3 Jan

 

Flagstaff Almanac 2024  

Week 1  Day 2   Flag Today  47°/14° Sky cover:  5% Wind 2mph Gusts 3mph
Active Fire:  376miles away Risk of fire: Low  Nearest Lightning:  751 miles away
Air Quality: Fair Moderate Sunshine  Jan. Daily Averages: Temps: 44°\16° Moisture:  5 Days

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

Ginuary Link  Link International Brain Teaser Month International Change Your Stars Month Link International Child-Centered Divorce Month

International Creativity Month International New Years Resolutions Month for Businesses International Quality of Life Month International Wayfinding Month International Wealth Mentality Month

Weekly Observations

1-5 No Tillage Week 1-7 Diet Resolution Week Silent Record Week

2-8 Someday We'll Laugh About This Week

Daily Observations

Drinking Straw Day Festival of Sleep Day  Link J.R.R. Tolkien Day Memento Mori "Remember You Die" Day Link

Nat’l Chocolate Covered Cherry Day Link National Drinking Straw Day Women Rock! Day

Today’s Thoughts

It started off a tad chilly but has warmed up nicely. I hadn’t checked the Focus Travel Group page on Facebook for a while. When I did check it, I discovered it has been overrun with ads. I can’t delete it.  Please, if you are following it, would you unfollow that page so I can unfollow it. Then I will be able to delete the page since Focus Travel is no longer offering trips. Thanks. This year is starting off well, when I was shopping, everything I wanted or needed were right there on the shelves. Nice. I’m jopoing the Supreme Court upholds the wording of the 14th amendment when considering Trump case(s).

 Enjoy

Important inventions…

1966: High-Yield Rice The International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines releases a semi-dwarf, high-yield Indica variety that, in conjunction with high-yield wheat, ushers in the Green Revolution. Indica rice thrives in tropical regions of Asia and South America, raising worldwide production more than 20 percent by 1970.

States with similar size to countries around the world.

Alaska – Libya Alaska is by far the largest U.S. state, with a total area of 665,384 square miles that’s more than double the size of Texas. Alaska is closest in size to Libya, a North African country with a total area of 647,184 square miles. Libya, however, boasts a significantly larger population than Alaska — it is home to an estimated 7.6 million residents. Alaska’s population is roughly one-tenth of that, at around 733,000 people. Alaska’s largest city is Anchorage (with just under 300,000 residents), and its capital city, Juneau, has a population of 32,000. Tripoli is both Libya’s most populous city as well as its capital, with over 1.1 million residents.

Historic Events

1521 – Pope Leo X excommunicated Martin Luther in the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem. 1957 – The Hamilton Watch Company introduced the first electric watch. 1938 – The March of Dimes is established as a foundation to combat infant polio by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1993 – George H. W. Bush and Boris Yeltsin sign the second Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) 2009 – The first block of the blockchain of the decentralized payment system Bitcoin, called the Genesis block, was established by the creator of the system, Satoshi Nakamoto.

Birthdays with some quotes

98 – W. Michael Blumenthal, American economist, and politician 92 – Dabney Coleman, American actor @91 – Victor Borge, Danish-American pianist, and conductor (d. 2000) Laughter is the shortest distance between two people. @84 – Bobby Hull, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2023) @82 – John Sturges, American director, and producer (d. 1982) @81 – J.R.R. Tolkien, English writer, poet, and philologist (d. 1973) The world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. @79 – Ray Milland, Welsh-American actor, and director (d. 1986; cancer) 79 – Stephen Stills, American singer-songwriter Once you decide that it is the art that is important and not how popular and well received you are, you no longer have an albatross. 78 – John Paul Jones, English bass player @77 – Glen A. Larson, American director, producer, screenwriter, created Battlestar Galactica (d. 2014; cancer)74 – Victoria Principal, American actress 68 – Mel Gibson, American-Australian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter @63 – Cicero, Roman philosopher, lawyer, and politician (d. 43 BC; assassinated) He who looks on a true friend looks, as it were, upon a kind of image of himself: wherefore friends, though absent, are still present; though in poverty, they are rich; though weak, yet in the enjoyment of health; and, what is still more difficult to assert, though dead, they are alive. @60 – Sergio Leone, Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1989; heart attack) @56 – Anna May Wong, American actress (d. 1961; heart attack)] @55 – Darren Daulton, American baseball player (d. 2017; brain cancer) 51 – Dan Harmon, American screenwriter, and producer 49 – Danica McKellar, American actress If anyone tells you it’s impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you – and kiss your math. 43 – Eli Manning, American football player 21 – Greta Thunberg, Swedish environmental activist

…The End for today…