August 22


FYI: Click on any blue text for a link to more information!

Flagstaff Almanac…  
Week: 34 / Day:  235  Today: High   74°…Low 59°
Records: High   90°(2009,1991) …Low 33°(1979)
Averages: High   78°…Low 49 °
Wind:   4mph;  Gusts: 18mph
Rain  Today’s average humidity:  68%

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…
2007 - The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a 
            record 57 million e-mails in one day
1989 - 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
1972 - International Olympic Committee expels Rhodesia for its racist policies
1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed
1950 - Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competitor in natl tennis competition
1945 - Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1944 - Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed
1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1911 - Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre (Recovered in 1913)
1849 -The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against 
             the Italian city of Venice
1788 - Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
1614 - Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of 
            ghetto in Frankfurt

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
Free Rambling Thoughts…   
An unusually cloudy day here…with rain on and off most of the day. Cloudy days make me clean…not sure why, but it happens more often than not. So today was office cleaning day. So nice to have the smell of fresh rain around the house. It would rain, then the pavement would dry out and a little later it would rain again.

NAU is opening soon…and that means we get our local TV news in a few weeks. That will be nice. For those who live in major cities, you have local stuff all the time. Here in Flagstaff, we can’t support a local TV station so the University stepped up and has Communication’s students produce, direct, and run the news with a couple of locals co-anchoring for the kids. Of course our local weatherman is on board most days.

I am really tired of hearing about the Conservative agenda on abortion. This is putting religion in to government. One idiot, a possible Senator, says that the female body can shut down if it is a legitimate rape. The plank in the Republican party says that abortion is wrong period. It doesn’t deal with either rape or incest. The real fear seems to be that many women become pregnant by mistake and then claim rape to get an abortion. Of course there is no factual information that this is happening. There are facts that show 30000+ women became pregnant from a rape/incest incident last year. The perps are in prison or awaiting trial. As an adoptee I believe that no woman should be forced to have a child after a rape/incest. I am so confused, as the leading Conservatives keep talking about less government in our lives (especially our business lives?) but keep adding more government into private lives. Many of these idiots say they never met anyone who became pregnant from a rape/incest doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. It happens about 82 times a day in the US.  

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)
ingress of those people just below the nobility (6,5)
NEW!!!!    Rebus…
Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance…     
Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
Do you know what this word means?
What is this not so common name of a common object?
Aglet
Historic Flagstaff, AZ—…

60’s music…:
In The Midnight Hour- Wilson Pickett
Sunshine Of Your Love- Cream
Purple Haze- Jimi Hendrix
A Day In The Life- Beatles
Harper’s Index…         
Percentage of worldwide data theft last year that was tied to political activism: 58
Unusal Fact of the Day…
Although he hit 563 career home runs, Reggie Jackson never hit more than 30 homers in consecutive seasons.
Found on You Tube… 

Joke-of-the-day…
One day, a grandpa and his grandson go golfing. The young one is really good and the old one is just giving him tips. They are on hole 8 and there is a tree in the way and the grandpa says,
"When I was your age, I would hit the ball right over that tree."
So, the grandson hits the ball and it bumps against the tree and lands not too far from where it started. "Of course," added the grandpa, "when I was your age, the tree was only 3 feet tall."
Rules of Thumb…   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
JUDGING DESIGN When simple things need instructions, it is a sign of poor design.
Yeah, It Really Happened…
When Robert Anthony Buell, 62, was executed by lethal injection on September 2002 in Lucasville, Ohio for the murder of an 11-year-old girl, he chose for his last meal, a single black, unpitted olive.It is not exactly sure why he chose his last meal to be so spartan. Buell had ample time during his eight years on death row to think about it. Another condemned man, Peter J. Miniel, 42, who was executed by lethal injection in October, 2004, in Huntsville, Texas, for the murder of a 21-year-old man, had no problems pigging out before his execution.
After 16 years of death row prison chow, Miniel gorged himself on 20 beef tacos, 20 beef enchiladas, two double cheeseburgers, a pizza with jalapeños, fried chicken, spaghetti with salt, a small fruit cake, half of a chocolate cake, half of a vanilla cake, cookies-n-cream ice cream, caramel pecan fudge ice cream, two Coca-Colas, two Pepsi-Colas, two root beers and two orange juices.
Somewhat Useless Information…   
  • The late Bobby Pickett perfected his Boris Karloff impersonation as a youngster, and it served him well when he employed it to great effect on "Monster Mash." The song topped the music charts Halloween week in 1962 and became a perennial late-October favorite.
  • Best known for the novelty hits "Wooly Bully" and "Lil' Red Riding Hood," the leader of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs wasn't named Samuel, but Domingo. The nickname was an abbreviation of his last name, Samudio.
  • Johnny Horton recorded two versions of his hit "The Battle of New Orleans," one for American audiences and one for release in the United Kingdom. The lyrics were changed in the overseas version to examine the historic event from the British perspective.
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic's second single, "Another One Rides the Bus," was recorded live on the Dr. Demento radio program in 1980. It was a step up from his first single, "My Bologna," which Al had recorded in the bathroom across the hall from the student radio station at Cal Poly.
  • Tom Lehrer, whose novelty hits included "The Vatican Rug" and "The Masochicsm Tango," was a major-league brainiac. He earned a Master's degree in math from Harvard before he turned 20 and went on to teach the subject at MIT and UC-Santa Cruz.
  • Dickie Goodman made a music career with a microphone and a razor blade. He inter-spliced short snippets of up-and-coming pop hits with his own voice (as a reporter or interviewer), spawning a long series of novelty singles, beginning with "The Flying Saucer" in 1956.


