Apr 21


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1806 - The Department of War establishes the office of Superintendent of Indian Trade. This position will be appointed by the President. The job will entail the purchase of goods for and from the Indians.
1869 - Donehogawa (Ely Samuel Parker) is appointed as the first Indian to be Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Donehogawa, a SENECA IROQUOIS, was trained as a lawyer and a civil engineer. Unable to find work in the white world, Donehogawa contacts his old friend Ulysses Grant. Grant makes him an aide, and they work together through much of the Civil War. Because of his excellent penmanship, Donehogawa draws up the surrender papers for Lee to sign at Appomattox. Promoted to Brigadier General, Ely Parker worked to settle many conflicts between whites and Indians. After Grant becomes President, he will be appointed as Indian Commissioner
1948 - 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US
1959 - 1211-kg (2669 lb, 12.76 oz) great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod
1960 - Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil
1965 - New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season
1966 - Emperor Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
1986 - Geraldo Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing
1989 - Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding greater political freedom
1997 - Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Cheryl called this morning and I went over there for a nice lunch and walk around downtown Williams. She still can’t drive, still has a purple eye, but is recovering well. Williams has a cute little ol’ fashioned downtown, definitely for tourists. A nice gallery of local artists opened earlier this year. They have some cool art, and at very reasonable priceswill probably pick something up on my next visit. I had a great Ruben sandwich with red cabbage instead of sauerkrauttasty.

The HOA where I live sent out yet another notice. They included a cute little ‘Newsletter’ from a word template to remind us of their power over tenants..things like not being able to park a ‘bicycle or other nuisance’ in the front of your house and ‘only appropriate patio furniture and gas grills allowed on the back deck’. Yeah, right I have been to lots of ‘bike and other nuisance’ shops in my life...and exactly what is ‘appropriate’ patio furniture?  And no one can see the back porch, unless they are walking between pine trees in the 10 feet between the patio and fence on the property edge. Such silly rules made up by a board of bureaucrats who enjoy control and power.

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

NPR Sunday Puzzle
Each clue is one word. The answer is a word that can follow the clue to complete a familiar two-word phrase. The first two letters of the answer must be the first and last letter of the clue. For example, given "pool," the answer would be "player."
1.     Pepperoni:
2.     Advertising:
3.     Varicose:
4.     Little:
5.     Balance:
6.     Political:
7.     Picture:
8.     China:
9.     Short:
10.  Crystal:
11.  Love:
12.  Ascorbic:
13.  Peer:
14.  Table:

Riddle of the day
Which country has been hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a railway track can be very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which you can find the lesser spotted great weevil.
Anagram: unscramblenumbers represent the number of letters in each answer word

Lifestyle  Substance     
Harper’s Index         
Odds a West Virginia driver collided with a deer in the past year: 1 in 53
Found on You Tube 
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
One day a genie appeared to a California man and offered to grant him one wish.
The man said:” I wish you'd build a bridge from here to Hawaii so I could drive there anytime"
The genie frowned" I don't know. It sounds like quite an undertaking,” he said. "Just think of the logistics. The supports required reaching the bottom of the ocean, the concrete, and the steel! Why don't you pick something else?"
 The man thought for a while and then said, "Okay, I wish for a complete understanding of women- what they are thinking, why they cry. I wish I knew how to make a woman truly happy".
 The genie was silent for a minute, then said "So how many lanes did you want on that bridge?"

Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
Homeowners should plan on paying about $100 a month for a repair fund. Total net housing cost can be 40-45 percent more than the base mortgage.

Yeah, It Really Happened
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand -- Experts say a New Zealand woman's 2-gallon-a-day Coca-Cola habit probably contributed to her death, a conclusion that led the soft-drink giant to note that even water can be deadly in excessive amounts. 
Natasha Harris, a 30-year-old, stay-at-home mother of eight from Invercargill, died of a heart attack in February 2010. Fairfax Media reported that a pathologist, Dr. Dan Mornin, testified at an inquest Thursday that she probably suffered from hypokalemia, or low potassium, which he thinks was caused by her excessive consumption of Coke and overall poor nutrition. 
Symptoms of hypokalemia can include abnormal heart rhythms, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health. 
Mornin said that toxic levels of caffeine, a stimulant found in Coke, also may have contributed to her death, according to Fairfax. 
Harris' partner, Chris Hodgkinson, testified that Harris drank between 8 and 10 liters (2.1 and 2.6 gallons) of regular Coke every day. 
"The first thing she would do in the morning was to have a drink of Coke beside her bed and the last thing she would do at night was have a drink of Coke," Hodgkinson said in a deposition. "She was addicted to Coke." 
He said that on the morning of her death, Harris helped get her children ready for school before slumping against a wall. He called emergency services and tried mouth-to-mouth resuscitation but couldn't revive her. 
Another pathologist, Dr. Martin Sage, said in a deposition that "it is certainly well demonstrated that excessive long or short term cola ingestion can be dramatically symptomatic, and there are strong hypothetical grounds for this becoming fatal in individual cases." 
Inquests such as this are sometimes held for unusual or unexplained deaths in New Zealand, and can help shape future health policies. With the evidence in the case now complete, the coroner's office will compile and issue a final report into the death. 
            
