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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 247
/ Week: 36
September
Averages: 73° \ 42°
Today:
Average Sky Cover: 0%
H 79°… L 54°… Ave. humidity: 48%
Wind: ave:
6mph;
Gusts: 13mph
Average High: 77° Record High: 90° (1945)
Average Low: 45°
Record Low: 27° (1961)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
476 - Romulus
Augustulus, last Western Roman Emperor, is deposed by Odoacer, ending the Roman
Empire in Western Europe
1571 - Catholic
rebellion in Scotland
1682 - English
astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet
1781 - Los
Angeles founded by 44 in Bahia de las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes)
1807 - Robert
Fulton begins operating his steamboat
1813 - First US
religious newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))
1833 - 1st
newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)
1864 - Bread
riots in Mobile, Alabama
1866 - 1st
Hawaiian daily newspaper published
1885 - 1st
cafeteria opens (NYC)
1886 - Apache
Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war
1888 - George
Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"
1893 - English
author Beatrix Potter first tells the story of Peter Rabbit
1904 - Dali
Lama signs treaty allowing British commerce in Tibet
1933 - Coup of Cuban
president De Cespedes by Fulgencio Batista
1937 - Doris
Kopsky, becomes 1st NABA woman cycling champion (4:22.4)
1957 - Ford
Motor Co introduces Edsel
1972 - US swimmer
Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals
1983 - Greg LeMond becomes only American to win
cycling's Road Championship 1988
- Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season
NFL game
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Another nice day here in Flag.
Set up our weekly lunch, only to find that
Cheryl is stuck in Wms, awaiting the arrival of her roofers and siders. So Mary
is taking us to Wms for lunch. Long story for Cheryl, seems that the roofers
didn’t have the color she wanted, but didn’t tell her until Monday, the day
before they were to start. Then the siders got a flat tire and may or may not
show up today…they were due yesterday too.
Our Congressional primary was finally figured
out on the Republican side yesterday. The Democrat is the incumbent. Today the
negative ads started against the Republican, and the negative ads against the
Dem have been on for a couple of weeks. So glad I won’t have to listen to all
that until I get back.
When will our government learn? Killing bin
Laden was supposed to stop Al Qaeda…it didn’t. Killing the head of ISIS won’t
stop them either. As several have said on CNN today, both groups are following
a moral belief and not a specific leader. When one leader falls, another rises
to continue to moral belief. Sure, when some leaders fall, the country falls
apart, but in most, the government continues. Many in Al Qaeda and ISIS have
been taught that the West is the enemy on moral grounds. Certainly the West has
done a lot of drone bombings that have killed many, including many innocents.
Both groups see videos of this regularly. They are taught to believe that those
who oppose them must die. The only way to stop them is to educate them and that
will be a decades long undertaking.
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Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
You
can do it in vessels for getting you clean.
You can do it to fabric to stop being seen.
You are doing it when you've come up short.
You've done it too when you've equaled in sport.
This may sound like there should be images but then,
You can do all those things without pencil or pen.
What is the word?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain :
Brain
Facts…
The desire to squeeze and hug cute things comes from the same
place in your brain as aggression.
Computer
Facts…
In 1999, Pokémon was the second most searched topic on the
internet. The first was pornography.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
There was a lively fire at the A. L. & T Mill on Friday. The
conveyor to the trimmer caught on fire. Our new fire alarm signals were used
for the first time and the blaze was quickly controlled by the Milton Fire Company.
Fun
Facts…
Pillow hugging while sleeping is a subconscious indication that
you miss someone.
Harper’s
Index
Estimated number of California 8th graders given an
essay assignment this year about whether the Holocaust happened: 2000
Language
Facts…
There are around 41,806 different spoken languages in the world
today.
Rules of
Thumb…
PICTURING AN OIL WELL
A deep oil well has
the same proportions as a human hair ten feet long.
Superstitions…
According to an age old custom, carrying a dead shrew in your
pocket wards off rheumatism!
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Although
Charles Schulz loved drawing Charlie Brown and his pals, he hated the name Peanuts,
which was chosen by United Features Syndicate despite his objections.
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Joke-of-the-day
All too rarely, airline attendants make an
effort to make the in-flight "safety lecture", and their other
announcements a bit more entertaining.
Here are some real examples that have been heard or reported:
1. On a Continental Flight with a very "senior" flight attendant crew,
the pilot said, "Ladies and gentlemen, we've reached cruising altitude and
will be turning down the cabin lights. This is for your comfort, and to enhance
the appearance of your flight attendants."
