2023
Flagstaff
Almanac
Week 34 Day 231 Ave. Sky
Cover 60%\ Visibility 23mi.
Flagstaff
Today 76°
\ 57°
Wind 7mph \
Gusts 15mph Nearest active fire: 16miles Risk
of fire: Moderate Nearest
Lightning: 324mi
Air Quality: Moisture Days this month: 7 days Mostly cloudy
August Averages: Temps 79° \ 50° Moisture 9 Days
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
14-20
US Amateur Golf
Week
16-9/4
Drive Sober or Get
Pulled Over Link
18-24
Minority
Enterprise Development Week
20-26
Brake Safety Week Link
World Water Week Link
World Princess Week Link
Daily Observations
Bacon Lovers Day
|
Lemonade Day
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Today’s Thoughts
Cloudy
today, hoping for some monsoon later.
Cleaned
my bedroom and bathroom this morning. That’s enough work for today.
There
is getting to lotws of sword rattling in Europe. Belarus says it would use nuclear
weapons in case there is ‘aggression.’ Calm down everybody.
Enjoy
Statue of Liberty …
10.
Suffragettes protested the unveiling of the statue.
When it was unveiled in October 1886, women’s
rights groups lamented that an enormous female figure would stand in New York
harbor representing liberty, when most American women had no liberty to vote.
Only two women attended the actual unveiling on what is now
known as Liberty Island: Bartholdi’s wife, and the 13-year-old daughter
of Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French engineer who had designed the Suez
Canal. The wives of the American Committee members were forced to watch the
proceedings from a navy vessel off the island. Suffragettes chartered a boat to
circle the island during the unveiling. They blasted protest speeches, but
those could not be heard over the din of steam whistles and cannon blasts in
the harbor.
Random Trivia…
King Henry VIII of England had servants who were called
"Grooms of Stool," whose job was to wipe his bottom after he went to
the bathroom. During his reign, he had all of those four such people knighted.
Historic Events
- 1920 – The first(?)
commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), began operating in Detroit.
- 1920 – The National
Football League was organized as the American Professional Football
Conference in Canton, Ohio.
- 1986 –
In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill shot and
killed14 of his co-workers, injured 6 more, and then committed suicide. It
was the initial example of “going postal”.
Birthdays with some
quotes
92
– Don King, American boxing promoter
” If you want to sell a steak, you can’t just
have the sizzle, you gotta have sauce.”
88
– Ron Paul, American politician, and physician
77
– Connie Chung, American journalist
75
– Robert Plant, English singer-songwriter
69
– Al Roker, American news anchor, and television personality
“No, I’ve never thought that I was gay. And
that’s not something you think. It’s something you know.”@67 – Benjamin Harrison, American politician, 23rd President of the
United States (d. 1901)
” I don’t sit back and count up what I’ve
done. There’s just always something else to do. There’s always a challenge
ahead.”
61
– James Marsters, American actor
58
– KRS-One (Lawrence "Kris" Parker),
American rapper and producer
@38 – Dimebag
Darrell (Darrell Lance Abbott), American guitarist, songwriter (d. 2004; murdered)
49
– Misha Collins, American actor
” Don’t pressure yourself. Don’t worry about
what others think you should do or what the societal “norm” is. Do what moves
you and makes you smile and the good will follow.
@46 – H.P.
Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, novelist (d. 1937; suicide)
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind
is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
@40 – Jim Reeves,
American singer-songwriter (d. 1964; private plane crash)
40
– Andrew Garfield, American-English actor
31
– Demi Lovato, American singer-songwriter and actress
“Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have
the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy.
That’s my life motto.”
…The End for today…
