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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 33 / Day: 226 Today: High 80°…Low 52°
Records: High 92°(1944) …Low 36°(1999)
Averages: High 79 °…Low 51°
Wind: 7mph; Gusts: 34mph
Afternoon Rain
Today’s humidity: 38%
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1993 - US Court of
Appeals rules congress must save all E-Mail
1961 - Construction
of the Berlin Wall begins in East Germany
1953 - Pres
Eisenhower establishes Government Contract Compliance Committee
1950 - Pres Harry
Truman gives military aid to Vietnamese regime Bao-Dai
1923 - US Steel Corp
initiates 8th-hour work day
1814 - Cape
of Good Hope formally ceded to British by the Dutch
1624 - Cardinal
Richelieu appointed Chief Minister of France by Louis XIII
♪ Happy Birthday To:
♪
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s
Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts
Our
afternoon rain came early but lasted well into the afternoon. So nice. It
actually got quite dark, with lots of thundering and lightning. Then the sun
came out and all was good again.
The
Olympics has ended…I’m waiting until tonight to watch the Closing Ceremony, but
it was a great games. The Marathon was grueling, and was so nice to see the
Ugandan pull ahead and stay ahead the last two miles. This was their country’s
first medal in the marathon..and a gold at that. They make it look so easy.
What a great seventeen days.
I have
really enjoyed all my trips to Africa and have enjoyed seeing the wild animals
there as well as the wild ones in Malaysia and Borneo. After watching a story
on a chimp in Las Vegas that lives in an enclosure in a residential area, I
have to wonder how these so-called ‘animal lovers’ feel that the best place for
any exotic animal is in an enclosure anywhere. On the same newscast, an
alligator show where the alligator grabbed his ‘trainer’s’ arm and was saved
when another ‘trainer’ jumped in. Wild animals are called that for a reason…duh…they
are wild. They will never be pets, and certainly aren’t enjoying these ‘shows’
that they are participating in. It is a thin line, I realize, but somehow there
has to be better guidelines. Whatever local governance does, there will be lots
to hear from both sides. For me, the bottom line is wild is wild and they
should remain ‘in the wild’.
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
What is the 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)
much ado about the advancement of an employee (9,9)
Scrambled Proverbs
Can you
unscramble the words to make an English proverb? Each puzzle has an easy
version (above the black square), in which each word is scrambled individually
and the spaces appear in their proper place, and a more challenging version,
where the entire phrase is scrambled and spaces appear at random.
LODM RTRFOFEAE I H UOTDTEE (7 WORDS)
Lifestyle Substance
Do you remember this?
Read Carefully!!
Seen
during a conference:
FOR ANYONE WHO HAS CHILDREN AND DOESN'T KNOW IT, THERE IS A DAY CARE ON THE 1ST FLOOR
Do you know what this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
Wamble
London 2012—
Calypso music:
Harper’s Index
Cost of the 154 F-155-a fighter jets sold by the US to Saudi Arabia last year: $29,400,000,000
Unusal Fact of the Day
One of the first known contraceptives was crocodile dung, used by Egyptians.
Found on You Tube
Hitchcock interview from 1964
Joke-of-the-day
The two inventors of the bungee rope went to Spain to test their invention. They built a 50-foot tower and, once completed, one of the guys stood on the edge of the platform and dove into the air with the rope tied to his feet. The other guy, standing up on the platform, waited until his friend returned up so that he could grab him.
The first time his friend sprung up, he tried to grab him but missed and noticed that his head was swollen. The next time, he missed again and again there was a bruise on his head and face.
This time, with much concern, he dove forward to get his partner, pulled him in and asked, "What happened? Is the cord too long?"
His partner replied with his face all bloody, "What is piñata?"
Rules of Thumb
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
LOOK FOR THE EXIT SIGN
When giving a speech in a public setting, speak directly to the red glowing exit sign. It's generally at the back of the auditorium/conference room. It's up high and easy to find. Plus you won't be distracted by looking in to the face of an audience member.
Yeah, It Really Happened
SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah boy can breathe better and smell aromas, his father says, now that a rubber wheel from a toy, lodged in his nose for three years, has been removed. The constant congestion and snoring of Isaak Lasson, 6, baffled his parents and doctors, until an ear, nose and throat specialist snaked a camera up the Salt Lake City boy's nose. "There it was, a ball of fungus," said Isaak's dad, Craig Lasson. Inside the ball was a dime-sized wheel of soft rubber, a piece of a toy. Isaak admitted putting "some spaghetti in there that hadn't come out," his father told ABC News, but "We have no idea what it is or where it came from." The wheel is now treated like a trophy, sitting in a container atop the family refrigerator, and "Isaak thinks it's great. He wants to show it to all his friends," his father said, noting his son has more energy and a better appetite, since he can now smell his mother's cooking.
Somewhat Useless Information
- A single drawing or inscription on a wall, door, or other surface is technically a graffito. Graffiti is the plural form of this word and the one most commonly used today in both the singular and plural contexts.
