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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 28/ Day: 194 Today: H 75°…L 53°
Wind: ave: 11mph; Gusts: 20mph Ave. humidity: 77%
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Average Low
Average High Record Low Record High
50° 83° 35° (1904) 94° (1972)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
Anti-draft mobs lynch blacks in NYC; about
1,000 die…1863
Battle of Guaymas, Mexico, General Jose Maria
Yanez stops the French invasion
led by Count Gaston de Raousset Boulbon…1854
Congress establishes Northwest Territory
(excludes slavery)…1787
Dean of St Paul's Cathedral perfects a way to
bottle beer…1568
Frank Sinatra made his recording debut…1939
Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the
hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles.
It originally reads "Hollywoodland
" but the four last letters are dropped after
renovation in 1949…1923
Horace Greeley advises his readers to "Go
west young man"…1865
Oscar J Dunn, former slave, installed as
governor of Louisiana…1868
Queen Victoria is 1st monarch to live in
present Buckingham Palace…1837
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Lots of clouds and finally a nice long shower at my place, but looking around, it looks like other areas go at least some rain. That’s good.So the jury is finally deliberating in the Zimmerman trial. Over the years I have worked with a few ‘security’ people who were little more than wanna be cops. Since the first release of information, that is the picture I have had of Zimmerman. He didn’t need to ‘follow’ the kid, just call 911 and sit tight. If he is found guilty, it will send a message to lots of wanna bes to be much less vigilant in their pursuit of crime. If he is found not guilty it will send a message that one does not need to listen to 911 trained operators and just go after any perceived ‘perp’. Scary times may be ahead. Interesting and nice that the Zimmerman family issued a joint statement of their belief in the justice system and asking for peace no matter what the verdict is.Having spent much of my career looking at Language in a variety of ways I have to share this.: Animal Sounds in Different Languages
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Given the word STANDARD, take away two letters and add three digits to make a logical sequence.
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Oxymorons
Forgotten memories Found missing Free love
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
- Estimated percentage change since 2007 in the number of US vets committing suicide each day: +22
- Portion of active-duty US service people who committed suicide in 2011 who had never been deployed: 1/2
Picture of the Day: Street Markets
Unusual Fact of the Day
A trip around the bases on a baseball diamond is 20 yards longer than a goal-line-to-goal line run on a football field.Joke-of-the-day
Three men were discussing at a bar about coincidences. The first man said, " my wife was reading a "tale of two cities" and she gave birth to twins""That’s funny", the second man remarked, "my wife was reading 'the three musketeers' and she gave birth to triplets"The third man shouted, "Good God, I have to rush home!"When asked what the problem was, he exclaimed, " When I left the house, my wife was reading Ali baba and the forty Thieves"!!!
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
STUNT FLYING
To avoid hitting the ground if your engine quits while performing a roll on takeoff, accelerate the aircraft to twice the rotation speed of a normal takeoff before beginning the roll.
Yeah, It Really Happened
A Tennessee homeowner was distracted by a naked woman swimming in his backyard pool.The 54-year-old man told police that a man and woman who lived nearby approached his home to talk to him. During the conversation the man excused himself to go back home and retrieve cigarettes.Alone with the victim, the woman asked him about his pool, and if she could take a swim. He told the woman it would be OK and led her to the rear of his house where the pool is located.The woman then asked if it would bother him if she swam in the nude, and he replied that it would not. She proceeded to take off her clothes and jumped into the pool, swimming for about 20 minutes. The home owner retrieved a towel from inside his home, the woman dried off, dressed and left.It was at that point he re-entered his home to discover that he had been robbed of a handgun, jewelry and medication. The loss was placed at $1,195.While the two suspects have been identified, they have not been found by police for questioning.
- Somewhat Useless Information
- The most common type of shark attack is the so-called "hit and run" assault. The shark bites and then quickly releases the person and disappears. These attacks usually involve injuries to the leg below the knee and are not usually fatal. Humans are usually considered too bony to be a good meal for a shark.
- Seen from below, swimmers or surfboarders are often mistaken for seals or sea lions, whose fatty bodies are a favorite treat for sharks. Human splashing creates irregular ripples in the water below, which to a shark may indicate an injured seal or fish.
- In the U.S., your chances of getting killed by lightning are 30 times greater than dying of a shark attack.
- Shiny jewelry that gleams like fish scales, multi-color swimsuits, and irregular tanning, especially on the bottom of the feet, could also confuse a shark into thinking a person was an animal.
- Most shark attacks occur on the inshore side of a sandbar or between sandbars because fish congregate there and because sharks can become trapped at low tide.
- When attacks are reported, it is often difficult to determine what type of shark was involved since even experts can have trouble distinguishing them when in the water.
Calendar Information
7-13
Be Nice To New Jersey Week
Creative Maladjustment Week
National Farriers Week
Nude Recreation Weekend
Be Nice To New Jersey Week
Creative Maladjustment Week
National Farriers Week
Nude Recreation Weekend
Today Is
·
Bald Is In Day
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Carver Day
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Embrace Your Geekness Day
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Fool's
Paradise Day
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Grange Day
·
Gruntled Workers Day: "Gruntled" means "angry"
or "complaining"
-- related to the word "grunt". "Disgruntled"
meant "VERY gruntled."
·
National French Fries Day
^^
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Japan: Buddhist:
Feast of Lanterns (memory of the dead)
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US: Wayne, NB: Wayne Chicken Day clucking contest
Today’s Events through History
Bannock War: First Cavalry, Twenty-First Infantry and Fourth
Artillery soldiers, under
Captain Evan Miles, fight a group of Indians at
Umatilla Agency, Oregon…1878
Mumbai is rocked by three bomb blasts during
the evening rush hour, killing 26 and
injuring 130…2011
NYC experiences 25 hr black-out…1977
Pope Pius XII excommunicates communist Catholics…1949
Source of Mississippi River discovered (Henry
R Schoolcraft)…1832
US Democratic convention nominates JFK as
presidential candidate…1960
William I of Scotland, key rebel in Revolt of
1173-1174, captured at Alnwick by forces
loyal to Henry II of England…1174
Today’s Birthdays
In their 70’s
Harrison Ford, actor (Star Wars, Indiana
Jones, Frantic) is 71
Roger McGuinn, guitarist (Byrds-Turn Turn
Turn, Mr Tambourine Man) is 71
In their 60’s
Cheech Marin, comedian, actor and writer is 67
Remembered
for being born today
Julius Caesar, Rome, Roman military and
political leader, [100BC-44 BC)
Bob Crane, actor (Col Hogan-Hogan's Heroes,
Donna Reed) [1928-1978]
Jack F Kemp, (Rep-R-NY)/right-wing/US Secretary
of Housing [ 1935-2008]
Sydney Webb, England, writer/husband of
Beatrice Potter [1859-1947]
Today’s Historical Obits
Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt), comedian…2006…at 87
Johnny Ringo, Gunfighter…suicide (?)…1882…at
32
George Steinbrenner, businessman; owner New
York Yankees…heart attack…2010…at 80
Conrad Weiser, Pennsylvania's ambassador to
the Native Americans…1760…at 63
Richard Darryl Zanuck, Academy Award winning
film producer…heart attack…2012…at 77
Answer: Brain
Teasers
Take away the A's to leave ST ND RD.
Then add 1, 2, and 3: 1ST 2ND 3RD
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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