Apr 29


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Todays  Historical  Highlights
1813 - Rubber is patented
1852 - 1st edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
1861 - Maryland's House of Delegates votes against seceding from Union
1901 - Anti Semitic riot in Budapest
1927 - Construction of Spirit of St Louis is completed
1961 - ABC's "Wide World of Sports”, debuts
1975 - Ethiopia nationalizes all ground/earth
1990 - Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate
2004 - Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Nice day to enjoy Flag’s great weather. A little cloudy to start but the afternoon was terrific.

Last week I connected on FB with my college roommate. Last night he called. We talked for about an hourvery nice. He lost his wife of 38 years to brain cancer last year. Thankfully she was only sick for about a month. High school sweetheart and married right after college graduation. They have three kids and now he has 4 grandkids. Dealing with life’s tough blow well. He is not ready for retirement, and in his case I get that. His job has kept him going and his kids and grandkids have become very close.

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

NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every answer is a word, name or familiar phrase starting with K and ending with Y, as in "Kentucky." For example, given the clue "stereotypical fraternity blowout," the answer would be "keg party."
1.     President after Eisenhower:
2.     Home of the Chiefs and the Royals:
3.     In WWII graffiti, he was here:
4.     A person who kills all the fun:
5.     Money in the middle of a poker table:
6.     Ben ___:
7.     Bush’s opponent in 2004:
8.     Sound when something is destroyed by an explosion:

Riddle of the day
Not born, but from a Mother's body drawn, I hang until half of me is gone. I sleep in a cave until I grow old, then valued for my hardened gold. 

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

Lifestyle  Substance     
Harper’s Index         
Portion of adults under thirty who think Hollywood is a threat to their values: 1/3
Found on You Tube 
Royal wedding of William and Cate       
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
One day a boy asked his grandpa "grandpa make a frog sound"
The grandfather asked why?
 The boy said, "Grandma says when you croak we are going to Hawaii”
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
When the lights are on after six in the personnel department of a Silicon Valley company, look for layoffs within two weeks.
Yeah, It Really Happened
GAINESVILLE, Fla. - Police in Florida said a man told them he fled the scene of an accident and went to a Walmart because he "had the runs." Gainesville police said Barnard Cato III was arrested Tuesday and charged with driving under the influence, hit and run and a felony count of leaving the scene of an accident involving injury after he struck another occupied vehicle and a few newspaper boxes around 7:15 a.m. Tuesday and left the scene, The Gainesville Sun reported Thursday. Police found Cato a few minutes later at a Walmart, where he told officers he did not realize he had hit the other vehicle and he "pulled into the next stop. ... I had the runs, I had to go," he said. Officers said Cato had a "strong odor of alcohol emanating from his breath and clothing" and his eyes were "bloodshot and watery." Cato declined to submit to a breathalyzer test.                 
Somewhat Useless Information   
The first rock ‘n’ roll song to hit #1 was "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley and His Comets. It held the top spot for 8 weeks.
"Baby One More Time" was Britney Spears' first hit. The album sold over 13 million copies in the US and rocketed Britney to super-stardom.
Madonna became known as "The Material Girl" after her hit single of the same name hit the charts in 1984. She hates it, claiming she would never have done the song if she knew the name would stick.

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

Gathering of the Nations PowWow
National Dream Hotline
National Pie Championships

Today Is                                                                      
Mother, Father Deaf Day
National Dance Day
National Dream Hotline
National Hairball Awareness Day
National Pet Parent's Day
"Peace" Rose Day
Pinhole Photography Day
Shrimp Scampi Day
Zipper Day National

Taiwan: Cheng Cheng Kung Landing Day (Commemorates landing in Taiwan in 1661 of Ming Dynasty loyalist Cheng Cheng Kung (Koxinga), who ousted Dutch colonists who had occupied Taiwan for 37 years)
Japan: Showa Day (
honors the birthday of the Showa Emperor (Hirohito), the reigning Emperor from 1926 to 1989)

