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Almanac:
Week: 36 \ Day: 243
August
Averages: 78°\50°
86004
Today: H 80° \ L 51°
Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave.
High: 78° Record High: 89°[1950]
Ave. Low: 46° Record Low: 35°[1957]
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Observances
Today: Observances
This Week:
Love
Litigating Lawyers Day Be Kind To
Humankind Week
28-30
National
Chuck Wagon Races
Constitution Day (Kazakhstan)
Freedom
Day (Malaysia)
Independence
Day (Kyrgyzstan)
Independence
Day (Trinidad,Tobago-1962-from UK)
La
Tomatina (Spain)
National
Language Day (Moldova)
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1142 - Possible date for establishment of the
Iroquois (Haudenosaunee) League - with the aid of Hiawatha and Deganawidah
1897 - Thomas Edison patented his movie camera
(Kinetograph)
1905 - 25th U.S. Men's National Championship: Beals
Wright beats Holcombe Ward (6-2, 6-1, 11-9)
1935 - 1st national skeet championship
(Indianapolis)
1935 - FDR signs an act prohibiting export of
US arms to belligerents
1954 - US Census Bureau forms
1960 - Agricultural Hall of Fame forms
1965 - Department of Housing & Urban Development
established
1988 - 5-day power blackout of downtown Seattle
begins
2012
- "Argo" premieres at the Telluride Film Festival (Best Picture
2013)
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1535 - Pope Paul II excommunicates King Henry
VIII of England
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle,
Scotland
1772 - Hurricane destroy ships off Dominica
1920 - Belgium starts paying old age pensions
1948 - Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands
celebrates golden jubilee
1951 - 1st 33 1/3 album introduced in Dusseldorf
1987 - South Africa longest mine strike in history
ends
1994 - Northern Ireland Sinn Fein proclaims
ceases-fire
1994 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army
declares a ceasefire.
1997 - Diana, Princess of Wales, dies in a car
crash in a road tunnel, Paris
1998 - North Korea reportedly launches
Kwangmyongsong, its first satellite.
2006 - Stolen on August 22, 2004, Edvard Munch's
famous painting "The Scream" is recovered from a raid by Norwegian
police.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Restfull Sunday.
So glad I went to the Rez for the funeral of my friend’s son. I
picked up a friend in Tuba and we had a nice reminiscent trip up past Shonto.
While the directions on FB gave what I call the ‘White-man directions’, we
decided to go the way we knew from Shonto Boarding School, down through the
canyon, past the old carving in the road that still says ‘long ago, no good
road’. For those wondering, it is still a ‘no good road’ but brought back lots
of memories. Got to the church, got to talk to the grieving parents before the
service, saw about 10 others who still remembered me from back in the early
1970s. The service was long, but very nice. My friends are in a mixed marriage…the
wife is Hopi, the husband is Navajo. Two relatives of the mom gave a prayer in
Hopi and sang a Christian song in Hopi…first time I had ever heard Hopi in a
church. The Navajo side did their talks in Navajo and then English. They also
had a great slide show of the son’s life from birth to recently. Very moving.
The family asked that everyone eat after leaving the church and let the
immediate family do the burial about a mile away. The meal was a combination of
Hopi and Navajo food. While eating several people came up, introduced
themselves and reminded me that I was their teacher or that we had worked
together at Shonto. Such beautiful country, such kind and generous people. I
even talked my first classroom aide. Then another long drive back to Tuba, with
more stories of our days out there. I got back to Flag about 6pm, just in time
to go to our discussion group meeting.
The topic was privacy and very interesting. We discussed ‘government
privacy’, ‘corporation privacy’, and ‘personal privacy’. After defining each,
the discussion moved to how they intertwine. Not sure how we solved the issue,
but certainly have a better understanding of the tangled mess we are currently in.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In
each sentence the name of a tree is hidden. The willow is hiding in the first
sentence. Can you find the others?
1. I will owe you a favor if
you drive me to the airport.
2. I am afraid of going up in elevators.
3. Drinking cocoa keeps me warm on long winter nights.
4. I hope the map leads us to buried treasure.
5. "Eat another bonbon," said our charming hostess.
6. Nepal may be the most interesting place I have ever visited.
7. Remember to fold the map, please.
8. I feel many lumps in this mattress.
9. Word processing is not as useful as pens and paper for creative
brainstorming.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
Returns tomorrow
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…Amazing
Facts…
The LifeStraw is a simple and compact, yet
powerful water filtration system which may be the solution to the world's water
emergency.
Let's Pizza is the world's first pizza vending
machine. Just select your topping, insert coins, and watch your pizza bake!
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
There were seven meteor reports from the Mount Elden Drive-In
before it disappeared in the mist on the mountain.
This past Thursday, 12 nurses graduated from Arizona State College
at 7:30 p.m. in the Music Hall Auditorium, each with an Associate in Science
Degree. They are each now eligible to take the State Nurses Examination.
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…Harper’s
Index…
10 – factor by
which the number of full-time minimum-wage workers exceeds that of
securities-industry workers
2 – by which
the total amount of securities-industry bonuses exceeded the cumulative earnings
of which minimum-wage works in 2014
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
Navajo Times: Miss To'Hajiilee Erica Nelson smiles to the crowd at
the 23rd annual Ramah Navajo Fair parade on Saturday in Pine Hill, N.M. A
former colleague teaches at To’Hajiilee School. And this photo reminds all of
us that Fair season on the Rez has begun again. Tuba will have its 54th
Fair in October.
