Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 20 Day: 132 \ Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 68° \28°
Wind: 11mph \ Gusts: 17mph
Extreme risk of fire
\ Nearest active fire: 12mi \ nearest Lightning: 692mi
May Averages for Flagstaff: 68° \ 34° (3 days of moisture)
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Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Another warm
and windy day.
Lots of
memories this week. I talked to a colleague from my Tuba days yesterday. She
retired to Florida years ago. She has had a tough few months but is a very
strong woman and doing better. Nice to catch up.
I was
reading an article about CEO’s. Times have certainly changed. The head of the
company has always made more than the median employee. I get that. But these
figures are outrageous. The average DEO makes 235:1 compared to the median employee.
And it isn’t getting any better. From 2020-2022 the CEO salary increased by 31%,
while the median worker at the company increased 11%. No wonder our economy is
messed up. No wonder the Union movement is gaining speed.
Favorite Memes
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Safest Cities in the
World
3. Amsterdam, Netherlands
This city is
probably best known for its liberal and legal use of marijuana and a notorious
red-light district. Despite this (or could it be because of it?!) Amsterdam has
been named one of the safest cities in the world. The city’s infrastructure is
some of the best in the world. Amsterdam has high-quality buildings and roads,
while simultaneously boasting a low number of car accidents and excellent air
quality. Perhaps this is due to another one of the city’s trademarks – the
biking culture!
4. Stockholm, Sweden
The capital
of Sweden proudly presents itself as the safest country in all of Europe. How
does Stockholm keep its nearly 1 million residents in check? Thanks to an
extremely effective police force, the crime rate is uber-low here. There may be
the occasional petty theft or pickpocket incident, however violent crime is
impressively low. Stockholm is also one of the best cities in the world when it
comes to protecting its people’s cyber privacy and health security.
State Trivia
Missouri: it's the Cave State
Missouri
locals will obviously know one of the state's nicknames is the Cave State, and
rightly so as there are more than 6,300 recorded caves (and that number
continues to rise every year). Four of the best caves are typically open for
public tours, including the otherworldly Angel Showers formation in Ozark
Caverns at Lake of the Ozarks State Park and the Lily Pad Room in Onondaga Cave
Montana: it's the home of extreme weather
Montana is
no stranger to extreme weather and holds all sorts of surprising weather
records. For example, the greatest temperature change in 24 hours was recorded
in Loma, Montana between 14 and 15 January 1972, when the temperature changed
by 135°F (57.2°C). It has also recorded the coldest temperature – a chilly
-70°F (-56.7°C) at Rogers Pass in Glacier National Park – in the lower 48
states. It has also set a blisteringly hot record, when it hit 117°F (47°C) in
the city of Glendive in 1893 and then again in Medicine Lake in 1937.
Nebraska: it's the popcorn capital
Corn is
grown in almost all of the US states, but few take it as seriously as Indiana.
The state produces more than 25% of the country's popcorn supply. And as
Americans consume 68 billion cups of popcorn every year (that's enough to fill
the Empire State Building 18 times), it's a lot of corn. To be more precise,
the state is the number one producer of popcorn, with more than 300 million
(136m kg) pounds of corn grown annually.
Nevada: it's home to most of the
country's wild horses
Although we
love the fact the world's largest margarita was made in Las Vegas, there's more
to this state than the Sin City. Nevada is home to nearly half of the country's
free-roaming horse population. The Virginia Range, between Virginia City and
Reno, is home to around 2,000 wild mustangs – the inspiration behind Velma
Johnston's, aka Wild Horse Annie, protest against rounding up wild horses for
commercial purposes. Her efforts led to the Wild Horse Annie Act in 1959, which
banned the use of motorized vehicles to hunt wild horses and burros.
Historical Events
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1551 – The
National University of San Marcos, the oldest university in the Americas, was
founded in Lima, Peru.
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1846 – The
Donner Party of pioneers left Independence, Missouri for California, on what
became a year-long journey of hardship and cannibalism.
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1847 – The
Modern Odometer (Roadometer) was invented by William Clayton
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1965 – The
Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashed on the Moon.
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1993- The
Wonder Years television series came to an end
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2002 –
Former US President Jimmy Carter arrived in Cuba for a five-day visit with
Fidel Castro.
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2008
(Earthquake) Measuring ~8.0 magnitude, n Sichuan, China, killed over 69,000
people.
Birthdays Today
@96 – Katharine Hepburn, American actress
(d. 2003)
@93 – Burt Bacharach, American
singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
@90 – Florence Nightingale,
Italian-English nurse, social reformer, statistician (d. 1910)
@90 – Yogi Berra, American baseball
player, coach, and manager (d. 2015)
@83 – Mary Kay Ash, American
businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001)
@75 – Edward Lear, English limerickist (d.
1888)
@75 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American
historian and politician (d. 1924)
72
– Bruce Boxleitner, American actor
@71 – Tom Snyder, American journalist and
talk show host (d. 2007; cancer)
@71 – George Carlin, American comedian,
actor, and author (d. 2008; heart attack)
63
– Ving Rhames, American actor
60
– Emilio Estevez, American actor
56
– Stephen Baldwin, actor
54
– Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
41
– Rami Malek, American actor
