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Almanac: Week: 16 \ Day: 104 
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 70°\L 29° Average Sky Cover: 5% 
Wind ave:   7mph\Gusts:  22mph
Ave. High: 58° Record High:  75° (1937) Ave. Low: 27° Record Low:  5° (1972)
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Observances Today:
Children with Alopecia Day
Dictionary Day
Equal Pay Day
Ex Spouse Day
International Moment of Laughter Day  
Look up at the Sky Day
National Be Kind To Lawyers Day
National Dolphin Day
National Library Day
National Library Workers Day
National Pecan Day
Pan American Day
Pathologists' Assistant Day
Reach as High as You Can Day
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Observances This Week:
12-18
American Indian Awareness Week   Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week
Health Information Privacy and Security Week
International Dark Sky Week
National Animal Control Appreciation Week
National Library Week
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week
National Student Employment Week
National Volunteer Week
Pan American Week
Undergraduate Research Week
Week of The Young Child
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1528 - Panfilo de Narvaez, with 4 or 5 ships, and approximately 400-500
  men, including Cabeza de Vaca, sight land, on the western coast of Florida. This will be the first significant exploration of Florida
1614 - John Rolfe marries Pocahontas
1775 - 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in Phila
1777 - NY adopts new constitution as an independent state
1818 - US Medical Corp forms
1828 - First American Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers
  its copyright for publication
1841 - Edgar Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" published
1863 - William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
1865 - US Secret Service created to fight counterfeiting
1865 - President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater
1890 - Pan American Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC)
1894 - 1st public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1903 - Dr Harry Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1906 - US President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in
  US press, taken from John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
1910 - President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
1935 - Black Sunday: The worst sandstorm ravages US midwest (creates
  the Dust Bowl)
1939 - John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published
1952-Television coming to Tucson receiving four channels
1960 - 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile.
1969 - Student Afro-American Society seized at Columbia College
1971 - President Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1980 - 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
2003 - The Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human
  genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%
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Today’s World Events through History
43 BC - Battle of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's
  assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina, defeats the forces of the consul   Pansa, who is killed
1611 - Word "telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1831 - Soldiers marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse
1849 - Hungary declares itself independent of Austria
1927 - The first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden
1958 - Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1989 - 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
2002 - Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after
  being ousted and arrested by the country's military
2010 - Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting from the top crater
  in the center of the glacier
2012 - J. K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, launches her website
 "Pottermore"
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice Monday…spent some time on the deck after running some errands. So nice and quiet and peaceful.  I have had 3 gnomes at my house in the summer, since I moved here. After the HOA made me move them to the back deck, everything has been fine. This year, a couple of weeks ago, one of the gnomes left the deck for parts unknown. Didn’t think much about it, as I figured he was tired to the limited view. I went to the store and got a replacement plus 4 tiny gnomes to put in the planters. This morning I discovered the new gnome and two of the tiny gnomes had also headed for parts unknown. Since I understand that the deck view is so much better than the one they had at the store, I have decided that a human child is involved in their travels. I am about 85% sure I know who the human child is…a 7 or 8 yr old girl who is a real brat with the neighborhood kids. I was on the deck the other day and she came running by and was looking at each deck. She saw me and gave out a little yelp of surprise and ran on. Today I put a ‘No Trespassing’ sign on the deck railing that also says that motion activated camera present. I added “You will be caught.”  I hope this discourages her. I should mention that the area behind the deck is really just an alley that is open at one end and blocked by a very tall fence on the other end. It is not a place that has any traffic, except for the cats, dogs, and squirrels. None of the decks have gates or openings to get to that alley.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can you rank the following series of words in the proper order?

admission, cook, governor, league, message, mustard, pepper, punishment

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
~ F. E. Brooks' new general store at Railroad Avenue and Park Street will include a corral for the accommodation of ranchers and out-of-town people.
~ G. H. Slater has been awarded a contract for $500 to cut down the rocky hill grade on North San Francisco Street, north of the Court House.
~ C. P. Heisser, Babbitt Bros. salesman, had an accident while driving near Holbrook last Friday. His team became fractious and threw him from the buggy, breaking one of his legs. It’s not a bad break but will put him out of commission for a few weeks.
~ The City Council said that the proposal for nine miles of new sidewalks cannot be expected to please everyone but should happen anyway  -- when it actually commences it should bring desirable results.
~ There’s a leak in the new city reservoir. There is some hope that the work currently going on will solve the problem.

…Harper’s Index…
11/18/2014: date of which Bob Marley’s estate announced the launch of Marley Natural, a ‘global cannabis brand’

…Language Facts…
~ In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called "Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called "Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called "Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
~ '' is a punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or irony.

… Survival Facts…
~ In 1965, a four-year-old nearly drowned at a beach, but was rescued by a woman named Alice Blaise. 9 years later, that boy saved a man at the same beach. That man was Alice's husband.
~ Steven Callahan spent 76 days at sea while he drifted 1,800 perilous miles across the Atlantic in a rubber raft, battling starvation, thirst, sharks and storms. He later became the technical adviser for the acclaimed movie Life Of Pi.
~ Poon Lim survived 133 days alone on a raft at sea by fishing, drinking bird blood, and killing a shark with a jug of water.

