Apr 9


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1682 - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1833 - 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH)
1912 - Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY
1928 - Mae West's NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"
1953 - "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1963 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen (posthumously)
2002 - The funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Happy Easter to All. Some friends dropped by yesterday evening, so no time to do the blog.

A great Easter. Brunch with some friends. Beautiful weather. Talked with my brother in NY. They are relaxing at their loft in Brooklyn. Lots of new views for them. I had to smileseems that NYC will close major streets around the 5 boroughs on weekends for street fairs. He says it really disrupts travelso most people just stay around the neighborhood. And Flagstaff limited its street closures to a couple a year. Hmmm.  

An interesting news story about Water in Arizona. Our senators have brokered a deal that has the Navajo and Hopi giving up some of their water rights to Colorado River water—which helps Phoenix—with a promise of someday giving more running water to tribal members of both tribes. The problem is the tribes have to give up their water rights with no date for their new running water. Sounds pretty familiar. Senator Kyl is not running again, and Senator McCain probably won’t run again. People who don’t live on the reservation don’t understand how important water is and people who don’t live on the reservation don’t understand all the promises that have been broken in the past fifty years. Navajo President Shelly, Kyl, and McCain were all in Tuba yesterday to talk to the people. They were greeted by over 300 protestors and President Shelly was actually out-shouted when he talked outside the meeting. I say, give every home on both reservations running water then talk to the people about giving up water for the people of Phoenix.

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

NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which one word starts with S-T, as in Steelers, and the other starts with C-A, as in Cardinals. The words can be in either order. For example, given "people who work for a political candidate," the answer would be "campaign staff."
1.     A racing vehicle:
2.     Booking listing prices for philatelists:
3.     What Juneau is to Alaska:
4.     Place to buy chocolate and peppermint sticks:
5.     Antique elevator compartment or used by shark hunters:
6.     What Bugs Bunny munches on:
7.     60’s singer now known as Usuf Islam:
8.     Complete the title: The ­­­___ of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
9.     The worker who changes beds and makes up rooms on a cruise ship:
10.  A knitted piece of headwear you pull over your head:
11.  An ownerless feline:
12.  Someone who can eat large quantities of hot spicy food is said to have:

Riddle of the day
You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock. This one loses exactly 24 minutes every hour. It is now showing 3:00am and you know that is was correct at midnight, when you set it. The clock stopped 1 hour ago, what is the correct time now?
Anagram: unscramblenumbers represent the number of letters in each answer word

Lifestyle  Substance     
Harper’s Index         
Date on which Gov. Rick Scott said that Florida doesn’t need ‘more anthropologists’: 10/10/2011
Date on which Scott’s daughter received her anthropology degree: 11/01/2008
Found on You Tube 
Cat Stevens Biografie - How he becomes Yusuf Islam Mashallah     
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
Notice to Employees (Includes Part Time Workers)
 SICKNESS
 We will no longer accept your doctors' statements as proof.
 We believe if you are able to go to the doctor, you are able to work.

 LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR SURGERY
 We are no longer allowing this practice. As long as you are employed here, you will need all of whatever you have and should not consider having anything removed. We hired you as you are, and to have anything removed would certainly make you less than we bargained for. Anyone having operations will be FIRED immediately.

 PREGNANCY
 In the event of extreme pregnancy, you will be allowed to go to the first aid room when the pains are FIVE MINUTES apart. If it is false labor, you will have to take an hour's leave without pay.

 DEATH
 This will be accepted as an excuse, BUT we would like two week’s notice, as we feel it is your duty to teach someone your job prior to . . . or after death.

This new benefit program started yesterday.
 The Management 
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
Returns Tomorrow!

Yeah, It Really Happened
ABBOTSFORD, British Columbia - Three young, drunken and naked British Columbia men escaped charges and came out squeaky clean after riding a grocery cart through a car wash, police said. Police in Abbotsford were called after midnight Tuesday by neighbors who heard screaming coming from a drive-through, 24-hour car wash, the Vancouver Sun reported.
Constable Ian MacDonald said when officers arrived, they found three 23-year-old inebriated men getting dressed. The trio told officers they had stripped and gotten into a shopping cart to ride through the car wash, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. "Not knowing at this point whether they picked 'typhoon' or 'super typhoon' I'd suggest that either of those and the combination of the brushes that would have come past them would be enough to definitely leave you with a little bit of a memory of what you had done the prior night," MacDonald said. Police issued warnings, but didn't charge the men. MacDonald told the CBC it was fortunate the trio hadn't selected a hot wax cycle.
Somewhat Useless Information   
The name Easter owes its origin from Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess who symbolizes hare and egg.
Easter always falls between March 22 and April 25.
Pysanka is a specific term used for the practice of Easter egg painting.
From the very early times, egg has been considered the most important symbol of rebirth.
The initial baskets of Easter were given the appearance of bird's nests.
The maiden chocolate eggs recipes were made in Europe in the nineteenth century.
Each year witnesses the making of nearly 90 million chocolate bunnies.
Next to Halloween, Easter holiday paves way for confectionary business to boom.
When it comes to eating of chocolate bunnies, the ears are preferred to be eaten first by as many as 76% of people.
In the catalogue of kids' favorite Easter foodstuff, Red jellybeans occupy top most position.

