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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: / Week: 28
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 85%
H 75°… L 57°… Ave. humidity: 64%
Wind:
ave: 6mph; Gusts:
17mph
Average High: 82° Record
High: 92° (1905)
Average Low: 49°
Record Low: 32° (1955)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1456 - A
retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death
1520 -
Cortés and the Tlaxcalans defeat a numerically superior Aztec force
1540
- Coronado attacks the Zuni village
in what becomes New Mexico
1550 - Traditional
date Chocolate thought to have been introduced to Europe
1607 - "God
Save the King" is 1st sung
1846 - US
annexs California
1923 - University of Delaware invents "junior
year abroad" (at Sorbonne)
1928 - Sliced bread is sold for the 1st time by the
Chillicothe Baking Co.
1946 - Mother
Frances Xavier Cabrini canonized as 1st American saint
1980 - Institution of sharia in Iran.
1981 - Sandra Day O'Connor nominated for the
Supreme Court
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Quiet Sunday. Lots of clouds just awaiting the monsoon which
should be here in a little while.
Watched some TV. Glad to say I could cut down on the pain pills,
so maybe I’m getting better…slowly. Only one at 6a, and one at 3p. Nice.
I spent some time with the Sunday local paper…always enjoyable to
read the historical stuff on Sunday…the local paper used to have some great
copy editors. Then I caught my Sunday morning news shows…nice to hear different
voices on the world situation.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
In
the following sentence, fill in the blanks with three words that are the same
except for their first letters.
The
___ would ___ ___ with soap than with body wash.
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
change since 2008 in the number of adults aged 26-34 taking medication for
ADHD: +84
Unusual
Fact of the Day
The first armored presidential limo was used by President Franklin
Roosevelt just as the United States was entering WW II. This particular
Cadillac convertible originally belonged to the gangster Al Capone. It was
seized in 1932 when Capone was charged with tax evasion.
Trivia
about AZ…
Crops include 2%; pastureland 57%; forests 24%; and other uses are
17% in land-use designation.
The Arizona ridge-nosed rattlesnake is perhaps the most beautiful
of all eleven species of rattlesnakes found in Arizona.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
The Holy Qur'an has no flaws or contradictions. The original
Arabic scriptures have never been changed or tampered with.
Weather
Facts…
Temperatures have been cooling
since 2002, even as carbon dioxide has continued to rise.
People
Facts…
A couple had their wedding rings
engraved with a waveform of their own voices saying "I do."
Historical
Facts…
In 1799, a boy found a 17lb. rock
in a creek in North Carolina and used it as a doorstop. It was actually gold.
Joke-of-the-day
Stumpy Grinder
and his wife Martha were from Portland, Maine. Every year they went to the
Portland Fair and every year Stumpy said, "Ya know, Mahtha, I'd like ta
get a ride in that theah aihplane." And every year, Martha would say
"I know, Stumpy, but that aihplane ride costs ten dollahs .. and ten
dollahs is ten dollahs."
So one year
Stumpy says, "By Jeebers, Mahtha, I'm 71 yeahs old, and if I don't go this
time I may nevah go." Martha replies, "Stumpy, that there aihplane
ride is ten dollahs ... and ten dollahs is ten dollahs."
So the pilot
overhears then and says, "Folks, I'll make you a deal. I'll take you both
up for a ride. If you can stay quiet for the entire ride and not say ONE WORD,
then I won't charge you. But just ONE WORD and it's ten dollars."
They agree and up
they go... the pilot does all kinds of twists and turns, rolls and dives, but
not a word is heard. He does it one more time, and there is still no word... so
he lands.
He turns to
Stumpy as they come to a stop and says, "By golly, I did everything I
could think of to get you to holler out, but you didn't."
And Stumpy
replies "Well, I was gonna say something when Mahtha fell out ... but ten
dollahs is ten dollahs."
Rules of
Thumb:
CALCULATE THE COST OF POWERING A COMPUTE
If you know the
amount of heat a box puts out, in BTU, you can determine the cost of the
electricity to power and cool it. BTU / 2510 * $/kWhr * hours/month =
cost/month For example, if electricity costs 10¢ per kWhr, and there are on
average 730 hours in a month, then each 1000 BTU server costs $29 per month in
cooling and electricity. If you don't know the BTU, multiply the wattage times
x 3.5 to obtain the BTU.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
John Fletcher gets a bang out of firecrackers — especially those
he wraps around himself.
The 51-year-old Michigan performer's act includes setting off
10,500 firecrackers attached to his body.
"I guess I'm a little nuts," said Fletcher, who goes by
the name Ghengis John the Human Firecracker. "I got a little bit of 'Hey,
look at me.'"
