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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 194 / Week: 29
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 30%
H 84°… L 50°… Ave. humidity: 59%
Wind:
ave: 2mph; Gusts:
20mph
Average High: 83° Record
High: 94° (1972)
Average Low: 50°
Record Low: 35° (1904)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1772 - Capt
James Cook begins 2nd trip (Resolution) to South Seas
1787 - Congress
establishes Northwest Territory (excludes slavery)
1832 - Source
of Mississippi River discovered (Henry R Schoolcraft)
1837 - Queen
Victoria is 1st monarch to live in present Buckingham Palace
1854 - US
forces shell & burn San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua
1865 - Horace
Greeley advises his readers to "Go west young man"
1917 - Vision
of Virgin Mary appeared to children of Fatima, Portugal
1930 - Sarnoff reports in NY Times "TV would
be a theater in every home"
1960 - US Democratic convention nominates JFK as
presidential candidate
1977 - NYC
experiences 25 hr black-out
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
A really warm day here in our high mountain town. Still nice.
Washed my front windows inside and out. Suddenly the living room is much
brighter…
I can’t believe how dumb I can be. I have a bird feeder on the
back deck. I have a plastic tub with a click lid. Sometime earlier this week I
filled the bird feeder, but forgot to put the lid back on. This afternoon I
went out to check the bird feeder, only to discover about 8 pounds of bird seed
floating in a tub of very dirty water. I had no idea we had gotten that much
rain, but then remembered our gulley washer earlier and that has to be when it
happened. Dumped all the birdseed onto the ground, cleaned the tub and left it
to dry. What a disappointing waste of good birdseed. To add injury to insult,
last month I bought a 20lb bag of birdseed and put it on the porch, unopened.
It was in those fairly strong plastic/paper bags that are hard to tear. I went
out one morning and a squirrel had chewed through the paper and dumped about
half the seed onto the patio. Guess I have lots to learn.
No rain today, as predicted, but a few big fluffy clouds with dark
bottoms, so maybe later.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
Which
letter comes next in the series?
S,
M, H, D, W, M, ?
Pick
from:
L V Y T D
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Maximum
daily compensation a Chinese travel agency offers tourists who sign up for ‘smog
insurance’: $8
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s wife died when a dropped match
ignited her enormous hoop skirt.
Trivia
about AZ…
Oraibi is the oldest Indian settlement in the United States. The
Hopis Indians founded it.
Grand Canyon's Flaming Gorge got its name for its blazing red and
orange colored, twelve-hundred-foot-high walls.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
The word "jihad" does not mean "holy war".
Instead, it means the inner struggle that one endures in trying to submit their
will to the will of God. Some Muslims may say they are going for
"jihad" when fighting in a war to defend themselves or their fellow
Muslims, but they only say this because they are conceding that it will be a
tremendous struggle. But there are many other forms of jihad which are more
relevant to the everyday life of a Muslim such as the struggles against
laziness, arrogance, stinginess, or the struggle against a tyrant ruler or
against the temptation of Satan, or against one's own ego, etc.
Weather
Facts…
Men are 6
times more likely to be struck by lightning than women!
People
Facts…
Men fall in love faster than
women do.
Historical
Facts…
Napoleon Bonaparte thought
torture should be abolished because the information obtained from it is
worthless.
Retro
Native Humor…
An evil Atheist explorer in the deepest Amazon
suddenly finds himself surrounded by a bloodthirsty group of natives. Upon
surveying the situation, he says quietly to himself "Oh God, I'm
screwed!!!!!."
There is a ray of light from heaven and a voice booms out: "No, you are NOT screwed. Pick up that stone at your feet and bash in the head of the chief standing in front of you."
So the explorer picks up the stone and proceeds to bash the living heck out of the chief.
As he stands above the lifeless body, breathing heavily and surrounded by 100 natives with a look of shock on their faces, Gods voice booms out again: "Okay ..... NOW you're screwed."
There is a ray of light from heaven and a voice booms out: "No, you are NOT screwed. Pick up that stone at your feet and bash in the head of the chief standing in front of you."
So the explorer picks up the stone and proceeds to bash the living heck out of the chief.
As he stands above the lifeless body, breathing heavily and surrounded by 100 natives with a look of shock on their faces, Gods voice booms out again: "Okay ..... NOW you're screwed."
Common
Phrase Origins…
Blood is
Thicker than Water
Meaning: Family
comes before everything else
History: In
ancient Middle Eastern culture, blood rituals between men symbolized bonds that
were far greater than those of family. The saying also has to do with “blood
brothers,” because warriors who symbolically shared the blood they shed in
battle together were said to have stronger bonds than biological brothers.
Joke-of-the-day
A mother
carefully explained to her young daughter how children were created. She used
the expression “carrying a child” instead of “pregnant,” but the girl seemed
satisfied.
