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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 199 / Week: 29
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 60%
H 81°… L 55°… Ave. humidity: 57%
Wind:
ave: 2mph; Gusts:
5mph
Average High: 82° Record
High: 93° (2005)
Average Low: 51°
Record Low: 42° (1950)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
64 - Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero
1743 - 1st
half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)
1768 - Boston
Gazette publishes "Liberty Song", America's 1st patriotic song
1925 - Adolf
Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a
Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")
1932 - US & Canada sign a treaty to develop St
Lawrence Seaway
1968 - Intel
Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
1977 - Vietnam becomes member of UN
2013 - Detroit,
Michigan, files for bankruptcy to become the largest US municipal bankruptcy at
$18.5 Billion
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
A very warm day, with little breeze, and clouds that refuse to
drop any moisture to cool things off.
Had a really good lunch with my retirement buddies. Mary leave
next week for 2 weeks at her family oceanside cabin in Oregon. Cheryl got her
eyes and ears checked and has maybe found a good deal on hearing aids. Also the
audiologist suggested that meds could be calling the hearing loss. She is
checking back to see how long she has been on the med and if that’s when the problem
started. Hmmm
What a disaster…can’t believe anyone would shoot down a passenger
plane. It is so sick. War is hell with innocents always being killed. It sounds
like these innocents did nothing more than fly over a country at 30,000+ feet. From
what we know now, the passengers had no connection to the war.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
Can
you decipher this phrase?
1)
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2)
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3)
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4)
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5)
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6)
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7)
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Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
Jessica Tandy/Hume Cronyn
Bobby Sherman--Easy Come, Easy Go
Mandela on Oprah
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
of homicides by white women of black men that are deemed justifiable on the
grounds of self-defense: 14
/\
By
black women on white men: 3
Unusual
Fact of the Day
The Bee Gees never liked their name. In fact, after Robert
Stigwood signed on as the band’s producer in 1967, the group lobbied to change
it. But what could possibly be better than The Bee Gees? The band suggested
Rupert’s World. Luckily, their manager nixed the notion.
Trivia
about AZ…
Between the years 1692 and 1711 Father Eusebio Kino focused on
area missionary work. During the time many grain and stock farms began.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
Islam and the "Nation of Islam" are two different
religions. Islam is a religion for all races and enjoins the worship of the one
unseen God who, orthodox Muslims believe, never took human form. The
"Nation", on the other hand, is a movement geared towards non-whites
and teaches that God appeared in the form of Fard Muhammad in 1930 and that
Elijah Muhammad (a man who died in 1975) was a prophet of God. These beliefs
clearly contradict the basic Islamic theology outlined in the Qur'an. The
followers of "the Nation" adhere to some Islamic principles that are
mixed with many other teachings that are alien to Islam. To better understand
the difference between the two, read about Malcolm X, his pilgrimage to Mecca
and his subsequent comments to the media. Islam teaches equality amongst all
the races (Holy Qur'an 49:13).
Weather
Facts…
Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground
upwards not from the sky downwards.
People
Facts…
There's a guy named Fire Penguin
Disco Panda. He lives in CA.
Historical
Facts…
In 1518, a "dancing
plague" struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced
fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart
attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains
unexplained.
Retro
Native Humor…
Lakota guys and a dude from New York are on a
hunting trip. On the first day, one Lakota goes out, and less than an hour
later returns with a deer. The guy from New York is blown away. "How did
you get your deer so fast?!" "Easy" says the Lakota guy, "I
looked for tracks, found them, followed them, and got my deer."
The next day the 2nd Lakota guy goes out, and less
than an hour later returns with a deer. The guy from New York is blown away
again, just flabbergasted. "How did you get YOUR deer so fast?!" "It's
simple" says the Lakota guy, "I looked for tracks, found them,
followed them, and there was the deer."
On the third day, the New York guy goes out. He
doesn't return, and when darkness begins to fall, the two Lakota guys go
looking for him. They found him lying at the base of a hill, bloodied up,
clothes torn, and bones broken. "What happened to you?" they asked.
"I did just what you told me to do, I looked for tracks, found them,
followed them, and the damn train ran me over."
Common
Phrase Origins…
Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the
Bathwater
Meaning: Hang on to
valuable things when getting rid of unnecessary things
Hisory: During the
1500s, most people bathed once a year. Even when they did bathe, the entire
family used the same tubful of water. The man of the house bathed first,
followed by other males, then females, and finally the babies. You can imagine
how thick and cloudy the water became by that time, so the infants’ mothers had
to take care not to throw them out with the bathwater when they emptied the
tub.
