Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 30 Day 203 \ Ave. Sky Cover 35% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 93° \60°
Wind 9mph \ Gusts 3mph Air Quality Fair
Jul Averages for Flagstaff: 82° \ 51° (8 days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
Thru Sep.5
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1-24
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17-23
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18-25
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20-23
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21-23
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21-24
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22-24 and 29-31
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22-24
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Daily Observations
Casual Pi Day2
(22/7)
Fragile X Awareness Day
Hammock Day
Lion’s Share Day
Mango Day
National Pajama Day
National Penuche Fudge Day
National Ratcatcher’s Day (Pied Piper of Hamelin)
Pi Approximation Day
Rat-catchers Day
Spooners (Spoonerism) Day
Summer Leisure Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
The heat and
fire danger continue.
The Cherokee
Tribe has officially asked for a name change of the highest peak in the Great Smoky
Mountains...The peak, ‘Kuwahi’, meaning Mulberry Place, has been a prayer site
for healers for centuries.
Boris
Johnson had his last meeting with Parliament and said ‘Hasta La Vista, Baby’ in
true Boris fashion.
I see the
Secret Service being a little too secretive over the text messages. They do
work for the American people.
Our elections
are way too costly. Now it seems, the Dems are backing very far-right
candidates with FOR these candidates. It worked in Maryland and Illinois. The
Trump backed candidate for Governor won. The plan is that the Democrat
candidate can beat the far-right. I don’t want to rain on their parade, but
this could backfire with serious results for the country.
I got a call
from Andy and Faith. They are no longer in quarantine and tested negative. I’m
doing lunch with them tomorrow.
Favorite Memes
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Trivia
During World
War II there were five pairs of U.S. carriers with the same name. All five
ships had been sunk, and rebuilt to carry the same name. The Langley, The
Lexington, The Yorktown, The Wasp, and The Hornet.
America's
aircraft carriers are the largest in the world. The Nimitz class carriers have
an overall length of 1,092 feet. The newest super carriers, the Gerald R. Ford
class, have the same length, but carry about a 3,000 ton greater displacement
than the Nimitz class.
Historical Events
·
1342 – The
St. Mary Magdalene’s flood in central Europe killed thousands of people.
·
1376 (?) The
Pied Piper of Hamelin musically took the children from the town when they
refused to pay a debt. It may have happened in 1284. It probably never
happened.
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1587 – The
second group of English settlers arrives on Roanoke Island off North Carolina
to re-establish the deserted colony. #croatoan
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1893 –
Katharine Lee Bates wrote America The Beautiful after admiring the view from
the top of Pikes Peak near Colorado Springs, Colorado.
·
1933 – Wiley
Post became the first person to fly solo around the world, traveling 15,596
miles (25,099 km) in seven days, 18 hours, and 45 minutes.
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1996- The
Daily Show premiered on Comedy Central
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2011 –
Norway was the location of twin terror attacks, the first being a bomb blast
that targeted government buildings in central Oslo(killing 8 and injuring 209),
the second being a massacre at a youth camp on the island of Utøya, killing 69
and injuring 110.
Birthdays Today
@104 – Rose Kennedy,
American philanthropist (d. 1995)
@98 – Bob Dole,
American soldier and politician (d. 2021)
@91 – Orson Bean,
American actor (d. 2020)
90
– Tom Robbins, American novelist
@82 – Oscar de la
Renta, Dominican-American fashion designer (d. 2014)
81
– George Clinton, American singer-songwriter, producer
@80 – Alex Trebek,
Canadian-American game show host (d. 2020)
79
– Kay Bailey Hutchison, American politician
79
– Bobby Sherman, American singer-songwriter
76
– Danny Glover, American actor
75
– Albert Brooks, American actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter
74
– S.E. Hinton, American author
67
– Willem Dafoe, American actor
@66 – Amy
Vanderbilt, American author (d. 1974; fall)
58
– John Leguizamo, Colombian-American actor
58
– David Spade, American actor
50
– Colin Ferguson, Canadian actor
30
– Selena Gomez, American singer and actress
