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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 29/ Day: 199 Today: H 73°…L 52°
Wind: ave: 4mph; Gusts: 12mph Ave. humidity: 77%
* Average Low Average High Record Low Record High
51° 82° 42° (1940) 93° (2005)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st
half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)…1743
Black
Sox trial begins in Chicago…1921
Comet
Shoemaker-Levy collides with Jupiter…1994
Great
Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)…64
Hitler
publishes Mein Kampf…1925
Intel
incorporates…1968
Kim
Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given
the
rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army…2012
KWGN
TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting…1952
Vietnam
becomes member of UN…1977
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
What a really nice day here in Flag. A nice rain this afternoon, lightning, thunder, and a downpour. All restrictions have been lifted in the forest, so hopefully no more really big fire danger. Always enjoy these afternoon downpours.I keep seeing posts on FB that Sprouts is coming to Flagstaff. It is a farmer’s market type store. It will be very close the University if the posts are true. We already have two similar stores here in town so I guess the Sprouts corp. thinks that is not enough for our small town. I have been shopping at Safeway for a while and decided I’d try Albertson’s again. Amazed how it has changed. Lots of new aisles of non-grocery stuff. I’ll probably stick with Safeway.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Which is the odd couple? Find how these pairs
were formed, then decide which does not belong with the other four.
1. HIS and MIST 2. LUSH and PULP 3. LOFT and SOUND 4. WIDE and NINE 5. HIKE and SEED
****
Hint
Each couple is a well-known pairing of words, with one letter swapped.
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Oxymorons
Fairly dark Freezer burn Fun runOk, then?
Harper’s Index
- Percentage change in the incomes of the top one percent of earners during the economic recovery: +11.2
- Of the bottom 90 percent: -0.4
- Chance that an American has been laid off at least once since the start of the recession: 1 in 4
Picture of the Day: Hybrid Animals
Unusual Fact of the Day
That baritone voice behind the Jolly Green Giant’s “ho-ho-ho” belongs to the late Elmer "Len" Dresslar Jr., a Chicago-area jazz singer.Joke-of-the-day
A man placed an ad in the classifieds: "Wife wanted." The next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same: "You can have mine."
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
PAYING FOR AN AIRPLANE
On all airplanes, from little ones to 747s, the price of the engine, or engines, is from 20 to 25 percent of the retail price of the airplane.
Yeah, It Really Happened
CAMBRIDGE, England - A British Batman rappelled down the side of a building, fought a group of pretend criminals and used the recovered diamond ring to propose to his girlfriend. Ross Chilcott, 29, rappelled down the side of a building in the Markey Square area of Cambridge, England, tussled with a group of actors portraying the parts of criminals and took a diamond ring from one of the faux-crooks before dropping to one knee at the feet of his girlfriend, Amber Clarke, 28, cambridge-news.co.uk reported Monday. "I'm so surprised. I had no idea at all. I can't believe it," Clarke said. Clarke was lured to the right area by friend Hayley Woodroffe, 27, who was in on Chilcott's plot. "I thought it was amazing, especially since she had no idea. When we were walking up to the Guildhall she actually said, 'This is something that Ross would do,'" Woodroffe said. Chilcott said he got permission for the stunt from Cambridge City Council six weeks ago. "I just knew she would say yes," he said. "I wanted to do it on her birthday, which was June 5, but I couldn't find the right venue. She loves seeing me embarrassing myself and she likes Batman so I knew she'd love it."
Somewhat Useless Information
- Comic Jerry Van Dyke had two sitcom offers on the table in 1965 but sadly chose the wrong character. He felt that being the son of a porter in My Mother, the Car was preferable to playing the bumbling first mate on Gilligan's Island.
- Diminutive actor Mickey Rooney was first offered the role of Archie Bunker on TV's All in the Family. However, The Mick soundly refused the role, saying that the obnoxious bigot was "un-American" and that the job would prove to be career suicide for anyone who took it.
- Steven Spielberg and George Lucas wanted Tom Selleck for the role of Indiana Jones, but Selleck had already committed to the TV series Magnum, P.I., and the producers wouldn't give him the necessary time off.
