Jul 23

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 30 Day 204 \ Ave. Sky Cover 45% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 95° \58° 
Wind 5mph \ Gusts 6mph  Air Quality Fair
High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 9mi \ Nearest Lightning 5mi
Jul Averages for Flagstaff: 82° \ 51° (8 days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

Thru Sep.5
National Marina Days (From Memorial Day to Labor Day)  Link

1-24
Tour de France  Link

17-23  
Captive Nations Week
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Link 
National Independent Retailers Week Link 
National Zoo Keeper Week  Link   
International Lace Week Link  

18-25
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

20-23 
National Baby Food Week Link  

21-23   
Hemingway Look-Alike Days Link
World Body Painting Day

21-24
Comic Con International

22-24  and  29-31 
Garlic Days Link  

22-24 
National Parenting Gifted Children Week Link    

23-31 
National Moth Week

23-27 
National Scrabble Week Link 

Daily Observations

Gorgeous Grandma Day
Hot Enough For Ya Day
National Day of the Cowboy  
National Day of Lament   
National Vanilla Ice Cream Day
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day
Sprinkle Day
Yada, Yada, Yada Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Heat wave continues. Very unusual for Flag to be over 90°.

I had a good lunch with Faith and Andy. They talked about their Alaska Cruise. Very nice trip with great memories. Now they are ready for another cruise to see more of Alaska.

Last night’s hearing was historic. Now we know.

My dad was born this day in 1914. He was a great dad and lived to 80 years old. He is still missed.

A local site, Frances Short Pond, is a man-made pond named after a Flagstaff Environmentalist. The recent fire caused debris to get into the pond and kill most the fish that had been stocked there. The city and country are cleaning it up and will restock when it is safe. So sad.

If you like heat, now is the time to travel to Europe. The Euro is currently worth a tad less than the dollar…a first for the Euro. When I traveled to Scotland, soon after my retirement the exchange rate was $1USD was @$2.40 pound.

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Trivia

You may have heard the saying, "you can't square a circle," meaning, "you can't do the impossible."

Squaring a circle used to be an unsolvable mathematical problem. This was one the ancient Greeks came up with and they never found a solution to it.

The problem is to create a square equal in area to a circle. It sounds simple enough, but the trick is you can only use the mathematical tools available to the ancients; that is a straightedge and compass.   

Historical Events

·           1827 – Francis Lieber, opened the first swimming school in the United States at the Boston Gymnasium.
·           1950 –The Gene Autry Show debuted on CBS.
·           1961 – The Sandinista National Liberation Front was founded in Nicaragua.
·           1962 – Telstar relayed the first publicly transmitted, live, trans-Atlantic television program, featuring CBS’s Walter Cronkite and NBC’s Chet Huntley in New York, and the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby in Brussels.
·           1962 – Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
·           1972 – The United States launched Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
·           1984 – Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign when she surrendered her crown after (earlier) nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
·           1995 – Comet Hale–Bopp was discovered, and visible from Earth the following year.
·           1999 – Space Shuttle Columbia launched on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander
·           2015 – NASA announced the discovery of Kepler-452b, possibly an Earth-like planet.
·           2012 – Earth had a near-miss with a solar flare. Had it occurred a week earlier, it could’ve wiped out communication networks, GPS, and electrical grids.

Birthdays Today

@83 – Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975)
@81 – Arthur Treacher, English-American actor, television personality (d. 1975)
@81 – Harold Peter Henry Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player, sportscaster (d. 1999)
@79 – Don Imus, American radio host (d. 2019; lung disease)
72 – Ian Thomas, Canadian singer-songwriter
@70 – Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist. screenwriter (d. 1959)
61 – Woody Harrelson, American actor
60 – Eriq La Salle, American actor
57 – Slash, English-American guitarist, songwriter
@57 – Bert Convy, American actor, game show host (d. 1991; brain tumor)
@56 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (d. 2014; OD)
33 – Daniel Radcliffe, English actor

 

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