Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 25 Day: 167 \ Ave. Sky Cover: 60% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff
Today 85° \45°
Wind: 1mph \ Gusts: 5mph
Air Quality: POOR
June Averages for Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° (1 day of moisture)
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Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
There is no
wind today…that means our town is very smoky. Our air quality is POOR. This
was not unexpected but still very bothersome. The good news is that the Pipeline
fire is 31% contained. The Haywire and Double fire joined to be the Haywire
Complex fire and it is 21% contained. Planes can continue flying throughout the
day as the wind is not an issue. I have several friends who have been evacuated
but none have lost property. They are just starting to lift evac orders for
some areas. Things are looking up.
I have to
say I expected more from the Biden administration. Inflation and gas prices are
hurting everyone. Mass shootings have only increased. If something doesn’t change
very soon, the Dems are going to get creamed in the November midterms. Many of
the winning Republicans in the primaries across the country want to return
Trump to the presidency, but any means possible. I learned a long time ago you
can never go back because people remember the good from the past and gloss over
the bad. I still want to see a better world than yesterday,
Favorite Memes
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Everyday Phrases
with a Dark Meaning
Be-all,
end-all
William
Shakespeare has made a huge contribution to the English language. He is
credited for inventing numerous phrases and words. "Be-all, end-all"
is one of them.
The phrase
is used to describe a defining moment/the most important thing in a scenario.
The playwright first used it when Macbeth was about to kill the king in his
famous play 'Macbeth.'
US Flag Myths
Myth #10:
The flag must always be folded into a triangle for storage
Folding a
flag into a triangle for storage, with only the blue union and stars visible,
is part of tradition, said Hendricks, not a requirement of the Flag Code. Flags
on a staff are properly stored in an entirely different manner that doesn't
involve folding.
"Flags
that are affixed to a staff are typically rolled around the staff and then a
burlap case is placed over the flag and staff,” he said. “So, at that point,
you can handle it like luggage. It's been properly stored."
Historical Events
Ë 1816
– Lord Byron read ‘Fantasmagoriana’ to his four house guests – Percy Shelley,
Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspired his challenge
that each guest to write a ghost story.
Ë 1858 – Abraham Lincoln gave his “a house
divided against itself cannot stand” speech.
Ë 1884 – The first public roller coaster,
LaMarcus Adna Thompson’s “Switchback Railway” (patent #310,966) opened in New
York’s Coney Island amusement park.
Ë 1893 – Cracker Jack, invented by R.W.
Rueckheim, was introduced at the World’s Columbian Exposition, Chicago’s World
Fair.
Ë 1903 – The Pepsi-Cola Co. registered the
Pepsi-Cola trademark.
Ë 1911 – IBM was founded as the
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.
Ë 1961 – Dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to
the US from the Soviet Union.
Ë 1963 – Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova
became the 1st woman in space on Vostok 6.
Ë 1967 – The Monterey Pop Festival began.
Ë 1977 – Oracle Corporation was
incorporated in Redwood Shores, California,
Ë 2010 – Bhutan became the first country to
institute a total ban on tobacco.
Ë 2016 – Shanghai Disneyland Park, the
first Disney Park in Mainland China, opened to the public.
Birthdays Today
@79 – Geronimo [ 'the one who yawns'], Apache
leader (d.1909; in prison, pneumonia)
@74 – Jack Albertson, American character actor (d. 1981; cancer)
52
– Phil Mickelson, golfer
@25 – Tupac Shakur [Lesane Parish
Crooks], musician (d. 1996; shot)
