Daily
Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 38 Day 256 \ Ave. Sky Cover 35% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 76° \58°
Wind 6mph \ Gusts 9mph Air Quality Fair
Very Low Risk of
fire \ Nearest active fire 257mi \ Nearest Lightning 162mi
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)
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Daily Observations
Ants On A Log Day Link
Bald Is Beautiful Day
Celiac Disease Awareness Day
Defy Superstition Day
Fortune Cookie Day
International Chocolate Day Link
International Programmers Day Link
Kids Take Over the Kitchen Day
National Celiac Awareness Day
National Peanut Day Link
Positive Thinking Day
Roald Dahl Day
Scooby-Doo Day
Uncle Sam Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
The monsoon
should bring some moisture later today. The rain came a little earlier than expected
and contained pea-sized hail.
Hopefully
the Broncos will do well tonight. The CU Buffs lost to Air Force, Cards lost to
Chiefs…one of my teams has to win.
I am still
learning a lot about British Royalty as each day brings out more about how this
succession is slowly happening. Scotland’s Parliament ceremony was very
interesting. I can’t imagine our congress having so many parties, with each
leader speaking.
AZ is
getting a new governor, since the current Governor can’t run due to term
limits. The Republican candidate is a full-blown ‘Trump won’ person and a
former news reader in Phoenix. The Democrat candidate has refused to debate the
Republican, claiming the primary debate on the Republican side was only about
who won in 2020. Our state elections are turning into a real circus with way too
many clowns on the ballot.
While I was
out and about, I stopped at the dealership to figure out how to use the trip
calculator. The guy who sold me the car tried, then got an ‘expert’ to figure
it out. After about 5 minutes I now understand how it works. The actual trip
only shows up on the screen when you scroll through the choices. The mileage on
the lower left is the odometer, the milage on the lower left is how many miles
until the car is out of gas. The sales guy thanked me for coming in so he could
learn too. Live and learn.
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Random trivia…
Missing Persons
The FBI
designates severe, urgent missing person cases as "endangered or
involuntary." Approximately 15 percent of missing person cases are given
that classification each year; most of them are applied to children.
In the
mid-1980s, milk cartons with photos of missing children on them made their
debut. The first child to appear on one of those milk cartons was Etan Patz, a
6-year-old from New York who disappeared walking to the bus stop in May 1975.
According to
the U.S. Department of State, there are no statistics that track the number of
Americans who go missing in a foreign country in a given year. The United
Kingdom does, however. In 2008, 481 British disappeared abroad, an increase
from 401 the previous year and 336 in 2006.
In 2008,
there were 30 officially documented disappearances on cruise ships in the
preceding five years.
Myth Buster
Hitler invented the highway
While the highway is, indeed, a German
invention, attributing it to Adolf Hitler is incorrect. The first highway, the
Automobil-Verkehrs-und Übung-Strasse (AVUS), opened on September 25, 1921, long
before Hitler came to power. The dictator did inaugurate a section of the
Autobahn for the first time in 1935, however. These long, straight roads
between Frankfurt and Darmstadt were first used to break car speed records, but
Hitler saw them as an excellent way to move his troops quickly.
Historical Events
1790 – The US Capitol was moved to New
York City from Philadelphia.
1899 – Henry Bliss was the first person
in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident. Arthur Smith, the
driver of the taxicab who struck Bliss, was charged but acquitted.
1814 – Francis Scott Key composed his
poem “Defense of Fort McHenry”- which later became The Star-Spangled Banner.
1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC, the first
commercial computer to use disk storage, was introduced.
1985 – Super Mario Bros. was released in
Japan for the NES.
1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin
and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat signed a historic peace agreement (true), ending
centuries of discord in the middle east (not true).
Birthdays Today
@92 – Claudette Colbert, French-American actress (d. 1996)
@88 – Milton S. Hershey, founded The Hershey Company (d. 1945)
@82 – Lucy Goode Brooks, Former American slave; founder of Friends’
Asylum for Colored Orphans (d. 1900)
@74 – Roald Dahl, British novelist, poet, screenwriter (d.
1990; rare cancer)
“I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human
being. I’ll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or
generosity or anything else.” – Roald Dahl
@73 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, conductor (d.
2015; liver failure)
“I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great.”– Ray
Charles
@73 – Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter, and actor (d. 1999;
stroke)
@74 – Richard Kiel, American actor and voice artist (d. 2014;
heart attack)
78
– Jacqueline Bisset, English actress
@54 – Nell Carter, American actress, singer (d. 2003; heart failure)
71
– Jean Smart, American actress
58
– Tavis Smiley, American talk show host
“I don’t think I’d live anything over, even though I’ve made a
lot of mistakes. I have learned how to see failure as a friend. So, I’m not one
to live a life of regrets. I try to learn from my mistakes, but I’ll take my
life the way it is.”– Tavis Smiley
53
– Tyler Perry, producer, director, actor
@51 – Walter Reed, American physician, biologist (d. 1902;
peritonitis)
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– Niall Horan, Irish singer
