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Today’s Historical Highlights
Pulitzer Prizes awarded today
1926 - Pulitzer prize awarded
to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1937 - Margaret Mitchell wins
Pulitzer Prize )Gone With the Wind)
1943 - Pulitzer prize awarded
to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
1948 - Pulitzer prize awarded
to James Michener (Tales of the South Pacific) & Tennessee Williams (A
Streetcar Named Desire)
1954 - Pulitzer prize awarded
to Charles A Lindbergh (The Spirit of St. Louis) & John Patrick (The Teahouse of
the August Moon)
1965 - Pulitzer prize awarded
to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
1971 - Pulitzer prize awarded
to John Toland (Rising Sun)
1976 - Pulitzer prize awarded
to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift)
à
1493: Today through
tomorrow, the Pope divides the "new world" between the Spanish and
the Portuguese
1830: 1st regular steam train
passenger service starts
1837: The University of Athens
is founded
1919: America's 1st passenger
flight (NY-Atlantic City)
1960: The Anne Frank House
opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1971: All Things Considered
premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
1971: Nixon administration
arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1978: The first unsolicited
bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is
sent by a
Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address
on the west coast of the United States
1997: Garry Kasparov begins
chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
Free Rambling
Thoughts
Movie and lunch was good
with our retirement group. I have to wonder about Hunger Games. It’s a chick flick with lots of blood. Strange movie
from my perspective. Lunch at the Greek place was very good. I had only an appetizer,
since I ate popcorn at the movie. It was beer battered French fries with feta
cheese and a nice dipping sauce…spectacular. Mary had more pics of her new
grandson…so cute. Next week is Cheryl’s birthday and it’s off to Williams for
Bearizona and then lunch…should be a great time.
My neighbor’s theft did
make the local paper today. Sure doesn’t sound very plausible when seen in
print. Each lady is claiming a $300+ purse, and one had $150 sunglasses and
$200 in cosmetics and the other had a $200 wallet and $80 bottle of perfume in
their purse. No mention of cash, credit cards, or other valuables. Both ladies
still had their car keys and cell phones as they drove off in separate cars later
in the day. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but just seems strange.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up
picture of what?
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NPR Sunday Puzzle
Each word has 2
syllables. The first vowel sound in the first word is a long "E."
Change this to a short "E," and phonetically you'll get a new word
that answers the second clue. For example: if the clue is "slang term for
an eye, and partner for salt," the answer would be: "peeper and
pepper."
1.
Top of a room; opposite of buying:
2.
Popular polling organization; wrestling hold:
3.
Term of endearment; like gym clothes after exercising:
4.
A unit of petrol; a postal delivery:
5.
A lab container; former Tennis champ Boris:
6.
Ignoring the consequences; like the horseman in Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
7.
Lighthouse light; call to come closer:
8.
Butcher’s knife; ingenious:
Riddle of the day
Take one out and scratch my head, I am now
black but once was red. What am I ?
Anagram: unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s Index
Number of states that have delayed filling judicial vacancies for budgetary reasons: 34
Found on You Tube
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
Little Emily was
complaining to her mother that her stomach hurt. Her mother replied, “That’s
because it's empty. Maybe you should try putting something in it."
The next day, the pastor
was over at Emily's family's house for lunch. He mentioned having his head
hurt, to which Emily immediately replied, "That's because it's empty.
Maybe you should try putting something in it."
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
The ground cushion is an
invisible area near the runway where the interaction between the airplane's
wing and the ground cause changes in an airplane's flight characteristics.
Measured scientifically, the height of the ground cushion is about equal to the
wingspan of the airplane. A pilot, however, will notice the effects at an
altitude half the wingspan of the airplane.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
CAPE MAY, N.J. - A New
Jersey couple who noticed an unusual number of honeybees in their garden said
they found a honeycomb and 30,000 of the insects in their attic crawl space.
Victoria Clayton and Richard White, who live at a former bed and breakfast on Washington
Street in Cape May, said they noticed many of the bees from their garden were
entering their home through a third-floor laundry vent and they soon found
there was a honeycomb in the attic crawl space with 30,000 honeybees tending to
it, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday.
The couple enlisted the
help of Gary Schempp, 57, founder of insect rescue group Busy Bees NJ, to
relocate the insects. Schempp said he and his assistant, John Reed, first
poured some liquid smoke into the crawlspace, which caused the bees to believe
the home was on fire and gorge themselves on honey until they were docile. The
men then pulled out about 25 pounds of honey and nectar, which they said was
unsuitable for consumption due to being polluted with dust. Schempp and Reed
used a specially designed vacuum to gather up the bees and transport them back
to Schempp's farm.
