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Today’s Historical Highlights
1637: 1st battle of Pequot at
New Haven Ct
kills 500 Natives
1798: British kill about 500
Irish insurgents at the Battle of Tara
1805: Lewis & Clark 1st see Rocky
Mountains
1911: 1st Indianapolis 500 auto
race is run1963: Organization of African
Unity forms
1978: 1st legal gambling
casino opens in Atlantic City
2002: The Mars Odyssey finds
signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars
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Free Rambling
Thoughts
Another windy day. A
small brush fire in Flag, on a main road…quickly extinguished. It’s all part of
being in the desert. I was out and about this morning, before the wind really
picked up. The weatherman says the wind will continue through the long weekend.
Many Phx people will be headed this way for a cool weekend…sure hope they
understand the fire danger.
After lunch yesterday we
stopped by a new store that has many many cool things. It is advertized as a
feed and tack store, but is a clothing store, a hardware store, and lots more.
Anyway, I bought two of those 50’s pink flamingos. It’s a joke from our house
in Wheat Ridge, where two pink flamingos moved mysteriously from house to house
during the summer. They would show up, be taken back to the owners and then
wander off again. Makes me smile when I see them by my fountain.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up
picture of what?
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NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every answer is a
familiar two-word phrase in which the first word starts with CA and the second
word starts with W. For example, given "a glass opening in a wall that is
attached by hinges," the answer is "casement window."
1.
It melts and drips from a flame:
2.
Covering for a Snickers bar or M&M’s:
3.
What a moat surrounds:
4.
Cabernet or other product from Napa Valley:
5.
Person making a large floor covering:
6.
Removal of money from a bank:
7.
Part of a surrey that rolls:
8.
Seltzer:
9.
Luxury timepiece originally made by 19th c French jeweler:
10.
T-shirt, shorts, and sandals for example:
11.
One who might try to get you take 3 balls for a dollar:
12.
Classic quote ’one who must be above suspicion’:
13.
Telephone feature that allows you to speak to one person while another is
on hold:
14.
Business with soap and big brushes:
15.
Cry of eagerness for a future event:
Riddle of the day
You throw away the outside and cook the inside. Then you eat the outside and throw away the inside. What did you eat?
Anagram: unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s Index
Percentage of Chinese and Americans, respectfully, who struggled to pay for food in 2008: 16:9
Found on You Tube
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue 50th Anniversary
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
A pregnant woman gets into a car accident and falls into a deep coma.
Asleep for nearly six months, she wakes up and sees that she is no longer pregnant. Frantically, she asks the doctor about her baby.
The doctor replies, "Ma'am, you had twins! A boy and a girl. The babies are fine. Your brother came in and named them."
The woman thinks to herself, "Oh no, not my brother -- he's an idiot!" Expecting the worst, she asks the doctor, "Well, what's the girl's name?"
"Denise," the doctor says.
The new mother thinks, "Wow, that's not a bad name! Guess I was wrong about my brother. I like Denise!" Then she asks the doctor, "What's the boy's name?"
The doctor replies, DeNephew.
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
Soaking in a hot tub adds two to three pints of perspiration per hour per person to the water.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
MIAMI - Administrators at a Florida school said police were on hand to make sure their prom did not intermingle with a porn convention going on at the same venue. Gwen Zaldivar, the activities director for Miami Beach Senior High School, said extra security steps were taken when administrators discovered the prom held during the weekend would be sharing the Miami Beach Convention Center with the Exxxotica Expo pornography convention, WFOR-TV, Miami, reported Monday.
"We ... hired police officers," Zaldivar said. "We [worked] with the Miami Beach Convention Center to make sure they have their security in place as well."
Zaldivar said police, security workers and teachers stood guard at the venue to ensure the two events did not intermingle. School officials said their choices of prom venues were limited.
"We do not hold our proms in venues such as hotels for the safety of our children and to discourage drinking," Zaldivar said. "Therefore this was the only available location and it's easy to control the students are safe."
Somewhat Useless
Information
- John Travolta's shirt in Saturday Night Fever was specially designed so that it buttoned at the crotch.
- Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers of Chic were refused entrance to New York's legendary Studio 54 on New Year's Eve in 1977. They returned to Rodgers' apartment with a few bottles of champagne and began jamming. The riff they came up with evolved into "Le Freak," which went on to sell 13 million copies worldwide.
- Earlier records had sold a million copies, but Johnnie Taylor's number one hit, "Disco Lady," was the first single to be awarded a platinum single by the RIAA. This song was the first to sell a million copies after the RIAA first introduced the award in 1977.
- Victor Willis, the original police officer and lead singer of the Village People, was once married to Phylicia Rashad, who portrayed mother Clair Huxtable on TV's The Cosby Show.
- On July 12, 1979, the White Sox were forced to forfeit to the Tigers when Chicago DJ Steve Dahl's "Disco Demolition Night" promotion went awry. The previous night's game had attracted 15,000 fans, so stadium officials were unprepared for the 90,000 who showed up and swarmed the field between games.
- Record producer Tom Moulton was the brainchild behind extended remixes for disco songs, created so that folks could fully enjoy dancing to a song for more than three minutes. He came up with the concept of the 12-inch single, the first of which was Moment of Truth's
"So Much for Love."
