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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 148 / Week: 22
May Averages: 68° \ 34°Today: Average Sky Cover: smoky
H 81°… L 48°… Ave. humidity: 44%
Wind: ave: 4mph; Gusts: 19mph
Average High: 72° Record High: 24° (1929)
Average Low: 37° Record Low: 86° (2000)
Quote of the Day
1431 - Joan
of Arc accused of relapsing back into heresy by donning male clothing again,
providing justification for her execution
1664 - 1st
Baptist Church organizes (Boston) 1742 - 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1774 - 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
1830 - US Congress authorizes native Indian removal from all states to western prairie
1845 - Fire in Quebec, Canada, 1,500 houses destroyed
1892 - Sierra Club forms by John Muir in SF, for conservation of nature
1915 - John B Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll
1923 - Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1928 - Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged
1934 - Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born
1956 - Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
1964 - Palestine National Congress forms the PLO in Jerusalem
1979 - European Market accepts Greece as member
1982 - Pope John Paul II is 1st reigning pope to visit Great Britain
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Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
OK, this smoke is awful. I woke up during the night and my allergies
were in full swing….runny nose, tight chest, lots of drainage…then red eyes.
This smoke has been around for over a week and it finally caught up with my
body. Taking some decongestants and hope they will kick in soon. It doesn’t
help that it is very warm and I can’t really open any windows. Glad I have some
fans and a great air purifier I inherited from my mom.
Certainly not a day to be outside at all. I did walk out to check
the mail and saw the smoke hanging around our little mountain town. Also
noticed that there was lots of yellow pollen on the sidewalk and mailboxes.
Guess that doesn’t help with allergies either.
So Obama
has a new timetable for leaving Afghanistan. Not that much different than what
got him elected. Many are concerned that this will give the enemy a timetable
to return. Hmmm.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
If you have played Might and Magic (a computer game), then you
have encountered the Vowel-less Knights, a strange group who speak without
vowels. It is up to you to decipher what they are saying. In their tradition
then, what are the following sayings? For a bonus…who said it or at
least the context.1) shll rtrn.
2) Th sht hrd rnd th wrld.
3) Cm p nd s m smtm.
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Price
of an Occupy Wall street poster being sold at WalMart: $52.35
Unusual
Fact of the Day
In the early days of firefighting, the
Dalmatian served an important purpose. They not only made good watchdogs, they
also formed very close bonds with the station horses and kept them company.
Strange
Things That Washed Up On Beaches…
2 - A Grapefruit Sized Eyeball
With some 1,200 miles of coastline, peninsular Florida certainly
does get its share of strange things washed up on its beaches. And a
mysterious, gigantic eyeball that was found on Florida’s Pompano Beach in 2012
was no exception. Initial speculation was that the eyeball had come from a
large fish, perhaps a giant tuna or swordfish. But its size and its relatively
good condition ultimately lead scientists to believe the eye belonged to a
giant squid, as the eyes of these elusive creatures sit in soft tissue and can
be dislodged with relative ease. If correct, the squid in question would have
been relatively young, as their eyes can grow to more than ten inches in
diameter!
Presidential
Fun Facts…
THE OLDEST president inaugurated was Reagan (age 69); the youngest
was Kennedy (age 43). Theodore Roosevelt, however, was the youngest man to
become president——he was 42 when he succeeded McKinley, who had been
assassinated.
**THE TALLEST president was Lincoln at 6'4"; at 5'4", Madison was the shortest.
What
happens every minute on the internet machine…
571 new Websites
17,000 WalMart on line transactions
Joke-of-the-day
The Captain
called the Sergeant in. "Sarge, I just got a telegram. Private Jones'
mother died yesterday. Better go tell him and send him in to see me."
So the Sergeant
calls for his morning formation and lines up all the troops. "Listen up,
men," says the Sergeant. "Johnson, report to the mess hall for KP.
Smith, report to Personnel to sign some papers. The rest of you men report to
the Motor Pool for maintenance. Oh by the way, Jones, your mother died, report
to the commander."
Later that day
the Captain called the Sergeant into his office. "Hey, Sarge, that was a
pretty cold way to inform Jones his mother died. Couldn't you be a bit more
tactful, next time?"
"Yes,
sir," answered the Sarge. A few months later, the Captain called the
Sergeant in again with, "Sarge, I just got a telegram. Private McGrath's
mother died. You'd better go tell him and send him in to see me. This time be
more tactful."
So the Sergeant
calls for his morning formation. "Ok, men, fall in and listen up.
Everybody with a mother, take two steps forward -- NOT SO FAST,
McGRATH!"