- The role of tough girl Rizzo in the 1978 film Grease was originally offered to Lucie Arnaz, with the proviso that she took a screen test first. However, mama Lucille Ball declared that testing was beneath her famous offspring, so the part went to Stockard Channing.
- Chevy Chase rejected the lead role of Lester Burnham in the American Beauty script because he didn't "get it," plus he feared such a role would tarnish his "family friendly" image. Kevin Spacey won an Oscar for his portrayal of the character.
- Henry Fonda played the patriarch in the film Spencer's Mountain, which served as the pilot for the TV series The Waltons. He was offered the role of Pa Walton, but after reading several scripts, he surmised that the star of the show was John-Boy, not the dad, and turned it down.
Calendar Information
14-20
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week
Sports Cliché Week
Rabbit Week
National Baby Food Week
National Ventriloquism Week
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week
Sports Cliché Week
Rabbit Week
National Baby Food Week
National Ventriloquism Week
Today Is
·
Global
Hug For Your Kids Day
·
Mandela
Day
·
National
Caviar Day
·
National
Get Out of the Doghouse Day
·
National
Ice Cream Day
^^
·
Uruguay: Constitution
Day (1830/1951)
Today’s Events through History
Admiral
Howard beats Spanish Armada…1588
Boston
Gazette publishes "Liberty Song," America's
1st patriotic song…1768
British
Superintendent for Indian Affairs in the Southern Department, Edmund Atkins,
meets with Choctaws in
the upper Creek villages.
They sign a treaty which establishes
trade, and a promise of mutual aid in case
of war. This treaty angers the Choctaw’s
former allies, the French…1759
Germans
test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time…1942
President
Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for milt service…1864
Spanish
Civil War begins, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising…1936
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
John H Glenn Jr, astronaut (Mer 7, sk:STS
95)/(Sen-D-Oh) is 92
Nelson Mandela, Qunu South Africa, political
prisoner (ANC)/President/ Nobel is 95
In their 70’s
James Brolin, actor (Dr Kiley-Marcus Welby,
Peter-Hotel) is 73
Martha Reeves, singer (& Vandellas-Dancing
in St) is 72
In their 60’s
Richard Branson, London, British music
entrepreneur (Virgin Atlantic) is 63
In their 50’s
Ricky Skaggs, country singer (Heartbroke, Toy
Hearts) is 59
In their 40’s
Vin Diesel, action actor is 46
In their 30’s
Kristen Bell, actress is 33
Under 30
Chace
Crawford, TV actor is 28
Remembered
for being born today
Hume Cronyn, London Ontario, actor (World
According to Garp, Cocoon) [1911-2003]
Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President [1909-1989]
S I Hayakawa, (Sen-R-CA), educator (Language
in Action) [1906-1992]
George Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio Barnes], gangster
[1895-1954]
Marvin Miller, actor (Space Patrol,
Millionaire) [1913-1995]
Harriet Hilliard Nelson, singer/actress (Ozzie
& Harriet) [1909-1994]
Red Skelton, [Richard], comedian (Red Skelton
Show) [1913-1997]
William Makepeace Thackeray, England,
Victorian novelist (Vanity Fair) [1811-1863]
Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and
author (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas) [1937-2005]
Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders)
[1908-1978]
Today’s Historical Obits
Horatio Alger Jr, clergyman/author (Disagreeable
Woman)…athsma…1899…at 67
Jane Austen, English novelist…TB…1817…at 41
Bobby Fuller, rock singer and guitarist (I
Fought the Law)…accident?/suicide?...1966…at 23
John Paul Jones, American naval commander…kidney
failure…1792…at 45
Benito Juarez, President of Mexico…heart
attack…1872…at 66
George Machine Gun Kelly, gangster…heart
attack in prison on birthday…1954…at 59
William Westmoreland, American military
officer…2005…at 91
Answer: Brain
Teasers
The original couples, before the exchange of a
letter, were:
1. HIT and MISS 2. PUSH and PULL 3. LOST and FOUND 4. WINE and DINE 5. HIDE and SEEK
The odd couple is 'WINE and DINE'. All the others are antonym pairs.
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
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