Apr 15


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1738 - Bottle opener invented
1755 - Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language published in London
1817 - 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1850 - City of San Francisco incorporated
1877 - 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass
1878 - Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 - General Electric Company, forms & is incorporated in NY
1896 - 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1912 - Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland as band plays on
1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season
1957 - Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
1959 - Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
1981 - Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Wash Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Spring storm arrived and dumped about 8” here in Flag. And it is a very wet snow. As those of us in any desert’it’s good for the forest.’ The storm is still here, still dumping, so we’ll see if our winter wonderland will continue.

Not my best Saturday in a while. I woke up about 4am with a huge tongue. I think I woke up about 3am and thought I should take a pill, but didn’t. When I got up at 4, it was a full blown swelling. I took the pill but didn’t sleep anymore. I finally got up about 6:30. The swelling went down by 10a but couldn’t really taste anything all day. What a pain. Gave me time to catch up on TV shows I had DVR’d. This was not my plan for the day, but it all worked out.

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

NPR Sunday Puzzle
This is a game of categories using the word "Claus." For each category, name something in it starting with each of the letters C-L-A-U-S. For example, if the category were girls' names: Carol, Laura, Alice, Ursula and Sarah.
1.     African countries:
2.     People at a baseball game:
3.     Gods or Goddesses in Mythology: :
4.     Areas or rooms in a house: :
5.     Things you see at a theater:

Riddle of the day
Below is a short poem to help you determine the next letter in the sequence that follows:
Both backward and forward I may go
But just one way makes sense
Don't you know
So don't be confused, don't be surprised
All you must do Is use your eyes
What comes next?

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

Lifestyle  Substance     
Harper’s Index         
Number of Bibles that have been to the moon: 100
Found on You Tube 
 Top Ten Fastest Animals In The World       
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
Little Johnny was at football practice one day and the coach said "Who here thinks they can jump higher than the goal posts"
 Immediately little Johnny said, "Ooh me sir me"
 The coach then said, "But Johnny you are the worst in the team!"
 Then Johnny said, "I know, but goalposts can’t jump!"
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
A hole for a cattle-fence post should be an arm's length deep, plus the length of your fingers.
Yeah, It Really Happened
NEW YORK - A former worker at a famed New York restaurant filed a lawsuit alleging her co-workers would make mock penises out of dumplings then serve them to patrons. Yvonne Diaz, who worked as a bartender at the Chin Chin restaurant from 2007 until last October, said she endured multiple forms of sexual harassment and assault at the restaurant including being made to watch kitchen workers put dumplings bound for customers' plates "in their crotch areas making it look like they had big penises," the New York Post reported Thursday. Diaz also alleged in the federal lawsuit she was repeatedly groped by at least two co-workers, one of whom "pushed his erect penis into (her) buttocks area." The lawsuit also alleges owner Jimmy Chin bragged about overcharging Sean "Diddy" Combs for a bathroom mirror broken while filming a segment for his "Making the Band" TV show and once said it was a "good decision" to seat Mariah Carey in a "private section" when she arrived at the eatery "high on drugs." Chin called the allegations "frivolous" and "ridiculous nonsense."           
      
Somewhat Useless Information   
The lifespan of the giant tortoise is about 150 years, making it the longest-living animal on the planet. In captivity, some giant tortoises have lived as long as 177 years.
Bats are the only mammals capable of true flight. A bat's wing is constructed very much like the human hand, with extremely elongated fingers and membranes stretched between.
There are almost 1,000 species of bats worldwide, ranging in size from less than an inch to almost six feet. Many species of bats are considered endangered.
Able to dive at almost 200 miles per hour, the peregrine falcon is not only the fastest flying bird in the world, but the fastest animal on earth.

Calendar Information        
…Happening This Week:
7-15
National Robotics Week
Passover Week
Bat Appreciation Week
National Library Week
National Networking Week
Orthodox Holy Week
Pan American Week
Consider Christianity Week
10-16  
Health Information Privacy and Security Week
National Animal Control Appreciation Week
14-15
Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of Prayer and Fasting
14-22
National Park Week
Coin Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
National Environmental Education Week
National Karaoke Week
National Volunteer Week
National Pet ID Week
National Paperboard Packaging Week

Today Is                                                                      
Global Youth Service Day
Income Tax Pay Day: (Observed on 17th This Year)
National That Sucks Day
McDonald's Day 1955 - Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)
Rubber Eraser Day
Take a Wild Guess Day