Calendar Information…        
Happening This Week:
17-26
Little League Baseball World Series
19-25
Minority Enterprise Development Week

Today Is…                                                                      
Be An Angel Day 
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day [go outside at noon and yell ‘hoodie hoo’ to chase winter away)

Today’s Events Through History…  
2000’s
2007 - The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored 
            by a team in modern MLB history
2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, 
            are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway
2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply 
            with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten 
           Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building
1900’s
1988 - NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
1984 - Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush
1975 - Assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford
1968 - 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
1962 - Failed assassination on President De Gaulle
1962 - Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage
            from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
1951 - Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
1941 - Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
1932 - The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting
1921 - J Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI
1906 - 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1902 - Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
1800’s
1877 - Nez Perce flee into to Yellowstone National Park
1864 - International Red Cross forms
1862 - Santee Sioux attack Fort Ridgely
1848 - The United States annexes New Mexico
1806: Pike’s expedition has reached a village of the Little Osage near the forks of the 
           Osage River in modern Missouri. He holds a council here with both the Grand 
            and Little Osage. The Little Osage are lead by Tuttassuggy or "The Wind," and
            the Grand Osage by Cheveau Blanc, or White Hair.
1700’s
1791 - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
1762 - 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1600’s
1670: Hiacoomes preaches his first sermon to his Wampanoag people on 
           Martha's Vineyard.
1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company 
            on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers

1100’s
1138 - English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were 
            carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard

Before 1000CE
565 - St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           
In their 40’s
Ty Burrell, actor (Modern Family) is 45
Giada De Laurentiis, Italian/American chef and television host is 42
Rick Yune, actor is 41
In their 50’s
Holly Dunn, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Daddy's Hands) is 55
John Kidd, NFL punter (Miami Dolphins) is 51
In their 60’s
Steve Kroft, Kokomo Ind, co-editor (60 Minutes) is 67
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, White House Chief of Staff is 62
Cindy Williams, actress (Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days) is 65
In their 70’s
Morton Dean (Morton Dubitsky) , Fall River Mass, TV newscaster (CBS, ABC) is 77
Valerie Harper, (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Valerie) will be 72
H Norman Schwarzkopf, Trenton NJ, 4-star Army general (Gulf War) is 78
Carl Yastrzemski, NY, Boston Red Sox great (1967 AL MVP, Hall of Fame) is 73
In their 80’s
Honor Blackman, actress (Pussy Galore-Goldfinger) is 86

Remembered for being born today
Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury, Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451) b. 1920
David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader 
       (Chicago 7) b. 1915
George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) b. 1880
James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope b. 1915
John Lee Hooker, Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Canned Heat) b. 1917
John Lupton, Highland Park Ill, actor (Tom-Broken Arrow) b. 1920
James Kirke Paulding, American author, Sec. of Navy b. 1778
Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe b. 1822

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           
Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam dies of battle wounds in 634
Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush in 1922 at 31
Isabella, Queen of England dies in 1358 at 62 or 63
Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle in 1485 at 32

Answers…                                                                                                                                            
Do you know what this word means?
The plastic coating on a shoelace.
What is the answer?
Gentry entry
Rebus
A cut above the rest 
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  ☺
Posted by No comments:

August 21


FYI: Click on any blue text for a link to more information!

