Apr 25


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1507 - Geographer Martin Waldseemuller 1st used name America
1684 - Patent granted for thimble1719 - Daniel Defoes publishes "Robinson Crusoe"
1859 - Ground broken for Suez Canal
1867 - Tokyo opens for foreign trade
1898 - US declares war on Spain over Cuba Spanish-American War
1967 - Abortion legalized in Colorado
1981 - More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
1990 - Hubble space telescope is placed into orbit by shuttle Discovery

Free Rambling Thoughts   
Such great weather today. Outside, out and about most of the day. Very nice.

Social networking certainly has its place. Earlier this week, I got a friend request from one of my high school classmates. We knew each other but didn’t travel in the same circles. He does have a nice blog that I have been following. When I checked out his page, I found my college roommate that I haven’t seen since college graduation. We have sent back a couple of emails to catch up and he connected me with another of our roommates. The three of us had gone to high school and college together. Nice to be able to connect after all these years. The second guy is a judge in Denver. He wrote me back and said that judges are not allowed, by policy, to have social networking accounts or private email accounts. Interesting. All his email goes through the account he has with his job. Guess we won’t be reliving any wild times in college through email. LOL

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

NPR Sunday Puzzle
Each answer is a familiar word, name or phrase that begins with the letter P and ends in X. For example, if the clue is "showy flower," the answer would be "phlox."
1.     Capital of Arizona:
2.     Aunt Jemima product:
3.     Where hockey players sit after an infraction:
4.     Castor’s brother in Greek Myth:
5.     Source of much funding for public schools:
6.     A body of troops in close array:
7.     Maker of ‘Cross Your Heart’ undergarments:
8.     Statistic on the average cost of goods:
9.     What  ‘re’ is in review:
10.  Word to describe ‘when people are always picking on you’:

Riddle of the day
Daniel, my son, is exactly one fifth of my age. In 21 years time, I will be exactly twice his age. My wife is exactly seven times older than my daughter, Jessica. In 8 years time, my wife will be three times older then Jessica. How old are Daniel and Jessica now?

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

Lifestyle  Substance     
Harper’s Index         
Number of Italian earthquake experts currently on trial for manslaughter for downplaying the risk of a 2009 earthquake: 7
Found on You Tube 
        Guide Dog Training
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
Three buddies die in a car crash, and they find themselves at the pearly gates.
They are all asked, "When you are in your casket and friends and family are mourning upon you, what would you like to hear them say about you?
The first guy says, "I would like to hear them say that I was the greatest doctor of my time, and a great family man."
The second guy says, "I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher who made a huge difference in our children of tomorrow."
The last guy replies, "I would like to hear them say... LOOK!!! HE'S MOVING!!!!!"
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
You generally need three volunteers to make training them worthwhile. If you have to train one volunteer, you will save time if you skip the training and do the work yourself.
Yeah, It Really Happened
  They don't teach you this in gun safety class: A man in Roanoke, Va., shot himself in the hand while in class -- and then the bullet continued on and struck his wife in the leg.
Michael Deel, 54, and Michelle Deel, 49, were treated at a local hospital, Roanoke.com reported.
Bedford County Sheriff's deputies responded to a call from the firearms safety class taught by Thomas Starke, who had briefly left the room when the shooting happened.
About five people were at the class last Saturday when Michael Deel fired the .45 caliber handgun, deputies said.
An investigation was opened, though Michael Deel called it a "stupid accident," according to The Associated Press.             
Somewhat Useless Information   
Only 2% of high school couples end up married and not divorcing.
Men in a relationship lie twice as often as women do.

Calendar Information        
…Happening This Week:
19-5/4
Kentucky Derby Week
20-29 
National Dance Week
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
24-30
National Scoop The Poop Week:
Fiddler's Frolic

Gathering of the Nations PowWow
National Dream Hotline
National Pie Championships

Today Is                                                                      
20-Something Service Day
Administrative Professionals Day or Secretary's Day
DNA Day
Hairstylists Appreciation Day
Hug A Plumber Day or Plumbers Day
International Guide Dogs Day
Malaria Awareness Day
National Zucchini Bread Day
Red Hat Society Day
Smigus Dyngus/Dyngus Day/Wet Monday (symbolizes cleansing, with the coming of Spring)
State License Plate Day
World Penguin Day
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Australia: (remembrance in Australia and New Zealand, originally commemorated by both countries on 25 April every year to honour the members of the Australian and New Zealand Army Corps (ANZAC) who fought at Gallipoli in the Ottoman Empire during World War I)
Egypt: Sinai Day
(Celebrates the final withdrawal of all Israeli military forces from the Sinai Peninsula in 1982)
Israel: Yom HaZikaron (Memorial Day) 
Italy: Liberation Day (1945 by Allied Troops)
Portugal: Liberty Day
(1974 revolution)
South Africa: Family Day
Swaziland: National Flag Day