Today’s Other Events                                                             
1400’s
1450 - French defeat English at Battle of Formigny in 100 Years' War
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1600’s
1632 - Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War
1700’s
1715 - Pocotaligo Massacre triggers the start of the Yamasee War in colonial South Carolina
1777 - American settlers in Boonesborough will survive an attack by the Shawnee. The fortifications of the town will prove to be too much for the Indians to surmount.
1800’s
1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt" of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
1861 - Federal army (75,000 volunteers) mobilized by Pres Lincoln
1870 - Last day US silver coins allowed to circulate in Canada
1874 - NY legislature passes compulsory education law
1879 - Warm Spring Apache, over fears of being sent to a reservation, leads all of the 39 Indians to escape from Ojo Caliente, and to eventually return to Mexico.
1900’s
1923 - 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
1941 - 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct
1945 - FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home
1947 - Jackie Robinson goes hitless in his major league debut
1952 - 1st B-52 prototype test flight
1960 - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
1968 - Houston Astros beat NY Mets, 1-0, in 24 innings
1975 - 1st appearance of  San Diego Chicken
1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens
1988 - Meteorite explode above Indonesia
1991 - Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assistswith 9,898
1992 - Billionaire Leona Helmsly is sent to jail for tax evasion
1996 - 100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of Kenya in 2:09:15.9
1997 - Fire sweeps through a campsite of Muslims making the Hajj pilgrimage; the official death toll is 343.
2000’s
2010 - Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads to the closure of airspace over most of Europe.

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 90’s
Michael Ansara, Lowell Mass, actor (Cochise-Broken Arrow , Centennial) is 90
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In their 70’s
Roy Clark, Meherrin Va, country singer (Hee Haw) is 79
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In their 50’s
Emma Thompson, England, actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar-1992) is 53
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Under 30 years old
Emma Watson, English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series) is 22
Remembered for being born on this day
Dodi Al-Fayed, Egyptian businessman, friend of Princess Di in 1955
Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman  in 1916
Catherine I, empress of Russia in 1684
Hans Conried, Balt Md, actor (Bullwinkle Show, Make Room for Daddy) in 1917
Henry James, American/British author (Turn of the Screw, Bostonians) in 1843
Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1894
Kim II Sung, pres of North Korea (1945-94) “Great Leader” in 1912
Kenneth Lay, American businessman (corrupt)in 1942
Charles Willson Peale, US, port painter/inventor (George Washington) in 1741
James Clark Ross, explorer (British Antarctic) in 1800
Claudius Salmasius, [Claude Saumaise], French linguist in 1588
Johannes Stark, Germany, physicist (Stark effect) (Nobel 1919) in 1874
Elizabeth Mae "Bessie" Smith, Empress of Blues (over 200  songs) in 1894
Mary Harris Thompson, 1st American woman surgeon in 1829
Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary in 1452
Harold Washington, 1st black mayor of Chicago (D, 1983-87) in 1922

Today’s Obits                                                           
Raymond Bailey, actor (Mr Drysdale -Beverly Hillbillies), dies at 75 in 1980
George Calvert, Proprietor of the Avalon (Maryland) Colony dies at 52 in 1632
John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony dies in 1621
Leslie Charteris, British mystery writer (Saint), dies at 85 in 1993
Richard Conte, actor (Four Just Men, Jean Arthur Show), dies of heart attack at 65 in 1975
Father Damien, Belgian missionary dies of leprosy at 49 in 1889
Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille), dies at 84 in 1990
Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president, dies from gunshot wound at 56 in 1865
Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator dies of heart attack or suicide at 72 in 1998
Madame de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV of France dies of TB at 42 in 1632
Byron "Whizzer" White, American football player and U.S. Supreme Court Justice dies at 84 in 2002

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day
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NPR Sunday Puzzle
Lots of other answers work too, but here are some of them.
1.     African countries:
a.      Congo , Liberia , Angola , Uganda , Sudan
2.     People at a baseball game:
a.       Catcher , Left fielder , Announcer , Umpire , Short stop
3.     Gods or Goddesses in Mythology: :
a.      Cirrus , Loki , Adonis , Uranus , Saturn
4.     Areas or rooms in a house: :
a.      Closet , Laundry room , Attic , Upstairs , solarium
5.     Things you see at a theater:
a.      Chandelier , Lavatory , Audience , Usher , Stage
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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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