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Flagstaff Today 67°:
29°
Week 17 Day 112 Wind 7 mph Gusts 12 mph Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Active
Fire: 168 miles away Risk of Fire:
High Apr Averages: Temps: 60°\29°
Moisture: 2 Days |
Weekly Observations
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20-26 Administrative Professionals
Week Festival of Ridvan 20-26 Fibroid Awareness Week Financial Practice Week National Playground Safety
Week Link 21-28 International Dark Sky Week Link National Catholic Educational
Association Week |
18-23 Police Officers Who Gave Their
Lives In The Line of Duty Week 19-24 International Wildlife Film WeekLink National Park Week |
Daily Observations
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Beagle Day Link Link Global Selfie Earth Day
(NASA) Link |
"In God We Trust
Day" Day (coins) |
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
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Thoughts for the day
A nice spring day as it slowly warms
up.
Saddened to hear of the passing of
Pope Francis. I remember having lunch with our retirement group and the restaurant
had a TV that was on. There was breaking news when the cardinals selected him.
He was a compassionate man and will be missed.
If gang membership is illegal, why aren’t the Proud Boys and the KKK being deported.
Ancient Civilizations Few Have Heard Of…
The
Scythians: Eurasian Steppes ©Dimitri Pozdniakov on Wikimedia
In
700 BCE, the Scythians were feared for their cavalry and renowned as master
archers, roaming the vast Eurasian steppes. They dominated regions from Central
Asia to Europe. Yet, despite their power and influence, their legacy seems to
have faded into the background of history.
Random Thoughts…
The “M” in “MTV” now stands for
“miscellaneous.”
Shoeless Joe Jackson was a lefthanded hitter, but Ray Liotta portrayed him as righty in “Field of Dreams.”
Notice the big letter on the face of the dollar bill? Each letter represents which Federal Reserve Bank printed it! “C” is for Philadelphia
The Capital of Tonga is Nuku’alofa
Taught in High School but not true…
Einstein failed math
If you were one of those kids
encouraged to keep trying in school because ‘even Einstein failed at math,’
hopefully the encouragement worked, but it won’t in the future. “In 1984, a
Princeton University team led by John Stachel prepared to publish Einstein’s
papers. The group found evidence that Einstein was a kid genius who had
conquered college-level physics by age 11 and was fluent in Latin and Greek.
Stachel also found what he thought was the source of the Einstein math
myth. Stachel told The New York Times that when
Einstein was 16 and studying in Switzerland, he received grades of “1” in math
on two straight report cards. On a scale of 1 to 6, “1” was the best. But then
the school switched its system so that a “6” was the top grade given. At that
point, Einstein got a “6,” which made it look like he was suddenly flunking
math. He wasn’t—he was still getting the equivalent of an A.”
Historic Events
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22 Apr
Birthdays
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88 – Jack
Nicholson, American actor 79 – John Waters, American director, producer,
screenwriter |
@92 –
Charlotte Rae, American character actress (d. 2018)
@62 – J.
Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist and academic (d. 1967; throat
cancer)
@47 – Henry
Fielding, English novelist playwright (d. 1754; cirrhosis) |
…The End for today…
