August 2023
Flagstaff
Almanac
Week 31 Day 218 Ave. Sky
Cover 5%\ Visibility 28mi. Flagstaff Today 85° \ 50°
Wind 5mph \
Gusts 10mph Nearest active fire: 17miles Risk
of fire: Extreme
Nearest Lightning:
393mi
Air Quality: Fair Moisture Days this month: 5 days
August Averages: Temps 79° \ 50° Moisture 9 Days
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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4-13 Sturgis Rally Link Assistance Dog Week: Link Link National Health Center Week: Link |
Daily Observations
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Fresh Breath Day |
National Doll Day Link |
Today’s Thoughts
A warm summer day…just like it should be.
It
sure is a lazy weekend. I changed linen, cleaned two bathrooms. That’s enough
for the entire weekend.
Enjoy
History you may not
have learned in school…
Harriet
Tubman was the first woman to lead a raid during the Civil War
Harriet
Tubman is well known as the woman who fled slavery and then helped lead other
enslaved people to freedom through the Underground Railroad. But that's not all
she did: On June 2, 1863, during the Civil War, she also led the Combahee Ferry Raid under Union Colonel James Montgomery, according to
the National Museum of African American History and Culture. She was the first
woman to lead a major military operation in the U.S. During that operation, she
and 150 African American Union soldiers rescued more than 700 enslaved people.
Hoax proved wrong…
Piltdown Man
In 1912, amateur archaeologist
Charles Dawson and Arthur Smith Woodward, a geologist at the British Natural
History Museum in London, announced the unearthing of the remains of skull
fragments and a jawbone of a previously unknown early human from a gravel pit
near Piltdown, England. Dawson claimed he had found the "missing
link" between ape and man. In fact, the bones were stained to resemble
ancient fossils, and the teeth, probably from an orangutan or chimpanzee, were
filed down to appear human.
Random Trivia…
In Ancient Greece, they believed
redheads became vampires after
death! This was partly because redheaded people are very pale-skinned and
sensitive to sunlight—unlike the Mediterranean Greeks, who had olive skin and
dark features.
Historic Events
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1497
Italian explorer John Cabot returns to Bristol from North America
(Newfoundland) - first European to do so since the Vikings
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1960
Chubby Checker performs his version of Hank Ballard's "The Twist" on
"The Dick Clark Show", starting a worldwide dance craze
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1965
US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act prohibiting voting
discrimination against minorities
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Birthdays with some
quotes
@91 – Louella Parsons (Louella Rose Oettinge), American gossip columnist (d. 1972)
@77 – Lucille Ball, American comedic actress and television
producer (d. 1989; aneursym)
“One of the things I learned the hard way was that it doesn’t pay
to get discouraged. Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore
your faith in yourself.”
@79 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (d. 1997; emphysema)
@73 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1955; heart attack)
” One sometimes finds what one is not looking for. When I woke up just
after dawn on Sept. 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all
medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I
guess that was exactly what I did.”
@73 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter (d. 1999; heart
attack)
@58 – Andy Warhol, Pop artist (d. 1958; cardiac arrhythmia)
58
– David Robinson, American basketball player
“You’re always going to face criticism, you’re always going to face
challenges, but those things are there to make you stronger and more
committed.”
53
– M. Night Shyamalan, Indian-American director, and screenwriter
“You don’t get to celebrate yourself unless you risk being mocked
or rejected. As an artist, you cannot play it safe. You just can’t.”
41
– Adrianne Curry, American model
@34 – Dutch Schultz, American gangster (d. 1935; shot)
…The End for today…
