August 18


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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 33 / Day: 231   Today: High   74°…Low 56°
Records: High   88°(2002) …Low 38°(1979, 1960,1949)
Averages: High   78°…Low 50°
Wind:   8mph;  Gusts: 15mph
Today’s humidity:  55%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1988 - Republican Convention in New Orleans select Bush-Quayle ticket
1981 - Jerry Lewis appears on "Donahue" to defend Telethons
1964 - South Africa banned from Olympic Games because of apartheid policies
1963 - James Meredith becomes 1st black graduate from U of Mississippi
1962 - Peter, Paul & Mary release their 1st hit "If I Had a Hammer"
1960 - 1st commercial oral contraceptive, Enovid 10 debuts in Skokie Ill
1958 - Great Britain issues regional stamps (N Ireland, Scotland & Wales)
1943 - Final convoy of Jews from Salonika Greece arrive at Auschwitz
1926 - Weather map televised for 1st time
1920 - 19th Amendment on women's suffrage ratified
1909 - Mayor of Tokyo Yukio Ozaki presents Washington, D.C. with 2,000 
          cherry trees, which President Taft decides to plant near the Potomac River
1862 - Sioux Indians begin uprising in Minnesota (it is later crushed)
1840 - Organization of American Society of Dental Surgeons founded (NY)

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪ 
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
No rain, but no hail either.  Still have lots of clouds around the horizon, so maybe, later there will be some rain later tonight. Yesterday’s storm brought almost an inch of moisture so that was good. I cleaned up my deck and my sidewalk after yesterday’s hard rain. Looks much better now.

Got a phone call and some people are stopping by to watch the Cardinal’s game tonight.  The Cards aren’t starting out very well, but time will tell how they do tonight…and it’s still pre-season.

Ah, Rachael Maddow did it again, she ran some old Republican Ads from Goldwater/Miller campaign. Ads were much clearer back then. Ike spoke in one, Reagan in another. I have to wonder why we aren’t hearing from any former important Republicans for the Romney/Ryan team? That says a lot…in my humble opinion. While they are trying to take us back to the days before Medicare, Obamacare, Women’s Rights, and Social Security, they don’t have any old leaders speaking for them. Hmmm.

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)
substitute another grazing area (6,5)
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.
R OYPEUOOOB KFEA LEL (4 WORDS)
Lifestyle  Substance     
Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!
Something Went Wrong in Jet Crash, Expert Says
Do you know what this word means?
What is this not so common name of a common object?
Mondegreen
London 2012—

Bebop music:

Harper’s Index         
Number of nations using the death penalty in 2001 and 2011: 31, 20
Unusal Fact of the Day
Duct tape was developed in 1942 for use by the U.S. Army as a waterproof sealing tape for ammunition boxes.
Found on You Tube 
Proboscis Monkey Love in Borneo       
Joke-of-the-day
Morty was in his usual place in the morning sitting at the table, reading the paper after breakfast. He came across an article about a beautiful actress that was about to marry a football player who was known primarily for his lack of IQ and common knowledge. He turned to his wife with a look of question on his face. "I'll never understand why the biggest jerks get the most attractive wives."
His wife replied, "Why thank you, dear!"
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FOLLOWING BUBBLES: When scuba diving, don't rise to the surface any faster than the smallest bubbles you exhale.
Yeah, It Really Happened
Memphis TN - More than 100 FedEx employees at the company's Memphis, Tenn., parcel hub were treated for exposure after a forklift punctured a barrel of concentrated chili peppers used to make pepper spray.Memphis Fire Department spokesman Lt. Wayne Cooke told NBC News the five-gallon container was damaged by a FedEx employee outside the building early Thursday, and 117 employees were evaluated and decontaminated by fire rescue personnel.Cooke said the fire department initially responded to a hazmat alert, but the situation was not that dire.
Most of those affected were treated at the scene, but a 53-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman were taken to the hospital, complaining of chest pains.
The peppers in the container are used to make pepper spray. The exposed material, capsaicin, is an irritant that is not fatal, authorities said.The substance has been contained and is no longer a threat.                 
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • The average human has about 65 square inches of nasal membrane, compared to about 900 square inches for dogs. This explains why their sense of smell is so highly developed.
  • While snowmen are often depicted with carrots as noses, Frosty the Snowman's nose was a button.
  • Despite the fact that nose jobs have become common in Hollywood, some still feel the need to defend these surgeries with excuses other than that they're purely cosmetic. One notable example is Tori Spelling, who admitted to having the surgery in 1994, but only to repair damage caused by a parrot bite.
  • Jimmy Durante isn't the only celebrity to make a nose print in the cement in the forecourt of Grauman's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood. Bob Hope did the same.
  • The Proboscis monkey, named for the large nose that hangs down towards its chins, can only be found on Borneo. The creature's diet relies on leaves and fruits from trees that don't grow anywhere but on the island.
  • Alfred Hitchcock joked that he would call his 1959 movie The Man in Lincoln's Nose (after the dramatic final chase sequence on Mt. Rushmore), but given concerns that such a name would be off-putting to moviegoers, it was changed to North by Northwest.


