Apr 7


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1798 - Mississippi Territory organized
1902 - Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1922 - Naval Reserve #3, "Teapot Dome," leased to Harry F Sinclair
1926 - Forest fire burns 900 acres & kills 2 (San Luis Obispo California)
1933 - Prohibition ends, Utah becomes 38th state to ratify 21st Amendment
1934 - In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1940 - 1st black to appear on US stamp (Booker T Washington)
1954 - Pres Eisenhower fears "domino-effect" in Indo-China
1959 - Oklahoma ends prohibition, after 51 years
1966 - US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor 
1978 - Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
1984 - The first meeting between the eastern and western Cherokee since the 1800s
1990 - Michael Milken pleads innocent to security law violations
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
A very good day to be out and about. Lots of errands completed, including filling the gas tankouch.

I’m a little confusedabout Easter. I was on Facebook, chatting with the tour guide from Ethiopiaof the Ethiopian Coptic Church. He is very religious and almost became a priest in the church. I mentioned that it was Good Friday. He said that Sunday is Palm Sunday in Ethiopia. I get that they are on an entirely different calendar, but it is usually a few years and months different than ours. Strange that both Christians believe in the resurrection, but differ on when to celebrate it. More knowledge on my part is certainly needed. I’m sure other Orthodox Christians celebrate both Easter and Christmas at different timewhy?

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

NPR Sunday Puzzle
Given a four-letter word, name another four-letter word that starts with the last letter of the given word. When the two words are read successively, overlapping on the shared letter, they'll spell a familiar seven-letter word. For example, given "prop," the answer would be "pose"; put together, the two words form "propose."
1.     Term:
2.     Aver:
3.     Port:
4.     Earn:
5.     Fort:
6.     Stew:
7.     Lamp:
8.     Pars:
9.     Mess:
10.  Grim:
11.  Cord:
12.  Bill:
13.  Grad:

Riddle of the day
You are in a room where there are no metal objects except for two iron rods. Only one of them is a magnet. How can you identify this magnet? 
Anagram: unscramblenumbers represent the number of letters in each answer word

Lifestyle  Substance     
Harper’s Index         
Price the Berkeley College Republicans charged whte men for baked goods at their September ‘Increase Divesity Bake Sale: $2
Price they charged Black men: $0.75
Found on You Tube 
         Grand Canyon Sunrise
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
Girl: You remind me of the sea.
 Boy: Why? Because I'm so wild and romantic?
 Girl: No. You make me sick.
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
Radial tires get two to three miles per gallon more than bias-belted or bias-ply tires.
Yeah, It Really Happened
 What is it about bats and heavy-metal musicians? Ozzy Osbourne famously interacted with a bat in another way back in 1982, but now a member of heavy metal band Torche is wishing he never came in contact with one of the winged creatures.
“Ok so... A bat peed in my eye,” guitarist Andrew Elstner wrote onhis Facebook page March 29. “Whether or not you think I'm telling the truth is irrelevant at this point. What I'm worried about now is rabies. A bat. It pissed into my eye. [God] help me.”
The musician was staying at a friend’s house in St. Louis when he discovered a trapped and frightened bat in one of the rooms.
  "I switch on the overhead light/ceiling fan combo and what I think at first is a shadow being cast from the spinning fan blades turns out to be a freaking bat,” the musician explained. “It circles the room a few times at light speed, and on one of the turns, dive bombs my head and squirts a little nervous pee into my eye. Holy [expletive]. I'm laughing but run to the sink and attempt to flush my eye out. I'm pretty sure I'm fine but...Not the most common of occurrences.”
Elstner initially brushed it off, but, at the recommendation of both his parents and doctors, the musician went to the hospital to be treated a day later.
He added, “With rabies, you have a short window to get treated, and beyond that, it is incurable and 100% fatal. Having said all that, I feel like I'm getting treated for a unicorn bite. Bunch of nonsense.”
Elstner told msnbc.com that his treatment "wasn't so bad." "I had five (shots) totally and while I'm generally terrified of needles, the nurse was pretty attractive so that helped."
The guitarist, whose Florida-based band is on the road promoting the April 24 release of their new album, “Harmonicraft,” has since swapped his own Facebook profile photo for that of a fang-baring bat, and has continued to find humor in the situation, posting various updates and coverage of his story to fans.
“The bat peeing in my eye story has finally achieved critical mass,” Elstner wrote Wednesday, when his story was picked up by Pitchfork Media. “What a truly strange, though now harmless, event in my life.”
He told msnbc.com, "I had written that post just for my friends because I thought the story was hilarious."
Somewhat Useless Information   
According to the Venerable Bede, Easter derives its name from Eostre, an Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring.
In Medieval Europe, eggs were forbidden during Lent. Eggs laid during that time were often boiled or otherwise preserved. Eggs were thus a mainstay of Easter meals, and a prized Easter gift for children and servants.
Orthodox Christians in the Middle East and in Greece painted eggs bright red to symbolize the blood of Christ. Hollow eggs (created by piercing the shell with a needle and blowing out the contents) were decorated with pictures of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and other religious figures in Armenia.
Hares and rabbits have long been symbols of fertility. The inclusion of the hare into Easter customs appears to have originated in Germany, where tales were told of an "Easter hare" who laid eggs for children to find. They also baked cakes for Easter in the shape of hares, and may have pioneered the practice of making chocolate bunnies and eggs.
After their baptisms, early Christians wore white robes all through Easter week to indicate their new lives. Those had already been baptized wore new clothes instead to symbolize their sharing a new life with Christ.
In Medieval Europe, churchgoers would take a walk after Easter Mass, led by a crucifix or the Easter candle. Today these walks endure as Easter Parades. People show off their spring finery, including lovely bonnets decorated for spring.

