Daily
Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 37 Day 249\ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 85° \51°
Wind 6mph \ Gusts 14mph Air Quality Moderate
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Monthly Observations
One-on-One Month
Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month Link
Pain Awareness Month Link
Pediatric Cancer Awareness Month Link
Pet Health Insurance Month Link
Pleasure Your Mate Month
Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Awareness Month Link
Save The Koala Month Link
Save Your Photos Month Link
Sea Cadet Month
Self-Care Awareness Month Link
September Is Healthy Aging Month
Shameless Promotion Month
Sports and Home Eye Health & Safety Month
Subliminal Communications Month
Superior Relationships Month
Weekly Observations
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Daily Observations
Another Look Unlimited Day
Coffee Ice Cream Day
Fight Procrastination Day
Read a Book Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
This high-pressure
system keeps the great weather here. Nice!
A couple of
weeks ago, when I bought my new ride, the dealership had 2 vehicles delivered
the same day…my silver Rogue and a grey Rogue…just like mine. On Sunday
afternoon I saw the new grey Rogue parked in our parking lot with the paper tag.
It sure is a small world.
So sad to
hear about the multiple stabbing in Canada. There are sick people everywhere.
Societies around the world must figure out how to identify these violent people
before they do the violence. It sure seems like more of a mental health issue
than a gun issue.
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Moon Facts…
There are Bat-Winged Humanoids on the Moon
In August
1835, the most widely read newspaper in the world reported that there were
man-bats living on the moon. The New York Sun told of bat-winged, copper-haired
humanoids who were four-feet tall, very intelligent, and lived in pyramids.
The
newspaper’s claimed source was the work and findings of John Herschel, a real
and respected astronomer, who had seen these bat moon people from his seven-ton
telescope he had transported from England to South Africa. Of course, none of
this was true, but it didn’t stop people from freaking out including a
committee of Yale scientists who went in search of Herschel’s research to learn
more themselves.
It took a
full month before the New York Sun admitted it was a hoax, intended to be
satire and a comment on science’s relationship to religion. Dubbed the “Great
Moon Hoax,” it actually increased the newspaper’s circulation providing more
evidence that people like a good story more than the truth.
Myth Buster
Jesus was born on December 25
December 25 is often a time spent with
loved ones. Christians believe it’s also the date on which Jesus was born.
While we know, today, that he really existed, the details surrounding the
beginning of his life remain unclear. In 353, Pope Liberius chose December 25
as the date of Christ’s birth to counter a pagan festival celebrating the
winter solstice. What’s more, Jesus wasn’t born around the year 1, but rather
between 6 BC and 4 BC (before himself)!
Historical Events
1628 – Puritans settled in Salem which
became part of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1837 – Oberlin Collegiate Institute
became the first college to grant women equal status.
1866 – Frederick Douglass was the first
US black delegate to a national political convention.
1901 – Leon Czolgosz shot and killed US
President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York.
1916 – The first self-service grocery
store Piggly Wiggly was opened in Memphis, Tennessee by Clarence Saunders.
1954 – WINS (New York City) began playing
rock and roll music with the Alan Freed Show.
1972 – September 5/6; Israeli athletes were taken hostage and
killed at the Munich Olympic Games by the Palestinian “Black September”
terrorist group.
1979 – National Grandparents Day was
proclaimed by President Jimmy Carter to be celebrated on the Sunday following
Labor Day.
1983 – The Soviet Union admitted to
shooting down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, claiming that it did not know it was
a civilian aircraft when it violated Soviet airspace.
1991 – The name Saint Petersburg was
restored to Russia’s second-largest city, which had been known as Leningrad
since 1924.
1991 – The Baltic states – Estonia,
Latvia, and Lithuania, were recognized as independent by the Soviet government.
Other countries recognized them on September 2.
1995 – Cal Ripken, Jr. of the Baltimore
Orioles played in his 2,131st consecutive game, breaking a record that had
stood for 56 years. The final record was set in 1998 by him, with 2,632 games.
1997 – The funeral for Princess Diana was
broadcast across several networks and around the world. An estimated 2 billion
people watched all or part of the funeral on television.
Birthdays Today
85
– Jo Anne Worley, American comedic actress
@81 – Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., American businessman, and diplomat
(d. 1969)
78
– Swoosie Kurtz, American actress
@77 – Catharine Beecher, American educator, and activist (d.
1878)
“The care of a house, the conduct of a home, the management of
children, the instruction and government of servants, are as deserving of
scientific treatment and scientific professors and lectureships as are the care
of farms, the management of manure and crops, and the raising and care of
stock.”
– Catharine Beecher
@74 – Jane Addams, sociologist, author, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1935; heart failure)
75
– Jane Curtin, American comedic actress
64
– Jeff Foxworthy, American comedian
60
– Chris Christie, American politician
58
– Rosie Perez, American actress
50
– Idris Elba, English actor
“I’m an ambitious person. I never consider myself in competition
with anyone, and I’m not saying that from an arrogant standpoint, it’s just
that my journey started so, so long ago, and I’m still on it and I won’t stand
still.”– Idris Elba
@46 – Dolores O’Riordan, Irish singer-songwriter, Cranberries (d.
2018; drowned--OD)
“I live as I choose or I will not live at all.”– Dolores
O’Riordan
44
– Foxy Brown, American rapper
“My purpose is far greater than my pain.”– Foxy Brown
