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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 200 / Week: 29 

July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 60%
    H 82°… L 55°… Ave. humidity: 56%
    Wind: ave:   7mph; Gusts:  20mph  
    Average High: 82° Record High:  92° (1989)
    Average Low: 51° Record Low:  34° (1987)
     
Quote of the Day

Historical Highlights for Today

 695- Maya King Waxaklahun Ubah K’awil ascends to the throne at Copán, Honduras.

1553 - 15-year-old Lady Jane Grey deposed as England's Queen after 9 days
1860 - 1st railroad reaches Kansas
1877 - 1st Wimbledon Men's Tennis: Spencer W Gore beats Marshall 
1912 - A meteorite of estimated 190kg mass explodes over Holbrook in Navajo County, Arizona, causing approximately 16,000 pieces of debris to rain down on the town.
1952 - 15th modern Olympic games opens in Helsinki, Finland
1956 - US refuse to lend Egypt money to build Aswan Dam
1967 - 1st air conditioned NYC subway car (R-38 on the F line)
1980 - 22nd modern Olympic games opens in Moscow; US & others boycott
1990 - Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda, Calif
1996 - XXVI Olympic games open in Atlanta Georgia

♫  Birthdays Today: ♫  

How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today below

My Rambling Thoughts   

Interesting day. I stayed up late last night watching movies. Didn’t get to be till almost 2am. Slept in till 7. Went to the eye doctor for a new test to see if my brain recognizes the stimulus from my eyes. Quick test with probes stuck on my head. Then stared at grey and white squares that switched positions and then black and white squares doing the same thing. Only one eye at a time. I will get the results at my next appointment in 3 months if nothing is wrong.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

Remove a letter from each of the words below and rearrange the remaining letters to form new words. The 10 words will all fall into a certain category--insects. For example, given the words DEAR, ANGRY, and RENEGE, you could drop the "A" in DEAR to get RED, drop the "N" in ANGRY to get GRAY, and drop an "E" in RENEGE to get GREEN. These would all fall into the category of "Colors".

AGENT

FABLE
PAWNS
TOUSLE
ANOTHER
CARDIAC
CONSULT
GAWKIER
GRUBBED
TEMERITY

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Commander Cody Band - "Down to Seeds and Stems Again Blues"

Edgar Degas Paintings

Holbrook - 99th Anniversary Meteorite Hunt

LONG BLACK VEIL by LEFTY FRIZZELL

Vikki Carr - It Must Be Him

OK Then…

Harper’s Index 

Portion of inmates held in federal prisons who are nonviolent drug offenders: 1/2

Unusual Fact of the Day

Francis Galton, the inventor of modern fingerprinting methods, had many other notable ideas: the weather map, the phrase “nature vs. nurture,” and the silent dog whistle.

Trivia about AZ…

A person from Arizona is called an Arizonan.

Phoenix originated in 1866 as a hay camp to supply Camp McDowell.

The famous labor leader, Ceasar Estrada Chavez, was born in Yuma.

Tombstone, Ruby, Gillette, and Gunsight are among the ghost towns scattered throughout the state.

Interesting facts about Islam…

All Muslims are not Arab. Islam is a universal religion and way of life which includes followers from all races of people. There are Muslims in and from virtually every country in the world. Arabs only constitute about 20% of Muslims worldwide. Indonesia has the largest concentration of Muslims with over 120 million.

Weather Facts…

-40 degrees Celsius is equal to -40 degrees Fahrenheit.

9 out of 10 lightning strike victims survive!

People Facts…

The Sentinelese are a people who live on a tiny island in the Indian Ocean called North Sentinel Island. For thousands of years, they have refused all contact with the outside world. Using only stones and arrows, they have successfully repelled all invaders and remain one of the last uncontacted tribes in the world.

Historical Facts…

In 2011, a couple bought a box of textbooks for $10. Inside, they found a 25-cent bill signed by the president of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston, and subsequently sold it for $63,250.

Retro Native Humor…

A Cheyenne man goes into a grocery store, and asks for a package of toilet paper. The clerk offers him 3 kinds, Charmin, Best Brand, and Generic. The Cheyenne man takes the generic. He comes back in a week later, throws the remainder of the toilet paper at the store clerk and says, "I don't want no cheap John Wayne toilet paper!" The clerk laughs and says, "It's not John Wayne toilet paper, it's GENERIC toilet paper." The Cheyenne guy tells him, 'You can call it whatever you want, but it's rough, tough, and won't take crap off nobody!"

