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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 238
/ Week: 35
August
Averages: 78° \ 50°Today: Flash Flood Warning
Average Sky Cover: 85%
H 68°… L 54°… Ave. humidity: 57%
Wind: ave: 7mph; Gusts: 24mph
Average High: 78° Record High: 88° (1974)
Average Low: 47° Record Low: 37° (1989)
Quote of the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1346 - Battle at Crécy-England's longbows defeat
France, cannons used for 1st time
1498 - Michelangelo is commissioned to carve
the Pietà. 1778 - The first recorded ascent of Triglav, the highest mountain in Slovenia
1873 – 1st free kindergarten in U.S. started in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri
1929 – 1st US roller coaster built
1972 - 20th Olympic Games open at Munich German FR
1973 - University of Texas (Arlington) is 1st accredited school to offer belly dancing
1996 - Bill Clinton signs welfare reform, representing major shift in welfare policy
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Not the greatest weather day…cooler than I like, cloudier than I
like, and so far no rain. To make it exciting, we are also under a flash flood
warning. Turns out it has been a wet monsoon season…normal is 5.1”; this year
is 9.4”…but we are still about ½” below average moisture for the year—Sep 1-Aug
31.
I think I am now set for my Ireland trip. Made the shuttle
reservation and the Denver hotel reservation so it’s getting close.
Dublin/Belfast/Derry/Donegal/Connemara/Killarney/Ring of Kerry/Kinsale/Killkenny/Dublin.
I leave Flag on the 8th and return to Flag on the 26th.
Should be a great trip. Getting excited. Just need to figure out a way to get
to and from the Shuttle.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
The
following pairs of words can be unscrambled to make two words that go together,
like "this & that." All pairs follow the same theme. Can you
determine what they say?
DARK BOG = ______ + ______
COW MEAT = ______ + ______
ASHES SINK = ______ + ______
BRANDY YOKE = ______ + ______
DARK BOG = ______ + ______
COW MEAT = ______ + ______
ASHES SINK = ______ + ______
BRANDY YOKE = ______ + ______
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
Charles Boyer sings
"C'est La Vie" in Algiers Charles Boyer Sings
Famous Roger Nash
Baldwin Quotes Roger Nash Baldwin Quotes
Geraldine Ferraro vs
Bush Geraldine Ferraro vs Bush
Ted Knight's genius http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOViEBlk-C0
The Testament of
Mother Teresa http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2A96cT-1pHM
Will Shortz Talks
about Choosing Puzzle Difficulty http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5CKRr4LMN8
OK Then…
Paraphernalia
4 the Brain :
Africa
Facts…
Niger (Africa) has the world's highest fertility rate - 7.1
children per mother.
Brain
Facts…
When you get blackout drunk, you don't actually forget anything;
your brain wasn't "recording" in the first place.
Computer
Facts…
The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making
their own country with no copyright laws.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS
AGO
Last Saturday a small plane crashed and burned in Meteor Crater in
full view of a large number of visitors touring the site. The two men aboard
were able to crawl out before the wreckage burst into flames. They were
seriously injured and the Flagstaff ambulance crew was unable to reach them.
Eventually they were brought up on stretchers in careful stages by crews from
the State Highway Department.
Harper’s
Index
Chance an average American child eats pizza on a given day: 1 in 5
Language
Facts…
Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
Rules of
Thumb…
USING A TELEPHONE
If a phone rings
more than six times, it probably won't be answered.
Superstitions…
Opening an umbrella indoors is said to result in 21 days of bad
luck. Some traditions hold that it is only bad luck if the umbrella is placed
over the head of someone while indoors.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
When
Disneyland opened on July 17, 1955, the 110°F temperatures melted the asphalt
on Main Street and caused many high-heeled shoes to become stuck in the
pavement.
Joke-of-the-day
An old man is
afraid that his wife is losing her hearing. So, he walks up right to her ear
and asks, "Can you hear me?" She didn't answer. He walked up closer
and asked again. But there was no answer. Finally he asked her one more time
really loud and his wife said, "for the third time yes!!!"
