April 2023
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 16 Day 109 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 26 miles Flagstaff Today 65° \34° Wind
13mph \ Gusts 30mph
Air Quality: Moderate \ Extreme Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 413mi \ Nearest
Lightning 388mi
Apr. Averages for Flagstaff: 60° \ 27° \3
Days of moisture
Today’s
Quote
Weekly
Observations
3/22-4/20 Consider Christianity Week
International Phace
Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week
15-22 International Dark Sky Week
15-21 Money
Smart Week
National Volunteer Week
16-22 Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness
Week
Chemists Celebrate Earth Week
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National
Pet ID Week
Numismatic Week (National Coin Week)
16-23 Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
17-21 Undergraduate
Research Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
18-24 Cleaning
For A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
Police Officers Gave Their Lives In The
Line of Duty
19-23 International Mariachi Week
Daily Observations
Amaretto Day
Banana Day Link
Bicycle Day Link
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Action Day Link
Garlic Day
John Parker Day
National Garlic Day Link
National Hanging Out Day
National High Five Day
National Poker Day Link
National Stress Awareness Day
Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Wind
gusts are increasing at an hourly rate. Spring in the high desert.
Arizona
Republican Congressman Paul Gosar on Sunday promoted an antisemitic website
that denies the Holocaust, praises Adolf Hitler as “a man of valor” and
features many admittedly false articles. He was a local dentist, then our congressman,
then the district boundaries changed, thank goodness, and he ran in another district.
The
anti-CRT efforts to restrict how race is taught have clashed with initiatives
in several states, including South Dakota, Oklahoma, and New Mexico, to teach
Native American history — which has often been left out of instruction — more
accurately and fully. Anti-CRT is a cute
catch-phrase but it is doing damage to the education of our youth.
As
I was browsing the internet this morning, I was happy to see that the
Discoverer website picked Flagstaff’s Heritage Square downtown as one of the
country’s prettiest town squares in the US. It is a nice venue for sure. The
only problem not mentioned in the article, is that parking anywhere within many
blocks is expensive.
Dominion
has settled its lawsuit against FOX news for $787.6 million, well shy of the
$26 billion they had asked for. I guess the $$ talked and the principle was
forgotten.
Enjoy…
Geography…
Egypt Isn’t
Only Located in Africa
Sure, Egypt
is part of the African continent, but it’s technically considered to be a
transcontinental country.
While the
Suez Canal divides Asia and Africa, there’s actually a small peninsula in Egypt
that transcends the canal and toes the line between the two continents.
Moon Facts…
The craters are always named after people
Ever wondered how the multitude of lunar
craters get their names? Traditionally they have been named after scientists or
philosophers, such as Copernicus, Archimedes or the Aristarchus crater shown
here. The current guidelines for naming newly discovered craters is that they
must be named after a scientist or explorer who has made important
contributions to astronomy—and especially to the study of the Moon and our
solar system—and has been deceased for at least three years. In addition, the
name cannot be the same as any existing lunar location.
State
Names Origins…
Alaska
Long before Russian explorers first
landed in Alaska in 1741, the native Unangan people of the Aleutian Islands and
the Sugpiaq people of the Alaska Peninsula called the region home. Those groups
were collectively dubbed as the Aleut by the Russians, and it’s the Aleut
language that we thank for Alaska’s name. Natives referred to the Alaska
Peninsula and mainland as alaxsxag, a word that’s also sometimes spelled as
alyeska. That word translates to “great land,” which is perhaps the most
appropriate phrase to describe Alaska, as the state’s impressive breadth makes
it larger than Texas, California, and Montana combined. This “great land” of
the American northwest is also home to the largest national park in the United
States, where you can witness Alaska’s ethereal and expansive beauty firsthand.
Historical
Events
v 1770 – Captain James Cook discovered the
eastern coast of what is now Australia.
v
1987 – The
Simpsons first appeared as a series of shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show,
v
1993 – The
Branch Davidian Fire, caused by federal agents at Waco, killed 86 people.
v 1995 – The Oklahoma City Bombing
Birthdays
Today
