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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1808 - The
organizational meeting that led to the creation of the Wernerian Natural
History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh
1863 - President
Davis delivers his "State of Confederacy" address
1864 -The Navajo
have been ordered to move to the Bosque Redondo Reservation in New Mexico. Many
who decide not to go move to the Canyon de Chelly. Kit Carson has been directed
to force the Navajo to move or to be killed as "hostiles".
Carson and Captain Pfeiffer advance to the canyon. On this date, Carson enters
the west end of the canyon. They encounter a band of Navajo, and kill 11
of them. While in the canyon, Carson will order the burning of the Navajo food
and cherished peach trees.
1945 - German
forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge
1952 - University of
Tennessee admits its 1st black student
1970 - Biafran
War ends, Biafra surrenders to Nigeria
1975 - Chrysler
Corp offers 1st car rebates
2010 - Earthquake
occurs in Haiti killing 230,000 and destroying the majority of the capital
Port-au-Prince
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Free Rambling
Thoughts
Sad news today—the 15+
yr old German Shepherd that came with the Hacienda and was a great party animal—had
to be put down. Thankfully Cyndy and Laura were there with her until the very
end. Hard to lose a pet, but better to be there than get a phone call to figure
out what to do when she got sick at 2:30 this morning.
Geek skills failed today
as I tried to hook up Martha’s new printer. After a 20 minute download the
drivers wouldn’t work for her old computer. She and I went to Best Buy and she
got a new MacBook. I’m headed to her home tomorrow afternoon to get it set up…knock
on wood.
Ran some errands this
afternoon. Safeway was not even busy…nice. Weather is nice. Good to be back in
Flag for a little while.
Game Center
(answers
at the end of post)
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
You
are given some words and names from a specific category and must name something
else in the category that can be spelled from the letters in the clue. For
example, given "Dodge," the answer would be "Geo." Both are
cars, and "Geo" can be formed from the letters of "Dodge."
1.
Grape:
4 letters: pear
2.
Stockholm:
4 letters: Oslo
3.
Yum
Kippur: 5 letters: Purim
4.
Grackle:
4 letters: lark
5.
Cherokee:
5 letters: Creek
6.
Boa
constrictor: 5 letters: cobra
7.
Cather:
5 letters: Heart (Bret)
8.
Maple:
3 and 4 letter : elm, palm
Wuzzles What concept or
phrase do these suggest?
Lifestyle Substance
AZ Centennial is in 33 days: Did you know?…
- The state's most popular natural wonders include the Grand Canyon, Havasu Canyon, Grand Canyon Caves, Lake Powell/Rainbow Bridge, Petrified Forest/Painted Desert, Monument Valley, Sunset Crater, Meteor Crater, Sedona Oak Creek Canyon, Salt River Canyon, Superstition Mountains, Picacho Peak State Park, Saguaro National Park, Chiricahua National Monument, and the Colorado River.
- No one is permitted to ride their horse up the stairs of the county court house in Prescott, Arizona.
- Once a rowdy copper mining town, Jerome's population dwindled to as few as 50 people after the mines closed in 1953.
- The capital of the Navajo Nation is Window Rock.
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Harper’s Index
- Percentage of profits American corporations paid in taxes in 1961: 40.6
Today: 10.5
Joke-of-the-day
A young bride tells her
friend, “Paul keeps telling everyone he’s going to marry the most beautiful
girl in the world.”
“ What a shame! And after all the time you’ve
been engaged!”
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Bonus
Building Security has
notified us that there have been 5 suspected terrorists working at our office.
Four of the five have been apprehended. Bin Sleeping, Bin Loafing, Bin
Gossiping, and Bin Surfing have been taken into custody. Security advised us
that they could find no one fitting the description of the fifth cell member,
Bin Working, in the office. Police are confident that anyone who looks like Bin
Working will be very easy to spot. They thought they had apprehended Bin
Working sitting at a desk, but it was actually Bin Surfing trying to
impersonate Bin Working.
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
- If you haven't left the ground in the first half of the runway, abort the takeoff.
Somewhat Useless
Information
- Play-Doh originally began as an all white wallpaper cleaning compound known as Kutol Wall Cleaner.
- In 1955, the detergents were removed and the company was renamed Rainbow Crafts. Color was added and the compound became known as Play-Doh.
- Once Play-Doh was reformulated into a children's modeling compound, it was originally sold in one gallon cans with its color indicated on the lid. It wasn't until a year after its debut that the smaller cans were made available to the public.
- Play-Doh is available in 75 different countries. Hasbro sells approximately 95 million cans annually.
- Unable to afford a national marketing campaign, Rainbow Crafts formed an informal deal with Bob Keeshan, know to children as Captain Kangaroo, to have Play-Doh featured on his show twice a week. In return, Bob's production company received a 2 percent cut of Play-Doh's sales.
- In 1960, Play-Doh Pete, a boy garbed in a beret and artist's smock, was introduced as the modeling clay's mascot. Today, Pete graces cans of Play-Doh wearing a backwards baseball cap and a t-shirt.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
Police have cited a man
for disorderly conduct for allegedly chaining himself inside his car while
parked outside a western Pennsylvania drug store and dressed as a woman.
