4-15-15

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Almanac: Week: 16 \ Day:  105 
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 66°\L 33° Average Sky Cover: 20% 
Wind ave:   15mph\Gusts:  38mph
Ave. High: 58° Record High:  76° (1948) Ave. Low: 37° Record Low:  11° (1965)
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Observances Today:
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Income Tax Pay Day
Jackie Robinson Day
McDonald's Day1st to open-1955
National Bookmobile Day
Rubber Eraser Day
Take a Wild Guess Day
That Sucks Day
Titanic Remembrance Day
World Art 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 - Pánfilo the Narváez, Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with
  350 men to a hostile reception from native Indians
1817 - 1st American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1850 - City of San Francisco incorporated
1865 - Abraham Lincoln is shot & killed while attending, "Our American

  Cousin", at Ford's Theatre
1874 - NY legislature passes compulsory education law
1877 - 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass
1878 - Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 - General Electric Company, forms & is incorporated in NY
1911 - Jack Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC
1922 - Banting, MacLeod & Best discover insulin
1923 - 1st sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas
1927 - Babe Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
1928 - Arizona Historical Society and Southern Pacific Railroad erected a
  stone marker over the graves of Union soldiers who died in the skirmish
  with Confederate forces at Picacho Pass, AZ
1941 - 1st helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct
1947 - Jackie Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major
  league baseball (Dodgers)
1955 - Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)
1957 - Congress gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
1959 - Fidel Castro begins US goodwill tour
1960 - Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
1961 - "Music Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
1981 - Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story
  is a lie, Wash Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1996 - 100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of Kenya in 2:09:15.9
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Today’s World Events through History
1250 - Pope Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
1793 - Bank of England hands out first £5 note
1802 - William Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt"
  of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
1896 - 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1912 - RMS Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland 
1972 - A member of the Official Irish Republican Army is shot dead by British
  soldiers at Joy Street in the Markets area of Belfast close to his home
1972 - A member of the British Army is shot dead by the Official IRA in the
 Divis area of Belfast
2010 - Volcanic ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads
  to the closure of airspace over most of Europe.
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
We had a great lunch at one of our favorite places. Cheryl is heading for CA on Thursday to spend time with her son and his family. Mary is headed to Phx this weekend. All of us are very tired of these strong winds. The two positive things about this wind—there is no sand associated with it—our little mountain town has enough humidity to prevent a Red Flag warning, while most other places around us are in a Red Flag warning. Still it is a pain to move around in, either on foot or in a vehicle.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Stronger than steel, yet lighter than cotton
Found in a corner, forever forgotten
I bother so many, but marvel a few
You can't seem to make me
I'm a mystery to you.

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
~ The immense amount of snowmelt water has caused a 60-foot washout at the west end of town about 100 yards west of Davenport Lake.
~O. H. Johnson, agent and troubleshooter for the Santa Fe, has purchased Studebaker Autos and joined the Good Roads Association.
~ Louis Benedict came in from his sheep camp this week saying the lamb crop is over 100 percent, with all the sheep in good condition.
~ Art Williams out in Fort Valley says the tremendous amount of snowmelt is apt to make a big flood in the River de Flag.

…Harper’s Index…
3: number of US states that observe a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and a Robert E. Lee holiday on the same day

…Language Facts…
~ The United States does not have an official language.
~ The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

… Sea Facts…
~ In 2011, a 200 ft circular anomaly in the Baltic Sea that has unusual characteristics and almost perfectly etched curvatures was discovered. To this day, its origin remains unknown.
~ There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
A research shows that there is a difference in the way of unrolling the toilet paper between people of higher levels of income and the ones with lower levels!
To be more specific, the 60% of people who make more than $50,000 per year prefer their toilet paper to hang over the roll.
In contrast, the 73% of people who make less than $20,000 per year prefer it to hang under the roll.
The mysteries of life…


…Water Facts..,.
~ Penguins have a gland above their eye that turns saltwater into freshwater.
~ Water, electricity, and gas has been free in Turkmenistan since 1991.

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2 jokes for the day
Confusius say--boy who brings ladder to school must be in High School.
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Attending a wedding for the first time, a little girl whispered to her mother, "why is the bride dressed in white?" 
"Because white is the color of happiness," her mother explained. "And today is the happiest day in her life." 
The child thought about this for a moment. "So why is the groom wearing black?"         

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Yep, It Really Happened
Register-Herald (Beckley, W.Va.): A single traffic stop in Alderson, West Virginia, resulted in the arrest of six people from the same family, trafficking in stolen power tools (including one man who traded a leaf blower, hedge trimmer and weed trimmer for Percocet pills). However, a month later, members of an even more charming family were caught in raids in Elyria, Ohio. Officers from three jurisdictions arrested 34 people -- all related to each other -- in connection with a $400,000 drug operation.
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Somewhat Useless Information
~ Stress can make it difficult to lose weight. Stress can trigger cravings for carb-rich snack foods which tend to calm stress hormones. Stress hormones can also increase fat storage. In addition to physical exercise, relaxation techniques can help control weight.
~ Sleep deprivation can make it harder to lose weight. Inadequate sleep upsets a person's hormone balance, which decreases leptin (a hormone that makes a person feel full) and increases ghrelin (which triggers hunger). Scientists argue that getting enough sleep is the cheapest and easiest obesity medicine there is.

~ Muscle uses more calories to maintain itself than any other body tissue. For every pound of muscle someone puts on, they automatically burn an extra 22 to 36 more calories a day.
~Amid the many hundreds of diet books are really only four basic rules for weight loss: 1) eat carbs in the form of whole grains or fiber, 2) avoid trans and saturated fats, 3) eat lean protein, and 4) eat lots of fruits and veggies.

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Birthday’s Today
82 - Roy Clark, Meherrin, Virginia, American country singer (Hee Haw)
68 - Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, TV producer-Designing Women,Murphy Brown
56 - Emma Thompson, England, actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar-1992)
33 - Seth Rogen, Canadian actor and writer
25 - Emma Watson, English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series)
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Remembered for being born today
Kim II Sung, "The Great Leader" of North Korea 1912-1994@92 
Walter Channing, Am. physician 1st to use anesthesia-childbirth 1786-1876@89 
John Williams, England, actor (Dial M for Murder) 1903-1983@80
Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party 1894-1971@77
Leonhard Euler, Sweden, mathematician (Euler's Constant) 1707-1783@76 
Leonardo da Vinci, Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary 1452-1519@67 
Harold Washington, 1st African American mayor of Chicago 1922-1987@65 
Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched) 1933-1995@62
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Historical Obits Today
Greta Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille)-1990@84
Byron "Whizzer" White, CU football player\ Supreme Court Justice-2002@84
Jean-Paul Sartre, existentialist philosopher (Nobel 1964), edema-1980@74
Pol Pot, Cambodian dictator, suicide?-1998@72
Abraham Lincoln, 16th American president, assassinated-1865@56
Father Damien, Belgian missionary, leprosy-1889@49
Madame de Pompadour, mistress-King Louis XV, TB-1764@42
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Brain Teasers Answers
Spider silk.
Spider silk is one of the most remarkable materials on Earth. Besides being five times stronger than steel, it is also extremely lightweight: a strand of spider silk long enough to circle the earth would weigh less than 16 ounces. 
Despite years of study, researchers are still baffled by spider silk and have not been able to duplicate it.

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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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