Todays Other Events                                                             
1400’s
1429 - Joan of Arc leads Orleans, France, to victory over English
1500’s
1553 - Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
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1700’s
1700: Lemoyne d'Iberville today visits a Pascagoula village, one day's walk from the French post at Biloxi. The Pascagoula have been hit hard by disease brought by the Europeans. D'Iberville is impressed by the beauty of the Pascagoula women.
1800’s
1851 - One in a series of treaties with California Indians will be signed today at Camp Barbour. These treaties promise to set aside lands for the Indians and to protect them from Americans.
1862 - New Orleans fell to Union forces during Civil War
1882 - Lt. George Morgan, and 6 men from Troop K, 3rd Cavalry are ordered to arrest "Ute Jack", a Chief of the White River Ute. Jack has a knife and he resists. He is shot in the arm by a soldier. Escaping to a nearby teepee, Jack finds a rifle, and shoots the detachment sergeant. Major Julius Mason, 3rd Cavalry arrives, and according to Army reports, "measures are taken resulting in the capture and death of the Indian."
1900’s
1945 - 1st food drop by RAF above nazi-occupied Holland (operation Manna)
1957 - 1st military nuclear power plant dedicated, Fort Belvoir Va
1967 - Aretha Franklin releases "Respect"
1970 - 50,000 US & South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia
1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The U.S. begins to evacuate US citizens from Saigon prior to an expected North Vietnamese takeover. U.S. involvement in the war comes to an end.
1986 - 800,000 books destroyed by fire in LA Central Library
1992 - Jury acquits LA police officers of beating Rodney King, riots begin
1995 - Longest sausage ever, at 2877 miles, made in Kitchener Ontario
2000’s
2002 - The United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, one year after losing the seat it had held for 50 years
2005 - Syria completes withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation
2011 - Wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Kate Middleton

Todays Birthdays                                                           
In their 70’s
Rod Marvin McKuen, Oakland California, singer/composer ( My Friend the Sea) is 79
In their 60’s
Richard Kline, American actor and director is 68
Jim Ryun, US, 1500m runner/broke 4 minute mile (Olympic-silver-1968)  is 65
In their 50’s
Daniel Day-Lewis, England, actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot) is 55
Kate Mulgrew, Dubuque Iowa, actress (Capt Janeway-Star Trek Voyager) is 57
Michelle Pfeiffer, Midway City California, actress (Married to the Mob) is 54
Eve Plumb, Burbank, actress (Jan-Brady Bunch, I'm Gonna Get You Sucka) is 54
Jerry Seinfeld, comedian/actor (Jerry-Seinfeld) is 58
In their 40’s
Andre Agassi, Las Vegas Nev, tennis star (Oly-gold-96, US Open 1994) is 42
Uma Thurman, actress (Baron Munchausen, Pulp Fiction)is 42
Carnie Wilson, LA California, rock vocalist (Wilson Phillips-Hold On) is 44
Remembered for being born on this day
David Cox, English painter (Treatise on landscape painting) in 1783
Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver in 1951
 [Edward Kennedy], Duke Ellington, Wash DC, bandleader ( Take "A" Train) in 1899
William Randolph Hearst, publisher (SF Examiner, Seattle P-I) in 1863
Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1926-89) in 1901
Celeste Holm, American actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve) in 1917
Tommy Noonan, WA, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Promises Promises)
Ewan Roberts, Edinburgh Scotland, actor (Pvt Benjamin) in 1914
[Thomasina] Tammi Terrell, [Montgomery], singer ( Ain't No Mountain High Enough) in 1945
Zauditu, Emptress of Ethiopia in 1876

Todays Obits                                                           
Charles-Julien Brianchon, math (Brianchon's theorem), dies in 1864 at 80
John Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist dies in 2008 at 96 in 2006
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho , Birds), dies at 80 in 1980
Albert Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD dies in 2008 at 102
Anthony Mann, US director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies in 1967 of heart attack  at 60
Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian murderer of arch duke Ferdinand, dies of TB in 1918 at 22

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day
Cheese

NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.     President after Eisenhower:
a.       Kennedy
2.     Home of the Chiefs and the Royals:
a.      Kansas City
3.     In WWII graffiti, he was here:
a.      Kilroy
4.     A person who kills all the fun:
a.      Killjoy
5.     Money in the middle of a poker table:
a.      kitty
6.     Ben ___:
a.      Kingsley
7.     Bush’s opponent in 2004:
a.      Kerry
8.     Sound when something is destroyed by an explosion:
a.      Kablooey

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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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