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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 33 / Day: 229 Today: High 83°…Low 54°
Records: High 88°(1962,1939) …Low 33°(1968)
Averages: High 79°…Low 51°
Wind: 2mph; Gusts: 15mph
Today’s humidity: 63%
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1989 - A solar flare
from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro
chips, leading to a
halt of all trading on Toronto's stock market
1981 - Highest
score in World Cup soccer match (New Zealand-13, Fiji-0)
1962 - Ringo
Starr replaces Pete Best as Beatle drummer
1954 - "Sports
Illustrated" magazine begins publishing
1930 - The
first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks
1894 - Indian
chiefs from the Sioux & Onondaga tribes met to urge their people
to
renounce Christianity & return to their old Indian faith
1863 - Emancipation
Proclamation signed
1829 - Siamese
twins Chang & Eng Bunker arrive in Boston to be exhibited
♪ Happy Birthday To:
♪
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s
Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts
We had our
weekly lunch early this week. Mary has a CASA meeting tomorrow. We went to a
nice place in west Flag and had a great lunch...we even broke down and ordered
dessert which is pretty unusual…and we all took about ½ of our dessert home for
another meal. Mary is headed to Chicago to see two of her grandkids…and she is
taking a quilt she just finished. It is cool…and she is so proud that she
followed the instructions without changing anything. She is really creative and
sometimes her creativity doesn’t work out that well. Cheryl has been having
trouble with her new glasses, so I suggested she take them to our mutual ophthalmologist
to be sure the lenses are the right prescription. My guess is the glasses
people made a mistake…just like they did with me a few years ago.
It clouded
up, but alas no rain, no breeze, and no quick cool down…it doesn’t happen very
often during Monsoon season, but when it does, it is miserable. I’m still
holding out for a breeze, after the sun sets. If it doesn’t come, it’s going to
be hard to sleep tonight.
Ah…AZ is
back in the news. As Obama’s Executive Order that starts today--to allow
certain young illegal immigrants a chance to get Federal ID, our Governor, not
to be outdone by the President of the United States, issued her own Executive
Order that prevents those same youth from getting a driver’s license, or state
ID, or any taxpayer funded benefits. So now many immigration lawyers here in AZ
are educating these youth on the potential dangers of applying. Whatever
happened to ‘one Nation with liberty and justice for all’. Of course, this is
only a small part of the conservative trends in this country. PA just passed a
stricter voter ID law that will disenfranchise many older voters. While the state
admitted that there is no proof of in person voter fraud in PA, a judge ruled
that the law stands…just in case. He didn’t seemed worried about the number of
older Americans who might not be able to vote.
Game Center: (answers
at the end of post)
What is the answer?
Answer
the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If
only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g.
voodoo)
acrophobia (6,6)
Scrambled Proverbs
Can you
unscramble the words to make an English proverb? Each puzzle has an easy
version (above the black square), in which each word is scrambled individually
and the spaces appear in their proper place, and a more challenging version,
where the entire phrase is scrambled and spaces appear at random.
UETANOTLSTS AL T B ( 4 words)
Lifestyle Substance
Do you remember this?
Read Carefully!!
On a repair shop door:
WE CAN
REPAIR ANYTHING. (PLEASE KNOCK HARD ON THE DOOR -
THE BELL DOESN'T WORK)
Do you know what this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
Rectal Tenesmus
London 2012—
Bebop music:
Harper’s Index
- Date of which the Iraqi government announce its efforts to ‘eliminate the ‘emo’ style phenomena: 2/13/2012
- Minimum number of Iraqi teenagers killed for having an ‘emo style’ since then: 42
Unusal Fact of the Day
Bill Clinton reportedly only ever sent two emails as president, one of which was a test message to see if he was doing it correctly.
Found on You Tube
Flip The Frog – Fiddlesticks
Joke-of-the-day
"Well," snarled the tough old sergeant to the bewildered private. "I suppose after you get discharged from the Army, you'll just be waiting for me to die so you can come and spit on my grave.""Not me, Serge!" the private replied. "Once I get out of the Army, I'm never going to stand in line again!"
Rules of Thumb
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FIXING YOUR FACE FOR TV
For TV appearances, match the color of your make-up to the color of the tip of your tongue.
Yeah, It Really Happened
CHICAGO - A Chicago-area man put the windshield of his car up for auction because it has a bird dropping he says looks like the late pop star Michael Jackson.
"One of two things will happen," said owner Brandon Tudor, an Oswego salesman and father of three. "It will go for an astronomical amount or I'll get nothing."
Tudor, 29, said he was driving along U.S. Highway 30 near Big Rock Wednesday when bird poop hit the windshield of his 1996 Cadillac Seville, the Chicago Sun-Times reported. He said he immediately saw a resemblance to the pop icon and it became more obvious "after it hardened."
"Everybody loves it," Tudor said. "There's not one person who's seen it that doesn't agree it looks like Michael Jackson." The minimum starting bid for the windshield is set at $500 on eBay. Until the auction closes, Tudor is keeping the bird poop image covered in plastic to protect it from washing away and parking his car in a garage.
Somewhat Useless Information
- Cereal was invented when colonial housewives started serving up popcorn with sugar and cream for breakfast.
- The word cereal comes from Cerealia, the name of ancient Roman ceremonies that honored Ceres, the goddess of grain.
