Trivia

[Grasshopper]

I really like your new addition of "Arizona Trivia". interesting and informative!

[chumley]

Clay Aiken lived at and ran Roaring Springs Grand Canyon for 30 years. His children had an extremely successful lemonade stand on trail.

I might have read that wrong.

[Alston_Neal]

When the Spanish arrived here they came upon the river people living along the Gila. When asked what they called themselves, the response was "Pim", meaning roughly, "I don't understand". The Spanish interpreted "Pim" to be the name of the tribe and the Akimel O'odham or "River People" became the Pima.

[chumley]

HAZ Trivia
The highest peak in the Sierra Estrella's is know as Vee Al'yaxa. or "Transvestite Mountain". Coyote unable to avoid the wrath of God played a prank God didn't see as funny. Coyote ran to the top of the peak and put on a woman's dress.

Are we talking the canid, the Navajo mythological character, or the migrant smugglers?

And where does Hayes fit into this whole scenario? Did he wear a dress too?

[johnlp]

The panties of Iwo Jima?

[chumley]

HAZ Trivia
Top private employers 2006: Wal-Mart 25k, Banner Health 19k, Wells Fargo 11k, Intel 10k, Honeywell 10k, Raytheon 10k, Bashas 9k, Home Depot 9k, Kroger 9k and Chase 9k

Kroger, Intel, Wells Fargo, Honeywell, Raytheon, JPM Chase, Home Depot are all public companies. So by private employers does that just mean non-government?

Updated for 2013 (most recent data I found):
Wal-Mart: 32k (+28%)
Banner Health: 30k (+58%)
Kroger: 17k (+89%)
Albertsons: 16k (not previously ranked)
Wells Fargo: 15k (+36%)
McDonalds: 13k (npr)
Intel: 11k (+10%)
BofA: 11k (npr)
JPMChase: 11k (+22%)
Honeywell: 10k (even)

[Dschur]

In the 1980s I have an Arizona trivia game and listed at that time the biggest employer in AZ as Motorola.. at over 30,000.

[Tough_Boots]

the biggest employer in AZ as Motorola.

big enough to get south Phoenix an EPA Superfund site

[chumley]

The Tonto O'odham may be the descendants of the Hohokam. It is debatable. Talk amongst yourselves and bring this great debate to a respectable end.

How trivial!

[chumley]

Mount Whitney is the highest mountain in the lower US only because the San Francisco peaks blew off 4,000 feet.

Geologists discuss. At the time the SF Peaks blew their top, how big were the Sierra? The peaks were formed over a period of something like 200,000 to 2.3 million years. Quite a range there.

So a couple hundred thousand years ago, or a million years ago ... what did the rest of the continent look like?

Maybe the Sierra and the Rockies hadn't reached nearly as high as they are now. Perhaps the Appalachians were still a new range with the highest peaks on the continent?

I don't know anything about this. Somebody who does, feel free to chime in. Half a million years ago when the SF Peaks were over 16,000 feet, could they have been the highest on the continent at that time?

[joebartels]

@chumley
experts don't have a clue, trust in hikebot

Geologists say there are two possible, and wildly different, ages for the Sierra Nevada range: either 40 million to 80 million years old

At camp in the sixth grade in the Ozarks I recall they said the Ozarks were taller than the Rockies will ever be. I couldn't find that or their historically highest point. I did read the same saying the Appalachians were taller than the Rockies will ever be.

[Alston_Neal]

I read once where the Mogollon Rim was older than the Grand Canyon and Superstition Guy was older than both.

[chumley]

Speaking of old, who decided that Pixy Stix are "modern"?

Petroglyphs are pecked onto rocks. Pictographs are painted. Pixy stix is a modern powdered candy packaged in a wrapper that resembles a drinking straw.

http://www.oldtimecandy.com/walk-the-ca ... pixy-stix/

[joebartels]

who decided that Pixy Stix are "modern"?

the eighties child that wrote history

[LindaAnn]

A wall of blowing sand in the Sahara is called a haboob. A wall of blowing dust in Phoenix is called a dust storm.

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Thank you! I refuse to call it anything but a dust storm. I'm pretty sure I have an annual rant on my facebook page about this very thing.

[SpiderLegs]

A wall of blowing sand in the Sahara is called a haboob. A wall of blowing dust in Phoenix is called a dust storm.

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Thank you! I refuse to call it anything but a dust storm. I'm pretty sure I have an annual rant on my facebook page about this very thing.

When did the term change? I left Phoenix in 2006 and everyone called them dust storms, came back in 2012 and all of the sudden it's an haboob. Who can we blame for this?

[chumley]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haboob

The references cited for Arizona haboob are from 1972 and 1973, respectively though an uncited reference states the the term "dust storm" is more common.

Interestingly the outside links showing photos of haboobs leads right here to HAZ.

[Alston_Neal]

@SpiderLegs
The conventional method of placing blame when all else fails would be the current president. For example the battery failed in my 2007 FJ in 2010, that never happened with the prior president.

[chumley]

Contrary to popular belief the San Francisco Peaks nor the White Mountains are considered "the" most sacred mountains in Arizona. The largest city park in the US at 25.5 square miles, South Mountain, is considered the Garden Eden.

Source?

[joebartels]

Source?

you

[chumley]

@joebartels
Lol. That's not me. That's me quoting another un-cited trivia blurb. My initial reply is still valid too: fascinating!