5 Jul

 

Flagstaff Today 78°: 49° Week 27 Day 186 Wind 14 mph Gusts 18 mph Active Fire: 224 miles away Risk of Fire: High Nearest lightning: 272 miles away Air Quality: Fair Breezy Sunshine Jul Averages: Temps: 82°\51° Moisture: 8 Day

Monthly Observations

National Cord Blood Awareness Month Link              National HIV Awareness Month  
National Culinary Arts Month                                         National Horseradish Month
National Deli Salad Month                                               National Hot Dog Month
National "Doghouse Repairs" Month                           National Ice Cream Month
National Grilling Month                   National Make A Difference to Children Month

Weekly Observations

National Independent Living Week: 1-7                                                 National Unassisted Homebirth Week: 1-7
Freedom Week: 4-10                                                                     National Marijuana Facts Week: 4-10
Roswell UFO Days: 4-6 Link
Tour de France: 5-27  Link 

Daily Observations

Bikini Day Link                                                       National Apple Turnover Day

Hop A Park Day                                                      National Corn Hole Day Link  
International Day of Cooperatives                    National Graham Cracker Day
International Cherry Pit Spitting Day      National Independent Beer Run Day Link  
Mechanical Pencil Day                                         National Play Outside Day Link

Thong Day Link

Today’s Quotes                                                             

Today’s Memes

 

Thoughts for the day

The monsoon is giving our town a break for the holiday. Before leaving, there was a nice gentle rain around 9pm Thursday night.

There has been a large wildfire outside Window Rock, the Navajo Nation capital, and the council has cancelled all Independence Day parades, rodeos, and other events. The fire is also near Hunter’s Point. There is a BIA school there and I was on the accreditation team that approved that school back in the day.

Another executive order now will add an additional fee to all foreigners who visit a National Park in the US. No definite fee yet but is expected to be around $90/visitor.

I learned that many of the cuts to Medicaid will not take effect until after the 2026 midterm elections. That is kinda sneaky.

Famous Quotes That People Have Always Misinterpreted

"One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" – Neil Armstrong©Photo Credit: Amateur007/Shutterstock

The quote actually includes an “a” before “man,” which was confirmed by Armstrong himself. The “a” was used to avoid any redundancy in the quote, and it does help it make more sense, as it was just one man who stepped on the moon. It’s thought the misinterpretation was due to the static in the audio transmission during the moon landing.

Famous Historical Myths That People Still Believe Today

The Statue of Liberty Was a Gift from Liberty ©Jakub Hałun on Wikimedia Commons

While France played a huge role in designing and funding the Statue of Liberty, it was not a gift, contrary to what people know. The U.S. had to raise money for the pedestal, and French citizens, not the government, funded the statue. It was a joint effort rather than a simple gift.

Random Thoughts…

George Burns – Real Name: Nathan Birnbaum

An ancient megalake existed beneath what is now the Sahara Desert at one point covering over 42,000 square miles.

George Bernard Shaw is the only person to ever win a Nobel Prize and an Academy Award.

A group of Buzzards is called a Wake.

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929.

Canada has more Costco locations per capita than any country in the world except Iceland, which has one Costco.

A ‘ton’ of people is really only about 15 of them.

Historic Events

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Birthdays

67 – Bill Watterson, American author and illustrator (Calvin and Hobbs) 62 – Edie Falco, American actress 60 – Kathryn Erbe, American actress 40 – Danay Garcia, Cuban actress 39 – Adam ‘Owl City’ Young, American singer- songwriter, composer

@94 – A. E. Douglass, American astronomer (d. 1962) @83 – Shirley Knight, American actress (d. 2020)   @82 – Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., American colonel and politician (d. 1985)   @80 – P.T. ‘Phineas Taylor’ Barnum, American businessman, co-founded Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus (d. 1891)   @80 – Robbie Robertson, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2023) @74 – Jean Cocteau, French novelist, poet, playwright (d. 1963) @70ish – Mary Walcott, American accuser, witness at the Salem witch trials (d. 1719)   @69 – Michael Blake, American author, screenwriter (d. 2015; long illness)   @61 – Thomas Hooker, English-born founder of the Colony of Connecticut (d. 1647; influenza)   @53 – Warren Oates, American actor (d. 1982;; heart attack)

…The End for today…