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August 2023

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 31 Day 213  Ave. Sky Cover 70%\ Visibility  20mi. Flagstaff Today  77° \ 53° 
Wind  7mph \ Gusts  18mph  Nearest active fire: 19miles Risk of fire: Low Nearest Lightning:  3mi
Air Quality: Moderate   Moisture Days in July: 6 days
August Averages: Temps 79° \ 50° Moisture 9 Days
Cloudy

Today’s Quote

 

Monthly Observations

American Adventures Month American Artists Appreciation Month Link American History Essay Contest  Arrr-gust: International Pirate Month  Link

Back to School Month Link Black Business Month Boomers Making A Difference Month Bystander Awareness Month

Weekly Observations

28-8-6 World Police and Fire Games 30-8/5 National Exercise With Your Child Week Single Working Women's Week

1-7 Happiness Happens Week Link International Clown Week Link National Cleanse Your Skin Week  Link National Minority Donor Awareness Week Simplify Your Life Week World Breastfeeding Week Link

Daily Observations

Girlfriend's Day International Alberino Day Link International Can-It-Forward Day  Link   (Mason Jars) Lammas Day (Merry Loafmas)   Lammas Day (Merry Loafmas)  Link Lughnasa or Lughnasadh (Gaelic Festival) Link Link Mahjong Day Minority Donor Awareness Day National Mahjong Day   Mahjong Day Minority Donor Awareness Day National Mahjong Day  Link

National Minority Donor Awareness Day National Night Out Link   Raspberry Cream Pie Day Respect For Parents Rounds Resounding Day Spider-Man Day US Air Force Day Link World Lung Cancer Day World Wide Web Day World Scout Scarf Day

Today’s Thoughts

A much cooler day…finally. Last night there was a nice gentle monsoon rain that lasted over an hour. Looks like it is hanging around for more monsoon today. The various burn area just outside the city had some flooding. And I had a nice cooling monsoon starting about 1pm for an hour…even had rain water running down the street.

I drink about 5 bottles of fresh grapefruit juice a week. The Fry’s (Kroger) is the only one in town with reasonable prices for the juice. However;  seldom can I actually buy 5 bottles in one trip. Today they only had two.

Enjoy

 

History you may not have learned in school…

Neil Armstrong was probably misquoted on the moon.

Astronaut Neil Armstrong is recorded as saying, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind," when he first stepped onto the moon in 1969, but he was probably misquoted.

Armstrong told reporters after the Apollo 11 mission that he actually said, "that's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." That missing "a" would make a lot more sense, because without it, Armstrong is repeating himself and saying "That's one small step for man," as in all of mankind, and then "one giant leap for mankind."

According to Space.com, computer programmer Peter Shann Ford analyzed audio of the transmission from the moon in 2006, and found that there was a pause between "for" and "man," and the radio just may not have transmitted the "a."

Hoax proved wrong…

Hit for six

In a scandal that still reverberates today in the world of sport, several members of the Chicago White Sox baseball team accepted a bribe to lose the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds, with as much as US$100,000 (around US$1.5 million today) changing hands.

Random Trivia…

The University of Oxford is older than the Aztec Empire. The University of Oxford first opened its doors to students all the way back in 1096. By comparison, the Aztec Empire is said to have originated with the founding of the city of Tenochtitlán at Lake Texcoco by the Mexica, which occurred in the year 1325.

Historic Events

• 1834 – Slavery was abolished in Jamaica
• 1944 – The last entry for Anne Frank’s diary
• 1969 – The Zodiac Killer’s letters arrived at several San Fransisco newspapers. The killer was never caught.
• 1990 – Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau created the prototype HTML language and the World-Wide Web. 

Birthdays with some quotes

 

84	Terry Kiser, American character actor
75 @75   @72 @71	Avi Arad, Israeli-American producer, founded Marvel Studios – Dom DeLuise, American actor   – Herman Melville, American novelist, short story writer, and poet – Yves Saint Laurent, Algerian-French fashion designer, co-founded Yves Saint Laurent “The most beautiful make-up of a woman is passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.”	(d. 2009; kidney failure) (d. 1891)
@68 @63   @63 62	William Clark, American explorer, of Lewis & Clark Claudius, Roman emperor   – Francis Scott Key, American author, and poet – Chuck D (Carlton Douglas Ridenhour), American rapper ” Reflect each day on all you have to be grateful for and you will receive more to be grateful for.”	(d. 1838) (d. 54; poisoned) (d. 1843)
@59 @57     @53	– Coolio, American rapper – Taylor Negron, American actor “I looked over and Jim Morrison was dancing the jitterbug with my grandmother on the coffee table.” – Jerry Garcia, American singer-songwriter and guitarist “I mean, just because you’re a musician doesn’t mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.”	(d. 2022) (d. 2015; liver cancer)     (d. 1995; heart attack)
44	Jason Momoa, American actor ” Some people we know in our lives come up to a crossroads, and they could go left or right, and then end up in a totally different place.” ” I’m one of those freaky people that actually reads books.”

