Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 31 Day 205 \ Ave. Sky Cover 35% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 91° \59°
Wind 7mph \ Gusts 14mph Air Quality Fair
Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 9mi \ Nearest
Lightning 3mi
Jul Averages for Flagstaff: 82° \ 51° (8 days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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Thru Sep.5 National Marina Days (From
Memorial Day to Labor Day) Link |
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1-24 Tour de France Link |
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18-25 Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week |
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21-24 Comic Con International |
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22-24 and 29-31 Garlic Days Link |
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22-24 National Parenting
Gifted Children Week Link |
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23-31 National Moth Week |
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23-27 National Scrabble Week Link |
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24-30 National Tequila
Week Link |
Daily Observations
Amelia Earhart Day
Auntie's Day
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Pioneer
Day
Cousins Day
International Self Care Day
Mormon Pioneer Day
National Drive-Thru Day
National Frozen Margarita Day
National Tell an Old Joke Day
National Tequila Day
National Thermal Engineer Day
National Parents Day:
National Thermal Engineers Day
Tell An Old Joke Day
World Day for Grandparents and The Elderly
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
Heat wave
continues at 7000’.
When my
living room reached 95° with the fan on high, I broke down and set up the portable
swamp cooler…much better.
Local Forest
Service has doused 10+ fires in the 72 hours before noon Friday. All were
thankfully smaller than 1 acre.
Trump and
Pence held separate rallies for the two conservative Republican candidates for Governor
here in AZ yesterday. Both had decent turnouts.
Thank you to
Turkey for brokering a deal between Russia and Ukraine to allow tons of grain
to be released to prevent a hunger mess around the world. It may not hold as
Russia is bombing near Odessa, the open port for the grain.
Uvalde
school board has cancelled today’s meeting regarding its chief of police. The
chief’s team said they needed more time to prepare.
Here is a
new one to watch out for: Ticketmaster is doing ‘dynamic pricing’ for its most
popular concerts. A customer signs in and sees that lower-level seats are $75
for the concert. When they checkout they learn that the price has risen if
there is demand for those seats. The check out price for one guy was $3000 for
two seats that were $100 each when he signed in. Crazy!
Favorite Memes
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 Niagara |
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Trivia
Squaring a
circle was finally proved to be an impossible problem in 1882 when German
mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann proved that pi is a transcendental
number. That is; it is not the root of any polynomial with rational
coefficients. Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and
without it the problem could not be done.
Historical Events
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1701 –
Detroit was founded by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.
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1823 –
Slavery was abolished in Chile.
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1847 –
Brigham Young brought 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, establishing
Salt Lake City.
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1866 –
Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the
American Civil War.
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1901 –
Writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) was released from prison in Columbus,
Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
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1935 – The
Dust Bowl heatwave reached its peak, with temperatures of 109°F (43°C) in
Chicago, Illinois, and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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1950 – Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station opened with the launch of Bumper rocket 8. The
first 7 Bumpers were launched from White Sands, New Mexico.
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1969 – After
the successful Moon landing, Apollo 11 splashed down safely in the Pacific
Ocean
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1974 – The
United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did
not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they
ordered him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor,
Archibald Cox.
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2002 –
Democrat James Traficant was expelled from the United States House of
Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1 (CA Representative Gary Condit didn’t
vote against him).
Birthdays Today
86
– Ruth Buzzi, American comedic actress
@77 – Bella Abzug,
American lawyer and politician (d. 1998; after heart surgery)
76
– Gallagher [Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr.], American comedian
69
– Claire McCaskill, American politician
@68 – Alexandre
Dumas, French novelist, playwright (d. 1870; heart attack)
58
– Karl Malone, American basketball player, coach
58
– Barry Bonds, American baseball player
54
– Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer
52
– Jennifer Lopez, singer
@41 – Amelia
Earhart, American pilot, author (disappeared in 1937)
40
– Elisabeth Moss, American actress
40
– Anna Paquin, Canadian-New Zealand actress
24
– Bindi Irwin, TV host
