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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 192 / Week: 28
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 40%
H 75°… L 54°… Ave. humidity: 67%
Wind:
ave: 13mph; Gusts: 19mph
Average High: 82° Record
High: 92° (2003)
Average Low: 50°
Record Low: 40° (1979)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1405 - Chinese
fleet commander Zheng sail to explore the world 1st time.
1616 - Samuel
de Champlain returns to Quebec
1750 - Halifax,
Nova Scotia, is almost completely destroyed by fire
1798 - US
Marine Corps established by an act of Congress
1804 - VP
Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Alexander Hamilton in duel.
1889 – Tijuana,
Mexico becomes a city
1934 - FDR
became 1st US president to travel through Panama Canal
1944 - Franklin Roosevelt announces that he will
run for a fourth term
1955 - Congress
authorizes all US currency to say "In God We Trust"
1977 - US
Medal of Freedom awarded posthumously to Martin Luther King Jr
1984 - Government orders air bags or seat belts
required in cars by 1989
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Just a sprinkle today, but still good. We had Mary’s b-day lunch
at our favorite Bistro here in town. She got some beautiful plants from Cheryl
and a garden gnome and garden ornament from me. We shared 4th of
July stories since Mary had her kids and grandkids at her house and Cheryl had
her son and his family at her house. Both enjoyed the visit…during the visit
and when it ended. Cheryl lives alone and having 5 extra loving people keeps on
running. Mary lives with her husband and adding 7 loving people to the mix
certainly adds stress. Both visits were about 5 days and they are now still
recovering. The great lunch certainly helped.
I was also excited because I could walk with no limp and am not
wearing the wrist brace anymore. Glad that is over. The worst part is that I
had never had it before and being a little paranoid, was afraid that it might
go on forever. Especially since the medical profession spent a lot of time shaking their heads. From beginning to end was about a month, but sure felt like a
lifetime as I was living through it. Onward and upward.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
These
seemingly "nonsense" words have pairs of opposites in them. For
example:
lshoorntg
would be "Long /Short" (LshOorNtG). If you've noticed, the letters in
the words are always in the same order. Get the idea? Great! Now try these!
1)
Wfateirer
2)
Grsokuynd
3)
Rpoiocrh
4)
Frbeoiezle
5)
Ppenecinl
6)
Wmaomnan
7)
Ldaigrhkt
8)
Ounvderer
9)
Cdilreatny
10)
Riwrgohngt
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Estimated
number of doctors working in and around Aleppo at the beginning of the Syrian
conflict in 2011: 5000
Number
working there today: 36
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Only about one-fifth of the world's largest desert, the Sahara, is
covered with sand; the remainder is made up of rock formations.
Trivia
about AZ…
Rising to a height of 12,643 feet, Mount Humphreys north of
Flagstaff is the state's highest mountain.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
Islam was not spread by the sword. It was spread by the word
(Islamic teachings) and the example of its followers. Islam teaches that there
is no compulsion in religion (the Holy Qur'an 2:256 and 10:99).
Weather
Facts…
Rain contains vitamin B12.
People
Facts…
In Bulgaria, people shake their
heads to indicate yes and nod for no.
Historical
Facts…
Picasso’s full name: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan
Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y
Picasso.
Joke-of-the-day
A bicycle can’t
stand on its own because it’s two tired.
Rules of
Thumb:
PLANNING FLOOR JOISTS
Divide the span (in
feet) by two. The result plus one (in inches) is the depth of the joist.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
WABASSO, Fla. (UPI) - "Ouch." That's what a Florida
woman who allegedly had crack cocaine crammed in her vagina said during a
traffic stop on June 24 in Wabasso. Indian River County Sheriff's Office
investigators pulled over Robert William King and Jennifer Crosby because it
appeared that their vehicle had a window tint violation. When King was asked
for his license, the 47-year-old responded, "I don't have a license! I'm
habitual." Crosby, 42, supposedly seemed skittish and a female deputy was
summoned to the scene to look for drugs, TC Palm reported. After she arrived,
Crosby allegedly confessed to having drugs in her vagina. "Ouch," she
said. "The foil is hurting the inside of my vagina." King was
arrested on a habitual traffic offender charge. Crosby was arrested on
possession of cocaine and possession of drug paraphernalia charges.
