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Flagstaff Today 60°:
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Week 17 Day 111 Wind 6 mph Gusts 11 mph Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Active
Fire: 168 miles away Risk of Fire:
High Nearest lightning: 826 miles away Apr Averages: Temps: 60°\29°
Moisture: 2 Days |
Weekly Observations
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21-25 Financial Practice Week National Playground Safety
Week Link 21-28 International Dark Sky Week Link |
13-21 Orthodox Holy Week Police Officers Who Gave Their
Lives In The Line of Duty Week 19-24 International Wildlife Film WeekLink National Park Week Administrative Professionals
Week Festival of Ridvan 20-26 Fibroid Awareness Week |
Daily Observations
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Boston Marathon Nat’l Chocolate-Covered Cashews Day Link |
National Pet CBD Day Link White House Easter Egg Roll |
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
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Thoughts for the day
A very nice Easter Sunday. Visiting
friends later this afternoon.
There were over 1000 people at
yesterday’s rally to stop the King. More people would have been nice. This is
so different than the college protests of the early 1970’s…people are happy, no
police presence. People who believe America is better than what is happening currently.
Our discussion group was excellent. When I started my graduate work, I learned about the difference between the melting pot and the salad bowl idea regarding culture. It made sense to me then and still does. Allowing every group to still be identified in the salad bowl rather than just melting into a grey slop seemed something to work for. After our discussion yesterday, I realized that there are people who still want the melting pot concept with every bone in their body. Many on the right simply want complete assimilation with no remnants of their first culture there. I can’t accept that this is best for our country. I am now more understanding about the fear they have that have…unless we are a grey slop, we must fear that some minorities will attempt to take away the power the Whites have.
Ancient Civilizations Few Have Heard Of…
The
Kingdom Of Kush: Sudan ©Vit Hassan on Wikimedia
To
the south of Egypt, Kush was the land of formidable pharaohs who governed both
Egypt and Nubia. They built towering pyramids and created one of the most
powerful empires in Africa. Ever heard of the "Kushite Dynasty"?
These rulers left a lasting legacy in Egypt.
Random Thoughts…
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Oscar Wilde – Real Name:
Sebastian Melmoth
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Scientists still aren’t
completely sure how acetaminophen works.
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No one ever reads instruction
manuals, but everyone watches YouTube how-to videos. We were all just waiting
for the movie.
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Human settlement of Mars will
necessitate the creation of a parallel 24.7-hour clock and 687-day calendar.
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50% of Canada is the letter A.
Taught in High School but not true…
Dinosaurs looked like big
lizards
I’ve questioned this one since
I first learned about fossils, and still annoyingly comment on documentaries
about species that have been extinct since long before mankind came to study
them. How do we know the T. rex didn’t rock a mullet? Well, discoveries have
shown that many dinosaurs had feathers, not just lizard-like skin. I’m sticking
with my mullet theory until proven otherwise.
Historic Events
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21 Apr
Birthdays
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78 – Iggy Pop (James Newell Osterberg Jr.),
American singer-songwriter, actor
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@96 – Elizabeth II, Queen of
the United Kingdom and her other realms @86 – Anthony Quinn (Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca),
Mexican-American actor (d. 2001) @76 – John Muir, Scottish-American environmentalist, author (d. 1914; pneumonia) @64 – Alistair MacLean, Scottish novelist, screenwriter (d. 1987;
heart failure) @56 – Max Weber, German sociologist (d. 1920; Spanish flu) |
…The End for today…
