Oct 10, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 41/ Day: 284   Today: High   67°…Low 37° Records: High   81°(’96,’80.’10)…Low 20°(1970) Averages: High  65°…Low 34°Wind: average:   7mph;  Gusts:  29mphToday’s average humidity:  50%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s  Historical  Highlights:

1990 - US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) returns from space

1981 - Anwar Sadat's funeral service is held in Cairo

1978 - Congress approves Susan B Anthony Dollar

1973 - VP Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax evasion & resigns

1964 - 18th modern Olympic games opens in Tokyo

1957 - Pres Eisenhower apologizes to finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli 

           Gbdemah, after he is refused service in a Dover, Del, restaurant 

1935 - "Porgy & Bess," by George Gershwin, NY premiere

1933 - 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter & Gamble, goes on sale

1917 - Giants Rube Benton is 1st lefty to pitch a World Series no hitter

1899 - IR Johnson patents bicycle frame

1780 - Great Hurricane of 1780 kills 20,000 to 30,000 in Caribbean

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Some friends dropped by yesterday and we went around the mountain to see the fall colors. Very impressive for sure. The aspen are so amazing. Today was another scheduled burn day outside Flagstaff, and as expected, the smoke settled in around my place. This is common in Flag during the fall, but still a pain in the neck. It is still much better than a wildfire.
 I have to laugh at some of the political commercials here in AZ. Several conservative Republican candidates are warning voters that a vote for their opponent is a vote for more of Obama’s policies. Guess they don’t get that many in AZ like Obama. I decided I would vote early if we had a law that said that once you vote, you won’t have any more political crap in my mailbox; no more robocalls; no more political commercials on my various media—TV, e-mail, or radio.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the rhyming 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)

shameless partially dried grape (6,6)

Rebus:

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Dedication: Guinness World Records:

Cindy Jackson (USA) has spent $99,600 (£53,148) on 47 cosmetic procedures, including nine full-scale surgical operations since 1988. These have included three full facelifts, two nose operations, two eye lifts, liposuction, knees, waist, abdomen, thigh and jawline surgery, lip and cheek implants, chemical peels, chin bone reduction and semi-permanent make-up.

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

 Juicy Fruit

Read This Headline Carefully!!

 At a car dealership, "The best way to get back on your feet -- miss a car payment."

Do you know what this word means?

What is this not so common name of a common object?

 Ephebiphobia

Iconic Photographs:

Great Melodies:

Green Onions / Booker T. & The MG's 1962

Harper’s Index:         

 Number of 30 occupations with the largest projected job growth over the next decade that require a college degree: 4

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Amerigo Vespucci, for whom many historians believe America was named, was an Italian pickle merchant.

Found on You Tube: 

• Nora Roberts on Her Novels

• What's my Line? Helen Hayes

Joke-of-the-day:

A man is in bed with his wife when there is a rat-a-tat-tat on the door. He rolls over and looks at his clock, and it's half past three in the morning. "I'm not getting out of bed at this time," he thinks, and rolls over. Then, a louder knock follows. "Aren't you going to answer that?" says his wife. So he drags himself out of bed and goes downstairs. He opens the door and there is man standing at the door. It didn't take the homeowner long to realize the man was drunk. "Hi there," slurs the stranger. "Can you give me a push??" "No, get lost. It's half past three. I was in bed," says the man and slams the door. He goes back up to bed and tells his wife what happened and she says, "Dave, that wasn't very nice of you. Remember that night we broke down in the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the baby sitter and you had to knock on that man's house to get us started again? What would have happened if he'd told us to get lost??" "But the guy was drunk," says the husband. "It doesn't matter," says the wife. "He needs our help and it would be the right thing to help him." So the husband gets out of bed again, gets dressed and goes downstairs. He opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere he shouts, "Hey, do you still want a push??" And he hears a voice cry out, "Yeah, please." So, still being unable to see the stranger he shouts, "Where are you?" And the stranger replies, "I'm over here, on your swing."

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

UNDERGROUND TEMPERATURES…The internal temperature of the earth increases with depth. In most places, the temperature increases about 16 degrees Fahrenheit per 1,000 feet.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

LENINGRAD, Russia - Russian prosecutors said administrators at a prison were reprimanded for showing female inmates "The Next Three Days," a movie depicting a jailbreak. Leningrad Region prosecutors released a statement saying prison officials signed off on showing the 2010 film despite the plot of the movie involving Russell Crowe's character staging a jailbreak for his wife, played by Elizabeth Banks, RIA Novosti reported Thursday. The statement said the film "fails to promote correction of inmates and prevention of new crimes." The prosecutors reprimanded the prison administrators and confiscated the movie, which the statement dubbed a "Hollywood jailbreak manual."

