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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 245
/ Week: 36
September
Averages: 73° \ 42°
Today:
Average Sky Cover: 0%
H 80°… L 52°… Ave. humidity: 49%
Wind: ave:
11mph;
Gusts: 20mph
Average High: 76° Record High: 91° (1948)
Average Low: 46°
Record Low: 34° (1973)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1650 - Battle of Dunbar: England vs Scotland
1752 - Britain and the British Empire (including
American colonies) adopt the Gregorian calendar, losing 11 days
1783 - Treaty of Paris signed (ending US
Revolutionary War)
1833 - NY Sun begins publishing (1st daily
newspaper)
1838 - Frederick Douglass escapes from slavery
disguised as a sailor
1881 - 1st US Men's Tennis: Richard D Sears beats
William E Glyn (6-0 6-3 6-2)
1900 - Britain annexes the Boer Republic of South
Africa
1917 - 1st night bombing of London by German planes
1935 - 1st automobile to exceed 300 mph, Sir
Malcolm Campbell (301.337 mph)
1940 - First showing of high definition color TV
1964 - Wilderness Act signed into law by
President Lyndon B. Johnson
1965 - Preparing a move to Anaheim, Angels change
their name from LA to CA
1995 - eBay founded.
2013
- Microsoft purchases Nokia for $7.2 Billion
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
A beautiful day for a walk around the
neighborhood. Then over to the mall for my trip’s pedicure. Oddly, I had a
local hospital nurse sitting next to me. She said that she wished more elder
men would get pedicures as they are good for the overall health. Interesting. I
told her I had my first one at about 62 and realized it was so much easier than
trying to trim my toenails myself. They have 6 chairs and after I
arrived, they were all filled. And there was one younger man, with his wife,
doing the same thing I was.
ISIS/ISIL are certainly barbarians. Two
beheadings, videotaped and put on the internet machine. The Muslim world needs
to step up and stop this. The world needs to step up and stop this. I have to
wonder what the next generations are going to say about both ISIS and the world’s
reaction.
NPR had a great program on the state of
Education. Dana Goldstein wrote The
Teacher Wars-A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession. She did a
great interview explaining the various reform movements in American Education.
Sure glad I happened to be listening.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
What
phrase is this?
Left Side...1st Floor...Right Side
Left Side...2nd Floor...Right Side
Left Side...3rd Floor...Right Side
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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OK Then…
Paraphernalia
4 the Brain :
Brain
Facts…
The human brain is more active during sleep than during the day.
Computer
Facts…
28% of IT Professionals hide their career from family or friends
out of fear of being asked to provide free tech support.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
A broken gasoline torch at Babbitt’s Garage burned Joe Walthaus,
Tom Rickle and Roy Cummings last Saturday. Now a week later, their burns remain
painful but they were not dangerously hurt.
Fun
Facts…
There's a wife-carrying championship that takes place in Finland
every year where the winner receives his wife's weight in beer.
Harper’s
Index
Portion of Americans who live in areas with harmful levels of air
pollution: 1/3
Number of the top five most polluted cities in the country that
are in CA: 5
Language
Facts…
The onion is named after the Latin word 'unio' meaning large
pearl.
Rules of
Thumb…
TEACHING A FOREIGN
LANGUAGE
You need a minimum
of 8 to 10 students in a class to make it economically viable to hire a
teacher. However, a teacher can teach a foreign language to a maximum of 4 to 6
students at one time. Therefore, a foreign language class cannot be both
economically viable and effective.
Superstitions…
In some parts of England, rum is used to wash a baby's head for
good luck.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
In
the Disney version of The Little Mermaid, Ariel and her sassy crab
friend, Sebastian, overcome the wicked sea witch, and Ariel then swims off to
marry the man of her dreams. However, in the original tale, the mermaid’s fins-for-feet
exchange comes at a price—namely, that every step on her new legs causes her
excruciating pain. And that’s not even the worst part—in the end, the prince
marries someone else!
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Joke-of-the-day
Guy: Is you dad still in jail?
Girl: For what?
Guy: For stealing all the stars in the sky and putting them in your eyes!
Yeah, It
Really Happened
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (UPI) - Four seconds into the test launch of an
experimental hypersonic weapon, on Monday, U.S. military officials were forced
to abandon the mission and cue the weapon to self-destruct.
The so-called Advanced Hypersonic Weapon is part of the Defense Department's
Conventional Prompt Global Strike technology development program. The program's
objective is to construct a missile that can wipe out a target anywhere on
Earth in less than 60 minutes after receiving bulls eye data and permission to
launch.
