Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 30 Day 204 \ Ave. Sky Cover 45% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 95° \58°
Wind 5mph \ Gusts 6mph Air Quality Fair
High Risk of fire
\ Nearest active fire 9mi \ Nearest Lightning 5mi
Jul Averages for Flagstaff: 82° \ 51° (8 days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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18-25
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20-23
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21-24
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22-24 and 29-31
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23-31
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23-27
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Daily Observations
Gorgeous Grandma Day
Hot Enough For Ya Day
National Day of the Cowboy
National Day of Lament
National Vanilla Ice Cream Day
Peanut Butter and Chocolate Day
Sprinkle Day
Yada, Yada, Yada Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
Heat wave
continues. Very unusual for Flag to be over 90°.
I had a good
lunch with Faith and Andy. They talked about their Alaska Cruise. Very nice
trip with great memories. Now they are ready for another cruise to see more of
Alaska.
Last night’s
hearing was historic. Now we know.
My dad was
born this day in 1914. He was a great dad and lived to 80 years old. He is
still missed.
A local site,
Frances Short Pond, is a man-made pond named after a Flagstaff Environmentalist.
The recent fire caused debris to get into the pond and kill most the fish that
had been stocked there. The city and country are cleaning it up and will
restock when it is safe. So sad.
If you like
heat, now is the time to travel to Europe. The Euro is currently worth a tad
less than the dollar…a first for the Euro. When I traveled to Scotland, soon
after my retirement the exchange rate was $1USD was @$2.40 pound.
Favorite Memes
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Trivia
You may have
heard the saying, "you can't square a circle," meaning, "you
can't do the impossible."
Squaring a
circle used to be an unsolvable mathematical problem. This was one the ancient
Greeks came up with and they never found a solution to it.
The problem
is to create a square equal in area to a circle. It sounds simple enough, but
the trick is you can only use the mathematical tools available to the ancients;
that is a straightedge and compass.
Historical Events
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1827 –
Francis Lieber, opened the first swimming school in the United States at the
Boston Gymnasium.
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1950 –The
Gene Autry Show debuted on CBS.
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1961 – The
Sandinista National Liberation Front was founded in Nicaragua.
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1962 –
Telstar relayed the first publicly transmitted, live, trans-Atlantic television
program, featuring CBS’s Walter Cronkite and NBC’s Chet Huntley in New York,
and the BBC’s Richard Dimbleby in Brussels.
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1962 –
Jackie Robinson became the first African American to be inducted into the
National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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1972 – The
United States launched Landsat 1, the first Earth-resources satellite from
Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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1984 –
Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America to resign when she surrendered
her crown after (earlier) nude photos of her appeared in Penthouse magazine.
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1995 – Comet
Hale–Bopp was discovered, and visible from Earth the following year.
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1999 – Space
Shuttle Columbia launched on STS-93, with Eileen Collins becoming the first
female space shuttle commander
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2015 – NASA
announced the discovery of Kepler-452b, possibly an Earth-like planet.
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2012 – Earth
had a near-miss with a solar flare. Had it occurred a week earlier, it could’ve
wiped out communication networks, GPS, and electrical grids.
Birthdays Today
@83 – Haile
Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975)
@81 – Arthur
Treacher, English-American actor, television personality (d. 1975)
@81 – Harold
Peter Henry Pee Wee Reese, American baseball player, sportscaster (d. 1999)
72
– Ian Thomas, Canadian singer-songwriter
@70
– Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist. screenwriter (d. 1959)
61
– Woody Harrelson, American actor
60
– Eriq La Salle, American actor
57
– Slash, English-American guitarist, songwriter
@57 – Bert Convy,
American actor, game show host (d. 1991; brain tumor)
@56 – Philip Seymour
Hoffman, American actor (d. 2014; OD)
33
– Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
