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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 241
/ Week: 35
August
Averages: 78° \ 50°
Today:
Average Sky Cover: 5%
H 77°… L 54°… Ave. humidity: 60%
Wind: ave:
1mph;
Gusts: 16mph
Average High: 77° Record High: 90° (1948)
Average Low: 47°
Record Low: 36° (1975)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1146 - European leaders outlaw crossbow, intending
to end war for all time
1645 - Dutch & Indians sign peace treaty (New
Amsterdam (NY))
1776 - US army evacuates Long Island and falls back
to Manhattan, NYC
1835 - Melbourne, Australia is founded
1836 - The city of Houston is founded
1850 - Honolulu, Hawaii, becomes a city
1928 - Jawaharlal Nehru requests independence of
India
1967 - US Senate confirm Thurgood
Marshall as 1st black justice
1968 - 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey
Jude)
1979 - US President Jimmy Carter attacked by a
rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Ga
1993 - 150,000,000 millionth visitor to Eiffel Tower
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Yet another great weather day in our little mountain town, with
the forecast of a beautiful 3-day weekend. Sometimes I can’t believe I am lucky
enough to live here.
Went to get a blood draw to check on something. Medicare says I
have had too many of one of the tests for them to cover it, so hopefully BCBS
will pick it up. Since some of my numbers have been jumping around, my Dr. is
being cautious since I’m leaving the country, but then Medicare doesn’t care
about that.
Then I went to the mall to get a haircut. Seems it was the wrong
time, as it was a 90 minute wait, so I put it off. Stopped at Penny’s and found
a sale on shirts and pants…I’m ready for the trip now. Except for the haircut,
packing, etc.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Would
you rather a crocodile attack you or an alligator?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain :
Brain
Facts…
We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors
creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just
thinking about.
Computer
Facts…
CAPTCHA stands for "Completely Automated Public Turing test
to tell Computers and Humans Apart". That’s when the website puts up a
series of letters and numbers that are all bent out of shape and asks you to
type them into a box.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
From 1889: Our
enterprising blacksmith, Henry K. Worth, is going about with his left hand in a
sling. He was shoeing an Indian pony last Monday when it kicked him in the
wrist, breaking it.
Fun
Facts…
Sloths can swim three times faster than they can move on land.
They can also hold their breath for up to 40 minutes.
Harper’s
Index
Amount an Italian chocolatier spent to construct a 1.5-ton life
size chocolate sculpture of Pore Francis: $41,847
Language
Facts…
The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning
"side of a hill".
Rules of
Thumb…
DECIDING WHEN TO
BLUFF
One or two bluffs
per poker game are enough. Overindulgence can produce a bluffaholic.
Superstitions…
At times, a horseshoe may be found above doorways. When positioned
like a regular 'U' it supposedly collects luck. However, when it is positioned
like an upside-down 'U' the luck supposedly drains.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Green
potato chips are made from potatoes that inadvertently climb above ground while
growing. The "green" is a poison, but it's only dangerous to humans
if ingested in heavy amounts.
Joke-of-the-day
Over breakfast
one morning, a woman said to her husband, "I bet you don't know what day
this is."
"Of course I
do," he indignantly answered, going out the door on his way the office.
At 10 AM, the
doorbell rang, and when the woman opens the door, she was handed a box
containing a dozen long-stemmed red roses. At 1 PM, a foil-wrapped, two pound
box of her favorite chocolates arrive. Later, a boutique delivered a designer
dress. The woman shouldn’t wait for her husband to come home. "First the
flowers, then the candy, and then the dress!" she exclaimed. "I've
never spent a more wonderful Groundhog Day in my whole life!'
Yeah, It
Really Happened
Nothing to see here, citizen. The strange lights hanging in the
sky over Camp Pendleton in California are nothing more than a "training
exercise" according to officials.
Residents across Orange County and as far away as Riverside County have called
police to report alarming lights in the sky.
Police have been flooded with calls.
CalFire has even put out an alert for officers so they would know how to
respond to people’s concerns.
No information has been given on how the lights are being utilized by the base,
only that they are involved in a training exercise.
An advisory was issued by Camp Pendleton officials last week about the
live-fire training exercise and warned neighboring cities may hear an increase
of noise levels during the exercise.
Somewhat
Useless Information
The
Chinese invented a sauce called ‘ke-tsiap’, spelled K-E-hyphen-T-S-I-A-P in the
1690s. It was made from fish and spices, but absolutely no tomatoes.
By
the early eighteenth century, its popularity had spread to Malaysia, and this
is where British explorers first found it and liked it.
By
1740 the sauce was part of the English diet-people were eating a lot of it and it
was also becoming popular in the American colonies.
They
renamed the sauce “ketchup”, because it was a bit easier for the English to
pronounce. Then about fifty years later, in 1790, some American colonists in
New England mixed tomatoes into the sauce and it became known as ‘tomato
ketchup’.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
24-30
National Chuck Wagon Races
National Safe at Home Week
Be Kind To Humankind Week
Today
Is
Bacon Day
Franchise Appreciation Day
Frankenstein Day
International Bat Night: 29-31
International Day of The Victims of Enforced Disappearances
International Whale Shark Day
National Holistic Pet Day
National Buffalo Chicken Wings Day: 30-31
National Toasted Marshmallow Day
Toasted Marshmallow Day
Today’s
Events through History
1682 - William Penn left England to sail to
New World
1860 - 1st British tram opens (Birkenhead)
1979 - 1st recorded occurrence of a comet hitting
the sun (energy=1 million hydrogen bombs)
Birthday’s
Today
Bill
Daily, actor and comedian (I Dream of Jeannie) is 87
Ruth Wertheimer, sex
therapist (Dr Ruth) is 86
Warren
Buffett, business magnate (world's wealthiest person-2008) is 84
Robert
Crumb, US, cartoonist (Father Time, Fritz Cat) is 71
Peggy
Lipton [Margaret Ann], actress (The Mod Squad, Twin Peaks) is 68
Lewis
Black, American comedian is 66
Timothy
Bottoms, actor (Paper Chase, East of Eden) is 63
Cameron
Diaz, actress (Mask) is 42
Andy
Roddick, American tennis player (2003 US Open champion) is 32
Remembered
for being born today
Samuel
Whitbread, English brewer (1720-1796)
Mary
Shelley, London England, author (Frankenstein) (1797-1831)
Ernest Rutherford, father of nuclear physics (Nobel 1908) (1871-1937)
Huey P
Long, Gov/Sen-La) (1893-1935)
[Rose] Joan Blondell, actress
(Grease, The Blue Veil) (1906-1979)
Fred
MacMurray, actor (My Three Sons) (1908-1991)
Ted
Williams, baseball player, (1918-2002)
Kitty
Wells, country singer (Grand Ole Opry), (1919-2012)
Angelo
Dundee [Angelo Mirena], boxing trainer and corner man (1921-2012)
Tug
McGraw, American baseball player (1944-2004)
Historical
Obits Today
Glenn
Ford, Canadian-born American actor, 2006, @90
Charles
Coburn, actor (Heaven Can Wait), 1961, @84
Charles
Bronson, American actor, 200, @81
Seamus
Heaney, Irish poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature), 2013, @74
Max
Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer, 1938, @65
Brain Teasers
I would rather the crocodile attack the alligator.
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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