Week 16 Day: 103 Ave. sky cover: 5% \
Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 45° \14° Wind: 12mph \
Gusts: 25mph
High risk
of fire \ Nearest active fire: 254mi \ nearest
Lightning: 736mi
Today’s Quote
onthly Observations
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Global Child Nutrition
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International Black
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Weekly Observations
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Passiontide: 3-17 Ramadan: 3- 5/1 |
10-16 Holy Week Animal Control Officer
Appreciation Week Link Telecommunicators (911Operators) Week |
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Money Smart Week: 9-16 Link World Irish Dancing Week: 10-17 Nat’l Work Zone Safety
Awareness Week: 11-15 Link |
Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A very windy
day. Got my taxes filed. Getting some $$ back. I always have more deducted so I
can feel good about getting money back. It doesn’t make sense, but it works for
me.
Our cruise
had 2 real off-road excursions. Both required 4-wheel drive-low to get up the
mountain. Both were over rough rock roads. The views from the top of various
mountains made the trip very memorable. One driver was great in English, the
other was very limited but had google translate which helped. We saw the bay where
the original and remake of Mutiny on the Bounty was filmed. A memory from
Ireland was all the shades of green. This trip has a memory of all the shades
of blue of the ocean.
Early
Colonizers decided the indigenous people should grow cotton over pineapple and
other fruits. The indigenous could not understand why one would spend all that
time tending a crop that one could never eat. Cotton growth never took off. What
a great place.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
What do you
call a tiny pig reciting Shakespeare?
Hamlet.
Trivia
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The most
popular ballet in the world is Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, which was first
performed in 1892.
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The movie
Footloose is based on a true story about a town that outlawed dancing until
local high schoolers successful challenged the law in 1979.
Historical Events
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1204 –
Constantinople fell to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade.
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1742 –
Handel’s Messiah premiered in Dublin, Ireland.
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1870 – The
New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded.
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1943 – The
Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.
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1962 –
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson was published.
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1964 –
Sidney Poitier became the first African-American male to win the Best Actor
award for the 1963 film, Lilies of the Field.
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1974 –
Western Union, with NASA and Hughes Aircraft, launched the US’ first commercial
geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.
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1976 – The
United States Treasury Department reintroduced the two-dollar bill as a Federal
Reserve Note.
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1997 – Tiger
Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.
Birthdays Today
@93 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American
architect. game designer, created Scrabble (d. 1993)
@83 – Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of
the United States (d. 1826)
83
– Paul Sorvino, American actor
@83 – Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist,
poet, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1989)
@76 – Madalyn Murray O’Hair, American
activist, founded American Atheists (died in 1995)
76
– Al Green, American singer-songwriter and pastor
@74 – Seamus Heaney, Irish poet (d. 2013)
72
– Ron Perlman, American actor
71
– Peter Davison, English actor, The Fifth Doctor
58
– Caroline Rhea, Canadian comedic actress
52
– Ricky Schroder, American actor
@42 – Butch Cassidy [Robert
LeRoy Parker], American
criminal (d. 1908; shot in Bolivia)
@35 – Guy Fawkes, English soldier,
planned the Gunpowder Plot (d. 1606; executed)