Flagstaff Almanac…  
Week: 34 / Day:    Today: High   80°…Low 57°
Records: High   90°(2009) …Low 35°(1979)
Averages: High   78°…Low 50°
Wind:   9mph;  Gusts: 20mph
Today’s humidity:  63%

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…
2001 - The Red Cross announces that a famine is striking Tajikistan, and 
             calls for international financial aid for Tajikistan and Uzbekistan
1987 - Clayton Lonetree, 1st marine court-martialed for spying, convicted
1985 - Mary Decker Slaney runs mile in world record 4:16.71
1972 - 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps
1968 - Marine James Anderson Jr is 1st black Medal of Honor winner
1959 - Hawaii becomes 50th US state
1938 - Italy bars all Jewish teachers in Public & High School
1897 - Oldsmobile begins operation as a General Motors Corp division
1878 - American Bar Association organizes at Sarasota, NY
1680 - Pueblo Indians takes possession of Santa Fé from Spanish

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
Free Rambling Thoughts…   
My week started out well. Got the pictures printed at the local Office Max and sent them to Denver. I hope everyone is happy with the results. Then I got a haircut. The lady who does it has been on vacation and just got back. She really wanted to talk about my pictures, and I could tell she enjoyed them, as she talked about her family enjoying specific pictures. Made me feel good.

I waited for the rain, but it hasn’t come…still cloudy and maybe later tonight. Still a nice day. I also called my rental people about my new lease. They forgot to send it, but thankfully the rent is not changing. The strange part is that my lease actually ended in July, according to my records, and looking at my bank statement the last payment was made in June. The guy says my rent always comes early via electronic check, and I am paid up. Hmmm. I’m sure they will find their mistake eventually, but until then, I’ll just set up another year of monthly payments. Can’t argue with The Man. I also can’t believe my rent has changed since my second lease…5 years ago. Can’t complain about that, especially in Flagstaff.

There is a very interesting video that went viral…showing a herd of elephants that are chasing a vehicle filled with tourists. I can certainly understand that this can happen. On both my safaris, we had a young bull give us ‘the look’. Neither time did we experience any fear, but we did pull out quickly and neither young bull followed us. Both drivers did tell us that it was time to leave. The reason I’m not posting this in my blog in found on YouTube, is that it doesn’t say where it happened. I have a feeling that it might have happened at a wild animal park here in the US. It is something about the flora in the area, but not being a botanist, I can’t say for sure. It seems to me, if it happened on an African Safari, the person who posted it would have said where they were. Also, all the safari experiences I’ve seen on YouTube have told where they were, usually the lodge, but always the word Africa is somewhere on the video. Wherever it happened, it certainly was exciting and frightening, I’m sure for the riders.

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)
smelled the British elevator (7,4)
Scrambled Proverbs…
Last Day for this puzzle, new on tomorrow!
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.
AE IEKDCL EA NEA IHYSANLTK (6 words)
Lifestyle  Substance…     
Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!
Miners Refuse to Work after Death
Do you know what this word means?
What is this not so common name of a common object?
Purlicue
Historic Flagstaff, AZ—…

60’s music…:

Harper’s Index…         
Date on which Wyoming introduced a bill to create a ‘continuity’ plan in the event of a Federal collapse: 2/16/2012
Unusal Fact of the Day…
A gun with a silencer attached sounds about as loud as a car door being slammed. It’s much quieter than the usual “bang!” but it’s not as subtle as the little “whoosh” heard in James Bond films.
Found on You Tube… 
Reclassify the objects of the Solar System (English Subtitles)        
Joke-of-the-day…
A mother mouse and a baby mouse were walking along, when all of a sudden, a cat attacked them. The mother mouse goes, "BARK!" and the cat runs away. "See?" says the mother mouse to her baby. "Now do you see why it's important to learn a foreign language?"
Rules of Thumb…   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
LIFE LESSONS When it hurts the most, you're learning the most.
Yeah, It Really Happened…
Portland OR - Police in Oregon are trying to sting a man who robbed a local restaurant using bug spray as his weapon of choice.The thief came into a place called Elmer's on Monday wearing a blonde wig, a white beanie and a green sweatshirt with gloves just before midnight, and sprayed bug repellant in a bartender's face, the Associated Press reported.The bartender tried to bat away the can of insect repellent, but got a direct spray to the face. That enabled the thief to get away with an undisclosed amount of cash from the register of the Roseburg restaurant.Sgt. Aaron Dunbar of the Roseburg police said that bug spray isn't usually used by criminals."This is an extremely unusual case. We've had robberies in the past, but the idea of using bug spray as a weapon is a first," he told KPIC-TV.               
Somewhat Useless Information…   
Americans' drinking habits held steady in the past year, with 66% saying they consume alcohol and drinkers consuming just over four alcoholic drinks per week, on average. Beer continues to be Americans' preferred drink, although wine remains a close second, with liquor favored by 22%.While only 12% of drinkers report consuming eight or more drinks in the past week -- averaging more than one per day -- Gallup finds 22% of drinkers saying they sometimes drink too much. This is up from 17% last year, but similar to the percentages in most other years over the past decade.
Calendar Information…        
Happening This Week:
15-21
National Aviation Week
17-26
Little League Baseball World Series
19-25
Minority Enterprise Development Week

