12 Nov

 

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 46 Day 316

Sky Cover 5%

Wind amph Gusts amph 

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Active fire: 36miles
Risk of fire: Moderate

Near Lightning:835mi
Central Mexico

Air Quality: Fair Sunshine
 

Nov. Averages: Temps: 53° \ 23° Moisture 3 Days 
 

Today’s Quote

 

Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13
World
Antibiotic Awareness Week: 9-15
International Fraud Awareness Week: 10-16 Link 
National Cider Week: 10-16 
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National Split Pea Soup Week: 10-16 
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National Nurse Practioner's Week: 10-16 
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Perioperative Nurse Week: 10-16 Link
Roc Your Moc Week: 10-16 
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World Kindness Week: 10-16  
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Nat’l Global Entrepreneurship Week: 11-17  
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National Young Readers Week: 11-17 
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Daily Observations

Birth of Baha'u'Llah
Chicken Soup For The Soul Day 
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Family Day 
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Fancy Rat & Mouse Day  
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Football Day 
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Hot Buttered Rum Day 
National Chicken Soup for the Soul Day

National Happy Hour Day
National French Dip Day 
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National Pizza with the Works Except for Anchovies Day
Sigma Gamma Rho Day
World Pneumonia Day

Today’s Thoughts

 It was pretty cold last night but is warming up nicely.

I took a nice walk around the compound when it had warmed up a little. Working on getting back to my 10K steps every day.

PBS Veterans Day Salute was good last night.

Enjoy

Words pronounced differently in the North and South States…

Pajamas©Provided by ALot.com

This mostly refers to the second syllable in the word, mainly how the 'a' sounds. Southerners pronounce the word so that the 'a' sound is long like the 'a' in the word 'father.' Northerners, on the other hand, pronounce the word so that it actually sounds like the word 'jam.'

Random Trivia…

A Recycled Fact©Shutterstock

There is a swirl of garbage in the Pacific Ocean, roughly the size of Texas. It's known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch. While it's often described as "an island of garbage," the GPGP is more accurately seen as something like garbage soup: a massive portion of the ocean with a high concentration of plastics, sludge, and other debris.

It's disgusting. But no reason to despair! There are a number of wildly innovative and interesting proposals to clean up the patch. Here's hoping they work out!

Historic Events

1892 *William ‘Pudge’ Heffelfinger became the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid ($250) game for the Allegheny Athletic Association.

1927 – Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party.

1968 -John Lennon and Yoko Ono released the  album Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins with a cover photo of the pair, both naked. Most of the albums were sold with a brown paper bag over the cover.

1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I made the closest approach to Saturn and took the first clear images of its rings.

Birthdays with some quotes

@91 – DeWitt Wallace, American publisher, and philanthropist (co-founded Reader’s Digest, d. 1981)
@90 – Jo Stafford, American singer (d. 2008)
@83 – Bob Crewe, American Singer/Songwriter, and producer (d. 2014)
@83 – Charles Manson, American cult leader (d. 2017; in prison)
@79 – Kim Hunter, American actress (d. 2002; heart attack)
79 – Al Michaels, American sportscaster
78 – Neil Young, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, and producer
@77 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, and illustrator, created The Thinker (d. 1917)
“To the artist, there is never anything ugly in nature.”
“The more simple we are, the more complete we become.”
76 – Buck Dharma, American Singer/Songwriter, and guitarist
65 – Megan Mullally, American actress, and singer
62 – Nadia Comaneci, Romanian Olympic Gymnast
@60 – George Patton, American General (d. 1945; vehicle crash)
“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other guy die for his.”
55 – Sammy Sosa, Dominican-American baseball player
53 – Tonya Harding, American figure skater
“People are gonna believe what they want to believe And like I said before, I really don’t give a damn.”
@52 – Grace Kelly, American actress, later Princess Grace of Monaco (d. 1982; stroke/car crash)
“Getting angry doesn’t solve anything.”
47 – Tevin Campbell, American R&B Singer/Songwriter, and actor
43 – Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor, producer, and singer
41 – Anne Hathaway, American actress
39 – Omarion, American singer, songwriter, actor, and dancer

…The End for today…

 

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