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Flagstaff Today 84°: 49° Week 31 Day 209 Wind 3 mph Gusts 13 mph Active Fire: 54 miles away Risk of
Fire: Extreme Nearest lightning: 349 miles away Air Quality: Fair clouds over the
mountain Sunshine Jul Averages: Temps: 82°\51° Moisture: 8 Day
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Daily Observations
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Soldiers Day Link National Waterpark Day Link
National Hamburger Day World
Hepatitis Day Link
National Milk Chocolate
Day Link World Nature Conservation Day
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
Thoughts for the day
A fine summer day with hopes of some monsoon moisture.
After calling UNESCO ‘too woke’, Trump has stopped all US funding.
I can’t wait for drug prices to drop the 1500% that Trump has promised.
That means that drug companies will give me a bucket load of money to use their
medicines.
The horrific fire, Dragon Bravo, at the north rim is now at about 9,000
acres. So much loss.
History Facts Americans Commonly Get
Wrong
Betsy Ross Probably Didn’t
Make the First American Flag©wikimedia
The story of Betsy Ross sewing
the first American flag is taught in schools, but there’s almost no historical
evidence for it. The tale first appeared in 1870, nearly a century after the
supposed event, when Ross’s grandson told the story to the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania.
No contemporary records link her to the flag’s creation, and the flag design
itself was a group effort by the Continental Congress. Some historians argue
that Francis Hopkinson, a New Jersey delegate, played a much larger role in the
flag’s design and even billed Congress for his work.
While Betsy Ross was a real
person and did make flags, the famous story seems more legend than fact.
Americans often prefer a simple, compelling story, but real history is rarely
so neat.
Literary Legends…
Alice Walker Source: Wikimedia Commons.
Alice Walker’s The Color Purple is
a landmark novel that powerfully portrays the struggles and resilience of Black
women in the early 20th-century South. Her evocative storytelling and richly
drawn characters have resonated with readers around the world, sparking
important conversations about race, gender, and healing. Walker’s
groundbreaking achievement earned her the Pulitzer Prize, and her work’s
enduring significance is highlighted by the Library of
Congress.
Random Thoughts…
Rob Roy – Real Name: Robert McGregor
Kirk Douglas – Real Name: Issur Danielovitch Demsky
A group of Hamsters is called a Horde.
Mark Wahlberg and Matt Damon agree that if they’re ever confused for one another, they will just go along with it.
Success and failure, we think of them as opposites, but they’re really not. They’re companions- the hero and sidekick.
A group of Hawks (in flight) is called a Kettle.
Marie Curie’s notebooks are still radioactive. Researchers hoping to view them must sign a disclaimer.
The average wait in the waiting room of a doctor’s office: 20 minutes.
Historic Events
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history
Birthdays
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65 – Jon J. Muth, American author, illustrator |
@84 – Rudy Vallée (Hubert Prior Vallée ), American
actor and singer(d. 1986)
@64 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, American socialite,
37th First Lady (d. 1994; non-Hodgkins lymphoma)
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