4-10-15

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Almanac: Week: 15 \ Day: 100 
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 58°\L 18° Average Sky Cover: 5% 
Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  21mph
Ave. High: 57° Record High:  74° (1989) Ave. Low: 26° Record Low:  13° (1999)
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Observances Today:
ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Day
Golfer's Day
National Farm Animals Day
National Sibling Day
Salvation Army Founder's Day
Safety Pin Day 1849
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Observances This Week:
4-12
Hate Week
National Robotics Week


5-11
Bat Appreciation Week          
Explore Your Career Options
Mule Days

National Blue Ribbon Week (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week


9-12
The Masters Tournament
National Pie Championships

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1790 - US Patent system forms
1825 - 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
1841 - New York Tribune begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
1849 - Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $400
1866 - American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1869 - Congress increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
1871 -  APACHEs raid the San Xavier mission, south of Tucson, and steal livestock
1872 - 1st Arbor Day celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
1910 - Eastern interests obtained a government concession for a dam in
 Sabino Canyon and hoped to sell water to Tucson. The concession was later withdrawn.
1925 - Scribners publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald
1930 - Synthetic rubber 1st produced
1938 - NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
1953 - "House of Wax", 1st 3-D movie, released (NYC)
1955 - Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine
1963 - USS Thresher, a nuclear powered submarine, sinks 220 miles east of Boston
1974 - Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet
1989 - H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood & Bumble Bee Seafood say they would not
 buy tuna caught in nets that also trap dolphins
1991 - Last automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
1991 - A rare tropical storm develops in the Southern Hemisphere near Angola;
 the 1st to be documented by satellites
1995 - NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that seat 35 or more
2012 - Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest
 company by market capitalization in the world
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Today’s World Events through History
1516 - 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice
1710 - The first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain
1858 - "Big Ben", a 13.76 ton bell, is recast in the Tower of Westminster
1864 - Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico
1877 - 1st human cannonball act performed in London
1942 - Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
1971 - The Republican commemorations is held in Belfast of the Easter Rising
 (in 1916 in Dublin), revealing conflicts between the two wings of the Irish Republican Army
1981 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament
1998 - The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement for Northern Ireland is signed
 by the British and Irish governments
2013 - Japan and Taiwan sign an agreement on fishing rights around the
 Senkaku Islands
2014 - The Council of Europe suspends Russia's right to vote
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


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My Rambling Thoughts
Finished my carotid artery ultrasound this morning. So simple.
Got home and soon the UPS guy rang my bell. Another modem from Century Link. Refused it, got the tracking number, called Century Link and told them to stop sending modems that I don’t need. Got transferred 4 times, but about 45 minutes later was assured that they would send no more. Total and complete incompetence. The first lady would not allow me to speak to her supervisor, for fear they would both get in trouble, but connected me to an ‘escalation’ person on the East coast who had no access to my account. Of course I have to give all my personal information and tell the whole story before she realizes she can’t help. She did get me to someone else who promises me that the 1st modem is already in their hot sweaty hands, that the 2nd on has been marked by UPS as refused by customer and that my bill will not reflect any modem charges. As my mom used to say “I’ll believe it when I see it.”
Thankfully, the wind has greatly subsided today and it is a beautiful day, but a little cooler than I enjoy. Being able to spend time outside is nice.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Below are five movie titles. However, they have been rephrased, and it is your job to figure them out.
Note: The capitalization in the following phrases is the same as it would be in the actual title. Good Luck!

1. Realm of the Land of angels and saints

2. The Ruler over the Hoops and circlets

3. Dignity and Bias

4. Vacation in Italy's capital

5. Artist and scientist Leonardo's Cipher

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
~ It starts to look as though street paving has just as good a chance as on old man will have in Europe after the war is over. To pave or not to pave, that is the question -- a mud hole in an alley is worth two on a crossing.
~ Mrs. J. C. Kelly has just been added to the force of operations at the Santa Fe Depot, making 3 instead of the 2 who were doing the work during the dull season.
Union Oil has opened a supply store and is ready to supply the wholesale trade with gas, kerosene, lubricating oils and greases. E. W. Brewster, Agent. Office Ph. 151 Res. Ph. 274W
~ M. A. Murphy’s residence on West Aspen Avenue caught fire from the kitchen range on Wednesday morning. A bad fire was narrowly averted by its discovery before much damage occurred.
~ You can’t beat the SUN when it comes to new faces of type and the latest in paper stock to do the work. You can even transfer that embroidery pattern you like so much with carbon paper and get a clear blue print. Joseph Pavelock has just returned from a month in San Francisco, where he has been learning “the innards” of the typesetting machine.

…Harper’s Index…
137: number of women who received TB last November as part of a mass sterilization drive in Bilaspur, India
16: number of these women who subsequently died.

…Illegal Facts
~ Anyone under the age of 21 who takes out household trash containing even a single empty alcohol beverage container can be charged with illegal possession of alcohol in Missouri.
~ Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until 2003 when they were invalidated.

…Language Facts…
~ The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines), "It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew), "Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
~ Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.

…Longevity Facts…
~ There is a genetic disease called Laron syndrome that results in short stature, longer life expectancy, and near immunity to cancer and diabetes - amongst other things.
~ Japan's Okinawa Island has more than 450 people living above the age of 100, and is known as the healthiest place on Earth.

…North Korea Fact…
~ Kim Jong-il is only 5' 2'' tall. He wears four-inch lifts in his shoes to compensate for his short stature.

