16 April 2023
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 16 Day 106 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 22 miles Flagstaff Today 60° \24° Wind
6mph \ Gusts 12mph
Air Quality: Moderate \ High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 268mi \ Nearest
Lightning 868mi
Apr. Averages for Flagstaff: 60° \ 27° \3
Days of moisture
Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
3/19-4/16 National Cherry
Blossom Festival
3/22-4/20 Consider Christianity Week
International Phace
Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week
8-16 National Robotics Week
9-15 Animal Control Officer Appreciation
Week
National
Dog Bite Prevention Week
National
Occupational Health Nursing Week
National Public Safety Telecommunicators
(911 Operators)
Pan
American Week
National
Student Employment Week
13-16 Satchmo
Days
15-22 International
Dark Sky Week
15-16 Just
Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of Prayer, Fasting
15-21 Money Smart Week
National Volunteer Week
16-22 Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness
Week
Chemists Celebrate Earth Week
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National
Pet ID Week
Numismatic Week (National Coin Week)
16-23 Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Daily Observations
Day of the Mushroom
Eggs Benedict Day
Save the Elephant Day
Stress Awareness Day
Wear Pajamas to Work Day
Emancipation Day (DC holiday that affects Tax Day) Link
Foursquare Day Link
National Bean Counter Day Link
National Health Care Decisions Day Link
National Orchid Day Link
Pascha
Save The Elephant Day
World Voice Day Link
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A
great beginning to the weekend…warm, sunny, breeze…not wind.
I
took a nice long walk through my neighborhood this morning.
We
can not control Mother Nature. The Nevado del Ruiz volcano on one of Columbia’s
highest peaks is showing signs it is ready to erupt. It sits in a densely populated
farming area and is infamous for claiming the lives of tens of thousands of
people in a massive 1985 eruption. Watch
this one.
Enjoy…
Geography…
The United
Kingdom and Great Britain Are Not One and the Same
Using Great
Britain and the United Kingdom interchangeably is extremely commonplace outside
of Europe, but it’s not entirely accurate to do so.
In fact,
Great Britain simply refers to England, Scotland, Wales and their surrounding
islands, while the United Kingdom encompasses those three that make up Great
Britain and Northern Ireland.
Moon Facts…
The Moon appears red during a lunar
eclipse
During a lunar eclipse, the full Moon
passes through the shadow of Earth. The shadow blocks the sunlight that
normally reflects on the Moon, but the light of the Sun that bends through
Earth’s atmosphere still reflects off the Moon, giving it a reddish-brown
appearance. The ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus first predicted lunar
eclipses more than 2,000 years ago, and the word “eclipse” comes from the Greek
“ekleipsis,” meaning to disappear, cover up or abandon.
Beauty in
our 50 states…
2. HawaiiPound-for-pound,
acre-for-acre, this archipelago is the most spectacularly diverse and diversely
spectacular place you can get to without a passport—and maybe even with one.
The Hawaiian islands—seven larger islands, plus 130 smaller, uninhabited
islets—hold such an array of landscapes because of their vast age gaps: for
example, forest, canyon Kauai is 6 million years older than the broad, dark,
raw Big Island, which is still growing, fed by the glowing volcanic vent
that birthed the lot. Between them: Oahu, with
heart-stopping beaches and jungles and cliffs under constant
assault by rainbows; Maui, a sheaf of vacation postcards that unionized and
formed an island; tourist-light Molokai, where some of the world's steepest
cliffs plunge into deep blue oceans; and Lanai, which looks like the love child
of Ireland and a Caribbean isle. You don't think it can be true until you get
there, but Hawaii is one of the few destinations that, if anything, manages to
exceed its perfect-10 reputation.
Historical
Events
v 1862 – Emancipation Day – Abraham Lincoln
freed 3,1000 slaves in Washington DC.
v
1908 –
Natural Bridges National Monument was established in Utah.
v
1946 – The US
Army liberated Nazi Sonderlager (high security) prisoner-of-war camp Colditz,
aka Oflag IV-C.
v
1947 –
Bernard Baruch first used the term “Cold War” to describe the relationship
between the United States and the Soviet Union.
v 1961 – Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared
that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
Birthdays
Today
@95 – Pope BenedictXVI (d. 2022)
@89 – Barry Nelson, American character actor (d. 2007)
@88 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, director, producer,
screenwriter, composer (d. 1977)
“The
best thing in life is to go ahead with all your plans and your dreams, to
embrace life and to live every day with passion, to lose and still keep the
faith and to win while being grateful. All of this because the world belongs to
those who dare to go after what they want. And because life is really too short
to be insignificant.”– Charlie Chaplin
88
– Bobby Vinton, American singer
@83 – Spike Milligan, Irish actor, comedian, writer (d. 2002)
“We
haven’t got a plan so nothing can go wrong!”– Spike Milligan
@82 – Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
76
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
“One
man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.’–
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
@73 – Herbie Mann, American composer (d. 2003; prostate cancr)
71
– Bill Belichick, American football player
@70 – Henry Mancini, American composer, conductor (d. 1994;
pancreatic cancer)
69
– Ellen Barkin, American actress
@63 – Gerry Rafferty, Scottish singer-songwriter (d. 2011; liver
failure)
@59 – Dusty Springfield, English singer (d. 1999; breast cancr)
58
– Jon Cryer, American actor
“Actors
always have things that they’re not thrilled about on a show and have a hobby
of bellyaching about those things.”– Jon Cryer
58
– Martin Lawrence, American actor
50
– Akon (Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu
Badara Akon Thiam ),
Senegalese-American singer and rapper
49
– Lukas Haas, American character actor, musician
39
– Claire Foy, English actress
30
– Chance the Rapper, American rapper
“Sometimes
the truth don’t rhyme.”– Chance the Rapper
27
– Anya Taylor-Joy, Argentine-British actress
@23 – Selena Quintanilla, singer(d. 1995; murdered)
