Jun 9

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Jun. 9, 2019 Week: 23 \ Day: 160

86004:   H 73° \ L 43° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest wildfire:  11mi. Nearest lightning:  598mi

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  11mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 90°[2013]   Record Low: 24°[1950]

Jun Averages: 78°\42° (1 day with rain)

Today’s Quote

If the path be beautiful,

let us not ask where it leads.

Anatole France

Random Tidbits

Body language is the means by which humans (and some other animals) convey information through conscious or subconscious body movements or facial expressions. This includes emotions, intentions and social hierarchy like submission and dominance.

Research suggests that assuming a "power pose" makes people feel more powerful and actually changes testosterone and cortisol levels in the body. Practicing "power poses" before an important meeting for 2-3 minutes will help you feel more powerful.

Observances This Week

National Lemonade Days: 1-9 Link

Hemp History Week: 3-9  Link

Great American Brass Band Week: 6-9  Link
Superman Days: 6-9  Link

Greencare For Troops Week: 9-15
National Automotive Service Professionals Week: 9-15 
National Right of Way Professionals Week: 9-15 Link 
National Flag Week: 9-15

Observances for Today

Horseradish Days Link 
Abused Women and Children's Awareness Day 
Children's Sunday
Donald Duck Day (Birthday) Link 1934
International Archives Day
Loving Day Link
Multicultural American Child Day
National Earl Baltes Day  Link
National Strawberry-Rhubarb Pie Day

Nursing Assistants Day

Pentecost
Toy Industry Day
WhitSunday
World APS Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

After having visitors for a few days, I have to say it is nice to have the house to myself again. It’s another real nice day. Took a nice walk this morning. The mountain is beautiful.  About 7a I got an alert that a bear had been spotted in downtown Flagstaff. Nothing more since then, but the place it was seen was NOT downtown, but in Buffalo Park about 10 blocks north of downtown. Still a tad unnerving.

It should not have been a surprise to me when 45 cancelled his Mexico tariffs. I’m glad he did. While I thought he would, with this leader one never knows.

The Russia/China trip is getting closer. I’m getting pretty excited. Ellie has done another great job of getting information to us. The more I read, the more excited I get. I read an article this morning about seismic activity in that part of the world. Not near where we are traveling. It’s in an eastern part of Russia, north of China. A dormant volcano is in that area, so only time will tell. Now is not the time to panic, or even be concerned.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

There are three playing cards in a row. There is a two to the right of a king. There is a diamond to the left of a spade. There is an ace to the left of a heart. There is a heart to the left of a spade. Identify the three cards.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

0’s

68 Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide at 31, imploring his secretary Epaphroditos to slit his throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging

1500’s

1534 Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River

1549 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England

1600’s

1650 The Harvard Corporation, the more powerful of the two administrative boards of Harvard, is established. First legal corporation in the Americas.

1700’s

1772 1st Protestant church west of Pennsylvania (in Ohio) holds communion

1790 1st book copyrighted under constitution, "Philadelphia Spelling Book"

1800’s

1822 Charles Graham of New York patents porcelain false teeth

1856 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa, and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah, carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts

1860 1st US "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," by Mrs Ann Stevens

1868 1st meeting of Board of Regents, University of California

1869 Charles E. Hires sells his 1st root beer, in Philadelphia

1870 Washington: Presdent Grant meets with Sioux chief Red Cloud

1898 China leases Hong Kong's new territories to the United Kingdom for 99 years

1900’s

1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey, 22-year-old housewife from Hackensack, New Jersey, becomes the 1st woman to drive across the US, in a Maxwell 30, drives 3,800 miles from Manhattan to San Francisco in 59 days

1928 Charles Kingsford-Smith & Charles Ulm are 1st to fly across the Pacific when they end their flight from California to Brisbane

1931 First rocket-powered aircraft design patented by Robert Goddard

1942 Nazis kill all inhabitants of Lidice, which had been implicated in the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi controller of Bohemia and Moravia, to “teach the Czechs a final lesson of subservience and humility”

