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Dec. Averages: Temps: 43°\20° Moisture:4 Days moisture 0.7” Flagstaff Today 56°: 35° Week 50 Day 345 Wind: 9 mph Gusts 15 mph Nearest lightning: 1525 miles away Active Fire: 74 miles away Risk of
Fire: Moderate Air Quality: Fair Moderate Partly Mostly Cloudy
Overcast Smoky Red Flag Warning
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Weekly Observations
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Andisop (Meterological
Fiddling Link 7-13 National Hand Washing Awareness
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8-14 Computer Science Education Week Link ) 10-17 Human Rights Week 11-1/1/26 Drive Sober or Get Pulled
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Daily Observations
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International
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National
Sobriety Day Cancelled. National
Stretching Day Link
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Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
My Thoughts for the day
An unusually warm day for December. Nice!
Sec. Rubio has returned to the State Department the Times New Roman
font for all State Dept. information. He somehow determined that the Microsoft
default Calibri font to too woke. I’m sure that anyone receiving
information from the State Department will feel much better about this change.
Hmmm.
Here’s some Flagstaff information that shows why I enjoy living here:
Ø Average annual days
of sunshine: 266 days
Ø Average annual snowfall:
108.8”
Ø Average temperatures
in summer: High 73°, Low 53°
Ø Average temperatures
in winter: High 49°, Low 20°
I had a nice visit with my brother in Mexico. I have decided not to go there for Christmas. This late, tickets are about $1500, the plane will be crowded, weather and/or cancellations are always concerning, and it will all work out. He will be in Colorado in late October, so I will visit him then. It was a difficult decision, but it will be fine.
Wild West Myths that never happened…
Everyone
Lived in Small Frontier Towns
Frontier
towns are central to the Wild West myth, but not everyone lived in them, as
shared by Petticoats & Pistols. Many settlers lived on isolated homesteads
or ranches, sometimes miles from the nearest neighbor.
Cities
like San Francisco, Denver, and Dallas grew rapidly during the 19th century,
offering urban lifestyles alongside the frontier experience. These cities had
theaters, newspapers, and cultural institutions that rivaled those in the East.
A one-street dusty town may be the image we picture, but settlement patterns were much more diverse. Urban centers played just as important a role in shaping the West.
Cities that changed their names…
Calcutta
→ Kolkata (India)
In 2001,
another Indian city reclaimed its voice. “Calcutta,” once the capital of
British India, had carried a foreign pronunciation for too long. Changing it to
“Kolkata,” closer to how Bengalis have always said it, was a subtle correction
(a linguistic homecoming). The sound shift was small, but it felt like respect.
The city of poets, revolutionaries, and street vendors didn’t become different
overnight, but its name finally echoed in its own rhythm, the same cadence that
fills its crowded trams and poetry readings.
Random Thoughts…
What would we do if we didn’t have
love? We would no longer be beings who feel and live for love, but rather a
basic and quiet existence.
It is better to be alone and content
within the four walls of your head than to be subjected to someone’s contempt
simply because you are afraid of loneliness.
Love just happens and provides you an
answer rather than asking you a question.
Is there a reason for everything, or is it just a coincidence?
Historic Events
1719 - The first recorded
sighting of the aurora borealis took place in New England.
1792 - France's King Louis XVI went before
the Convention, which had replaced the National Assembly, to face charges of
treason. He was convicted and condemned and was sent to the guillotine the
following January.
1816 - Indiana was admitted
to the Union as the 19th American state.
1844 - Dr. Horace Wells became the first
person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental
procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic.
1894 - The world's first motor show opened
in Paris with nine exhibitors.
1936 - Britain's King Edward VIII abdicated
in order to marry American Wallis Warfield Simpson. He became the Duke of
Windsor.
1946 - The United Nations International
Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established by the U.N. General
Assembly. The fund provides relief to children in countries devastated by war.
1951 - Joe DiMaggio (New York Yankees)
announced his retirement from major league baseball. DiMaggio only played for the Yankees
during his 13-year career.
1980 - U.S. President
Jimmy Carter signed into law legislation creating $1.6 billion
environmental "superfund" that would be used to pay for cleaning up
chemical spills and toxic waste dumps.
1986 - The government of South Africa
expanded its media restrictions by imposing prior censorship and banning
coverage of a wide range of peaceful anti-apartheid protests.
1991 - Salman Rushdie, under an Islamic
death sentence for blasphemy, made his first public appearance since 1989 in
New York, at a dinner marking the 200th anniversary of the First Amendment
(which guarantees freedom of speech in the U.S.).
1997 - More than 150 countries agreed at a
global warming conference in Kyoto, Japan, to control the Earth's
"greenhouse gases."
1998 - Majority Republicans on the House
Judiciary Committee pushed through three articles of impeachment against U.S. President
Clinton.
2001 - Ted Turner purchased 12,000 acres
in Nebraska for
Bison ranches.
Birthdays
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1931 Puerto
Rican singer, dancer and actress (West Side Story),
born in Humacao, Puerto Rico ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1940 Donna Mills (85
years old, American actress (Knots Landing, Incident), born in Chicago,
Illinois ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ US Secretary
of State (2013-17) and 2004 presidential nominee of the Democratic
Party, born in Aurora, Colorado ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1954 Jermaine
Jackson (71 years old, American singer (Jackson 5 - "ABC"; solo -
"Let's Get Serious"), born in Gary, Indiana ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1958 Jr.],
American rock bassist and
songwriter (Mötley Crüe - "Girls, Girls, Girls"), born in San Jose,
California ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 1967 Mo'Nique
[Monique Hicks] (58 years old, American comedian and actress (Precious), born
in Baltimore, Maryland ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Yalitza Aparicio(32
years old) 1993 Mexican actress (Roma),
born in Tlaxiaco, Mexico ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hailee Steinfeld(20
years old) 1996 American actress (True Grit
(2010); Pitch Perfect films), and singer ("Starving"), born in Los
Angeles, California
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American
statesman (Bill of Rights) and founding father,
born in Fairfax County, Colony of Virginia ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Hector Berlioz(d. 1869; @66, Chron’s) French composer (Symphonie
fantastique), born in La Côte-Saint-André, France ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Robert Koch(d. 1910; @66,
heart attack) German
pioneering bacteriologist (TB, cholera, Nobel Prize 1905), born in Clausthal,
Hanover ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Fiorello La
Guardia(d.1947; @64, cancer) American
politician and Mayor of New
York City (Republican: 1933-45), born in New York City ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ American
farmer who created the Knott's Berry Farm amusement park in California and
introduced the boysenberry to America, born in San Bernardino, California ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Carlo
Ponti, Italian film producer (Marriage Italian Style, Doctor Zhivago), born
in Magenta, Lombardy (d. 2007; @94) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn(d.2008; @89) Russian writer (Cancer
Ward, Nobel
Prize for Literature 1970), born in Kislovodsk, Russia ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Willie Mae "Big
Mama" Thornton, American rhythm-and-blues singer and songwriter (Hound
Dog, Ball & Chain, Stronger than Dirt), born in Ariton, Alabama (d. 1984;
@57, liver failure) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Ferdinand A. Porsche,
German car designer (Porsche 911), born in Stuttgart, Germany (d. 2012; @76)
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