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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1806 - The Department of
War establishes the office of Superintendent of Indian Trade. This position will
be appointed by the President. The job will entail the purchase of goods for
and from the Indians.
1869 - Donehogawa (Ely
Samuel Parker) is appointed as the first Indian to be Commissioner of Indian
Affairs. Donehogawa, a SENECA IROQUOIS, was trained as a lawyer and a civil
engineer. Unable to find work in the white world, Donehogawa contacts his old
friend Ulysses Grant. Grant makes him an aide, and they work together through
much of the Civil War. Because of his excellent penmanship, Donehogawa draws up
the surrender papers for Lee to sign at Appomattox. Promoted to Brigadier
General, Ely Parker worked to settle many conflicts between whites and Indians.
After Grant becomes President, he will be appointed as Indian Commissioner
1948 - 1st
Polaroid camera was sold in US
1959 - 1211-kg
(2669 lb, 12.76 oz) great white shark becomes largest fish ever caught on a rod
1960 - Brasilia
becomes capital of Brazil
1965 - New York
World's Fair reopens for 2nd & final season
1966 - Emperor
Haile Selassie (Ethiopia) visits Kingston Jamaica
1986 - Geraldo
Rivera opens Al Capone's vault on TV & finds nothing
1989 - Thousands of
Chinese crowd into Beijing's Tiananmen Square cheering students demanding
greater political freedom
1997 - Ashes of
Timothy Leary & Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit
Free Rambling
Thoughts
Cheryl called this morning
and I went over there for a nice lunch and walk around downtown Williams. She
still can’t drive, still has a purple eye, but is recovering well. Williams has
a cute little ol’ fashioned downtown, definitely for tourists. A nice gallery
of local artists opened earlier this year. They have some cool art, and at very
reasonable prices…will probably pick
something up on my next visit. I had a great Ruben sandwich with red cabbage instead
of sauerkraut…tasty.
The HOA where I live sent
out yet another notice. They included a cute little ‘Newsletter’ from a word
template to remind us of their power over tenants..things like not being able
to park a ‘bicycle or other nuisance’ in the front of your house and ‘only
appropriate patio furniture and gas grills allowed on the back deck’. Yeah,
right… I have been to lots of ‘bike
and other nuisance’ shops in my life...and exactly what is ‘appropriate’ patio
furniture? And no one can see the back
porch, unless they are walking between pine trees in the 10 feet between the
patio and fence on the property edge. Such silly rules made up by a board of
bureaucrats who enjoy control and power.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A
close up picture of what?
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Each clue is one word. The
answer is a word that can follow the clue to complete a familiar two-word
phrase. The first two letters of the answer must be the first and last letter
of the clue. For example, given "pool," the answer would be "player."
1.
Pepperoni:
2.
Advertising:
3.
Varicose:
4.
Little:
5.
Balance:
6.
Political:
7.
Picture:
8.
China:
9.
Short:
10.
Crystal:
11.
Love:
12.
Ascorbic:
13.
Peer:
14.
Table:
Riddle of the day
Which country has been
hidden in the paragraph below: The local habitat around a railway track can be
very interesting. For example, supporting the track is a sleeper, under which
you can find the lesser spotted great weevil.
Anagram:
unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s
Index
Odds a West Virginia
driver collided with a deer in the past year: 1 in 53
Found on You
Tube
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
One day a genie appeared
to a California man and offered to grant him one wish.
The man said:” I wish
you'd build a bridge from here to Hawaii so I could drive there anytime"
The genie frowned" I
don't know. It sounds like quite an undertaking,” he said. "Just think of
the logistics. The supports required reaching the bottom of the ocean, the
concrete, and the steel! Why don't you pick something else?"
The man thought for a while and then said,
"Okay, I wish for a complete understanding of women- what they are
thinking, why they cry. I wish I knew how to make a woman truly happy".
The genie was silent for a minute, then said
"So how many lanes did you want on that bridge?"
Rules of
Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
Homeowners should plan on
paying about $100 a month for a repair fund. Total net housing cost can be
40-45 percent more than the base mortgage.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
WELLINGTON,
New Zealand -- Experts say a New Zealand woman's 2-gallon-a-day Coca-Cola
habit probably contributed to her death, a conclusion that led the soft-drink
giant to note that even water can be deadly in excessive amounts.
Natasha Harris, a 30-year-old, stay-at-home mother
of eight from Invercargill, died of a heart attack in February 2010. Fairfax
Media reported that a pathologist, Dr. Dan Mornin, testified at an inquest
Thursday that she probably suffered from hypokalemia, or low potassium, which
he thinks was caused by her excessive consumption of Coke and overall poor
nutrition.
Symptoms of hypokalemia can include abnormal heart
rhythms, according to the U.S. National Institutes of Health.
Mornin said that toxic
levels of caffeine, a stimulant found in Coke, also may have contributed to her
death, according to Fairfax.
Harris' partner, Chris Hodgkinson, testified that
Harris drank between 8 and 10 liters (2.1 and 2.6 gallons) of regular Coke
every day.
"The first thing she would do in the morning
was to have a drink of Coke beside her bed and the last thing she would do at
night was have a drink of Coke," Hodgkinson said in a deposition.
"She was addicted to Coke."
He said that on the
morning of her death, Harris helped get her children ready for school before
slumping against a wall. He called emergency services and tried mouth-to-mouth
resuscitation but couldn't revive her.
Another pathologist, Dr. Martin Sage, said in a
deposition that "it is certainly well demonstrated that excessive long or
short term cola ingestion can be dramatically symptomatic, and there are strong
hypothetical grounds for this becoming fatal in individual cases."
Inquests such as this are sometimes held for
unusual or unexplained deaths in New Zealand, and can help shape future health
policies. With the evidence in the case now complete, the coroner's office will
compile and issue a final report into the death.
