Apr 16


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1862 - Slavery abolished in District of Columbia
1900 - US Post Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1947 - Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (NYC)
1956 - 1st solar powered radios go on sale
1980 - Arthur Ashe retires from professional tennis
1987 - Michael Jordon, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Gotta love Flagstaff. Yesterday brought almost a foot of very wet snow. Today the sun shone and almost all the snow is gone. Strange for sure. I’m not complaining because most of the snow ended up in the groundthere was almost no run-off.  Lots of events around town were postponed or poorly attended due the weather forecast saying to only travel if necessary.

I took a short walk this afternoona little chilly but nice to be out and about. A few shady spotted sidewalks never got shoveled. Lots of kids and dogs on leashes out playing. Good Sunday

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

NPR Sunday Puzzle
You are given two seven-letter words. Rearrange the letters in one of the words to get a synonym of the other. For example, if the clue is "gratify" and "eluding," the answer would be "indulge," which is an anagram of eluding and means gratify. The anagram can be the first or second word.
1.     Sincere, ingénue:
2.     Witness, verbose:
3.     Relieve, sausage:
4.     Phantom, respect:
5.     Ecstasy toenail:
6.     Donator, twister”:
7.     Eternal, sea legs: 

Riddle of the day
Captain is to Private as Master is to

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

Lifestyle  Substance     
Harper’s Index         
Number of messages in bottles sent out by one resident of Prince Edward Islnd since 1996: 5,230Number of responses he has received: 3,201
Found on You Tube 
         Francisco Goya
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
An elderly couple was in bed one night and the woman woke up from a bad dream. She was scared and panicking. Her husband awoke and turned the light on to calm her. He asked what was wrong.
She said "I had a dream that I died and you got remarried." she asked him "if I died tomorrow would you get remarried?"
He said "sure, I don’t want to spend the rest of my life lonely."
Then she asked "well would you two live in this house?"
He replied "sure, we just got finished paying off our mortgage."
She asked again, angry now "well would she sleep in this bed?"
He snickered and said "yes, of course, this bed is brand new and expensive, there's no reason to rid of it."
She asked irately, "well would she use my golf clubs?"
He replied with a straight, serious face "no. She's left handed."
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
The circumference of a normal infant's head should equal the distance from the crown of the head to the rump.
Yeah, It Really Happened
 DALLAS - A truck driver whose mother was a midwife said a baby he helped deliver on the side of a Texas interstate was his third on-the-job delivery. Michael Hawthorne, a driver for Vineland, N.J., company NFI Industries, said he pulled over to check his load on a secluded stretch of road about 75 miles northwest of Dallas March 27 when Jack Smith ran over to him from a parked car and told him his wife, Tammy, was in labor and his cellphone had no service in the area, ABCNews.com reported Wednesday. "I went ahead, got my bottle of water, gloves and birth kit and took it to the car," he said. Hawthorne, whose mother and grandmother were midwives, said he started carrying a "birth kit" in his truck after helping two other couples deliver roadside babies during the past 13 years. The truck driver said the healthy baby boy was born just as emergency responders arrived. "The state police showed up. Meanwhile I am trying to keep the mother calmed. The mother gave birth. I cleaned it up what I could, wrapped the baby in a towel," he said. Sidney Brown, chief executive officer of NFI, said the company is nominating Hawthorne for a third Highway Angel Award, an award given by the Truckload Carriers Association to truck drivers who display heroism on the road. "Mike is an extraordinary individual and we're proud to have him as part of the NFI family," Brown said.

Somewhat Useless Information   
Unlike most other fish, a shark has no bones! Its skeleton is made of cartilage, a material somewhat softer and more flexible than bone.
Your kidneys filter fifty gallons of blood every day, producing about 1.5 liters of urine!
The Flu killed 43,000 American servicemen mobilized for World War I, representing nearly 40 percent of U.S. military casualties.

Calendar Information        
…Happening This Week:
10-16  
Health Information Privacy and Security Week
National Animal Control Appreciation Week
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                                                                      
National Auctioneers Day
National Eggs Benedict Day
National Health Care Decisions Day
National Stress Awareness Day
Record Store Day
Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day

Today’s Other Events                                                             
Before 1000CE
1178 BC - A solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after the Trojan War
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1071 - Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy
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1500’s
1528 - Panfilo de Narvaez sights Indian houses near Tampa Bay, Florida. He will anchor his boats in the area, today. Seeing Narvaez, the Indians will abandon their village. Narvaez hold Spanish royal title to the land between the Rio de las Palmas, and the cape of Florida.
1550: Charles V orders a stop to Indian land conquests.
1582 - Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina
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1700’s
1724 - 1st Easter observed
1800’s
1854 - San Salvador destroyed by earthquake
1861 - US president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states
1862 - US Confederate Congress calls up all white males (18-35 years)
1881 - In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle
1900’s
1922 - Annie Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
1935 - 1st radio broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD
1962 - Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1977 - Alex Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
1986 - To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV
2000’s
2003 - The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union
2004 - The super liner Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first Trans-Atlantic crossing, linking the golden age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel
2007 - Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before committing suicide
2008 - Start of Papal Journey of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States
  
Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 80’s
Pope Benedict XVI [Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger], Marktl, Bavaria, Germany is 85
In their 70’s
Bobby Vinton, Pitts Pa, singer (Roses are Red, Blue on Blue) is 77
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In their 40’s
Jon Cryer actor, (Two and Half Men) is 47
Martin Lawrence, comedian, actor is 47
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Remembered for being born on this day
Edie Adams, Kingston Pa, Mrs Ernie Kovacs (Murial Cigar), actress in 1925
Charlie Chaplin, (Tramp), comedian (City Lights)/IBM salesman in 1889
Henry Mancini, Cleveland, composer/conductor (Pink Panther)in 1924
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, British poet and statesman in 1661
Barry Nelson, American actor actor (Airport, My Favorite Husband) in 1917
Gerry Rafferty, Paisley Scotland, guitarist/vocalist ( Baker Street) in 1947
Selena, Texas, Spanish singer (Grammy-1994) in 1971
Hans Sloane, England, physician/naturalist/founder (British Museum) in 1660
Dusty Springfield, [Mary O'Brien], London, vocalist (Growing Pains) in 1939
Peter Ustinov, London, actor (Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd) in 1921

Today’s Obits                                                           
Louis de Berquin, French humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake at 49 in 1529
Neville Brand, actor (Stalag 17), dies of emphysema at 71 in 1992
Jacques Cassini, Fr astronomer (Discover rings of Saturn), dies at 79 in 1756
Francisco Goya y Lucientes, Spanish painter/cartoonist, dies at 82 in 1828
David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83 in 1991
Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian dies at 53 of TB in 1859
Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud, maker of wax figures, dies at 88 in 1850
Robert Urich, American actor dies of synovial cell sarcoma at 55 in 2002

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day
Slave

NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.     Sincere, ingénue:
a.      genuine
2.     Witness, verbose:
a.      observe
3.     Relieve, sausage:
a.      assuaged
4.     Phantom, respect:
a.      specter
5.     Ecstasy toenail:
a.      elation
6.     Donator, twister”:
a.      tornado
7.     Eternal, sea legs:           
a.      ageless
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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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