Calendar Information        
…Happening This Week:
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                                                                      
Appomattox Day 1865: R.E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia. Ending the Civil War! 
Baby Massage Day
Dyngus Day Polish-American tradition, Dyngus Day celebrates the end of the often restrictive observance of lent and the joy of Easter
Easter Monday : White House Easter Egg Roll
Jenkins Ear Day a conflict between Great Britain and Spain that lasted from 1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742; coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858,[5] relates to Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship, who exhibited his severed ear in Parliament following the boarding of his vessel by Spanish coast guards in 1731.
Name Yourself Day
National Cherish An Antique Day
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
Winston Churchill Day
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Tunisia: Martyr's Day

Today’s Other Events                                                             
Before 1000CE
475 - Byzantine Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire, supporting the Monophysite christological position
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1600’s
1667 - 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)
1700’s
1772 - Whites can now buy Indian land in Indian territories without government approval in New England.
1800’s
1869 - Hudson Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada
1884 - A woman, identified by local missionaries as Sacajawea, dies today in Wyoming. If this is the Sacajawea of the Lewis and Clark expedition, she would be almost 100 years old.
1900’s
1914 - 1st full color film shown "World, Flesh & Devil" (London)
1927 - Italy & US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences
1928 - Turkey passes separation of church & state
1947 - Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
1947 - Baseball suspends Bkln Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year
1950 - Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
1957 - Suez Canal cleared for all shipping
1972 - USSR & Iraq sign friendship treaty
1981 - LA Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0
1993 - Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos
2000’s
2003 - Baghdad falls to U.S. forces resulting in widespread looting
2005 - His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles
2011 - A gunman murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the Netherlands

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 90’s
Alexander Moulton, English bicycle designer (folding bicycle) is 92
In their 80’s
Hugh Hefner, [Marston], Chicagp, magazine publisher (Playboy) is 86
Paul Krassner, comic strip cartoonist (MAD Magazine)/founder (Yippies) is 80
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In their 60’s
Chico Ryan, rock vocalist (Sha Na Na)
In their 50’s
Dennis Quaid, actor (Big Easy, Dreamscape, Right Stuff) is 58
In their 40’s
Joe Scarborough, American television personality is 49
In their 30’s
Rachel Stevens, English singer-songwriter, actress, presenter, dancer, television personality and model is 34
Under 30 years old
Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer will be 25
Remembered for being born on this day
Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute in 1794
Ward Bond, Denver Colo, actor (Seth-Wagon Trains) in 1903
Isambard Kingdom Brunel, designer of 1st transatlantic steamer in 1806
John Presper Eckert, co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC) in 1919
Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar in 1691
Carl Perkins, Jackson Tn, singer/songwriter (Blue Suede Shoes)

Today’s Obits                                                           
Francis Bacon, English statesman and philosopher, dies from pneumonia at 65 in 1626
Lord Lovat, Simon Fraser, English jacobiet, last man beheaded in England at 80 in 1747
Phil Ochs, singer (Draft Dodger Rag,  I Ain't Marching Anymore ), commits suicide at 35 in 1976
Willie Stargell, American baseball player dies after stroke at 61 in 2001
Frank Lloyd Wright, US architect (Guggenheim Museum NY), dies at 89 in 1959

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day
6:00am: since the clock is losing 24 minutes every hour, for every real hour that has passed, the clock will only show 36 minutes. Since the clock shows 3:00am, we know that 180 clock minutes have passed. This therefore equals 300 real minutes and hence 5 hours. The clock stopped 1 hour ago and the time must now be 6.00am.

NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.     A racing vehicle:
a.      stock car
2.     Booking listing prices for philatelists:
a.      stamp catalogue
3.     What Juneau is to Alaska:
a.      state capital
4.     Place to buy chocolate and peppermint sticks:
a.      candy store
5.     Antique elevator compartment or used by shark hunters:
a.      steel cage
6.     What Bugs Bunny munches on:
a.      carrot sticks
7.     60’s singer now known as Usuf Islam:
a.      Cat Stevens
8.     Complete the title: The ­­­___ of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
a.      Strange Case
9.     The worker who changes beds and makes up rooms on a cruise ship:
a.      Cabin Steward
10.  A knitted piece of headwear you pull over your head, like a bank robber:
a.      stocking cap
11.  An ownerless feline:
a.      stray cat
12.  Someone who can eat large quantities of hot spicy food is said to have:
a.      Castiron stomach


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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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