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
~ Gureng-gureng, Gabi-Gabi, Waga-Waga, Wemba-Wemba, and Yitha-Yitha are all names of native Australian languages.

…Water Facts..,.
~ Tap water in Canada is held to a higher health standard than bottled water.
~ Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.

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2 jokes for the day
Peter says, "Doctor, I see double!" 

"Sit on the chair please," the doctor says. 

"Which one?" Peter replied.

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Three sisters, ages 92, 94, and 96, live together. One night the 96-year-0ld draws a bath. She puts one foot in and pauses. "Was I getting in the tub or out?" she yells. 
The 94-year-old hollers back, "I don't know, I'll come up to see." She starts up the stairs and stops. She shouts, "Was I going up or going down?" 
The 92-year-old is sitting at the kitchen table having tea, listening to her sisters. She shakes her head and says, "I sure hope I never get that forgetful", and knocks on wood for good measure. Then she yells, "I'll come up and help both of you as soon as I see who's at the door."   

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Yep, It Really Happened
Jakarta, Indonesia: Mario Stevan Ambarita, 21, was spotted staggering around the tarmac at Jakarta airport, shortly after the Garuda Indonesia domestic flight landed from Sumatra Island to the north.
"The case was quite a surprise to us," Garuda CEO Arif Wibowo told reporters.
The stowaway scaled a 8-foot fence to reach the aircraft, where he tucked himself into the rear wheel housing.
He collapsed after the flight and was taken to hospital with a bleeding ear and other light injuries before spending the night in a police cell.
"He said he wanted to meet Jokowi," a spokesman for Soekarno-Hatta Airport Police said, referring to Indonesian President Joko Widodo by his nickname.
According to local media reports, Ambarita had spent up to a year studying aircraft taking off and landing, had learned from the Internet how to hide in the wheel well and had made an unsuccessful attempt in the past to hitch a free plane ride.
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Somewhat Useless Information
~ The first man to fly over the North Pole-and indeed the South Pole-was called Dickie Byrd. 
~ Steven Seagal was the first non-Asian to successfully open a martial-arts academy in Japan. 
~ The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893 )it beat Kellogg's Corn Flakes by just five years).
~ The first ice pop dates back to 1923, when lemonade salesman Frank Epperson left a glass of lemonade with a spoon in it on a windowsill one very cold night; the next morning the ice pop was born. 
~ The first member of the British royal family ever to leave home for a haircut was Queen Elizabeth II. It was in Malta back in the days when she was a princess, and she is said to have enjoyed the experience. 
~ Gustav Mahler composed his first piece of music at the age of four, Sergei Prokofiev composed his first piece of music aged five, and Wolfgang Mozart was just eight when he composed his first symphony.

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Birthday’s Today
94 - John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice
85 - Bradford Dillman, SF California, actor (Piranha, Sudden Impact, Enforcer)
82 - Loretta Lynn, Butcher's Hollow Ky, singer (Coal Miner's Daughter)
79 - Frank Serpico, American policeman
74 - Julie Christie, Assam India, actress (Dr Zhivago)
74 - Pete Rose, Cincinnati Ohio, MLB player and manager (Cincinnati Reds)
54 - Robert Carlyle, Glasgow, Scotland, actor (Trainspotting, The Full Monty)
42 - Adrien Brody, American actor (The Pianist)
38 - Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress (Kendall-All My Children, Buffy)
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Remembered for being born today
Arnold Toynbee, England, historian (Study of History) 1889-1975@86 
Rod Steiger, West Hampton NY, actor (Pawnbroker) 1925-2002@77
Junius S Morgan, philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art) 1813-1890@76 
Edward C Tolman, US psychologist (behaviorism) 1886-1959@73 
Anne Mansfield Sullivan, US, educated Helen Keller 1866-1936@70 
Christian Huygens, astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings) 1629-1695@66 
- Francois "Doc" Duvalier, dictator of Haiti 1907-1971@64 
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Historical Obits Today
Burl Ives, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)-1995@85
Simone de Beauvoir, French author (She Came to Stay), pneumonia-1986@78
Fredric March, American actor (Inherit the Wind), cancer-1975@ 77
George Frideric Handel, Baroque composer-1759@74
Anthony Newley, British actor and singer, cancer-1999@67
Louis Sullivan, architect (father of skyscrapers)-1924@67
Rachel Carson, American biologist/author (Silent spring), cancer-1964@56
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Brain Teasers Answers
message, punishment, pepper, governor, cook, league, mustard, admission 
The reverse order is also acceptable.

Explanation:
Each of the words can be preceded by a military rank to form a phrase. 
(private) message, 
(corporal) punishment, 
(sergeant) pepper, 
(lieutenant) governor, 
(captain) cook, 
(major) league, 
(colonel) mustard, 
(general) admission

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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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