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
13. Showing the soles of your feet
In many Arab, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist countries, showing the
soles of your feet is a sign of disrespect, as they're considered the lowest, and
dirtiest part of the body, since they touch the dirty ground. Men should cross
their legs with caution.
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…USA
Facts…
Almost half the newspapers in the world are published in the US
and Canada!
Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more
clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in
people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15
and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The 1984 film Red Dawn was the first to garner a
PG-13 rating.
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2
jokes for the day
A tornado hit a farmhouse just before dawn. It
lifted the roof off, picked up the beds on which the farmer and his wife slept,
and set them down gently in the next county. The wife began to cry.
“Don’t be scared, Susan,” her husband said. “We are not hurt.”
Susan continued to cry. “I’m not scared,” she said between sobs. “I’m happy
‘cause this is the first time in 15 years we’ve been out together.
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The Real Meaning of Hotel slogans -
Old world charm .................................
No bath
Options galore ................................... Nothing is included in the
itinerary
No extra fees ..................................... No extras
Nominal fee ....................................... Outrageous charge
Standard ........................................... Sub-standard
Deluxe .............................................. Standard
Superior ............................................ One free shower cap
Cozy ................................................. Small
All the amenities ................................ Two free shower caps
Plush ................................................ Top and bottom sheets
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Yep,
It Really Happened
COLUMBUS,
Ohio - An Ohio group supporting marijuana legalization is under fire
from critics who say the group's new superhero mascot appeals to children.
ResponsibleOhio, a group supporting the state's Proposal 3 to legalize
marijuana for adults over the age of 21, recently unveiled the superhero
mascot, dubbed Buddie, with pictures on Facebook. Buddie features a green
marijuana bud for a head and a superhero suit complete with a cape, six-pack
abs, and a "B" logo over a picture of a marijuana leaf. Nick Lashutka,
president of the Ohio Children's Hospital Association, accused the group of
marketing marijuana to children. "I have four kids and if any of them were
to see this, they would draw a conclusion that it's OK," Lashutka told
Cleveland.com. Jen Detwiler, spokeswoman for rival group Ohioans Against
Marijuana Monopolies, said Buddie was a poor choice of mascot.
"ResponsibleOhio has placed a lot of emphasis on the 21 and over piece of
their amendment but then comes out with a mascot styled after a superhero?"
Detwiler said. "It's a pretty shameless attempt to entice young
people." ResponsibleOhio spokeswoman Faith Oltman said Buddie will only
visit college campuses as part of the group's "Green Rush Bus Tour"
to promote "Buddie's 21 and Up Club," a social media campaign aiming
to "engage millennial voters in the process in a new, creative and
exciting way."
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(93) - Daniel Schorr, broadcast journalist
(CBS) d.2010
84 - Dan
Rather, news anchor (CBS-TV)
(81) - Maria Montessori, Italy, educator
(spontaneous response) d. 1952
(79) - Arthur Godfrey, radio/TV host (Arthur
Godfrey's Talent Scout) d.1983
(78) - Buddy [Leonard] Hackett, Bkln, comedian (Music Man) d.2003
(77) - Frederic March [Ernest Frederick
McIntyre Bickel], American actor d.1975
(74) - James Coburn, Laurel Nebr, actor (Our
Man Flint, Magnificent Seven) d.2002
(70) - Richard Basehart, Zanesville Oh, actor
(Voyage to Bottom of Sea) d.1984
70 - Itzhak
Perlman, Tel Aviv Israel, violinist/polio victim (14 Grammys)
(67) - Alan Jay Lerner, lyricist composer
(Lerner & Loewe-My Fair Lady) d.1986
66 - Richard
Gere, Phila Pa, actor (Breathless, Cotton Club, Pretty Woman)
(62) - Eldridge Cleaver, Black Panther turned
Republican d.1998
45 - Deborah (Debbie) Gibson, Brooklyn
NY, singer (Only in My Dreams)
44 - Chris
Tucker, American actor\comedian
32 - Larry
Fitzgerald, American football player (Cardinals)
(28) - Caligula, [Gaius Caesar], 3rd Roman
emperor d. 41 AD
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Historical
Obits Today
John
Ford, US director (Mary of Scotland, Stagecoach)-1973@78
Ike
Pappas, American news correspondent, heart failure-2008@75
David
Frost, British broadcaster, heart attack-2013@74
Jacob
Hamblin, Mormon missionary, scout and explorer; colonization along the
Little Colorado River and served as a guide to Major John Wesley Powell-1886@66
John
Bunyan, preacher/novelist/author (Pilgrim's Progress)-1688@59
Rocky
Marciano, former heavyweight champ, plane crash-1969@45
Diana
Spencer, Princess of Wales, car crash-1997@36
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Brain
Teasers Answers
In each sentence the name of a tree is hidden. The willow is
hiding in the first sentence. Can you find the others?
1. I will owe you a favor if
you drive me to the airport.
2. I am afraid of going up in elevators.
3. Drinking cocoa keeps me warm on long winter
nights.
4. I hope the map leads us to
buried treasure.
5. "Eat another bonbon,"
said our charming hostess.
6. Nepal may be the most
interesting place I have ever visited.
7. Remember to fold the map,
please.
8. I feel many lumps in this mattress.
9. Word processing is not as useful as
pens and paper for creative brainstorming.
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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 contains
mistakes and sadly once 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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Is All for Now…▲
