Week 12 Day: 76 Ave. sky cover: 25% \
Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 62° \26° Wind: 9mph \
Gusts: 16mph
Moderate risk
of fire \ Nearest active fire: 329mi \ nearest
Lightning: 1367mi
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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11-17 |
Pediatric Nurse
Practitioner Week |
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13-19 |
Campfire USA Birthday Week |
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14-20 |
International Brain Awareness
Week Link |
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14-18 |
Native American Awareness Week Link |
Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Nice day. Clouds look like rain, but weather guy sez nope. Well, why I typing away there is lots of rain. Should last about an hour. Yeah!
I spent the
morning gathering tax stuff. I’ll drop it all off tomorrow and give the tax guy
some time to do them until I return from Tahiti.
Ukraine is
just getting more heartbreaking. A Mariupol theater was hundreds had take
refuge was bombed. President Zelensky continues to tap national psyches of
other countries to get help. I heard his address to Congress. It is very
difficult to hear this and not have complete empathy for the horror.
The Senate
passed a bill that would make Daylight time permanent. I personally enjoy just
letting the sun do its business and not changing the clocks. While Daylight
time gives us more light at night, the sun sets about 6:30 right now and will
set around 7:00 later in summer. That is fine with me. It also rises about 6:30,
just as I’m getting up.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
What's
different between Red Lobster & Facebook?
At Red
Lobster, the servers are responding.
Trivia
The original
purpose of the Foreign Legion was to remove disruptive elements from society
and put them to use fighting the enemies of France. Recruits included failed
revolutionaries from the rest of Europe, soldiers from the disbanded Swiss and
German mercenary regiments of the Bourbon Monarchy, and troublemakers in
general, both foreign and French.
Historically,
the American film industry portrayed the Foreign Legion as having a reputation
as a haven for cut-throats and fugitives from justice. This image is largely
out of date since the legion now conducts extensive background checks via
Interpol.
Although it
is part of the French military, it is the only unit of the military that does
not swear allegiance to France, but to the Foreign Legion itself.
Some
Americans disagreed with the United States' initial refusal to enter WWI and so
they joined the French Foreign Legion or the British or Canadian army. A group
of U.S. pilots formed the Lafayette Escadrille, which was part of the French
air force and became one of the top fighting units on the Western Front.
Historical Events
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461 – Saint
Patrick died in Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland.
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1762 – The
first parade Saint Patrick (the patron saint of Ireland) was held by Irish
soldiers serving in the British army in New York City.
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1910 – The
Camp Fire Girls organization was founded.
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1941 – The
National Gallery of Art was officially opened in Washington, DC.
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1958 – The
United States launches the first solar-powered satellite, Vanguard I.
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1980 – The
Supreme Court concerning whether a patent could be issued for a
genetically-engineered bacterium in the case of Diamond vs. Chakrabarty. On
June 16th, they decided yes, it could be patented.
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1992 – A
referendum to end apartheid in South Africa was passed from 68.7% to 31.2%.
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2005 –
Broadway Show – Spamalot (Musical) March 17, 2005
Birthdays Today
78 – John
Sebastian, American singer-songwriter 1949 – Patrick Duffy, American actor
71 – Kurt Russell,
American actor
67 – Gary Sinise,
American actor
@60 – Shemp Howard, Stooge #4 (d. 1955; heart attack)
58 – Rob Lowe,
American actor
@54 – Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-French dancer and
choreographer (d. 1993; AIDS)
50 – Mia Hamm,
American soccer player
@45 – Nat King Cole, American singer, pianist,
television host (d. 1965; heart issues)
30 – John Boyega,
English actor
25 – Katie Ledecky,
swimmer