2. On landing the stewardess said, "There may be 50 ways to leave your
lover, but there are only 4 ways out off this airplane."
3. As the plane landed and was coming to a stop at Washington National, a lone
voice came over the loudspeaker: "Whoa, big fella. WHOA!"
4. After a particularly rough landing during thunderstorms in Memphis, a flight
attendant on a Northwest flight announced, "Please take care when opening
the overhead compartments because, after a landing like that, sure as hell
everything has shifted."
5. "In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, masks will descend
from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If
you have a small child traveling with you, secure your mask before assisting
with theirs. If you are traveling with more than one small child, pick your
favorite."
Yeah, It
Really Happened
HUDSON, Fla. (UPI) - A 29-year-old stripper in Florida is facing
some serious charges after deputies said she hung up on them. The Pasco County
Sheriff's office said they were searching for her missing 10-year-old daughter.
Bobbey Jo Boucher reportedly told a deputy when they called her "I have to
get on stage" and hung up the phone. Boucher is an entertainer at Calendar
Girls. Deputies started the search for the missing girl when they said the
girl's grandmother called them when she did not come home from a barbecue up
the street. Boucher reportedly left the child at the barbecue as she went to
work, and deputies said she was the last person to see the girl. The child was
later found safe and sound. Boucher was later found and arrested for resisting
an officer and misdemeanor obstruction. She said she did not hang up on the
deputy but transferred to another call.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Bananas
were never really heard of until 1880. However, by 1910, they were so popular
that cities had a problem disposing of used banana peels. Back then, there was
no urban sanitation and people were literally slipping on banana peels.
In 1910, the City of St. Louis had an ordinance specifically prohibiting people
from throwing banana peels on the ground. And for much of the early 1900s, one
of the suggested Boy Scout manual good deeds of the day was to pick up banana
peels from the street.
Sanitation departments like the one in New York City were organized partly to
combat the plague of banana peels littering the streets. Those sanitation
departments were so successful that the idea of slipping on the banana peel
actually became a gag. That's how it became a joke in the early movies.
Today, bananas are so popular due to the entrepreneurial drive of the early
banana barons who founded a company in the 1880s called United Fruit (which is
now Chiquita.) When they introduced the banana, Americans generally didn't know
what a banana was and had to be taught how to peel and determine if they were
ripe.
There are more than 1,000 varieties of amazing and delicious bananas-most of
them are in Africa and Asia. But in the United States, we only eat one called
the Cavendish. The Cavendish is a blander banana compared to those in India
where 600 banana varieties are grown.
Up through the 1950s, Chiquita released banana cookbooks full of interesting
and sometimes odd recipes. Making a big push to get people to eat bananas with
every meal, they tried to position the banana as both a sweet fruit and a
vegetable, like a potato. You could find recipes for ham banana rolls with
cheese sauce, bananas with mint jelly, and banana soup.
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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
4-6
Popcorn Days
Today
Is
International Drive Your Studebaker Day
Newspaper Carrier Day
++
Animals' Day (Curacao)
Today’s
Events through History
1894 - In NYC,
12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops
1970 - George
Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord" single
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Birthday’s
Today
Mitzi
Gaynor, actress/singer/dancer (South Pacific) is 83
Tom
Watson, golfer (British Open 1975, 77, 80, 82, 83) is 65
Damon
Wayans, actor/comedian (In Living Color) is 54
Mike
Piazza, catcher (LA Dodgers) is 46
Beyoncé
Knowles, singer (Destiny's Child) is 32
Remembered
for being born today
Alexander
III of Scotland (1241-1286)
Donald
McKay, US naval architect, built fastest clipper ships (1810-1880)
William
Lyons, British industrialist (Jaguar cars), (1901-1985)
Paul
Harvey, news commentator (Rest of the story) (1918-2009)
Dick York, actor
(Darrin-Bewitched, Inherit the Wind) (1928-1992)
Clive
Granger, Welsh-born economist, Nobel laureate (1934-2009)
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Historical
Obits Today
Albert
Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954), 1965, @90
Edvard
Grieg, composer, long illness, 1907, @64
Dottie
West, country singer (Here Comes my Baby), car accident, 1991, @58
Herve
Villechaize, actor (Fantasy Island), suicide, 1993, @50
Steve
Irwin, Australian naturalist and television personality, stingray,
2006, @44
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Brain Teasers
DRAW
You can Draw a bath.
You can Draw curtains.
You can Draw a blank.
You draw a match in sport if the scores are equal.
You draw something to produce an image, but all the above uses of the word Draw
don't require writing implements.
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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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