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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 212
/ Week: 31
July
Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 40%
H 82°… L 57°… Ave. humidity: 63%
Wind: ave: 12mph;
Gusts: 23mph
Average High: 82° Record High: 91° (1977)
Average Low: 51°
Record Low: 43° (1997)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
781 - The oldest
recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji
1792 - Cornerstone laid for 1st US government
building: US Mint in Philadelphia
1865 – 1st
narrow gauge mainline railway in the world opens in Australia.
1912 - US government prohibits movies & photos
of prize fights (censorship)
1953 - Dept of Health, Education & Welfare
created
1960 - Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of Islam,
calls for a black state
1961 - Israel welcomes its 1,000,000th immigrant
1972 - Thomas Eagleton withdraws as Democratic VP
candidate
1991 - Senate votes to allow women to fly combat
aircraft
2006 - Fidel Castro hands over power temporarily to
brother Raúl Castro.
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
So happy that I live at 7000+’ in the cool mountains of Flagstaff.
While it is warm here today, it ain’t nuttin like Phx at 112°. We just enjoy
our summer days and cool summer evenings up here.
I got a bill today for the local newspaper. My subscription
expires tomorrow. Not a lot of time to pay. So I call toll free number, which
it turns out is in Billings, MT. I was hoping for a good deal…NOT. The one year
subscription is $219.02 and they offer no deals for long time subscribers, new
subscribers, or old people. The paper is now 70cents a day…not bad I guess. I
tell the lady I want to renew my subscription. She says ‘good, what is your
address?’ I give it to her, and she verifies my name and then says, ‘how can I
help you today?’ I tell her I want to renew my subscription. She says she will
mail me a bill. I tell her I’m holding the bill in my hand, that arrived today
and my subscription expires tomorrow. She says ‘I can help you with that’.
Silence for two full minutes, finally I say ‘hello?’ and she says her computer
is really slow. I give her my card number and she says it’s done. I usually
give a tip to the delivery guy but she never asked if I wanted to do that, and
I forgot, since it took so long. Not a good business practice. So the next time
the delivery guy gives me one of his many ‘notes’ asking me to save my plastic
bags the paper comes in, I’ll send him a tip.
The local paper announced that Walgreens was closing its Flagstaff
distribution center and laying off 375 employees, many who have been here for
the 15+ years the company has been here. This is quite a hit for our small
town. An editorial a couple of days ago, said that by population comparison,
the 375 workers losing their jobs would be like 10,000 people losing jobs in
Phoenix. It will take time for the employees to relocate or find other jobs and
hopefully our town won’t suffer too much. They have a huge distribution
warehouse just a few blocks from my place, right near I-40 and the RR tracks.
Nobody seems to know what that building will be used for in the future. Time
will tell.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
Insert
one word in each pair to link the two words together. The end of the first word
is the beginning of the second.
1. Rain___Tie
2. Tooth__Tale
3. Sea____Hole
4. Circuit__Yard
5. Third___Board
6. Stone__Flower
7. High___Star
1. Rain___Tie
2. Tooth__Tale
3. Sea____Hole
4. Circuit__Yard
5. Third___Board
6. Stone__Flower
7. High___Star
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Estimated
additional hours Americans would spend stoned annually if marijuana were legal
in most states: 30,000,000,000
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Cotton candy only costs about six cents per serving to make,
including the cardboard cone.
Earth
Facts…
Earth is the fifth largest planet in the Solar System.
Common
Sayings from the Bible…
Twinkling of an eye
We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. 1 Corinthians 15
We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed- in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. 1 Corinthians 15
World
Heritage Sites…
Great
Barrier Reef-Austraila
The Great Barrier Reef is a site of remarkable variety and beauty
on the north-east coast of Australia. It contains the world’s largest
collection of coral reefs, with 400 types of coral, 1,500 species of fish and
4,000 types of mollusk. It also holds great scientific interest as the habitat
of species such as the dugong (‘sea cow’) and the large green turtle, which are
threatened with extinction. Click Here for more
People
Facts…
Only 2% of the worlds population is blonde.
Historical
Facts…
Leonardo da Vinci could write with one hand and draw with the
other at the same time.
Common
Phrase Origins…
Run Amok
Meaning: Go
crazy
History: Comes
from the Malaysian word amoq, which describes the behavior of tribesmen who,
under the influence of opium, became wild, rampaging mobs that attacked anybody
in their path.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
From 1889: The
ranches in the area adjoining Flagstaff are all beautiful and green, especially
the grain and the potatoes. The prospect of large crops for this year is
excellent.
**
Upon completion, our new Atlantic & Pacific depot will be the
only fireproof building on the whole line, which shows that Flagstaff does as
much or more business than any other town on the line. The one-story building
will be 110 feet long.