Sometime later, a
terrible fire broke out in the neighborhood, and the girl stood by watching.
Here is how she described the scene to her parents: “There was this big fire,
and a fireman ran into the house, and when he came out, he was pregnant.”
Rules of
Thumb:
BLOWING YOUR NOSE
To get a good
"blow" out of a stuffed-up nose, always blow the clearer nostril
first.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
KNOX COUNTY , Tenn., July 10 (UPI) --A Tennessee woman opened her
closet and instead of finding her usual array of clothes and shoes, she
discovered a drunken teenager she didn't know.
It's unclear exactly how he got in there, but apparently
18-year-old Andrew Davison drank a fifth of vodka and somehow managed to find
his way into Tonya Palmer's closet.
Palmer was picking up clothes near her closet early Wednesday
morning when she noticed something peculiar.
"I went to pick up some of the clothes and they were warm, so
that kind of startled me and I bent over and I could hear breathing," she
told WKRN.
She woke up her husband and they discovered Davison passed out
drunk. While Palmer's husband held the sleeping suspect at gunpoint, she called
911.
"I know that every time I open a closet door there's going to
be that instant of is it okay to open the closet door," she said.
When Knox County Sheriff's deputies arrived, "Davison
appeared extremely intoxicated and was unaware of his location."
Davison has been charged with aggravated criminal trespass and
underage consumption.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Many
babies in Germany were killed by diarrhea in 1908 due to acute gastrointestinal
infections.
An
Austrian Professor Ernst Moro, found out an experiment that a simple carrot
soup decreased the death rate of babies suffering from diarrhea by nearly 50%.
Indeed,
a German study published in 2002 showed that acidic oligosaccharides formed in
aqueous extracts from carrots may lead to less adherence of bacterial agents to
the mucosal wall of the bowel, so it is a more effective treatment for acute
gastrointestinal infections of children than glucose-electrolyte-solution oral
rehydration.
/\
Sigmund
Freud, the famous Austrian neurologist, carried out several self-experiments
with cocaine, in which he had swallowed various quantities of it, finding it
useful in reducing levels of depression and anxiety.
“A
small dose lifted me to the heights in a wonderful fashion. I am just now busy
collecting the literature” — in German, French and English — “for a song of
praise to this magical substance”, he said.
Freud
liked Cocaine so much that he would offer it as a gift to family and friends!
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
7-14
Creative Maladjustment Week; Nude Recreation Weekend
11-13
World Future 2014
13-19
Sports Cliché Week
Today
Is
Anne Hutchinson Memorial Day
Embrace Your Geekness Day
Gruntled Workers Day
National French Fries Day
Embrace Your Geekness Day
Gruntled Workers Day
National French Fries Day
/\
Feast of Lanterns (Japan)
Feast of Lanterns (Japan)
Today’s
Events through History
1657 - Oliver
Cromwell constrains English army leader John Lambert
1863 - Anti-draft
mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about 1,000 die
1923 - The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated
in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles. It originally reads
"Hollywoodland" but the four last letters are dropped after
renovation in 1949.
1943 - Greatest tank battle in history ends with
Russia's defeat of Germany at Kursk, almost 6,000 tanks take part, 2,900 were
lost by Germany
1966 - Richard
Speck murders 8 nurses in Chicago
2011 - Mumbai
is rocked by three bomb blasts during the evening rush hour
Birthday’s
Today
Patrick Stewart, film, TV, stage
actor is 74
Harrison Ford, actor (Star Wars,
Indiana Jones) is 72
Cheech Marin, [Richard], comedian
(Cheech & Chong) is 68
Ma Ying-jeou, President of the
Republic of China is 64
Remembered
for being born today
100
BC-45BC - Julius Caesar,
Rome, Roman military and political leader
1864-1912 - John Jacob Astor IV, American
entrepreneur (d. 1912)
1913-1982
- Dave
Garroway, TV host (Today Show)
1921-1995 - Charles Scribner Jr, music publisher
(Scribner)
1928-1978 - Bob Crane, actor (Col Hogan-Hogan's
Heroes)
1935-2009 - Jack F Kemp, (Rep-NY)/Secretary of HUD
Historical
Obits Today
Red
Buttons (Aaron Chwatt), comedian, 2006, @87
George
Steinbrenner, owner -Yankees, 2010, @80
John C.
Frémont, army officer, explorer, peritonitis, 1890, @77
Richard
Darryl Zanuck, Academy Award-film producer, heart attack, 2012, @77
Johnny
Ringo, American Gunfighter, many stories of death, 1882, @32
Cory
Monteith, Canadian actor and musician, OD, 2013, @31
Brain Teasers
Y
Second; Minute; Hour; Day; Week; Month; Year
Second; Minute; Hour; Day; Week; Month; Year
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 §
