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Flagstaff Today 33°:
23° Week 2 Day 9 Air Quality: Low Sunshine Wind 9 mph Gusts 12 mph Active
Fire: 205 miles away Risk of Fire:
Low Nearest lightning: 381 miles away Jan Averages: Temps: 44°\18°
Moisture: 4 Days |
Weekly Observations
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National Personal Trainer Awareness Week: 4-11 |
Elvis' Birthday Celebration Week: 5-11 |
Daily Observations
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Aviation in America Day |
National Nerd Word Day |
Today’s Quote
Today’s Memes
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Thoughts for the day
There was a little less than an inch
of snow when I woke up. Now only blue sky and chilly.
The LA area fires are devastating. To
add to that, there are wind gust up to 90mph for the next day. Over 35,000 have
been evacuated and over 12,000 structures have been burned.
Trump is upset that the flags will be
flying at half-mast at his inauguration in honor of Jimmy Carter. Very petty
from my point of view.
Zuckerberg will be dropping fact
checkers on his platforms. He will let the public report it. He says the
current systems produce to many errors. In my day that was seen as a chicken-sh*t
excuse.
Inventions…
Earl Richardson - Electric Iron
Earl Richardson improved the electric iron in 1903 by
concentrating heat at the point. He developed and tested his irons while
working as a meter reader at an electric company. The “Hotpoint” iron became so
successful that his company later merged with General Electric. His design
innovations made ironing clothes faster and more efficient.
Random Thoughts…
Axl Rose – Real Name: William Bailey
Vinyl records don’t have
grooves. They have one groove that spirals
inward. They have a groove.
The price of a Model T went from $829 in 1909 to
$260 in 1925. Henry Ford continually reduced its price as production efficiency
increased. #capitalism
“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.” – Brigitte Bardot
In 1986, a volcanic lake in Cameroon, Africa burped a C02 gas cloud that killed 1,746 people in
minutes.
Keanu Reeves’s first name means “cool breeze over the mountains” in Hawaiian.
Origin of city nicknames…
Salem, Oregon: ‘Witch City’
If there’s one thing every one
associates with Salem, it’s the Witch Trials of 1692, which resulted in the
execution of 20 people and the deaths of at least five others in jail. The
story is so indelibly rooted in American history that it's inspired countless
books, films and TV programs, and still forms the basis of the city’s
tourist trade. Visitors should head for the suitably scary looking ‘Witch
House’. Once the home of Jonathan Corwin, a local magistrate who played a
role in the early investigations of the accused, it is one of the only
surviving structures with direct links to the trials.
Historic Events
Birthdays
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@91 –
Judith Krantz, American novelist (d. 2019) @88 –
Carrie Lane Chapman, American Suffragette (d. 1947)
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