Somewhat Useless Information   

Some of the longest rivers in the world have the shortest names, including the Amur, the Don, the Kama, the Lena, the Nile, the Ob, the Syr, the Ural, and the Xi, all of which flow for more than 1,000 miles. The Mississippi is the most important river in the United States and has been for centuries. In fact, the name comes from the Algonquin phrase "missi sipi," which means, quite simply "large river." Just four years after the 1972 film Deliverance hit theaters, 24 canoeists were killed attempting to traverse the same treacherous parts of the Chattooga River depicted in the movie. Christie Brinkley painted the image that appears on the cover of Billy Joel's 1993 album River of Dreams.
While the Nile River is the longest at nearly 6,700 miles, the slightly shorter Amazon contains much more actual water and drains a much larger area. Joan Rivers' real last name is Molinsky. While River Phoenix's first name was indeed River, his last name was originally Bottom.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

3-10

No Salt Week
World Space Week

6-14

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
Emergency Nurses Week
Fire Prevention Week
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week National Metric Week
National Physicians Assistant Week
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week 

8-12

Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Chestnut Week 

10-16

Take Your Medicine Americans Week

 
Today Is                                                                      

Emergency Nurses Day
International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
International Newspaper Carrier Day
International Top Spinning Day  National Angel Food Cake Day
National Bring Your Teddy Bear To Work & School Day  Naval Academy Day
Stop Bullying Day
Tuxedo Day [1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park, NY (tuxedo)]
World Mental Health Day
World Porridge Day
Fiji: Independence Day (1970 from UK)
Taiwan: Double Tenth Day (to commemorate the 1911 Wuch'ang Uprising, a milestone in China's political development and a new chapter in the history of the Chinese people)

Today’s Events through History  

2000’s

 2010 - The Netherlands Antilles are dissolved

 2009 - After having closed borders for about two hundred years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich, Switzerland to open their borders

1900’s

 1982 - Pope John Paul II canonizes Rev M Kolbe, who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp, a saint

1963 - Dam bursts in Italy, 3,000+ die

1954 - Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after French troops pulled out

1943 - Chiang Kai-shek takes oath of office as president of China

1800’s

 1802 - 1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma

1600’s

 1615 - Champlain fights with the Onondaga

1500’s

 1540 - de Soto enters a village called Athahachi. Here he will meet the village chief, Tascaluca. Tascaluca will be taken as a hostage by de Soto to insure the cooperation of the Chief's followers

1300’s

 1375 - Westfriese sea wall breaks flooding northern Netherlands

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 30’s

Dale Earnhardt Jr, American NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver is 38

Mario Lopez, actor (A C Slater-Saved by the Bell)/ TV host is 39

In their 40’s

Brett Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31) is 43

In their 50’s

 David Lee Roth, Bloomington Indiana, rock singer (Van Halen-Jump) is 58

Tanya Tucker, Seminole Tx, country singer/actress (Follow that Car) is 54

In their 60’s

Nora Roberts, American romance novelist is 62

Ben Vereen, Miami Fla, actor/dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster) is 66

In their 70’s

Peter Coyote, [Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon], NYC, actor (Kika, Living a Lie, Exposure, ET) is 70

Remembered for being born today

Henry Cavendish, England, physicist/chemist (discovered hydrogen) b.1731

Helen Hayes, Wash DC, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday) b.1900

Abu Jihad [Khalil Ibrahim al-Wazir], Founder of the Palestinian group Fatah b.1935

Giuseppe Verdi, Busseto, First French Empire, Italian composer (La donna è mobile - Rigoletto) b.1813

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Yul Brynner, [Юлий Борисович Бринер], actor (King & I)—lung cancer—1985—at 65

Eddie Cantor, comedian (Eddie Cantor Comedy Theater)—heart attack—at 72

David Gregory, Scottish astronomer—1708—at 49

Christopher Reeve, actor/activist—2004—at 52 

William H. Seward, United States Secretary of State [Alaska]—1872—at 72

William "Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascal)—heart attack—1980—at 49

Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian novelist, poet and dramatist—morphine OD—1875—at 58

Orson Welles, actor/dir (Citizen Kane)—heart attack—1985—at 70

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

fear of youth

What is the rhyming answer?