Rules of
Thumb:
WINNING AT CHESS
Bring out knights
before bishops, preferably in front of the bishop's pawns.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
MONTROUGE, France (UPI) - A French father decided to put a new
twist on some old classics in order to get rid of a group of people he
suspected were selling drugs outside of his apartment building in Montrouge.
French dad Joel turned to nightly doses of classical music from artists like
Mozart and Beethoven to get rid of the men who were routinely smoking, drinking
and allegedly dealing drugs near his home. It started out with Joel singing
himself. "I don't know what came over me. I opened the window and I
started shouting the Little 'Green Mouse' (Souris verte) or 'My Little Rabbit'
(Mon petit lapin)," he told Le Parisien. "It was a peaceful solution
to take back our property." Realizing that his repertoire was somewhat
limited, Joel began using recordings to keep the dealers away. "They asked
me why I was doing it," Joel said. "I told them their noise bothered
me." In addition to Mozart and Beethoven, Joel also turned to pieces like
"The Nutcracker" by Tchaikovsky. Some of the dealers have fought back
by playing rap music, but Joel was vowed that the classical program will go on.
"I filed a complaint with the police. But I'm not going to stop," he
said. "Their behavior is unacceptable."
Somewhat
Useless Information
Troposphere
is the lowest portion of Earth’s atmosphere, where most of the weather
phenomena occur.
Its
temperature decreases as altitude increases. Regarding pressure it is maximum
at sea level and decreases with higher altitude.The word troposphere has a Greek origin from the word “tropos” for “change” and is approximately 15 kilometres deep above sea level!
**
Paramount Pictures Corporation, the film and television production/distribution studio, was founded in 1912 by the Hungarian-born Adolph Zukor, who had been an early investor in nickelodeons, the first type of indoor exhibition space dedicated to showing projected motion pictures.
Shrek, Transformers, Mission: Impossible, Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008–2011), Indiana Jones (1981–2008), The Godfather, Star Trek, Jack Ryan, Jackass, are just some of its successful film series.
Paramount Pictures became the first big Hollywood studio that distributes all its films in digital only in 2014 and has 22 stars in its logo!
**
Have you ever noticed that black cars are more likely to get involved in a car crash than other colors?
Truth is that car color and possibility of an accident are strictly connected. White has been considered to be a safe color for cars, as there is a 12% higher risk of being involved in a crash in a black vehicle compared to a white vehicle. Bright colors such as red and yellow are also safe.
The least safe colors are silver and grey, and all dark ones.
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
International Jazz Day
Julia Pierpont Day
National Hamburger Day
National Senior Health & Fitness Day
Sierra Club Day-1892
Slugs Return From Capistrano Day
World MS Day (Multiple Sclerosis)
**
Day of the Republic (Azerbaijan-1918 from Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic)
Day of the Republic (Armenia-1918 from Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic)
Day of the Republic (Nepal-2008-end of monarchy)
National Day (Ethiopia- 1991-Derg Downfall Day)
Today’s Events through History
585 BC - Solar
eclipse, as predicted by Greek philosopher Thales, while Lydians under Alyattes
war with the Medes under Cyaxares, leading to a truce. One of the cardinal
dates from which other dates calculated.
1818 - 1st
steam vessel to sail Great Lakes launched 1929 - 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
1962 - Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS radio
1999 - da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display after 22 years of restoration
Today’s
Birthdays
Carroll Baker, Penn, actress (Andy Warhol's Bad) is 83
Gladys Knight, singer, leader of Pips (Last Train) is 70
Rudy Giuliani, (Mayor-NYC) is 70
John Fogerty, rock musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 69
Brandon Cruz, actor (Eddie-Courtship of Eddie's Father) is 52
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, television panelist (The View\Fox) is 37
Remembered
for being born today
1807-1873 - Louis Agassiz, Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher
1888-1953 - James Francis 'Jim' Thorpe, versatile
American athlete (Olympic gold) 1910-1975 - T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist
1912-1990 - Patrick White, Australia, novelist (Happy Valley, Nobel 1973)
1945-2003 - Gary Stewart, country singer (She's Actin' Single)
Today’s
Historical Obits
Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), 1843, @84
Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1972, @77
Rhys Williams, actor (Nightmare, Okinawa, Corn is Green), 1969, @71
Audie Murphy, actor\war hero, plane crash, 1971, @45
Gary Coleman, American actor, fall/seizure, 2010, @42
Anne Bronte, English novelist, long illness, 1849, @29
Brain
Teasers
1) I shall return.Bonus: General MacArthur, when he left the Philippines. Side note: He did.
2) The shot heard around the world.
Bonus: This phrase was used by the press of the day to describe the first time American soldiers fought the British, as the British troops marched through Lexington on their way to Concord, and history.
3) Come up and see me sometime.
Bonus: Mae West, arguably the most popular USO entertainer and pinup girl of WW2.
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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