25 June

25 June 2023

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 26 Day 176 Ave. Sky Cover 5%\ Visibility 20mi. Flagstaff Today  75° \ 33° 
Wind  7mph \ Gusts  16mph  Nearest active fire: 21miles Nearest Lightning:  532mi
Air Quality: Moderate   Moisture Days this month: 5days
Risk of fire: Extreme June Averages: Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° June Average: 1 Day of moisture
Sunshine

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

19-25  
Learning Disabilities Week Link  Link
National Pollinator Week Link 
19-25  
19-25  
National Insect Week
22-25  
Watermelon Thump Seed Spitting Week Link   
Water Ski Days Link

25-30
International Lace Week Link  
25-7/1  
25-7/1  
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week Link 
Windjammer Days 
Windjammer Days Link
 

Daily Observations

America's Kids Day
Catfish Day
Color TV Day (CBS)
Day of The Seafarer Link
Descendants Day
Global Beatles Day Link
Global Smurfs Day Link
Leon Day  Link

Log Cabin Day
National Catfish Day Link
Nat’l Police Community Cooperative Day  Link
Please Take my Children to Work Day
School Prayer Banned Anniversary
Strawberry Parfait Day 
Stripper Appreciation Day Link
Victory Day for Oglala over Custer
World Vitiligo Day Link

Today’s Thoughts

It’s a new season, so I flipped the mattress, laundered pad, changes linens. Ready for summer.

During my recent cold, the doctor had me get an oximeter to measure the O2 level. I left it in the car on Friday. I searched the house last night for it. This morning I found it on the seat of my car. I sure felt foolish.

Russia and Wagner Mercenaries are all over the news. Is change really coming? I sent a text message to Vlad to check on things and thank him again, 4 years ago, for our great adventure on the Trans-Siberian. He texted back and has been working at a school in Latvia for the past 9 months. He says he better understands why Focus members had careers in education. He wishes our group well. Nice!

Enjoy

 

History revisited

There was a Great Molasses Flood in Boston in 1919.

The Great Molasses Flood of 1919 was ta sticky situation with deadly consequences. United States Industrial Alcohol, which used the molasses to make liquor and in ammunitions manufacturing, had stored the molasses in a tank build after World War 1, according to History.com. One of the company's employees reportedly told them that the tank had been leaking and wasn't structurally sound, but they never took action to fix it.

On, Jan. 15, 1919, when it was warmer than usual, the tank burst and unleashed 2.3 million gallons of molasses, which rushed out onto Boston's streets. A 15-foot wall of molasses reportedly crashed down Commercial Street going 35 miles per hour. It was so strong that the Boston Globe wrote that it caused buildings to “cringe up as though they were made of pasteboard,” according to History.com. Overall, 21 people died and 150 were injured.

Historic Events

  • 1788 – Virginia became the tenth state to ratify the United States Constitution.
  • 1876 – Battle of the Little Bighorn and the death of Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
  • 1950 -The Korean War began with the invasion of South Korea by North Korea.
  • 1978 – The rainbow flag representing gay pride was presented for the first time during the San Francisco Gay Freedom Day Parade.

Birthdays with some quotes

98 – June Lockhart, American actress
@85 – Eddie Floyd, American R&B/soul singer-songwriter
78 – Carly Simon, American singer-songwriter
“We need role models who are going to break the mold.”– Carly Simon
@77 – Alex Toth, American animator, cartoonist (d. 2006)
“I spent the first half of my career learning what to put into my work, and the second half learning what to leave out.”– Alex Toth
76 – Jimmie Walker, American comedic actor
@64 – Peyo (Pierre Culliford), Belgian author, illustrator, created The Smurfs (d. 1992; heart attack)
62 – Ricky Gervais, English comedian, actor, director and producer
57 – Dikembe Mutombo, Congolese-American basketball player
“When you take the elevator to the top, please remember to send it back down so someone else might use it.”– Dikembe Mutombo
@53 – George Michael, English singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
48 – Linda Cardellini, American actress
“Just because someone isn’t working at an office doesn’t mean they’re not working hard at something.”– Linda Cardellini
@46 – George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair), British novelist, essayist, critic (d. 1950; burst artery)
“The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.”– George Orwell 44 – “The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.”– George Orwell
44 – Busy Philipps, American actress
17 – Mckenna Grace, American actress

 

  

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