Joke-of-the-day
HOW TO KEEP A
HEALTHY LEVEL OF INSANITY & DRIVE OTHER PEOPLE INSANE
1. Page yourself
over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
2. Find out where
your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day
after your boss does. This is especially effective if your boss is the opposite
gender.
3. Put mosquito
netting around your cubicle.
4. Every time
someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
5. Put your
garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."
6. When driving
colleagues around, insist on keeping your car's windshield wipers running
during all weather conditions to keep 'em tuned up.
7. Reply to
everything someone says with, "That's what you think."
8. Highlight
irrelevant information in scientific papers, then cc them to your boss.
9. Finish all
your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy."
10. At lunchtime,
sit in your parked car and point a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they
slow down.
11. Specify that
your drive-thru order is "to go."
12. Go to a
poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme.
Rules of
Thumb:
PACKING UP A ROCK BAND
If you are in a
four-piece rock band, it takes about eight hours to pack up your equipment,
travel to your local gig, unload, set up, play one set, break down, load up,
and return home. Add one-half hour for each additional piece, and add one hour
for each additional set played.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
FRANKLIN COUNTY , Fla., July 17 (UPI) --A 12-year-old Florida boy
was arrested for the second time in a month after he took a school bus for a
joyride.
During his unsanctioned trip back in June, Michael Propst took a
Bay District school bus to Walmart.
The second theft occurred less than 24 hours after Propst made a
court appearance for taking the first bus.
Parker police had a sense of déjà vu after finding out about the
missing bus.
"They had a bus stopped with a juvenile driver," Parker
Police Chief Charles Sweatt told WMBB. "Our initial reaction was 'oh no,
not again.'"
In order to get the bus this time, Propst stole a car from his
aunt and took it to Parker Elementary. After taking the bus, he drove it for
more than two hours to Franklin County.
"When we were advised that it was the same juvenile driving
the bus that had been responsible for the last bus theft from Parker we said
'No way,'" Sweatt said.
An officer returned Propst to Bay County after he was picked up.
"He's not unruly or resists arrest or anything of that nature
from what I understand," said Sweatt. "He's just into stealing
vehicles."
Somewhat
Useless Information
Thomas
Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who developed many
devices, such as the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting,
practical electric light bulb.
Edison
had been married twice and he taught his second wife Mina Miller Morse code so
that they could communicate in secret by tapping into other’s hands in social
events or when her family was around.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
13-19
Sports Cliché Week
15-21
18-25
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week
Today
Is
Global
Hug For Your Kids Day
Mandela Day
/\
Constitution
Day (Uruguay-1830)
Today’s
Events through History
1931 - 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
1952 - KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins
broadcasting
1974 - World's
tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1984 - Walter F
Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
1994 - Crayola
announces introduction of scented crayons
Birthday’s
Today
Dick
Totten Button, figure skater (Olympic-gold-48, 52) is 85
James
Brolin, actor (Dr Kiley-Marcus Welby) is 74
Martha
Reeves, singer (& Vandellas-Dancing in St) is 73
Bobby
Sherman, singer is 71
Richard
Branson, British entrepreneur (Virgin Atlantic) is 64
Ricky
Skaggs, country singer (Heartbroke) is 60
Vin
Diesel, American actor is 47
Kristen
Bell, American actress is 34
Chace
Crawford, American actor is 29
Remembered
for being born today
1720-1793 - Gilbert
White, "father of British naturalists"
1895-1954 - Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio Barnes], gangster
1903-1978 - Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus,
Rounders)
1906-1992 - S I Hayakawa, (Sen-R-CA), linguist
(Language in Action)
1909-1989 - Andrei
Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President
1909-1994 - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, singer/actress
(Ozzie & Harriet)
1911-2003 - Hume Cronyn, actor (World According to
Garp, Cocoon)
1913-2012 - Marvin Miller, actor (Space Patrol,
Millionaire)
1918-2013 - Nelson Mandela, political prisoner
(ANC)/President\Nobel (1993)
1937-2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and
author
Historical
Obits Today
William
Westmoreland, American military officer, 2005, @91
Thomas
Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son), 1892, @83
Eugene
Shoemaker, astronomer, car crash, 1997, @69
Horatio
Alger Jr, clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), 1899, @67
Benito
Juarez, Cuban justice/general, heart attack, 1872, @66
John Paul
Jones, American naval commander kidney failure, 1792, @45
Bobby
Fuller, rock singer (I Fought the Law), suicide?, 1966, @23
Brain Teasers
Prime Ribs
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 §
