29 Jan

 

Flagstaff Today 39°: 12°  Week 5 Day 29 Air Quality: Fair Mostly Cloudy Wind 5 mph Gusts 8 mph slight chilly breeze Active Fire: 69 miles away Risk of Fire: Very Low Nearest lightning: 2074 miles away Jan Averages: Temps: 44°\18° Moisture: 4 Days

Weekly Observations

International Snow Sculpting Week: 24-29 Cordova Ice Worm Days: 25-2/1  Link Catholic Schools Week: 26-2/2 Data Privacy Week: 26-2/2 Link  Celebration of Life Days: 26-2/1 Meat Week: 26-2/2  National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week:26-2/1

National School Choice Week: 26-2/1 Link  Data Privacy Week: 27-31 Link National Cowboy Poetry Week: 27-2/1 National Medical Group Practice Week: 27-2/1 National Mentoring Summit: 29-31 Link

Daily Observations

Curmudgeons Day Chinese New Year  Curmudgeons Day Freethinkers Day National Carnation Day

National Corn Chip Day National Puzzle Day Puzzle Day Seeing Eye Dog Day Thomas Paine (Free Thinkers) Day

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Today’s Memes

Thoughts for the day

Snow is still expected. So far, not even enough to cover the ground.

It costs around $800,00/flight to use military planes to deport. A chartered plane would cost around $102,000 per flight. Military planes make much better pictures. Of the 1200 deported yesterday, about ½ had not committed any offense except crossing the border illegally.

Trump fired career lawyers in DOJ if they had prosecuted Trump, even though they were simply following orders.

Mayan Culture of Mexico and beyond…

An island Mayan city survived until the 17th century.

Long after other Mayan civilizations had been abandoned or destroyed, there was one that managed to survive until the 17th century. Known as Nojpeten or Tayasal, it was the capital city of the Itza Maya kingdom located in Lake Peten Itza in Guatemala. 

Today, travelers may know the town by the name of Flores. Approximately 2,000 people are thought to have lived in the city, and the current-day street plan of Flores is said to be based on the indigenous city's roots. It eventually fell to the Spanish in 1697.

Random Thoughts…

Biggest film of 1997: Titanic (Thriller) earned ~ $659,000,000

The boiling point of water on top of Mt Everest is 160f (71c).

Since 1966 ‘Peaches and Herb’ has had 7 different Peaches, but only one Herb.

Origin of city nicknames…

Baltimore, Maryland: ‘Charm City’

There’s no doubt that Baltimore had an image problem in the 1960s. The combined effects of industrial decline and mass exodus to the suburbs saw it described as 'A loser’s town' or 'Yesterday town' in the press, much to the chagrin of Mayor William Donald Schaefer who created a marketing campaign to promote the city’s history and hidden treasures. The term 'Charm City' was coined in 1974 as part of this campaign, and although many locals dismissed the campaign, the name has become Baltimore’s most enduring nickname.

Historic Events

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Birthdays

Oprah Winfrey, 71  TV Show Host Adam Lambert, 43  Pop Singer Tom Selleck, 80  TV Actor Sara Gilbert, 50  TV Actress

@92 – John Forsythe, American actor (d. 2010) @88 – John Raitt, American actor, and singer (d. 2005) @86 – Victor Mature, American actor (d. 1999) @86 – John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1960)   @72 – Thomas Paine, One of the Founding Fathers of the United States (d. 1809) @66 – W.C. Fields (William Claude Dukenfield), American comedic actor (d. 1946; hemorrhage) @62 – Edward Abbey, American writer (d. 1989; hemorrhaging) @58 – William McKinley, American politician, 25th President of the United States (d. 1901; assassinated) @44 – Anton Chekhov, Russian playwright and short story writer (d. 1904; TB)

…The End for today…