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December 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 49 Day 335 \ Ave. Sky Cover 20% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 44° \16° 
Wind 6mph \ Gusts12smph  Air Quality: Fair\Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 415mi \ Nearest Lightning 1081mi
Dec Averages for Flagstaff: 43° \ 17° `

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

Dec. in Navajo: Nilch’itsoh, Great Winds
Aids Awareness Month Link
Bingo's Birthday Month
Buckwheat Month Link
Car Donation Month  Link
Give The Gift of Sight Month

Weekly Observations

Cookie Cutter Week: 1-7 Link

Daily Observations

Antartica Day
Basketball Day
Bifocals at the Monitor Liberation Day
Civil Air Patrol Day
Clark Kent's Birthday (Superman) Link 
Data Innovation Day-2 Link
Day With(out) Art Day
Eat a Red Apple Day
National Christmas Lights Day
Playboy Day
Rosa Parks Day
World Aids Day Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A chilly day.

I started out early for a blood draw, then stopped to get a much-needed pedicure. I talked to Mary who is still in Phx. Her son has a blood issue and was in ICU for 5 days. He is healing. Mike’s 95-year-old mother got the flu and can’t walk so Mike is helping her. She is also getting better every day.

While in Mexico, the mosquitos decided they needed a Thanksgiving feast, and they picked me. Healing well now that I am home.

If you don’t live in AZ, you may not know we have a Cochise County…yeah, named after the Native American leader. It is a stronghold for conservative Republicans. Two towns you may know are Bisbee and Sierra Vista. Their Board of Supervisors decided to vote against certifying the 2022 Midterms. This has divided out state even more. The duly elected Democratic Governor-Elect is filing a lawsuit. If she wins the case, she is asking to not count the Cochise County state office elections to be stricken from the final vote count. That would mean that Dems would also win the Sec. of State and AG positions. AZ will not know the outcome for about a week.

I’m happy so see that the USA men’s soccer team will be in the next round after a win over Iran. Not happy to hear what might happen to the losing team when they return to Iran.

Favorite Memes

Little known Native American History

Warrior women, brilliant inventions, hoaxes, and your favorite snack food. If you didn't hear about these things when you studied Native American history in school, you missed out. Native American culture is not nearly as monolithic as your teacher might have had you believe.

There were female warriors. In the movies, male Native American warriors rode off to battle while their female counterparts remained behind to cook, sew, and take care of the camp. In real life, this wasn't always the case. Many warrior Native American women fought alongside men. The most famous of these was probably Buffalo Calf Road Woman, a member of the Northern Cheyenne tribe who fought in the Battle of the Rosebud and the Battle of Little Bighorn. In fact, according to the elders of the Northern Cheyenne tribe, it was she who dealt Custer his final deadly blow. Buffalo Calf Road Woman is just one of many incredible women you didn't read about in history class.  

Slang Origins

1922: Know your onions

Meaning: to have experience or be knowledgeable about something

Many believe that this phrase is meant to refer to English lexicographer C.T. Onions, who worked on the Oxford English Dictionary. However, it is uniquely American, first appearing in Harper’s Bazaar in 1922, and likely has nothing to do with Onions at all. Instead, it falls in a similar category as “bee’s knees:” one of a number of popular nonsense phrases that all involved food and having knowledge about a subject.

Historical Events

As of December 2, 1824, no candidate won a majority of the US electoral vote, becoming the only election to require an election in the House of Representatives under the provisions of the 12th Amendment. On February 9, 1825, the House chose John Quincy Adams as president, although Andrew Jackson won more actual votes.

1891 – James Naismith, a gym teacher, invented Basketball.

1914 - the Ford Motor Company introduced the first moving assembly line.

1941 – The Civil Air Patrol was founded in NYC.

Birthdays Today

@88 – Marie Tussaud, founder of Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum (d. 1850)
@88 – Rex Stout, American author (d. 1975)
83 – Lee Trevino, American golfer
“Golf isn’t just my business, it’s my hobby.”– Lee Trevino
77 – John Densmore, American drummer, The Doors
77 – Bette Midler, American singer, actress
@76 – Mary Martin, American actress, and singer (d. 1990; cancer)
“Neverland is the way I would like real life to be… timeless, free, mischievous, filled with gaiety, tenderness, and magic.”– Mary Martin
@72 – Lou Rawls, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006; multiple cancers)
71 – Treat Williams, American actor
70 – Rick Scott, American politician
@65 – Richard Pryor, American comedian (d. 2005)
“I just don’t want to die alone, that’s all. That’s not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.”– Richard Pryor
@63 – Dick Shawn, American actor (d. 1987; heart attack on stage)
52 – Sarah Silverman, Comedian
@44 – Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord, narcoterrorist (d. 1993; shot during escape)
34 – Zoë Kravitz, American actress