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21 April 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 16 Day 111 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 24 miles Flagstaff Today 60° \21°  Wind 12mph \ Gusts 20mph 
Air Quality: Moderate  \ High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 325mi \ Nearest Lightning 788mi
Apr. Averages for Flagstaff: 60° \ 27° \3 Days of moisture
Sunshine

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

15-22      International Dark Sky Week

15-21      Money Smart Week

               National Volunteer Week

16-22     Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week

              Chemists Celebrate Earth Week

              National Paperboard Packaging Week

              National Pet ID Week  

              Numismatic Week (National Coin Week)

16-23      Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week

17-21     Undergraduate Research Week

     National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week

18-24      Cleaning For A Reason Week

      Consumer Awareness Week

      Police Officers Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty

19-23      International Mariachi Week

20-23    Fiddler's Frolic

21-5/2    Festival of Ridvan (Baha'i)

Daily Observations

Bulldogs are Beautiful Day  Link  Link
Chocolate-Covered Cashew Truffle Day
Eid-Al-Fitr-22 (Begins at Sundown)
International Hemp Day Link
Kindergarten Day
National Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day Link
National Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet Day Link 
National Pet CBD Day 
National Pet CBD Day Link
National Surprise Drug Test Day Link 
National Rendering Day 
National Rendering Day Link
National Yellow Bat Day  Link
Record Store Day
World Creativity and Innovation Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another breezy day.

Headed over to Sam’s to get regular stuff. Stopped at Andy & Faith’s to put out their trash. They are back in Phx with Andy’s brother.

We are having our discussion group on Saturday. The topic is War Crimes. One of our group is back in the hospital at least through the weekend. Hopefully Maggie recovers quickly.

There is a tribal issue in AZ. It has been going on for over a year. A van drives into a tribal community, finds someone who is drunk, and offers a ride to a rehab center. Both men and women have disappeared.  Most are never seen again. A few have been found on the streets of Phoenix. Tribal, city, state police have few leads. It is time for the FBI to get involved. The biggest fear of the missing is that they have been trafficked somewhere.

The latest Space-X unmanned Starship was destroyed by Space-X soon after launch, after it started spiraling out-of-control. A scary scenario.  

Enjoy… 

Toys Remembered…

Candy Land

Candy Land is one of the top-selling children’s board games of all time, wIth an average of one million games sold a year.

Players began traveling through the Peppermint Stick Forest and the Molasses Swamp in 1948, when retired schoolteacher Eleanor Abbott invented Candy Land in the polio ward of a San Diego, California, hospital. Abbott’s hand-crafted game became a welcome distraction for the sick children during their most difficult moments. 

Moon Facts…

There are quakes on the Moon

Apollo 11, the first spaceflight that allowed people to land on the Moon, also provided important evidence about lunar make-up and seismology. Powered by solar cells, instruments placed on the lunar surface in 1969 collected data about the strength, duration, and direction of seismic activity or quakes on the Moon and relayed the information back to Earth.

State Names Origins…

Arkansas
The name Arkansas acknowledges both the original Native American inhabitants as well as the first Europeans to land in the area. The region was once home to the Quapaws, who were referred to as the Arkansas, or “south wind,” by the Alngonquian-speaking Natives of the Ohio Valley. 1673 saw the arrival of French explorers; this group was later honored in 1881, as it was declared the state’s official spelling should be Arkansas (not “Arkansaw”) in a nod to the dialect of those early French explorers. Though French influence later dissipated throughout the region, their legacy remains. The French term “Aux Arc” — which named a 1700s-era trading post — is believed to have inspired the naming of the extraordinary Ozark mountain range in northern Arkansas, which is one of America’s most striking natural wonders.

Historical Events

  v    753 BC – Romulus and his twin brother Remus founded Rome.
v 1918 – ‘Red Baron’ Manfred von Richthofen was shot down and killed during the battle of Somme.
v April 21, 2011 – The day Skynet became self-aware and attacked the human race. Terminator, Film.
v 1934 – The “Surgeon’s Photograph“, the most famous photo allegedly showing the Loch Ness Monster, was published in the Daily Mail.
v 1962 – The Seattle World’s Fair (Century 21 Exposition) opened.‘

Birthdays Today

@96 – Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom and her other realms
91 – Elaine May, American comedic actress
@86 – Anthony Quinn, Mexican-American actor (d. 2001)
76 – Iggy Pop, American singer-songwriter and actor
“When it comes to art, money is an unimportant detail. It just happens to be a huge unimportant detail.”– Iggy Pop
@76 – John Muir, Scottish-American environmentalist, author (d. 1914; pneumonia)
“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”– John Muir
74 – Patti LuPone, American actress and singer
“I know what it means to have a leading part, and I know what it means to have a featured part.”– Patti LuPone
65 – Andie MacDowell, American model and actress
65 – Michael Zarnock, American author
@64 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist. screenwriter (d. 1987; heart failure)
64 – Tim Jacobus, American illustrator, painter
@56 – Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920’ Spanish Flu)
53 – Nicole Sullivan, American comedic actress
“Once you’re able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.”– Nicole Sullivan
44 – James McAvoy, Scottish actor
“The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you’re in control of your own fate. And you’re not, really.”– James McAvoy