November 2022
Daily Almanac for
Flagstaff
Week 47 Day 317 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today
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Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
Polar Bear Week: 6-13
Dear Santa Letter Week: 7-13
National Donor Sabbath: 10-12
World Antibiotic Awareness Week: 11-17
National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 12-18 Link
International Fraud Awareness Week: 12-18 Link
National Cider Week: 12-19 Link
National Split Pea Soup Week: 12-18 Link
National Nurse Practioner's Week: 12-18 Link Link
Perioperative Nurse Week: 12-18 Link
Roc Your Moc Week: 12-18 Link
World Kindness Week: 12-18 Link
Daily Observations
Actor’s Day
National Indian Pudding Day
National Mom’s and Dad’s Day
Sadie Hawkins Day (official
since 1937)
Sandwich Day Link
Start a Rumor Day (we heard)
World Kindness Day Link
World Orphans Day
World Orphans Day
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
It’s
another nice fall day. I was out and about getting gas at Sam’s, when I stopped
in to the new Home Goods store, that took over BB&B’s space. A nice store
with lots of stuff. Didn’t need any stuff so I just browsed.
The
AZ election results are being made public at a snail’s pace. In my
congressional district the incumbent Dem lost to a Republican. Sec. of State
has gone to a Dem over an election denier. Mark Kelly, a Dem remains our
senator. No decision on the Gov race yet. Lake, the Trumpian candidate, still believes
she will win. Every day she adds to her list of ‘during hour one of day one I
will…’. So far it is to fix the election process, close the border, declare several
emergencies to help with the border crisis, and the list goes on. I’m hoping
she has checked out the office printer so she won’t be out of ink, like
happened with the voting machines in her county.
It
is interesting that all those people who told Kaepernick and LeBron to “stick
to sports” haven’t said a word to Herschel Walker.
I
leave next Saturday for my Thanksgiving/Early Christmas in Mexico. Getting
excited.
Favorite
Memes
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Best
Instrumentals
"Cliffs of
Dover" by Eric
Johnson (1990)
Joining Joe
Satriani as one of the most technically sound instrumental guitarists of all
time, Johnson has dabbled in all types of musical genres during his stellar
career. Whether focusing on rock, jazz, new age, and classical, just to name a
few, Johnson has awed listeners for decades. This piece, though, is arguably
his most renowned in recognizable to a mass audience.
Meaning/history
of a phrase
Taken aback
This expression is often used when one is
caught off guard, not expecting something. It's origins are also quite dark.
It comes from the idea of attacking
someone from behind. The element of surprise usually makes it an effective way
to conduct an attack.
Historical
Events
1789 – Ben Franklin wrote “nothing is
certain, but death and taxes” in a letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy.
1855 – A proposal for a tunnel under the
English Channel was announced by French engineer M. Loèpold Favre, to connect
Boulogne to Dover.
1940 – Walt Disney released Fantasia, an
film experience mixing animation and classical music, at New York’s Broadway
Theatre.
1942 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt
lowered the minimum draft age from 21 to 18.
1947 – The Soviet Union completed the
development of the AK-47.
1956 – The US Supreme Court of the United
States declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending
the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1971 – Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft
to orbit another planet, reaching Mars.
1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, a
monument consisting of two black granite walls engraved with the names of
58,272 US soldiers that did not return from Vietnam, was dedicated in
Washington D.C.
2015 – Terrorist attacks in Paris killed
130 people and injured hundreds.
Birthdays
Today
@84 – Louis
Brandeis, American lawyer, jurist (‘right to privacy’ d. 1941)
“The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by
men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding. “– Louis Brandeis
@84 – Fred Phelps,
American lawyer, founded the Westboro Baptist Church, (d. 2014)
@81 – Garry
Marshall, American actor, director, producer (d. 2016)
81
– David Green, American businessman, philanthropist (founded Hobby Lobby)
75
– Joe Mantegna, American actor, voice artist
67
– Whoopi Goldberg, American actress, comedian, talk show host
@67 – Richard
Mulligan, American actor (d. 2000; cancer)
65
– Greg Abbott, Gov. of TX
59
– Vinny Testaverde, American football player
55
– Jimmy Kimmel, American comedian, actor, talk show host
53
– Gerard Butler, Scottish actor
@44 – Robert Louis
Stevenson, Scottish novelist, poet, and essayist (d. 1894; stroke)
“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end of life.”– Robert Louis Stevenson
