21 May

 

21 May 2023

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 21 Day 141

Ave. Sky Cover 60%\ Visibility  22miles

Flagstaff Today  67° \ 40° 

Wind  2mph \ Gusts  3mph 

Nearest active fire: 401miles

Nearest Lightning:  5mi

Air Quality: Moderate

Moderate Risk of fire

May Averages: Flagstaff: 68° \ 34°

May Average: 3 Days of moisture

Sunshine

Monsson Rain

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

12-21

National Public Gardens Week  Link

15-21 

American Craft Beer Week Link 
International Heritage Breeds Week

National Bike to Work Week
Link  
PGA Championship  
Link
Police Week

16-21

National Foul Ball Week

16-27

Cannes Film Festival

17-23 

National Medical Transcription Week Link
World Orienteering Days
Link

21-27

National Medical Transcription Week Link
World Orienteering Days
Link
EMS
(Emergency Medical Services) Week Link 
International New Friends, Old Friends Week  
National Unicycle Week  
National Backyard Games Week  
National Safe Boating Week
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week
Link
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week)
 Link

Daily Observations

American Red Cross Founder's Day
Bay to Breakers Race
 Link  Note: Oldest Footrace in US
End of the World or Rapture Party Day
(Prediction) Link
I Need A Patch For That Day
International Tea Day 
 Link
National Memo Day
National Waitstaff Day

Ride A Unicycle Day  
Rural Life Sunday
Sister Maria Hummel Day
Strawberries & Cream Day

Take Your Parents to The Playground (Park) Day 
Link 
Talk Like Yoda Day

World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue & Development

Today’s Thoughts

Monsoon continues. It is barely noon and already had two 10-minute rains.

I did the readings for the Iran at a Crossroads. I learned a lot. Since the revolution, the population has become much younger. Since the revolution, fewer are attending religious services. After the killing of a young woman for not wearing the head covering ‘correctly’, women have become more active in the change process. Most Iranians still dislike the US for its interference back in the 1960’s. Iran is certainly a place to watch.

Enjoy

Ocean Trivia

The mysterious Bermuda Triangle, also known as the Devil's Triangle, is said to have swallowed many ships, planes, and helicopters into its depths. In which ocean is this regional anomaly located?  Answer: Atlantic

Origins of State Names

Ohio

You can’t find any U.S. state names shorter than Ohio, but it was named after an even shorter Iroquoian wordO-Y-O, meaning “great river.” The Seneca Native Americans settled along what is now the Ohio River in the 1650s, and though the region was briefly named La Belle Riviere by French explorers in the late 1600s, the English restored its Native Ohio name when they took control in the mid-1700s.
Historic Events

  • 1881 – The American Red Cross was established by Clara Barton in Washington, DC.
  • 1972 – Michelangelo’s Pietà in St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome was damaged by a mentally disturbed Hungarian, Laszlo Toth.
  • 2001 – French Taubira law officially recognized the Atlantic slave trade and slavery as crimes against humanity.
  • 2017 – Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus performed their final show at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

Birthdays with some quotes

@81 – Harold Robbins, American author, screenwriter (d. 1997; heart failure)
“People are not like a business. You can’t buy and sell them like so much property. You can’t lock them up in a vault and expect them to appreciate it.”– Harold Robbins
Hemmingway was a jerk.”– Harold Robbins
@76 – Raymond Burr, Canadian-American actor (d. 1993; cancer)
@73 – Tony Sheridan, English singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2013)
72 – Al Franken, American comedic actor, screenwriter, and politician
“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it, people like me.”– Al Franken
@71 – Richard Hatch, American actor [Capt Apollo; Battlestar Galactica] (d. 2017; cancer)
71 – Mr. T (Laurence Tureaud), actor
43 – Gotye, Belgian-Australian singer-songwriter
“Music makes me want to dance but I’m not sure that’s something anybody wants to observe.”– Gotye
@39 – Fats Waller, American singer-songwriter, pianist (d. 1943; pneumonia)
“If you don’t know what it is, don’t mess with it.”– Fats Waller
“Jazz isn’t what you do; it’s how you do it.”– Fats Waller 38 – Alison Carroll, English gymnast, model, actress
31 – Olivia Olson, American singer, actress
@24 – Notorious B.I.G. (Christopher George Latore Wallace), rapper (d. 1997; shot)

 
 

 

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