 Brazen raison

Rebus

see eye to eye 

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 Now  §

Oct 8, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 41/ Day:    Today: High   70°…Low 33°

Records: High   80°(1965)…Low 19°(2007) Averages: High  65°…Low 34°

Wind: average:  7mph;  Gusts:  29mph

Today’s average humidity:  43%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s  Historical  Highlights:

1999 - New Coligny Calendar, NCC, The beginning of a new era of the Coligny 

            calendar, the oldest material Celtic calendar

1981 - Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Carter, Ford & Nixon before sending 

            them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral

1974 - Franklin National Bank collapses due to fraud and mismanagement; at the 

            time it was the largest bank failure in the history of the United States

1967 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and his men are captured in Bolivia

1963 - Sultan of Zanzibar cedes his mainland possessions to Kenya

1962 - N Korea reports 100% election turnout, 100% vote for Workers' Party

1957 - Turkish & Syrian border guards exchange fire

1944 - "Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet" debut on CBS radio

1873 - 1st women's prison run by women opens at Indiana Reformatory Institute

1818 - 2 English boxers are 1st to use padded gloves

1769 - Captain James Cook is the first European to land in New Zealand

1633 - Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its 1st government

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

A good day in Flag. Caught up on all my weekly news shows, took a nice walk, and enjoyed the great fall day.

 

Since I started working on the Rez, I always had a problem with Columbus Day. During my college education I had learned that Columbus was probably not the first European to arrive in this hemisphere. Also that he landed somewhere other than the US mainland.  Yet the Federal Government made Columbus Day a Federal holiday—one of only 9 each year—became a state holiday in Colorado in 1906 [repealed in 1908] and a Federal holiday in 1937. Teaching Native American children that we had a holiday because Columbus discovered America was difficult as wherever he landed, there were indigenous people so he didn’t really discover the land, he was just one European who found it. One common joke was: ‘What did Columbus discover? Indigenous people standing on the shore.’ There are always protests from Native American’s on the holiday. Some states have renamed their state holiday ‘Discoverer’s Day’ to honor all non-indigenous people who sailed to the Western Hemisphere. Even that doesn’t solve the dilemma. The Italians claim that ol’ Chris came from Italy, but don’t mention that his own country would not fund his trip. The Italian’s have fought hard to keep the holiday, the parades, and all that goes with the holiday. Many Italian groups have staged protests at the Native American protests on this holiday. I don’t have a solution, but in this multi-cultural country, it seems that a change is long overdue.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Rebus:

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Dedication: Guinness World Records:

Natasha Veruschka (USA) swallowed a sword 58 cm (22.83 in) long sword on Sword Swallowers Awareness Day, 28 February 2009. 

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

Doublemint Gum

Read This Carefully!!

On a fence, "Salesmen welcome. Dog food is expensive."

Do you know what this word means?

What is this not so common name of a common object?

 Taphophobia

Iconic Photographs:

Great Melodies:

No Matter What Shape / The T-Bones 1966

Harper’s Index:         

Number of college graduates currently working as astronomers, physicists, chemists, mathimatcians, or web developers: 216,000

As waiters or bartenders: 216,000

Unusual Fact of the Day:

The human bone most often broken is the clavicle (collar bone).

Found on You Tube: 

Rodriguez - Sugar Man Found thanks to '60 minutes'

Joke-of-the-day:

Two brothers were always getting into trouble in their neighborhood. The people in the neighborhood started complaining to the parents about the boys. So the boy’s parents decided to have their priest talk to the boys. The priest asks to speak to the boys alone, requesting to see the youngest first. The young boy comes in and sits at a large table across the room from the priest. The priest looks at the boy, points at him and, trying to emphasize that God is in everyone, asks, "Where is God?"
The boy looks around the room and back at the priest and says nothing. Again, the priest points at the boy and in a louder voice asks, "Where is God?" The boy says nothing.
The priest walks around the table, pointing inches from the boy’s face and asks again, "Where is God?" The boy jumps out of his chair and runs out the door. The boy runs right home, grabs his older brother and says to him, "We are in BIG trouble!"
His brother replies, "We haven't done anything!"
The younger brother replies, "God's missing, and they think we did it!"

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

SITING A SHOPPING CENTER…People are willing to drive for 30 minutes to get to a regional shopping center.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

 MELBETA, Neb. - A Nebraska man accused of pushing his wife onto a bed and rubbing a sandwich in her face has been sentenced to five days in jail. Larry Spurling, 50, of Melbeta pleaded no contest Monday to a charge of disturbing the peace stemming from the Sunday incident and was sentenced to five days in jail, KETV, Omaha, reported Thursday. Spurling's wife, whose name was not reported, told police her husband was angry at her for "making him live in the county" and he was upset about "being bored since there is no place for him to walk." She said he consumed three 24-ounce cans of a malt liquor with an 8 percent alcohol content during the argument and she eventually "got tired" of fighting and made herself a sandwich. The woman said Spurling followed her into the bedroom, pulled her hair, pushed her onto the bed and rubbed the sandwich on her face.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The Amos and Andy Show,
 half-hour version debuted 1943. Amos played by Freeman Gosden and Andy, played by Charles J. Correll, both Caucasian, had begun using a deep black dialect on an earlier show called Sam and Henry in 1925.

• THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM,
 debuted 1932, spanned 23 years, growing and developing as it progressed.

• Never admitting to being a minute over 39, Jack Benny billed himself as stingy and vain, making special note of his talent for playing the violin.

• BURNS AND ALLEN,
 debuted in 1932. Another pioneering radio act, George Burns and Gracie Allen never failed to delight listeners with their comic timing and gentle ribbing of each other. Early on, Gracie played the straight man, with George getting the laughs, but it was apparent that Gracie was the funniest and their roles reversed.

• MAJOR BOWES‘ ORIGINAL AMATEUR HOUR 
debuted in 1934. Leading to national fad, Major Edward Bowes made us believe that anyone with "bus fare and a harmonica" could grab the big brass ring of fame and fortune. Newsweek estimated that in one month, 1,200 hopefuls applied for emergency food and shelter, in order to establish residency in New York, a requirement for appearing on the show.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

3-10

No Salt Week
World Space Week

5-7 

Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend

National Storytelling Weekend

6-14

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
Emergency Nurses Week
Fire Prevention Week
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Metric Week

National Physicians Assistant Week
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week 

8-12

Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Chestnut Week 

Today Is                                                                        

American Tag Day—remember ‘touch tag’?
Alvin C. York Day— one of the most decorated American soldiers in World War IColumbus Day  or National Day of Mourning  (Native Americans)Native American Day  National Depression Screening Day   National Kick Butt Day  National Pierogy Day

Today’s Events through History  

2000’s

 2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush announces the establishment of the Office 

            of Homeland Security

1900’s

 1992 - Nobel Prize for literature is given to West Indies poet Derek Walcott

1981 - 1st broadcast of "Cagney & Lacey" on ABC-TV

1980 - Bob Marley collapses on stage, brought to Sloan-Kettering Hospital

1965 - London's Post Office Tower opens, tallest building in England

1962 - Algeria admitted as 109th member of UN

1945 - Harry Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada

1932 - The Indian Air Force is established

1906 - Karl Nessler demonstrates 1st 'permanent wave' for hair, in London

1800’s

 1892 - Sergei Rachmaninoff 1st performs "Prelude in C-sharp-Minor" in Moscow

1871 - Gas explosion destroys Peshtigo, Wisconsin

1856 - The Second Opium War between several western powers and China begins 

            with the Arrow Incident on the Pearl River

1822 - 1st eruption of Galunggung (Java) sends boiling sludge into valley

1700’s

 1775 - Officers decide to bar slaves & free blacks from Continental Army

1758 - (through 10/26): Iroquois & Delaware treaty - the Council of Easton begins in 

            Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Eventually peace treaties will be signed, and many 

            of the much-hated treaty of Albany will be abrogated

1600’s

1604 - Supernova "Kepler's nova" 1st sighted

1500’s

 1541 - de Soto fights with CADDO Indians, today, in Tula, Arkansas

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Under 30

 Angus T. Jones, actor (Two and a Half Men)is 19

In their 40’s

Matt Biondi, US 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-84, 88, 92)is 47

Matt Damon,  actor (Good Will Hunting, Ocean's trilogy, Bourne trilogy) is 42

In their 50’s

Michael Dudikoff, actor [American Ninja] will be 58

In their 60’s

Chevy Chase, comedian/actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch, Caddyshack is 69

Sarah Purcell, Richmond Ind, actress/TV hostess is 64 

Sigourney Weaver [Susan Alexandra], LA, actress (Alien, Working Girl) is 63

In their 70’s

Rona Barrett, NYC, gossip columnist is 76

Paul Hogan, Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee, Lightning Jack) is 73

Jesse Jackson, Greenville SC, clergyman/presidential candidate is 71

Remembered for being born today

Frank [Patrick] Herbert, US, sci-fi author (Dune) b. 1920

Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator "Ace of Aces" (WW I) 890

William John Swainson, English naturalist and artist b. 1789

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Willy Brandt, chancellor of West Germany (1969-74)—colon cancer—1992—at 78

Al Davis, American football executive—2011—at 82 

Henry Fielding, English lawyer/author (Tom Jones)—1754—at 47

John Hancock, US merchant/statesman (Decl of Independence—1793—at 56

Fernando Lamas, actor/director (Lost World)—cancer—1982—at 67

St Mark, the Evangelist,—1094

Franklin Peirce, 14th president (1853-1857)— cirrhosis—1869—at 64

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

The fear of being buried alive

 Rebus

 Scrambled eggs

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 Now  §