24 April 2023
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 17 Day 114\ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 22 miles Flagstaff Today 67° \30° Wind
3mph \ Gusts 5mph
Air Quality: Fair \ High Risk of fire
\ Nearest active fire 45mi \ Nearest Lightning 656mi
Apr. Averages for Flagstaff: 60° \ 27° \3
Days of moisture
Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
18-24 Cleaning For A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
Police Officers Gave Their Lives In The
Line of Duty
21-5/2 Festival of Ridvan (Baha'i)
22-27 International Wildlife Film Week
22-29 National Dance Week
22-30 National
Park Week
Administrative Professionals Week
23-29 Disability Book Week
Fibroid
Awareness Week
National
Infertility Awareness Week
National
Karaoke Week
Medical
Laboratory Professionals Week
National
Crime Victims Rights Week
National
Library Week
National
Pediatric Transplant Week
National
Princess Week
Mule
Days
Sky Awareness
Week
24-30 National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW)
National Scoop The Poop Week
24-28 National Playground Safety Week
National Youth Violence Prevention Week
24-30 Spring Astronomy Week
World Immunization Week
Daily Observations
Armenian Genocide
Remembrance Day Link
Pigs-in-a-Blanket Day
Sauvignon Blanc Day Link & Link
St. Mark's Eve Link
World Day for Animals in Laboratories Link
World Meningitis Day Link
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
What
a nice day. Enjoying the spring weather.
Last
night’s discussion on War Crimes was very interesting. Why haven’t many major
countries joined the International Court…including the US? What is the history of
the UN that acknowledged the USSR end and then allowed Russia to keep the
former USSR permanent seat at the UN? These questions will take more study to fully
understand War Crimes. Finally, we agreed that the media uses the term ‘war
crimes’ way too liberally. Another term should be used because many of them cannot
be proven.
Sudan
is changing hourly. Last night the US started the evacuation of Embassy
personnel after saying a few hours before that it was not the time. Americans
in Sudan are told to stay in place as getting to the airport is very dangerous.
Enjoy…
Toys
Remembered…
The
Easy-Bake Oven
The
Easy-Bake Oven debuted in stores in November 1963. It was inspired by Norman
Shapiro, a sales manager at toy manufacturer Kenner, who saw a New York City
vendor warming pretzels in a cart’s tiny oven and thought it would make an
excellent toy. The original oven was made up of three cubes with a stovetop and
carry handle, all painted bright teal. While users were invited to come up with
their own recipes, the oven came with mixes for baked goods, bubble gum, candy
bars, and complete “kiddie dinners” of meat, macaroni, and peas. Packet
contents were mixed with water, poured into supplied bakeware, and cooked by
the heat of two lightbulbs, with temperatures reaching up to 350 degrees.
The toy was
originally priced at a then-high $15.95 (around $115 in 2022), which
surprisingly did not deter sales of 500,000 units in the oven’s first release.
The quick-baking toy’s popularity paralleled America's interest in kitchen
technology and the increased use of mixes and packaged products.
In 1968,
Kenner was acquired by General Mills, who introduced Betty Crocker recipes into
the Easy-Bake Oven’s repertoire. Over the years, production increased along
with changes to the toy’s design to reflect the interior design trends of the
time, from the harvest-gold and avocado tones of the 1970s to a redesign of the
oven to resemble the new microwaves of the 1980s.
Recently the
Easy-Bake Oven, now owned by Hasbro, has adopted a more gender-neutral design,
acknowledging its popularity with both girls and boys. Since its inception
almost 70 years ago, more than 30 million Easy-Bake Ovens have been sold and
more than 150 million mixes have been cooked.
Moon Facts…
The Moon has its own time zone
The Moon has its own time zone dubbed
Lunar Standard Time which is based on the motion of the Sun as seen from the
Moon. However, the time that is more commonly used, when discussing the Moon
and other places in our solar system, is Universal Time, which is a modern form
of Greenwich Mean Time that measures time as the same as it is on Earth.
State
Names Origins…
Connecticut
Connecticut may be a small
state, but it’s also home to part of the longest river in all New England, that
being the Connecticut River. That flowing water source lends its name to the
state as a whole, as the river was one called Quinnehtukqut —
an Algonquian word that aptly means "long river place” — by
the state’s native Mohegan tribe. Connecticut owes both its name and verdant
landscape to the serene waters that run through it and add to the calm
atmosphere of this quiet northeastern state.
Historical
Events
v 1704 – The first regular newspaper in
British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, began publication.
v
1800 – The
Library of Congress was founded.
v
1913 – The
Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, was opened.
v
It was the
tallest building in the world until 1930.
v 1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope was
launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Birthdays
Today
89
– Shirley MacLaine, American actress, singer, dancer
“We
are not victims of the world we see, we are victims of the way we see the
world.”– Shirley MacLaine
81 – Barbra
Streisand, American singer, actress
@79 – Vincent de Paul, French priest, saint (d. 1660)
“We
should spend as much time in thanking God for his benefits as we do in asking
him for them.”– Vincent de Paul
70
– Eric Bogosian, American actor, writer
“If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we’d all approach our lives very differently.”– EricBogosian
59
– Cedric the Entertainer, American comedian, actor, producer
“I
love stand up and it keeps me grounded, to say the stuff I have been thinking
without anyone changing it.”– Cedric the Entertainer
@54 – Jill Ireland, English actress (d. 1990; breast cancr)
41
– Kelly Clarkson, American singer-songwriter
“My
experiences remind me that it’s those black clouds that make the blue skies
even more beautiful.”– Kelly Clarkson
31
– Joe Keery, American actor
29
– Caspar Lee, British-South African Youtuber
