Week 13 Day: 80 Ave. sky cover: 5% \
Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 52° \24° Wind: 6mph \
Gusts: 13mph
Low risk
of fire \ Nearest active fire: 616mi \ nearest
Lightning: 188mi
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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21-27 |
Act Happy Week |
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20-4/17 |
National Cherry Blossom Festival Link |
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20-26 |
American Chocolate Week Link |
Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
This will be
my last post until I return from Tahiti. I leave tomorrow for Denver, then
leave Tuesday for the flight to Tahiti. Should be a great adventure. Check out
our itinerary here!
I’m taking a
break from packing for this post.
It is a
really nice day, lots of blue sky and sunshine.
I would have
liked to watch the Supreme Court nomination hearings. I’ll catch up when I get
home.
Depending on
my Wi-Fi connection I will try to post pictures on my Facebook account and my
Instagram account.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
What does
Grimes call Elon Musk now?
Her Space
Ex.
Trivia
Running is
one of the most popular forms of exercise in the world, and all you need is a
pair of feet (and a good pair of shoes wouldn't hurt either).
Running
stimulates the immune system, boosts a person's sleep quality, mood, and
concentration levels, the high-impact strengthens and remakes bones along with
muscles, and runners report having a better sex life than their slower-paced
counterparts!
Humans can
outrun almost every other animal on earth over long distances.
The fastest
marathon runner in the world is Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya who ran the 2018 Berlin
marathon in 2 hours, 1 minute and 39 seconds. He beat the previous
record-holder, Kenyan Dennis Kimetto, who ran the marathon in 2 hours, 2
minutes, 57 seconds in Berlin in 2014.
The Badwater
Ultramarathon claims to be the world's toughest footrace. Stretching 135 miles
from Death Valley (the lowest point in North America) to Mount Whitney (the
highest point in the lower 48 states), this grueling race is by invitation
only.
A Portuguese
firefighter column is crossing Germany, on the way to Ukraine. Upon reaching the Polish-Ukrainian border, all
the vehicles, equipment, medical supplies, rescue material, and other miscellaneous
relief will be donated to Ukrainian aid personnel. Very cool!
Historical Events
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1617 –
Pocahontas (Rebecca Rolfe) died of either smallpox or pneumonia while in
England with her husband, John Rolfe.
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1788 – The
Great New Orleans Fire destroyed 80% of the city.
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1859 – The
first Zoological Society was incorporated in Philadelphia. PA, today simply
called ‘The Philadelphia Zoo.’
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1913 –
20,000 homes were destroyed, and over 360 people were killed in the Great
Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio.
Ø 1925 – Butler Act
became a state law in Tennessee that prohibited “The teaching of the Evolution
Theory in all the Universities, Normal and all other public schools of
Tennessee, which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds
of the State, and to provide penalties for the violations thereof that it shall
be unlawful to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of
man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a
lower order of animals.” It was repealed on May 17, 1967.
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1963 –
Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay closed and transferred its remaining
prisoners.
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1965 –
Martin Luther King Jr., and 3200 civil rights demonstrators began a historic
March from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol at Montgomery.
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1970 – The
first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San
Francisco.
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1980 – “Who
shot J.R.?” On the season finale of Dallas, J. R. Ewing was shot by an unseen
assailant. The following season we found out that it was Kristin Shepard,
J.R.’s mistress
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1980 –
President Jimmy Carter announced that the United States would boycott the
Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer.
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1986 – Debi
Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating
Championships.
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1999 – The
first around-the-world balloon flight took place between March 1 and March 21st
with Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones.
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2006 –
Twitter was founded.
Birthdays Today
@83 – Julio Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E
& J Gallo Winery (d. 1993)
76 – Timothy
Dalton, Welsh-English actor
@70 – Eddie Money, American singer-songwriter (d.
2019; pneumonia)
@65 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German Baroque composer
and musician (d. 1750)
64 – Gary Oldman,
English actor
60 – Matthew
Broderick, American actor
60 – Rosie
O’Donnell, American actress and talk show host
@56 – James Coco, American character actor (d. 1987;
heart attack)
21 – Jace Norman,
American actor