Police were called to a
Walgreen's store about 11:20 p.m. when someone reported seeing the 28-year-old
man chained inside the car.
When police arrived, the
man told them he had restrained himself because he had come to buy his wife a
drink at the store, but found it difficult to work up the courage to enter the
store dressed as a woman. A police report says the suspect chained himself
"to build himself up to going into the store dressed like a woman."
The man his charged with
disorderly conduct "for causing a public alarm."
Calendar Information
…Happening
This Week:
8-14
- Universal Letter Writing Week
- Home Office Safety and Security Week
- National Vocation Awareness Week
10-13
- International Consumers Electronics Show
11-17
- Cuckoo Dancing Week:
- National No-Tillage Week Conference
- National Soccer Coaches of America Week
- International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week
Today
Is
- Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day
- Tanzania: Zanzibar Revolution Day (1964)
Today’s
Other Events
1400’s
1493 - Last day for all
Jews to leave Sicily
1500’s
1583 - Holland
begins use of Gregorian calendar (yesterday was 1/1/1583)
1600’s
1684 - French
king Louis XIV marries Madame Maintenon
1700’s
1723 - Handel's
opera "Ottone" premieres, London
1773 - 1st US
public museum established (Charlestown SC)
1800’s
1803 - The Seneca treaty
of June 30, 1802 is ratified, and publicly proclaimed.
1812 - 1st
cargo arrives in New Orleans by steam, from Natchez
1820 - Royal
Astronomical Society founded in England
1879 - British
Zulu War begins: Lt-General Chelmsford invades Zululand
1900’s
1903 - Harry
Houdini performs at Rembrandt Theater, Amsterdam
1948 - 1st
Supermarket in UK opens
1958 - NCAA adds 2
point conversion to football scoring
1960 - Syracuse
National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA'er to score 15,000 points
1967 - Dr. James
Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of
future resuscitation
1969 - Superbowl
III: NY Jets beat Balt Colts, 16-7 in Miami Superbowl MVP: Joe Namath, NY Jets,
QB
1971 - Fed grand
jury indicts Rev Philip Berrigan & 5 others, including a nun & 2
priests, on charges of plotting to kidnap Henry Kissinger
1975 - Superbowl IX:
Pittsburgh Steelers beat Minnesota Vikings, 16-6 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP:
Franco Harris, Pittsburgh, RB
1981 - "Dynasty", a prime time soap opera inspired by
Dallas, premieres on ABC
1989 - Idi Amin
expelled from Zaire
2000’s
2006 - A
stampede during the Stoning the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in
Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims
Today’s
Birthdays
In their 40’s
Rob Zombie, musician is 46
In their 50’s
Kirstie Alley, actor is
57
Oliver Platt, actor is 52
Howard Stern, radio
personality is 58
Dominique Wilkins, NBA
forward (Atlanta Hawks) is 52
In their 60’s
Drew Pearson, former NFL
all-pro receiver is 61
Rush Limbaugh, American
right wing radio personality is 61
Ricky Van Shelton,
country musician is 60
In their 80’s
Ray Price, country singer
(Good Times) is 86
Remembered for being
born on this day
Long John Baldry,
England, blues vocalist (Don't try to Lay No Boogie) in 1941
A P[ieter] W Botha,
Orange Free State, president of South Africa in 1916
Joe Frazier, HW boxer
(Olympic-gold-1964)/champ (1968-73) in 1944
John Hancock, patriot
(1st to sign Declaration of Independence) in 1737
Ira Hayes, Pima Marine
of Iwo Jima photo fame in 1923
Jack London,
writer/socialist (Call of the Wild) in 1876
Tex Ritter, country
singer (5 Star Jubilee, Wayward Wind) in 1906
Henny Youngman, comedian
(Take my wife please...) in 1906
Today’s
Obits
Agatha Christie, mystery
writer (10 Little Indians), dies at 85 in 1976
Ernie Kovacs, comedian
(Ernie Kovacs Show), killed in auto crash at 42 in 1962
Walt Morey, US
children's book writer (Gentle Ben), dies at 84 in 1992
Laurence J Peter, author
(Peter Principle), dies of a stroke at 70 in 1990
Isaac Pitman, British
inventor (Pitman Shorthand) dies at 84 in 1897
Ruth Snyder, 1st woman
to die in electric chair (killed husband) dies at 33 in 1928
Cyrus Vance, 57th U.S.
Secretary of State dies at 85 in 2002
Hiram Walker, American
distiller dies at 82
Answers
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Grape:
4 letters: pear
2.
Stockholm:
4 letters: Oslo
3.
Yum
Kippur: 5 letters: Purim
4.
Grackle:
4 letters: lark
5.
Cherokee:
5 letters: Creek
6.
Boa
constrictor: 5 letters: cobra
7.
Cather:
5 letters: Heart (Bret)
8.
Maple:
3 and 4 letter : elm, palm
Wuzzle
- Boxers
- Double or nothing
- Slightly mixed up
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.
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