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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 178
/ Week: 26
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 90%
H 79°… L 52°… Ave. humidity: 26%
Wind: ave: 5mph; Gusts:
31mph
Average High: 81° Record High: 94° (1974)
Average Low: 45°
Record Low: 26° (1965)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1652 - New
Amsterdam (now NYC) enacts first speed limit law in North America
1693 - 1st woman's magazine "Ladies'
Mercury" published (London)
1778 - Liberty
Bell came home to Philadelphia after the British departure
1806 - Buenos
Aires captured by British
1914 - US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
1922 - Newberry
Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
1929 - 1st
color TV demo (NYC)
1942 - FBI
captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
1967 - The world's first ATM is installed in
Enfield, London.
1969 - Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in NY, riot
against police lasts 3 days
1985 - Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is
decertified
1986 - In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
1990 - Salman Rushdie, contributes $8600 to help
Iran’s earthquake victims
1998 - Opening
of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
2003 - The
United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed
♫
Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Windy with clouds blowing in and out all day. Not as bad as
expected, but still a lot of wind.
Was busy flipping channels this morning watching the two World Cup
games to see if the USA would move on.
Both were good games. USA moves on.
A friend from the Rez dropped off three boxes I had left at his
house from a long time ago. They appear to have been left there when I moved to
Red Lake….mid 1980’s. They had been in his garage, behind lots of stuff for
decades. So cool to get them back. Lots of family pics, early rez pics and
other stuff. Throw back Thursday on FB is going to be fun for some time to
come.
Cheryl and I went to Mary’s for lunch….to sit on her new patio
furniture on her new patio. What a nice, quiet, beautiful setting. She lives in
a secluded part of Flagstaff and so the wind was no problem, there are pines
and aspen so you don’t really see the neighbors, and a great view of Mt. Elden,
on the side I don’t see from my place. Both ladies have their kids and families
coming for the 4th. That is also Mary’s b-day and I am invited to
their annual 4th celebration. Cheryl will be with her family that
day. We had Chinese delivered. Mike, Mary’s husband, was also there so it was a
good afternoon.
My brother and his wife are off again…this time for Rome on
business. Very nice!
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
See
if you can figure out these words using the clues listed below. Each word ends
with "BOARD". Please note that numbers 4 and 5 are two separate
words. Have fun!
1)
Used with telephones
2)
A place to advertise
3)
Right-side of ship
4)
Found around water
5)
Old-time cars had two
6)
Computers need them
7)
College professor's headgear
8)
Used in the Old West
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Factor
by which the number of public-hair grooming injuries in the US increased between
2002 andn20010: 5
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Depending on the time of year, the Earth's distance from the Sun
can vary more than 3 million miles.
Trivia
about AZ…
Arizona is home of the Grand Canyon National Park.
The ringtail is the official state mammal. The ringtail is a small
fox-like animal about two and one-half feet long and is a shy, nocturnal
creature.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
Islam is a complete way of life that governs all facets of life:
moral, spiritual, social, political, economical, intellectual, etc.
Joke-of-the-day
At a recent
computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry
with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with technology like
the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that
got 1000 mi/gal."
Recently General
Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement: "Yes, but would
you want your car to crash twice a day?"
Not only that,
but....
Every time they
repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
Occasionally your
car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this,
restart and drive on.
Occasionally,
executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have
to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
You could only
have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or
"CarNT". But, then you would have to buy more seats.
Macintosh would
make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice
as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
The Macintosh car
owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make
their cars run much slower.
The oil, gas and
alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default"
warning light.
New seats would
force everyone to have the same size butt.
The airbag system
would say "are you sure?" before going off.
If you were
involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.
Rules of
Thumb:
THE SURVIVAL RULE OF THREE
You can live three
seconds without blood, three minutes without air, three days without water, and
three weeks without food.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
KUNA, Iowa (UPI) - What do you have to do to get arrested in Iowa?
A Kuna family is upset that a naked, drunken man who allegedly pooped on their
carpet and flooded their kitchen was only cited with two misdemeanors but not
arrested. The Gillaspys woke up to a naked man walking around in their bedroom
early on Sunday morning, but he quickly sprinted off into another room.
