4-26-15

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Almanac: Week: 18 \ Day: 116
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 50°\L 40° Average Sky Cover: 90% 
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  29mph
Ave. High: 61° Record High:  79° (1996) Ave. Low: 29° Record Low:  17° (1984)
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Observances Today:

Audubon Day                     National Pet Parent's Day
Do Dah Day (Pasadena)          National Pretzel Day
Hug An Australian Day           Pinhole Photography Day
Kids and Pets Day                Richter Scale Day
Mother, Father Deaf Day        Satchmo Days 
National Help A Horse Day      World Intellectual Property Day
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Observances This Week:
22-27
Fiddler's Frolic     National Tattoo Week     US Film Festival
24-30
Interstate Mullet Toss     National Dance Week
National Dream Hotline  National Scoop The Poop Week

24-26
Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of Prayer
National & Global Youth Service Days
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1607 - 1st British colony in American lands at Cape Henry, Virginia
1819 - Odd Fellows Lodge forms
1906 - 1st motion pictures shown in Hawaii
1907 - Jamestown, Va Tercentenary Exposition opens
1925 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
1941 - A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
1957 - Jamestown, Va 350th Anniversary Festival opens
1971 - SF lightship replaced by automatic buoy
1977 - Opening of Studio 54 in New York, N.Y.
1984 - President Reagan visits China
1992 - Alex Haley, (Roots), wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously
1995 - Coors Field, opens in Denver, Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings
2012 - Indonesia suspends imports of American beef after a confirmed case of
 mad cow disease in California
1925 - A monument honoring Charles Poston, the "Father of Arizona," dedicated
 on Poston Butte near Florence
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Today’s World Events through History
1467 - Miraculous image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy
1514 - Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
1654 - Jews are expelled from Brazil
1755 - 1st Russian university opens (Moscow)
1841 - "Bombay Gazette" begins publishing on silk
1928 - Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London
1959 - Cuba invades Panama
1968 - Students seize administration building at Ohio State
1980 - Iran begins scattering US hostages from US Embassy
1986 - World's worst nuclear disaster:
4th reactor at Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die,
contamination reach much of Western 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
Cloudy and wet day here in our usually dry mountain town. NICE!  Still expecting 2” of snow tonight. OK. Wind didn’t help us either.
Another lazy Saturday with not a whole lot to do…minor cleaning, catching up on DVR and Netflix. Very enjoyable.
When I lived on the Rez I had no problem with house plants…even had a huge fern in the middle of the desert. Here is a much different story. I can’t figure out if it is that there is not enough sunlight or what. Some just don’t grow even after replanting in larger pots. They are just fine, they just never grow. Others just don’t live that long. My Pathos has been near the living room window, replanted in a bigger pot and after 2 years it is the same size as when I bought it. Oh well, I’m the only one who knows it isn’t growing.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Each group of three definitions describes three words that are spelled the same, except for one letter (each group describes a different set of words). Example: king, ring, wing.

1a) competition
1b) satisfied
1c) the circumstances surrounding an act or event

2a) to rain hard
2b) sullen
2c) a number

3a) a tartan skirt
3b) a heated enclosure used for drying
3c) to deprive of life

4a) to contaminate
4b) to force into something
4c) flea

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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***NEW***…Cool Facts…
~ "Monowi" is a town in Nebraska that has a population of 1; the Mayor pays taxes to herself.
~ There's a restaurant in Albuquerque called Tim's Place that serves breakfast, lunch, and hugs - and it's owned by a man with Down's Syndrome.

***NEW***…Film Facts…
~ In the Harry Potter series, Tom Riddle has a different name depending on which language the book is in, in order to preserve the anagram in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
~ A movie theater in China mistakenly used a gay fan-made Photoshop picture as the official poster for Thor 2.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The City Beautification Commission has voted to spend $150,000 to bury the utilities between Humphreys and Switzer Canyon on Santa Fe Avenue, saying that the lines constitute visual clutter and therefore contributes to the uglification of the downtown area. The Main Street Foundation is working on installing historic signs and streetlights. Work on paving, curbs, gutters and sidewalks may be delayed. Shartie Barre workers are back on the job as of this Monday morning and expect the work to be complete in about 8 weeks
There’s to be a Re-cyclathon on Saturday between 9 and 4 in the new Bashas' parking lot in Woodlands Shopping Center.
A new pump house has been built at Banjo Bill campground to replace the one destroyed by a fallen tree last summer.

…Harper’s Index…
1 in 3-Chance that a Republican voter has thought about the midterm elections “only a little”  
1 in 2-That a Democratic voter has  

…Linguistic Facts…
There are at least 7201 languages in the world today
2301 in Asia; 2138 in Africa; 1313 in the Pacific;
1064 in the Americas; 286 in Europe

…Murphy’s Real Laws…
28.    Flashlight:     A case for holding dead batteries. 
29.    The shin bone is a device for finding furniture. 


…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Lead will float in mercury, but a lump of tungsten will sink right to the bottom
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2 jokes for the day
Q: Why did the T-rex go to the doctor? 

