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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 232 / Week: 34
August Averages: 78° \ 50°
Today:
Average Sky Cover: 80%
H 63°… L 50°… Ave. humidity: 75%
Wind: ave: 5mph; Gusts: 13mph
Average High: 79° Record High: 88° (1949)
Average Low: 49° Record Low: 35° (1979)
Quote of the Day
Historical Highlights for Today
1000 - Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary.
1191 - Crusader King Richard I kills 3,000 Muslim prisoners in Akko
1741 - Alaska discovered by Danish explorer Vitus Bering
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle, Scotland
1865 - President Andrew Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Tx
1866 - President Andrew Johnson formally declares Civil War over
1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow
1893 - Shechita (ritual slaughtering) prohibited in Switzerland
1908 - Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
1913 - 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud-France)
1922 - 1st world championship athletics for women, held in Paris
1960 - USSR recovers 2 dogs, 1st living organisms to return from space
1993 - Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today below
My Rambling Thoughts
First day in a long time for long pants and shoes. Woke up to a dreary raining day. Not a whole lot to do on a day like this. Couldn’t even watch daytime TV from Phoenix, as they were wall to wall covering the big rain and flooding in N. Phoenix. I-17, the main run north of Phoenix flooded and was closed over a big part of the outlying area. The mountain N of Phoenix got 3” of rain in an hour, and it all headed to the valley. Lots of water for sure, and a little damage to roads and fields, and a few homes. The news says it hasn’t rained like that since the 1980’s and back then, most of the flooding would have been in open fields.
Game Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Hidden below you will find five uncommon titles to five classic novels. Can you decipher them?
1. Vanished with the Tempest
2. Enmity of the Globes
3. Dinky Maidens
4. A Chronicle of a Couple of Municipalities
5. Contention and Conciliation
1. Vanished with the Tempest
2. Enmity of the Globes
3. Dinky Maidens
4. A Chronicle of a Couple of Municipalities
5. Contention and Conciliation
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain :
Africa Facts…
An African Baobab tree in South Africa, known as Big Baobab, has a circumference of 154 feet and even has a bar inside the trunk that can fit 60 people.
Brain Facts…
The ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
Computer Facts…
MDIF, a New York based non-profit organization, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
Flagstaff, AZ History…
From 1889: Father Farrari will arrive in town this week and will hold services at the Catholic School on Sunday. High Mass 10:30 a.m. Vespers 7:30 p.m.
Sunday night, our peace officers made a successful raid on a hop joint in the wash house known as Hop Sing.
Harper’s Index
Percentage change in the number of active anti-federal government groups during President Obama’s first term in office: +800
Since his re-election: -20
Language Facts…
The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
Rules of Thumb…
COUNTING ROACHES
Set a roach trap and check it after 24 hours. For every roach you've caught in your trap, you've got 800 more in your kitchen. If you find more than 1 or 2 in your trap, you have a serious roach problem.
Superstitions…
Before traveling a person should, apparently, sit on their luggage. (Russian)
Unusual Fact of the Day…
Due to the “naughty” dancing of the can-can girls and the scantily clad models on 1800s French postcards, the British equated anything risqué with France. In fact, that's how the phrase “pardon my French” entered the vernacular.
Joke-of-the-day
Poor old Bob sent his photograph off to a Lonely Hearts Club. They sent it back saying they weren’t that lonely
Yeah, It Really Happened
A Swansboro, N.C. man has been arrested and accused of stealing a safe from a drug store.
But this guy is no Danny Ocean. Police said 22-year-old Ryan James Mullins was dragging the safe when he was caught after an early-morning break-in at the store.
At 7:30 a.m. a Swansboro police officer pulled out in front of Mullins and saw in his rear view mirror that there was something swinging behind Mullins' vehicle. The police officer pulled over to let Mullins pass, because why wouldn't you pass a police car when you are dragging a safe behind your vehicle, then saw the safe being dragged. The officer immediately pulled Mullins over.
Mullins is charged with safecracking, breaking and entering, larceny after breaking and entering, possession of stolen goods, trafficking of opium or heroin and several traffic violations.
Public Safety Chief Bob Ritchie said the safe was about 8 feet tall and about 2 feet deep and was used to hold medications. Ritchie said investigators think Mullins was trying to get controlled substances in the safe.
But this guy is no Danny Ocean. Police said 22-year-old Ryan James Mullins was dragging the safe when he was caught after an early-morning break-in at the store.
At 7:30 a.m. a Swansboro police officer pulled out in front of Mullins and saw in his rear view mirror that there was something swinging behind Mullins' vehicle. The police officer pulled over to let Mullins pass, because why wouldn't you pass a police car when you are dragging a safe behind your vehicle, then saw the safe being dragged. The officer immediately pulled Mullins over.
Mullins is charged with safecracking, breaking and entering, larceny after breaking and entering, possession of stolen goods, trafficking of opium or heroin and several traffic violations.
Public Safety Chief Bob Ritchie said the safe was about 8 feet tall and about 2 feet deep and was used to hold medications. Ritchie said investigators think Mullins was trying to get controlled substances in the safe.
Somewhat Useless Information
Most scientists believe that basic emotions are innate rather than learned. For example, people who are born blind and have never seen faces still display the typical facial expressions of the basic emotions.
Studies show that if people adjust their facial expression to reflect an emotion, they actually begin to feel that emotion.
Studies show that if people adjust their facial expression to reflect an emotion, they actually begin to feel that emotion.
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Any emotion has three components: 1) physiological changes (e.g., acceleration of heart rate) 2) behavioral response, such as a tendency to escape from or stay in contact with whatever is causing the emotion, and 3) a subjective experience, such as feeling angry, happy, or sad.
Any emotion has three components: 1) physiological changes (e.g., acceleration of heart rate) 2) behavioral response, such as a tendency to escape from or stay in contact with whatever is causing the emotion, and 3) a subjective experience, such as feeling angry, happy, or sad.
Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
14-24
Little League Baseball World Series
15-21
National Aviation Week
18-24
Today Is
National Medical Dosimetrist Day
National Radio Day
Today’s Events through History
1534 - Turkish admiral Chaireddin "Barbarossa" occupies Tunis
1896 - Dial telephone patented
1938 - Lou Gehrig hits record 23rd & last grand slam
1968 - 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia
1974 - Nelson Rockefeller selected US Vice President by President Ford
Birthday’s Today
Robert Plant, rock vocalist (Led Zeppelin) is 66
Al Roker, weatherman (NBC, Today) is 60
James Marsters, actor, musician is 52
Demi Lovato, actress, singer is 22
Remembered for being born today
Bernardo O'Higgins, South American independence leader (1778-1842)
Benjamin Harrison, 23rd Pres (1833-1901)
H. P. Lovecraft, American horror writer (1890-1937)
Salvatore Quasimodo, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959), (1901-1968)
Jacqueline Susann, author (Valley of the Dolls), (1918-1974)
Jim Reeves, country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim) (1923-1964)
Isaac Hayes, composer (Shaft) (1942-2008)
Historical Obits Today
Phyllis Diller, comedienne and actress, 2012, @95
Leona Helmsley, hotel operator and real estate investor, 2007, @87
Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank, dies at 91
Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher, killed in Native uprising, 1643, @52
Brain Teasers
1. Gone with the Wind
2. War of the Worlds
3. Little Women
4. Tale of Two Cities
5. War and Peace
2. War of the Worlds
3. Little Women
4. Tale of Two Cities
5. War and Peace
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.
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