Mar 9

 

Week 11 Day: 68  Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 29° \12°  Wind: 11mph \ Gusts: 23mph
Moderate risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 530mi \ nearest Lightning: 942mi
Mar Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23°  (6 days of moisture)

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

 

4-13	Paralympic Games
5-12	Girl Scout Week Link  Link
6-12	National Consumer Protection Week Link  Celebrate Your Name Week National Dental Assistants Recognition Week Link National Procrastination Week   National Words Matter Week  No More Week  Link Read an E-Book Week  Link   Save Your Vision Week Link   Termite Awareness Week Women in Construction Week  Link  Words Matter Week
6-14	National Schools Social Work Week Link
6-13	Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Sunshine and chilly. The snow is slowly melting. Another storm is due on Thursday. Will it ever end?

I did my boarding pass stuff for the Tahiti trip. Couldn’t finish quite yet. Called Ed and he is doing his today…then I can get my boarding pass. Only issue now is the Covid test.

The President of Ukraine gave an impassioned speech over zoom to the British Parliament. As of yesterday, 1.7million have fled. The world needs to do something and quickly.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

How far is it from the Earth to the sun?

8-CVS receipts.

Trivia

Question: What is the name of the fastest land animal?

 Question: A baby goat is called what?

 Question: What’s the only mammal that’s able to fly?

 Question 4: What’s a group of kittens called?

 

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Cheetah

Answer 2: Kid

Answer 3: Bat

Answer: Kindle

Historical Events

Ø    1611 – Johannes Fabricius, a Dutch astronomer, discovered sunspots.

Ø    1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte married his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.

Ø    1822 – Charles M. Graham of NY was issued the first US Patent (#X03472) for artificial teeth.

Ø    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.

Ø    1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.

Ø    1945 – 300 B29 bombers dropped nearly 500,000 cylinders of napalm and petroleum jelly on Tokyo creating a 40-sq-km firestorm that killed over 100,000 and maimed another million. It was the most destructive single bombing in history, including Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs.

Ø    1959 – The Barbie doll made its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

Ø    1985 – The Tyler Civitan Club was the first to partake in the Adopt-a-Highway Sign Program, erected on Texas’s Highway 69.

Ø   1997 – Christopher Wallace, AKA Biggie Smalls, AKA the Notorious B.I.G., was shot to death at a stoplight in Los Angeles. Rapper Suge Knight has been eyed as the killer. Suge was also accused of running over (and killing) Terry Carter in January 2015.

Ø    0   2011– Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights

Birthdays Today

@88 – Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (d. 2006)

86 – Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter and pianist

@79 – Marty Ingels [Martin Ingerman], American actor, comedian (d. 2015; stroke)

@64 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008; kidney failure)

@54 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor (d. 1994; strokes)

51 – Emmanuel Lewis, American actor

42 – Matthew Gray Gubler, actor (Criminal Minds)

36 – Suga, South Korean artist (BTS)

@34 – Yuri Gagarin, Russian astronaut (d. 1968; )

33 – Bow Wow, rapper