Week 10 Day: 60
Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 49° \16° Wind: 14mph \ Gusts: 22mph
Moderate risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 465mi \
nearest Lightning: 1631mi
Mar Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23° (6 days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Monthly Observations
In Navajo: April is
called T’aachil, Growth of Early Plant Life.
Action &
Skill Toys Month
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month Link
Alport Syndrome Awareness Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month Link
or Link
Asset Management Awareness Month Link
Brain Injury Awareness Month Link
Weekly Observations
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28 - 3/1 |
Isra Al Mi'Raj Carnival |
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1-7 |
Hearing Awareness Week: Link |
Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice day
to end the month.
I had a
great lunch with friends. We ordered mini lava cakes for my birthday, but,
alas, the kitchen didn’t tell the waitress there is no lava cake on sight…only
on the menu? Haha.
I had to have
a little blood drawn this morning. It went well, and since my DOB is on every
vial, I got lots of Happy birthday wishes at the lab.
60 Minutes pointed out the many vulnerabilities to
our electric grid. ‘They’ are working on closing them up, but it will take
decades. No excuse.
I also leaned
that there are 40+ American citizens being held as ‘wrongfully detained’ by
numerous governments. Several in
Myanmar, 4 in Iran, 9 in Venezuela stand out. Again ‘They’ are working on it. I
feel for the many families who have relatives in this situation.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
Why would a
thief only rob a bank at noon?
Because then
even the clocks would have their hands up
Trivia
Q: In a game
of netball how many players on a team are allowed To score?
Q: In Which
Sport Was Desmond Douglas Britain's Leading Competitor?
Q: In A
Decathlon What Is the First Event
Q: Which
Sporting Event Was BBC2's First Ever Color Transmission In 1967?
ANSWERS:
Answer 1:
Two
Answer 2:
Table Tennis
Answer 3:
100 Meters
Answer 4:
Wimbledon
Historical Events
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1692 – In
Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and
Tituba, an Indian slave from Barbados, were accused of witchcraft, beginning
the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Assuming those convicted were not practicing the
dark arts, 19 innocent women and men were killed as a result of the trials.
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1781 – The
articles of Confederation were ratified by the 13 original states.
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1790 – The
first United States census was authorized.
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1872 –
Congress made 1,221,773 acres of public land in the area of what were later the
states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho as America’s first national park –
Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468.4
square miles.
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1921 – Harry
Houdini earned a US Patent (#1,370,31) for a safety Diver Suit for his
underwater magic escape tricks.
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1932 – The
Charles (Jr.) Lindbergh Kidnapping occurred.
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1954 – At
Bikini Atoll, US hydrogen bomb code-named Bravo exploded.
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1961 – The
Peace Corps was established
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1983 –
Swatch watches were introduced. I’m still looking to replace my wife’s black
face, black band, black hands edition.
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1995 –
Yahoo! was incorporated.
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1998 –
Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
Ø
1999 – Land
Mines were banned in a United Nations treaty.
Birthdays Today
95 – Harry
Belafonte, American singer-songwriter and actor
@84 – Robert Conrad, American actor (d. 2020)
78 – Roger Daltrey,
English singer-songwriter and actor
77 – Dirk Benedict
[Dirk Niewoehner],
American actor, director
@76 – Dinah Shore, American radio, television
personality (d. 1994; cancer)
@73 – David Niven, English actor (d, 1983; ALS)
@73 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1995; assassination)
@70 – Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National
Football League (d. 1996; brain cancer)
69 – Alan Thicke [Alan Willis Jeffrey],
Canadian-American actor (d. 2016; aortic dissection)
68 – Catherine
Bach, American actress
68 – Ron Howard,
American actor, director, and producer
66– Tim Daly,
American actor
56– Don Lemon, CNN
53 – Javier Bardem,
actor
48 – Mark-Paul
Gosselaar, American actor
44 – Jensen Ackles,
American actor
35 – Ke$ha,
American singer
@40 – Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer,
and bandleader (d. 1944; plane crash)
@39 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer
(died in 1849)
28 – Justin Bieber,
Canadian singer-songwriter
