Week 17 Day: 107 Ave. sky cover: 5% \
Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 65° \30° Wind: 9mph \
Gusts: 11mph
Extreme risk
of fire \ Nearest active fire: 10mi prescribed burn \ nearest
Lightning: 1013mi
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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Passiontide: 3-17 Ramadan: 3- 5/1 World Irish Dancing Week: 10-17 Global Youth Service Days: 15-17 |
16-22 INVICTUS GAMES 16-24 National Park Week: Link |
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17-23 Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link |
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Daily Observations
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Happy
Easter.
A nice walk
through the neighborhood on a great spring day.
I did some laundry. I must get ready for Easter.
I am so glad
that I was a very small part of helping the French Polynesia people recover
from the 2-year lockdown due to Covid. Most, if not all, of the local vendors
seemed happy that we had stopped in. It usually seemed more than the typical
tourist welcome.
The Daily Show
with Trevor Noah is back with a live audience. I’ve been recording that show
for years, midnight is just too late to stay up. After two years without an
audience, I had forgotten how great the show is with an audience.
Strange: I pay my landlord with autopay. I’ve been doing it since I moved in. For April he called and said he never got the check. Checking with the bank, they say it was returned because it was damaged. My landlord said he never got it. The bank had refunded the money to my account because the check was damaged. I sent him another check, and he still insists he never got the first check. Hmmm.
Favorite Memes: Thanks to my friend
Ed for these good ones.
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A bit of Humor
Why should
you never trust stairs?
They’re
always up to something.
Trivia
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The mosquito
is the single deadliest animal in the world and also one of the smallest.
Mosquitoes are estimated to cause between 750,000 and one million human deaths
per year. They are a vector for many diseases that are deadly to mankind
including malaria, dengue fever, and the West Nile and Zika viruses. Malaria
alone accounts for over half a million fatal infections annually.
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Only the
female mosquito feeds on humans with the male feeding on nectar. Some
scientists have estimated that potentially half of all human deaths since the
beginning of our species may be the result of illnesses transmitted by
mosquitoes.
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In fact,
this tiny insect that weighs about as much as a grape seed has destroyed
armies, crippled economies and rewrote U.S. history.
Historical Events
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1397 –
Geoffrey Chaucer told The Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of
Richard II.
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1521 – The
trial of Martin Luther over his teachings began during the assembly of the Diet
of Worms.
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1861 – The
first oil well fire occurred at the Little and Merrick well at Oil Creek, near
Rouseville, Pennsylvania, killing 19 people.
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1906 – San
Francisco was hit by a disastrous earthquake, with an estimated magnitude of
7.8.
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1907 – The
Ellis Island immigration center in New York processed 11,747 people, more than
on any other day.
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1961 – The
unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion began.
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1964 – The
Ford Mustang was introduced to the North American market.
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2014 –
NASA’s Kepler space telescope confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size
planet, Kepler-186f.
Birthdays Today
@78 – Thornton Wilder, American novelist,
playwright (d. 1975; heart failure)
@75 – J.P. Morgan, American banker and
financier, founded J.P. Morgan & Co. (d. 1913)
@77 – Rod Steiger, American character
actor (d. 2002; kidney failure)
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– Olivia Hussey, Argentinian-English actress
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– Jennifer Garner, American actress
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– Victoria Beckham, English singer and fashion designer
