12 Jun

 

Flagstaff Today 87°: 46° Week 24 Day 163 Wind 2 mph Gusts - mph Active Fire: 19 miles away Risk of Fire: Extreme Nearest lightning: 255 miles away Air Quality: Fair Partly Cloudy Sunshine Jun Averages: Temps: 70°\43° Moisture: 1 Day

Weekly Observations

National Marina Days: 19-9/1  Link                                      International Clothesline Week: 7-14
National Automotive Service Professionals Week: 8-14    National Flag Week: 8-14 
National Pet Wedding Week: 8-14    Link                            World Sea Turtle Week: 8-16  Link
Community Health Improvement Week (CHI): 9-13 Link  Men's Health Week: 9-15 Link  
National Big Boy Week: 9-15  Link                                       Nati’l Stewardship Week: 9-13  Link
US Open Golf Championship: 12-15           National Nursing Assistants Week: 12-18  Link  Link 

Daily Observations

Crowded Nest Awareness Day                                                   National Jerky Day
International Cachaca Day Link                                                  National Peanut Butter Cookie Day Link
International Falafel Day Link                                                     Peanut Butter Cookie Day
Jerky Day                                                                                             Red Rose Day
Loving Day  Link Women                                                              Veterans Recognition Day Link
Mechanics Day Link   Link  Link Link                                         World Day Against Child Labor Link
National Career Nursing Assistants Day Link 

Today’s Quotes                                                             

 

Today’s Memes

 

Thoughts for the day

Another partly cloudy day. Maybe some moisture later today.

I go in tomorrow for decision on how to treat my enlarged lymph nodes. I am hopeful that treatment will be soon.

I never thought I would see Marines patrolling the streets of any US city. I hope everyone calms down very soon.

Historic Figures who never existed…

William Tell©Ank Kumar on Wikimedia

As the legend goes, William Tell (sometimes spelled Wilhelm Tell) was a Swiss hero who defied Austrian rule and inspired a movement for political freedom. A peasant from the canton of Uri in Bürglen, he was forced to shoot an apple off his son's head, was arrested for threatening to harm the governor, saved the governor, then ultimately killed him in an ambush. Despite the detailed folklore, William Tell was likely only ever that—folklore.

Random Thoughts…

Coca-Cola was first advertised as a coca wine that cured morphine addiction, indigestion, decaying nerves, migraines, and impotence, among a variety of other ailments.

There’s a patch of seagrass in the Mediterranean that’s estimated to be 100,000 years old.

There are more barrels of bourbon than there are people in Kentucky.

The biggest film of 2006: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest (Action/Adventure) earned ~ $423,000,000

During the Spanish American War, the US captured Guam without bloodshed when the governor had no idea Spain was at war with the US.

Biologically, we all have two parents, four grand-parents, eight great-grandparents, and 32,768 great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents.

Historic Events

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Birthdays

63 – Jordan Peterson, Canadian psychologist, professor cultural critic 40 – Kendra Wilkinson, American model 40 – Chris Young, American singer-songwriter

@94 – George H.W. Bush, American lieutenant and politician, 41st President of the United States (d. 2018) @89 – Vic Damone, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2018) @83 – Samuel Z. Arkoff, American film producer (d. 2001) @78 – Len Barry, American singer-songwriter, producer (d. 2020; cancer)   @75 – Irwin Allen, American director producer (d. 1991) @15 – Anne Frank, German-Dutch diarist; victim of the Holocaust (d. 1945)

…The End for today…