Somewhat Useless Information   
"Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it." Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London, UK.
Rodney Dangerfield, the comedian and actor, died in 2004 from complications following heart surgery at age 82. A master of self-deprecating one-liners, his epitaph reads "There goes the neighborhood."
Mel Blanc, the man who lent his voice to renowned characters - including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Yosemite Sam, and Sylvester the Cat - died of heart disease and emphysema in 1989 at age 81. His epitaph marked a legacy with a dose of humor "That's all folks!"
The life's work of Ludoph van Ceulen, who died from unknown causes in 1610 at age 70, was to calculate the value of the mathematical constant pi to 35 digits. He was so proud of this achievement that he asked that the number be engraved on his tombstone. So it comes to no surprise that his epitaph read "Ludolph van Ceulen: 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288...'."
"Sir John Strange. Here lies an honest man. And that is Strange." This was inscribed on a tombstone of a lawyer in England.
"Here lies Johnny Yeast. Pardon me for not rising." In Ruidoso, New Mexico.

Calendar Information        
…Happening This 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
18-23
Cleaning For A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
International Whistlers Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
19-5/4
Kentucky Derby Week
20-29 
National Dance Week
20-22
National & Global Youth Service Days
21-28
Money Smart Week
Administrative Professionals Week
National Crime Victims Rights Week
National Playground Safety Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Preservation Week
Sky Awareness Week
Week of The Young Child
(Spring) Astronomy Week
Safe Kids Week

Today Is                                                                      
Bulldogs are Beautiful Day
Kindergarten Day
National Chocolate-covered Cashews Day
National Teach Children to Save Day
Record Store Day Auctioneers Day
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US: TX: San Jacinto Day (1836. It was the final battle of the Texas Revolution where Texas won its independence from Mexico)
Italy: Birthday of Rome (
Romulus and Remus founded Rome in 753BC)

Today’s Other Events                                                             
1500’s
1509 - Henry the VIII becomes King of England
1600’s
1649 - Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1700’s
1792 - Tiradentes, a revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is hanged, drawn and quartered
1800’s
1828 - Noah Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
1857 - Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1862 - Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co
1865 - Abraham Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
1878 - First Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn
1878 - NY installs 1st firehouse pole
1900’s
1918 - World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France
1952 - Secretary's Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated. 1955 - Bkln Dodgers win, then record 10th straight game to begin a season
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st hit record, "Heartbreak Hotel," becomes #1
1963 - Beatles meet Rolling Stones for 1st time
1983 - 1 pound coin introduced in United Kingdom
1984 - After 37 weeks, "Thriller"  is knocked off as top album by "Footloose"
1989 - George W Bush & Edward W Rose become CEO of Texas Rangers
1995 - FBI arrested Timothy McVeigh & charge him with Oklahoma City bombing
2000’s
2008 - The United States Air Force retires the  F-117 Nighthawk

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 80’s
Elizabeth, Alexandra Mary Windsor II, Queen of England is 86
In their 70’s
James Dobson, American evangelist is 76
Charles Grodin, Pitt, actor, Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid) is 77
In their 60’s
Tony Danza, actor (Tony Banta-Taxi, Tony Micelli-Who's the Boss) will be 61
Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg], Mich, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse) is 65
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In their 30’s
Tony Romo, Cowboy’s quarterback is 32
Remembered for being born on this day
Alexander Anderson, US, engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare) in 1775
Charlotte Bronte, Tornton England, novelist (Jane Eyre) in 1816
Edmund G "Pat" Brown, (Gov-D-California) in 1905
John Law, Scottish economist (believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade) in 1671
Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist professor, isolated growth hormones in 1913
John Muir, US, naturalist/discoverer (glaciers in High Seirras) in 1838
Anthony Quinn, Mexico, actor, (Zorba the Greek, Lawrence of Arabia) in 1915
Randall Thompson, NYC, composer (Alleluia) in 1899
Max Weber, German sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism)  in 1864

Today’s Obits                                                           
Mark Twain, [Samuel Clemens], author (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 in 1910
Gummo [Milton] Marx, US comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84 in 1977
"Red Baron", [Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25 in 1925
Joe Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin), dies of liver cancer at 75 in 1977
Nina Simone, American singer and pianist dies of breast cancer at 70 in 2003
Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies of heart attack at 76 in 1996

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day
Peru
NPR Sunday Puzzle
More than one answer is possible
1.     Pepperoni:
a.      pizza
2.     Advertising:
a.      agency
3.     Varicose:
a.      veins
4.     Little:
a.      league
5.     Balance:
a.      beam
6.     Political:
a.      platform
7.     Picture:
a.      perfect
8.     China:
a.      cabinet
9.     Short:
a.      story
10.  Crystal:
a.      clear
11.  Love:
a.      letter
12.  Ascorbic:
a.       acid
13.  Peer:
a.      pressure
14.  Table:
a.      tennis
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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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