14 Feb

 

🤍14 February 2023🤍

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 7 Day 45 \ Ave. Sky Cover a% \ Visibility 11 miles Flagstaff Today 51° \21°  Wind 14mph \ Gusts 26mph 
Air Quality: Fair \Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 492mi \ Nearest Lightning 9mi
Feb. Averages for Flagstaff: 47° \ 19° \5 Days of moisture
Sunshine

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 

International Flirting Week
Jell-O Week
Love A Mench Week
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
Random Acts of Kindness Week Link 
14-21

National Condom Week
National Nest box Week 
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week
14-16

 

Daily Observations

Cream-filled Chocolate Day
Extraterrestrial Culture Day:14
Extraterrestrial Visitor Day
Ferris Wheel Day
Frederick Douglass Day  Link
International Book Giving Day Link
League of Women Voters Day
Library Lovers Day
National (Organ) Donor Day
National Have A Heart Day
National Women's Heart Day Link
Pet Theft Awareness Day  Link
Quirky Alone Day Link
Race Relations Day
Read To Your Child Day
Saint Valentine’s Day
Valentines Day
(World) Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day Link
World Sound Healing Day Link 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Happy Valentine’s Day.

A storm is moving in now, about 6 hours late.  So far, just wind and clouds, but moisture should start soon.

A 4^th object has been shot down, this time into Lake Huron. Waiting for more information.

Super Bowl: Chiefs 38, Eagles 35 and it was down to the final seconds. I also learned, during the Super Bowl, that the Disney Corporation is 100 years old. That should lead to a lot of celebrating. The all-Female fly over was historic and nice to see. The half-time show was above average, but not that historic…except that Rhianna did the show high in the air on a platform, while pregnant. Fox blew it with the sign language before the game. They showed Mr. Denny, the Navajo signer, then the music started and the camera moved to the singer. The same happened with all the other signers. I’m sure many others were also disappointed that Fox wouldn’t spend the extra money for the box in the corner to show the signer.

Travel…

Facts…

Around 80% of Australia’s Fauna and Flora Is Unique to the Country

Australia has some of the cutest, most interesting, and most venomous animals on the planet. In fact, thanks to its isolated island geography, over 80% of the country’s plants and animals can only be found here. That includes the cuddly koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, and wombats that often feature high on tourists’ bucket lists. Many tourists also hope to spot the notoriously feisty Tasmanian devil, the world’s largest carnivorous marsupial, and the rainforest-dwelling, sound-mimicking lyrebird. Meanwhile, other national animals strike fear into tourists — Australia has approximately 100 venomous snakes, 12 of which can cause fatalities.    

Slang Origins

1992: Phat

Meaning: great; wonderful; terrific

“Phat,” most likely a misspelling or corruption of fat, was first used to describe attractiveness in a woman. Some claim it’s an acronym for something like “pretty hips and thighs,” though it seems those phrases cropped up after the word itself.

Trivia…

Almost all meteorites crash in Antarctica

Meteorites do not actually hit the Earth at completely random places. While their fall may be random, most end up landing in Antarctica. This is believed to be because it is on the southern end of the Earth, where meteorites are pulled to once they enter Earth’s atmosphere. This could be considered lucky, as some meteorites fall to Earth at a large enough size to do some damage to people or structures, and Antarctica is almost completely uninhabited. Most meteorites that fall are too small to do any damage.

Historical Events

1849 – The first photograph of a US President, James Polk, was taken in Washington, DC.
1920 – The League of Women Voters formed in Chicago, IL.
1929 – Four men came in, dressed as police at Bugsy Moran’s headquarters on North Clark Street in Chicago, killing seven of Bugsy’s men in what is called the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Moran was a rival of Al Capone.
1930 – The Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett was published.
1946 – The ENIAC Computer was introduced.

Birthdays Today

82 – Donna Shalala, American politician
81 – Michael Bloomberg, American businessman and politician
@80 – Jack Benny, American comedic actor (d. 1974)
“Everything good that happened to me happened by accident.”– Jack Benny
79 – Carl Bernstein, American journalist and author
@77 – Frederick Douglass, former slave, autobiographer (d. 1895)
@76 – Margaret E. Knight, American inventor (flat-bottom paper bags) (d. 1914)
72 – Terry Gross, American radio host
“I learned that I never really know the true story of my guests’ lives, that I have to content myself with knowing that when I’m interviewing somebody, I’m getting a combination of fact and truth and self-mythology and self-delusion and selective memory and faulty memory.”– Terry Gross
@60 – John Barrymore, American actor (d. 1942; cirrhosis)
“Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.”– John Barrymore
63 – Meg Tilly [Margaret Elizabeth Chan], American actress
@57 – Gregory Hines, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 2003; liver cancer)
@53 – Vic Morrow, American actor (d. 1982; helicopter crash while filming)
53 – Simon Pegg, English actor, director and producer
“I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.”– Simon Pegg
51 – Rob Thomas, American singer-songwriter
“Some things you don’t need until they leave you; they’re the things that you miss.”– Rob Thomas
@37 – George Ferris, American engineer, created the Ferris Wheel (d. 1896-typhoid)
31 – Freddie Highmore, English actor