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Flagstaff
Almanac: Week: 12/ Day: 77 Today: H 60°…L 28°
Averages: H
51° L 24°
Records: H 73°(2007)…L 3°(1991)
Wind: ave: 15mph; Gusts: 26mph Ave. humidity: 56%
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
$100 millions at Gardner Museum, Boston
biggest US art robbery►1990
1st electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick) ►1931
Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth
opens►1881
Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes the first
person to walk in space►1965
Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer
to make a record►1902
Jacques de Molay, the 23rd/ last
Grand Master of the Knights Templar,
burned at stake►1314
Kraków is ravaged by Mongols►1241
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified►1949
Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced►1961
Scott Paper begins selling paper dresses for
$1►1966
Tenochtitlan is founded; event is depicted on
the Mexican coat of arms►1325
US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba,
Vietnam, N Korea & Cambodia►1977
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free
Rambling Thoughts
Really getting used to this spring weather. Hope it continues.
Watched my Sunday morning news shows. Nice to hear some solutions to our economic, military, and cultural problems. Several of the shows discussed why we are disliked/hated by so many in the world…AND how to fix it. It will take decades to undo the damage we have done throughout so much of the world. It is certainly time to begin the healing process. Killing innocents is the first thing that needs to be corrected, by stopping it, apologizing for past killings and working with the victim’s families to make up for our mistreatment. The list goes on, but I was pleased to see that at least some are talking about the list. Next step is action.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Each sentence below contains a word that can
be anagrammed to answer or describe the sentence.
Example: Craft that might tip in the ocean. Answer: Canoe (Anagram of ocean)
Example: Craft that might tip in the ocean. Answer: Canoe (Anagram of ocean)
1. You cover a mattress with one of these 2. Dangerous thing for an alcoholic to begin 3. Feature on which a tire might be rated 4. Feeling about a poisonous adder 5. Weapon that a cavalryman bears 6. It doesn't necessarily bring rain, but it could
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
from
Cracked.com
Baffling Science Experiments ThatWere Funded
- Coked-Up Rats and Jazz
- Chickens Don't Like Ugly People
- See-Through Animals
- Arbitrary Monkey Erections
- What Happens When You Get Leeches Drunk?
- The Velocity of Penguin Crap
Ok, then?
Harper’s
Index
- Percentage of the population of Valencia, Spain that is currently unemployed: 28
- Price of a weeklong prostitution training course offered there since May: $127
Picture
of the Day: Mammals of the Sea
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Fish cough!
Joke-of-the-day
A wife went to the police station with her next-door neighbor to report that her husband was missing. The policeman asked for a description. She said, "He's 35 years old, 6 foot 4, has dark eyes, dark wavy hair, an athletic build, weighs 185 pounds, is soft-spoken, and is good to the children."
The next-door neighbor protested, "Your husband is 5 foot 4, chubby, bald, has a big mouth, and is mean to your children."The wife replied, "Yes, but who wants HIM back?"
Rules of
Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
TEACHING
To teach effectively, a teacher should limit a class to 25 students. A class of 25 to 32 students should have a teacher's aide. A group with more than 32 students should be split into two classes.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
NOGALES, Ariz. - U.S. Customs and Border Protection said authorities arrested a 35-year-old Mexican man accused of hiding more than a ton of marijuana among bell peppers. Customs officials said the man's tractor trailer was pulled over for inspection Tuesday at the Nogales Commercial Facility after crossing the border into Arizona when a drug-sniffing dog detected the presence of contraband, KVOA-TV, Tucson, Ariz., reported Thursday. Investigators discovered 280 packages of marijuana, together weighing more than a ton, worth an estimated $1,068,000, KPHO-TV, Phoenix, reported. The drugs were hidden inside a shipment of bell peppers. The drugs and truck were seized and the suspect, whose name was not released, was turned over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Homeland Security Investigations agents.
Somewhat
Useless Information
- The only river that flows both north and south of the equator is the Congo. It crosses the equator twice.
- The only rock that floats in water is pumice.
- The only wood used by famed London cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale was mahogany.
- The pecan tree is the only naturally growing nut tree in North American. It is native to the Texas, Mississippi and Mexico River Valleys.
- The penguin is the only bird that can swim, but not fly. It is also the only bird that walks upright.
- The Virginia opossum is the only marsupial (pouched mammal) indigenous to North America.
- There is only one Q in a Scrabble game.
- There's only one city in the United States named merely "Beach." It is found in North Dakota, which is a land-locked state.
- Uranus is the only planet that rotates on its side.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
17-23
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Consider Christianity Week
Health Information Professionals Week
National Animal Poison Prevention Week
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week
Root Canal Awareness Week
18-24
Consider Christianity Week
Health Information Professionals Week
National Animal Poison Prevention Week
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week
Root Canal Awareness Week
18-24
Act Happy Week
American Chocolate Week
Flood Awareness Week
Wellderly Week
Wildlife Week
World Folktales & Fables Week
American Chocolate Week
Flood Awareness Week
Wellderly Week
Wildlife Week
World Folktales & Fables Week
Today Is
Awkward Moments
Day
Forgive Mom and
Dad Day
National
Biodiesel Day
Well-Elderly or
Wellderly Day
~Aruba: Flag Day
Today’s Events
through History
1st plastic lens for cataract patients fitted►1952
Boston Braves move to Milwaukee►1953
English parliament bans payments by English
church to Rome►1532
Henry Wells & William Fargo forms American
Express in Buffalo►1850
Leona Helmsley sentence to 4 years for tax
evasion►1992
Lord Stanley presents silver challenge cup for
hockey (Stanley Cup) ►1892
Nazi Germany occupies Hungary►1944
Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City►1919
Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of
Ethiopia►1608
Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord severed in a
car accident►1982
Today’s
Birthdays
In their 70’s
F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk, president South
Africa is 77
Charley Pride, country singer (Sweet Country)
is 75
In their 50’s
Vanessa Williams, 1st black Miss America
(1983)/singer is 50
In their 40’s
Bonnie Blair, Champaign Ill, speed skater
(Oly-5 gold/brz-88, 92, 94) is 49
Queen Latifah, rap singer/actress (Khadijah
James-Living Single) is 43
In their 30’s
Adam Levine, singer-songwriter is 34
Remembered
for being born today
Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill, cowboy
(Charlie-Petticoat Junction) [1911-1967]
Edgar Cayce, American psychic
Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ, 22nd/24th Pres
[1837-1908]
Rudolph C K Diesel, German engineer (Diesel
motor) [1858-1913]
George Plimpton, NYC, sports writer (Paper
Lion) [1927-2003]
Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England
and queen consort of Louis
XII of France [1496-1533]
John Updike, poet/novelist (Rabbit Run)
[1932-2009]
Today’s Historical
Obits
John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], American
pioneer agronomist►1845►at 70
Jacques de Molay, the last grand master of The
Knights Templar ►burned
at
the stake►1314►at 50-64
Fess Parker, American actor►2010►at 85
Answer: Brain
Teasers
1. Sheet 2. Binge 3. Tread 4. Dread 5. Sabre or Saber 6. Cloud
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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