9 March 2023
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 10 Day 68 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 19 miles Flagstaff Today 53° \18° Wind 7mph \ Gusts 16mph
Air Quality: 9 \ Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 251mi \ Nearest
Lightning 636mi
Mar. Averages for Flagstaff: 51° \ 23° \6
Days of moisture
Sunshine
Weekly
Observations
22-4/8
Lent
1-7
Hearing Awareness Week Link
LGBT Health Awareness Week Link
National Cheerleading Week
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Invest in a Veteran Week Link
National Pet Sitters Week Link
Return The Borrowed Books Week
Universal Human Beings Week: Link
Will Eisner Week Link
World Hearing Awareness Week
5-11
National Consumer Protection Week Link
Celebrate Your Name Week
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week
Celebrate Your Name Week
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week Link
National Words Matter Week
No More Week
National Words Matter Week
No More Week Link
Read an E-Book Week Link
Save Your Vision Week
Save Your Vision Week Link
Termite Awareness Week
5-12
Women in Construction
Week: Link
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week
Words Matter Week
6-10
Words Matter Week
6-10
National School Breakfast Week
Daily Observations
Barbie DayCrabmeat DayGet Over It Day LinkJoe Franklin DayMeatball DayNametag Day Link National Get Over It DayNational Urban Educator Day LinkNutrition and Dietetics Technician, Registered DayPanic DayWorld Kidney Day
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Another
day of melting snow. The snow on the trees is gone. Basically only the man-made
piles from clearing the sidewalks and roads remain. Some of those berms are
still 4+ feet high.
I
was sad to hear of the passing of Peterson Zah, first Navajo Nation President,
at 85. All the previous elected leader in modern times had been Chairman, not
President. Mr. Zah, the uncle of a good friend, took over after some turbulent
times and was able to keep the Navajo Nation together. Flags are flying at
half-mast throughout the Navajo Nation.
I
continue to be perplexed by Tucker Carlson. He continues his craziness on Fox,
even after many emails have been released that show he is merely an actor, playing
the role of a journalist. I guess it is true: You can lead a man to knowledge,
but you can’t make him think.
Enjoy…
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Facts…
Barber’s
Pole
Few symbols
are more recognizable than a barber’s pole. This spinning red-and-white
cylinder is hard to miss, and serves as a shining beacon for a place to get a
haircut. Historically, however, it also signified a spot where people could
have medical procedures done.
The barber’s
pole reflects a time when barbers not only cut hair, but performed medical
operations such as bloodletting. Prior to the barber pole, barbers would place
bowls of blood in their window to advertise their bloodletting capabilities,
though that act was prohibited by a 1307 law in London. Hence, the barber’s
pole was born, and it has remained a popular symbol ever since.
The color
red represents the blood, whereas the white reflects the bandages used to stop
the bleeding. In America, you’ll notice that barber poles also have the color
blue in addition to the traditional red and white found throughout Europe. One
theory is that the blue represents the veins that were cut during bloodletting;
another idea is that the addition of blue was simply a patriotic statement.
Beauty in
our 50 states…
40. Connecticut
Poor Connecticut (not literally, of
course). Not only will most New Englanders disavow it for its close ties to New
York—"half the state is Yankees country!"—but it also came out as the
runt among the region's hill-and-valley idyll. Most of the state is flat, and
although it's got some quaint towns along the coast, and comely streams further
inland towards the Berkshires, nondescript suburbs and urbanized areas are the
norm. Plus, at this point in its march towards the ocean, even the mighty Connecticut
River has lost some steam (and picked up flotsam in Hartford and Springfield).
Historical
Events
1796 – NapolĂ©on Bonaparte married his
first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in
the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized
control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 – The first documented discovery of
gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the
California Gold Rush.
1959 – The Barbie doll made its debut at
the American International Toy Fair in New York.
Birthdays
Today
@88 – Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (d. 2006)
@86 – Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter, pianist (d. 2022)
“If you have
good food, people will come to your restaurant.”– Mickey Gilley
@79 – Marty Ingels, American actor, comedian (d. 2015; stroke)
78 – Robin
Trower, English rock guitarist and vocalist (Procol Harum)
75 – Jeffrey Osborne, American singer and drummer
65 – Linda Fiorentino, American actress
@64 – Bobby Fischer, American chess
player (d. 2008; kidney failure)
@54 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor (d. 1994; stroke)
52 –
Emmanuel Lewis, American actor (Webster)
“I like
projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.”– Emmanuel Lewis
37 – Brittany Snow, American actress
“Sometimes
the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With
independent scripts, people can take more challenges.”– Brittany Snow
@34 – Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut, 1st human in outer space
30 – Suga [Min Yoon-gi], South Korean artist (BTS)