"My husband grabs the gun because we have no idea who this guy is,"
Tricia Gillaspy told KTVB. "He's like, 'Get out of my house, now!' But the
guy wouldn't leave. So, he puts the gun to his head, and says, 'I said, get
out!'" The suspect, Matthew Coomes, left the home after 911 was called,
but he was still milling around outside when police arrived. Then everyone saw
what the 25-year-old allegedly did downstairs. "He took this sink sprayer
out and this drawer was in there. He put it in the drawer, turned it on full
blast hot water, it filled that entire drawer full. It flooded my entire
kitchen," Gillaspy said. "He craps on my floor, and he must have been
playing in it because he streaked it down the side of my walls. The stain is
gone finally, thank goodness." Instead of being arrested, Coomes was cited
with two misdemeanors. The Kuna Police have since admitted that the responding
officer probably should have arrested Coomes and it's possible that Ada County
prosecutors could charge him with a felony count of malicious injury to
property.
Somewhat
Useless Information
In
1995 Pierre Omidyar created a website called ‘AuctionWeb’ with categories of
things that he thought people might want to sell.
People
could post adverts of things they wanted to sell giving a minimum price and the
seller would accept the highest offer.
This
network was really successful and Omidyar started charging for this service. He
realized that he made more money from it rather than his job.
He
renamed his site as “eBay” and has now thousand categories, as well as users!
~~
George
Burns was an American comedian, actor and writer, who had characteristic arched
eyebrow and cigar smoke, and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in
1975.
In
1983 he wrote a book called ‘How To Live To Be 100 – Or More – The Ultimate
Diet, Sex and Exercise Book‘ and the awkward thing about it is that Burns died
100 years old (born in 1896 – died in 1996)!
Some
other of his books are “Dr. Burns’ Prescription for Happiness: Buy Two Books
and Call Me in the Morning” (1884), “Wisdom of the 90′s” (1991) and “100 Years
100 Stories” (1996).
~~
Did
you know that a person is murdered every 21 minutes in Venezuela and that crime
there is so prevalent there that government doesn’t produce data anymore. Among
the most frequent crimes are armed robberies, carjackings and kidnappings.
Crime
rates are higher after dark and the government was enforced to create a
security force called Bolivarian National Police.
Moreover,
Venezuela is ranked fourth in the world for cocaine seizures, after Colombia,
the United States, and Panama.
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
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week
27 -7/4
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness Week
Today
Is
Decide to
Be Married Day
"Happy Birthday To You" Day
Industrial Workers of The World Day
National Bomb Pop Day
National Columnists Day Decide To Be Married Day
National HIV Testing Day
Please Take My Children to Work Day
National HIV Testing Day
Please Take My Children to Work Day
PTSD Awareness Day
Anniversary
- Industrial Workers of the World Founded
~~
Independence
Day (Djibouti—1977—from France)
Today’s
Events through History
1867 - Bank
of California opens doors
1890 - George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ
(Bantam weight)
1950 - US sends 35 military advisers to South
Vietnam
1955 - 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
1955 - 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
1963 - US President John Kennedy spent 1st full day
in Ireland
2008 - Bill
Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Today’s
Birthdays
H
Ross Perot, billionaire/presidential candidate is 84
Bruce
E Babbitt, (Gov-D-AZ)/secretary of interior is 76
Julia
Duffy [Julia Margaret Hinds], actress (Newhart) is 63
Tobey
Maguire, American actor is 39
Khloe
Kardashian, reality television star is 30
Drake
Bell, musician/ songwriter / American actor is 28
Remembered
for being born today
1859-1916 - Mildred
J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You)
1880-1968 - Helen
Keller, blind-deaf author/lecturer
Today’s
Historical Obits
Gale Storm, TV Personality, 2009, @87
Jack Lemmon, American actor, cancer, 2001, @76
James Smithson, dies, his will establishes Smithsonian Institute,
1829, @64
Joseph Smith, founder/leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob, 1844, @38
Brain Teasers
1) Switchboard
2) Billboard
3) Starboard
4) Diving Board
5) Running Board
6) Keyboard
7) Mortarboard
8) Buckboard
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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