31 Dec

  

Dec. Averages: Temps: 43°\20° Moisture:4 Days moisture 0.7” Flagstaff Today 46°: 31° Week 52 Day 365 Wind: 12 mph Gusts 17 mph                    Nearest lightning: 1252 miles away Active Fire: 433 miles away Risk of Fire: Moderate Air Quality: Fair  Sunshine

 

 

 

 

 

Weekly Observations

25-31 It's About Time Week

26-1/1 Kwanzaa

 

Daily Observations

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My Thoughts for the day

I'm still working on my workaround to do this blog. Some of the regular features are not available on my sick computer. Sorry.

The American Battle Monuments Commission, a federal agency, has removed two panels of a monument honoring Black Soldiers in the Netherlands. News reports say the locals are angry over the removal. What is really happening within our Federal government? 

If I don't post everyday, I'm doing fine, it's my computer that is seriously ill. I'm waiting until the new year begins before I take it in to Geek Squad. They will either fix it, or I'll get a new computer. 

 

Today’s Quotes                                                             

 

Today’s Memes

 

Classic songs that unlock deep nostalgia…

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Cities that changed their names…

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Random Thoughts…

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Historic Events

Dec 31 History

 

Birthdays

Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud(90 years old) 1935 King of Saudi Arabia (2015-present), born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Anthony Hopkins(88 years old) 1937 Welsh actor (Elephant Man, QB VII, Magic, Bounty),  born in Port Talbot, Glamorgan, Wales Ben Kingsley(82 years old) 1943 English actor (Gandhi, Betrayal), born in Scarborough, England Diane von Furstenberg(79 years old) Belgian-born American fashion designer (wrap dress), born in Brussels 67 Bebe Neuwirth, American stage and screen actress (Chicago; Cheers & Fraser - "Lilith"; Damn Yankees), born in Princeton, New Jersey Jennifer Higdon(63 years old) American classical music composer (2010 Pulitzer; 3 Grammy Awards) and educator (Curtis Institute of Music, 1994 - 2021), born in Brooklyn, New York 48 Donald Trump Jr., American businessman and son of Donald Trump and Ivana Trump, born in New York City Gabby Douglas(30 years old) 1995 American gymnast (Olympic gold all around, team 2012; team 2016), born in Newport News, Virginia

Charles Cornwallis(1738-1805) 1st Marquess Cornwallis, British general and colonial administrator (leading British general in the American War of Independence), born in London Henri Matisse(1869-1954) French impressionist painter (Odalisque), born in Le Cateau-Cambresis, France George C. Marshall(1880-1959) American general and US Secretary of State (1947-49) who authored the Marshall Plan (Nobel 1953), born in Uniontown, Pennsylvania 1908 Simon Wiesenthal, Jewish-Austrian holocaust survivor & Nazi hunter (Wiesenthal Center), born in Buchach, Ukraine (d. 2005) 1914 Pat Brady [Robert Ellsworth O'Brady], American actor (The Roy Rogers Show, Man from Music Mountain), born in Toledo, Ohio (d. 1972) 1920 Rex Allen, American actor and singer-songwriter known as the "the Arizona Cowboy" (Dr Baxter-Frontier Doctor), born in Willcox, Arizona (d. 1999) 1938 Rosalind Cash, American actress (Omega Man, Wrong is Right), born in Atlantic City, New Jersey (d. 1995) John Denver(1943-1997) American pop songwriter ("Leaving On A Jet Plane"), country-pop singer ("Sunshine On My Shoulders"; "Calypso"; "Thank God I'm A Country Boy"), and actor (Oh, God!), born in Roswell, New Mexico Donna Summer(1948-2012) American disco and pop singer-songwriter ("Love to Love You, Baby"; "On the Radio"; "Last Dance"), born in Boston, Massachusetts Val Kilmer(1959-2025) American actor (Iceman in "Top Gun"; Batman in "Batman Forever"), born in Los Angeles, California

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