He performed last weekend before 300 people and four firefighters
at a motorcycle rally in the western Michigan town of Coopersville. It was one
in a string of shows that Fletcher said would be his last.
He has yet to keep those promises.
"He's getting too old," Sharon Warner, a friend of
Fletcher's, told the newspaper. "I've been telling him that a long
time."
Fletcher said that over 16 years, he has set off 600,000
firecrackers attached to his body. His ribs have been fractured 17 times and
once Fletcher says he was knocked unconscious. He also has been burned.
The gravel pit scale operator from Pinckney doesn't get paid for
his performances and asks audiences to donate to charities.
It costs $140 and takes two weeks to put together his firecracker
suit, which are strands of firecrackers are glued to four leather sheets
Fletcher hangs over his abdomen, back and arms. He wears safety glasses and a
compressed leather vest.
At the motorcycle rally, a volunteer lit the fuse for the
firecrackers, and pretty soon, Fletcher began to snap, crackle and pop for
about 45 seconds. Emergency medical technicians checked him over for injuries.
The most serious appeared to be a bloody nose.
"This is why you never do this at home," Fletcher told
the newspaper.
To that, a paramedic replied: "This is why you never do
it."
Somewhat
Useless Information
Leonardo
DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles. However, he has a multinational background,
as his mother, Irmelin, was born in Germany, and moved to the U.S. during the
1950s.
His
father, George DiCaprio, is of half Italian
and half German. DiCaprio’s
maternal grandfather, Wilhelm Indenbirken, was German, and his maternal
grandmother, Helene Indenbirken was a
German citizen, born as Yelena Smirnova in Russia.
His
parents divorced when he was a year old and he spent part of his childhood in
Germany, so he speaks German fluently.
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Did
you know that Stelios Haji-ioannou, one of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs
and known for setting up Easy Jet, runs paperless offices and refuses to have a
secretary, as he still believes in cost-cutting?
“I
sit open plan. I don’t have a secretary. I book my own appointments. When
easyJet moved from the shed, we moved to an aircraft hanger; bigger but just as
spartan. It’s corrugated iron, orange and visible from out-of-space: it
embodies all our brand values”, he said.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
1-7
4-10
6-12
Be Nice To New Jersey Week; National Farriers Week
7-14
Creative Maladjustment Week; Nude
Recreation Weekend
Today
Is
Chocolate Day
Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day
Global Forgiveness Day
Tell The Truth Day
Writer’s Day
Father-Daughter Take A Walk Together Day
Global Forgiveness Day
Tell The Truth Day
Writer’s Day
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Independence
Day (Solomon Islands-1978-from UK)
Running of the Bulls (Spain-since 1215)
Saba Saba Day (Tanzania- 1954 founding of the Tanzanian political party)
Tanabata/Star Festival (Japan)
Running of the Bulls (Spain-since 1215)
Saba Saba Day (Tanzania- 1954 founding of the Tanzanian political party)
Tanabata/Star Festival (Japan)
Today’s
Events through History
1802 - 1st
comic book "The Wasp," is published
1949 - "Dragnet" premieres on NBC radio
1953 - Che Guevara sets out on a trip through
Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El
Salvador.
Birthday’s
Today
Doc Severinson, [Carl], bandleader/trumpeter
on the Tonight Show is 87
Ringo Starr, [Richard Starkey], Beatles
drummer is 74
Shelley Duvall, actress (Popeye,
Faery Tale Theater) is 65
Michele Kwan, figure skater
(Oly-94, Oly-silver-98) is 33
Remembered
for being born today
1752-1834 - Joseph-Marie Jacquard, invented
programmable loom
1860-1911 - Gustav Mahler, composer/conductor
(Titan)
1911-2007
- Gian-Carlo
Menotti, Italy, composer (Amahl & Night Visitors)
Historical
Obits Today
Henri
Nestlé, Founder of Nestlé S.A. heart attack, 1890, @75
Arthur
Conan Doyle, writer (Sherlock Holmes), heart attack, 1930, @71
Bill
Cullen, game show host (Price is Right), cancer, 1990, @70
Thomas
Hooker, clergyman, father of US democracy, plague, 1647, @61
Syd
Barrett, original guitarist and vocalist of Pink Floyd, cancer, 2006, @60
Keefe
Brasselle, actor (Be Our Guest), liver disease, 1981, @58
Veronica
Lake, [Constance Ockleman], actress, cirrhosis, 1973, @58
Vivian
Leigh, actress (Scarlet-Gone with the Wind), cancer, 1967, @53
Guy de
Maupassant, writer, in asylum, 1893, @42
Brain
Teasers
The BATHER would RATHER LATHER with soap than with body wash.
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 §