…Paleontology Facts…
~ Megalodon was the biggest shark that ever existed. It was larger than the average city bus and could bite down with a force between 10.8 and 18.2 tons - enough to crush a prehistoric whale's skull as easily as a grape.
~ Ancient Europeans were Lactose intolerant thousands of years after they started making cheese

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
7-Up was originally called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda."
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2 jokes for the day
A police recruit was asked during the exam, "What would you do if you had to arrest your own mother?" 

He said: "Call for backup."

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As a butcher is shooing a dog from his shop, he sees $10 and a note in his mouth, reading: "10 lamb chops, please." 

Amazed, he takes the money, puts a bag of chops in the dog's mouth, and quickly closes the shop. He follows the dog and watches him wait for a green light, look both ways, and trot across the road to a bus stop. The dog checks the timetable and sits on the bench. When a bus arrives, he walks around to the front and looks at the number, then boards the bus. The butcher follows, dumbstruck. 

As the bus travels out into the suburbs, the dog takes in the scenery. After a while he stands on his back paws to push the "stop" button, then the butcher follows him off. 

The dog runs up to a house and drops his bag on the stoop. He goes back down the path, takes a big run, and throws himself -Whap! - Against the door. He does this again and again. No answer. So he jumps on a wall, walks around the garden, beats his head against a window, jumps off, and waits at the front door. A big guy opens it and starts cursing and pummeling the dog. 

The butcher runs up screams at the guy: "What the hell are you doing? This dog's a genius!" 

The owner responds, "Genius, no way! It's the second time this week he's forgotten his key!"

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Yep, It Really Happened
NEW YORK (UPI) - A New York judge granted a woman permission to serve divorce papers to her elusive husband via Facebook message. Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Matthew Cooper ruled Ellanora Baidoo, 26, "is granted permission serve defendant with the divorce summons using a private message through Facebook." "This transmittal shall be repeated by plaintiff's attorney to defendant once a week for three consecutive weeks or until acknowledged" by Victor Sena Blood-Dzraku, Baidoo's husband, Cooper wrote in his decision. Andrew Spinnell, Baidoo's lawyer, said Blood-Dzraku has proven difficult to find and only communicates with his client via phone and Facebook. The court heard Baidoo and Blood-Dzraku were married in a civil ceremony in 2009, but the relationship fell apart when Blood-Dzraku backed out of his promise to follow-up the wedding with a traditional Ghanaian wedding ceremony attended by the couple's families. Cooper's ruling said the "last address plaintiff has for defendant is an apartment that he vacated in 2011." Baidoo "has spoken with defendant by telephone on occasion, and he has told her that he has no fixed address and no place of employment. He has also refused to make himself available to be served with divorce papers." "The post office has no forwarding address for him, there is no billing address linked to his prepaid cellphone, and the Department of Motor Vehicles has no record of him," Cooper wrote in the decision, which is dated March 27. Spinnell said the first Facebook message was sent last week. "So far, he hasn't responded," Spinnell told the New York Daily News.    
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Somewhat Useless Information
New Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. At first, the community was nothing more than a trading camp on the curving east bank of the Mississippi River. Later, the city was organized into a rectangular, fortified community, which still exists today as the French Quarter. The original streets, laid out in a grid, were named for French royalty and nobility.
Canal Street, once the widest street in the world, was named for a canal that was planned for, but never built, on the street's dividing median. For decades, the median's only use was public transportation, mostly by the Canal Street streetcars. 
The first New Orleans "skyscraper" was built in 1807. It was the first four-story building in the city, and is still in use, standing on the corner of Royal Street and St. Peter Street in the French Quarter. New Orleans also boasted the first opera house in America.
The monument to General Andrew Jackson at Jackson Square was the world's first equestrian statue in which the horse had more than one foot off the base.
In 1872, the official colors of Mardi Gras were chosen based on an honored visitor to New Orleans: Russian Grand Duke Alexis Romanoff. The purple stands for justice, the green for faith, and the gold for power.
Established as the capital of the French colony of Louisiana, New Orleans was actually twice named the state capital. The title of capital city was moved from New Orleans to Donaldsonville in 1825, to Baton Rouge in 1846, to New Orleans in 1864 (during the Reconstruction period), and then again to Baton Rouge in 1879.

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Birthday’s Today
86 - Max Von Sydow, Lund Sweden, actor (Hawaii, Exorcist)
83 - Omar Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub], Egypt, actor (Dr Zhivago)
79 - John Madden, NFL coach (Raiders)/sports commentator (CBS, FOX)
74 - Paul Theroux, American travel book writer (Mosquito Coast)
63 - Steven Seagal, actor (Above the Law, Hard to Kill)
47 - Orlando Jones, American actor and comedian
31 - Mandy Moore, American singer/actor
27 - Haley Joel Osment, actor ("Sixth Sense")
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Remembered for being born today
Harry Morgan, actor (December Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet) 1915-2011@96 
Clare Boothe Luce, US ambassador (to Vatican) 1903-1987@84 
Sheb Wooley, vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw) 1921-2003@82
Don Meredith, NFL QB (Cowboys)/Mon Night Football 1938-2010@72 
Chuck Connors, Brooklyn, actor (Rifleman, Branded) 1921-1992@71 
Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan 1794-1858@63 
Hugo Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law 1583-1645@62 
- "Alvin" Junior Samples, country singer (Hee Haw) 1926-1983@57 
 - James Bowie, American pioneer and soldier 1796-1836@39 
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Historical Obits Today
Dixie Carter, actress (Designing Women), cancer-2010@70
Larry Linville, actor (MASH), cancer-2000@60
Little Eva (Eva Boyd) American pop singer (Locomotion), cancer-2003@59
Emiliano Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered-1919@39
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Kingdom of Heaven

2. The Lord of the Rings

3. Pride and Prejudice

4. Roman Holiday

5. The Da Vinci Code

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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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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