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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 50/ Day: 345
Today: H 43°…L 19°
Averages: H ° L °
Records: H
62°(1977, 1910)…L -8°(1951)
Wind: ave: 17mph; Gusts: 33mph Today’s ave. humidity: 50%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
1st Nobel
Peace Prizes (to Jean Henri Dunant, Frederic Passy) —1898
Albert Schweitzer receives Nobel Peace Prize—1954
Jane Addams (1st US woman) named co-recipient
of Nobel Peace Prize—1931
Johannes van der Waals wins Nobel Prize for
physics—1910
Linus Pauling wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry—1954
Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat accept Nobel
Peace Prize—1978
Nobel for physics awarded to Pierre/Marie
Curie—1903
Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Dr Martin Luther
King Jr—1964
Nobel peace prize awarded to US president
Wilson—1919
Nobel prize awarded to Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon
Peres & Yasser Arafat—1994
Nobel prizes awarded to Fridtjof Nansen, Niels
Bohr and Albert Einstein—1922
Pres Theodore Roosevelt (1st American) awarded
Nobel Peace Prize—1906
Ralph J Bunche (1st black American) presented
Nobel Peace Prize—1950
Ruyard Kipling receives Nobel prize for literature—1907
South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received his
Nobel Peace Prize—1984
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Returns tomorrow
Free Rambling Thoughts:
Well, the chilly weather has arrived…and it isn’t pleasant. No moisture…just cold wind and very cool temps. Not a day for a walk. So I decided to watch the Cardinals play…they were also cold…it’s time for some BIG changes for that team. This was not just one bad game…this is a horrific season for them. I think the curse has something to do with their name. When they moved from St. Louis years ago, they kept the Cardinal name…really, don’t think there has ever been a cardinal in AZ. They soon changed from the Phoenix Cardinals to the AZ Cardinals, hoping to get statewide support. Oh well, not a big football fan so they can call themselves anything they want, and they can be the laughing stock of the NFL.All my Sunday morning shows talked about little but the fiscal cliff. Boring…all the DC kindergarteners refuse to play well together, and some like to run with scissors. All this unnecessary drama is just like the old time soap operas…when you could miss a couple of weeks, turn it back on and nothing had changed, yet they kept their audience making them think that something big was happening every day.Everyone knows how much I enjoy Africa. I am reading an article about the downside of the foreign aide that goes to the many countries. I haven’t fully absorbed everything, but sure understand how some of the aide is actually hurting the various countries.
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Duplicate Letter Puzzles
Find
common words with certain letters duplicated in the given
positions. V stands for a duplicated vowel, C stands for a
duplicated consonant, L stands for any duplicated letter, and _
stands for any letter
C V V C _ C
Lifestyle
Substance:
Old Saying Explained:
KNUCKLE UNDER…Once knuckle meant any joint, including the knee. To knuckle under meant to kneel in submission
Ok, then?
Movie Theme Songs you may remember:
''Theme from Shaft''
Read This Sign Carefully!!
Dry cleaners, Bangkok: DROP YOUR TROUSERS HERE FOR THE BEST RESULTS
Coptic Christian Art:
Bet You Didn’t Know…from History Channel
Fought around 1274 B.C. in what is now Syria, the Battle of Kadesh was likely the largest chariot battle in history, with more than 5,000 vehicles involved.
Harper’s Index:
- Rank of Finland among European countries in which children spend the fewest hours in class: 1
- Rank of its students among the best performing in Europe: 1
Ruminations:
When getting tech support, why do you have to
enter your phone number, then the first question the tech asks is ‘What is your
Phone number’?
Unusual Fact of the Day:
In a 2008 survey, 58% of British teens thought Sherlock Holmes was a real guy, while 20% thought Winston Churchill was not.Found on You Tube:
Joke-of-the-day:
Groups of Americans were traveling by tour bus through Holland. As they stopped at a cheese farm, a young guide led them through the process of cheese making, explaining that goat's milk was used. She showed the group a lovely hillside where many goats were grazing. 'These' she explained, 'Are the older goats put out to pasture when they no longer produce.' She then asked, 'What do you do in America with your old goats?'A spry old gentleman answered, 'They send us on bus tours!
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
TELLING SHEEP FROM GOATS…Some breeds of sheep look like goats and some breeds of goats look like sheep. In general, sheep's tails hang down and goats' tails stand up.