 

…The End for today…

 

31 July

 

31 July 2023

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 31 Day 212 Ave. Sky Cover 70%\ Visibility  23mi. Flagstaff Today  86° \ 50° 
Wind  7mph \ Gusts  11mph  Nearest active fire: 19miles Nearest Lightning:  1mi
Air Quality: Moderate   Moisture Days this month: 6 days
Risk of fire: High July Averages: Temps 82° \ 51° Moisture 8 Days
Sunshine 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

21-31 National Moth Week 28-8-6 World Police and Fire Games

30-8/5 National Exercise With Your Child Week Single Working Women's Week

Daily Observations

National Avocado Day  Link National Cotton Candy Day National Jump for Jelly Beans Day  National #Love Day  Link

National Mutt Day  Link   National Orgasm Day  Link  Uncommon Instruments Awareness Day  Link World Ranger Day Link

Today’s Thoughts

Thunder and Lightning…maybe a monsoon in a while. Flash Flood Warning listed for property below several previous fires.

Congrats to the Biden’s for acknowledging Hunter’s son as their grandchild. It IS a family matter, but 4+ years seems like a long time.

I watched the Ken Burns PBS program ‘Let the Circle Be Unbroken’. Certainly, worth watching a second time. The series is repeating on PBS as ‘Country Music’ on Friday nights.

I’ve been posting about our heat here at 7000’. I’m glad I’m not in ‘the valley’…Phoenix. They keep breaking records: 30 days over 110° and 17 days over 115° during this summer.

Enjoy

 

History you may not have learned in school…

The Tulsa Race Massacre left thousands of Black citizens homeless.

With over 800 injured and an immeasurable amount of deaths, the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 is considered the single worst incident of racial violence in American history by the Oklahoma Historical Society. The incident began when a 19-year old Black man was accused of assaulting a 17-year old white female in an elevator. A mob of more than 2,000 white residents gathered demanding justice for the supposed crime and began attacking Tulsa which was then known as the Black Wall Street of America.

Around 10,000 Black citizens were left homeless with $1.5 million in property and $750,000 in personal damage done. This vibrant and successful Black neighborhood was leveled within days leaving no trace of its progressive former self. The incident is rarely ever mentioned in schools across America.

Hoax proved wrong…

Read our lips

German R&B duo Fab Morvan and Rob Pilatus, who performed as Milli Vanilli in the late 1980s and early '90s, achieved music industry infamy when it was revealed that they did not sing any of the vocals heard in their music releases. Their ruse unfolded during a live MTV performance when the pair were caught lip-syncing to the song 'Girl You Know It’s True.'

Random Trivia…

Tug of War used to be an Olympic sport! It was part of the Olympic schedule between 1900 and 1920 and occurred at 5 different Summer Olympic Games. The nation to win the most medals in this was Britain with 5 medals, then the USA with 3.

Historic Events

• 1790 – The United States Patent Office opened
• 1792 – The cornerstone of the first US Federal Building was laid, the Philadelphia Mint
• 1948 – Idlewild Field in New York, New York International Airport (later renamed John F. Kennedy International Airport) was dedicated.
• 1989 – Game Boy released, video game
• 1991 – The US and Soviet Union both sign the START I Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty
• 2006 Cuba’s leader Fidel Castro handed over power to his brother, Raúl.

Birthdays with some quotes

@94	Milton Friedman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate “If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.” “One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”	(d. 2006)
@86	Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster and actor “I never took myself too seriously.”	(d. 2006)
@83	Ahmet Ertegun, Turkish-American songwriter, producer, founded Atlantic Records “The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.”	(d. 2006)
80	William Bennett, American journalist and politician “There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.”
65	Mark Cuban, American businessman “Always wake up with a smile knowing that today you are going to have fun accomplishing what others are too afraid to do.” “It’s not in the dreaming, it’s in the doing.”
61	Wesley Snipes, actor
58	J. K. Rowling, English author and film producer “Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”
57	Dean Cain, American actor
@46	Ted Cassidy, American actor	(d. 1979; tumor on heart)
45	Zac Brown, American country singer-songwriter
44	B.J. Novak, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter
42	M. Shadows (Matthew Charles Sanders), American musician, lead singer – Avenged Sevenfold
26	Blake Michael, Disney actor
25	Rico Rodreguez, Modern Family actor

 

…The End for today…