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Dec. Averages: Temps: 43°\20° Moisture:4 Days moisture 0.7” Flagstaff Today 50°: 22° Week 50 Day 342 Wind: 2 mph Gusts 9 mph Nearest lightning: 1173 miles away Active Fire: 213 miles away Risk of
Fire: Low Air Quality: Moderate Sunshine |
Weekly Observations
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Clerc-Gallaudet Week 4-24 Andisop (Meterological
Fiddling Link |
7-13 National Hand Washing Awareness
Week Link 8-14 Computer Science Education Week Link ) |
Daily Observations
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AFL-CIO
Day Link (1886) |
National
Day of Lard |
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
My Thoughts for the day
A few days of warmth ahead. Nice!
The National Park Service has hopped on the Trump train and quickly fastened
their seatbelts. First is was charging very high fees for foreigners to visit any
of our National Parks. Now they are hitting the Americans who visit the parks.
For decades, MLK day was a free day and recently Juneteenth was added as a free
day. Those days are no longer free days, but they added Trump’s birthday as a free
day. It makes little sense.
I’m still thinking about Merida for Christmas, but I am leaning toward
seeing my brother at a different time. Travel at this time of year is so
unpredictable. I did many snowy/icy drives to Denver, cold and ice in Chicago,
airline cancellations for many years. I’ll see.
Wild West Myths that never happened…
The Wild
West Ended Abruptly
Many
believe the Wild West ended suddenly with the closing of the frontier in 1890.
In reality, the transition was gradual, as discussed in the Paradox Interactive
Forums. Railroads, telegraphs, and growing cities slowly reshaped the region
over decades.
The U.S.
Census Bureau declared the frontier “closed” in 1890, but frontier culture and
challenges persisted well into the 20th century. Ranching, mining, and
settlement continued to evolve rather than vanish overnight.
A
dramatic ending may sound appealing, but in truth the West blended into modern
America over time, leaving behind both legends and realities. The culture of
independence and exploration carried forward well beyond the official “end.”
Cities that changed their names…
Saigon →
Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam)
When the
Vietnam War ended in 1975, the victory brought unity… And transformation. The
southern capital of Saigon, once a French colonial gem and later a
battleground, was renamed Ho Chi Minh City the following year, honoring the
revolutionary leader who had dreamed of a free Vietnam. The name change carried
emotion and politics in equal measure.
Yet, even today, “Saigon” hasn’t disappeared. It’s whispered by taxi drivers,
printed on cafes, and spoken with affection by older generations. The two names
coexist: one for officialdom, the other for the heart.
Random Thoughts…
We know
our parents for the majority of our lives, whereas they only know us for a part
of theirs.
Someone
was born at this exact time, and someone died at this same instant.
Even
though our brain has never experienced such things, it can create a situation
in its head as if they have.
Ketchup
is the jam if the tomato is a fruit.
Historic Events
1776 - George
Washington's retreating army in the American Revolution crossed the Delaware
River from New Jersey to Pennsylvania.
1854 - Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception. The
theory holds that Mary, mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the
moment she was conceived.
1886 - At a convention of union leaders in Columbus, OH, the American
Federation of Labor was founded.
1941 - The United
States entered World War II when it declared war against Japan. The
act came one day after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Britain and Canada
also declared war on Japan.
1949 - The Chinese Nationalist government moved from the Chinese mainland to
Formosa due to Communists pressure.
1987 - U.S.
President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev signed a
treaty agreeing to destroy their nations' arsenals of intermediate-range
nuclear missiles.
1993 - U.S.
President Clinton signed into law the North American Free Trade
Agreement.
Birthdays
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Hong
Kong-British businessman, entrepreneur (founder
of Giordano, Next Digital, Apple Daily), and pro-democracy activist, born in
Canton, China ********************************* American actress (Never Say
Never Again; 9½ Weeks, Batman), born in Athens, Georgia ********************************* Ann
Coulter (64 years old), American author, political commentator, and attorney,
born in New York City ********************************* Teri
Hatcher (61 years old), American actress (Lois & Clark, Desperate
Housewives), born in Sunnyvale, California ********************************* Trinidadian-American rapper and singer (Super Bass,
Starships), born in Saint James, Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago |
Roman
Republican poet (Odes),
born in Venosa, Italy ********************************* Jan
Ingenhousz, Dutch-English physiologist (discovering photosynthesis) and
personal physician of Maria Theresa, born in Breda, Staats-Brabant, Dutch
Republic (d. 1799 @68) ********************************* Eli
Whitney(d.1825@58, prostate cancer) American inventor (Cotton
Gin), born in Westborough, Massachusetts ********************************* William C. Durant,
American industry pioneer, founded General Motors, Frigidaire, born in
Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1947 @85) ********************************* Mexican painter (En el
Arsenal) and husband of Frida Kahlo, born in Guanajuato, México ********************************* 1894 Elzie C.
Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye), born in Chester, Illinois (d. 1938; @43,
leukemia) ********************************* James Thurber, American humorist, playwright, and
cartoonist (Men, Women & Dogs; The Male Animal; The Secret Life of Walter
Mitty), born in Columbus, Ohio (d. 1961@66, blood clot) Richard Llewellyn,
Welsh novelist (How Green Was My Valley), born in Hendon, Middlesex, England
(d. 1983@76, heart attack) ********************************* Lee J. Cobb [Leo
Jacoby], American actor (Virginian, 12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), born in
New York City (d. 1976; @64, heart attack) ********************************* Sammy Davis Jr.(d.1990;
@64, throat cancer) American
vaudeville, stage, and screen singer ("The
Candy Man"), dancer, actor (Ocean's 11),
and Rat Pack member, born in New York City ********************************* Maximilian Schell(d.2014; @83 ) Swiss-Austrian actor and director
(Odessa File, Julia), born in Vienna, Austria ********************************* (Clerow) "Flip" Wilson, American
Grammy Award-winning comedian, and Emmy Award-winning writer and TV
personality (The Flip Wilson Show), born in Jersey City, New Jersey (d. 1998;
@64, liver cancer) David Carradine,
American actor (Kung Fu, Mean Streets, Kill Bill V.1 & 2), born in
Hollywood, California (d. 2009; @72, accidental suicide) ********************************* 1937 James
MacArthur, American actor (Danny Williams-Hawaii 5-0), born in Los Angeles,
California (d. 2010; @72) ********************************* American
singer-songwriter (The Doors) and poet, born in Melbourne,
Florida ********************************* Gregg Allman(d.2017;@69;
liver cancer) American
Hammond organist, guitarist and
vocalist (The Allman Brothers Band - "Whipping Post"), born in
Nashville, Tennessee |
…The End for today…
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