Apr 27


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1565 - 1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
1805 - US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1865 - Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
1897 - Grant's Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
1935 - Brussel's World Expo opens
1937 - 1st US social security payment made
1947 - Babe Ruth Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & throughout US
1978 - Accident at nuclear reactor Willow Island, W Virginia, kills 51
1989 - Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China
2006 - Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Lots of nice gentle rain, a little snow, more gentle and soaking rain. What a wonderful time in Flag.

I had lunch with our retirement group. Went to Little America. I had a hot turkey sandwich that had the thickest sliced turkey I have ever seen on a open face sandwich. NO dinner tonight, for sure. The waiter left a lot to be desiredbut we weren’t in any hurry so that was tolerable. Mary had great pics of her new grandsonand seemed to have a great two weeks with him in Chicago. Cheryl is healing very well and was able to drive in to Flag.

What’s this I hear that poor Mr. Zimmerman, whose attorney is doing the case pro bono has $200K in internet donations to his defenseand he forgot to tell the attorney, the judge and possibly his family about that moneyReally? How dumb does he think everyone is? 

I just listened to yet another debate for Flagstaff’s mayor. At this pointI vote for neitherand that’s not on the ballot.

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

NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every answer is a two-word, rhyming phrase in which both words have three syllables. For example, given the clue "unexplained circumstance of the past," the answer would be "history mystery."
1.     Monthly pay for working at an art store:
2.     Better looking guy paying for a kidnapee:
3.     An average amount of boringness:
4.     Chance drawing for some clayware:
5.     Not as neat a Xerox machine:
6.     A more sadistic worker with gems:
7.     Faithfulness to the Crown:
8.     Whoever is the current resident of the White House:
9.     Merriment for average church goers:

Riddle of the day
My thunder comes before the lightning;
My lightning comes before the clouds;
My rain dries all the land it touches.
What am I?
Anagram: unscramblenumbers represent the number of letters in each answer word

Lifestyle  Substance     
Harper’s Index         
Number of Afghan army battalions currently able to fight without coalition support: 0
Found on You Tube 
 Returns tomorrow      
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
Four high school boys afflicted with spring fever skipped morning classes. After lunch they reported to the teacher that they had a flat tire.
Much to their relief she smiled and said: "Well, you missed a test today so take seats apart from one another and take out a piece of paper."
Still smiling, she waited for them to sit down. Then she said:
"First Question: Which tire was flat?"
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
With retriever litters, pups seen carrying objects around fairly regularly are best bets. 
Yeah, It Really Happened
At a press conference Wednesday evening, police said Toledo had been arrested and charged with two counts of felony mischief, 47 counts of criminal mischief, false reports and other related offenses.
Police say they questioned Toledo extensively on April 16, the same day the most recent vandalism was reported on Aldine and Teesdale Streets as a dozen or so more cars were targeted.
Toledo has spoken to NBC10 several times since coverage of tire slashings in the area of the 4000 block of Aldine Street and surrounding roads began to surface in February. The vandalism dates back even further than that, according to neighbors.
"I hope the cops get them before the neighbors find out who it is because something bad is going to happen," Toledo said after some cars were vandalized in mid-March. "My wife said 'somebody is watching us, watching the cops' because when they're here nothing happens."
Now police say that it was Toledo who was causing sleepless nights for neighbors concerned that their cars would be vandalized while they slept. A town watch was formed and police even offered a big reward for an arrest in the case.
All along, Toledo, who lives on Aldine Street, was there speaking out against the vandalism.
"This will be the last time that you're going to get my car because you will get caught," Toledo told NBC10 after just his tires were slashed on March 20. "The $10,000 reward, I don't want the money, all I want is their hands so I can smash them so they can never do it again."
It's unclear if Toledo is responsible for all the area vandalism but police do believe he at least committed some of the tire slashings on Teesdale, Aldine and Erdrick Streets, McGinnis said.     
          
Somewhat Useless Information   
A favorite cheerleading tune, the video for Toni Basil's number one hit song "Mickey" included real-life cheerleaders. Toni's uniform was real as well; the "LVH" patch stood for Las Vegas High, where she was on the squad in the early 1960s.
Many of the stunts performed in the 2000 film Bring It On, including the fly-overs and the basket tosses with head-over-heels rotation, are illegal in competitions at the high school level because of safety concerns.

