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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 147 / Week: 22
May Averages: 68° \ 34°Today: Average Sky Cover: 30%
H 79°… L 46°… Ave. humidity: 56%
Wind: ave: 9mph; Gusts: 24mph
Average High: 72° Record High: 87° (1974)
Average Low: 37° Record Low: 23° (1916)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1607 - Virginia - first significant battle between Indians
and European settlers.
1679 - Habeaus Corpus Act (no false arrest &
imprisonment) passes in England1703 - St Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
1907 - Bubonic Plague breaks out in San Francisco
1921 - After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty
1930 - Chrysler Building in NYC, the tallest man-made structure opens
1937 - Golden Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated
1951 - Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1961 - 1st black light is sold
1985 - Britain agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
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Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Good Memorial Day today. I watched the PBS show last night…becoming
a tradition for me. They do a great concert in DC and this year was no
different. They always have lots of Vets, tell several tear jerker stories and
show footage of various battles along with top notch patriotic music. Every
time I watch one, I think I should go there for a live performance…then I think
about the crowds and realize I would be in the nosebleed seats and wouldn’t
enjoy it as much as the one on TV.
My brother and his wife are continuing their fantastic business
trip in Russia. What a great place. While they have had to do a substantial
amount of work on presentations at numerous venues, they are also seeing a lot
of sights. It is truly a working vacation.
Our fire continues, the smoke comes in throughout the morning,
then dissipates at night, only to return the next day. We are all very tired of
this scenario as we begin the second week of the fire. Thankful that no one has
been hurt and no structures have been lost. The two housing areas that have been under ‘pre-evacuation’
notice since the fire started were told they are no longer in danger and the
order was lifted. Can’t fathom what it would be like to be told to be ready to
evacuate immediately for a full week. It was pretty warm today, thinking how it
must be for the firefighters.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Can
you decipher this common phrase?
eyeeseeexcept
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
change since last year in the amount of untaxed income Americans are allowed to
spend on mass transit: -47
On
parking: +2
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Birds cock their heads at the ground
not to listen for prey (such as insects or worms) but to better see them.
Strange
Things That Washed Up On Beaches…
3 A
Century Old Message in a Bottle
For a journey that lasted just under 98 years, this bottle sure didn’t
get very far. In fact, the world’s longest recorded floating bottle was
recovered less than 10 miles from where it was released! We know the bottle’s
age and the distance it travelled with amazing precision, because it was
released as part of an experiment tracking tides and currents around the UK.
Thus the message in this near hundred-year-old bottle was sadly banal: it
contained information about the date, 6/10/1914, and the latitude and longitude
from which it was set adrift.
Presidential
Fun Facts…
THE MOST COMMON religious affiliation among presidents has been
Episcopalian, followed by Presbyterian.
**
THE ANCESTRY of all 44 presidents is limited to the following
heritages, or some combination thereof: Dutch, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,
Swiss, German, and African.
What
happens every minute on the internet machine…
70 new domain names registered
15,000 tracks downloaded on iTunes
Joke-of-the-day
Sherlock Holmes
and Dr. Watson went on a camping trip. As they lay down for the night, Holmes
said:” Watson, look up into the sky and tell me what you see?"
Watson said,
"I see millions and millions of stars."
Holmes: "And
what does that tell you?"
Watson:
"Astronomically, it tells me that there are millions of galaxies and
potentially billions of planets. Theologically, it tells me that God is great
and that we are small and insignificant. Meteorogically, it tells me that we
will have a beautiful day tomorrow. What does it tell you?"
Holmes:
"Somebody stole our tent."
Rules of
Thumb:
CLEANING ANTIQUE WEAPONS
Anything a novice
does to improve the looks of an antique weapon probably will lower its value or
destroy it as a collector's piece.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
A story of a Tennessee man who was arrested after he walked into a
bar and tried to have sex with an ATM machine.
49-year-old Lonnie Hutton was apprehended at The Boro Bar and
Grill in Murfreesboro. According to police, an officer was dispatched to the
bar, where a witness said that Hutton walked to the ATM and "pulled down
his pants and underwear exposing his genitals and then attempted to have sexual
intercourse with the ATM."After his encounter with the ATM, Hutton began to walk around the bar nude, thrusting his hips in the air.
Hutton was subsequently escorted from the bar and told to sit at a wooden picnic table. But once outside the bar, Hutton allegedly "again exposed himself again and engaged in sexual intercourse with the wooden picnic table."
To the surprise of no one police reported that Hutton smelled of booze, had bloodshot eyes and slurred speech.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Have
you ever tried to stay awake for over five or four days in a row?
The
scientifically documented record for the longest period without sleep is 11
days, 24 minutes.It was by a high school student who presided over a press conference on the 11th day where he spoke without slurring or stumbling and appeared to be in excellent health.
**
Did
you know that Mark Twain, the American author and humorist, hated Jane Austen’s
“Pride and Prejudice”?
He
said: “I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I
hate them. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so
that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader; and therefore I have to stop
every time I begin. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up
and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”
**
Have
you ever wondered why do frogs’ eyes blink while eating?
The
answer is that frogs use their eyes to force their food down their throats, as
they don’t have the necessary muscles to chew their food.It is their eyes which are actually sinking down inside of its skull to push down on the food.
The same happens with frogs’ hearing, which also comes from near its eyes!
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
25-31
Week of Solidarity With
The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories Hurricane Preparedness Week
Black Single Parents Week
Today
Is
Body
Painting Arts Festival
Cellophane
Tape Day - 1930National Wig Out Day
Today’s Events through History
1895 - British inventor Birt Acres patents film
camera/projector
1935 - Supreme Court declares FDR's Natl Recovery Act
unconstitutional1943 - US forbid racial discrimination in war industry
1995 - Christopher Reeve is paralyzed after falling from his horse
1999 - The International Criminal Tribunal indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes\crimes against humanity
Today’s
Birthdays
Herman
Wouk, novelist (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War) is 99
Christopher
Lee, actor (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit) is 92Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State/Nobel Peace Prize is 91
Lee Meriwether, Miss America ; Barnaby Jones is 79
Ramsey Lewis, pop jazz artist is 79
Louis Gossett Jr, Brooklyn, actor (Officer & Gentleman, Deep) is 78
Todd Bridges, actor (Diff'rent Strokes, Fish) is 49
Jamie Oliver, British chef and television personality is 39
Remembered
for being born today
1794-1877 - Cornelius
Vanderbilt, millionaire (B & O railroad)
1837-1876 - "Wild
Bill" Hickok, [James Butler], cowboy/scout1907-1964 - Rachel Louise Carson, biologist/ecologist/writer (Silent Spring)
1911-1978 - Hubert Humphrey, Sen\38th VP\1968 Pres candidate
1911-1993 - Vincent Price, actor (House on Haunted Hill, Fly, Laura)
1912-2002 - Sam Snead, PGA golfer
1925-2008 - Tony Hillerman, American writer
Today’s Historical Obits
Ed Yost, American inventor (modern hot air balloon), 2007,
@87
Jawaharial Nehru, Independent India's 1st PM, stroke, 1964, @74 Robert Koch, German bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel), 1910, @66
Jeff Conaway, American actor, OD, 2011, @60
Jean Caulvin, [John Calvin], priest/church reformer, 1564, @54
Archibald Campbell, Scottish politician, beheaded, 1661, @53
Jeffrey Hunter, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek), stroke, 1969, @43
Brain
Teasers
I before E except after C
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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