Today Is…                                                                      
Earth Over Shoot Day or Ecological Debt Day
Poet's Day
Senior Citizen's Day
National Spumoni Day  

Today’s Events Through History…  
2000’s
2001 - NATO decides to send a peace-keeping force to the former Yugoslav 
            Republic of Macedonia
2000 - Tiger Woods wins golf's PGA Championship to become the first golfer 
             since Ben Hogan in 1953 to win 3 majors in a calendar year.
1900’s
1997 - US government forces closure of Hudson Foods due to E Coli break out
1995 - US marshals move in on Randy Weaver's cabin in Idaho
1982 - Rollie Fingers (Brewers) becomes 1st pitcher to get save #300
1975 - US lightens trade embargo against Cuba
1972 - US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched
1945 - Pres Harry Truman ends Lend-Lease program
1944 - Grieg/Work/Forest's musical "Song of Norway," premieres in NYC
1915 - Italy declares war on Turkey in World War One
1800’s
1879 - The Virgin Mary, along with St. Joseph and St. John the Evangelist, 
             reportedly appears to the people of Knock, County Mayo, Ireland
1858 - 1st Lincoln-Douglas debate (Illinois)
1856 - America's first consul to Japan, Townsend Harris, arrives in Shimoda
1847 - The Pillager Band of Chippewa sign a treaty (9 stat. 908) at Leech Lake.
1831 - Nat Turner slave revolt kills 55 (Southampton County, Virginia)
1700’s
1760 - The church (later cathedral) of "Our Lady of Candlemas of Mayagüez 
             (Puerto Rico)" is founded, establishing the basis for the founding of the city
1600’s
1689 - Frenchmen convince local Indians to attack British Fort Charles in Maine.
            Several settlers are killed in the fighting.

1300’s
1321 - 160 Jews of Chincon France, burned at stake

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           
Under 30
Usain Bolt, Trelawny Jamaica, sprinter (Olympic Gold 2008/2012) is 26
Brody Jenner, son of Bruce is 29
In their 30’s
Amy Fisher, Long Island NY, shot Mary Jo Buttafucco is 38

In their 50’s
Kim Cattrall, actor (Sex in the City) is 56
Jim McMahon, NFL QB (Chicago Bears, San Diego Chargers, Philadelphia Eagles) 
      is 53
In their 60’s
Jackie DeShannon, Hazel Kentucky, singer (What the World Needs Now) is 68
Harry Smith, Hammond Ind, TV co-anchor (CBS Morning Show) is 61
In their 70’s
Kenny Rogers, Houston Texas, singer (Through the Years) is 72
Clarence Williams III, NYC, actor (Mod Squad, 52 Pick Up, Purple Rain) is 73

Remembered for being born today
[William] Count Basie, Red Bank NJ, jazz musician (Blazing Saddles) b. 1904
Wilt Chamberlain, NBA great center (LA Laker, 5 time MVP) b. 1936
Giacomo F. Maraldi, French-Italian astronomer b. 1665
Blossom Rock, actress, (Grandmamma-Addams Family) b. 1895
Jack Weston, American actor b. 1924

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           
Bernice Alexandra ‘Ray’ Eames, American designer, artist and architect 
        dies in 1988 at 76
Robert Moog, American pioneer of electronic music dies of brain tumor in 2005at 71
Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor dies in 1814 at 61
Leon Trotsky, Russian revolutionary, icepicked by Ramón Mercader in 1940 at 62

Answers…                                                                                                                                            
Do you know what this word means?
The space between the thumb and the forefingers.
What is the answer?
Sniffed lift
Scrambled Proverbs
Like a needle in a haystack

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  ☺
Posted by No comments:
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)

Followers

Total Pageviews

Blog Archive

About Me

My photo
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.