Somewhat
Useless Information
There
are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves in Chess.
The
most expensive Monopoly set ever created is worth $2 million. The board is made
of gold and the pieces are jewel-encrusted. Monopoly is the best-selling board
game in the world. It is produced in 26 different languages.
Scrabble
inventor Alfred Mosher Butts originally named his game "Criss Cross",
and sold a few hundred sets under that name. Only later did the name get
changed to Scrabble.
Many
re-publishes in the history of Milton Bradley's Life board game have taken
place since its creation in 1860. The years for these updates include 1866,
1959, 1961, 1978, 1985, 1992, and 2005. As times have changed, so has the game!
Dominoes
were first played in the courts of Venice and Naples in Italy. The tiles were
originally constructed by gluing and pinning two sheets of ebony on either side
of the bone tile. This prevented cheating by being able to see the pip value
from the back of the tile in certain lights.
A
board game that appeared very similar to checkers (called "Draughts"
in Great Britain} was discovered in the ruins of the ancient city of Ur in
modern day Iraq. This board game dates to about 3000 B.C.
Observances
This Week:
Be Nice To New Jersey Week; National Farriers Week
7-14
Creative Maladjustment Week; Nude Recreation Weekend
11-13
World Future 2014
Today
Is
Bowdler's Day—the doctor who gave up the practice of medicine and undertook
the cleansing of the works of Shakespeare by removing all the words and
expressions he considered to be indecent or impious.
Cheer Up The Lonely Day
Cheer Up The Lonely Day
Chick-fil-A's Cow Appreciation Day
Independence
Day (Mongolia)-1921 from China
Today’s
Events through History
1892 - US
Patent Office says J W Swan, not Thomas Edison, invented the electric light
carbon for the incandescent lamp
1922 - The
Hollywood Bowl opens
1967 - Kenny Rogers forms 1st Edition
1971 - Chilean
parliament nationalizes US copper mines
1995 - 7,000 Bosnian Muslim men are massacred when Bosnian
Serbs overrun the UN 'safe haven' of Srebrenica.
Birthday’s
Today
Tab
Hunter, actor (Damn Yankees, Lust in the Dust) is 83
Giorgio
Armani, fashion designer (American Gigolo) is 80
Adrienne
Barbeau, actress (Maude) is 70
Bonnie
Pointer, singer (Pointer Sisters-Jump, I'm So Excited) is 64
Leon
Spinks, heavyweight boxing champ\Olympic-gold-1976 is 61
Richie
Sambora, guitarist, (Bon Jovi) is 55
Jeff
Corwin, American naturalist and TV personality is 47
Lil' Kim (Kimberly
Denise Jones), American rapper is 40
Remembered
for being born today
1274-1329 - Robert
Bruce, King of Scots (1306-29)
1754-1825 - Thomas
Bowdler, famous prude, bowdlerized Shakespeare
1767-1848 - John
Quincy Adams, 6th Pres
1899-1985 - E. B.
White, writer (Charlotte's Web, Elements of Style)
1920-1985 - Yul
Brynner, Russian-born actor
1922-1998 - Gene
Evans, Hollbrook Az, actor (My Friend Flicka, Matt Helm)
1929-2012 - David
Kelly, Dublin, actor (Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Fawlty Towers)
Historical
Obits Today
Lady Bird
Johnson, First Lady of the United States, 2007, @94
Ji
Xianlin, Chinese linguist and paleographer, 2009, @93
Isabel
Randolph, actress (Mrs Nester-Our Miss Brooks), 1973, @83
Thomas F
Waddell, founder (Gay Olympics), AIDS, 1987, @49
Brain
Teasers
1) Water/Fire: WfATEireR
2) Ground/Sky: GRsOkUyND
3) Rich/Poor: RpoIoCrH
4) Freeze/Boil: FRbEoiEZlE
5) Pen/Pencil: PpENeCInL
6) Woman/Man: WmaOMnAN
7) Light/Dark: LdaIGrHkT
8) Over/Under: OunVdERer
9) Clean/Dirty: CdiLrEAtNy
10) Right/Wrong: RIwrGoHngT
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 §
