6 Sep

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 37 Day 249\ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 85° \51° 
Wind 6mph \ Gusts 14mph  Air Quality Moderate
Extreme Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 57mi \ Nearest Lightning 653mi
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)
 

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Monthly Observations

One-on-One Month
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Link
Pain Awareness Month  Link
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month Link
Pet Health Insurance Month  Link
Pleasure Your Mate Month
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Awareness Month  Link
Save The Koala Month Link
Save Your Photos Month  Link
Sea Cadet Month
Self-Care Awareness Month Link
September Is Healthy Aging Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Sports and Home Eye Health & Safety Month
Subliminal Communications Month
Superior Relationships Month

Weekly Observations

Thru 9/6  
Ride Sober or Get Pulled Over Link

Thru 9/11
US Open Tennis Championships

1-7
International Enthusiasm Week
National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link
Self-University Week Link

1-10 
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week

2-6 
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Link

3-11  Link
International Air Ambulance Week

4-10 
Suicide Prevention Week
National Waffle Week

5-9 
National Payroll Week

6-10 
Play Days

Daily Observations

Another Look Unlimited Day
Coffee Ice Cream Day
Fight Procrastination Day
Read a Book Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

This high-pressure system keeps the great weather here. Nice!

A couple of weeks ago, when I bought my new ride, the dealership had 2 vehicles delivered the same day…my silver Rogue and a grey Rogue…just like mine. On Sunday afternoon I saw the new grey Rogue parked in our parking lot with the paper tag. It sure is a small world.

So sad to hear about the multiple stabbing in Canada. There are sick people everywhere. Societies around the world must figure out how to identify these violent people before they do the violence. It sure seems like more of a mental health issue than a gun issue.

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Moon Facts…

There are Bat-Winged Humanoids on the Moon

In August 1835, the most widely read newspaper in the world reported that there were man-bats living on the moon. The New York Sun told of bat-winged, copper-haired humanoids who were four-feet tall, very intelligent, and lived in pyramids.

The newspaper’s claimed source was the work and findings of John Herschel, a real and respected astronomer, who had seen these bat moon people from his seven-ton telescope he had transported from England to South Africa. Of course, none of this was true, but it didn’t stop people from freaking out including a committee of Yale scientists who went in search of Herschel’s research to learn more themselves.

It took a full month before the New York Sun admitted it was a hoax, intended to be satire and a comment on science’s relationship to religion. Dubbed the “Great Moon Hoax,” it actually increased the newspaper’s circulation providing more evidence that people like a good story more than the truth.

Myth Buster

Jesus was born on December 25

December 25 is often a time spent with loved ones. Christians believe it’s also the date on which Jesus was born. While we know, today, that he really existed, the details surrounding the beginning of his life remain unclear. In 353, Pope Liberius chose December 25 as the date of Christ’s birth to counter a pagan festival celebrating the winter solstice. What’s more, Jesus wasn’t born around the year 1, but rather between 6 BC and 4 BC (before himself)!

Historical Events

1628 – Puritans settled in Salem which became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1837 – Oberlin Collegiate Institute became the first college to grant women equal status.
1866 – Frederick Douglass was the first US black delegate to a national political convention.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz shot and killed US President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1916 – The first self-service grocery store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
1954 – WINS (New York City) began playing rock and roll music with the Alan Freed Show.
1972 – September 5/6;  Israeli athletes were taken hostage and killed at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian “Black September” terrorist group.
1979 – National Grandparents Day was proclaimed by President Jimmy Carter to be celebrated on the Sunday following Labor Day.
1983 – The Soviet Union admitted to shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, claiming that it did not know it was a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1991 – The name Saint Petersburg was restored to Russia’s second-largest city, which had been known as Leningrad since 1924.
1991 – The Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, were recognized as independent by the Soviet government. Other countries recognized them on September 2.
1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had stood for 56 years. The final record was set in 1998 by him, with 2,632 games.
1997 – The funeral for Princess Diana was broadcast across several networks and around the world. An estimated 2 billion people watched all or part of the funeral on television.

Birthdays Today

85 – Jo Anne Worley, American comedic actress
@81 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman, and diplomat (d. 1969)
78 – Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
@77 – Catharine Beecher, American educator, and activist (d. 1878)
“The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of stock.”
– Catharine Beecher
@74 – Jane Addams, sociologist, author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1935; heart failure)
75 – Jane Curtin, American comedic actress
64 – Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian
60 – Chris Christie, American politician
58 – Rosie Perez, American actress
50 – Idris Elba, English actor
“I’m an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition with anyone, and I’m not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it’s just that my journey started so, so long ago, and I’m still on it and I won’t stand still.”– Idris Elba
@46 – Dolores O’Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter, Cranberries (d. 2018; drowned--OD)
“I live as I choose or I will not live at all.”– Dolores O’Riordan
44 – Foxy Brown, American rapper
“My purpose is far greater than my pain.”– Foxy Brown

 

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