Apr 1


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1748 - Ruins of Pompeii found
1863 - 1st wartime conscription law in US goes into effect
1881 - Anti-Jewish riots in Jerusalem
1889 - 1st dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
1925 - Hebrew University, Jerusalem dedicated
1938 - Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, NY
1946 - Weight Watchers forms
1954 - Earthquake/tsunami ravage Aleutians, 200 killed
1963 - NYC's newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
1966 - China premier Tsjoe en-Lai starts "Cultural revolution"
1967 - The United States Department of Transportation begins operation
1976 - Stephen Wozniak & Steven Jobs founded Apple Computer
2004 - Google introduces its Gmail product to the public. The launch is met with skepticism dues to the launch date
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
April firstApril Fool’s Daywonder what’s in store this year in new jokes?
In 1996, Taco Bell ran an add that they had purchased and renamed the Liberty Bell the Taco Liberty Bell.
In 1951 the BBC ran a video that the mild winter had produced a bumper spaghetti crop in Switzerland.
In 1970 - John & Yoko release hoax they are having dual sex change operations
In 1977, the British newspaper The Guardian published a special seven-page supplement devoted to San Serriffe, a small republic said to consist of several semi-colon-shaped islands located in the Indian Ocean. A series of articles affectionately described the geography and culture of this obscure nation. Its two main islands were named Upper Caisse and Lower Caisse. Its capital was Bodoni, and its leader was General Pica.
In 1993 a German radio station announced that runners in parks had to run less than 6mph so as not to distract the squirrels during their mating season. 
In 1994 a Washington DC political magazine reported on a bill that had just passed that prohibited any drunken people from using the internet.
In 1995 a Copenhagen newspaper reported that a new law required all dogs be painted white so they could be more easily seen at night.
In 1998 Burger King introduced the left-handed Whopper, where all ingredients had been rotated 180° to help left handers.
In 1998 a radio station announced that Alabama had a new law that rounded pi from 3.14to 3 to make math easier.
In 2002: The British supermarket chain Tesco published an advertisement in The Sun announcing the successful development of a genetically modified 'whistling carrot.' The ad explained that the carrots had been specially engineered to grow with tapered air holes in their side. When fully cooked, these air holes caused the vegetable to whistle.
In 2008, the BBC announced that camera crews filming near the Antarctic for its natural history series Miracles of Evolution had captured footage of Adélie penguins taking to the air. It even offered a video clip of these flying penguins, which became one of the most viewed videos on the internet. Presenter Terry Jones explained that, instead of huddling together to endure the Antarctic winter, these penguins took to the air and flew thousands of miles to the rainforests of South America where they "spend the winter basking in the tropical sun."
Happy April Fool’s Day
Hope everyone enjoys the new puzzlesit is time for a change up.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up picture of what?

NPR Sunday Puzzle
Each clue is three words. For each set, think of a fourth word that can follow each clue to complete a compound word or familiar two-word phrase. For example, given "cat," "cattle" and "telephone," the answer would be "call," as in "catcall," "cattle call" and "telephone call." Hint: Each answer ends in two L's, like "call."
1.     Sleeping, pain, chill:
2.     Cow, bar, dumb:
3.     Tennis, cannon, screw:
4.     Bomb, egg, tortoise:
5.     Duck, play, buffalo:
6.     Baby, rag, china:
7.     Ant, boot, capital:
8.     Ink, stair, oil:
9.     Bank, drum, jelly:
10.  Water, wind, free:
11.  Fire, Dentist’s, power:
12.  Fire, stone, white:
13.  Pepper, paper, tread:
14.  Jail, fuel, brain:

Riddle of the day
The priest in my hometown told us that on a particular day he would walk on water for 30 minutes. The lake was not dry and we all observed the priest actually walking on water. How?