A: Because he had a Dino-sore!

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An elderly couple was in bed one night and the woman woke up from a bad dream. She was scared and panicking. 
Her husband awoke and turned the light on to calm her. He asked what was wrong. 
She said "I had a dream that I died and you got remarried." She asked him, "If I died tomorrow, would you get remarried?" 
He said "Sure, I don’t want to spend the rest of my life lonely." 
Then she asked, "Well would you two live in this house?" 
He replied "Sure, we just got finished paying off our mortgage." 
She asked again, angry now, "Well would she sleep in this bed?" 
He snickered and said "Yes, of course, this bed is brand new and expensive, there's no reason to rid of it." 
She asked irately, "Well would she use my golf clubs?!" 
He replied with a straight, serious face, "No. She's left handed."
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Yep, It Really Happened
AMARILLO, Texas (UPI) - A California woman broke her own world record by eating three steak dinners -- 13.5 pounds of steak plus sides -- in less than 20 minutes at a Texas event. Competitive eater Molly Schuyler, a 124-pound mother of four, downed three 72-ounce steak dinners, which each came with a baked potato, a shrimp cocktail and a side salad, to take the top spot Sunday at the The Big Texan Steak Ranch's Big Texas Steak Challenge in Amarillo. Schuyler downed two of the meals in less than 15 minutes last year, so the restaurant gathered four teams of two people to face off against Schuyler, who ate solo. Schuyler came in first, with a finish of less than 20 minutes. "They would have had to eat their half in like four minutes," Schuyler told the Amarillo Globe-News of her competitors. "If you're not used to doing this, four minutes is hard." The eatery said Schuyler set a world record last year when she finished her first steak dinner in 4 minutes, 58 seconds, and she broke her own record Sunday by finishing off her first meal in 4 minutes, 18 seconds. "I come in thinking I'm going to fail, but you know if I win it's a lovely parting gift and that's cool. I also get free steak so I don't really lose," she told KFDA-TV. Organizers of the competition said Schuyler's feat will be submitted to Guinness World Records. 
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Somewhat Useless Information
Butterflies are a long-standing part of the earth's environmental fabric, with butterfly fossils dating back as far as 40-50 million years ago.
Butterflies go through four stages - egg, caterpillar, pupae and adult. Some species have just one brood a year, while others may spawn up to four generations annually.
Millions of Monarch butterflies, which reside in the Northeast in the summer, make a 2,000-mile migration down to Mexico for the winter months. After congregating there, they'll mate and new generations will make the return trip back north in the warmer months.
Monarchs are toxic and in fact, some butterfly species such as the Viceroy play on that feature by mimicking the signature bright orange and black coloring of Monarchs to discourage birds from eating them.
Butterflies are sensitive to pesticides and habitat loss, both of which have been driving a decline in butterfly populations. Some of the most successful butterflies eat agricultural products that man has modified.
In addition to their physical beauty, butterflies act as one of nature's couriers. In the case of Monarch butterflies, which pollinate milkweed, they may transfer a pollen sac to the next plant on their legs or other body parts.
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Birthday’s Today
97 - I[eoh] M[ing] Pei, Canton, China, architect (1961 Brunner Prize)
82 - Carol Burnett, comedian/actress (Annie, 4 Seasons)
77 - Duane Eddy, Phoenix, Az, country singer (Peter Gunn, Cannonball)
73 - Bobby Rydell, Phila Pa, rock singer (Wild One, Bye Bye Birdie)
52 - Jet Li, Beijing, Chinese actor and martial artist (Romeo Must Die)
50 - Kevin James, comedian (King of Queens)
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Remembered for being born today
Vicente Aleixandre, Spain, writer (Ambito, Nobel 1977) 1898-1984@86
Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect (Central Park)1822-1903@81 
Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns, comedienne 1906-1964@69 
Warren Clarke, English actor (Clockwork Orange) 1947-2014@67
Muhammed, founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect.
Other sources suggest April 20. Observed according to the Islamic lunar calendar 570-632@61ish 
- Antonius Marcus Aurelius, Rome, Emperor of Rome 121-180@58 
Alice Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel) 1820-1871@50 
Erminnie Adelle Platt, ethnologist (Iriquois-English Dictionary)1836-1886@50 
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Historical Obits Today
Mason Adams, American actor-2005@86
Jack Valenti, American political advisor and film executive-2007@85
George Jones, American country musician-2013@81
William "Count" Basie, jazz piano great, cancer, 1984@79
Lucille Ball, comedienne (I Love Lucy), heart attack, 1989@78
[William] Broderick Crawford, actor (Highway Patrol), strokes-1986@74
Jim Davis, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), cancer, 1981@71
Irene Ryan, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies), stroke, 1973@69
Johan N C "Joan" Collette, painter-1958@68
John Wilkes Booth, assassin, shot-1865@27
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) contest, content, context
2) pour, dour, four
3) kilt, kiln, kill
4) infect, inject, insect

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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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