Aug 16

 

2023

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 33 Day 228 Ave. Sky Cover 40%\ Visibility  21mi. Flagstaff Today  72° \ 56° 
Wind  4mph \ Gusts  a12mph  Nearest active fire: 16miles Risk of fire: High Nearest Lightning:  8mi
Air Quality: Fair           Moisture Days this month: 6 days Sunny 
August Averages: Temps 79° \ 50° Moisture 9 Days   

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

8-17
Elvis Week
13-19
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week: Link  Link 
National Resurrect Romance Week:
Weird Contest Week:
National Aviation Week
14-20
National Resurrect Romance Week:
Weird Contest Week:
National Aviation Week
14-20
US Amateur Golf Week
15-19
Numismatic Week (World's Fair of Money)
16-9/4
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Link

Daily Observations

Airborne Day Bratwurst Day Roller Coaster Day Rum Day Tell a Joke Day (Joe Miller’s Day)

National Airborne Day National Medical Dosimetrist Day National Rollercoaster Day National Rum Day Link Surveillance Day Link  Link Wave at Surveillance Day

Today’s Thoughts

 Monsoon remains.

Coconino, where I live is one of three counties here in AZ that the Governor declared as Heat Warning Emergency. Not what I expected at 7000’. This will open up cooling centers and help those in need get help.

Last night’s Georgia indictment is massive. This is Trump’s 4^th indictment and includes many of his cronies with felony counts. I wonder what effect this will have on Republican supporters…stick with him or drop him. I’m afraid I know the answer…they will stick with him.

Enjoy

 

Statue of Liberty …

6. New York City's Central Park and Prospect Park were both considered as locations.

When Bartholdi first arrived in New York in 1871, he considered Brooklyn’s Prospect Park and the newly constructed Central Park as possible locations for the statue. Had he chosen to build the Statue of Liberty in Central Park, the famed Dakota apartment building would not even have reached to her big toe.

Hoax proved wrong…

Watergate

US President Richard Nixon said he played no role in the June 1972 Watergate break-in. "I am not a crook," he declared on national television, insisting, "There can be no whitewash at the White House." He resigned from his second term in office on August 9, 1974.

Random Trivia…

Johnny Appleseed was a real person! His real name was John Chapman, and his hometown was Leominster, Massachusetts. He also has a street named after him, though the city planners decided it would be more poetic to use his mythical name: Johnny Appleseed Lane.

Historic Events

• 1896 – Gold was found in Rabbit Creek, leading to the Great Klondike Gold Rush in Canada.
• 1930 – The first color sound cartoon, Fiddlesticks, was released by Ub Iwerks.
• 1962 – Pete Best was discharged from The Beatles, to be replaced two days later by Ringo Starr.

Birthdays with some quotes

@91 – Otto Messmer, American cartoonist and animator, co-created Felix the Cat (d. 1983)
90 – Julie Newmar, American actress
“Tell me I’m beautiful, it’s nothing. Tell me I’m intellectual – I know it. Tell me I’m funny and it’s the greatest compliment in the world anyone could give me.”
@85 – Fess Parker, American actor (d. 2010)
@84 – Frank Gifford, American football player, and sportscaster (d. 2015)
@84 – Eydie Gormé, American singer (d. 2013)
@79 – Robert Culp, American actor (d. 2010; fall)
” I’ve had it happen to me before where it turns out that they never had the money and couldn’t have made the movie in the first place. And these are the things you have to look for when trying to read the behavior of the people you sit down with.”
77 – Lesley Ann Warren, American actress
70 – Kathie Lee Gifford, American talk show host
” If you settle for what you’ve got, you deserve what you get.”
69 – James Cameron, Canadian director, producer and screenwriter
65 – Madonna, American singer-songwriter and actress
64 – Angela Bassett, American actress
“Don’t settle for average. Bring your best to the moment. Then, whether it fails or succeeds, at least you know you gave all you had. We need to live the best that’s in us.”
63 – Timothy Hutton, American actor
61 – Steve Carell, American actor,
@46 – T. E. Lawrence, British colonel, diplomat, writer and archaeologist (d. 1935; motorcycle crash)
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.”
38 – Cristin Milioti, American actress
34 – Rumor Willis, actress 

…The End for today…