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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 176
/ Week: 26
June Averages: 78° \ 42°Today: Average Sky Cover: 0%
H 81°… L 48°… Ave. humidity: 23%
Wind: ave: 5mph; Gusts: 22mph
Average High: 81° Record High: 95° (1970)
Average Low: 45° Record Low: 30° (1965)
Quote of the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1580 - Book
of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1630 - Fork
introduced to American dining by Gov Winthrop 1672 - 1st recorded monthly Quaker meeting in US held, Sandwich, Mass
1835 - 1st building constructed at Yerba Buena (now SF)
1867 - 1st barbed wire patented by Lucien B Smith of Ohio
1876 - Battle of the Little Bighorn: 7th Cavalry wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne
1929 - President Hoover authorizes building of Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)
1950 - Korean conflict begins; N Korea invades S Korea
1967 - Mohammed Ali (Cassius Clay) sentenced to 5 years
1972 - Juan Peron elected president of Argentina
1991 - Martina Navratilova wins record 100th singles match at Wimbledon
1997 - Christies auctions off Princess Di's clothing for $5.5 million
♫
Today’s Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Busy day for a retired guy. Got my blood drawn this morning. Then
met my financial advisor for lunch at noon. Great lunch at the local country
club. Investments are doing well. Things are going well with my wrist. I could
actually remove ice from the cube tray with very little pain.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
When
you curtail a word, you remove the last letter and still have a valid word. You
will be given clues for the two words, longer word first.
Example:
Begin -> Heavenly body Answer: The words are Start and Star.
1.
Head and shoulders sculpture -> Large vehicle
2.
Vision -> Audibly let out breath from sorrow3. Idea; mental process -> However
4. Unable to remember -> Create by hammering; counterfeit
5. Something that happens -> Level; balanced
6. Portion; divide -> Average or normal amount
7. Light hit in golf -> Place in a location
8. Light hit in baseball -> Small bread loaf
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Portion
of people treated in intensive-care units who develop symptoms of severe
psychiatric disorders after being released: 1/2
Unusual
Fact of the Day
If the oceans were to gradually rise, Florida (350 feet above sea
level at its highest point) would become the first U.S. state to be completely
submerged.
Trivia
about AZ…
The bola tie is the official state neckwear.
The Palo Verde is the official state tree. Its name means green
stick and it blooms a brilliant yellow-gold in April or May.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
There are five pillars of practice in Islam. These practices must
be undertaken with the best of effort in order to be considered a true Muslim:
A) Shahadah - declaration of faith in the oneness of God and that Muhammad is
the last prophet of God. B) Formal prayer five times a day. C) Fasting during
the daylight hours in the month of Ramadan. D) Poor-due "tax" - 2.5%
of one's savings given to the needy at the end of each year. E) Pilgrimage to Mecca
at least once, if physically and financially able.
Joke-of-the-day
USEFUL WORK
PHRASES
1. Thank you.
We're all refreshed and challenged by your unique point of view.2. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.
3. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.
4. Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
5. I have plenty of talent and vision. I just don't care.
6. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.
7. What am I? Flypaper for freaks!?
8. I'm not being rude. You're just insignificant.
9. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.
10. I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
11. It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.
12. Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
13. No, my powers can only be used for good.
14. How about never? Is never good for you?
15. I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
16. You sound reasonable. Time to up my medication.
17. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
18. I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message.
19. I don't work here. I'm a consultant.
20. Who me? I just wander from room to room.
21. My toys! My toys! I can't do this job without my toys!
22. It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm really quite busy.
23. At least I have a positive attitude about my destructive habits.
24. You are validating my inherent mistrust of strangers.
25. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.
26. Someday, we'll look back on this, laugh nervously, and change the subject.
Rules of
Thumb:
FENCING LIVESTOCK
An electric fence
should be three-quarters of the shoulder height of the animals it is to
enclose.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
All the pieces have fallen into place for the designer of a giant
Tetris game.
Drexel University professor Frank Lee has earned the Guinness
World Record for largest architectural video game display. Again.Lee and two colleagues created a computer program to play the classic shape-fitting puzzle on two sides of a 29-story skyscraper in Philadelphia.
They used hundreds of lights embedded in the glass facades of the Cira (SEAR'-ah) Centre. All told, the "screens" totaled nearly 120,000 square feet (11,000 square meters).
Dozens of Tetris enthusiasts played the supersized version in April using a joystick from about a mile away.
The record announced Tuesday beat the previous one also set by Lee. Last year, he recreated the classic Atari game Pong on a single side of the same building.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Billy
the Kid's first crime was stealing clothes from a Chinese laundry.
Two
black aces and eights are called the "dead man's hand." It's what
Wild Bill Hickok was holding when he was shot dead in the Number Ten Saloon in
Deadwood, Dakota Territory.
The
notorious Black Bart (Charles E. Bolton) robbed 27 Wells Fargo stagecoaches in
his day; on his release from San Quentin prison, he disappeared and was never heard
from again.
Cowboys
called jail the hoosegow after the Spanish word juzgado, meaning "court of
justice."
Buckeroo
is the anglicized form of vaquero, the Spanish word for cowboy.
Legendary
Johnny Ringo didn't die with his boots on - his killer made him take them off
before shooting him.
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
Anniversary
- Battle of Little Bighorn-1876
Log Cabin Day Color TV Day (CBS-1951)
Day of the Seafarer
Global Beatles Day
Great American Backyard Campout
National Catfish Day
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Ratification Day (Virginia-1788)
Independence Day (Mozambique-1975)
National Day (Slovenia-1991)
Today’s Events through History
1798 - US
passes Alien Act allowing president to deport dangerous aliens
1868 - President Johnson passes a law that gov’t workers
would work 8 hr day 1938 - "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1
1949 - Long-Haired Hare is released in Theaters starring Bugs Bunny.
1961 - Iraq announces that Kuwait is a part of Iraq (Kuwait disagrees)
1989 - 1st US postmark dedicated to Lesbian & Gay Pride (Stonewall, NYC)
Today’s
Birthdays
June
Lockhart, actress (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction) is 89
Carly
Simon, singer (Anticipation, You're So Vain) is 69Jimmie Walker, Bronx, comedian (JJ-Good Times, At Ease) is 67
Phyllis George-Brown, Miss America (1971)/sportscaster (CBS) is 65
Ricky Gervais, actor and comedian (The Office) is 53
George Michael [Panos], British rock vocalist (Wham) is 51
Remembered
for being born today
1865-1929 - Robert Henri, US painter, leader of Ashcan school
1903-1950 - George Orwell, [Eric A Blair], British writer (Animal Farm, 1984),
1933-1996 - Gary Crosby, actor (Bill Dana Show, Adam 12, Chase)
Today’s
Historical Obits
Warren Earl Burger, Supreme Court Justice, 1995, @87
Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer, 1997, @87 Lester Maddox, segregationist\ Governor of Georgia, 2003, @87
Johnny Mercer, songwriter, brain tumor, 1976, @66
Farrah Fawcett, actress and pop culture figure, cancer, 2009, @52
Michael Jackson, entertainer and King of Pop music cardiac arrest, 2009, @50
Mary Tudor, queen consort of Louis XII of France, flu, 1533, @42
George Armstrong Custer, Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876, @36
Brain Teasers
1. Bust -> Bus
2. Sight -> Sigh3. Thought -> Though
4. Forget -> Forge
5. Event -> Even
6. Part -> Par
7. Putt -> Put
8. Bunt -> Bun
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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