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Flagstaff Today 81°: 48° Week 34 Day 230 Wind 5 mph Gusts 10 mph Active Fire: A miles away Risk of
Fire: High Nearest lightning: 378 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Aug. Averages: Temps: 79°\50° Moisture: 9 Day
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Weekly Observations
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Nat’l Resurrect Romance Week: 10-16 World Photography Week: 12-26 Link Little League World Series: 13-24 Link Great American Stamp Days: 14-17 |
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over: 15-9/1 Link National Aviation Week: 17-23 Minority Enterprise Development Week: 18-24 |
Daily Observations
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Bad
Poetry Day Link |
International
Pinot Noir Day Link |
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
Thoughts for the day
It is a very nice summer day. Glad I took a walk through the
neighborhood.
The Broncos beat the Cards in a pre-season game.
I have another blood treatment Monday. All seems to be going well.
I’ve been a fan of folk music since my early teens. PBS just did a re-run
of 50 years of Peter, Paul, & Mary. I’m enjoying it a lot.
Myths from Medieval Times
People Did Not Sleep Through
The Night
Today, health experts
recommend that we get around eight hours of sleep per night. But in the Middle
Ages, people did not sleep that long. They had two "sleeps;" they
would rest for four hours and then wake up to read, write, chat, etc. Then, they
would sleep again for three or four hours.
This pattern of sleeping
continued until the 19th century. Doctors even recommended a nightly break from
sleep. In France, a 16th-century doctor told couples that the nightly break was
the best time to conceive.
Accomplishments Wrongly Attributed to
Famous People
The Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell is widely known as the inventor of the
telephone, but Antonio Meucci, an Italian-American engineer, has contested this
recognition. Meucci created the “teletrofono” prototype and even demonstrated
it publicly in 1860, years before Bell’s patent was granted.
Unfortunately, Meucci lacked the funds to secure a proper
patent and instead filed a temporary notice, which he was unable to renew. He
later sent a model to Western Union, where it mysteriously disappeared. Two
years later, Bell unveiled his telephone and secured a lucrative contract. Bell
achieved fame and fortune, while Meucci passed away in poverty, his
significant contribution largely unacknowledged during his lifetime.
Random Thoughts…
The cracking sound you hear from a whip is actually the whip breaking the
speed of sound and creating a small sonic boom.
In his 1225 essay on the nature of color (Du Luce/On Light), the English Bishop Robert Grosseteste described the birth of the Universe in an explosion and the crystallization of matter to form stars and planets in a set of nested spheres around Earth, seven centuries before the Big Bang theory.
All gerbils in the US descend from 20 caught in Mongolia in 1935 for research purposes.
Roman citizens who did not have land were deemed unfit for battle since they would not have something to protect.
The Ouija board got its name after being asked what is should be called. When asked what it meant, the board allegedly replied, “good luck.”
Historic Events
Birthdays
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91 – Roman Polanski, French-Polish director, producer 73 – Elayne Boosler, American comedic actress 69 – Jon ‘Bermuda’ Schwartz, American drummer, producer 47 – Andy Samberg, American actor, comedian 31 – Maia Mitchell, Australian actress |
1587 – Virginia Dare, the first child born to English
parents in the Americas (date of death unknown) @96 – Rosalynn Carter, First Lady (d. 2023) @85 – Shelley Winters, American actress (d. 2006) @80 – Martin Mull, American actor, comedian (d. 2024) @71 – Marshall Field, American businessman, founded Marshall Field’s (d. 1906;
pneumonia) @65 – Gail Fisher, American actress (d. 2000; kidney failure) @57 – Patrick Swayze, American actor, and dancer (d. 2009; pancreatic cancer) @38 – Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (d. 1972; plane crash) @35 – Meriwether Lewis, American soldier, explorer, and politician (d. 1809;
mysterious death) |
…The End for today…
