Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 21 Day: 140 \ Ave. sky cover: 15% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 81° \39°
Wind: 12mph \ Gusts: 22mph
Extreme risk of fire
\ Nearest active fire: 10mi \ nearest Lightning: 764mi
May Averages for Flagstaff: 68° \ 34° (3 days of moisture)
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Weekly Observations
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Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
I’m really
enjoying this great weather.
The FedEx guy
arrived with a package. It was finally my new CPAP machine. I took it over to
the AZ-Med people who service my machine. They made sure it was set up and
ready to go. Phillips had sent a return label, so I boxed up the old machine,
dropped it off at FedEx while I was out and about today. The new machine is
nice…happy camper here.
While I was
out, I stopped at Sam’s for gas. It was still $4.35/gallon so it took $50 to
fill it. Crazy.
My 16-year-old
Nissan Xterra only has 79,500 miles, but it is time to start looking for a new
vehicle. Just looking and saving $$ for a new vehicle. I hate making car payments
so I’ll trade-in and put a lot down, to keep payments small for a short time.
Favorite Memes
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Humor
Why are
round bales of hay illegal?
Because cows can't get a square meal
Trivia
v Bagpipes were probably first used in
Ancient Egypt, not Scotland.
v Bagpipes may be one of the most
recognizable symbols of Scotland, commonly played by kilt-clad musicians
sounding songs about Loch Lomond. But the origin of the instrument has been
traced all the way back to ancient Egypt where, in 400 B.C., the so-called
pipers of Thebes used similar instruments made from bone and animal skin. The
bagpipes may have then made their way over to Scotland in the hands of Roman
invaders.
Historical Events
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1570 –
Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern
atlas.
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1862 –
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, opening 84 million acres of
public land to settlers.
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1873 – Levi
Strauss and Jacob W Davis patented (#139,121) copper-riveted jeans, designed to
help prevent tears in the fabric.
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1883 –
Krakatoa began to erupt; the volcano exploded three months later, killing more
than 36,000 people.
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1901 –
Claude Grivolas patented (French) a projector for three-dimensional
(stereoscopic) movies viewed wearing spectacles with one red and one blue lens.
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1916 – The
Saturday Evening Post published its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting
– ‘Boy with Baby Carriage’.
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1927 – US
aviator Charles A. Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New
York, on the world’s first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (New
York to Paris.)
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1949 – The
Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency
(NSA), was established.
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1940 – The first
prisoners arrived at Auschwitz concentration camp.
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1956 – In
Operation Redwing, the first United States airborne hydrogen bomb was dropped
over Bikini Atoll
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1983 – First
publication of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal
Science by Luc Montagnier.
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1993 – 80
million people watched the series finale of Cheers on NBC
Birthdays Today
@89 – James Stewart, American actor (d.
1997)
76
– Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian],
American singer and actress
@71 – George Gobel, American comedian (d.
1991; after heart surgery)
@70 – Joe Cocker, English
singer-songwriter (d. 2014; lung cancer)
54
– Timothy Olyphant, American actor
50
– Busta Rhymes [Trevor George Smith Jr.x],
American rapper
30
– Jack Gleeson, Irish actor Game of Thrones
