Week 16 Day: 104 Ave. sky cover: a% \
Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 43° \19° Wind: 13mph \
Gusts: 10mph
High risk
of fire \ Nearest active fire: 254mi \ nearest
Lightning: 925mi
Today’s Quote
Monthly Observations
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Library Snapshot Month |
National Humor Month |
Weekly Observations
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Passiontide: 3-17 Ramadan: 3- 5/1 |
10-16 Holy Week Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link |
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Money Smart Week:
9-16 Link World Irish Dancing Week: 10-17 Nat’l Work Zone Safety
Awareness Week: 11-15 Link 14-16 National Coin Week |
Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice sunny
day…warming up nicely. The cable guy finally fixed my cable TV channel CNN.
Took way too many phone calls. It was their problem. Happy camper again.
On the Focus
French Polynesia trip, I rode on/in my first catamaran. A very nice experience
with great views. I also rode in a glass bottom boat. The operator of the boat snorkeled
and gave chum to the fish. There were hundreds of fish and a couple of small sharks.
Very cool.
We also
visited several ceremonial sites. At one
site there were tall plants with very long leaves surrounding the ceremonial
site. The guide was emphatic that the plant was sacred and that we could not
touch the leaves. Interesting for sure.
As I was driving
around town, the Travel Lodge I stayed at when working on the Rez is now being
converted into efficiency apartments to provide low cost housing for the
homeless. A very good repurposing.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
What is as
light as a feather but impossible to hold for several minutes?
Your breath.
Trivia
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Fort Knox
was constructed in 1937. The original construction cost was $560,000, which
would be around $10 million in today's money. It was built with more than 4,200
cubic yards of concrete and 16,000 cubic feet of granite, with 750 tons of reinforced
steel and 670 tons of structural steel. The main vault door is 21 inches thick
and weighs more than 20 tons.
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Strict
security measures are in place to keep Fort Knox secure. That means no one
person knows the entire entry combination to access the gold vault. Instead,
the information is divided up among several people. Even information about who
knows a piece of the combination is classified.
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Guarding
Fort Knox and its gold reserves are members of the United States Mint Police.
Established in 1792, the Mint Police organization is one of the country's
oldest federal law enforcement agencies. Before being tasked with guarding the
gold, each member of the Mint Police must go through a three-month training
regiment, followed by a five-week specialized training in the field.
Historical Events
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1561 – A
‘celestial phenomenon’ is reported over Nuremberg, described as an aerial UFO
battle.
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1828 – Noah
Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language.
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1865 –
President Abraham Lincoln was shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth.
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1927 – The
first Volvo car was presented in Gothenburg, Sweden.
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1933 – Jack
Mackay and his wife reported seeing the Loch Ness Monster- and that got the
whole modern lake monster thing started.
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1939 – The
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was first published by the Viking Press.
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1960 –
Broadway Show – Bye Bye Birdie (Musical) opened on April 14, 1960
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2003 – The
Human Genome Project was completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an
accuracy of 99.99%.
Birthdays Today
@96 – Sir John Gielgud, English actor, director, and
producer (died in 2000)
90 – Loretta Lynn,
American singer-songwriter
82 – Julie
Christie, English actress
81 – Pete Rose,
American baseball player
@77 – Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002; kidney
failure)
@70 – Anne Sullivan, American educator (d. 1936;
stroke)
64 – Peter Capaldi,
Scottish character actor, The Twelfth Doctor
61 – Robert
Carlyle, Scottish character actor
@56 – Cecil Chubb, English barrister, one-time owner
of Stonehenge (d. 1934; stroke)
54 – Anthony
Michael Hall, American actor
45 – Sarah Michelle
Gellar, American actress
45 – Rob
McElhenney, American actor and producer
26 – Abigail
Breslin, American actress
