Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 23 Day: 150 \ Ave. sky cover: 10% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 70° \35°
Wind: 7mph \ Gusts: 16mph
Extreme risk of fire
\ Nearest active fire: 10mi \ nearest Lightning: 209mi
May Averages for Flagstaff: 68° \ 34° (3 days of moisture)
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Weekly Observations
23-6/5
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25-30
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25-31
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26-31
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27-30
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28-6/3
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29-6/5
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30-9/5
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Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice day…but
also a Red Flag Day
It is also Memorial
Day (originally known as Decoration Day), a federal holiday in the United
States for mourning the U.S. military personnel who have died while serving in
the United States armed forces. It is observed on the last Monday of May. It
was formerly observed on May 30 from 1868 to 1970. Thank you to all who lost
their lives protecting the USA.
Last night’s
discussion group went very well. Incarceration doesn’t work. Fear has been used
for decades. It doesn’t work either. After Portugal legalized drugs, they also set
up a huge system of rehabilitation that included highly needed counselors to work
with the users. Latin America learned that the US did not and still does not
have good plans. Drug use has been a world-wide issue for most of history. The
one solution that has not been properly funded in most of the world is to work
with those who use drugs and provide them with the necessary techniques to
avoid using.
I cannot
believe this is still an issue: At the Cannes Film Festival an indigenous
tribal filmmaker from Canada was denied a walk on the red carpet because he was
wearing tribal moccasins and the person monitoring the red carpet determined
they were inappropriate footwear. The higher ups heard about it and apologized
to the filmmaker and allowed him on the red carpet the next day.
Favorite Memes
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Humor
“Do Transformers get
car, or life insurance?”
Trivia
v Even if you don't know exactly how fast
light travels, you know it moves pretty darn fast. But how fast exactly? Well,
that depends on what it's moving through. If it's moving through a vacuum, it's
speed is 186,280 miles/second. Through clear glass it travels at about 124,000
miles/second.
v Light doesn't necessarily travel at the
speed of light. The slowest light has ever been recorded moving at is 38 mph.
Although that was through an ultracold gas of sodium atoms. The gas was cooled
to nanokelvin temperatures by laser and evaporative cooling, causing the light
pulses propagate at twenty million times slower than the speed of light in a
vacuum.
Historical Events
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1431 – At
Rouen, Normandy, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake for heresy.
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1806 –
Future US President Andrew Jackson participated in a duel, killing Charles
Dickinson. Dickinson shot first, wounding Jackson, but Jackson’s shot at
Dickinson was fatal. Most of Andrew Jackson’s duels were for the questioned
honor of his wife, Rachel.
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1842 – John
Francis attempted to murder Queen Victoria as she drives down Constitution Hill
in London.
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1854 – The
US territories of Kansas and Nebraska were established.
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1883 – A
stampede on the recently opened Brooklyn Bridge in NYC killed twelve people.
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1911 – At
the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the first Indianapolis 500 ended with Ray
Harroun in his Marmon Wasp.
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1922 – The
Lincoln Memorial was dedicated in Washington DC.
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1958 – The
remains of two unidentified American servicemen, killed in action during World
War II and the Korean War respectively, were buried at the Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
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1974 – The
Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first entered service.
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1975 –
European Space Agency was established.
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2005 –
American student Natalee Holloway disappeared while on a high school graduation
trip to Aruba. Most people believe that Joran van der Sloot had something to do
with it.
Birthdays Today
@81 – Mel Blanc, American voice actor (d.
1989)
64
– Ted McGinley, American actor
60
– Kevin Eastman, American author, illustrator
58
– Wynonna Judd, American singer-songwriter
47
– CeeLo Green, American singer-songwriter
