Jul 25

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 31 Day 206 \ Ave. Sky Cover 65% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 86° \56° 
Wind 6mph \ Gusts 13mph  Air Quality Moderate
Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 9mi \ Nearest Lightning 14mi
Jul Averages for Flagstaff: 82° \ 51° (8 days of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

Thru Sep.5 National Marina Days (From Memorial Day to Labor Day)  Link

18-25 Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

23-31  National Moth Week

23-27  National Scrabble Week Link

24-30   National Tequila Week Link RAGBRAI—Iowa Bike Race Women in Baseball Week

Daily Observations

Carousel Day or Merry-Go-Round Day 
Feast of Saint James
Health and Happiness with Hypnosis Day
Hire A Veteran Day    National Carousel Day
National Hire a Veteran Day
National Hot Fudge Sundae Day
National Korean War Veterans Armistice Day  
National Wine and Cheese Day
Red Shoe Day (International)  (Lyme Disease)
Thread the Needle Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

The 3pm monsoon was a hard male rain, causing some flooding of roads in the area. Temp went from 92° to 74° in about 5 minutes. I guess it also broke the heat wave. A little cooler today.

Tit for Tat: CA now has a law concerning ghost guns that is modeled after the TX abortion law. Now in CA any citizen can sue anyone connected to a ghost gun or the parts used to make the gun. $10,000 fine, just like TX.

AZ Governor signed an emergency declaration regarding the flooding in Coconino County.  This opens Federal funds to mitigate the expected flooding around Flagstaff.

AZ Speaker of the House, Rusty Bowers, testified at the Jan. 6^th hearing. Now his party has censured him, calling him a RINO. Thank you, Mr. Bowers, for your testimony.

Favorite Memes

Trivia

Schoolmaster and amateur mathematician William Shanks (1812-1882) spent the greater part of his life working out the value of pi (the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter) to 707 decimal places. More than 60 years after his death, mathematician DF Ferguson, using a mechanical calculator, pointed out that he had got the last 180 of these decimal places wrong.

In 1958 an IBM computer did in 40 seconds what Shanks had done in a lifetime. The millionth digit of pi was found in 1973 and the billionth by 1995. 

Historical Events

·     1861 – The United States Congress passed the Crittenden-Johnson Resolution, stating that the war was being fought to preserve the Union and not to end slavery.
·     1868 – The Wyoming Territory was established.
·     1909 – Louis Bleriot became the first person to fly over the English Channel between France and England.
·     1956 – The Andrea Doria sank off Nantucket, MA. Although 1,660 passengers were rescued, 46 people were killed in the accident.
·     1965 – Bob Dylan used an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival, and fans did not like the new sound.
·     1978 – Louise Brown, the world’s first “test-tube baby” (in vitro fertilization, or IVF)was born at Oldham General Hospital, Oldham, England.
·           2010 – WikiLeaks published classified documents about the War in Afghanistan, one of the largest leaks in US military history.

Birthdays Today

@95 – Maxfield Parrish, American painter, illustrator (d. 1966)
@80 – Walter Brennan, American actor (d. 1974)
@84 – Estelle Getty, American actress (d. 2008)
@81 – Adnan Khashoggi, Saudi Arabian businessman (d. 2017)
@77 – Frank J. Sprague, American inventor (d. 1934)
67 – Iman [Zara Mohamed Abdulmajid], Somalian-English model, actress
55 – Matt LeBlanc, American actor
@45 – Walter Payton, American football player, race car driver (d. 1999; rare liver disease)
44 – Louise Brown, first human to be born via IVF
@40 – George Peele, English translator, poet, and dramatist (d. 1596; pox)
@25 – Brad Renfro, American actor (d. 2008; OD)
@14 – Emmett Till, American lynching victim (d. 1955; lynched)