Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 18 Day: 120 Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 70° \35°
Wind: 11mph \ Gusts: 18mph
Extreme risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 12mi \ nearest
Lightning: 497mi
Apr Averages for Flagstaff: 59° \ 28° (3 days of moisture)
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
3- 5/1
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21-5/2
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22-30
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23-30
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24-30
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24-5/1
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27-30
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28-30
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29-5/1
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Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice sunny
day so I took a long walk in the forest. Very nice!
The Tunnel
fire near Flagstaff is no 90% contained. Hopefully this good news will continue.
When Dr.
Fauci said ‘not a pandemic phase’ simply meant that we are in a phase of COVID
that is not pandemic. That does not mean that the pandemic is over, just that
it is not pandemic currently. Things can change.
Putin fired missiles
on Kyiv, Ukraine yesterday. This is while the Secretary-General of the UN was
in Kyiv. Many are seeing this as a middle finger to diplomacy by Russia. In
another part of Ukraine, a retired Marine was killed after going to Ukraine to
help the citizens.
I was in
Beijing before the Pandemic. Now, Beijing is starting to lockdown the city with
22 million people. After seeing pictures of the barriers put up, I am concerned
about the tour guides and drivers we showed us that amazing city.
Favorite Memes
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Myths that are not true
Sitting too close to the television damages your eyes
Sitting too
close to the television is not known to harm eyesight. The myth most likely
comes from the color TV-sets in the 1960s that emitted unsafe amounts of
radiation.
If you make a silly face, it will freeze like that
Your facial
muscles are elastic and will always return to their normal state.
Dogs see in black and white
Dogs can see
color, just not to the same extent as humans.
Country Names
Japan
The English
word for Japan actually comes from the Chinese name for the country,
"Cipangu." The country's name apparently means "Land of the
Rising Sun."
Malaysia
Malaysia's
name perhaps comes from the Tamil words "malali" and "ur,"
meaning "mountain" and "city." Together: mountain city.
England
Land of the
angels? No, England actually means "land of the Angles," referring to
the Old English "Engla land."
Historical Events
Ø 1789 – In New York City, George
Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States.
Ø 1803 – The Louisiana Purchase from
France, for 15 million dollars, also included much (if not all of) of Arkansas,
Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Wyoming.
Ø 1812 – The Territory of Orleans became
the 18th U.S. state under the name Louisiana.
Ø 1894 – Antarctic iceberg fragment was
sighted at a latitude 26.50 degrees south, approximately parallel to to Rio de
Janeiro, the nearest to the equator that an Antarctic iceberg that has been
seen.
Ø 1900 – Casey Jones died in a train wreck
in Vaughan, Mississippi, while trying to make up time on the Cannonball
Express.
Ø 1900 – Hawaii became a territory of the
United States, with Sanford B. Dole as governor.
Ø 1938 – The cartoon short Porky’s Hare
Hunt debuted in movie theaters, introducing ‘Happy Rabbit’ (a prototype of Bugs
Bunny).
Ø 1939 – The 1939/1940 New York World’s
Fair opened.
Ø 1939 – Franklin Roosevelt became the
first US President to appear on Television, while appearing at the New York
World’s Fair.
Ø 1947 – Nevada’s Boulder Dam was renamed
the Hoover Dam.
Ø 1948 – The Land Rover, a British-made all-terrain
vehicle, debuted at an auto show in Amsterdam.
Ø 1992- A Time Capsule was put in the
ground in front of the Nickelodeon Building. However, on the same exact day 13
years later, Nickelodeon’s studios closed. It’s now underneath the entrance to
the Nickelodeon Resort. It will be opened April 30th, 2042.
Ø 1993 Tennis star Monica Seles was stabbed by Gunter Parchein Hamburg, Germany.
Birthdays Today
@94 – Cloris Leachman, American actress (d.
2021)
@89 – Alice B. Toklas, American memoirist
(died in 1967)
@82 – Eve Arden, American character
actress (d. 1990)
@74 – Gary Collins, American actor and
talk show host (d. 2012)
@73 – Bobby Vee [Robert Thomas Velline], singer-songwriter (d. 2016; dementia)
@66 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (d.
2010; leukemia)
47
– Johnny Galecki, American actor
41
– Kunal Nayyar, TV Actor
40
– Kirsten Dunst, American actress
37
– Gal Gadot, Israeli actress and model
31
– Travis Scott, American rapper and producer
