20 Nov

 

Flagstaff Almanac

Week 47 Day  323	Sky Cover 95%	Wind 9mph Gusts 21mph	FlagToday  49° \25°
Active fire: 126miles Risk of fire: Very Low	Near Lightning: 71mi	Air Quality: Fair Overcast with light rain	Nov. Averages: Temps: 53° \ 23° Moisture 3 Days

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

American Education Week: 17-23 Link  Geography Awareness Week: 17-23 Link  International Restorative Justice Week: 17-23 Link

National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week: 17-23 Link   World Antimicrobial Awareness Week: 18-24  Link

Daily Observations

African Industrialization Day Beautiful Day Future Teachers of America Day Peanut Butter Fudge Day GIS Day (Geographic Information Systems) Link  Globally Organized Hug A Runner Day aka G.O.H.A.R.D.

Name Your PC Day  Link National Absurdity Day National Child's Day Link National Educational Support Professionals Day Link    National Peanut Butter Fudge Day  Link Transgender Day of Remembrance Universal Children's Day

Today’s Thoughts

It rained on and off all night. This morning there was only light rain. Then some heavy frozen rain, graupel. By noon, blue sky with clouds above the horizon.

A wildly known native artist, from Shonto, and a friend of mine, Baje Whitethorne, passed away yesterday. He was my age, was in the hospital in January with severe covid. He lived in Flag and Phoenix. He was home and died in his sleep. He was still weak from the covid. He is and will be missed.

In the second half, Cards are losing to the Texans. Bronco game should be good. Go Broncos!

Enjoy

Words pronounced differently in the North and South States…

Coke©Provided by ALot.com

Almost unanimously across the southern part of the United States, the generic term for a sweetened carbonated drink is 'coke.' This acts as an umbrella term, covering all the different types of soda, not just Coca-Cola. Meanwhile, most Northerners call soda's 'pop,' though some in the northeast just call them 'soda.'

Random Trivia…

Mr. First©pinsdaddy

From the late 1920s until the mid-1960s, a man by the name of Omero C. Catan became known as “Mr. First” in New York City. In what became an ongoing tradition, he was the first person to participate in over 500 openings in New York and beyond—including being the first person to skate on the Rockefeller Center rink.

He was also the first man to put a token in a parking meter, and the first man to drive through the Lincoln Tunnel. This seems impossible, but it's a fact! Maybe he just got lucky. 

Historic Events

Birthday boy Chester Gould’s friend, Al Gross invented the walkie-talkie, and that was the inspiration for Dick Tracey’s wrist radio in January 1946.

In 1789, New Jersey became the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

In 1820, An 80-ton sperm whale attacked and sank the Essex, a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts. Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.

1945 – The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials began, finishing on October 10, 1946.

1962 – In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation, ending The Cuban Missile Crisis.

November 20, 1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released.

Birthdays with some quotes

96 – Estelle Parsons, American actress (The Golden Girls)
@95 – Alistair Cooke, British-American journalist author (d. 2004)
@92 - Robert Byrd, American politician, (d. 2010)
@84 – Chester Gould, American cartoonist, creator of Dick Tracy (d. 1985)
“The pathways of crime are clearly marked. There’s a doublecross on every corner. I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there. I decided that if the police couldn’t catch the gangsters, I’d create a fellow who could.”
@82 – Robert Armstrong, American actor (d. 1973)
(King Kong “it wasn’t the airplanes, t’was beauty killed the beast”
81 – Norman Greenbaum, American Singer/Songwriter, and guitarist (Spirit in the Sky)
80 – Joe Biden, American lawyer, and politician, (46th President)
@76 – Bob Einstein, American actor, producer, screenwriter Super Dave Osbourne (d. 2019; cancer)
76 – Joe Walsh, American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor
“You can’t be a legend in your parent’s basement.”
67 – Bo Derek, American actress, and producer
64 – Sean Young, American actress, and dancer
@63 – Edwin Hubble, American astronomer and cosmologist (d. 1953; stroke)
62 – Jim Brickman, American Singer/Songwriter, and pianist
60 – Ming-Na Wen, Chinese-American actress (Mulan, Agents of S.H.E.I.L.D.)
57 – Jill Thompson, American author, and illustrator
52 – Joel McHale, American comedian, actor, and producer
48 – Dierks Bentley, American Singer/Songwriter, and guitarist
@42 – Robert F. Kennedy, American politician (assassinated in 1968)
“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”
“Many of the world’s great movements, of thought and action, have flowed from the work of a single man. A young monk began the Protestant Reformation, a young general extended an empire from Macedonia to the borders of the earth, and a young woman reclaimed the territory of France. It was a young Italian explorer who discovered the New World, and 32-year-old Thomas Jefferson who proclaimed that all men are created equal. “Give me a place to stand,” said Archimedes, “and I will move the world.” These men moved the world, and so can we all.”

…The End for today…