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Flagstaff
Almanac…
Week: 37 / Day: 254 Today: High
75°…Low 43°
Records: High
87°(1977,’45)…Low 31°(2001,1941)
Averages: High
75°…Low 44°
Wind: average: 5.4mph; Gusts:
16mph
Today’s average humidity: 54%
Quote
of the Day…
Today’s Historical
Highlights…
2008 - The Large
Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific
experiment in the
history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland
1997 – Discovery
Channel buys Travel Channel for $20 million
1990 - 19 year old
Pete Sampras beats Andre Agassi to win US Open
1972 - 20th Olympic
games close at Munich, German FR
1955 - "Gunsmoke"
premieres on CBS TV
1953 - Swanson sells
it's 1st "TV dinner"
1940 - Buckingham
Palace hit by German bomb
1923 - Irish Free
state joins League of Nations
1913 - Lincoln
Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
1847 - 1st theater
opens in Hawaii
1776 - George
Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers
1608 - John Smith
elected president of Jamestown colony council
1547 - Battle at
Pinkie, Midlothian: English beat the Scots
♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪..
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free
Rambling Thoughts…
Hoping for rain, but only got some clouds. Seems like such a
waste. It did give me time to catch up on my Sunday news programs. So happy to
hear that I’m not the only one fed up with spin. Even the media, famous for
spinning, is tired of it. According to most in the media and in the campaign,
it all comes down to 8 swing states. That’s where all the money and visits are
being sent. OK, I guess I’m glad I’m not in a swing state…we already have too
many PAC ads here. My current congressman is running in a new district. I
notified his campaign office no longer want any emails from him. I didn’t get any
today, so we’ll see if that continues to work. I was getting about 3 a day. He
is very conservative and very proud of his record against Obama. I signed up
for his emails when he represented me; remember ‘keep your friends close and
your enemies closer.’ Anyway, we’ll see what happens.
The Cardinals had a good win this afternoon. Now to see what the
Broncos do tonight. I’m not a big football fan, but these teams are enjoyable
to watch.
I’ve mentioned before how much I enjoy our Sunday paper’s reprints
of very old news from their paper. Here are two stories from 100 YEARS AGO in
Flagstaff
The younger Dwiggins boy and the Ward boy, who
skipped out with Mrs. George Bucklar's horse and buggy, were sentenced to
reform school and taken to Benson by Deputy Sheriff William Dickson last
Sunday. The older Dwiggins boy was put under a probation officer.
Post Office Inspector C.F. Dutton was here
this week inspecting with the view of establishing a city delivery system. It
is probable that this will be delayed, since not all the streets have signs,
not all houses have numbers or door slots, and not all sidewalks are
continuous, nor do all streets have lights.
Game Center: (answers at the end of post)
What
is the rhyming 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)
Donovan's colourful classic (6,6)
Rebus…
Can you figure
out what this means?
Lifestyle Substance…
Do you
remember this?
Read
This Headline Carefully!!
Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
Do
you know what this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
Muselets (Pronounced muse-lay)
Whitewater
Fun…
First
Version/Hit Version…:
Flack’s song reached number one on the charts and took home three Grammy Awards – two for Flack and one for the song itself and this version of the song was later inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Lori Lieberman, a Jennifer Aniston lookalike, sang the original version of the song a year before Roberta Flack. Lori Lieberman claims to have inspired the song based on a poem she wrote about Don McLean but lyricist Norman Gimbel and music writer Charles Fox disagree and say that Lori talked about the song and Don McLean after they had written it.
Harper’s
Index…
Factor by which fleas that fed on Jurassic dinosaurs were larger that today’s common house flea: 10
Unusal
Fact of the Day…
According to MLB.com, major league umpires can earn as much as $300,000 per season.Found on You Tube…
Joke-of-the-day…
Ladies and gentlemen, hobos and tramps, Bug-eyed mosquitoes and bowlegged ants!
I'm about to tell you a story I've never heard before, so pull up a chair and sit on the floor.
Admission is free, so pay at the door.
One fine day, in the middle of the night, two, dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back, they faced each other, drew their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise, and saved the lives of the two dead boys.
If you don't believe my lies are true, ask the blind man, he saw it too!
Rules
of Thumb…
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
SITING A SHOPPING CENTER--People are willing to drive for 30 minutes to get to a regional shopping center.
Yeah,
It Really Happened…
SOMERSET, Pa. - Pennsylvania State Police said they arrested a man caught on camera stealing a toilet from a store and immediately returning the item for store credit. Investigators said Bobby Clifford Smith?III, 32, was caught on camera Aug. 28 taking the toilet from a Lowes home improvement store in Somerset and going directly to the customer service line, where he exchanged the toilet for $667.34 in store credit without presenting a receipt, the Johnstown (Pa.) Tribune-Democrat reported Thursday. Smith was arraigned Tuesday on a retail theft charge and held in lieu of $30,000 bail.
Somewhat
Useless Information…
- Pluto was discovered at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, AZ.