Anagram: unscramblenumbers represent the number of letters in each answer word

Lifestyle  Substance     
Harper’s Index         
Portion of income growth since the end of the recession that has gone to corporate profits: 9/10
Found on You Tube 
Betty Botter: A song version of the old classic tongue twister
Tongue Twister Song: Please Pre-freeze the PeaSally Sells Sea Shells: Can YOU keep up??? a tongue twister song
"Hawaiian Cowboy", the ultimate tongue twister/yodel song
Trabalenguas, my favorite Spanish tongue twister
French Tongue Twisters
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
Three old ladies are sitting in a diner, chatting about various things. One lady says, "You know, I'm getting really forgetful. This morning, I was standing at the top of the stairs, and I couldn't remember whether I had just come up or was about to go down."
The second lady says, "You think that's bad? The other day, I was sitting on the edge of my bed, and I couldn't remember whether I was going to bed or had just waken up!"
The third lady smiles smugly. "Well, my memory's just as good as it's always been, knock on wood." She raps the table. With a startled look on her face, she asks, "Who's there?!"
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
If you need to get gas while driving on an interstate, look for exits with at least two gas stations. The competition will mean a lower price per gallon.
Yeah, It Really Happened
BOULDER, Colo. - A Colorado couple say they have big dreams for the tiny house they've built as an example of sustainability and simple living. The interior of the house is about 125 square feet, which is 90 percent smaller than their current home in Boulder, Colo., Christopher Smith and Merete Mueller said. The new house has many features based in sustainability, including reclaimed windows, beetle-kill lumber, solar power and a composting toilet filled with peat moss and sawdust, KMGH-TV, Denver, reported Wednesday.
"When we set out it was to show that a normal person, who never built anything before, can take on a project like this and finish it," Smith said. The construction was filmed for a documentary called "Tiny" that explores "the ways we find ourselves at home," the couple's Web site said. Smith and Mueller said the project was originally going to function as a second home, but they are now considering making it their full-time residence.
"The more that I've been working on it with Merete, and the more we visit other people's tiny houses, it's starting to feel more and more like a home, and I can definitely picture myself living in it full-time," Smith said.
Somewhat Useless Information   
ARRIAN was a native of Nicomedia in Bithynia. In his youth he studied under Epictetus, who had then been banished from Rome, and was teaching at Nicopolis. Epictetus wrote nothing; it is to Arrian that we owe the record of his conversations, and his manual of conduct.
MARCUS TULLIUS CICERO was born at Arpinum, in Central Italy, where his family occupied a leading position. Cicero's true fame rests on his philosophical writings. He was one of the principal channels through which Greek thought and culture diffused itself in the Roman world.

Calendar Information        
…Observances This Month:
Atlanta Food & Wine Month…ASPCA Month…Alcohol Awareness Month…Amateur Radio Month…Autism Awareness Month
Brussels Sprouts and Cabbage Month
Cancer Control Month…Car Care Month…Celebrate Diversity Month…Child Abuse Prevention Month…(International) Cesarean Awareness Month…Confederate History Month…Couple Appreciation Month…Cranberries and Gooseberries Month
Defeat Diabetes Month
Emotional Overeating Awareness Month
Fair Housing Month…Financial Literacy Month…Fresh Florida Tomatoes Month…Frog Month
Global Child Nutrition Month…Grange Month…Grilled Cheese Month
Holy Humor Month…Home Improvement Time…Honor Society Awareness Month
Informed Women Month…International Customer Loyalty Month…International Guitar Month…International Twit Award Month…IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) Month
Jazz Appreciation Month
Keep America Beautiful
Month of the Young Child…Math Awareness Month…Month of the Military Child 
National African American Women's Fitness Month…National Autism Awareness Month…National Child Abuse Prevention Month…National Card and Letter Writing Month…National Decorating Month…National DNA & Genomics & Stem Cell Education & Awareness Month…National Donate Life Month…National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Month…National Garden Month…National Humor Month…National Kite Month…National Knuckles Down Month…National Landscape Architecture Month…National Multiple Birth Awareness Month…National Occupational Therapy Month…National Parkinson's Awareness Month…National Pecan Month…National Pet Month…National Poetry Month…National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month…Nationally Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) Month…National Sexual Assault Awareness Month…National Youth Sports Safety Month
Pharmacists War on Diabetes Month…Pet First Aid Awareness Month…Physical Wellness Month…Prevent Lyme in Dogs Month…Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month
Rosacea Awareness Month
School Library Media Month…Soy Foods Month…Straw Hat Month…Stress Awareness Month
Testicular Cancer Awareness Month…Tomatillo and Asian Pear Month
Women's Eye Health & Safety Month…Workplace Conflict Awareness Month…World Habitat Awareness Month
…Happening This Week:
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The APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week
Holy Week
International Pooper-Scooper Week
Laugh at Work Week
National Blue Ribbon Week

National Public Health Week
National Week of the Ocean
National Window Safety Week
Medication Safety Week

