         

No one lives forever.

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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