2023
Flagstaff
Almanac
Week 34 Day 238 Ave. Sky
Cover 30%\ Visibility 21mi.
Flagstaff
Today 73°
\ 53°
Wind 8mph \
Gusts 13mph Nearest active fire: 16miles Risk
of fire: Moderate Nearest
Lightning: 5mi
Air Quality: Fair Moisture Days this month: 10days Sunshine
August Averages: Temps 79° \ 50° Moisture 9 Days
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
16-9/4
Drive Sober or Get
Pulled Over Link
20-26
Brake Safety Week Link
World Water Week Link
World Princess Week Link
21-27
National
Composites Week Link
25-31
Be Kind To Humankind Week
26-27
International Bat
Night
Daily Observations
Burnt Ends Day Link
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National Dog Day Link Link
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Today’s Thoughts
A nice monsoon rain again last evening. More expected
today. Nice to have moisture. For the first time in decades, this month’s rain
days has surpassed the average. Hooray.
A former US President’s mug shot is in all the print media and all of social media. I’m not, or have been a Trump supporter, but I have to say…seeing his mug shot is very embarrassing for our country.
Enjoy
Dolly Parton
There’s the hair, the figure, the smile, the rags-to-riches
story and, of course, the voice. There are the Grammy wins (eight), the songs
(she’s written more than 5,000), the No. 1 hits (25), and the acting gigs (Steel
Magnolias, 9 to 5, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas). But Dolly Parton’s standout achievement may be her
philanthropic work. Her Imagination Library, established in 1995, has sent more
than 85 million books to kids in the U.S., Canada and the U.K. The program
began where Parton did, in Sevier County, Tennessee, offering one free book per
month to every child in the county from birth to age 5. After wildfires ripped
through the Great Smoky Mountains last year, Parton’s Dollywood Foundation gave
$1,000 a month for six months to every family that lost their home—more than
900 of them. Her motto: “I think when you’re able to help that you should.”
Random Trivia…
From the 1940s to the 1970s, Yale, plus other Ivy League schools
like Harvard, Vassar, and Brown, required their freshmen to pose nude for a
photoshoot. The goal was to gather material for a massive study into how
rickets developed, and that involved sticking pins to the backs of the
subjects, male and female. Generations of the country’s elite who went to the
Ivy Leagues posed, and the archives included the naked photos of well-known
figures ranging from George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, and Meryl Streep.
The photos were destroyed after news leaked and the study was denounced.
Historic Events
- 1789 – The
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was approved by the
National Constituent Assembly of France.
- 1883 – Krakatoa
erupted in Indonesia. It created tidal waves that killed thousands of
people and was heard 3,000 miles away. It affected the atmosphere for
years afterward.
- 1939 –
The first televised baseball game was played between the Brooklyn Dodgers
and the Cincinnati Reds on WXBS in New York.
Birthdays with some
quotes
@101 – Katerine Johnson, mathematician (NASA) (d. 2020)
“Peace begins with a smile”
@87 – Mother Teresa, Macedonian-Indian nun, Catholic saint, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1997)
81
– Vic Dana, American dancer
@75 – Geraldine Ferraro, American politician (d. 2011; multiple
myeloma)
@71 – Jim Davis (Marlin
Davis),
American actor; Jock Ewing on Dallas (d. 1981; cancer)
“Try to pick a profession in which you enjoy
even the most mundane, tedious parts. Then you will always be happy.”
53
– Melissa McCarthy, movie actor
52
– Thalía, Mexican American singer-songwriter
47
– Mike Colter, American actor
“Never say “never” about anything, because if
you do, life has a way of humbling you.”
43
– Macaulay Culkin, American actor
“I hope I’m remembered as the king of the
world, the nobleman who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably
won’t happen.”
43
– Chris Pine, American actor
41
– John Mulaney, American comedian
“I paid $120,000 for someone to tell me to
read Jane Austen, and then I didn’t.”
30
– Keke Palmer, movie actress
…The End for today…
