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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 162
/ Week: 24
June Averages: 78° \ 42°Today: Average Sky Cover: 15%
H 82°… L 48°… Ave. humidity: 19%
Wind: ave: 7mph; Gusts: 22mph
Average High: 78° Record High: 90° (1918)
Average Low: 40° Record Low: 26° (1954)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1184 BC - Troy
is sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes.
1742 - Benjamin
Franklin invents his Franklin stove1770 - Capt James Cook discovers Great Barrier Reef off Australia
1870 - 1st-stone Amstel Brewery opens in Amsterdam
1921 - Brazil adopts women suffrage
1937 - Marx Brothers' "A Day At The Races" released
1963 - Gov Wallace tries to prevent blacks registering at University of Alabama
1975 - 1st oil pumped from North Sea oilfield
1987 - Margaret Thatcher is 1st British PM in 160 years to win 3rd consecutive term
1988 - Freedomfest - Mandela addresses Wembley Stadium London
1993 - "Jurassic Park" opens, sets box office weekend record of $502 million
2001 - Timothy McVeigh is executed for his role in the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 - Ronald Reagan's funeral is held at Washington National Cathedral.
♫
Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Nice day, a little breezy. Picked up some thistle seed for the
finches. I’m sure they show up as soon as I put out the food…they do every
year.
With
school out, kids are everywhere. Yesterday two little boys go some sidewalk
chalk and gave the main sidewalk of several units some color. Actually a lot color.
Lots of different designs. I await the HOA’s next letter cause I ain’t cleaning
it off…I’ll let nature do that.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
Each
group of three definitions describes three words that are spelled the same,
except for one letter (each group describes a different set of words). Example:
king, ring, wing.
**
1a)
finished
1b)
to sleep lightly1c) a measured quantity
**
2a) covered
2b) mollusk
2c) applaud
**
3a) furtive
3b) to secretly observe
3c) an enclosure for pigs
**
4a) to direct
4b) costume
4c) duplicity
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s Index
Factor
by which a low income hight school students is more likely to drop out than a
peer who is not poor: 2.5
Unusual
Fact of the Day
When you pick up a common pine cone,
you'd be correct to refer to it as "she," since these brown, seeded
cones are all female.
Presidential
Fun Facts…
Martin Van Buren: Graduated Kinderhook Academy (1796) Secretary of
State under Jackson. Vice President under Jackson. First president born in the
United States of America. He and his wife spoke Dutch at home. He took his four
years salary, $100,000, in a lump sum at the end of his term. After serving one
term as president, he made three unsuccessful bids for reelection.
Ben
Franklin on Character…
Resolution. Resolve
to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve.
Common
misused words...
Precede and proceed
Precede means to come before. Proceed means to begin or continue.
Where it gets confusing is when an "ing" comes into play. "The
proceeding announcement was brought to you by..." sounds fine, but
"preceding" is correct since the announcement came before.If it helps, think precedence: Anything that takes precedence is more important and therefore comes first.
Pen Names
of famous authors…
Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë Pen names: Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell
While many contemporary writers have taken up pen names for
various creative reasons, the Brontë sisters did so out of necessity. In 19th
century England, women were not permitted to publish, and so the sisters
adopted male pseudonyms, each maintaining their real initials. In May, 1846,
they published their first anthology of poetry using these names. Though this
initial work wasn’t very successful, some of the sisters’ most famous and
best-selling works were also published under these pen names, like Charlotte’s
Jane Eyre and Emily’s Wuthering Heights, both in published in 1847. The
following year, Charlotte and Anne travelled to London to meet face-to-face
with their publisher, ultimately revealing that they were women.
The World
as 100 people…
SAFE
WATER: 87 have it; 13 do not
Joke-of-the-day
Three contractors
are bidding to fix a broken fence at the Rhode Island State house in
Providence, one from Cranston, and another from North Kingstown and the third,
Exeter. They go with a State house official to examine the fence.
The North
Kingstown contractor takes out a tape measure and does some Measuring, then
works some figures with a pencil. "Well," he says, "I figure the
job will run about $900: $400 for materials, $400 for my crew and $100 profit
for me." The Exeter contractor also does some measuring and figuring, and then says I can do this job for $700: $300 for materials, $300 for my crew and $100 profit for me."
The Cranston contractor doesn't measure or figure, but leans over to the State House official and whispers, "$2,700."
The official, incredulous, says, "You didn't even measure like the other guys! How did you come up with such a high figure?"
The Cranston contractor whispers back, "$1,000 for me, $1,000 for you, and we hire the guy from Exeter to fix the fence."
Rules of
Thumb:
ARC WELDING
Welders often need
to quickly estimate the amount of welding rod they need to join two pieces of
metal along a seam, or bead, as the finished weld is called. As a rule, the
length of the rod equals the length of the bead.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Thanks to astronomers working on the
Ultraviolet Coverage of the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UVUDF) project, scientists
now have one of the most comprehensive pictures of the early and rapidly
expanding universe.
