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Dec. Averages: Temps: 43°\20° Moisture:4 Days moisture 0.7” Flagstaff Today 49°: 23° Week 50 Day 343 Wind: 7 mph Gusts 9 mph Nearest lightning: 1329 miles away Active Fire: 213 miles away Risk of
Fire: Low Air Quality: Fair Sunshine |
Weekly Observations
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Clerc-Gallaudet Week 4-24 Andisop (Meterological
Fiddling Link |
7-13 National Hand Washing Awareness
WeekLink 8-14 Computer Science Education Week Link ) |
Daily Observations
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Birdseye Frozen Food Day |
Internat’l Day of Commemoration &
Dignity of The Victims of The Crime of Genocide & The Prevention of This
Crime |
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
My Thoughts for the day
Another nice weather day. It looks like some record high temps are
instore for our little mountain town. That’s OK with me.
I got good news from the Oncologist this morning. I have completed the
infusion process for my blood issues. I still will be taking the horse pills until
July, but I’m OK with that.
After that good news, I delivered Christmas Cookies to the front people
and the nurses who do the infusion and phlebotomy. Then more cookies for the
blood draw office and the vascular team that stick me. I ended with a delivery
at Walgreen’s pharmacy. Everyone was pleased to get tasty cookies.
The Broncos beat the Raiders and are sitting nicely for the playoffs. The
Cards lost again and must decide about their future play for next season.
I got a note from my colleague Camille. She said she was bored so she spent
the Thanksgiving holiday in the hospital and rehab after she fell. She says she
is doing well, is home, and can’t wait to be able to drive again. I wished her
all the best with her recovery.
Wild West Myths that never happened…
Native
Americans Were Constantly Attacking Settlers
Popular
culture paints Native Americans as relentless attackers of wagon trains and
homesteads. The truth is far more nuanced. While conflict did occur, it was not
the daily reality for most settlers, as clarified by the Independent Institute.
Many
tribes sought peaceful coexistence and even traded extensively with settlers.
Violence often arose only after treaties were broken, land was seized, or
resources were threatened. In many cases, Native Americans were defending their
homelands against encroachment.
Constant
attacks became a political narrative, one that justified military campaigns and
westward expansion. In reality, Native Americans suffered most from disease,
displacement, and forced assimilation rather than endless battles. This
reshaped entire cultures and communities across the continent.
Cities that changed their names…
Leningrad
→ Saint Petersburg (Russia)
It’s a
city with three names and three centuries of reinvention. Founded by Peter the
Great in 1703 as his “window to the West,” Saint Petersburg became Petrograd
during World War I to sound less German, then Leningrad in 1924 after the death
of Lenin. When the Soviet Union crumbled, residents voted to restore the
original name in 1991.
The return to Saint Petersburg wasn’t rejection, but reconciliation; a way to
honor history without erasing it. Today, its palaces and canals whisper all
three eras at once, proof that names change, but identity endures.
Random Thoughts…
What would my title be if I were a
book?
The color red represents Valentine’s
Day, and so are red roses and red hearts… Would it be unusual if, instead of
red, a different color was chosen for Valentine’s Day? And why the color red?
Why does the color red bring up images of love in our minds?
The only building you left without
entering was the hospital where you were born.
The sounds made by dinosaurs were
created by humans.
Historic Events
1803 - The 12th Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress. With the amendment
Electors were directed to vote for a President and for a Vice-President rather
than for two choices for President.
1854 - Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem,
"The Charge of the Light Brigade," was published in England.
1884 - Levant M. Richardson received a
patent for the ball-bearing roller skate.
1907 - Christmas Seals went on sale for the
first time, in the Wilmington, DE, post office.
1960 - Sperry Rand Corporation unveiled a
new computer known as "Univac 1107."
1975 - U.S.
President Gerald R. Ford signed a $2.3 billion seasonal loan
authorization to prevent New York City from having to default.
1990 - The first American hostages to be
released by Iran began arriving in the U.S.
1994 - Representatives of the Irish
Republican Army and the British government opened peace talks in Northern
Ireland.
Birthdays
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1934 British actress (Henry V,
Wetherby, Skyfall), born in York, England **************************** Beau
Bridges (84 years old), American actor (Hotel New Hampshire, 5th Musketeer),
born in Los Angeles, California **************************** American golfer (US Open
1992; 19 PGA Tour titles, The Tradition 2000), born in McKinney, Texas **************************** 1953 American actor (The Killing
Fields; Dangerous Liaisons), born in Christopher, Illinois **************************** Donny Osmond (68 years
old), American singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie & Marie), born in Ogden,
Utah **************************** Felicity Huffman(63
years old) 1962 American actress (Desperate
Housewives), born in Bedford, New York **************************** 1968 American
220 lbs freestyle wrestler (Olympic gold 1996), born in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania **************************** Stacey Abrams (52
years old), American politician, lawyer and voting rights activist, born in
Madison, Wisconsin **************************** 1995 American
artistic gymnast (Olympic
gold and silver medals 2012) famous for her "not impressed"
expression that became a meme, born in Aliso Viejo, California |
English poet and puritan
(Paradise Lost), born in London, England **************************** Clarence Birdseye(d.1956
@69; heart attack) American inventor and
founder of the modern frozen food industry (Birdseye), born in Brooklyn, New
York **************************** 1898 Emmett
Kelly, American circus clown (Weary Willie), born in Sedan, Kansas (d. 1979@80) **************************** 1899 Jean
de Brunhoff, French children's book author (Babar the Elephant), born in
Paris (d. 1937; @37, TB) **************************** Margaret Hamilton(d.1985; @82) American
character actress (The
Wizard of Oz), born in Cleveland, Ohio **************************** American computer
scientist and US Navy admiral who
invented the first compiler for a universal computer programming language and
is credited with coining the phrase 'debugging’, born in New York City **************************** Douglas
Fairbanks Jr.(d. 2000; @90) American actor (Prisoner of
Zenda; Gunga Din), and decorated US naval officer (WWII Beach Jumpers), born
in New York City **************************** Thomas Phillip "Tip" O'Neill
Jr., American politician and 47th speaker of the house (D-Ma: 1977-86), born
in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1994; @81) **************************** Kirk Douglas [Issur Danielovitch](d.2020; @103) American actor (Spartacus,
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), born in Amsterdam, New York **************************** Redd
Foxx [John Sanford], American comedian and actor (Sanford & Son; Redd
Foxx Show), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1991; @68, heart attack) **************************** Richard
"Dick" Van Patten, American actor, businessman, and animal welfare
advocate (Tom Bradford in 8 is Enough), born in Queens, New York (d. 2015;
@86) **************************** Buck
Henry [Henry Zuckerman], American Emmy Award-winning screenwriter (Get Smart;
The Graduate; The Owl and the Pussycat), actor (1st 10-time host of SNL; The
Man Who Fell to Earth), and director (Heaven Can Wait), born in New York City
(d. 2020; @89) **************************** 1942 Dick
Butkus, American College-Pro Football HOF linebacker (Uni of Illinois; NFL
Defensive Player of the Year 1969, 70; 5×First-team All-Pro; 8xPro Bowl;
Chicago Bears), sportscaster (CBS, ESPN) and actor (My Two Dads), born in
Chicago, Illinois (d. 2023) [1] |
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