Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 22 Day: 147 \ Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 83° \41°
Wind: 10mph \ Gusts: 18mph
Extreme risk of fire
\ Nearest active fire: 10mi \ nearest Lightning: 1071mi
May Averages for Flagstaff: 68° \ 34° (3 days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Nice spring
day.
I had lunch
with Mary and Mike. Great food, great conversation.
As a former
teacher and school administrator, I can’t help but wonder what I would have
done…
If you don’t
want sensible gun control…fine…come up with a better workable plan…NOW! The new
idea is to have only one entrance to all school buildings. I worked at a school
with 550-600 K-4 students. There must be multiple exits to get the students out
of the building in less than 2 minutes…the normal timing for a fire drill.
Having that many students entering a building will be a challenge. Even with
staggered recess and staggered lunch times, and staggered bus loading this will
be a remain a challenge. And please don’t talk about armed cops at the entrance
or the ‘good guy with a gun’ theory…the Texas school had him and the killer
still got in and slaughter children and adults. A real problem needs real solutions.
Favorite Memes
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Humor
What did the
magician say to the fisherman?
Go on-pick a
cod
Trivia
v The imperial family of Japan descends
from an unbroken lineage of nearly 2,000 years. No other royal family in
history has held its position for so long. The first Japanese emperor, Jimmu
Tenno, ruled about the time of Christ.
v Home to 33 million people, the
Tokyo-Yokohama metropolitan area is the largest populated metropolitan region
in the world.
v Twenty-one percent of the Japanese
population is elderly (over the age of 65), the highest proportion in the world.
There are more elderly than there are children in Japan today.
v Japan has the second lowest homicide rate
in the world, but it also home to the spooky "suicide forest"
Aokigahara at the base of Mt. Fuji. It is the second most popular place in the
world for suicides after San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge
Historical Events
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1703 – Tsar
Peter the Great founded the city of Saint Petersburg.
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1796 – The
patent (#X0116) for a piano was issued to James Sylvanus McLean of New Jersey,
for “an improvement in piano fortes.”
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1890 – Two
U.S. patents (#428,750,#428,751) for the first jukebox were issued to Louis
Glass and his business associate, William S. Arnold for a “coin actuated
attachment for phonographs.”
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1919 – Pyrex
glass was issued a patent (#1,304,623). The inventors, Eugene C. Sullivan and
William C. Taylor for Corning Glass Works.
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1930 –
Masking Tape was patented (#1,760,820) by Richard G. Drew of St. Paul,
Minnesota for his employers, 3M.
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1931 –
Auguste Piccard and Charles Knipfer took man’s first trip (in a pressurized
cabin) into the stratosphere when they rode their balloon to an altitude of
51,800 feet.
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1937 – The
Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco with Marin County, California
opened. Today was “Pedestrian Day” – cars were allowed the following day.
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1933 – The
Century of Progress World’s Fair opened in Chicago.
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1941 – The
British navy sank the German battleship, Bismarck, in the North Atlantic near
France, killing over 2,000 Germans.
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1967 – The
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy was launched by Jacqueline
Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.
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1972 – The
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty was signed by United States President Richard
Nixon and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev. The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
limited the US and USSR to 2 anti-ballistic missile complexes with 100 missiles
each, and the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles and
submarine-launched ballistic missiles was frozen at the then-existing levels.
Ø
1987 – U2
played in Rome so loud that they set off earthquake alarms in 2 different
neighborhoods.
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1994 – The
National League and American League Baseball MVPs were Jeff Bagwell and Frank
Thomas, respectively. Jeff and Frank were both born on the exact same day: May
27, 1968.
Birthdays Today
99
– Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist, politician, Nobel Prize
laureate
@93 – Christopher Lee, English actor (d.
2015)
87
– Lee Meriwether, American model and actress, Miss America 1955
@82 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American
businessman and philanthropist (d. 1877)
@82 – Vincent Price, American actor (d.
1993)
@56 – Rachel Carson, American biologist,
environmentalist, author (d. 1964; breast cancer)
51
– Paul Bettany, English actor
51
– Jamie Oliver, Chef
47 – Wild Bill Hickok [James
Butler Hickok], American
folk hero (d. 1876; shot at Poker game)
32
– Chris Colfer, American actor and singer