For AZ centennial
celebration: town names
- Gadsden, AZ : in Yuma County, The population is 953, total area of 1.7 square miles (4.4 km²), The racial makeup of the CDP was 40.92% White, 3.57% Native American, 0.31%Asian, 0.21% Pacific Islander, 53.62% from other races, and 1.36% from two or more races. 93.81% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
- Gila Bend, AZ: founded in 1872, is a town in Maricopa County, is named for an approximately 90-degree bend in the Gila River, the population of the town is 2,055, The racial makeup of the town was 51.31% White, 1.31% Black or African American, 10.25% Native American, 0.35% Asian, 32.42% from other races, and 4.34% from two or more races. 52.63% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race., In 2010 Abengoa Solar secured a $1.45 BUSD loan guarantee to build a large 280 megawatt Concentrated Solar Power Plant in Gila Bend
- Gold Camp, AZ: (also known as Gold Canyon) in Pinal County, Land area: 22.3 square miles, The population was 6,029, The scenery photos from the beginning of "The Three Amigos" are from Gold Canyon, The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.20% White, 0.30% Black or African American, 0.66%Native American, 0.48% Asian, 0.07% Pacific Islander, 1.36% from other races, and 0.93% from two or more races. 3.53% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race..
- Gray Mountain, AZ: an unincorporated community in Coconino County on the Navajo Nation
Calendar Information
…Happening This Week:
21-27
Recreational Water Illness and Injury Prevention Week
National Medical Transcription Week
National Backyard Games Week
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing
Territories Old-Time Player Piano Week
Today Is
Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day (ARMAD)
International Jazz Day
Julia Pierpont Day: is recognized by many historians for having originated Decoration Day
Australia: Sorry Day (gives people the chance to
come together and share the steps towards healing for the Stolen Generations, their
families and communities. Stolen generations refer to Indigenous Australians
who were forcibly removed from their families and communities.)
Guyana (formerly British Guiana) Independence
1966 from UK
Georgia: Independence Day (1918 from Transcaucasian
Federation)
Today’s Other Events
1500’s
1540: The "Lady of
Cofitachequi" has been taken with the de Soto expedition, against her
will. With a large quantity of the pearls that de Soto's men took from her
village, she escapes.
1600’s
1647: Massachusetts disallows
priest access to colony
1647: Alse Young becomes the
first person executed as a witch in the American colonies, when she is hanged
in Hartford, Connecticut
1700’s
1728: According to some
sources, a peace and friendship conference is held for two days between the
representatives of the British in Pennsylvania and the Conestoga, Delaware,
Potomac and Shawnee Indians
1800’s
1861: Postmaster General Blair
announces end of postal connection with South
1864: Territory of Montana
formed
1868: President Andrew Johnson
avoids impeachment by 1 vote
1900’s
1908: At Masjed Soleyman (مسجد سليمان) in southwest Persia,
the first major commercial oil strike in the Middle East is made. The rights to
the resource are quickly acquired by the United Kingdom
1930: Supreme Court rules
buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
1938: House on un-American
Activities forms
1945: US drop fire bombs on
Tokyo
1948: South Africa elects a
nationalist government
with apartheid policy
1966: Buddhist sets self on
fire at US consulate in Hué South-Vietnam
1969: Apollo 10 astronauts
returned to Earth
1972: Nixon & Brezhnev
signs SALT accord
1984: Frisbee is kept aloft
for 1,672 seconds in Philadelphia
1998: The United States
Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of
immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.
2000’s
2004: The United States
Army veteran Terry Nichols is found guilty of 161 state murder charges for
helping carry out the Oklahoma City bombing
2006: The
May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people, leaves 200,000 homeless
Today’s Birthdays
Remembered for being born on this day
James Arness, Minneapolis
MN, actor (Matt Dillon-Gunsmoke, Thing) in 1923
Miles Davis, Alton,
Illinois, American jazz musician, trumpeter and composer in 1926
Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson],
jazz singer/silent actor (Mamie, Swanee)in 1886
Robert Morley, England,
actor (High Road to China, African Queen) in 1908
Jay Silverheels (Harold
J. Smith), Canadian Mohawk actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger) in 1912
John Wayne (Marion
Mitchell Morrison), Winterset IA, actor (Green Berets, True Grit) in
1907
In their 60’s
Pam Grier, actress (Big Bird Cage,
Tough Enough)
is 63
Philip Michael Thomas,
Columbus Ohio, actor (Miami Vice) is 63
Hank Williams Jr,
Shreveport La, country singer (Honky Tonk) is 63
In their 50’s
Bobcat Goldthwait, comedian (Police Academy)is 50
In their 40’s
Lenny Kravitz,
singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer, actor and arranger is 48
Today’s Obits
George Brent, actor (Baby
Face, Dark Victory, 42nd St), dies in 1979 at 80
Edsel Ford, owner (Ford
Motor Company), dies of stomach cancer in 1943 at 49
Art Linkletter,
Canadian-American radio and television personality dies in 2010 at 97
Ida McKinley, First Lady
of the United States dies in 1907 at 59
Sydney Pollack, American
actor, director, producer, and screenwriter dies in 2008 of stomach cancer at
73
Jimmie Rodgers, country
singer, dies in 1933 of TB at 35
Answers
Brain Game: Close Up
Picture
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Riddle of the day
An ear of corn or a chicken
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
It melts and drips from a flame: candle wax
2.
Covering for a Snickers bar or M&M’s: candy wrapper
3.
What a moat surrounds: castle walls
4.
Cabernet or other product from Napa Valley: California wine
5.
Person making a large floor covering: carpet weaver
6.
Removal of money from a bank: cash withdrawal
7.
Part of a surrey that rolls: carriage wheel
8.
Seltzer: carbonated water
9.
Luxury timepiece originally made by 19th c French jeweler:
Cartier watch
10.
T-shirt, shorts, and sandals for example: casual wear
11.
One who might try to get you take 3 balls for a dollar: carnival worker
12.
Classic quote ’one who must be above suspicion’: Caesar’s wife
13.
Telephone feature that allows you to speak to one person while another is
on hold: call waiting
14.
Business with soap and big brushes: car wash
15.
Cry of eagerness for a future event: can’t wait
Anagrams
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.
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