The weapon was launched from the U.S. Army's Kodiak Launch Complex in Alaska,
but the test flight was short-lived. An "anomaly" forced officials to
quickly abandon the test "to ensure public safety," according to a
press release from the Pentagon. There were no injuries.
China tested a hypersonic missile system last year, but most defense experts in
the U.S. believe the Pentagon had the growing threat of Iran and North Korea in
mind when they green-lighted the program.
Craig Campbell, president of Alaska Aerospace Corp., said the rocket's aborted
flight ended in a "gigantic explosion" that lit up the sky.
"I watched it, I saw it, I knew it was happening, and I was feeling sorry
for the launch team because their rocket wasn't going to be able to accomplish
what they were trying to get done, and knew we were going to have a day like
today," he told the Alaska Dispatch News. "We're going to have to
assess damages and figure out what the future is."
The Pentagon said its weapons scientists were working to ascertain the exact
cause of the anomaly.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Have
you ever thought that people in modern societies spend more hours working
rather than sleeping, although sleeping is vital for our good health?
In
which profession do people sleep the most and in which the less?
According
to a UK Sleep Council survey, lawyers sleep for 7,8 hours in average and
architects sleep for 7,5 hours.
Social
workers sleep for 6,9 hours, teachers for 6, politicians for 5,2 and hospital
doctors for 4,5 hours, which is the least.
*****
Sleepwalkers
can perform simple as well as complex activities, however, there are several
things that you many have not heard about them!
A
sleepwalker can drive a car while he is asleep.
It
is not easy to know if someone is sleepwalking or not as sleepwalkers usually
have their eyes open so they look awake.
18%
of the population have a tendency to sleepwalk.
Sleepwalking
is most common among boys.
Stress
can cause people to sleepwalk.
You
can wake up a sleepwalker without any problem, although they may be confused
and not know where they are.
They
can trip over chairs, fall down stairs, even fall out of a window.
People
usually sleepwalk for a short time.
Sleepwalkers
don’t remember anything afterwards.
A
man in Canada was found not guilty of killing his mother-in-law because he was
asleep at the time.
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Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
1-7
International Enthusiasm Week
National Nutrition Week
National Payroll Week
National Waffle Week
Self-University Week
2-6
Play Days
Today
Is
National Wildlife Day
Newspaper Carrier Day
Skyscraper
Day
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National
Day (San Marino-301-from Roman Empire)
Today’s
Events through History
1855 - Indian Wars: In Nebraska, 700 soldiers under
American General William S. Harney avenge the Grattan Massacre by attacking a
Sioux village, killing 100 men, women, and children.
1974 - NBA guard Oscar Robertson retires
1988 - Estimated by this date 50,000 Kurdish
civilians and soldiers killed by Iraq, many using chemical weapons, in
aftermath of Iran-Iraq War
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Birthday’s
Today
Irene
Papas, Corinth Greece, Greek actress (Zorba the Greek) is 88
Whitey
Bulger [James Joseph Bulger Jr.], gangster is 84
Al
Jardine, guitarist/singer (Beach Boys-In My Room) is 72
Valerie
Perrine, actress and model (Superman) is 71
Costas
Mandylor, Australian-born actor is 49
Charlie
Sheen, [Carlos Estavez], NYC, actor (2 and ½ Men) is 49
Shaun
White, snowboarder (Olympic gold - 2006, 2010) is 27
Remembered
for being born today
Maya King Ahkal Mo' Naab' II, rules over Palenque, Mexico (523-570)
Louis
Sullivan, architect (father of skyscrapers) (1856-1924)
Ferdinand
Porsche, German car inventor (Porsche, Volkswagen) (1875-1951)
Kitty
Carlisle, actress and television personality (1910-2007)
Alan Ladd, actor
(Shane, Carpetbaggers) (1913-1964)
Bill Fleming,
sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports) (1926-2007)
Eileen
Brennan, actress (Pvt Benjamin), (1932-2013)
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Historical
Obits Today
Frank
Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), 1991, @94
Sun Myung
Moon, Korean evangelist, 2012, @92
James
Harrison, Scottish-born inventor (refrigeration), 1893, @77
Duncan
Renaldo, actor (Cisco Kid, Guns of Fury), cancer, 1980 @76
Barbara
O'Neil, actress (Tower of London), heart attack, 1980, @70
e[dward] e cummings, US poet (Tulips &
Chimneys), stroke, 1962, @67
Oliver
Cromwell, British general\Lord Protector, septicaemia, 1658, @59
Vince
Lombardi, football coach (Packers), cancer, 1970, @57
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Brain Teasers
There are always two sides to every story (storey).
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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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