Today’s Other Events                                                             
1500’s
1541 - Coronado leaves Alcanfor en route to Quivira. While in Quivira, Coronado had killed many of the inhabitants of Tiguex Pueblo
1600’s
1607 - Battle at Gibraltar: Dutch fleet beats Spanish/Portuguese fleet
1660 - London Convention Parliament begins  Parliament meets & votes to restore Charles II

1700’s
1774 - Michael Cresap is one of many "frontiersmen" in Kentucky who wishes to instigate a war with the local indians. He hopes that the Indians would lose the war, and be forced off their highly coveted lands. Cresap, and a few friends, come across a Shawnee and a Deleware Indian traveling through the woods. Cresap's group kills them both.
1800’s
1849 - The Governor General of Canada, Lord Elgin, signs the Rebellion Losses Bill, outraging Montreal's English population and triggering the Montreal Riots
1862 - Battle of New Orleans LA - US Admiral Farragut occupies New Orleans
1886 - Sigmund Freud opens practice at Rathausstrasse 7, Vienna
1900’s
1901 - In last of 9th, Detroit Tigers, trailing by 13-4, score 10 runs to win one of greatest comebacks in baseball (1st game in Detroit)
1927 - Spain routes 20,000 soldiers to Morocco (uprising Rifkabylen)
1928 - Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind in Germany
1938 - 1st use of seeing eye dog in US
1950 - Chuck Cooper becomes 1st black to play in NBA
1953 - Scientists identify DNA
1960 - 1st submerged circumnavigation of Earth completed (Triton)
1971 - About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington
1976 - Elections in Vietnam for a National Assembly to reunite the country
1982 - In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai withdrawal
1994 - 14" of snow in Southern CA
2000’s
2005 - The final piece of the Obelisk of Axum is returned to Ethiopia after being stolen by the invading Italian army in 1937.
2007 - Boris Yeltsin's funeral - the first to be sanctioned by the Russian Orthodox Church for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor Alexander III in 1894
2011 - At least 300 people killed in deadliest tornado outbreak in the Southern United States since the 1974 Super Outbreak

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 80’s
Meadowlark Lemmon, basketball star (Harlem Globetrotter ) is 80
In their 70’s
Al Pacino, actor (And Justice For All, Godfather, Scorpio) is 72
In their 60’s
Talia Shire, actress (Adrienne-Rocky) is 66
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In their 40’s
Hank Azaria,  American actor (The Birdcage) and voice behind many characters in The Simpsons (Moe, Apu, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Carl Carlson) is 48
Jason Lee, actor and skateboarder is 42
Renee Zellweger, actress  is 43
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Remembered for being born on this day
Oliver Cromwell, Puritan lord protector of England (1653-58) in 1599
Ella Fitzgerald, Newport News VA, jazz singer (Is it live or Memorex) in 1918
Guglielmo Marconi, Bologna Italy, inventor (radio, Nobel 1909) in 1874
Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, de facto ruler of England in 1287
Edward R Murrow, Pole Creek NC, newscaster (Person to Person) in 1908

Today’s Obits                                                           
Beatrice Arthur, comedian, actress, singer, (Maude ,  Golden Girls ) dies in 2009 at 86
Anders Celsius, Swed astronomer (Centegrade Thermometer), dies of TB in 1744  at 42
Art Fleming, game show host (Jeopardy), dies of pancreatic cancer in 1995 at 70
David Langton, British actor (Upstairs Downstairs), dies in 1994 at 82
Saint Mark, the first Pope of Alexandria and the founder of Christianity (Coptic) in Africa dies in 68 at 68
Dorothy Provine, actress, dies in 2010 at 75Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer ( Top Hat, Stage Door), dies in 1995 at 83
George Sanders, actor (Mr Freeze-Batman, Ivanhoe), suicide in 1972 at 65
Don Wilson, TV announcer (Jack Benny Show), dies in 1982  at 81

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day
Daniel is 7 years old and Jessica is 4 years old.

NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.     Capital of Arizona:
a.      Phoenix
2.     Aunt Jemima product:
a.      pancake mix
3.     Where hockey players sit after an infraction:
a.      penalty box
4.     Castor’s brother in Greek Myth:
a.      Pollux
5.     Source of much funding for public schools:
a.      property tax
6.     A body of troops in close array:
a.      phalanx
7.     Maker of ‘Cross Your Heart’ undergarments:
a.      Playtex
8.     Statistic on the average cost of goods:
a.      price index
9.     What  ‘re’ is in review:
a.      prefix
10.  Word to describe ‘when people are always picking on you’:
a.      persecution complex

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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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1 comment:

  1. Today it is 2 years ago that Dorothy Provine passed away. She starred in “The Bonnie Parker Story” and “ The Roaring Twenties” and she had two hit singles in the UK singles chart. These singles were “Don’t Bring Lulu” and “Crazy Words, Crazy Tune”. Visit her memorial @
    http://www.respectance.com/Dorothy_Provine/

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