Somewhat Useless
Information
Americans consume an
average of 200 pounds of meat, 31 pounds of cheese, 16 pounds of fish, and 415
pounds of veggies on an annual basis.
In the 1950s, the meat
and poultry consumed per person on average was 138 lbs a year, which means that
meat consumption has increased by around 45 percent over the past 60 years.
Calendar Information
…Happening This Week:
1-7
Bread
Pudding Recipe Exchange Week
Update
Your References Week
Today Is
Lumpy Rug Day
Garden Meditation Day
National Day of Prayer
National Day of Reason
National Specially-abled Pets Day
National Teacher Day
National Two Different Colored Shoes
Day
Paranormal Day Public Radio Day World
Press Freedom Day
à
Constitution Day (1791-Poland)
Constitution Memorial Day (1947-Japan)
Day of the Holy Cross (Mexico for the cross found in 344)
Constitution Memorial Day (1947-Japan)
Day of the Holy Cross (Mexico for the cross found in 344)
Today’s Other Events
à
1400’s
1455: Jews flee
Spain
1491: Kongo monarch
Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal
name of João I
1494: Jamaica
discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
1500’s
1600’s
1621: Francis Bacon
accused of bribery
1654: Bridge at
Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals
1700’s
1715: Edmund Halley
observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
1765: 1st US medical
college opens in Philadelphia
1800’s
1802: Washington,
D.C. is incorporated as a city
1806: Lewis and Clark
meet Nez Perce Chief, Weahkoonut (Bighorn)
1845: Fire kills
1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
1846: Mexican army
surrounds fort in Texas
1867: The Hudson's
Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island
1900’s
1901: Fire destroyed
1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
1916: The leaders of
the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin
1952: 1st landing by
an airplane at geographic North Pole
1965: 1st use of
satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
1978: "Sun
Day": solar energy events are held in US
1979: 1st woman
prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
1982: Pres Reagan
begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1988: 4,200 kg
Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
1999: Oklahoma City,
Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and
causing $1 billion in damage.
2000’s
2000: The sport of
geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS
posted on Usenet
2001: The United
States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time
since the commission was formed in 1947
2003: New
Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses
2006: Zacarias
Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
à
In their 70’s
Ron Popeil, American
inventor (Pocket Fisherman) is 77
Frankie Valli,
[Castelluccio], Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry) is 75
à
In their 30’s
Dulé Hill, American actor
(Psych) is 37
Under 30 years old
Cheryl Burke, American
professional dancer (DWTS)is 28
Remembered for being born on this day
Beulah Bondi, Chicago,
actress (It's a Wonderful Life) in 1892
James Brown, Barnwell,
South Carolina, American soul singer ( Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, Living
in America) and originator of funk music in 1933
Niccolo Machiavelli,
Florence, Italy, politician/writer (Prince) in 1469
Golda Meir, [Meyerson],
Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74) in 1898
Sugar Ray Robinson,
[Walter Smith], Ailey, Georgia, middle/welterweight boxer (1946-52, 55, 58) in
1921
Dodie Smith, English
novelist and playwright (101 Dalmatians)in 1896
Today’s Obits
Jackie Cooper, American
actor (Our Gang…)dies in 2011 at 88
Pimen, [Sergei Irzyekov],
patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, dies in 1990 at 79
Wally Schirra, American
astronaut ((Mercury, Gemini and Apollo)) in 2007 at 84
John Winthrop, American
astronomer and Pres. Of Harvard in 1779 at 64
Answers
Brain Game: Close Up
Picture
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Riddle of the day
A Match
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Top of a room; opposite of buying:
a.
ceiling, selling
2.
Popular polling organization; wrestling hold:
a.
Neilson; nelson
3.
Term of endearment; like gym clothes after exercising:
a.
sweetie; sweaty
4.
A unit of petrol; a postal delivery:
a.
liter; letter
5.
A lab container; former Tennis champ Boris:
a.
beaker, Becker
6.
Ignoring the consequences; like the horseman in Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
a.
heedless; headless
7.
Lighthouse light; call to come closer:
a.
beacon, beckon
8.
Butcher’s knife; ingenious:
a.
cleaver; clever
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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