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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 197 / Week: 29
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 95%
H 68°… L 55°… Ave. humidity: 78%
Wind:
ave: 5mph; Gusts:
17mph
Average High: 82° Record
High: 37° (2001)
Average Low: 52°
Record Low: 92° (1961)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1099 - Crusaders
herd Jews of Jerusalem into a synagogue & set it afire
1429 - Joan of Arc and the French army enter the
city of Rheims
1439 - Kissing
is banned in England (to stop germs from spreading)
1661 - 1st
banknotes in Europe were issued by Bank of Stockholm
1790 - US
Congress establishes District of Columbia
1798 - US
Public Health Service forms & US Marine Hospital authorized
1861 - Battle
of Bull Run, the 1st major battle of the Civil War, is fought
1904 - Islands
of Manu'a group (Samoa) ceded to US by their chiefs
1918 - Bolshevik
firing squad, executes Nicholas II of Russia and his family
1926 - National Geographic takes 1st natural-color
undersea photos
1956 - Last Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey
Circus under a canvas tent
1963 - Amazon
river carries 190,000 m3/sec of water (record)
1973 - During
Watergate hearings, Butterfield reveals existence of tapes
1980 - Ronald Reagan nominated for US President by
Republicans
1988 - Carl
Lewis runs a wind-assisted 100 m in 9.78 sec
1988 - Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds; sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts
1988 - Florence Joyner runs 100 m in women's world record 10.49 seconds; sets women's heptathlete record of 7,215 pts
2013 - 27
children are killed and 25 are hospitalized after eating lunch contaminated
with insecticide in India
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
A very interesting day. It was a little cloudy and looked like
rain. There was a lot of thunder and lightning between 10p and midnight last
night. Then about 1:00 today the clouds burst over here. We have a small catch pond
in the commons area that is lined with
rocks along the side. It drains through a culvert at the lower end. I have NEVER
seen standing water in it. During this blinding downpour, there was at least a
foot of water in it. After two hours there is still has some standing water.
The storm lasted about 30 minutes and the street had a good two inches of water
running down it in torrents. My deck even had about an inch of water, not
enough to flood the house, but more than I have ever seen there either. I’m
sure I’ll be reading about flooding around town soon. It is still overcast and
more rain may be on the way. I’m sure this is the wettest monsoon we have had
in a very long time. I remember attending summer school back in the 70’s when
we had rain like this.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
Each
group of three definitions describes three words that are spelled the same,
except for one letter (each group describes a different set of words). Example:
king, ring, wing.
1
an Old Norse poem; a wheel spoke; an unusually small animal
2
to give way; a pasture; to handle
3
a small territorial division of a country; an artillery piece; a deep valley
with high steep sides
4
a hut; to strike with surprise or horror; a husk
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Minimum
number of remains of WWI casualties uncovered in northern Italy since 1990 because
of retreating glaciers: 40
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Humans can lose up to 30% of their total blood volume before going
into shock.
Trivia
about AZ…
The world's largest solar telescope is located at Kitts Peak
National Observatory in the city of Sells.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
Muslim women wear the head-covering (hijab) in fulfillment of
God's decree to dress modestly. From a practical standpoint, it serves to
identify one as attempting to follow God in daily life and, therefore, protects
women from unwanted advances from men. This type of modest dress has been worn
by righteous women throughout history. Prominent examples are traditional
Catholic Nuns, Mother Teresa and the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus.
Weather
Facts…
In ten minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all the world's
nuclear weapons combined!
People
Facts…
Indian housewives hold 11% of the World’s gold. That is more than
the reserves of USA, IMF, Switzerland and Germany put together.
Historical
Facts…
Pineapples were such a status symbol in 18th century England that
you could rent one for the evening to take to a party.
Retro
Native Humor…
In light of the rising frequency of human/grizzly bear conflicts,
the Montana Department of Fish and Game is advising hikers, hunters, and
fishermen to take extra precautions and keep alert for bears while in the
field. "We advise that outdoorsmen should wear noisy little bells on their
clothing so as not to startle bears that aren't expecting them," a spokesman
said. "We also advise outdoorsmen
to carry pepper spray with them in case of an encounter with a bear".
It is also a good idea to watch out for fresh signs of bear
activity. Outdoorsmen should recognize the difference between black bear and
grizzly bear paw prints and scat.
A grizzly's paw is larger and its claws are longer than that of a
black bear. Black bear scat contains
lots of berries and squirrel fur. Grizzly bear scat has little bells in it and
smells like pepper.
Common
Phrase Origins…
Cat Got
Your Tongue?
Meaning: Something
said when a person is at a loss for words
History: There
are two possible sources for this common saying. The first refers to the
cat-o’-nine-tails – a whip used by the English Navy for flogging. The whip
caused so much pain that the victims were left speechless. The second refers to
the practice of cutting out the tongues of liars and blasphemers and feeding
them to cats.