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
10-18
Elvis Week
12-18
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week
Weird Contest Week
15-21
National Aviation Week
17-26
Little League Baseball World Series

Today Is                                                                      
Bad Poetry Day
Birth Control Pills Day
Daffodil Day
International Geocaching Day
Mail Order Catalog Day (1872—by AM Ward)
Serendipity Day

Today’s Events Through History  
2000’s
2011 - The West Memphis Three are released from prison after 18 years 
            in imprisonment
2000 - A Federal jury finds the US EPA guilty of discrimination against Dr. Marsha 
            Coleman-Adebayo, under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, later inspiring 
            passage of the No FEAR Act
1900’s
1996 - Record 6,654 tap at Macy's Tap-o-mania in NYC
1988 - FDA approves Minoxidil as a hair loss treatment
1982 - Longest baseball game at Wrigley Field in Chicago IL, ends after 
            22 innings - before LA Dodgers beat Cubs 2-1 (game started Aug 17th)
1973 - Hank Aaron's record 1,378 extra base hit surpasses Stan Musial record
1958 - "Lolita," by Vladimir Nabokov, published
1958 - TV game show scandal investigation starts
1800’s
1894 - Congress creates Bureau of Immigration
1868 - Pierre Janssan discovers helium in solar spectrum during eclipse
1854 - Captain Jesse Walker attacks the Modocs on Tule Lake. Several minor 
            engagements continue until the peace treaty is reached on September 4, 1854.
1835 - Last Pottawatomie Indians leave Chicago
1834 - Mt Vesuvius erupts
1804 - Lewis and Clark meet with the Ottos to discuss the war with the Maha.
1700’s
1735 - Evening Post begins publishing (Boston Mass)
1600’s
1686 - Cassini reports seeing a satellite orbiting Venus

Before 1000CE
0293 BC - The oldest known Roman temple to Venus is founded, starting the
                   institution of Vinalia Rustica

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 40’s
Christian Slater, actor (Robin Hood, Untamed Heart, Heathers) is 43
Edward Norton, actor, screenwriter, film director and producer is 43
Malcolm Jamal Warner, Jersey City NJ, actor (Theodore-Cosby Show) is 42
In their 50’s
Dennis Leary, actor (Rescue Me)/comic (MTV) is 55
Bob Woodruff, American journalist, anchor is 51
In their 60’s
Martin Mull, Chic Ill, actor/comedian (Bad Manners, Flick, Serial) is 69
In their 70’s
Rafer Johnson, Hillsboro Texas, decathlete (Olympics-gold-60)  is 77
Roman Polanski,  director (Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates) is 79
Robert Redford, American actor (Sting, Candidate, Natural, Great Gatsby) is 75
In their 80’s
Rosalynn Smith Carter, Georgia, 1st lady is 85

Remembered for being born today
Johan J Arch, graphic artist (wood cutter) b. 1871
Roberto Clemente, US baseball outfielder (Pittsburgh Pirates) b. 1934
Virginia Dare, 1st American born of English parents b. 1587
Max Factor Jr, CEO (Max Factor Cosmetics) b. 1904
Walter J Hickel, (Gov-R-Alaska)/US Secretary of Interior (1969-71) b. 1919
Meriwether Lewis, solider, explorer and public administrator (Lewis & Clark 
          Expedition) b. 1774
Johnny Preston, singer (Running Bear, Cradle of Love) b. 1939
Patrick Swayze, Houston Tx, actor/dancer (Dirty Dancing, Ghost) b. 1952
Casper Weinberger, US Secretary of Defense (1981-87) b. 1917
Grant Williams, NYC, actor (Hawaiian Eye, Incredible Shrinking Man) b. 1930
Shelley Winters, St Louis Missouri, actress (A Place in the Sun, A Patch of 
          Blue & Poseidon Adventure) b. 1920
Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
James Beattie, Scottish poet/philosopher (Essay on Truth), dies in 1803 at 67
Walter P. Chrysler, American automobile executive dies after stroke in 1938 at 62
Michael Deaver, Reagan Administration Deputy White House Chief of Staff 
          dies of pancreatic cancer in 2007 at 69
Genghis Khan, Mongol conqueror, dies of ?(fall from horse, in battle, or 
          pneumonia) in 1227 at 65
Robert Novak, American journalist and commentator dies of brain tumor in 2009 at 78
Joseph E. Seagram, Canadian distillery founder in 1919 at 78
Vaughn Shoemaker, US cartoonist (John Q Public, Pulitzer), dies in 1991 at 89
B F Skinner, psychologist (Skinner Box), dies of Leukemia in 1990 at 86