**
Sheriff O’Neil accompanied by Deputy George Brown took six
prisoners to the territorial prison in Yuma this week.
Joke-of-the-day
An idiot decided
to start a chicken farm, so he bought a hundred chickens to start. A month
later, he returned to the dealer for another hundred chickens because all of
the first lot had died. A month later he was back at the dealers for another
hundred chickens for the second lot had also died. "But I think I know
where I'm going wrong," said the idiot. "I think I am planting them
too deep."
Rules of
Thumb:
THROWING A KNIFE
If your knife
balances more than one inch from the tang on the handle side, it is handle
heavy and should be thrown from the blade. Likewise, if it balances more than
one inch from the tang on the blade side, it is blade heavy and should be
thrown from the handle.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
DENVER (UPI) - A Colorado man made it very easy for law
enforcement officials to earn their paychecks after allegedly robbing a bank
while wearing a shirt with his name on it. According to police, John David
Martinez went to a Wells Fargo branch in Denver wearing a personalized polo
shirt bearing his name. The suspect approached a teller and said, "This is
a robbery, give me the money." To make it even easier for police, the
suspect also allegedly drove his own Honda to the bank so investigators were
able to use the license plate to track down Martinez. Officers showed his DMV
photo to a bank employee. "That's him. He's the one who robbed the bank
this morning," the employee said, the Denver Channel reported. After an
investigation that took all of five hours, Martinez was arrested. While he was
in custody, Martinez reportedly said he had "told his wife that he had
borrowed the money and did not tell her that he had robbed the bank." The
68-year-old was booked into jail in Denver on investigation of felony robbery
involving $20,000 or more.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Two
years before he made his first flight, Wilbur Wright told friends, "man
won't fly for 50 years." The Wright brothers made four flights on December
17, 1903. The first was the shortest.
Charles Lindbergh carried a Felix the Cat doll with him on his famous flight. His first words after his historic flight: "Are there any mechanics here?"
Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
The first animal to be ejected from a supersonic jet: a bear, in 1962. It parachuted safely back to earth.
Air Canada was the first North American airline to ban smoking.
The first pilot ever to fly a loop-the-loop: Lincoln Beachy, November 18, 1913, in San Diego.
Charles Lindbergh carried a Felix the Cat doll with him on his famous flight. His first words after his historic flight: "Are there any mechanics here?"
Henry Ford was Charles Lindbergh's first passenger in the Spirit of St. Louis.
The first animal to be ejected from a supersonic jet: a bear, in 1962. It parachuted safely back to earth.
Air Canada was the first North American airline to ban smoking.
The first pilot ever to fly a loop-the-loop: Lincoln Beachy, November 18, 1913, in San Diego.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
30-8/3
Today
Is
Bratwurst Day
National Chili Dog Day
National Mutt Day
National Chili Dog Day
National Mutt Day
Today’s
Events through History
1703 - Daniel Defoe is placed in a pillory for
the crime of seditious libel after publishing a politically satirical pamphlet,
but is pelted with flowers.
1928 - 1st woman to win a track and field Olympic
gold medal, Halina Konopacka of Poland
1970 - Chet Huntley retires from NBC, ends
"Huntley-Brinkley Report"
1988 - Last Playboy club closes (Lansing Michigan)
Birthday’s
Today
William Bennett, US Secretary of
Education /drug tsar is 71
Gary Lewis, Jerry's son,
singer, (& The Playboys-This Diamond Ring) is 68
Barry Van Dyke, actor (Battlestar
Galactica, Diag Murder) is 63
Michael Biehn, actor (Rampage, Hog
Wild, Aliens, Abyss) is 57
Wesley Snipes, actor (Money Train,
Blade trilogy) is 52
J. K. Rowling, Gloucestershire
England, writer (Harry Potter) is 49
Dean Cain, actor (Clark-Lois
& Clark) is 48
Remembered
for being born today
Gabriel Cramer, Swiss mathematician
(paradox of Cramer) (1704-1752)
Sebastian S. Kresge, American merchant
and philanthropist (1867-1966)
Milton Friedman, Brooklyn, economist
(Nobel 1976), (1912-2006)
Curt Gowdy, Green River Wyo,
sportscaster (ABC) (1919-2006)
Ted Cassidy, actor (Lurch-Addams
Family) (1932-1979)
Historical
Obits Today
Michael
Ansara, American actor, 2013, @91
Gore
Vidal, American author, 2012, @86
Franz
Liszt [Ferencz], Hungarian pianist/composer, 1886, @74
Andrew
Johnson, 17th president, stroke, 1875, @66
Jim
Reeves, US country singer, air crash, 1964, @39
Brain
Teasers
1. Bow
2. Fairy
3. Port
4. Court
5. Base
6. Wall
7. Five
2. Fairy
3. Port
4. Court
5. Base
6. Wall
7. Five
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
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