October 2022
Daily
Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 42 Day 286 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 69° \36°
Wind 4mph \ Gusts 9mph
Air
Quality: Fair High Risk of
fire \ Nearest active fire 29mi \ Nearest Lightning 328mi
Oct Averages for Flagstaff: 63° \ 32° (4 days of moisture)
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Daily Observations
English Language Day Link
International Day for
Disaster Reduction
Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day
National Chess Day Link
National No Bra Day Link
Navy Birthday Link
Silly Sayings Day
Skeptics Day
Train Your Brain Day
US Navy Birthday
World Sight Day Link
World Thrombosis Day
World Thrombosis Day Link
Yorkshire Pudding Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
It’s an
almost cloudless day. Nice!
It must be
getting chilly…the furnace came on this morning about 7:30am. Probably ran
during the night too.
A CT jury awarded
millions to parents of Sandy Hook to be paid by convicted Alex Jones. The total
was $965 million. I wonder if they will ever see that much money. This was the
2nd of 3 trials. A Texas jury has already ordered him to pay $50million
in the first case.
Iran has
admitted that some of the student protesters, regarding hijab wearing, have now
been sent to psychiatric institutions.
A young
Native couple from Alaska were walking after a big storm. They found a huge dinosaur
femur in the storm’s aftermath. Selling it will allow them to build their first
home. Nice!
Favorite Memes
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Superstitions
Four-Leaf Clovers
You might
think the myth of the four-leaf clover has Celtic origins, but you’d be wrong.
The hype around the shamrock started with Adam and Eve when Eve took a
four-leaf clover from the Garden of Eden as a souvenir from the beautiful
paradise they were leaving behind when they were exiled. Other cultures
including the ancient Egyptians and yes, the Druid priests of Ireland, who
believed that the clovers had healing properties and could ward off evil. It is
estimated that the chances of finding a four-leaf clover is one in 10,000.
US Facts
Weird coincidence
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died
on July 4, 1826, exactly 50 years after the signing of the Declaration of
Independence.
Historical Events
1269 – The present church building at
Westminster Abbey was consecrated.
1773 – The Whirlpool Galaxy, almost 25
million light-years away, was discovered by Charles Messier.
1775 – The United States Navy
(Continental Navy) was authorized by the Second Continental Congress.
1792 – The cornerstone for the White
House was laid.
2010 – The 2010 Copiapo mining accident
in Copiapo, Chile ended as all 33 miners came to the surface after surviving a
record 69 days underground.
Birthdays Today
@87 – Margaret Thatcher, British PM (d. 2013)
81
– Paul Simon, American singer-songwriter
80
– Jerry Jones, American businessman, longtime owner of The Dallas Cowboys
“I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish
called Mother and Child Reunion. It’s chicken and eggs. And I said I gotta use
that one.”– Paul Simon
@70 – Yves Montand, Italian-French actor (d. 1991; heart attack)
“Answers make you wise, but questions make you human.”– Yves
Montand
66
– Chris Carter, American director, producer, and screenwriter, The X-Files
63
– Marie Osmond, American singer, actress, and television spokesperson
“If you’re going to be able to look back on something and laugh
about it, you might as well laugh about it now.”– Marie Osmond
60
– Jerry Rice, American football player
@57 – Kelly Preston, American actress (d. 2020; breast cancer)
53
– Nancy Kerrigan, American figure skater
51
– Sacha Baron Cohen, English comedian, actor
42
– Ashanti Shequoiya Douglas,
American singer-songwriter
@40 – Lenny Bruce, American comedian (d. 1966; OD)
“The American Constitution was not written to protect criminals;
it was written to protect the government from becoming criminals.”– Lenny Bruce
33
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, politician
22
– Caleb McLaughlin, American actor
