16 Apr

16 April 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 16 Day 106 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 22 miles Flagstaff Today 60° \24°  Wind 6mph \ Gusts 12mph 
Air Quality: Moderate \ High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 268mi \ Nearest Lightning 868mi
Apr. Averages for Flagstaff: 60° \ 27° \3 Days of moisture
Sunshine

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

3/19-4/16   National Cherry Blossom Festival 

3/22-4/20  Consider Christianity Week
                         International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
                          National Cleaning Week

        8-16         National Robotics Week

        9-15         Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week 

               National Dog Bite Prevention Week  

               National Occupational Health Nursing Week  

               National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators)

               Pan American Week

               National Student Employment Week 

13-16      Satchmo Days

15-22      International Dark Sky Week

15-16      Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of Prayer, Fasting  

15-21      Money Smart Week

              National Volunteer Week

16-22      Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week

              Chemists Celebrate Earth Week

              National Paperboard Packaging Week

              National Pet ID Week  

              Numismatic Week (National Coin Week)

16-23      Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week

Daily Observations

Day of the Mushroom
Eggs Benedict Day
Save the Elephant Day
Stress Awareness Day
Wear Pajamas to Work Day
Emancipation Day (DC holiday that affects Tax Day) Link
Foursquare Day  Link
National Bean Counter Day  Link
National Health Care Decisions Day Link
National Orchid Day Link
Pascha
Save The Elephant Day
World Voice Day  Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A great beginning to the weekend…warm, sunny, breeze…not wind.

I took a nice long walk through my neighborhood this morning.

We can not control Mother Nature. The Nevado del Ruiz volcano on one of Columbia’s highest peaks is showing signs it is ready to erupt. It sits in a densely populated farming area and is infamous for claiming the lives of tens of thousands of people in a massive 1985 eruption. Watch this one.

Enjoy… 

Geography…

The United Kingdom and Great Britain Are Not One and the Same

Using Great Britain and the United Kingdom interchangeably is extremely commonplace outside of Europe, but it’s not entirely accurate to do so.

In fact, Great Britain simply refers to England, Scotland, Wales and their surrounding islands, while the United Kingdom encompasses those three that make up Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 

Moon Facts…

The Moon appears red during a lunar eclipse

During a lunar eclipse, the full Moon passes through the shadow of Earth. The shadow blocks the sunlight that normally reflects on the Moon, but the light of the Sun that bends through Earth’s atmosphere still reflects off the Moon, giving it a reddish-brown appearance. The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus first predicted lunar eclipses more than 2,000 years ago, and the word “eclipse” comes from the Greek “ekleipsis,” meaning to disappear, cover up or abandon.

Beauty in our 50 states…

2. Hawaii

Pound-for-pound, acre-for-acre, this archipelago is the most spectacularly diverse and diversely spectacular place you can get to without a passport—and maybe even with one. The Hawaiian islands—seven larger islands, plus 130 smaller, uninhabited islets—hold such an array of landscapes because of their vast age gaps: for example, forest, canyon Kauai is 6 million years older than the broad, dark, raw Big Island, which is still growing, fed by the glowing volcanic vent that birthed the lot. Between them: Oahu, with heart-stopping beaches and jungles and cliffs under constant assault by rainbows; Maui, a sheaf of vacation postcards that unionized and formed an island; tourist-light Molokai, where some of the world's steepest cliffs plunge into deep blue oceans; and Lanai, which looks like the love child of Ireland and a Caribbean isle. You don't think it can be true until you get there, but Hawaii is one of the few destinations that, if anything, manages to exceed its perfect-10 reputation.

Historical Events

v 1862 – Emancipation Day – Abraham Lincoln freed 3,1000 slaves in Washington DC.
v 1908 – Natural Bridges National Monument was established in Utah.
v 1946 – The US Army liberated Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Colditz, aka Oflag IV-C.
v 1947 – Bernard Baruch first used the term “Cold War” to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
v 1961 – Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.

Birthdays Today

@95 – Pope BenedictXVI (d. 2022)
@89 – Barry Nelson, American character actor (d. 2007)
@88 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer, screenwriter, composer (d. 1977)
“The best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to embrace life and to live every day with passion, to lose and still keep the faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short to be insignificant.”– Charlie Chaplin
88 – Bobby Vinton, American singer
@83 – Spike Milligan, Irish actor, comedian, writer (d. 2002)
“We haven’t got a plan so nothing can go wrong!”– Spike Milligan
@82 – Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
76 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
“One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.’– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
@73 – Herbie Mann, American composer (d. 2003; prostate cancr)
71 – Bill Belichick, American football player
@70 – Henry Mancini, American composer, conductor (d. 1994; pancreatic cancer)
69 – Ellen Barkin, American actress
@63 – Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2011; liver failure)
@59 – Dusty Springfield, English singer (d. 1999; breast cancr)
58 – Jon Cryer, American actor
“Actors always have things that they’re not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby of bellyaching about those things.”– Jon Cryer
58 – Martin Lawrence, American actor
50 – Akon (Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam ), Senegalese-American singer and rapper
“Two Things that Define Success In Life – The way you manage when you have nothing and the way you behave when you have everything.”– Akon
49 – Lukas Haas, American character actor, musician
39 – Claire Foy, English actress
30 – Chance the Rapper, American rapper
“Sometimes the truth don’t rhyme.”– Chance the Rapper
27 – Anya Taylor-Joy, Argentine-British actress
@23 – Selena Quintanilla, singer(d. 1995; murdered)

 

  

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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.