Calendar Information        
…Happening This Week:
1-7
The APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week
Holy Week
International Pooper-Scooper Week
Laugh at Work Week
National Blue Ribbon Week

National Public Health Week
National Week of the Ocean
National Window Safety Week
Medication Safety Week
2-7
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week
Explore Your Career Options
The Masters Tournament
4-10
Hate Week
7-15
National Robotics Week
Passover Week
Bat Appreciation Week
National Library Week
National Networking Week
Orthodox Holy Week
Pan American Week
Consider Christianity Week

Today Is                                                                      
International Beaver Day
International Pillow Fight Day
International Snailpapers Day It's about rejoicing in print newspapers, in their very materiality, their very papery feel and smell, the very stuff of newsprint.
Metric System Day
National Beer Day
No Housework Day
Tangible Karma Day
World Health Organization Day since 1948

Today’s Other Events                                                             
Before 1000CE
30 - Scholars' estimate Jesus crucified by Roman troops in Jerusalem
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1500’s
1509 - France declares war on Venice
1600’s
1652 - Dutch establish settlement at Cape Town, South Africa
1700’s
1788 - 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1800’s
1830 - President Jackson has submitted a bill that would call for the removal of most of the Indians in the southeast to lands west of the Mississippi. In a speech today, Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen, denounces the bill. He asked the Senate when was it ever proclaimed "that the right of discovery contained a superior efficacy to all prior titles?"
1900’s
1906 - Mount Vesuvius erupts and devastates Naples.
1923 - 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
1927 - Using phone lines TV is sent from Wash DC to NYC
1953 - 1st west-to-east jet transatlantic nonstop flight
1953 - Dag Hammarskjoeld of Sweden elected 2nd UN general-secretary
1963 - Yugoslavia proclaimed a Socialistic republic
1969 - Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of obscene material
1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1
1977 - Consumer Product Safety Comn bans "TRIS" flame-retardant
1980 - Jimmy Carter breaks relations with Iran during hostage crisis
1994 - Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time
1999 - The World Trade Organisation rules in favor of the United States in its long-running trade dispute with the European Union over bananas
2000’s
2001 - Mars Odyssey is launched
2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later
2009 - Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori is sentenced to 25 years in prison for ordering killings and kidnappings by security forces

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 90’s
Ravi Shankar, Benares India, sitar player (Sounds of India) is 92
In their 80’s
Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)/patriot is 81
James Garner, Norman Oklahoma, actor (Rockford Files , Bret Maverick)
is 84
In their 70’s
[Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr, (34th Gov- CA) is 74
Francis Ford Coppola, Detroit, director (Godfather, Apocalypse Now) is 73
David Frost, Tenterdon England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was) is 73
Wayne Rogers, Birmingham Ala, actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls, Chiefs) is 79
Swami Shantananda, Hindu Saint, Philosopher, Disciple of Swami Sivananda, Founder of Temple of Fine Arts is 78
In their 60’s
John Oates, NYC, rock guitarist/vocalist (Hall & Oates-Rich Girl ) is 63
In their 50’s
Jackie Chan, martial art actor (Rumble in the Bronx ) is 58
Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys, Heisman Trophy) is 58
In their 40’s
Bill Bellamy, American actor and comedian (Fled, How to be a Player, Joey Breaker) is 47
Russell Crowe, Wellington, New Zealand, Australian/New Zealand actor (A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator) will be 48
Remembered for being born on this day
Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters in 1718
Walter Camp, Ct, father of American football (Yale) in 1859
Marjory Stoneman Douglas, environmentalist (1st Lady of Everglades ) in 1890
Billie Holiday, [Eleanora Fagan], Balt, singer (Aint Nobodys Business) in 1915
Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer in 1860
Francis C Lowell, founded 1st raw cotton-to-cloth textile mill in 1775
Walter Winchell, Harlem NYC, newscaster/columnist (Untouchables) in 1897
William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude) in 1770
Francis Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan in 1506

Today’s Obits                                                           
Dave Arneson, Co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons dies of cancer at 61 in 2009
Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest/theory/saint, dies of exhaustion at 67
Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey), dies at 88 in 1891
Jim Clark, of Scotland, world driving champ, dies at 32 in race car in 1968
El Greco, Spanish painter (View of Toledo), dies at 72 or 73 in 1614
Barry Nelson, American actor dies at 89 in 2007

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day
You can hang the iron rods on a string and watch which one turns to the north (or hang just one rod).

NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.     Term:
a.      termite
2.     Aver:
a.      average
3.     Port:
a.      portray
4.     Earn:
a.      earnest
5.     Fort:
a.      fortune
6.     Stew:
a.      steward
7.     Lamp:
a.      lamprey
8.     Pars:
a.      parsnips
9.     Mess:
a.      message
10.  Grim:
a.      grimace
11.  Cord:
a.      cordial
12.  Bill:
a.      billion
13.  Grad:
a.      gradual
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
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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