Previously, astronomers knew a lot about nearby galaxies, as well
as galaxies far, far away. But information about star systems and galaxies
roughly 5 and 10 billion light-years away from Earth -- a region corresponding
to the galactic time when most stars where born -- have proved more elusive. Thankfully, the Hubble Telescope has helped fill in the gaps. From 2004 to 2009, Hubble's Ultra Deep Field cameras collected visible and near-infrared exposures. And now, astronomers have pieced them together to form one of the most impressive images of the early universe.
The image displays some 10,000 galaxies, and features the light from stars born only a few hundred million years after the Big Bang -- a blink of the eye in space time.
The small red galaxies in the image are the oldest, born when the galaxy was just an infant -- 800 million years old. The bigger, brighter galaxies were in their prime some one billion years ago, when the cosmos was a bit more mature at 13 billion years old.
Somewhat
Useless Information
“Mary
Poppins” , the American musical fantasy film with Julie Andrews, was released
in 1964. At the time, it was the most expensive film produced by the Disney
Studios. Moreover, it was the Disney studios’ first DVD release.
What
you may not know about “Mary Poppins” is that it was filmed entirely indoor and
the wires holding up the flying Mary Poppins were darkened with shoe polish to
reduce the risk of reflection from the studio lights!**
Did you know that a name first applied to Australia’s mainland for at least 180 years was “New Holland”? The name was given by the Dutch seafarer Abel Tasman in 1644.
The name “New Holland” was rejected by the British navigator and cartographer Matthew Flinders in 1804 in favor of the name “Australia” recommending its official adoption by the British government.
Finally, the new name “Australia” was officially approved by the United Kingdom in 1824.
**
It is said that some of the oldest words in English date back more than 20,000 years and the personal pronouns “I” or “we” may have been used by our ancestors in the Stone Age.
The oldest words in English according to the Daily Mail, are: I, who, we, thou, two, three, five. The word “who” is the oldest of all!
In addition, the words that are likely to disappear are: Dirty, squeeze, bad, guts, because, push (verb), smell (verb), stab, stick (noun), turn (verb), wipe
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
8-14
International Clothesline WeekNational Body Piercing Week
National Flag Week
Jim Thorpe Native American Games
Men's Health Week
National Automotive Service Professionals Week
Today
Is
Corn on the Cob Day
King Kamehameha Day National Hug Holiday
Today’s Events through History
1951 - Mozambique
becomes an oversea province of Portugal
1978 - "Grease"
starring John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John opens 1978 - Bjorn Borg wins French Open Title
Today’s
Birthdays
Charles
B Rangel, (Rep-D-NY) is 83
Tab
Hunter, actor (Tab Hunter Show) is 82 Gene Wilder, [Jerome Silbermann], actor (Silver Streak) is 81
Jackie Stewart, Scotland, driver/sports announcer is 75
Adrienne Barbeau, actress (Maude, Swamp Thing) is 69
Henry Cisneros, 1st Hispanic mayor of a major U.S. city (San Antonio), Secretary of HUD is 67
Joe Montana, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers) is 58
Hugh Laurie [James Hugh Calum Laurie], actor (House) is 55
Joshua Jackson, actor (Mighty Ducks) is 36
Shia LaBeouf, actor (Disturbia, Transformers) is 28
Remembered
for being born today
1572-1637 - Ben
Jonson, England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist)
1880-1973 - Jeannette
Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (Rep-Montana)1889-1972 - Wesley Ruggles, actor/producer/director (Keystone Kops)
1900-1994 - Lawrence E Spivak, Brooklyn, news panelist (Meet the Press)
1910-1997 - Jacques Cousteau, French oceanic explorer (Calypso)
1913-1970 - Vince Lombardi, NFL coach (Green Bay Packers)
1919-2009 - Richard Todd, Ireland, actor (Dorian Gray)
1937-2012 - Chad Everett [Raymon Lee Cramton], actor (Medical Center)
Today’s
Historical Obits
Ann Rutherford, Canadian actress (Andy Hardy series), 2012, @94
Robert Fogel, American economic historian and Nobel Laureate,
2013, @86David Brinkley, American television reporter, 2003, @82
DeForest Kelley, actor (Star Trek), cancer, 1999, @79
Dugald Stewart, Scot philosopher (Scottish common sense), 1828, @74
John Wayne [Marion Mitchell Morrison], actor, cancer, @72
Daniel D Tompkins, 6th US Vice President, 1825, @54
Ray Sharkey, actor (Wiseguy), AIDs, 1993, @40
Karen Ann Quinlan, comatose patient, 1985, @31
Brain
Teasers
1) done, doze, dose
2) clad, clam, clap3) sly, spy, sty
4) guide, guise, guile
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
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