Today Is                                                                      
April Fools  or All Fools Day
Atheist Day
Boomer Bonus Days  a day for everyone over 50. Boomers don't like to celebrate birthdays, so today is a non-threatening celebration.
International Tatting Day
International Tongue Twister Day
Afrikaans: Wat was was voor was was was?
Amharic: Be bug bate, bug geba.
Basque: Akerrak adarrak okerrak ditu.Okerrak adarrak akerrak ditu.
Danish: Bispens gipsgebis
English: How many boards could the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?
French: Un chasseur sachant chasser sait chasser sans son chien de chasse.
Irish: Tá ceann tuí ar trí thigh atá thíos le taobh na toinne.
Scottish: It's a braw bricht moonlicht nicht the nicht.
Scottish/Gaelic: Cha robh laogh ruadh riamh luath, is cha robh laogh luath riamh reamhar.
Spanish: Tres tristes tigres tragaban trigo en un trigal en tres tristes trastos.
En tres tristes trastos tragaban trigo tres tristes tigres.
Vietnamese: Bà Ba béo bán bánh bò, bán bòn bon, bán bong bóng, bên
Welsh: Llongyfarchiadau llanciau Llanelli.
Library Snap Shot Day
National Fun Day
Poetry & The Creative Mind Day
Reading is Funny Day
Sorry Charlie Day
St. Stupid Day an annual parade that takes place in San Francisco on April 1st. The somewhat anarchistic parade was founded by Ed Holmes (aka Bishop Joey of the First Church of the Last Laugh) in the late 1970s.
One Cent Day
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Bulgaria: Saint Lazarus Day (Lazarus is a symbol of health and longevity.)
Iran: Islamic Republic Day (1979 the plebiscite approving the proposed constitution, establishing the Islamic Republic)
Palm Sunday for Christians

Today’s Other Events                                                             
1500’s
1536 - After being shipwrecked in Galveston, Texas, Cabeza de Vaca and a few men march across the continent to California. They will be the first "white men" to visit many Indian tribes. Cabeza de Vaca will reach "civilization" again at San Miguel in New Galicia.
1578 - William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
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1700’s
1724 - Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier's letters
1800’s
1850 - SF County government established
1853 - Cincinnati became 1st US city to pay fire fighters a regular salary
1867 - Singapore, Penang & Malakka become British crown colonies
1891 - The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois
1900’s
1924 - The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed
1927 - 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
1930 -  "Blue Angel," starring unknown Marlene Dietrich, premieres in America
1931 - Earthquake devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000
1942 - Mexico changes from 3 time zones to 2
1945 - US forces invade Okinawa during WW II
1946 - 400,000 US mine workers strike
1952 - Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
1960 - 1st weather satellite launched (TIROS 1)
1966 - 1st world festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
1981 - Daylight saving time is introduced in the USSR
1982 - US formally transfers Canal Zone to Panama
1991 - Supreme Court rules jurors can't be barred from serving due to race
2000’s
2001 - Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, which is the first country to allow it
2002 - The Netherlands legalizes euthanasia, becoming the first nation in the world to do so
2011 - After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 90’s
1919 - Joseph Murray, American surgeon, Nobel laureate-1st successful kidney transplant is 93
In their 80’s
Jane Powell (Suzanne Lorraine Burce), singer/actress (7 Brides for 7 Brothers) is 83
Debbie Reynolds,  actress (Singin' in the Rain) is 80
In their 70’s
Ali MacGraw, actress (Love Story, Goodbye Columbus ) will be 74
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In their 30’s
Rachel Maddow, American radio personality and political analyst is 39
Under 30 years old
Matt Lanter, American actor and model is 29
Remembered for being born on this day
Wallace Beery, KC MO, actor (Alias a Gentleman, Dinner at 8) in 1886
Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor (1866-90) in 1815
Leonard Bloomfield, US linguist in 1887
Sophonisba Breckenridge, scholar/teacher/social activist in 1866
Lon Chaney, man of 1000 faces, actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera) in 1883
Sophie Germain, French mathematician in 1776
Toshiro Mifune, Tsing-tao China, writer/actor (Shogun) in 1920

Today’s Obits                                                           
John Forsythe, American actor (Charlie’s Angels, Dynasty) dies at 92 in 2010
Marvin Gaye, singer (Let's Get It On), shot by father Marvin Gaye Sr at 44 in 1984
Martha Graham, US, choreographer (Appalachian Spring), dies at 96 in 1991
Scott Joplin, ragtime composer (The Entertainer), dies of tertiary syphilis at 48 in 1917
Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics manufacturer dies at 94 in 1965
Carrie Snodgress, American actress dies of liver failure at 58 in 2004

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day
It was winter and the lake was frozen.
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.     Sleeping, pain, chill:
a.      pill
2.     Cow, bar, dumb:
a.      bell
3.     Tennis, cannon, screw:
a.      ball
4.     Bomb, egg, tortoise:
a.      shell
5.     Duck, play, buffalo:
a.       bill
6.     Baby, rag, china:
a.      doll
7.     Ant, boot, capital:
a.      hill
8.     Ink, stair, oil:
a.      well
9.     Bank, drum, jelly:
a.      roll
10.  Water, wind, free:
a.      fall
11.  Fire, Dentist’s, power:
a.      drill
12.  Fire, stone, white: wall
13.  Pepper, paper, tread:
a.      mill
14.  Jail, fuel, brain:
a.      cell
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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