The first organized chant that occurred during a football game at Princeton in the 1880s:
Rah, Rah, Rah!
Tiger, Tiger, Tiger!
Sis, Sis, Sis!
Boom, Boom, Boom!
Aaaah! Princeton,
Princeton, Princeton!
The Washington Redskins cheerleaders are the oldest active cheerleading organization in the NFL. The First Ladies of Football made their debut as the Redskinettes on September 30, 1962.
Cheerleading was an all-male sport until World War II summoned the fittest men overseas. When the war ended, co-ed squads became the norm, as the teams could perform more dramatic stunts using the lighter-weight female cheerleaders.
The quintessential cheerleading jump, the Herkie, was invented by and named for Lawrence Herkimer. Herkimer developed the move, which features the right arm thrust upward and one leg bent behind, in order to gain more height in his jumps while serving on the Southern Methodist University cheerleading squad.

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                                                                      
Arbor Day
Babe Ruth Day
National Hairball Awareness Day
Mantanza’s Mule Day (1st naval action of Spanish American War)
Morse Code Day
Tell A Story Day
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South Africa: Freedom Day (1994 from apartheid)
Sierra Leone: Independence Day
(1961 from UK)
Togo: Independence Day
(1960 from France)

Today’s Other Events                                                             
1200’s
1296 - Battle of Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England
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1500’s
1526 - Mogol King Babur beats sultan of Delhi
1600’s
1650 - The Battle of Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is defeated by a Covenanter army
1667 - The blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10
1700’s
1763: Today, Pontiac will hold a council with a large group of Ottawa, Wyandot, and Potawatomi Indians. He will tell them of his plans to attack Fort Detroit. He will extol the virtues of returning to the old Indian ways, before the coming of the Europeans.
1800’s
1810 - Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise
1838 - Fire destroys half of Charleston
1877 - President Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends
1877: General George Crook contacts Red Cloud with a message for Crazy Horse. Crook promises that if Crazy Horse surrenders, he will get a reservation in the Powder River area. On this date, Red Cloud delivers the message to Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse agrees and heads to Fort Robinson, in northwestern Nebraska, where he will surrender to the U.S. Army.
1900’s
1908 - 4th modern Olympic games opens in London
1941 - German troops occupy Athens Greece
1946 - 1st radar installation aboard a commercial ship installed
1950 - South Africa passes Group Areas Act segregating races
1984 - Over 70 inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana
1989 - Hurricane in Bangladesh, kills 500
1990 - 50th annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich)
2000’s
2005 - The Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse, France
2011 - The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history
Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 90’s
Jack Klugman, actor (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus) is 90
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In their 70’s
Judy Carne, Northhampton Engl, comedienne (Laugh-in, Fair Exchange) is 73 
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In their 50’s
Sheena Easton , [Shirley Orr], Glasgow Scotland, singer (Sugar Walls) is 53

Remembered for being born on this day
Sandy Dennis, American actress in 1937
Ulysses S. Grant, [Hiram], Ohio (R), 18th president (1869-77) in 1822
Walter Lantz, animator (Woody Woodpecker's creator) in 1899
Thomas Lewis, Irish-born Virginia settler in 1718
Samuel Morse, Charlestown, Massachusetts, American inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter in 1791
Marc-Antoine Parseval, French mathematician in 1755
George Petty, WWII Pin-Up Artist in 1894

Today’s Obits                                                           
Carlos Castaneda, Peruvian-born writer dies of cancer in 1998 at 72
Ralph Waldo Emerson, US poet (Representive Men), dies in 1882 at 78
Al Hirt, American trumpeter died of liver failure at 76 in 1999 Ferdinand Magellan, world traveler, killed in 1521 by Filipino natives at 40ish
Julius Sterling Morton, who started Arbor Day, dies in 1902 at 72
Edward R Murrow, newscaster (Person to Person), dies  of cancer at 57 in 1965
Zebulon M Pike, US explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in 1813 in battle at 34

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day
A volcano
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.     Monthly pay for working at an art store:
a.      gallery salary
2.     Better looking guy paying for a kidnapee:
a.      handsomer ransomer
3.     An average amount of boringness:
a.      medium tedium
4.     Chance drawing for some clayware:
a.      pottery lottery
5.     Not as neat a Xerox machine:
a.      sloppier copier
6.     A more sadistic worker with gems:
a.      crueler jeweler
7.     Faithfulness to the Crown:
a.      loyalty royalty
8.     Whoever is the current resident of the White House:
a.      resident President
9.     Merriment for average church goers:
a.      laity gayety
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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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