`Flagstaff Almanac
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Week 52 Day 364 Flag Today 48° \16° |
Sky Cover 5%
Wind 6mph Gusts 13mph |
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Active fire: 223miles Risk of
fire: Moderate |
Near
Lightning: 2510mi |
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Air
Quality: Fair Sunshine |
Dec. Averages: Temps: 44° \ 17° Moisture 5 Days |
Today’s Quote
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Weekly Observations
15 - 1/1/24
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Saturnalia
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Daily Observations
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National Bicarbonate of Soda Day |
Festival of Enormous Changes @ The Last Minute Peeps Days Link |
Today’s Thoughts
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I’m having
a nice winter day. Headed to
the grocery store for some fresh foods. Store was not busy. Easy Peasy. Then
I flipped the mattress and washed the mattress pad and put on clean linens. The hacienda
is only about 45 minutes from the main town of Merida. Leaving Sabin, about ½
the journey to Merida is narrow, windy paved roads and then a highway. The narrow
road was paved…in about 1940. Most of the road has huge trees and bushes
within about 6” of the road. There are for about 10 haciendas…otherwise just
bushes and trees and pullouts when a big truck is coming. Vegetation is thick
for at least a mile from the road. One drives to a couple of small villages. The
people are friendly as one drives by. The poverty is very visible, lots of street
dogs. Most small houses had nice Christmas lights, and many had shrines lit
of various Catholic saints. Walking in the rain forest you hear many
different birds, large snakes abound, and lots of flying bugs with mosquitos
that bite at all exposed skin. My legs and arms still itch. They all have
wide speed bumps made of bricks to slow traffic. If one doesn’t slow to 5mph,
it is what we called Whoopee Bumps when I was a child. I mention
all this because it reminded me of many of the Rez roads. If the vegetation was
gone, they would be just like Rez Roads. The roads could also be many of the
safari roads in Africa without the wildlife around. |
Enjoy
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Important inventions…
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1961: Cordless Tools Black and Decker releases its first cordless drill, but designers can’t coax
more than 20 watts from its NiCd batteries. Instead, they strive for
efficiency, modifying gear ratios and using better materials. The
revolutionary result puts new power in the hands of DIYers and—thanks to
a NASA contract—the gloves of
astronauts. Honorable Inventions: Industrial Robot, Carbon Fiber
Composites |
States with similar
size to countries around the world.
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Transylvania Nothing to do with Dracula or
vampires, this proto-state – a colony set up by pioneer and land speculator
Richard Henderson in 1775 – was situated in what is now the central and
eastern parts of Kentucky. Henderson was poised to
purchase the vast swaths of land to form his state but the Province of
Virginia, which claimed jurisdiction over the territory, stepped in to thwart
the deal. The acquisition was voided the following year. |
Historic Events
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1903 – A
fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois killed at least 605 people. 1916 –
Russian mystic and advisor to the Tsar Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin was
murdered by a group led by Prince Felix Yusupov. His frozen,
partially-trussed body was found in a Moscow river three days later. |
Birthdays with some
quotes
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86 – Paul
Stookey, American singer-songwriter (Peter, Paul, & Mary) @80 – Jack Riley, American actor (d.
2016) Bob Newhart Show @79 – Bo Diddley (Ellas Otha Bates),
singer-songwriter, guitarist (d. 2008; heart failure) I thank you
in advance for the great round of applause I’m about to get. I opened
the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding
the knob. 79 –
Michael Nesmith, American singer-songwriter, Monkee @77 – Bert Parks, American actor and
beauty pageant host (d. 1992; lung cancer) @79 – Fred Ward, American character
actor (d. 2022) @73 – Simon Guggenheim, American
businessman (d. 1941) @72 – Skeeter Davis (Mary Frances
Penick), American singer-songwriter (d. 2004; breast cancer) @70 – Rudyard Kipling,
Indian-English author (d. 1936; hemorrhage) If you can
keep your head when all about you Are losing
theirs and blaming it on you, If you can
trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make
allowance for their doubting too… If you can
talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk
with Kings- nor lose the common touch, If neither
foes nor loving friends can hurt you, If all men
count with you, but none too much; If you can
fill the unforgiving minute With sixty
seconds’ worth of distance run, Yours is
the Earth and everything that’s in it, And- which
is more- you’ll be a Man, my son! 70 –
Meredith Vieira, American journalist @66 – Davy Jones, English
singer-songwriter and actor, Monkee (d. 2012; heart attack) 64 – Tracey
Ullman, English-American actress 62 – Sean
Hannity, American radio and television host @55 – Del Shannon, American
singer-songwriter(d. 1990; suicide) 50 – Jason
Behr, American actor 48 – Tiger
Woods, American golfer 46 – Laila
Ali, Boxer 43 – Eliza
Dushku, American actress 41 –
Kristin Kreuk, Canadian actress 37 – Lebron
James, Basketball 37 – Caity
Lotz, American actress 31 – Carson
Wentz, American football player |
…The End for today…
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