2 February 2023
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 5 Day 33 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 19 miles Flagstaff Today 40° \8° Wind 6mph \ Gusts 10mph
Air Quality: Good \Very Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 179mi \ Nearest
Lightning 1476mi
Feb. Averages for Flagstaff: 47° \ 19° \5
Days of moisture
Today’s
Quote
Monthly
Observations
Cricket World Cup (2/6-3/7)
Declutter For A Cause Month
Dog Training Education Month Link Link
Fasting February Link
February is Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
Feline Fix By Five Month
Free and Open Source Software Month Link
From Africa to Virginia Month
Great American Pies Month Link
Weekly
Observations
28—2/4
Cordova Ice Worm Days Link
Catholic Schools Week
Meat Week
National Anesthesiologists Week Link
1-5
US Nationals Snow Sculpting Days
1-7
Women's Heart Week
World Interfaith Harmony Week
2-8
Publicity for Profit Week Publicity for Profit Week
Daily Observations
Ayn Rand Day Link
California Kiwifruit Day
Candelmas
Crepe Day or La Chandeleur Link
Dump Your Significant Jerk Day
Groundhog Day
Groundhog Job Shadow Day
Heavenly Hash Day
Hedgehog Day
Imbolc
Lung Leavin' Day: Link
Marmot Day Link
National Sweater Day Link
Optimist Day Link
Rheumatoid Arthritis Awareness Day Link
Self Renewal Day
Sled Dog Day
Tator Tot Day
"The Record of a Sneeze" Day
World Wetlands Day Link
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
It’s a nice winter
day. Hoping for some big snow melt.
This
Super Bowl will be the first in its history to have 2 black quarterbacks. Took
long enough. Also Tom Brady, 45, retired…again.
Rep.
Santos has stepped down from all his committees while is being investigated. Again…took
long enough.
Congressman
Andy Biggs (R-AZ) introduced a bill to impeach DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
This is a bill worth watching…just to see how far it actually gets.
African
Animals Abound…
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Arizona is
a great state…
Ø Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman
appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, grew up on a large family ranch near
Duncan, Arizona.
Ø
The
best-preserved meteor crater in the world is located near Winslow, Arizona.
Ø
The average
state elevation is 4,000 feet.
Ø The Navajo Nation spans 27,000 square
miles across the states of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, but its capital is
seated in Window Rock, Arizona.
Facts…
Another
thing that set her apart from other singer-actresses at the time was her
height. Garland stood just 4 feet, 11 inches. When she was a child actress, she
was still around the same height as her frequent costar Mickey Rooney, but was
already noticeably shorter than other MGM stars such as Deanna Durbin. Ever
notice how the famous ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz have enough of a heel
to add a couple of inches?
And Garland
didn’t get any taller with age. Because she had a particularly short upper
body, the height difference was a little more noticeable when she was seated
next to someone — high heels can’t do much for you if you’re not standing up.
Slang
Origins
1981: Gnarly
Meaning: excellent; disgusting
Surfers created their own slang in the
1970s, which filtered into the larger community over time. “Gnarly” hit the
wider teen population in the early ‘80s, and joined “dude” and “stoked” as
words we still recognize today.
Mysterious
sites…
Yonaguni Monument (Japan)
Experts are divided as to whether the
underwater rocks near Japan’s Yonaguni Island are a human-made structure or
naturally occurring. In the 1980s, divers discovered what appears to be a
rectangular monument, measuring 165 feet long and 65 feet wide. Some scholars
believe that it is the remains of a pyramid, perhaps from a long-lost submerged
city belonging to an ancient civilization. Meanwhile, others insist the rocks
have been shaped by millennia of the ocean’s currents. Similarly, while some
argue that markings on the rock’s surface are proof of ancient human
involvement, others say they are simply scratches. For the time being, the
Japanese government seems to agree with the latter and does not recognize the
Yonaguni Monument as culturally significant.
Historical
Events
1653 – New Amsterdam (now the City of New
York) was incorporated.
1913 – Grand Central Terminal is opened
in New York City.
1925 – Balto and Togo led a team via Dog
Sleg to the town of Nome, Alaska, with antitoxin serum for an outbreak of
Diptheria. An estimated 10,000 people may have been saved.
1990 – President De Klerk of South Africa
lifted the 30-year ban on leading anti-apartheid group the African National
Congress (ANC).
Birthdays
Today
@89 – Elaine Stritch, American actress and singer (d. 2014)
“People
will always be around to tell you you’re no good or you’re wrong or unwise to
keep doing what you want to do. They’re wrong. They’re always wrong. Keep
going.”– Elaine Stritch
@88 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and
philanthropist, Guggenheim Museum (d. 1949)
“To
get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist’s own
imagination appealed to me enormously.”– Solomon R. Guggenheim
86
– Tom Smothers, American comedian and actor
“The
only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.”– Tommy
Smothers 81 – Graham Nash, English-American
singer-songwriter
“The
smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights
cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.”– Ayn Rand
70
– Duane Chapman, Reality star
69
– Christie Brinkley, American actress and model
@64 – Stan Getz, American saxophonist (d. 1991; liver cancer)
“I
cannot play a lie. I have to believe in what I play or it won’t come out.”–
Stan Getz
@62 – Farrah Fawcett, American actress (d. 2009; cancer)
“I
deeply believe in one’s own positive will to overcome even the most daunting
challenges.”– Farrah Fawcett
@58
– James Joyce, Irish novelist, short story writer, poet (d. 1941; ulcers)
“History,
Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”– James Joyce in
Ulysses
46
– Shakira, Colombian singer-songwriter
“I
pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie.”– Shakira
@11 – Hamnet Shakespeare, William Shakespeare’s only son (baptized
on this date, d. 1596)