Yeah, It
Really Happened
LOS ANGELES (UPI) - A pageant mom in Florida is the subject of an
upcoming episode of Untold Stories of the E.R. after forcing her daughter to
ingest tapeworms in order to slim down for competition. Upon checking into the
emergency room with severe stomach pains, nurse Maricar Cabral-Osorio thought
the teen was pregnant. But an ultrasound showed no fetus -- although there was
an inexplicable growth in her intestines. Recounted and reenacted for Discovery
Fit & Health's anything-but-subtle medical scare docudrama, the unfortunate
teenage contestant's condition became clear upon a fateful trip to the
bathroom. "It was a toilet bowl full of tapeworms," Cabral-Osorio
recalled. "It was so gross and she had pooped all these tapeworms. There
were a couple that were very long and wiggling around trying to get out of the
toilet bowl." Having passed the parasites, the teen was then assumed to be
fine. But one question remained -- how did she get the tapeworms in the first
place? After an apparent fight between the mother and daughter, it became clear
the mother bought a pill of tapeworm eggs in Mexico and forced her daughter to
take it to lose weight for an upcoming pageant. "We were wondering how did
she get those tapeworms, and then you saw the mom turn white,"
Cabral-Osorio said. "The mom was apologizing to the girl. It's like 'I'm
so sorry. You know, I did it just to make you a little skinnier. You needed
some help before we went on to the pageant." It is unclear when the incident
occurred or if criminal charges were brought against the mother.
Somewhat Useless Information
Somewhat Useless Information
A
Hungarian by the name of Erno Rubik invented the Cube in the spring of 1974. He
created it as a working model to help explain three-dimensional geometry, and
this led to the creation of the world's bestselling toy.
At the peak of the Rubik's Cube craze, an estimated one-fifth of the world's population had played the Cube.
Rubikcubism is an avant-garde artistic movement in which Rubik's cubes are used as a medium to create art.
In May 2007, Thibaut Jacquinot of France became the first person to complete the Cube in less than 10 seconds in open competition. Erik Akkersdijik set the current world record for a single solve at the 2008 Czech Open with a time of 7.08 seconds.
In 1981, a seven-year-old Norwegian boy named Lars-Erik Anderson was one of the youngest Cube solvers.
Initially, Rubik considered variations of a 2 x 2 x 2 in cube, but concluded that the simplest and most workable model was the 3 x 3 x 3 in cube.
At the peak of the Rubik's Cube craze, an estimated one-fifth of the world's population had played the Cube.
Rubikcubism is an avant-garde artistic movement in which Rubik's cubes are used as a medium to create art.
In May 2007, Thibaut Jacquinot of France became the first person to complete the Cube in less than 10 seconds in open competition. Erik Akkersdijik set the current world record for a single solve at the 2008 Czech Open with a time of 7.08 seconds.
In 1981, a seven-year-old Norwegian boy named Lars-Erik Anderson was one of the youngest Cube solvers.
Initially, Rubik considered variations of a 2 x 2 x 2 in cube, but concluded that the simplest and most workable model was the 3 x 3 x 3 in cube.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
24-30
Today
Is
National
Dog Day
Women's
Equality Day
++
Heroes'
Day (Namibia-1966-War for Independence)
Today’s
Events through History
1748 - The first Lutheran denomination in North
America, founded in Pennsylvania
1858 - First news dispatch by telegraph.
1907 - Houdini escapes from chains underwater
at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1964 - LBJ nominated at Democratic convention
in Atlantic City, NJ
1985 - French government denies knowledge of attack
on Rainbow Warrior
Birthday’s
Today
Tom Ridge, 1st Secretary of
Homeland Security is 69
Will Shortz, American crossword
editor is 62
Chris Burke, actor with down
syndrome (Corky-Life Goes On) is 49
Macaulay Culkin, actor (Home Alone)
is 34
Chris Pine, actor (Star
Trek) is 34
Remembered
for being born today
Zona Gale, novelist (Pulitzer-Drama-1921)
(1874-1938)
Albert B Sabin, Russia, US
microbiologist (oral polio vaccine) (1906-1993)
Mother Teresa, [Agnes Gonxha
Bojaxhiu] (Nobel Peace Prize 1979) (1910-1997)
Geraldine Ferraro, 1st female Dem VP
candidate (1935-2011)
Michael Jeter, actor (Evening
Shade) (1952-2003)
Historical
Obits Today
Roger
Nash Baldwin, founder (ACLU), 1981, @97
Evelyn
Wood, speed reading guru, 1995, @86
Robert
Denning, American interior designer, 2005, @79
Charles
Boyer, actor (Gaslight, Rogues), suicide, 1978, @78
Charles
Lindbergh, US aviator, lymphoma, 1974, @72
William
James, psychologist\philosopher (Pragmatism), heart failure, 1910, @68
Ted
Knight, [Tadeus Konopka], actor (Mary Tyler Moore), cancer, 1986. @62
Lon
Chaney, actor (Thunder), cancer, 1930, @47
Brain Teasers
Dog Bark
Cat Meow
Snake Hiss
Donkey Bray
Cat Meow
Snake Hiss
Donkey Bray
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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