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Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 37 Day 252 \ Ave. Sky Cover 50% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 82° \54°
Wind 3mph \ Gusts 7mph Air Quality Moderate
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)
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Daily Observations
Care Bears Share Your
Care Day Link
Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders Day Link
Hug Your Boss Day Link
International Buy A Priest A Beer Day Link
International Day To Protect Education From Attack
National Dog Walker Appreciation Day
National Teddy Bear Day Link
Teddy
Bear Day
Wiener Schnitzel Day
Wonderful Weirdoes Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Clouds are
coming in…maybe the monsoon is returning.
Queen
Elizabeth II has passed. She passed Balmoral Castle in Scotland. I visited
Balmoral on a Focus Travel Club trip to Scotland. The Queen enjoyed spending
summers there. It is a magnificent castle. I remember a story from one of the
kitchen staff, telling how the Queen Mother would come to the kitchen to
inspect the preparation for breakfast.
While I am
not a fan of our HOA, they do take good care of the parking lots. Today they
are resurfacing and repainting the parking lines. They were here at 7am. They
started just before 8am and finished about 11am…now just waiting for everything
to set or dry or cure before we can drive on it. They will do the other half
tomorrow.
I am not
great when it comes to files and filing. My computer certainly helps. While I
am concerned about the files found in Trump’s private residence, I am more
concerned about the empty folders. What was in them and where are the contents?
Bullhead
City, AZ had a terrible storm that knocked out power to most of the city…and it
is well over 100°. Several places have opened up with generator-run cooling
locations. What a mess.
Around 5am
yesterday, a guy from Missouri broke into a gas station about 1/2mile from
where I live. Police arrived. The guy attempted to attack an officer with a
screwdriver. The guy was killed by another officer. A little too close to my
place.
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Moon Facts…
Stanley Kubrick Filmed the Moon
Landing
Fresh off of
the space cultural phenomenon that was 2001: A Space Odyssey, famed movie
director Stanley Kubrick is secretly hired by the US government to produce a
fake moon landing on a Hollywood sound stage.
Now, there’s
a lot of evidence to why this isn’t true. For one, he was already deeply into
pre-production for A Clockwork Orange. Also, the technology available in 1969
wasn’t even close in its ability to produce the images we saw on our TV screens
on July 20th. Not to mention that there’s just too much footage and photos that
shows the actual moon landing. Earlier this year, Kubrick’s daughter even shut
down this theory.
Nonetheless,
the conspiracy theory still exists with some claiming that another Kubrick
masterpiece was actually an apology for faking the moon landing.
Myth Buster
Salem witches died at
the stake
Many preconceived ideas persist about
witchcraft, particularly around the infamous Salem trial of 1692. According to
popular belief, those found guilty, frequently based on confessions extracted
under torture, were burned, often alive, at the stake. While this practice was
common in Europe, in the United States, the condemned were sent to the gallows.
One man, however, refused to incriminate himself and died beneath heavy stones,
while others perished in prison awaiting trial. This also dispels the myth that
only women were accused of black magic.
Historical Events
1892 – The Pledge of Allegiance was first
recited.
The U.S. Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag
was written in 1892 by a then 37-year-old minister named Francis Bellamy. The
original version of Bellamy’s pledge read, “I pledge allegiance to my Flag
and the Republic, for which it stands,—one nation, indivisible—with liberty and
justice for all.”
in 1923, the pronoun “my” was dropped
from the pledge and the phrase “the Flag” was added, resulting in, “I pledge
allegiance to the Flag and Republic, for which it stands,—one nation,
indivisible—with liberty and justice for all.”
A year later, the National Flag
Conference, in order to completely clarify issue, added the words “of America,”
resulting in, “I pledge allegiance to the Flag of the United States of
America and to the Republic for which it stands,—one nation, indivisible—with
liberty and justice for all.”
June 14, 1954, in a Joint Resolution
amending a section of the Flag Code, Congress created the Pledge of Allegiance
recited by most Americans today:
“I pledge allegiance to the flag of the
United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”
Birthdays Today
@90 – Colonel ‘Harland’ Sanders, American businessman, founded
KFC (d. 1980)
“One has to remember that every failure can be a stepping stone
to something better.”– Colonel Sanders
@88 – Cliff Robertson, American actor (d. 2011)
@82 – Leo Tolstoy, Russian author, and playwright (d. 1910)
“A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and
whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the
smaller the fraction.”– Leo Tolstoy
@77 – Jimmy ‘the Greek’ Snyder, American sportscaster (d. 1996;
heart attack)
77
– Dee Dee Sharp, American singer
70
– Angela Cartwright, English-born American actress
“As I got older, I never considered that tons of people were
watching me on television every week. I give a nod to my parents for keeping me
as normal as I could be in an un-normal adult world.”– Angela Cartwright
62
– Hugh Grant, English actor
“Teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know
nothing. I didn’t realize that before.”– Hugh Grant
56
– Adam Sandler, American actor, and screenwriter
47
РMichael Bubl̩, Canadian singer-songwriter
“As I’ve gotten older and the world has gotten far more
complicated?” Michael Bublé
31
– Hunter Hayes, American singer-songwriter
