Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 26 Day: 172 \ Ave. Sky Cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff
Today 75° \35°
Wind: 10mph \ Gusts: 15mph Air
Quality: Moderdate
June Averages for Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° (1 day of moisture)
Today’s Quote
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Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Blue sky and
calm day. Fire continues out of town.
It is a
Federal holiday, so I am staying home, cleaning, catching up on mail. I worked
for the Federal government and still believe that a Federal holiday should be a
holiday. Also, I wonder how many businesses are paying Holiday pay for today…my
guess…not too many. I’m sure most stores would say that they are open because that
helps the bottom line, and that paying holiday pay does not help the bottom
line.
Correction:
A reader pointed out that yesterdays Hilary Clinton’s quote should have been attributed
to John Wesley. I’ll check my quotes more closely.
Favorite Memes
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Earth’s Secrets
Earthquake
Weather Is a Myth
"Each
culture has its own version of 'earthquake weather' to rationalize when and
where an earthquake will hit," seismologist Dr. Lucy Jones of Caltech
tells Popular Mechanics. "Earthquakes are below the surface and need a
constant fault to happen and this has nothing to do with weather."
US Flag Myths
Myth #5:
It's against the law to burn the American flag
In the
landmark case Texas v. Johnson in 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that
desecrating the American flag is a form of speech protected by the First
Amendment. Defendant Gregory Lee Johnson had burned a flag in an act of protest
at the 1984 Republican National Convention in Dallas. Prior to that ruling it
was, indeed, illegal to burn the flag.
Subsequent
efforts on the judicial and legislative fronts to make flag burning illegal
again have failed.
Historical Events
Ë 1788
– New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the Constitution of the United
States.
Ë 1834 – Cyrus Hall McCormick received a
patent (#X008277) for his grain reaping machine,
Ë 1877 – The Molly Maguires, ten Irish
immigrants convicted of murder, were hanged in Pennsylvania prisons, in
Schuylkill County and Carbon County.
Ë 1893 – The first Ferris wheel premiered
at Chicago’s Columbian Exposition and could hold up to 2000 people on 36 cars
and was 264 feet tall.
Ë 1913 – The first successful parachute
jump from an airplane by a woman was made by Georgia Broadwick, age 18, over
Griffith Field, Los Angeles, California.
Ë 2006 – Pluto’s recently discovered moons
were officially named Nix and Hydra.
Birthdays Today
@89 – Jane Russell, American actress (d. 2011)
@88 – Rockwell Kent, American painter and illustrator (d. 1971)
75
– Meredith Baxter, American actress
57
– Lana Wachowski, American director, producer, screenwriter
@43 – Judy Holliday, American comedic actress, singer (d. 1965;
throat cancer)
43
– Chris Pratt, American actor
41
– Prince William, royalty
25
– Rebecca Black, American singer-songwriter
