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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 185 / Week: 27
June Averages: 78° \ 42°Today: Average Sky Cover: 100%
H 84°… L 55°… Ave. humidity: 37%
Wind: ave: 7mph; Gusts: 20mph
Average High: 82° Record High: 96° (2007)
Average Low: 48° Record Low: 32° (1912)
Quote of the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1776 - US congress proclaims the Declaration of
Independence
1796 - 1st
Independence Day celebration is held 1802 - US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
1803 - The Louisiana Purchase is announced to the American people.
1829 - Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
1831 - "America (My Country 'Tis of Thee)" is 1st sung in Boston
1845 - Henry David Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1855 - Brooklyn, 1st of Leaves of Grass, is published.
1862 - Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell
1863 - Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1866 - Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroys 1/2 of Portland, Maine
1881 - Booker T. Washington establishes Tuskegee Institute
1883 - Buffalo Bill Cody presents 1st Wild West Show, North Platte, Nebr
1884 - 1st US bullfight held (Dodge City Ks)
1884 - Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1888 - 1st organized rodeo competition held, Prescott, Ariz
1894 - Republic of Hawaii proclaimed, Sanford B Dole as president
1895 - Katherine Lee Bates publishes "America the Beautiful"
1918 - Altar dedicated at full-scale replica of Stonehenge at Maryhill, Wa
1939 - Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
1944 - 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima
1950 - The first broadcast by Radio Free Europe.
1966 - LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
1996 - Hot Mail, a free internet E-mail service begins
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Monsoon is here. Several decent thunderstorms throughout the day…NICE!
Lots of lightning and thunder…not so nice, but worth it for the moisture.
Foot pain has been there all day…hard to walk. No pain until I try
to walk, so that is good. Plan my walks in the house very carefully. Pain pill
at 4a but started really hurting again about 8 so I took 2 pills. Just took
another one about 4p. Things could be a whole lot worse…I sleep OK, eat OK, and
sit in my recliner to play with my iPad and watch TV. Heard on the news this morning that the guy that was proposing the off campus housing was at the City Council meeting last night and after some very tough questioning by 2 members, he stated that he would like to be able to re-do the proposal before the vote. That was denied. So he withdrew his proposal. Then our businessman Mayor adjourned the meeting. Some on the council and some of the participants were taken aback, since it seemed that this would have been a good time to discuss what the city might do going forward. The lawsuit against the Vice Mayor was not withdrawn so her supporters have gone onto FB and started a fund raising campaign. Such a waste of hard earned money for her. It seems the guy who filed the suit, did not name the City Council or the City in it, so for some reason, it is all on her. I’ll be watching this play out because it seems that she could not have been accused of libel if she wasn’t the Vice Mayor. Many others also passed the memo around that has the guy all upset. When she attended the meetings she was a concerned citizen. She has attended so many community meeting and gatherings since she was elected to the council, I’m sure she holds some kind of record. She is a single mom, Doctoral candidate, instructor at NAU, and active on FB. She has really grown over the past few years, since her election. She is a great public servant, who doesn’t need ‘outsiders’ from a Georgia construction company causing her all this grief. It appears at this time that much of the town has rallied behind her.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
I
am bound in a book but you cannot read me,I am struck and played but not musically,
I am your equal in skill and also in stature,
I am used in heat and light manufacture.
What am I?
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Mexican
men working 580 minutes a week—19% is unpaid work
Mexican
women working 607 minutes a week—62% is unpaid.
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Knoxville, Tennessee’s Body Farm isn’t a day spa; it is a forensic
anthropology facility. Human cadavers are left outdoors in varying stages of
undress in water, under brush, etc., so that scientists can study the
decomposition process.
Trivia
about AZ…
The Arizona tree frog is the state official amphibian. The frog is
actually between three-quarter to two inches long.
Once a rowdy copper mining town, Jerome's population dwindled to
as few as 50 people after the mines closed in 1953. In 2012 it was back up to
about 450 thanks to tourism.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
Muslims neither worship Muhammad nor pray through him. Muslims
solely worship the unseen and Omniscient Creator, Allah.
Weather
Facts…
There is enough energy in one
bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks!
People
Facts…
The “cheerleader effect”, the theory that girls look more
attractive in groups, is scientifically proven.
Historical
Facts…
In 1945, a man survived the atomic blast at Hiroshima, dragged
himself to an air-raid shelter, spent the night, and caught the morning train
so he could arrive at his job on time - in Nagasaki - where he survived another
atomic blast.
