Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 34 Day 227 \ Ave. Sky Cover 80% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 69° \56°
Wind 8mph \ Gusts 11mph Air Quality Fair
VeryLow Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 26mi \ Nearest
Lightning 1mi
Aug Averages for Flagstaff: 79° \ 50° (9days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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Daily Observations
Assumption
of Mary
Best
Friends Day
Check The Chip Day
Chauvin
Day
Check the Chip Day (Those Implanted in
Pets) Link
Green Data Day
Leathercraft Day
Lemon
Meringue Pie Day
National Leathercraft Day Link
National Relaxation Day
National Thrift Shop Day Link
National No SpongeBob Day Link (SpongeBob
Squarepants)
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Another
stormy day. It has been years since we have had a monsoon like this. The only complaint is the flooding due to all
the major fires over the past few years.
Yesterday one
of my readers pointed out the US also doesn’t forget. We just recently killed a
terrorist from 9/11. Not much different than the Salmon Rushdie attack. That certainly
got me to thinking.
Over the
past few years there has been talk about how Universities are not allowing
certain controversial speakers to speak on campus, for concerns that those speakers
will upset the students. I was at the U. of CO in the early 70’s and I am glad
that wasn’t an issue. I could handle many differing opinions. I read an article
today about the NYU Student ID cards. On the back of cards are phone numbers in
case of an emergency, an illness, and now a number to call if you are offended
by someone’s speech that has upset you. The last one seems a step to far. That
article also had a story about a CA English professor who has been giving a
lecture on ‘controversial speech’ for the past 20 years. This year he was told
he couldn’t do that lecture anymore because, since he used some controversial
language in the lecture, it had offended at least one student. Insanity!
My new ride
has several apps that I can put on my phone. One tells me when it is time for
maintenance, another does everything the key fob does. The first one is free,
the second is about $50/year. What will they think of next?
Favorite Memes
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One Hit Wonders
The Singing Nun: 'Dominique' The
Singing Nun: 'Dominique' in English
Listen to
both the Belgium and English versions.
Sure, a
French-language song sung by a nun that topped the charts sounds unbelievable,
but in 1963 it happened. The nun, Jeannine Deckers, also known as Sister Luc
Gabrielle, would be portrayed by Debbie Reynolds in the 1966 film about her
life, “The Singing Nun.” Deckers’ 15 minutes of fame and associated drama boiled
over with her unfortunate and tragic death in 1985.
Historical Events
1515 – Panama City, Panama was founded.
1549 – Jesuit priest Francis Xavier came
ashore at Kagoshima, Japan.
1843 – Tivoli Gardens, one of the oldest
still intact amusement parks in the world, opened in Copenhagen, Denmark. It
may be best known for its wooden roller coaster, Rutschebanen, or Bjergbanen
(the Mountain Coaster), built in 1914
1870 – The Transcontinental Railway was
completed at Promontory Point, UT, connecting the Atlantic and Pacific ports
via rail lines.
1914 – The Panama Canal opened, although
the first ship to pass through, The SS Ancon, went through the 50-mile waterway
on August 3.
1935 – Entertainer
Will Rogers and pilot Wiley Post were killed after their aircraft developed
engine problems during takeoff in Barrow, Alaska.
1939 – The Wizard of Oz premiered at
Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles
1945 Japan’s Emperor Hirohito addressed
the nation, regarding the surrender of Japan to the Allied Forces in the Jewel
Voice Broadcast.
1947 – India gained Independence from the
British Indian Empire.
1948 – CBS launched the first network TV news broadcast.
1965 – The Beatles played at Shea Stadium
in New York. It is considered the first major rock concert. There were only a
few hundred watts of sound for the band, who did not have monitors to hear each
other and could not be heard over the screaming of 55,600 fans. The concert
grossed $304,000 – a record at the time.
1969 – The Woodstock Music & Art Fair
opened in upstate New York. Tickets for the three-day event were $18 in advance
and $24 at the gate, and there was sufficient sound for the 500,000 attendees.
1977 – The Big Ear, a radio telescope
operated by Ohio State University as part of the SETI project, received a radio
signal from deep space – “6EQUJ5.” The event was named the “Wow! signal” from
the notation made by Jerry Ehman on the project. The signal appears to have
come to the northwest of the globular cluster of M55 in the constellation
Sagittarius, near the Chi Sagittarii star group.
1985 – Michael Jackson paid $47.5 Million
for the publishing rights to the Beatles’ song catalog.
Birthdays Today
@91 – Julia Child,
American chef, author (d. 2004)
@91 – Mike Connors,
American actor (d. 2017)
84
– Maxine Waters, American politician
@79 – Ethel
Barrymore, American actress (d. 1959;
heart disease)
76
– Jimmy Webb, American singer-songwriter
54
– Debra Messing, American actress
@51 – Napoleon,
French general and emperor (d. 1821,
long illness)
51
– Anthony Anderson, actor, comedian
50
– Ben Affleck, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter
32
– Jennifer Lawrence, American actress
