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Week 10 Day: 61 Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 52° \210°
Wind: 9mph \ Gusts: 13mph
High risk of fire \ Nearest
active fire: 346mi \ nearest Lightning: 1763mi
Mar Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23° (6 days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Monthly Observations
Child Life
Month Link
Clap 4 Health Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Credit Education Month
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month Link
Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15)
Developmental Disabillities Awareness Month Link
Employee Spirit Month
Endometriosis Month Link
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science & Engineering Month Link
Weekly Observations
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Hearing Awareness Week: Link |
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2-4/16 |
Lent |
Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Blue sky and
a nice day. I headed out to get my vehicle washed after the last storm. Before
leaving I got my plane tickets to Denver for the Tahiti trip. Plane tickets
aren’t as cheap as they used to be. I’ll
discover the same when I make my hotel reservations.
Over half a
million Ukrainians have fled the country. Russian tanks are breaking down and
being left on the highway. Also, dead
Russian soldiers are being left of the highways. Ukraine also has very good medical
schools. Many of the students are foreigners who are there on student-visas to
become medical personnel. Those foreigners are also leaving but finding there
is no where to go to continue their education. They can’t get scholarships and
spent all their money to get out, losing their tuition when they fled.
Several in
Congress are saying the US needs to set up a no-fly zone in and around Ukraine.
These people are not correct. If the US sets up a no-fly zone, then the US
would have to enforce it…i.e. shoot down planes that enter the space…shoot down
Russian Planes. That would certainly lead to all out war…WWIII. No thanks.
We are so
close to a full scaled war already.
Peace talks have to happen. Shell announced on Monday that it will cut
ties with the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. The move follows a
similar decision from BP, which on Sunday said it will sell its shares in Russian-state
firm Rosneft.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
When is the
moon the heaviest?
When it's
full!
Trivia
Q: What is
the 'perfect score' in a game of Ten Pin Bowling?
Q: With
which sport would you have associated Jocky Wilson?
Q: With what
did cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi frequently play within his hands?
Q: What 3
Letter Word It The Name Given To A Replayed Point In Tennis?
ANSWERS:
Answer 1:
300
Answer 2:
Darts
Answer 3: A
glass eye
Answer 4:
Let
Historical Events
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1657 – The
Great Fire of Meireki in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000
deaths and lasted three days 1807 – The US Congress passed an act to “prohibit
the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the
United States… from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.”
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1863 – The
US Congress authorized a track width of 4-feet, 8-1/2 inches as the standard
for the Union Pacific Railroad, which became the standard width for most of the
world.
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1925 –
Highway numbers were introduced in the United States. East/West are even
numbered, North/South are odd-numbered
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1943 – The
Battle of Bismarck, Ally victory in South Pacific
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1933 – King
Kong (film) opened at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.
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1962 – Wilt
Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single basketball game against the New York
Knicks. Final score: 169-147, at the Hershey Arena. Although there were only
about 6,000 tickets sold, guesstimates are that almost 50% of male sports fans
born in the Philadelphia area between 1925 and 1958 claim to have been at the
event.
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1969 – The
Concorde SST Supersonic jet aircraft, prototype 001, made its first flight from
Toulouse airport in France.
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1978 –
Charlie Chaplin’s body was stolen from a cemetery in the Swiss village of
Corsier-sur-Vevey, near Lausanne, Switzerland. The grave robbers (and the
re-buried body) were found a few weeks later.
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1983 –
Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States
and other markets. (They had previously been available only in Japan.)
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1990 –
Nelson Mandela was elected deputy President of the African National Congress.
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2009 – Late
Night with Jimmy Fallon premiered on NBC.
Birthdays Today
91 – Mikhail
Gorbachev, Russian lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
@87 – Dr. Seuss [Theodor Geisel], American children’s book writer,
poet, illustrator (d. 1991)
@70 – Sam Houston, 1st President of the Republic of
Texas (d. 1863)
@69 – Desi Arnaz [Desiderio
Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III], Cuban-American actor, singer, and producer (d.
1986; lung cancer)
69 – Russ Feingold,
American lawyer and politician
60 – Jon Bon Jovi,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
54 – Daniel Craig,
English actor
51 – Method Man,
American rapper, record producer
42 – Rebel Wilson,
Australian actress
@32 – Karen Carpenter, American singer (d. 1983;
anorexia)