Common Phrase Origins…

Eat Humble Pie

Meaning: Making an apology and suffering humiliation along with it
History: During the Middle Ages, the lord of a manor would hold a feast after hunting. He would receive the finest cut of meat at the feast, but those of a lower standing were served a pie filled with the entrails and innards, known as “umbles.” Therefore, receiving “umble pie” was considered humiliating because it informed others in attendance of the guest’s lower status.

Joke-of-the-day

A man makes a phone call to an export office in a port of France, and asks whether they can ship a 20’ container with live geese properly stored in their appropriate places.

Oui monsieur; what is the destination port for this load?
I’m sending them to the zoo in Brazil.
Wouldn’t you be better off calling the export office in Portugal?
Why is that sir? If you’re sending them to Brazil to avoid bureaucracy, then you should contact the Portuguese; of course!

Rules of Thumb:   

BODY HEAT OUTPUT

On average, an individual will radiate as much heat as a 100 watt incandescent light bulb.

Yeah, It Really Happened

Prominent theoretical chemist David Glowacki was ejected from a classical music concert at England's Bristol Old Vic in June for disrupting a performance of Handel's "Messiah" by attempting to crowd-surf in front of the stage. Dr. Glowacki, an expert in non-equilibrium molecular reaction dynamics and who is presently a visiting scientist at Stanford University, was attending a special "informal" performance at which audience members were encouraged to stand and cheer loudly instead of showing the usual demure appreciation. He said afterward that he could not control himself when the performance moved to the "Hallelujah Chorus." [Irish Independent, 6-20-2014]

Somewhat Useless Information   

There is a picture with Dominic Calgi of New York posing in front of his car, which hides an amazing coincidence.

The licence plate of his car was 5V 17 32 spelled out  the exact date of his death in May 17, 1932!
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Jack the Ripper is a name given to the world’s most famous serial killer. He murdered several women in London in the 1880s and 1890s, especially prostitutes who worked in the slums of London and whose throats were cut prior to abdominal mutilations.

The only victim that Jack the Ripper murdered indoors, was Mary Jane Kelly by disemboweling her in her own room.
Due to the fact that the killer removed internal organs led to suspicions that he was aware of anatomical or surgical knowledge.

Check Your Calendar

Observances This Week:

13-19

Sports Cliché Week

15-21
Rabbit Week; National Baby Food Week; National Ventriloquism Week  

18-25
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

Today Is  

Flitch Day--Celebrates Fidelity and Harmony in Marriage  
Celebration of The Horse Day: 19-20 
National Hot Dog Day  
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National Liberation Day (Nicaragua-1979)

                                                      
Today’s Events through History  

1595 - Astronomer Johannes Kepler has an epiphany \ develops his theory of the geometrical basis of the universe

1899 - National Brotherhood of Electrical Workers forms
1975 - Apollo & Soyuz linked in orbit for 2 days, separate

Birthday’s Today                                                        

Commander Cody, singer/pianist is 74

Vikki Carr [Florencia Vicenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona)], singer is 73
Anthony Edwards, actor (Dr Greene-ER) is 52

Remembered for being born today

1814-1862 - Samuel Colt, US inventor/industrialist (Colt 6 shot revolver)  

1834-1917 - Edgar Degas, France, impressionist painter, sculptor and artist
1846-1919 - Charles Edward Pickering, pioneered American spectroscopist
1860-1927 - Lizzie Borden, acquitted, (gave her mother forty whacks)
1865-1939 - Charles Horace Mayo, surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic)
1922-2012 - George McGovern, (Sen-D-SD)/pres candidate (D-1972), (d. 2012)
1924-2009 - Pat Hingle [Martin Patterson], actor (Batman Returns)

Historical Obits Today                                                           

Jack Warden, American actor, 2006, @85

Lefty Frizzell, country music singer\songwriter, stroke, 1975, @47
Aung San, Burmese nationalist, assassinated, 1947, @32
Mary Jo Kopechne, drowns in Ted Kennedy’s car, 1969, @28

Brain Teasers                         

The words are:

GNAT
FLEA
WASP
LOUSE
HORNET
CICADA
LOCUST
EARWIG
BEDBUG
TERMITE

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  §