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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 175
/ Week: 26
June Averages: 78° \ 42°Today: Average Sky Cover: 0%
H 81°… L 48°… Ave. humidity: 29%
Wind: ave: 7mph; Gusts: 22mph
Average High: 81° Record High: 94° (1974)
Average Low: 44° Record Low: 32° (1975)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
451 - 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1322 - Jews
are expelled from France for 3rd time 1441 - Eton College founded by Henry VI
1497 - John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)
1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England
1664 - The colony of New Jersey is founded.
1692 - Kingston, Jamaica, founded
1841 - Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
1853 - Gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce
1880 - First performance of "O Canada," song becomes national anthem of Canada
1894 - Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1901 - 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
1916 - Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.
1938 - 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1949 - "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1963 - 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1980 - Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
2004 - Capital punishment is declared unconstitutional in New York
2010 - John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in tennis history.
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Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Called my PCP to tell him I was picking up the paperwork for the
new blood screen. Left a message and went over about an hour later. The front
office lady couldn’t find it, so I had to wait almost an hour. This is what I
like about my PCP…he spends a lot of time with his patients. I decided to do
the blood draw tomorrow.
On Sat. my brother got a letter from ‘ing’ that my mom had a
policy with them. He sent me a copy. I called this morning and they emailed me
the copy. Then I went to the mailbox and my letter arrived. No idea how much it
is for, but another nice surprise. My wrist must be getting better, as I am doing this blog without the wrist brace I’ve been wearing for two weeks. Still some pain, but not as bad as it has been. I figure I better try it so the wrist joint doesn’t atrophy.
OK, how naïve does the IRS leader think we are…all emails about the scandal were lost when her computer crashed…really?!?
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
023456789
lives ever ever ever ever
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
Jackie Gleason Tribute
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Minimum
number of child neglect and abuse cases filed in AZ since 2009 that have been
closed without investigation: 6551
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Publisher Harlequin prints a line of romance novels set in the
world of NASCAR.
Trivia
about AZ…
Arizona leads the nation in copper production.
Petrified wood is the official state fossil. Most petrified wood
comes from the Petrified Forest in northeastern Arizona.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
Islam is not a cult. Its followers number over 1.5 billion
worldwide. Along with Judaism and Christianity, it is considered to be one of
the three Abrahamic traditions.
Facts about
SPACE…
Metallic
Attraction
It is believed that if two pieces of metals will come in contact
with one another in space, they will be stuck. In other words, they will be
somewhat merged into one another. It might sound weird, but it is a fact about
space that we cannot deny.
Joke-of-the-day
60 above -
Floridians wear coats, gloves, and wooly hats.
Chicago people
sunbathe.50 above - New Yorkers try to turn on the heat.
Chicago people plant gardens.
40 above - Italian cars won't start.
Chicago people drive with the windows down.
32 above - Distilled water freezes.
Lake Michigan's water gets thicker.
20 above - Californians shiver uncontrollably.
Chicago people have the last cookout before it gets cold.
15 above - New York landlords finally turn up the heat.
Chicago people throw on a sweatshirt.
0 degrees - Californians fly away to Mexico.
Chicago people lick the flagpole and throw on a light jacket over the sweatshirt.
20 below - People in Miami cease to exist.
Chicago people get out their winter coats.
40 below - Hollywood disintegrates.
Chicago's Girl Scouts begin selling cookies door to door.
60 below - Polar bears begin to evacuate Antarctica.
Chicago's Boy Scouts postpone "Winter Survival" classes until it gets cold enough.
80 below - Mount St. Helen's freezes.
Chicago people rent some videos.
100 below - Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.
Chicago people get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg.
297 below - Microbial life survives on dairy products.
Illinois cows complain of farmers with cold hands.
460 below - ALL atomic motion stops.
Chicago people start saying. . ."Cold 'nuff for ya??"
500 below - Hell freezes over.
The Chicago Cubs win the World Series.
Rules of
Thumb:
HANGING CABLE
Wires or cables
strung from point to point or pole to pole assume a catenary curve with a sag
1/20 of the span. A lesser sag signals excessive tension in the wire or cable.
A greater sag calls for more poles, closer together.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
BRA, Italy (UPI) - An Italian thief in Bra has been placed under
house arrest for stealing brassieres and underwear from washing lines in town.
The alleged thief was busted after bagging bras and pinching panties that had
been left out to dry on lines and balconies in the northern Italian town. The
28-year-old conducted his undergarment-snatching operation overnight. When
police searched the suspect's home in nearby Pocopaglia, he allegedly had
"a house full" of women's underwear, La Repubblica reported.
According to the paper, he had harassed a former girlfriend in the past.
According to the Local, a 64-year-old Italian man was also arrested for stealing
17 bras from a supermarket in August. Renzo Cavalieri's arrest came only months
after he was released from a year-long sentence that he had received for
stealing underwear. "I have no idea why I keep stealing bras," he
reportedly told police.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Sushi
has been around since the second century A.D. It started as a way to preserve
fish in China and eventually made its way to Japan. The fish was placed in rice
and allowed to ferment and then the rice was thrown away. Nowadays, the rice is
usually one of the most important parts of the role and the fresher the fish
the better.
The
method of eating raw fish and rice started in the early 17th century. The rice
was seasoned with rice wine vinegar, which allowed for the sushi to be eaten
right away, instead of consumers having to wait months for it to be prepared.
The
highest price ever paid for a sushi grade Bluefin Tuna was $396,000 for a 754
pound fish ($526/lb). It was caught on January 4th, 2011 at the Tsukiji Fish
Market in Tokyo. The new record beat the previous holder 10 years to the day.
The
word "sushi" actually means to the rice seasoned with vinegar, sugar,
salt. "Sushi" does not mean raw fish.
Japanese
traditionally eat miso soup at the end of the meal to aid in digestion.
Even
though most people in the U.S. use chopsticks to eat sushi, it's traditionally
eaten with the fingers.
Calendar
Information
This
Week’s Observances:
22-28
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week
Watermelon Seed Spitting WeekCarpenter Ant Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week
Today
Is
Celebration
of the Senses
International Fairy Day or Faerie Day Museum Comes To Life Day
National Columnists Day
Take Your Dog to Work Day
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John's Day (Latvia-midsummer)
Macau Day (China-1662-defeat of Dutch invasion)
Today’s Events through History
1610 - Membertou
(MICMAC) becomes the 1st
Indian Catholic
1817 - 1st
coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast 1939 - Pan Am's 1st US to England flight
1947 - Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold
1950 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open
1966 - Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
2012 - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt
Today’s
Birthdays
Jack Carter, Brooklyn, comedian/actor is 91
Billy Casper, golfer, 3-time PGA Player of Year ('66, '68, '70) is
83Jeff Beck, singer/guitarist (Jeff Beck Group) is 70
Peter Weller, actor (Robocop) is 67
Mick Fleetwood, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac) is 67
Joe Penny, actor (Riptide) is 58
Remembered
for being born today
1797-1864 - John
Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx
1893-1971 - Roy
O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company 1895-1983 - Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight champion
1912-1990 - Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review)
1932-2001 - David McTaggart, co-founder (Greenpeace)
Today’s
Historical Obits
Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist, 2005, @83
Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th US President, cancer, 1908, @71Jackie Gleason, comedian (Honeymooners), cancer, 1987, @71
Chris Benoit, professional wrestler, suicide after killing family, 2007, @40
Brain Teasers
No one
lives forever.
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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