Aug 17

2023

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 33 Day 229 Ave. Sky Cover 30%\ Visibility  24mi. Flagstaff Today  79° \ 58° 
Wind  7mph \ Gusts  10mph  Nearest active fire: 16miles Risk of fire: Moderate Nearest Lightning:  7mi
Air Quality: Moderate   Moisture Days this month: 6 days Sunshine 
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

Baby Boomer's Recognition Day  Link  Black Cat Appreciation Day Link   Link I Love My Feet Day Link Massachusetts Day Meaning of "Is" Day

National Nonprofit Day  Link National Thrift Shop Day Link Nonprofit Day Thrift Shop Day Vanilla Custard Day

Today’s Thoughts

Monsoon continues. Nice one during the night. Woke up to wet sidewalks and roads.

Shocker: The movie Blind Side about a black athlete making the NFL and a white couple who raised him is in the headlines. While the movie says the white couple adopted him, the truth is that they put him in a conservatorship. This will all be settled in court, but if the player is correct, this feel good movie is now a very sad one.

The fourth indictment of Trump now has a count of 91 criminal charges, and some are felonies. I know it’s “innocent until proven guilty” but I find that to be a bit much.

Enjoy

 

Statue of Liberty …

7. The statue was originally supposed to be a lighthouse.

When Ulysses Grant authorized the use of Bedloe Island (now Liberty Island) for the statue, he specified that the Statue of Liberty would be a lighthouse. That would give the Lady a purpose, and therefore, would merit government funding. However, the engineers were never able to successfully light it enough to serve that purpose—a cause of extreme frustration for Bartholdi. Over time, it would be clear that the site of Bedloe’s Island was too far inland for it to be a good position for a lighthouse, anyway.

Hoax proved wrong…

Adolf Hitler and Nazi propaganda

Adolf Hitler and his minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, launched a nationwide campaign to convince Germans that the Jewish people were the enemy of all classes. It was devastatingly effective. Hitler used terror, coercion, and mass manipulation to ferment anti-Semitism across the country, which eventually became a national policy known as the "final solution."

Random Trivia…

Cars weren’t invented in the United States! The first car was actually created in the 19th century when European engineers Karl Benz and Emile Levassor were working on automobile inventions. Benz patented the first automobile in 1886.

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Abraham Lincoln was also a licensed bartender. In 1833, the 16th president opened a bar called Berry and Lincoln with his friend William F. Berry in New Salem, Illinois. The shop was eventually closed when Berry, a raging alcoholic, consumed most of the shop's supply.

Historic Events

• 1807 – Robert Fulton’s steamboat begin its first trip between Albany and New York City.
• 1978 – Maxie Anderson, Larry Newman, and Ben Abruzzo became the first people to make a transatlantic trip across the ocean, landing in Miserey, France after a 137-hour trip from Maine.
• 1998 – President Bill Clinton made the statement “It depends on what your meaning of ‘is’ is”.

Birthdays with some quotes

@95 – Maureen O’Hara, Irish-American actress (d. 2015)
” There is nothing worse than having your personal problems become somebody else’s entertainment.”
@87 – Mae West, American comedic actress (d. 1980)
” You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
80 – Robert De Niro, American actor
” Time goes on. So, whatever you’re going to do, do it. Do it now. Don’t wait.”
@77 – Rachel Pollack, American comic book author, poet (d. 20023; cancer)
@75 – Larry Clinton, American trumpet player, and bandleader (d. 1985)
65 – Belinda Carlisle, American singer, The Go-Go’s
” Life’s too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.”
63 – Sean Penn, American actor
53 – Donnie Walhlberg, American actor
@52 – Marcus Garvey, Civil Rights Leader (d. 1940)
@49 – Davy Crockett, American soldier, politician (d. 1836; at the Alamo)
” Remember these words when I am dead. First, be sure you’re right, then go ahead.”
@35 – Mark Salling, American actor (d. 2018; suicide)
23 – Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter
“Stressed about things I shouldn’t even be stressing about.” 

…The End for today…