Yeah, It Really Happened
LONDON, Ontario - A Canadian high school is using stickers to cover up a yearbook photo featuring a student exposing his testicles to the camera. The London District Catholic school board said Mother Teresa secondary school is using stickers bearing a Photoshopped version of the picture of the school's news team after the picture appearing in the book was found to feature a student with his testicles exposed, The London Free Press reported Thursday. "They're going to put in those permanent stickers right on top of the old picture so it won't wreck the page or the photo," district spokesman John Boles said. Boles said the company that published the yearbook will cover the costs of the stickers. The spokesman said stickers will also be made available to students who already received their yearbooks before the nudity was noticed last week.
Somewhat Useless Information
- George Washington is the only man whose birthday is a legal holiday in every state of the United States.
- Gerald Ford was the only US president not to have been elected to either the presidency or the vice presidency.
- Giraffes are the only animals born with horns. Both males and females are born with bony knobs on the forehead.
- Grover Cleveland is the only US president to have been married in the White House.
- Hawaii has the only royal palace in the United States - Iolani.
- Hawaii is the only US state that grows coffee.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
10-17> Human Rights Week
Today Is
Dewey Decimal System Day
Human Rights Day
Nobel Prize Day
~US: Mississippi: Admission Day (1817: 20th state)
Today’s Events through History
10,000,000th model T Ford assembled—1915
1st "planet" outside our solar system discovered—1984
6 year old Donny Osmond singing debut on Andy Williams Show—1963
Bonnie Prince Charlies army draws into Manchester—1745
Emory College (now Emory University) is chartered in Oxford, Georgia—1836
France begins use of Gregorian calendar—1582
IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame—1991
Japanese troops overrun Guam—1941
King Edward VIII abdicates throne to marry Mrs Wallis Simpson—1936
Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant—1520
Mass Bay becomes 1st American colonial government to borrow money—1690
One million Lebanese opposition supporters gather in downtown Beirut,
calling for the government to resign—2006Spanish-American War ends; US acquires Philippines, PR & Guam—1898
Tom Cribb (GB) beats Tom Molineaus (US-Negro) in 1st interracial
boxing championship (40 rounds) —1810
William H Rehnquist confirmed as Supreme Court justice—1971
Women suffrage (right to vote) granted in Wyoming Territory (US 1st) —1869
Today’s Birthdays
In their 70’s
Tommy
Kirk, actor (Old Yeller) is 71
Chad
Stuart, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chad & Jeremy) is 71
In their 50’s
Nia
Peeples, [Vernia], Hollywood, dancer/host (Fame, Party Machine) is 51
In their 40’s
Bobby Flay,
American celebrity chef and restaurateur is 48
Under 30
Raven-Symoné,
American actress and singer is 27
Remembered for being born today
Abu
Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (1948-2004)
Dan
Blocker, De Kalb Texas, American actor (Tiny-Cimarron City, Hoss-Bonanza)
(1928-1972)
Melvil[le
Louis K] Dewey, created Dewey Decimal System for libraries (1851-1931)
Emily
Dickinson, Amherst Mass, poet (Collected Poems), (1830-1886)
Harold
Gould, Schenectady NY, actor (He & She, Martin-Rhoda, Big Bus) (1923-2010)
Thomas
Hopkins Gallaudet, Phila, pioneer of educating the deaf (1787-1852)
Chet
Huntley, Cardwell Mont, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report) (1911-1974)
Dorothy
Lamour, [Mary Kaumeyer], New Orleans, actress (Road to Bali) (1914-1996)
George
MacDonald, Scotland, sci-fi author (Princess & Curdie) (1824-1905)
Mako,
Japanese-born American actor (1933-2006)
Rajaji [Chakravarti
Rajagopalachari], India's freedom fighter and the first Governor General of
independent India (1878-1972)
Today’s Historical Obits
Dick
Clair, comedian (Clair & McMahon, Facts of Life)—AIDS—1988—at 57
Red Cloud
[Maȟpíya Lúta], Sioux chief—1909—at 87
Sam
Cooke, US, singer (Sad Moon)—slain at a motel—1964—at 33
Horace
Elgin Dodge, automobile manufacturing pioneer— pneumonia and cirrhosis—1920—at 57
Eugene
McCarthy, U.S. Senator—2005—at 89
Alfred
Nobel, Swedish Nobel Prize— cerebral hemorrhage—1896—at 63
Richard
Pryor, American comedian and actor—heart attack—2005—at 65
Otis
Redding, singer (Dock of Bay)—plane crash—1967—at 26
Fulton J
Sheen, bishop (Life is Worth Living)—1979—at 84
Answer: Duplicate Letter Puzzles
DOODAD
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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