Joke-of-the-day
Early one
morning, a mother went in to wake up her son. "Wake up, son. It's time to
go to school!"
"But why,
Mom? I don't want to go."
"Give me two
reasons why you don't want to go."
"Well, the
kids hate me for one, and the teachers hate me, too!"
"Oh, that's
no reason not to go to school. Come on now and get ready."
"Give me two
reasons why I should go to school."
"Well, for
one, you're 52 years old. And for another, you're the Principal!"
Rules of
Thumb:
PLANNING YOUR TRAINING
Never increase your
training by more than 10 percent a week. Increases of 10 to 15 percent every
three weeks make more sense.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
In a small bit of good news for the public education sector, a
sexy female middle-school teacher in Florida was NOT having sex with her
students. She was, however, showing them how to twerk during a party.
A student reported that the soccer coach and gym teacher had
attended an end-of-year soccer gathering at a student's home and was twerking
with students.
Perhaps as a way of measuring how well they absorbed the material
she was teaching them, she also allegedly let one of the eighth-graders give
her a lap dance.
Call it vocational training.
The investigation of the allegations includes cell-phone video of
the teacher getting the lap dance, which was described as "a gross
exercise of poor judgment."
Or "totally awesome" depending on which source you ask.
To cap off the afternoon of questionable judgment calls, the
teacher then drove home drunk with a classmate in the car, according to other
students at the party.
She was suspended for 15 days without pay. The superintendent says
the educator was not fired because the student's parents were home at the time.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Clip
vs. Magazine
In
small arms terms magazine technically refers to a box, drum or tube with a
spring inside to help feed the rounds. Magazines can be a fixed part of the
weapon, or detachable. Most detachable magazines can be removed and replaced
with a full one to reload the weapon.
A
clip is a device that is used to store multiple rounds of ammunition together
as a unit, ready for insertion into the magazine or cylinder of a firearm. This
speeds up the process of loading and reloading the firearm as several rounds
can be loaded at once, rather than one round being loaded at a time.
**
A
pistol is a handgun - but not all handguns are pistols.
The
defining factor that makes a handgun a pistol is a chamber that is integral
with the barrel. Semi-automatic handguns have a barrel with the chamber built
in, which means they are pistols. Revolvers, on the other hand, are not
pistols, because a revolver contains a cylinder that's separate from the barrel
and contains multiple chambers.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
13-19
Sports Cliché Week
15-21
Rabbit Week; National Baby Food Week; National Ventriloquism
Week
Today
Is
Fresh Spinach Day
National
Woodie Wagon Day-remember the 40’s and 50’s
Toss Away the "Could Haves" and "Should Haves" Day
Toss Away the "Could Haves" and "Should Haves" Day
/\
La Paz
Day (Bolivia-1809-independence from Spain)
Today’s
Events through History
1755 - John
Adams graduates Harvard
1845 - NY
Yacht Club holds its 1st regatta
1867 - D R Averill patents ready-mixed paint
1950 - Single
day 16 team HR record set at 37 (NL-25, AL-12)
1960 - 205,000
(record sports attend) see Brazil-Uruguay World Cup soccer
Birthday’s
Today
Bess
Myerson, Bronx NY, 1st Jewish Miss America (1945) is 89
Michael
Flatley, Irish choreographer (Lord of Dance) is 56
Will
Ferrell, American comedian is 47
Corey
Feldman, actor (License to Drive, Stand by Me) is 43
Remembered
for being born today
1821-1910 - Mary
Baker Eddy, founded Christian Science
1872-1928 - Roald
Amundsen, Norway, explorer, discovered South Pole
1887-1951 - "Shoeless"
Joe Jackson, black sox player (Say it aint so, Joe)
1907-1990 - Barbara
Stanwyck, Bkln, actress (Big Valley, Thorn Birds)
1907-1995 - Orville
Redenbacher, American popcorn King
1910-1995 - Ginger
Rogers, [Virginia McMath], dancer (Gay Divorcee)
1915-2006 - Barnard
Hughes, TV, movie, stage actor (Tron)
1940-2003 - Tony
Jackson, Liverpool, rock bassist/vocalist (Searchers)
Historical
Obits Today
Kitty
Wells, country singer, 2012, @92
Ellen
White, American co-founder of the Seventh-day Adventist, 1915, @87
Jo
Stafford, singer of traditional pop music, 2008, @90
Mary Todd
Lincoln, US First Lady, coma, 1882, @63
Anne of
Cleves, queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII, cancer?, 1557, @41
John F.
Kennedy Jr., publisher (George)\lawyer, plane crash, 1999, @38
Carolyn
Bessette Kennedy, wife of JFK, Jr., plane crash, 1999, @33
Anne
Askew, English Protestant, burned at the stake, 1546, @22ish
Brain Teasers
1) rune, rung, runt
2) yield, field, wield
3) canton, cannon, canyon
4) shack, shock, shuck
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 §