1943 "Pay-as-you-go" (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized

1946 Bhumibol Adulyadej becomes King of Thailand after the death of his brother King Ananda Mahidol

1969 Warren Burger confirmed as US Chief Justice

1970 Harry A Blackmun sworn in as Supreme Court Justice

1977 50th National Spelling Bee: John Paola wins spelling cambist

1977 Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain celebrated with fireworks

1978 Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, the first book produced using the printing press, (1 of 21 complete versions) sells for $2.4 million, London

1978 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood

1984 Cyndi Lauper gets her first US #1 hit with "Time After Time"

1984 Polygram's Hanover Germany plant produces its 10 millionth CD

1999 Kosovo War: the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and North Atlantic Treaty Organization sign a peace treaty.

2000’s

2006 King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand celebrates the 1st of 3 national holidays to commemorate his 60 years on the throne.

2013 Edward Snowden publicly makes his identity known as the leaker of NSA documents

Birthdays Today

1672 Peter the Great

[Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov],

(d. 1725: @52: gangrene)

Tsar of Russia (1682-1725), born in Moscow

1781 George Stephenson,

(d. 1848: @67)

English engineer known as the "Father of Railways"

(Locomotion No. 1, Standard Guage),

born in Newcastle, England

1836 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson,

(d. 1917: @81)

1st qualified woman physician in Britain, first woman mayor (Aldeburgh),

born in London

1900 Fred Waring,

(d. 1984: @84)

American musician and conductor (name behind the Waring Blender), born in Tyronne, Pennsylvania

1915 Les Paul,

(d. 2009: @94)

American jazz, country and blues guitarist, songwriter and inventor (solid-body electric guitar),

born in Waukesha, Wisconsin

1916 Robert McNamara,

(d. 2009: @93)

American United States Secretary of Defense (1961-68), played major role in US escalation in Vietnam,

born in San Francisco, California

1921 Forrest Bird,

(d. 2015: @94)

American aviator and inventor (1st respirators and ventilators),

born in Stoughton, Massachusetts

80’s

89- Marvin Kalb,

American educator/newscaster (CBS/NBC, Meet the Press),

born in NYC

80- Charles Webb,

American writer (The Graduate),

born in San Francisco, California

80- Dick Vitale,

American sportscaster (ESPN, ABC "Oh Baby!")

60’s

65- George Pérez,

American comic book artist (The Avengers, Wonder Woman)

50’s

58- Michael J. Fox,

Canadian actor, author, comedian and activist

 (Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen Wolf),

born in Edmonton, Alberta

56- Johnny Depp,

American actor (21 Jump Street, Pirates of the Caribbean),

born in Owensboro, Kentucky

30’s

38- Natalie Portman

[Neta-Lee Hershlag],

Israeli-American actress (V for Vendetta, Black Swan, Star Wars),

born in Jerusalem, Israel

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@88-2017 Adam West

[William West Anderson],

American actor (Batman, Last Precinct)

@88-1927 Victoria Woodhull,

American civil rights activist (1872 presidential candidate, woman's suffrage movement)

70’s

@75-597 Saint Columba,

Irish Christian missionary to Scotland

@74-1974 Miguel Ángel Asturias,

Guatemalan novelist (Hombres de Maiz, Nobel 67), journalist and poet

@72-1871 Anna Atkins,

English botanist, photographer and the 1st person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images,

dies of paralysis, rheumatism, and exhaustion

60’s

@64-1911 Carrie Nation,

American temperance advocate

@63-1981 Allen Ludden

[Allen Packard Ellsworth],

American TV personality and gameshow host (Password), husband of Betty White,

dies of stomach cancer

50’s

@58-1870 Charles Dickens,

English writer (David Copperfield, Oliver Twist),

dies of stroke

Puzzle answer:

The cards are an Ace of Diamonds, a King of Hearts, and a Two of Spades.