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Dec. Averages: Temps: 43°\20° Moisture:4 Days moisture 0.7” Flagstaff Today 46°: 22° Week 49 Day 335 Wind: 6 mph Gusts 14 mph Air Quality: Moderate Sunshine Active Fire: 213 miles away Risk of
Fire: Low Nearest lightning: 1278 miles away |
Monthly Observations
Adopt A Turkey Month Link Link (October
thru December)
Bingo's Birthday Month
Buckwheat Month Link
Car Donation Month Link
Weekly Observations
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National Deal Week: 11/25-12/1 |
1-5 Older Driver Safety Awareness Week Link Cookie Cutter Week Link |
Daily Observations
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Antarctica Day |
Day With(out) Art Day |
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
My Thoughts for the day
I’m happy to welcome December. I can’t believe the great weather we are
having.
I am watching the Cards play Tampa Bay. Teams seem evenly ranked. Maybe
the Cards will pull out a victory. Then tonight on Sunday Night Football I get
to watch the Broncos live. Nice!
As a student in high school and college, I wondered how the citizens Germany
could have a dictator that was removing rights and imprisoning its Jewish
citizens. Our neighbors were a German couple who fled after the war. They said
they didn’t know what Hitler was doing. They were good neighbors and when they
had twins, I helped name them. Now over 50 years later, I do believe that they
didn’t know because I am seeing similar behavior in this country with many not
seeing what is happening.
My brother and SIL have posted lots of photos of their Thanksgiving and
their Left-over feast. They fed over 100 at the dinner and I think about 40 on
the Left-over feast on Friday. As expected, it was spectacular! The hacienda is
a terrific venue for events and these two know how to make every event
outstanding.
History that is not true…
Rome was one of history’s largest
empires
The Roman
poet Virgil described Roman dominion as "empire without
end," but in fact its limits were pretty well-defined. At its largest
in AD 117, the empire’s borders cut a line across central and eastern Europe,
running through the modern-day countries of Germany, Austria, Romania, and
Hungary. In North Africa, the Romans controlled the Mediterranean coast but
rarely ventured into the Sahara, while in the east their mastery ended with the
deserts of Arabia and the armies of the Parthians in modern-day Iran.
Rome was
surely one of history’s most influential civilizations, but for sheer
size its 1.9 million-or-so square miles put it comfortably outside
the top 20.
In case you were wondering, the British, Mongol, and Russian empires were
history’s largest – covering 26%, 18%, and 17% of the world’s
land respectively – but far less famous dominions also outrank Rome. The
sprawling grasslands of the Xiongnu confederation, the rapid conquests of the
Umayyad Caliphate, the ancient imperium of Persia, and the colonial possessions
of the Portuguese all covered more ground. Rome wasn’t even the largest empire
of its day (thanks to the Chinese Han dynasty) and would be smaller than six
modern-day countries.
Myths people still believe about Native Americans…
Native Americans were primitive
Nature societies were democratic, had gigantic
cities, and agricultural innovations that laid the groundwork for the modern
world. Native farming gave rise to crops such as corn, potatoes, and cacao, the
precursor to chocolate.
The primitive label supported the idea of
colonization by depicting the Native people as requiring European civilization.
Random Thoughts…
A corn
maze is a maze of maize.
They
don’t let you smile in passport photos
because they want you to look the same as if you were standing in line at
customs for an hour.
Watching
TV made me think that soufflés being ruined would be a more frequent problem.
No one
has ever been in a fully empty room.
Historic Events
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Birthdays
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American golfer (British Open
1971-72; US Open 1968, 71; US PGA 1974, 84), born in Dallas, Texas 1945 American singer ("The
Rose"; "Wind Beneath My Wings"), and actress (Ruthless
People; Beaches), born in Honolulu, Hawaii Rick Scott (73 years
old), American politician (Senator-R-Florida 2019-, Governor of Florida
2011-19), born in Bloomington, Illinois
Charlene Tilton, (67 years old) American actress (Lucy Ewing - Dallas),
born in San Diego, California American actress and comedian (The
Sarah Silverman Program, I Smile Back), born in Bedford, New Hampshire American actress (Big
Little Lies), daughter of Lisa Bonet & Lenny Kravitz, born in Los
Angeles, California Robert Irwin, (22 years old) Australian zookeeper and television personality (Crikey! It's the Irwins), son of Steve Irwin, born in Buderim, Australia |
@93…Francesco
Stradivari, Italian violin maker and son of Antonius, born in Cremona, Duchy
of Milan, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1743) French
founder of Madame
Tussaud's wax museum, born in Strasbourg @88 Rex Stout, American mystery writer (Nero Wolf novels), born in Noblesville, Indiana (d. 1975) @76…Mary Martin(1913-1990; cancer) American actress (Peter
Pan) and Larry Hagman's mom, born in Weatherford, Texas @67…David Doyle, American actor (Charlie's Angels, Rugrats), born in Omaha, Nebraska (d. 1997) @63…Dick Shawn [Richard Schulefand], American character actor and comedian (Producers, Maid to Order, Angel), born in Buffalo, New York (d. 1987; heart attack) @72…Lou Rawls, American soul singer-songwriter and producer ("You'll Never Find Another Love Like Mine", "Natural Man"), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2006; cancer) @65…Richard Pryor(1940-2005; heart attack) American
Emmy and 5X Grammy Award-winning comedian (Live on
the Sunset Strip), actor (Silver
Streak; Stir Crazy), and screenwriter (Blazing Saddles), born in Peoria,
Illinois @44…Pablo Escobar(1949-1993; shot) Colombian drug lord, born in
Rionegro, Colombia |
…The End for today…
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