- The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was invented in 1863 by James C. Jackson. It was a form of whole grain flour dough baked into dry leaves, broken into chunks and baked again, and then ground into still smaller chunks.
- U.S. and Israeli researchers have just found strong evidence that humans refined wheat and barley into cereal 23,000 years ago. If true, the discovery suggests humans were processing grains long before hunter-gather societies developed agriculture.
- Breakfast cereal is the third most popular item sold in grocery stores after carbonated beverages and milk.
- Astronauts from Apollo 11 boosted their brain power while in space with a cereal breakfast. The cereal was mixed with fruit and pressed into cubes since the lack of gravity kept the astronauts from pouring it into a bowl with milk.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
Elvis Week
11-15
National Scrabble Week
12-18
15-21
National Aviation Week
Today Is
Bratwurst Festival Bucyrus,
Crawford County, Ohio
Joe Miller's Joke Day tell a
joke to honor English comic actor
Joseph (or Josias) Miller
National Airborne Day since
2001 to honor airborne military
Today’s Events Through History
2000’s
2011 - Beginning
of World Youth Day 2011 in Madrid
2008 - Usain
Bolt sets a new 100 metres dash world record of 9.69 seconds
at the Beijing
2008 Olympics
1900’s
1988 - Jailed black
nationalist Nelson Mandela struck with tuberculosis
1987 - Northwest
Airlines 255 plane crashes in Detroit, 156 die (1 lives)
1959 - USSR
introduces installment buying
1948 - Israeli pound
becomes legal tender
1936 - 11th
Olympic games closes in Berlin
1906 - -17]
8.6 earthquake destroys Valparaiso Chile, fire kills 20,000
1800’s
1896 - Gold
discovered in Klondike, found at Bonanza Creek
1865 - Restoration
Day in the Dominican Republic: The Dominican Republic regains
its independence
after 4 years of fighting against the Spanish Annexation
1851 - One
in a series of treaties with California Indians is signed at Reading's Ranch.
The treaty is designed to reserve lands and to protect the Indians.
1819 - Manchester
Massacre: English police charge unemployed demonstrators
1700’s
1743 - Earliest
boxing code of rules formulated in England (Jack Broughton)
1300’s
1384 - The
Hongwu Emperor of Ming China, Emperor Dong, hears a case of a couple
who tore
paper money bills while fighting over them—a case considered equal
to the act
of destroying stamped government documents, which by law
necessitated one
hundred floggings by a bamboo rod. However, the Hongwu
Emperor decided to
pardon them, seeing as how their intention was not to tear
up the money
Today’s Birthdays
In their 50’s
Angela
Bassett, actress (What's Love Got to Do With It) will be 54
James
Cameron, Kapuskasing Ontario, writer/director (True Lies, Titanic) is 58
Steve
Carell, American actor and comedian is 50
Kathie Lee
Gifford, Paris Fla, hostess (Live with Regis & Kathie Lee) is 59
Timothy
Hutton, Malibu California, actor (Turk 182, Ordinary People) is 52
Madonna,
[Ciccone], Bay City Michigan, singer/actress (Like a Virgin) will
be 54
In their 60’s
Lesley Ann
Warren, NYC, actress (Cinderella, Mission Impossible) is 66
In their 70’s
Julie Newmar,
actress (Catwoman-Batman, Living Doll) will be 79
In their 80’s
Eydie
Gorme, [Edithe Gormezano], Bronx NY, singer (Bossa Nova) is 80
Shimon
Peres, Israeli Labor Party leader/prime minister is 89
Remembered for
being born today
Menachem
Begin, Brest Russian Empire, Israeli PM (1977-83, Nobel 1978) b. 1913
Vincenzo
Coronelli, Italian cartographer and encylopedist b. 1650
Robert
Culp, Berkley California, actor (I Spy, Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice)
b. 1930
Jules
Laforgue, Uruguay, French poet (Les Complaintas) b. 1860
William
Maxwell, American novelist and editor (So Long, See You Tomorrow) b. 1908
Fess
Parker, Fort Worth Texas, actor (Davy Crockett, Old Yeller) b. 1925
Robert
Ringling, circus master b. 1897
Ferdinand
C S Schiller, British philosopher (Riddles of the Sphinx) b. 1864
Glenn
Strange, Weed NM, actor (Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke) b. 1899
Wendell
Stanley, biochemist, 1st to crystallize a virus (Nobel 1946) b. 1904
Today’s Historical Obits
Amanda
Blake, actress (Gunsmoke), dies of AIDS in 1989 at 60
Stewart
Granger, actor (Scaramouche), dies of cancer in 1993 at 80
John
Hurley, song writer (Son of a Preacher Man), dies in 1986 at 45
Bela
Lugosi, actor (Dracula), dies of heart attack in 1956 at 73
Joe
Miller, English comic, dies in 1738 at 54
Duncan
Phyfe, furniture maker, dies in 1854 at 86
Elvis
Presley, rocker, dies of heart ailment/drugs in 1977 at 42
Babe Ruth,
Baseball legend (NY Yankees), dies in 1948 at 53
John
Cameron Swayze, news anchor (NBC), dies in 1995 at 89
Wenceslaus,
King of the Romans, King of Bohemia dies of heart attack in 1419 at 58
Answers
Do you know what
this word means?
The feeling of incomplete defecation.
What is the answer?
Height freight
Scrambled
Proverbs
Last but not least
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 Now
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