10 Dec

 

`Flagstaff Almanac

Week 50 Day 343   Flag Today  34° \11°	Sky Cover 5% Wind 11mph Gusts 19mph
Active fire: 326 mi Risk of fire: Moderate	Near Lightning: 1115 mi
Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Windy	Dec. Averages: Temps: 44° \ 17° Moisture 5 Days

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

3-10 Clerc-Gallaudet Week 4-24 Andisop (Meteorological Fiddling)  Link

8-14  Computer Science Education Week Link 10-17 Human Rights Week

Daily Observations

Dewey Decimal System Day Human Rights Day Link Internat'l Animal Rights Day Link International Traffic Light Day: Link

National Lager Day Nobel Prize Day  Jane Addams Day

Today’s Thoughts

One of the coldest nights this fall. It is not warming up much either. It was 24° at 7am and at noon a blistering 34°. I was either reminded or learned that Tennyson’s Charge of the Light Brigade was written during the Crimean War in 1854 about a battle in Ukraine. As I am getting into the spirit of the season, I hope that the world will embrace the message of peace and love for the world. Kwanza is coming. It was started in 1966 and gained popularity in the 1980’s. There are 7 principles of Kwanza, one for each day of the celebration: 1.    Umoja, Unity in Swahili, to strive for and maintain unity in family, community, nation and race. 2.    Kujichagulia, is to be defining, naming, creating, and speaking for oneself. 3.    Ujima, is to build and maintain our community together and make our brother’s and sister’s problems and to solve them together. 4.    Ujamaa, to build and maintain our own stores, shops, and other businesses and to profit from them. 5.    Nia, purpose, to make our collective vocation the building and developing of our community to restore our people to their traditional greatness. 6.    Kuumba, creativity, to do always as much as we can, in the way we can, in order to leave our community more beautiful and beneficial than we inherited it. 7.    Imani, faith, to believe with all our hear in our people, our parents, our teachers, our leaders, and the righteousness and victory of our struggle.

 Enjoy

Famous Natives to Know…

Kent Monkman Kent Monkman is a visual and performance artist with Cree roots. A Canadian First Nations artist, Kent is known for painting, film/video, and art installations highlighting the marriage between Western European and American art history, as well as settler encounters.

Best TV Quotes… TV quotes

I've made a huge mistake." — "Arrested Development", 2003-2019.

Historic Events

1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica was published. 1884 – Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published. 1901 – The first Nobel Prizes were awarded. President Theodore ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt became the first person to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Birthdays with some quotes

@81 – Dorothy Lamour, American actress, and singer (d. 1996) “Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement.” 70 – Susan Dey, American actress 63 – Kenneth Branagh, Northern Ireland-born English actor-director, producer, and screenwriter “Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.” @62 – Chet Huntley, American journalist (d. 1974; lung cancer) 62 – Nia Peeples, American singer 59 – Bobby Flay, American chef “Don’t try to be the next Rachael Ray or Bobby Flay, we already have those people. We want someone who is going to make their own mark on Food Network.” @55 – Emily Dickinson, American poet (d. 1886; Bright’s Disease) “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.” 55 – Michael Clarke Duncan, Actor 49 – Meg White, American drummer “I met Drew Barrymore in New York and she said she liked the band. That was really cool. I grew up on her.” 37 – Raven-Symone (Raven-Symoné Christina Pearman-Maday), actor @36 – Ada Lovelace, mathematician, early computer supporter (d. 1852; Cancer)

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