Joke-of-the-day
Q. What has two
circles on either end, and is high in the middle?
A. Ohio
Rules of
Thumb:
FISHING FOR TROUT
If you don't catch
anything after 7 casts, move on to the next likely spot on the stream. Three
casts should be enough for pockets and holes that are less than 8 feet in
diameter.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
TACOMA, Wash., July 2 (UPI) --What's wrong with a grown man liking
stuffed animals? Maybe nothing -- provided they are his.
Washington police officers found a man crammed into a giant box of
stuffed animals when they responded to a burglary alarm at a Tacoma thrift
store.According to Pierce County Superior Court documents, officers responded to the St. Vincent De Paul thrift store and found Michael Howell hiding inside a box of stuffed animals in the yard outside the store.
The 29-year-old reportedly told officers that he had smoked meth and then jumped in the box after he got spooked by the burglar alarm.
"I came here for clothes and food, bro," Howell told police, KOMO reported.
Howell was charged with burglary and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Did
you know that ‘kipferl’ is an ancestor of the croissant, which has been first
documented in Austria around the 13th century?
Croissant
in today’s form is an adaptation from Kipferl and can be dated at latest 1839,
when an Austrian artillery officer, August Zang, founded a Viennese bakery in
Paris.The bakery served Viennese specialties including the Kipferl and the Vienna loaf and quickly became popular and inspired French imitators, who renamed the French version of the Kipferl for its crescent (croissant) shape.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
1-7
National Unassisted Homebirth Week3-6
Beans and Bacon Days; International Gay Square Dancing Week
4-10
Freedom Week
Today
Is
Rosewell UFO Days: 3-6
Boom Box Parade Day
Independence From Meat Day
Indivisible Day
/\Boom Box Parade Day
Independence From Meat Day
Indivisible Day
Caribbean or Caricom Day (brings together 15 states in the Caribbean, including Antigua and Barbuda, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Haiti, Jamaica, Grenada, Guyana, Montserrat, St. Lucia, Suriname, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. to improve standards of living and work-1973)
Fil-American Friendship Day (Philippines)
Heroes Day (Zambia)
Independence Day (US-1776)
Today’s Events through History
1634 - The
city of Trois-Rivières is founded in New France, later Quebec.
1828 - Construction
begins on B & O (Baltimore-Ohio) 1st US passenger RR1845 - Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
1882 - Telegraph Hill Observatory opens in SF
1898 - US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1901 - William Howard Taft, a former Federal judge, is installed as 1st governor-general of the Philippines
1956 - US most intense rain fall (1.23" in 1 minute) at Unionville Maryland
2004 - The cornerstone of the Freedom Tower is laid on the site of the World Trade Center
Birthday’s
Today
Eva Marie Saint, actress (On the Waterfront, North by Northwest) is
90
Gina Lollobrigida, Subiaco Italy, actress (Trapeze, Falcon Crest) is
87Michael Milken, partner (Intl Capital Access Group) is 68
Remembered
for being born today
1804-1864 - Nathaniel
Hawthorne, author (House of 7 Gables, Scarlet Letter)
1816-1899 - Hiram Walker, American grocer and distiller
(d. 1899) 1826-1864 - Stephen Foster, composer (Oh! Susanna, Swanee River)
1867-1930 - Stephen Mather, organized US National Park Service
1872-1933 - Calvin Coolidge, [Silent Cal], 30th US President
1883-1970 - Rube Goldberg, cartoonist (who made the easy outrageously difficult) Pulitzer Prize 1948
1910-2010 - Gloria Stuart, founder (Screen Actors Guild)
1911-2010 - Mitch Miller, sing along with Mitch (Yellow Rose of Tx)
1918-2013 - Abigail Van Buren, [Mrs Morton Phillips], columnist
1918-2002 - Ann Landers, twin sister/advice columnist
1929-2011 - Al Davis, businessman and NFL team owner (Oakland Raiders)
1931-1977 - Stephen Boyd [William Millar], Irish actor (Ben-Hur)
1930 -2010 -George Steinbrenner, owner (NY Yankees)
Historical
Obits Today
John Adams, 2nd president (1797-1801), 1826, @ 90
Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President, 1826, @83
Hannibal Hamlin, 15th U.S. Vice President, 1891, @81 Thomas Jefferson, 3rd US President, 1826, @83
Eva Gabor, actress (Green Acres), pneumonia, 1995, @76
James Monroe, 5th president (1817-25), TB, 1831, @73
Barry White, American singer, stroke, 2003, @58
Brain
Teasers
A Match
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 §