- The cover of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album depicts two buildings at 96/98 St. Mark's Place in Manhattan. Those visiting the location may be surprised to see five-story buildings because those on the cover only had four stories. The photo was specially cropped to "remove" one of the floors so that the image would fit squarely on the album cover.
- Statistics reveal that more than half the graffiti that crops up in major cities is put there by teenage boys.
- Since Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury passed away in 1991, "fans" have scrawled thousands of items of graffiti on the brick walls in front of his mansion in the Kensington area of London. In fact, the walls have been pressure-cleaned so many times that the brickwork is beginning to deteriorate.
- Most laws requiring persons to be 18 years of age to buy spray paint were initially enacted to cut down on graffiti. Today, those same laws serve a second purpose: to help curtail incidents of "huffing" or the purposeful inhaling of aerosols.
- The cast of George Lucas's 1973 motion picture American Graffiti included four actors who would go on to become sitcom stars later that decade: Ron Howard (Happy Days), Mackenzie Phillips (One Day at a Time), Suzanne Somers (Three's Company), and Cindy Williams (Laverne & Shirley).
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
Elvis Week
11-15
National Scrabble Week
12-18
Today Is
International Lefthander's
Day
Blame Someone Else Day
Central African Republic: Independence
Day (1960 from France)
Tunisia: Women's Day
Tunisia: Women's Day
Today’s Events Through History
2000’s
2004 - 156
Congolese Tutsi refugees massacred at the Gatumba refugee camp in Burundi.
2004 - Hurricane
Charley, a Category 4 storm, strikes Punta Gorda, Florida and devastates the
surrounding area
1900’s
1991 - VP Quayle
makes a speech attacking lawyers
1981 - Last
broadcast of "Waltons" on CBS-TV
1977 - 1st
test glide of shuttle
1948 - Satchel
Paige at 42, pitches his 1st major league complete game
1937 - Japanese
attack Shanghai
1914 - Carl Wickman
begins Greyhound, the 1st US bus line, in Minnesota
1907 - 1st
taxicab (NYC)
1800’s
1892 - US
black newspaper "Afro-American" begins publishing from Baltimore
1889 - William
Gray patents coin-operated telephone
1868 - Earthquakes
kill 25,000 & causes $300 million damages (Peru & Ecuador)
1700’s
1792 - Revolutionaries
imprison French royals including Marie Antoinette
1600’s
1645 - For
several years, the Dutch, and the local Indian tribes near New Amsterdam and
Pavonia, have been fighting. Hackensack Chief Oratamin negotiates a peace
between the warring parties. It is another ten years before another major
conflict erupted.
1608 - John
Smith's story of Jamestown's 1st days submitted for publication
1500’s
1521:
Montezuma’s nephew, and successor, Cuahtemoc (Guatimozin) surrenders to Cortés.
Spanish conquer Tenochtitlan (Mexico City) from Aztecs.
Today’s Birthdays
In their 50’s
Danny
Bonaduce, actor (Danny-Partridge Family)/Chicago DJ (WLUP) is 53
John
Slattery, actor (Mad Men) is 50
In their 60’s
Kevin
Tighe, LA CA, actor (Newsie, Another 48 Hours, K-9) is 68
In their 70’s
Joycelyn
Elders, US Surgeon General is 79
In their 80’s
Fidel
Castro, Mayari, Oriente, Cuba, dictator/prime minister/president (1959-2008) is
86
Pat
Harrington Jr, NYC, actor (Danny Thomas Show, 1 Day at a Time) is 83
Remembered for
being born today
John Logie
Baird, Scotland, inventor (father of TV) b. 1888
Neville
Brand, Kewanee IL, actor (DOA, Eaten Alive, Fire, Mohawk) b. 1921
Johann
Christoph Denner, inventor (clarinet) b. 1655
Dan
Fogelberg, Peoria Ill, rocker (Same Auld Lang Syne) b. 1951
Alfred
Hitchcock, London, director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window) b. 1899
Don Ho (Donald
Tai Loy), Hawaii, ukulele player (Tiny Bubbles) b. 1930
Bert Lahr,
[Irving Lahrheim], US comic/actor (Lion-Wizard of Oz) b. 1895
Annie
Oakley [Phoebe Ann Moses], North Star Ohio, sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild
West) b. 1860
Jan
Peeters, Dutch water colors painter/monumental artist b. 1912
Today’s Historical Obits
Julia
Child, American chef and television personality dies in 2004 at 91
Florence
Nightingale, English nurse, dies in 1910 at 90
Kate
O'Brien, Irish writer (Pray for the Wanderer), dies in 1974 at 76
Joe E
Ross, comedian (Toody-Car 54, Phil Silvers Show), dies of heart attack in 1982
at 68
H[erbert]
G[eorge] Wells, sci-fi author (Time Machine), dies in 1946 at 79
Answers
Do you know what
this word means?
A stomach
rumble
What is the answer?
Commotion
promotion
Scrambled
Proverbs
TO ADD MORE FUEL TO THE FIRE
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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