Week 16 Day: 105 Ave. sky cover: 5% \
Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 63° \23° Wind: 5mph \
Gusts: 10mph
Extreme risk
of fire \ Nearest active fire: 254mi \ nearest
Lightning: 1467mi
Today’s Quote
Monthly Observations
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Pharmacists
War on Diabetes Month Pet
First Aid Awareness Month Physical
Wellness Month Prevent
Lyme in Dogs Month Link Prevention
of Animal Cruelty Month Link Rosacea
Awareness Month School
Library Media Month Sjogren's
Awareness Month Soy
Foods Month Straw
Hat Month |
Stress
Awareness Month Testicular Cancer Awareness Month |
Weekly Observations
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Passiontide: 3-17 |
10-16 Holy Week Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link |
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Money Smart Week:
9-16 Link World Irish Dancing Week: 10-17 Nat’l Work Zone Safety Awareness Week: Link 14-16 National Coin Week |
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Global Youth Service Days: 15-17 |
Ramadan: 3- 5/1 |
Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice spring
day. Slowly warming up.
I had lunch
with Mary and Mike today. Mike just retired from his NAU job. All good for
them.
I headed out
this morning to get a much-needed haircut. I feel much lighter.
Slowly
getting back into my routine. I’m still waiting for a chocolate on my pillow
and someone to make my bed every morning. I’m working on a presentation of my
trip. Going slow, because I stop to remember how much I saw and how much I
learned.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
What do call
a man with seagulls on his head?
"Cliff"
Trivia
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Conspiracy
theorists often claim that the gold vaults at Fort Knox are empty, but the
United States government contends that Fort Knox houses a ton of gold.
Actually, more. There is said to be more than 147.3 million ounces of gold.
Nearly all of the gold has been converted into gold bars, each weighing about
27 pounds. That much gold, at the current market of gold, means that Fort Knox
is storing about $190 billion worth of gold.
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Back to
those conspiracy theorists. They believe that the gold has all been removed and
sold off and that the government, to keep up the ruse, has painted a whole
bunch on tungsten bricks to look like gold bars, just in case someone does get
a chance to peer inside the vault.
Historical Events
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1755 –
Samuel Johnson’s A Dictionary of the English Language was published in London.
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1817 – The
Erie Canal was authorized, to link between Buffalo on Lake Erie and the Hudson
River at Albany New York
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1912 –
Titanic sank in the North Atlantic Ocean, near Newfoundland & Nova Scotia,
Canada, after hitting an iceberg the night before.
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1923 –
Insulin became available for use by people with diabetes.
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1947 –
Jackie Robinson, became the first African-American player in Major League
Baseball when he played at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn, for the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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1955 –
McDonald’s opened its first franchised restaurant, owned by Ray Kroc, in Des
Plaines, Illinois.
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1989 – 96
fans were killed in The Hillsborough Tragedy in Sheffield, England with poor
crowd control planning at a soccer match between Liverpool and Nottingham
Forest.
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1983 – Tokyo
Disneyland opened to the public.
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2013 – The
Boston marathon Bombing killed three people and injured 260 runners and
supporters. At approximately 2:50 PM (EDT), in a terrorist attack, two
explosions around Copley Square were caught live on camera during the telecast
of the Boston Marathon.
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2019 – The
cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris in France was seriously damaged by a large
fire
Birthdays Today
@82 – Kim Il-sung, 1st Supreme Leader of North Korea
(d. 1994)
75 – Linda
Bloodworth-Thomason, American screenwriter, producer
@65 – Hans Conried, American voice actor (d. 1982;
stroke)
63 – Emma Thompson,
English actress
@62 – Elizabeth Montgomery, American actress (died in
1995)
56 – Samantha Fox,
English model, singer-songwriter
40 – Seth Rogen,
Canadian-American actor, director, producer, screenwriter
32 – Emma Watson,
English actress
