15 Jan

 

Flagstaff Today 33°: 6°  Week 3 Day 15 Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Wind 11 mph Gusts 15mph cold breeze Active Fire: 370 miles away Risk of Fire: Moderate Nearest lightning: 1378 miles away Jan Averages: Temps: 44°\18° Moisture: 4 Days

Weekly Observations

Cuckoo Dancing Week: 11-17 International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week: 11-19 Link  Healthy Weight Week: 12-18 Home Office Safety and Security Week: 12-18

Idiom Week: 12-18 National Mocktail Week: 12-18 No Name Calling Week:  13-17 Link

Daily Observations

Strawberry Ice Cream Day  Alpha Kappa Alpha Day Humanitarian Day (Martin Luther King Jr.'s Birthday. Started in 2009) National Booch (Kombucha) Day Link

National Bagel Day  Link  National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day National Hat Day Thank Your Mentor Day Link

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Today’s Memes

Thoughts for the day

The ‘feels like’ temp is 19. Very chilly.

I headed out in the cold to get a much-needed haircut. All better now.

Trump is the first in many ways. He is the first President-elect who continues to sell watches, sneakers, new inaugural bible, boots, crypto, commutative coins  and commutative guitars.

Rachael Maddow will be on the air 5 nights a week for the first 100 days of the 2^nd Trump administration. She says she will return to once a week after that.

Pete Hegseth had his hearing to become Defense Secretary. It was a whole lot of same old, same old. It lasted 4-1/2 hours.

Mayan Culture of Mexico and beyond…

Most cities were abandoned by 900 A.D.

The Mayan empire centered around roughly 40 massive stone cities scattered throughout southern Mexico and Central America. The height of the empire was around the year 250 A.D. 

This is the period when we saw the reign of cities like Tikal, Bonampak, Calakmul and Palenque. Each city had anywhere from 5,000 to 50,000 people. But by the year 900 most of these cities had been abandoned.

Random Thoughts…

Considering how there’s no traces of humans in the film, the Lion King could be set in any era. It could be the bronze age, 21st century or a cyborg future where humanity has gone extinct.

Buddy Holly – Real Name: Charles Hardin

A group of Larks is called a Exaltation or Ascension.

You know that your game of monopoly starts to escalate when someone asks for the game instructions.

Joe Francis, founder and CEO of Girls Gone Wild, filed bankruptcy and fled the US to Mexico in order to avoid paying an outstanding gambling debt to Steve Wynn and the subsequent arrest warrant for failure to pay.

Origin of city nicknames…

Akron, Ohio: ‘The Rubber City’

Akron’s status as ‘Rubber City’ is directly tied to another entry on this list; Detroit. By the early 20th century, Akron was already a major rubber producer, with companies such as B.F. Goodrich, Goodyear and Firestone all well established. But as the automobile industry exploded in ‘Motor City’, so did the tire industry. By the 1910s Akron was the fastest-growing city in the US, and by the 1960s almost a third of its population worked in rubber factories. Only Goodyear remains today, but the smell of rubber will always linger.

Historic Events

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Birthdays

Dove Cameron, 29 TV Actress Pitbull, 44 Rapper Ben Shapiro, 41 Journalist Drew Brees, 46 Football Player

@96 – Phyllis Coates, American actress (1st Lois Lane))(d.2023) @95 – Edward Teller, Hangarian-American physicist (d. 2003) @80 – John O’Connor, American cardinal (d. 2000) @64 – Gene Krupa, American drummer, composer, actor (d. 1973; heart failure)   @51 (baptized) – Molière (Jean-Baptiste Poquelin), French actor, playwright (d. 1673; TB) @48 – Vince Foster, American lawyer and political figure (d. 1993; suicide) @39 – Martin Luther King, Jr., American minister and activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968; shot)

…The End for today…