- Arizona High Spirits Distillery is in Flagstaff, the first legal distillery in the state of Arizona, operation began in November 2005. The feature products are a Prickly Pear Vodka and American Vodka.
- The famous Route 66 runs directly through Flagstaff.
- The Hotel Monte Vista, Weatherford Hotel and Museum Club, among other places in Flagstaff, are believed to be haunted. Guests have reported seeing "spirits" or having supernatural experiences.
- The Museum of Northern Arizona houses more than 5 million southwestern artifacts.
Calendar
Information…
Happening This Week:
9-13:Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week / National Assisted Living Week / National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week / Suicide Prevention Week / Line Dance Week
Today
Is…
National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
Swap Ideas Day
(World) Suicide Prevention Day
Today’s
Events Through History…
2000’s
2002 - Switzerland,
traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations
1900’s
1992
- Lucy in Peanuts comics raises her Pyschiatric Help from 5 cents to 47
cents
1990
- Ellis Island reopens as a museum
1978
- Jimmy Connors is 1st player to win US Open on 3 different surfaces
1977
- Hamida Djandoubi, convicted for torture and murder, is the last person
to
be executed by Guillotine in France
1969
- US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado
1964 - Palestinian
Liberation Army (PLA) forms
1963 - 20
black students entered public schools in Alabama
1944 - Lt-gen
Frederick Browning against Montgomery "But, sir, I think we might
be going
a bridge too far"
1924
- Leopold & Loeb found guilty of murder
1800’s
1897 - Police
shoot at striking mine workers in Penns, kills 20
1874 -
Captain Wyllys Lyman, and sixty men from the Fifth Infantry, are escorting a
supply wagon train for Colonel Nelson Miles at the Washita River, Indian
Territory (present day Oklahoma), when they are attacked by Indians. The
soldiers remain barricaded for several days, until relief arrives from Camp
Supply, in the panhandle of Indian Territory. One soldier is killed, three
other
whites, including Lieutenant Granville Lewis, are wounded during the
fight. First
Sergeant John Mitchell, Sergeants William de Armond, Fred S. Hay,
George
Kitchen, John Knox, William Koelpin and Frederick Neilon, Corporals John
James, John J. H. Kelly, and William Morris, and Private Thomas Kelly,
Company
I, will earn the Congressional Medal of Honor for "gallantry in
action"
during this engagement.
1846 - Elias
Howe patents sewing machine
1600’s
1683 -
Susquehanna Chief Kekelappan sells William Penn half of his lands between
the
Susquehanna and the Delaware River
1300’s
1349 - Jews
who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
Today’s
Birthdays…
Under 30
Luke
Treadaway, English stage, film and TV actor is 28
In their 30’s
Ryan Phillippe, Soap and movie actor
is 38
In their 40’s
Guy
Ritchie. English screenwriter, film director and producer is 44
In their 50’s
Colin
Firth, English actor (Femme Fatale, Hostages) is 52
In their 60’s
Jose
Feliciano, Puerto Rican singer/songwriter/guitarist (Light my Fire) is 67
Judy
Geeson, English actor (To Sir with Love) is 64
Bob
Lanier, NBA center (Detroit Pistons, Milwaukee Bucks) is 64
Joe Perry,
Boston Mass, rock guitarist (Aerosmith-Walk this Way) is 62
Remembered for
being born today
- Alice Brown Davis, 1st female Principal Seminole chief b. 1852
- Hilde Hildebrand, German actress b. 1897
- Julius III, Counter-Reformation pope and believed to be homosexual b. 1487
- Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist [punctuated equilibrium in evolution] b. 1941
- Roger Maris, Hibbing, Minnesota, Yankee, HR champ (61 in 1961, AL MVP 1960, 1961) b. 1934
- Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog
one of a litter of shell-shocked pups found by American serviceman Lee Duncan in a bombed-out dog kennel in Lorraine, then part of the German Empire, less than two months before the end of World War I b. 1918
- Fabio Taglioni, Italian motorcycle engineer [Ducati] b. 1920
- Maria Theresa of Spain, El Escorial, Spain, queen of Louis XIV of France b. 1638
Today’s
Historical Obits…
- Boudouin II the Bald, originator of Flanders territory
—918—at 53
- Leo Carrillo, actor (Pancho-Cisco Kid)—1961--at 81
- Emil Gumbel, German mathematician and pacifist, pioneered the mathematical field of extreme value theory—1966—at 75
- Bobby Jordan, actor (Dead End Kids, Bowery Boys)--sclerosis of liver—1965-- at 42
- Clifford Parker "Cliff" Robertson III, American actor
[Charly]—2011—at 88
- Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo, founder of the Congregation of the Religious of the Virgin Mary —1748—at 85
- Jane Wyman, American actress
wife of Ronald Reagan—2007—at 90
Answers…
Do you know what
this word means?
The name for the wire cage that is wound around the neck and over the cork of a champagne bottle.
What is the answer?
Mellow Yellow
Rebus
Robin Hood
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 ☺
