13 February 2023
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 7 Day 44 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 18 miles Flagstaff Today 49° \14° Wind 9mph \ Gusts 14mph
Air Quality: Fair \ Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 398mi \ Nearest
Lightning 2102mi
Feb. Averages for Flagstaff: 47° \ 19° \5
Days of moisture
Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
7-14
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week Link
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week Link
National Marriage Week Link Link
Risk Awareness Week
8-14
Getting Dizzy Week
11-20
Date (Fruit) Week
11-18
National Entrepreneurship Week Link
12-18
Children of Alcoholics Week Link
Jell-O Week
Love A Mench Week
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
Random Acts of Kindness Week Link
Daily Observations
Clean Out Your
Computer Day Link
Dream Your Sweet Day
Desperation Day Link
Employee Legal Awareness Day
Galentine's Day Link
Get a Different Name Day
International Condom Day Link
International Epilepsy Awareness Day Link
International Kissing Day Link
Madly In Love With Me Day
Meal Monday (2nd Monday) Link
National Break Up With Your Carrier Day Link
National Cheddar Day Link
National Crab Rangoon Day
National Football Hangover Day Link
National Tortellini Day
National Wingman's Day
Popcorn Day Link
Self-Love Day
World Radio Day LinkWorld Whale Day
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Nice
day while awaiting the next storm…due later today.
Guess
I’ll see the end of the football season today. I don’t really care who wins,
just hope for some creative and worthwhile commercials.
I’ve
been buying Girl Scouts cookies every year forever. There were some girls, and
their moms selling outside Fry’s. I got two boxes.
Another
object shot down over Canada. A joint US-Canada operation through NORAD shot it
down. Canada will do the recovery. Then this morning jets were scrambled again
near Lake Michigan. What is going on? As a Sci-Fi fan, this is beginning to
look a lot like a great Sci-Fi movie.
Travel…
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Facts…
Australia Is
Home to the World’s Oldest Civilization
When Dutch
explorer WIllem Janszoon landed in Australia in 1606, the first known European
to do so, the continent had already been inhabited for tens of thousands of
years by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. In 2016, an extensive
DNA study by Cambridge University deduced that Aboriginal Australians are the
world’s oldest civilization. Indigenous Australian and Papuan ancestral groups
migrated to Sahul (a prehistoric subcontinent made up of present-day Australia,
New Guinea, and Tasmania) about 50,000 years ago. Eventually, rising sea levels
caused the separation of the islands, and forced the Aboriginal peoples into
genetic isolation that developed unique communities.
Slang
Origins
1991: Bestie
Meaning: best friend
“Bestie,” a word used by young women to
describe their close friends, was only added to the Oxford English Dictionary
in 2014. Its addition was a long time coming and, as the OED notes, shows just
how much young women influence our language. Linguists have shown that women in
general are half a generation ahead of their male counterparts when it comes to
speech patterns. So if you want to know how the world will sound 15 years from
now, just listen to any 13-year-old girl.
Trivia…
Continents shift at about the same rate
as your fingernails grow
Continents are the massive bodies of land
that make up all of the countries on Earth. They may seem like they are
immovable, but they are actually constantly moving at very slow speeds.
Continents move at roughly the same speed as our fingernails grow. Moving just
millimeters at a time, the original continent made up of all the modern
continents, Pangea, took hundreds of millions of years to break apart and form
today’s landmasses. Eventually, the continents may crash into one another.
Historical
Events
1741 – American Magazine was first
published. It was America’s first magazine.
1861 – Colonel Bernard Erwin earned the
first Medal of Honor, America’s highest military honor.
1937 – Prince Valiant, Comic Strip
debuted
1943 – Dresden, Germany was firebombed,
killing an estimated 135,000 people.
1961 – The Coso Artifact was discovered,
a 1920s era spark plug, supposedly found in a 500,000-year-old rock.
Birthdays
Today
@97 – Bess Truman, American wife of US President Harry S Truman (d.
1982)
“I’ve
liked lots of people ’til I went on a picnic jaunt with them.”– Bess Truman
@97 – Chuck Yeager, American general, pilot, first pilot to break
the sound barrier (d. 2020)
“You
don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to
prevent the necessary job from getting done.”– Chuck Yeager
90
– Kim Novak, American actress
88
– George Segal, American actor
82
– Bo Svenson, Swedish-American actor
79
– Stockard Channing, American actress
79
– Jerry Springer, English-American television host
“Life
is what it is, and you take what’s handed, and you work as hard as you can, and
hopefully you’ll be successful, but I just don’t spend too much time worrying
about that.”– Jerry Springer
@77 – Carol Lynley, American model, actress (d. 2019; heart attack)
@77 – Peter Tork, American singer-songwriter, bass player and actor
(d. 2019; cancer)
“Let
them think what they think. Nobody doesn’t get stereotyped. Nobody doesn’t get
scorned. Everybody’s bad news in somebody’s life.”– Peter Tork
77
– Richard Blumenthal, American politician
73
– Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and musician
“One
thing that really appeals to me is this idea of music being a living thing that
has an evolution that, in a way, enables the artist to sell a process rather
than a piece of product.”– Peter Gabriel
@72 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (d. 1991;
alcoholism)
62
– Henry Rollins, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
“I
think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one
feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”– Henry
Rollins
@50 – Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942; cancer)
55
– Kelly Hu, American actress
49
– Robbie Williams, English singer-songwriter
43
– Mena Suvari, American actress
