2023
Flagstaff
Almanac
Week 32 Day 224 Ave. Sky
Cover 20%\ Visibility 25mi.
Flagstaff
Today 79°
\ 52°
Wind 5mph \
Gusts 10mph Nearest active fire: 17miles Risk
of fire: Moderate Nearest
Lightning: 100mi
Air Quality: Fair Moisture Days this month: 6 days Sunshine
August Averages: Temps 79° \ 50° Moisture 9 Days
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
4-13
Sturgis Rally Link
6-12
Assistance Dog
Week: Link Link
Knights of Columbus Family Week:
National Button Week: Link
National Farmers' Market Week: Link Link
International Psychic Week:
International Psychic Week: Link
Stop on Red Week
Stop on Red Week Link
7-12
Fiddlers Week
7-13
National Bargain
Hunting Week
National Exercise With Your Child Week
Safe + Sound Week Link
World Karaoke Championships Link
8-17
Elvis Week
10-13
National Hobo Week
Link
Daily Observations
Julienne Fries Day |
Middle Child Day
|
Today’s Thoughts
There was another nice monsoon last night. It
lasted about an hour. At the same time, Tuba had a heavy, loud monsoon that
formed lots of big puddles on roads and in people’s yards.
The
fires in Maui are devastating. It will take a long time to rebuild. The locals
need lots of help to rebuild.
I
got a check for $80.25 from the company that provides me with my CPAP supplies.
It said it was a refund credit. Since all my supplies are covered by insurance,
this made no sense. I called to see what was going on. The guy said he is
getting lots of calls, but the bookkeeper is on vacation, and he has no idea
what is going on with all these checks. He took my name and phone number and
said that when the bookkeeper returns, she will call me. I decided not to cash
the check until I hear from her.
Enjoy
Statue of Liberty …
The
Statue was originally designed for the Suez Canal in Egypt.
Bartholdi
did not craft the basic design of Liberty specifically for America. As a young
man, he had visited Egypt and was enchanted by the project underway to dig a
channel between the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. At Paris world’s fair of
1867, he met with the Khedive, the leader of Egypt, and proposed creating a
work as wondrous as the pyramids or sphinxes. He then designed a colossal woman
holding up a lamp and wearing the loose-fitting dress of a fellah, a slave, to
stand as a lighthouse at the entrance of the Suez Canal. The Egypt deal fell
through, so Bartholdi decided to adventure to America to pitch his colossus.
Hoax proved wrong…
The Cottingley fairies
Two young cousins, Elsie
Wright and Frances Griffiths, managed to fool none other than the writer Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle (who created the character Sherlock Holmes) when the
mischievous pair faked a series of photographs in 1917 purporting to show the
girls meeting with mythical fairies at Cottingley, in northern England. In the
1980s, Elsie and Frances admitted that the "fairies" were cardboard
cutouts copied from a children’s book.
Random Trivia…
In 1998, 1,200 bones from some ten human bodies were found in
the basement of Ben Franklin's house. Before you go crafting a murder mystery
about the Founding Father, know it was revealed that the bodies were used in
the study of human anatomy.
Historic Events
- 1492
– Christopher Columbus arrived in the Canary Islands on his first voyage
to the New World.
- 1865 – Joseph Lister, British
surgeon, and scientist, performed the first antiseptic surgery.
- 1952 – Thirteen Jewish writers
associated with the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee (JAC) were executed
under orders from Joseph Stalin.
- 1953 The detonation of RDS-6s
showed that the Soviet Union had created their own nuclear weapons.
Birthdays with some
quotes
@96 – Jane Wyatt, American actress (d.2006)
93
– George Soros (György Schwartz), Hungarian-American businessman, investor
@80 – Porter Wagoner, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d.2007)
@78 – Norris McWhirter, co-founded the Guinness World Records (d.2004;
heart attack)
@77 – Cecil B. DeMille, American director, and producer (d.1959;
heart attack)
“The greatest art in the world is the art of
storytelling.”
@76 – Alvis Edgar ‘Buck’ Owens, American
singer-songwriter and guitarist (d.2006; heart attack)
73
– August “Kid Creole” Darnell Bower (), American musician, singer-songwriter, record
producer
@71 – John Derek, American actor, director, and cinematographer
(d.1998; heart disease)
@69 – Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and author (d.1929)
” Love planted a rose, and the world turned
sweet.”
60
– Sir Mix-a-Lot (Anthony L. Ray), American rapper
@50 – Ross McWhirter, co-founded the Guinness World Records (d.1975;
by a gang)
48
– Casey Affleck, American actor
43
– Maggie Lawson, American actress
43
– Dominique Swain, American actress
31
– Cara Delevingne, English actress
…The End for today…
