November 2022
Daily Almanac for
Flagstaff
Week 46 Day 311 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today
55° \27°
Weekly
Observations
World Origami Days: 24-11/11
National Fig Week: 1-7
World Communication Week: 1-7
Drowsy Driving Prevention Week: 5-11 Link
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week: 5-11
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week: 5-11 Link
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week: 5-11
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week: 5-11 Link
National Radiologic Technology Week: 5-11
National Radiologic Technology Week: 5-11 Link
National Book Awards Week: 5-11
Polar Bear Week: 6-13
Children’s Book Week: 6-11
National Book Awards Week: 5-11
Polar Bear Week: 6-13
Children’s Book Week: 6-11 Link (Also May 2-8)
National Patient Accessibility Week: 6-10
National Young Readers Week: 6-10 (Pizza Hut)
National Patient Accessibility Week: 6-10
National Young Readers Week: 6-10 (Pizza Hut) Link
Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13
Daily Observations
Employee Brotherhood
Day Link (SpongeBob Squarepants)
Hug a Bear Day
International Merlot Day Link
Little League Girls Day
National Bittersweet
Chocolate with Almonds Day Link
National Canine Lymphoma Awareness Day Link
Notary Public Day Link
Retinol Day Link
“You Go, Girl” Day
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Beautiful
late fall day.
I
spent the morning reviewing the candidates and propositions that will be on my
ballot on Tuesday. I’m now ready to vote! I also did a load of laundry during
the review. Here is AZ, there are a whole slew of candidates that deny the 2020
Election for governor, Sec. of State, and other offices that oversee our
elections.
An
ABC reporter was covering Native American Heritage Month. The female reporter referred to Indigenous
people as ‘Indigenous creatures’. The mistake still hasn’t been corrected.
Shame on ABC news for not apologizing. The Native community on social media has
been posting memes to bring attention to this. Most are very humorous. I recall
talking to the head of BIA education years ago and he said he dreaded November,
because the BIA got thousands of calls with people asking where they could see
a real Indian, or where they could go to buy traditional costumes for their
family’s Thanksgiving dinner. It is sad that most of the American population
knows little of the current happenings of Indigenous People in this country.
CU
Buffs lost to Oregon in a very windy game.
I’m
seriously interested in why the Republican party has not made a big deal about
the fact that the guy who attacked Mr. Pelosi is an illegal. True, he just
overstayed his Visa without returning to Canada…but still, he is an illegal by
all definitions.
Favorite
Memes
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 This is the Actual Twitter Post from Elon Musk
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Best
Instrumentals
"La Villa Strangiato" by Rush (1978)
Die-hard
Rush fans believe this is the progressive rock band's masterpiece —
instrumental or otherwise. Off the Hemispheres album, this is Rush's first
instrumental effort. It checks in at just over 9 1/2 minutes long and truly
highlights each member of the legendary three-piece band. The concept was
composed by guitarist Alex Lifeson.
Meaning/history
of a phrase
Sold down the river
One is "sold down the river"
when one is victim of a betrayal, or you got screwed over/cheated by someone.
The expression was used in reference to slave trade.
Slaves would literally be sold and sent
down the Mississippi River to work on plantations in the South.
Historical
Events
1665 – The first edition of the London
Gazette was printed. At the time it was called “The Oxford Gazette”.
1811 – The Battle of Tippecanoe took
place in the Indiana territory.
Thomas Nast used The Elephant for the
first time as the Republican symbol in Harper’s Weekly magazine (1874)
1874 – The first cartoon depicting the
elephant as the Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast. He is also known as
being the first to draw our modern version of Santa Clause.
1908 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
were reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
1908 – Professor Ernest Rutherford
announced in London that he had isolated a single atom of matter.
1917 – The Bolshevik Revolution began in
Petrograd, Russia.
1962 – Richard M. Nixon, at a press
conference, said “You don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore, because,
gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”
1989 – Douglas Wilder became the elected
African-American governor in the US
1492 – The Ensisheim Meteorite, the
oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, struck ground one afternoon in a
wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1954 – Face The Nation premiered on NBC.
Birthdays
Today
@99 – Billy Graham, American minister, author (d. 2018)
80
– Johnny Rivers [John Henry Ramistella],
American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, producer
79
– Joni Mitchell, Canadian Singer/Songwriter, and guitarist
71
– Lawrence O’Donnell, American journalist and talk show host
@66 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist, and physicist Nobel Prize
laureate, (d. 1934; radiation)
“Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work,
and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But
humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an
enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their
care to their own material profit.”– Marie Curie
65
– Christopher Knight, American actor
@60 – Leon Trotsky, Russian theorist, and politician founded the
Red Army, (d. 1940; killed)
@52 – Dee Clark, American Singer/Songwriter (d. 1990; heart attack)
52
– Morgan Spurlock, American director, producer, and screenwriter
@46 – Albert Camus, French novelist, Nobel Prize laureate (d.
1960; car accident)
“Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower.”…
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what
happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning
of life.”– Albert Camus
43
– Amy Purdy, American actress, model, snowboarder
@34 – Dana Plato, American actress (d. 1999; OD/suicide)
26
– Lorde [Ella Marija Lani Yelich-O'Connor],
New Zealand Singer/Songwriter
