25 May 2023
Flagstaff
Almanac
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Week 21 Day 145 |
Ave. Sky Cover 5%\ Visibility 24mi. |
Flagstaff Today 73° \
37°
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Wind
3mph \ Gusts 7mph |
Nearest
active fire: 25miles |
Nearest Lightning: 277mi |
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Air
Quality: Fair Risk of fire: High Extreme |
May Averages:
Flagstaff: 68°
\ 34° May Average: 3 Days of moisture |
Sunshine |
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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Daily Observations
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Brown Bag it Day |
Nerd Pride Day or Geek
Pride Day Link |
Today’s Thoughts
Blue
sky, just a breeze, can’t ask for any better weather.
Sad
to read of the passing of Music Icon Tina Turner at 83. Her songs live on.
As
more Republicans enter the 2024 Presidential Primary, remember, at this time in
2016 Trump was polling at 3% for the Primary.
US
military has killed a civilian with a drone strike on Syrian land. The ‘current’
story is that the target was Syrian terrorist. I have to wonder if we will ever
know the truth or if the US will pay the Syrian farmer’s family for the
untimely death. Hmmm.
Dr.
Jacob Weasel, 36, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and a surgeon at
Monument Health in Rapid City, has become the first Native American to summit
Mount Everest.
Enjoy
Ocean Trivia
The UNESCO World
Heritage Site off the coast of Queensland is the world’s largest coral system,
composed of over 2,900 of its namesake items and 900 islands: Great Barrier Reef,
so named in 1981.
Origins of State Names
Rhode Island
You’ll have to forgive early explorers for
assuming Rhode Island was an island. The New England state’s official stance on the origin
of its name is that Dutch explorer Adriaen Block, on his 1614 expedition,
called it "Roodt Eylandt” ("red island”) after seeing the red clay
that lined the shore. One other popular theory however, is that explorer
Giovanni da Verrazzano anchored near
present-day Providence and compared the region to the Greek island of Rhodes. Though
it’s not an island, Rhode Island still offers incredible oceanside views of the
Atlantic that have earned it the very appropriate nickname, the Ocean State.
Historic Events
- 240 BC – First recorded
perihelion passage of Halley’s Comet.It will next appear in mid-2061.
- 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s
comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opened at the Opera Comique in London.
- 1925 – John T. Scopes was
indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
- 1977 – 1977 – Star Wars (now Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope)
opened Memorial Day weekend, marking the biggest entertainment juggernaut
in modern popular culture, now second only to the Marvel Cinematic
Universe.
- 1977 – Chinese government
removed the ban on the works of William Shakespeare, the biggest
entertainment juggernaut in the Elizabethan era.
- 1986 – Hands Across America took place.
Birthdays with some quotes