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Do you know what this word means?
Change range
What is the answer?
Misheard lyrics….Like ‘Excuse me while I kiss this guy’ instead of ‘Excuse me while I kiss the sky’
Scrambled Proverbs
Look before you leap
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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August 17


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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 33 / Day:    Today: High   79°…Low 60°
Records: High   89°(1939) …Low 37°(1968)
Averages: High   78°…Low 50°
Wind:   4mph;  Gusts: 25mph
Afternoon Rain  Today’s humidity: 65%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1988 - Republicans nominate George Bush for president
1982 - The first Compact Discs (CDs) were released to the public in Germany
1979 - Monty Python's "Life of Brian" premieres
1978 - 1st successful crossing of the Atlantic by balloon (3 Americans)
1976 - An earthquake & tidal wave in the Philippines kills up to 8,000
1961 - Kennedy administration establishes Alliance for Progress
1959 - 7.1 quake strikes Yellowstone National Park
1953 - Addiction: First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous in Southern California
1952 - "Fallout" 1st used (NY Times)
1945 - Koreas divided on 38th parallel with US occupying the southern area
1933 - Lou Gehrig breaks record by playing in his 1,308th straight game
1903 - Joe Pulitzer donated $1 million to Columbia U & begins Pulitzer Prizes
1891 - 1st public bathhouse with showers opens in NYC (People's Bath)
1891 - Electric self-starter for automobile patented
1870 - 1st ascent of Mt Rainier, Washington
1869 - 1st international boat race (Thames River, Oxford beats Harvard)
1787 - Jews are granted permission in Budapest Hungary to pray in groups
1590 - John White returns to Roanoke, Virginia to find no trace of colonist's he 
            had left there 3 yrs earlier

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪ 
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Lots of clouds, then out of nowhere, hail. My deck had almost 2” of hail on it…tiny little beads—thank goodness. Then hard and heavy rain. Pictures on FB from around town show lots of flooding in all the streets around town. Some parking lots a few miles from my place looked more like mid-January with 3”-4” of hail covering their lots. Our parking lot is full of pine cones and pine needles from the gushes of water that were heading down the road. Then there was the lightning. I saw a big hit on the hill just east of my place, and read that the Circle K about a half of a mile away also got a direct hit. No injuries, and haven’t heard of any fires but it was quite a storm. Just another reminder that Mother Nature does as she pleases, when she pleases.

The evening news from Phoenix had lots about our storm, but more importantly, news about the backlash from Governor Brewer’s Executive Order. Many legislators are saying that she has overstepped her authority and needs to rescind her order. Thank goodness, some people in AZ are still awake. She is out of the state right now but that didn’t stop several demonstrations at the state capital and at her office. A Presidential Executive Order is for all the US...I’ll see how this plays out. So interesting to live in AZ.

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)
a hiding place for window frameworks (4,5)
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.
ITBRI DN ON TDHT BHAWSSWAOE TIUE NHHHR (11 words)
Lifestyle  Substance     
Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!
Man Kills Self Before Shooting Wife and Daughter
Do you know what this word means?
What is this not so common name of a common object?
Dysania
London 2012—

Bebop music:

Harper’s Index         
Percentage of African countries in which it is illegal to practice homosexuality: 69
Unusal Fact of the Day
The University of Wyoming opened its doors before Wyoming became a state.
Found on You Tube 

Joke-of-the-day
Two classmates were chatting in their lunch break..."I know how to get money real quick" says one,” How?""Go to your dad and say, "I know the truth" and he'll give you money"So the young boy went home and said "Dad, I know the truth" and  his dad gave him ten dollars and told him not to tell anyone 'the truth'.He then went to his mother, " Mom, I know the truth” he said."Please don't tell your dad" she said and gave him twenty dollars.Content with thirty dollars he went outside to go to the arcade and saw the milkman. "I know the truth,” he shouted out.The milkman replied "Well come and hug your real father then"
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FEEDING KIDS: Children don't need huge servings of food. Start with one tablespoon of each item per year of age.
Yeah, It Really Happened
NORTH LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A Florida teenager told police he couldn't help himself when he allegedly groped a woman while shopping at Walmart.
Aaron Morris, 18, North Lauderdale, allegedly told officers following his arrest Thursday he could not help reaching out and touching the woman's bottom as she shopped. "Her booty looked so good, I just couldn't resist touching it," Morris said in a report filed by Broward County sheriff's deputies.
Morris was picked up a short time later at a gas station when the woman pointed him out to deputies. He was jailed on a battery charge, the South Florida Sun Sentinel reported.                 
Somewhat Useless Information   
According to 'The History of Science and Technology', by Bryan Bunch and Alexander Hellemans, in 610 AD "...an Italian monk invents pretzels as a reward to children who learn their prayers. He calls the strips of baked dough, folded to resemble arms crossing the chest, 'pretiola' ("little rewards")".
Pretzel baking has most firmly taken root in southern Germany and adjoining Upper German - speaking areas, and pretzels have been an integral part of German baking traditions for centuries.
Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
10-18
Elvis Week
12-18
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week
Weird Contest Week
15-21
National Aviation Week
17-26
Little League Baseball World Series

