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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 05/ Day: 29
Today: H 34°…L 27°
Averages: H 43° L 18° Records: H 63°(1986)…L -13°(1918)
Wind: ave: 13mph; Gusts: 32mph ave. humidity: 91% Wind chill-subtract 20°
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
1st
movie in Cinemascope (The Robe) premieres>1953
9th
Winter Olympic games open in Innsbruck, Austria>1964
Custer
Battlefield National Monument, Mont established>1879
Edgar
Allen Poe's "Raven" 1st published>1845
Galileo
observes Neptune but fails to recognize what he sees>1613
Hurricane
hits Washington & Oregon>1921
In
his State of the Union Address, United States President George W. Bush
describes "regimes that sponsor terror" as an Axis of Evil, in which
he includes Iraq, Iran and North Korea>2002
Jimi
Hendrix & Peter Townshend wage a battle of guitars>1969
Walt
Disney's "Sleeping Beauty" released>1959
William
Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet is probably first performed>1595
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
Slowly recovering from Jet Lag after a great trip to Uganda. Pics and story later…leave it to say the gorillas, chimps, baboons and monkeys welcomed me to their homeland just like I was family. The elephants not so much. The roads were horrific most of the time…dirt, ruts, washboard for several all day drives never seeing pavement. Nice places to stay, two with electricity from 6a-10p only. One with shower where a man came, climbed up on the roof, poured in hot water to the tank, then climbed down and woke us up about 6am. Uganda is still trying to recover from Idi Amin’s 60+ year reign of terror, but are doing well…still don’t have the tourist thing down real well, but they sure try.After all that time in 80°+ weather and 500% humidity, returning to rain in Flagstaff on Saturday was quite a surprise…after all it is January. Today was a couple of inches of snow…and I have been cold all day. Finally had to turn up the thermostat a couple of degrees. Tomorrow will be laundry day to get all my travel clothes wearable again. Those bad roads had a lot of red sand…just like the rez. After one long day two of us with white hair were surprised to see that we now had sandy red hair. One of those nights the shower was not strong enough to get rid of the red color, so I just wore by bandana the next day.
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Hidden Word
Find a hidden word in the sentence
He does this to avoid walking under it.
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:
Ok, then?
Read This Carefully!!
At a Tire Shop in Milwaukee : "Invite us to your next blowout."
Harper’s Index:
Chance an American child lives in a family headed by a single mother: 1 in 4Portion of new US jobs sine 2009 that have gone to men: 4/5
Unusual Fact of the Day:
The first bumper stickers appeared prior to World War II and usually promoted political candidates. At that time, they weren’t adhesive-backed; they were affixed to the car bumper with wire.Joke-of-the-day:
Q. What do you call a polar bear with ear muffs? A. Anything you want, he can’t hear you!
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
KNOCKING AWAY A GUN
If an assailant is actually touching you with a handgun, you can knock it out of line before he or she can fire it.
Yeah, It Really HappenedJUAN DE ACOSTA, Colombia - Colombian authorities said three men who burgled a convenience store were forced to abandon their loot when the getaway donkey alerted police with his braying. Police said the men stole the donkey, 10-year-old Xavi, and about 12 hours later attempted to have him carry away the merchandise they took from Fabio Orozco's convenience store in the town of Juan de Acosta, The Daily Telegraph reported Thursday. Investigators said police officers heard the donkey's "hee haws" around 2 a.m., and the thieves were forced to leave the animal and loot -- which included rum, oil, rice, tuna and sardines -- behind. Police recovered the donkey and stolen goods, but the thieves were able to escape on foot. The donkey was returned to owner Orlando Olivares, police said.
Somewhat Useless Information
- The word "taxicab" is an abbreviated version of its original name, taximeter cabriolet. The term was first used for horse-drawn carriages that charged for rides and later applied to automobiles employed for the same purpose.
- Checker Motors, long the nation's leading manufacturer of taxis, was one of the very few automakers to really hold its own during the Great Depression. With fewer Americans able to afford their own cars, the option to call a cab for transportation became more important.
- Many sources rank the live audience's reaction to Rev. Jim Ignatowski's repeated utterance, "What does a yellow light mean?" on a 1979 episode of TV's Taxi as the longest sustained laugh in sitcom history.
- The use of the word "hack" to refer to a cab driver dates back to before the days of automobiles when a "hack" was a horse that one could rent.
- Although the term "practice squad" is more commonly used today, sports teams once relied on a "taxi squad" of players that filled in positions during practice or when a player went down due to an injury.
- The Harry Chapin hit single "Taxi" was banned from many radio stations, who frowned upon the fact that the song's lyrics told the story of a cabbie who liked "gettin' stoned."
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
27-2/2
World Leprosy Week
Catholic Schools Week
Meat Week
National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week
National Medical Group Practice Week
International Hoof Care Week
US National Snow Sculpting Week
Today Is
Curmudgeons Day
Freethinkers Day
National Cornchip
Day
National Puzzle Day
Seeing Eye Dog Day-since
1929
Thomas Paine Day
US: Kansas
becomes 34th state--1861
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Today’s Events through History
6
Iranian held US hostages escape with help of Canadians>1980
American
League organized in Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis,
Kansas
City, Milwaukee & Minneapolis>1900
Emile
Grubbe is 1st dr to use radiation treatment for breast cancer>1896
Episcopal
church appoints 1st female bishop>1989
Henry
Clay introduces a comprise bill on slavery to US Senate>1850
Ice
cream cone rolling machine patented by Carl Taylor>1924
John
Gays' "Beggar's Opera," premieres in London>1728
Pres
Carter commuted Patricia Hearst's 7 year sentence to 2 years>1979
Pres
Jackson orders 1st use of US troops to suppress a labor dispute>1834
USS
Missouri the last battleship commissioned by the US Navy is launched>1944
Today’s Birthdays
In their 70’s
Claudine Longet, France, former Mrs Andy
Williams/singer is 71
Katharine Ross, actress (Graduate,
Francesca-Colbys) is 71
In their 60’s
Ann Jillian, Cambridge Mass, actress (Mr Mom,
Jennifer Slept Here) is 63
Tom Selleck, actor (Lance-Rockford Files,
Magnum PI) is 68
In their 50’s
Oprah Winfrey, actress/TV host (Color Purple,
Oprah) is 59
In their 40’s
Edward Burns, director/actor (Brothers
McMullen) is 45
Remembered for being born today
Edward Abbey, US author (Desert Solitaire) (1927-1989)
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Tagarov Russia,
playwright (Cherry Orchard) (1860-1904)
Paddy Chayevsky, [Sydney], US, dramatist
(Marty, Hospital) (1923-1981)
John Forsythe, NJ, actor (Bachelor Father,
Charlie's Angels, Dynasty) (1918-2010)
Victor Mature, Louisville KY, actor (1 Million
BC, Samson & Delilah) (1913-1999)
William McKinley, Niles Ohio, 25th US
President (1897-1901), (1843-1901)
Thomas Paine, political essayist (Common
Sense, Age of Reason) (1737-1809)
Today’s Historical Obits
Jimmy Durante, comedian (Palooka, Jimmy
Durante Show), 1980 at 86
Dick "Night Train" Lane, American
football player 2002 at 74
Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor (Chico &
the Man), shoots himself 1977 at 22
Answer: Hidden word
He does this to avoid walkinG UNder it.
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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