Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 24 Day: 159 \ Ave. Sky Cover: 10% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff
Today 85° \49°
Wind: 3mph \ Gusts: 4mph
Extreme Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 10mi \ Nearest
Lightning: 403mi
June Averages for Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° (1 day of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly
Observations
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Thru Sep.5 National Marina Days (From
Memorial Day to Labor Day) Link |
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4-11 International Clothesline Week |
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4-12 National Lemonade Days Link |
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5-11 Bedbug Awareness Week Link |
Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Heat wave…Flag
style…continues. I’m hoping for a little breeze. It is to early to set up my
cooler.
The world’s
largest plant has been discovered. It is a 70 square mile single organism of
green sea grass, just off the Australian coast. One plant…awesome!
I get all
the news buzz about the hearing on Thursday. Sadly, in this period of political
diversity I fear that it is only giving each side to dig in with their belief…before
the hearings even begin. Sad state here in America.
Favorite Memes
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Everyday Phrases
with a Dark Meaning
Sold down
the river
One is
"sold down the river" when one is victim of a betrayal, or you got
screwed over/cheated by someone. The expression was used in reference to slave
trade.
Slaves would
literally be sold and sent down the Mississippi River to work on plantations in
the South.
Riddle of the Day
First you eat me, then you get eaten. What am
I?
Hard riddles get you used to thinking about metaphors and concepts. Not this one; keep it simple and literal to get to the solution. But ask yourself who or what the “you” is.
Answer: A fishhook.
Historical Events
Ë 632
– Muhammad, the Islamic prophet, died in Medina.
Ë 1637 – René Descartes published Discourse
on Method of Rightly Conducting the Reason and Seeking Truth in the
Sciences.
Ë 1783 (Volcano Eruption) Laki, Iceland,
killed over 9,000 over a period of months, 120 million tons of sulfur dioxide
was spewed into the Northern Hemisphere. This caused a 7-year worldwide famine.
Ë 1789 – James Madison introduces twelve
proposed amendments (Bill of Rights) to the United States Constitution in
Congress.
Ë 1872 – The first US postcard was
authorized by an Act of Congress.
Ë 1906 – Theodore Roosevelt signed the
Antiquities Act into law, authorizing the President to restrict the use of
certain parcels of public land with historical or conservation value.
Ë 1912 – Universal Pictures was founded by
Carl Laemmle.
Ë 1949 – Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker,
Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson (and
others) were named in an FBI report as Communist Party members; The FBI
reported notable Hollywood elite as communists, including John Garfield, Paul
Robeson, Paul Muni, and Edward G. Robinson.
Ë 1949 – George Orwell’s Nineteen
Eighty-Four was published.
Ë 1953 – The United States Supreme Court
ruled in District of Columbia v. John R. Thompson Co. that restaurants in
Washington, D.C., cannot refuse to serve black patrons.
Ë 1966 – National Football League (NFL) and
American Football League (AFL) announced that they would merge.
Ë 1990 – Charles Freeman, the owner of E-C
Records store in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, was charged with illegally selling
the ‘legally obscene’ 2 Live Crew’s ‘As Nasty As They Wanna Be’ to an
undercover officer.
Birthdays Today