Somewhat Useless
Information
"Workers of all lands
unite. The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the
point is to change it." Karl Marx, Highgate Cemetery, London, UK.
Rodney Dangerfield, the
comedian and actor, died in 2004 from complications following heart surgery at
age 82. A master of self-deprecating one-liners, his epitaph reads "There
goes the neighborhood."
Mel Blanc, the man who
lent his voice to renowned characters - including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig,
Yosemite Sam, and Sylvester the Cat - died of heart disease and emphysema in
1989 at age 81. His epitaph marked a legacy with a dose of humor "That's
all folks!"
The life's work of Ludoph
van Ceulen, who died from unknown causes in 1610 at age 70, was to calculate
the value of the mathematical constant pi to 35 digits. He was so proud of this
achievement that he asked that the number be engraved on his tombstone. So it
comes to no surprise that his epitaph read "Ludolph van Ceulen:
3.14159265358979323846264338327950288...'."
"Sir John Strange.
Here lies an honest man. And that is Strange." This was inscribed on a
tombstone of a lawyer in England.
"Here lies Johnny
Yeast. Pardon me for not rising." In Ruidoso, New Mexico.
Calendar Information
…Happening This
Week:
14-22
National
Karaoke Week
National
Volunteer Week
National Pet ID Week
National Pet ID Week
National
Paperboard Packaging Week
18-23
Cleaning For
A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
International Whistlers Week
Consumer Awareness Week
International Whistlers Week
Police
Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
19-5/4
Kentucky
Derby Week
20-29
National
Dance Week
20-22
National
& Global Youth Service Days
21-28
Money Smart
Week
Administrative Professionals Week
National Crime Victims Rights Week
Administrative Professionals Week
National Crime Victims Rights Week
National
Playground Safety Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Preservation
Week
Sky Awareness Week
Week of The Young Child
(Spring) Astronomy Week
Sky Awareness Week
Week of The Young Child
(Spring) Astronomy Week
Safe Kids
Week
Today Is
Bulldogs are
Beautiful Day
Kindergarten
Day
National
Chocolate-covered Cashews Day
National
Teach Children to Save Day
Record Store
Day Auctioneers Day
US: TX: San
Jacinto Day (1836. It was the final battle of
the Texas Revolution where Texas won its independence from Mexico)
Italy: Birthday of Rome (Romulus and Remus founded Rome in 753BC)
Italy: Birthday of Rome (Romulus and Remus founded Rome in 753BC)
Today’s Other Events
1500’s
1509 - Henry the
VIII becomes King of England
1600’s
1649 - Maryland
Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1700’s
1792 - Tiradentes,
a revolutionary who was leading a movement for Brazil's independence, is
hanged, drawn and quartered
1800’s
1828 - Noah
Webster publishes 1st American dictionary
1857 - Alexander
Douglas patents the bustle
1862 - Congress
establishes US Mint in Denver, Co
1865 - Abraham
Lincoln's funeral train leaves Washington
1878 - First
Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling contest on White House lawn
1878 - NY installs
1st firehouse pole
1900’s
1918 - World War
I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red
Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France
1952 - Secretary's
Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated.
1955 - Bkln Dodgers win, then record 10th straight game to begin a
season
1963 - Beatles
meet Rolling Stones for 1st time
1983 - 1 pound
coin introduced in United Kingdom
1989 - George W
Bush & Edward W Rose become CEO of Texas Rangers
1995 - FBI arrested
Timothy McVeigh & charge him with Oklahoma City bombing
2000’s
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Elizabeth, Alexandra Mary
Windsor II, Queen of England is 86
In their 70’s
James Dobson, American
evangelist is 76
Charles Grodin, Pitt,
actor, Woman in Red, Lonely Guy, Heartbreak Kid) is 77
In their 60’s
Tony Danza,
actor (Tony Banta-Taxi, Tony Micelli-Who's the Boss) will
be 61
Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg],
Mich, rocker (Zombie Birdhouse) is 65
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In their 30’s
Tony Romo, Cowboy’s
quarterback is 32
Remembered for being
born on this day
Alexander Anderson, US,
engraver/illustrator (Shakespeare) in 1775
Charlotte Bronte, Tornton
England, novelist (Jane Eyre) in 1816
Edmund G "Pat"
Brown, (Gov-D-California) in 1905
John Law, Scottish
economist (believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not
constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade) in 1671
Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist
professor, isolated growth hormones in 1913
John Muir, US,
naturalist/discoverer (glaciers in High Seirras) in 1838
Max Weber, German
sociologist/economist/historian (Ancient Judaism) in 1864
Today’s Obits
Mark Twain, [Samuel
Clemens], author (Huckleberry Finn), dies at 74 in 1910
Gummo [Milton] Marx, US
comic (Marx Brothers), dies at 84 in 1977
"Red Baron",
[Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I at 25 in 1925
Nina Simone, American
singer and pianist dies of breast cancer at 70 in 2003
Jimmy "The
Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster (CBS), dies of heart attack at 76
in 1996
Answers
Brain Game: Close
Up Picture
Riddle of the day
Peru
NPR Sunday Puzzle
More than one answer is
possible
1.
Pepperoni:
a.
pizza
2.
Advertising:
a.
agency
3.
Varicose:
a.
veins
4.
Little:
a.
league
5.
Balance:
a.
beam
6.
Political:
a.
platform
7.
Picture:
a.
perfect
8.
China:
a.
cabinet
9.
Short:
a.
story
10.
Crystal:
a.
clear
11.
Love:
a.
letter
12.
Ascorbic:
a.
acid
13.
Peer:
a.
pressure
14.
Table:
a.
tennis
Anagrams
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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