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Dec. Averages: Temps: 43°\20° Moisture:4 Days moisture 0.7” Flagstaff Today 37°: 19° Week 49 Day 336 Wind: 9 mph Gusts 15 mph Nearest lightning: 1854 miles away Active Fire: 213 miles away Risk of
Fire: Very Low Air Quality: Moderate Sunshine |
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1-5 Older Driver Safety Awareness Week Link |
1-7 Cookie Cutter Week Link |
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Giving Tuesday Link |
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Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
My Thoughts for the day
The week is starting off fairly well. Weather guy says wind this
afternoon.
The plumber came and put in a new disposal in the kitchen. He says they
usually only last about 5 years. That was a shock. Disposals used to be like washers,
they lasted forever.
The Broncos beat Washington in a nail-biting OT. Good game. The Cards
keep finding very creative ways to lose games this season. Yesterday they
proved that.
I was happy to read that from Sept. thru November, Flag had it 5th
wettest season with 10.35”. That helps the forest.
I got a new bill from the hospital for my EKG. I called and they had no
explanation for the bill. He said it looks like I don’t owe them. I said, ‘so I
can throw away this 2nd bill?’ He replied ‘Oh, no. the insurance
department must verify it.’ I asked to speak to them and he said I couldn’t,
but he would call me back when it was figured out. So another waiting game
begins.
History that is not true…
The pyramids were built by slaves
The ancient Egyptians were
enthusiastic practitioners of slavery. Victory in war often meant the
wholesale enslavement of captives, while the Egyptian economy rose and fell on
the back of forced labor.
In the biblical book of Exodus,
'pharaoh' (often held to be Ramesses the Great) enslaves the
Israelites for many years before Moses leads them out of bondage and into the
wilderness. The pyramids were built more than a millennium before these purported
events, but the Bible has still helped solidify the image of loincloth-clad
slaves heaving heavy stone blocks under the gaze of whip-cracking foremen.
That slaves built the pyramids
was, for many years, assumed. But scholars now agree that the monuments were
instead built by teams of paid workmen. A purpose-built village unearthed near
the site boasts spacious dormitories, tombs furnished with grave
goods, and the remnants of prime cuts of meat. Such luxuries would never
have been wasted on mere slaves; pyramid-building, it seems, was a respected
profession.
Quarry workers, mortar mixers,
masons, and more worked together in gangs of 1,000 or so, often named after the
pharaoh whose pyramid they were preparing. 'The friends of Khufu' and 'the
drunkards of Menkaure' have both been immortalized in millennia-old graffiti.
Myths people still believe about Native Americans…
Indian casinos threaten the economy
The tribes have the right to engage in tribal
gaming, a sovereignty right established by treaty. It generates over $ 35
billion per year and employs more than 650,000 people, providing benefits to
both Native and non-Native communities.
Tribal casinos finance medical care, education,
and infrastructure in some communities that are usually neglected by federal
programs.
Random Thoughts…
“Do not
touch” must be one of the scariest things to read in braille.
Once we
have self-driving cars, wipers will no longer be essential because the car
doesn’t need a clean windshield to drive. Only humans do.
There’s
no way to prove that we all actually see the same colors.
You will
never stand backward on a staircase.
Historic Events
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history
Birthdays
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American author and 75th
United States Attorney General (1985-88), born in Oakland, California Cathy Lee Crosby (81
years old), American actress (Coach, That's Incredible), born in Los Angeles,
California Stone Phillips (71
years old), American news host (NBC Dateline), born in Texas City Deb Haaland (65 years
old), American politician (1st Native American to head a cabinet agency as
Secretary of the Interior 2021-), born in Winslow, Arizona 1968 Lucy Liu (57
years old), American actress (Ally McBeal), born in Jackson Heights, Queens,
New York Yugoslavian-American tennis player (9-time
Grand Slam title champion), born in Novi Sad, Serbia |
Georges Seurat(d.1891@31, meningitis) French post-impressionist painter (A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte), born in Paris, France
Charles
Ringling, American circus owner (Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey
Circus), born in McGregor, Iowa (d. 1926@63) Peter Carl
Goldmark(d.1977;@71 car accidemt) Hungarian-American
broadcast and recording engineer (developed
the 33-1/3 rpm LP phonograph record format), born in Budapest,
Austria-Hungary American
screenwriter (On The Town; Singin' in the Rain), lyricist ("Bells
Are Ringing"; "Just In Time"), and playwright (It's
Always Fair Weather) - all usually with collaborator Betty Comden, born in
The Bronx, New York City Maria Callas(d.1977; @53,
heart attack) American-Greek soprano (Carmen),
born in Manhattan, New York City American General and 59th
Secretary of State (1981-82), born in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania American attorney and politician (U.S. Senator from Nevada, 1987-2017; U.S. House of Representatives, 1983-87), born in Searchlight, Nevada
Gianni Versace(d.1997@50.
murdered) Italian fashion designer (Versace), born in
Reggio Calabria, Italy |
…The End for today…
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