Today Is                                                                      
Hug Your Boss Day
Meaning of "Is" Day: Spend today trying to define ‘is’ 
                                                    in your words without using the word ‘be’
Men's Grooming Day
National Thrift Shop Day
Gabon: Independence Day (1960 from France)
Indonesia: Independence Day (1945 from Netherlands)  

Today’s Events Through History  
2000’s
2005 - The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of the Israel unilateral 
            disengagement plan, starts
2004 - The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for 
            Serbia: Boze Pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is
            adopted for the whole country.
1900’s
1998 - Monica Lewinsky scandal: Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an 
           "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and
            he "misled people" about his relationship.
1988 - Pakistani President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold 
            Raphel are killed in a plane crash
1985 - 1,400 meatpackers walk off the job at a Geo A Hormel & Co plant
1960 - Francis Gary Powers U-2 spy trial opens in Moscow
1957 - Richie Ashburn, fouls hit fan Alice Roth twice in same at bat 1st one breaks
            her nose, 2nd one hits her while she is on the stretcher
1948 - Alger Hiss denies ever being a Communist agent
1947 - The Radcliffe Line, the border between Union of India and Dominion 
            of Pakistan is revealed
1943 - Gen Patton enters Messina, completing conquest of Sicily by Allies
1938 - 1st aircraft owned by Forest Service in service (Oakland)
1918 - Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated
1915 - Hurricane strikes Galveston, TX (275 killed)
1800’s
1883 - The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, 
             Himno Nacional
1877 - Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos
1870 - Mrs Esther Morris becomes 1st woman magistrate (South Pass, Wyoming)
1859 - 1st air mail (in a balloon) took off from Lafayette Ind
1835 - Solymon Merrick patents wrench
1807 - Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont begins 1st trip up Hudson River
1700’s
1788 - Losantville, OH (now Cincinnati) founded
1765 - Pontiac and the British sign a treaty
1755 - Almost 400 Indians attack John Kilburn’s stockade at Walpole, Connecticut. 
            Some sources say the Indians are led by King Philip. After a day of fighting, 
            the Indians withdraw

1500’s
1577 - Peace of Bergerac: Political rights for Huguenots

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 50’s
Belinda Carlisle, Hollywood Ca, (GoGos lead singer, Heaven on Earth) is 54
Sean Penn, actor (Fast Times at Ridgemont High) is 52
In their 60’s
Robert De Niro, actor (Bang the Drum Slowly, Taxi Driver) is 69

In their 90’s
Maureen O'Hara, [Fitzsimmons], Dublin, actress (Miracle on 34th St) is 92

Remembered for being born today
Davy Crockett, Greene County, Tennessee, frontiersman/adventurer/politician
       (Alamo) b. 1786
Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist b. 1851
Marcus Garvey, began back-to-Africa movement among US blacks b. 1887
Francis Gary Powers, US spy (USSR captures him in 1959 U-2 incident) b. 1929
Mae West, New York, actress (She Dine him Wrong) b. 1893
Floyd Red Crow Westerman, Native American musician-actor b. 1936
Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Pearl Bailey, actress (Landlord)/singer, dies of heart attack in 1990 at 72
Ira Gershwin, lyricist ("I Got Rhythm", "Embraceable You"), dies in 1983 at 86
Rudolph Hess, Nazi (46 years in Spandau Prison), commits suicide at 93
Tommy Nutter, fashion designer (bell bottom pants), dies of AIDs in 1992 at 49
Franklin D Roosevelt Jr, (Rep-D-NY, 1949-55), dies of lung cancer in 1988 
     on 74th birthday
Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies of cancer in 1979 at 70

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Do you know what this word means?
The state of finding it hard to get out of the bed in the morning.
What is the answer?
Sash stash
Scrambled Proverbs
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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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