4-7-15

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Almanac: Week: 15 \ Day: 097 
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 61°\L 35° Average Sky Cover: 10% 
Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  33mph
Ave. High: 56° Record High:  80° (1989) Ave. Low: 26° Record Low:  10° (1922)
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Observances Today:
Caramel Popcorn Day
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Rwanda Genocide
International Beaver Day
International Snailpapers Day-print newspapers (like snail-mail)
Metric System Day
National Beer Day
National Sexual Assault Awareness Month's Day of Action (SAAM)
No Housework Day
World Health Day (UN)
World Health Organization Day
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Observances This Week:
1-7
The APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week 
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness 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

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1788 - 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1798 - Mississippi Territory organized
1818 - General Andrew Jackson conquers St Marks Fla from Seminole
1830 - President Jackson has submitted a bill that would call for the removal
of most of the Indians in the southeast to lands west of the Mississippi
1922 - Warren G. Harding's Interior Secretary, Albert B. Fall, leases the Teapot
 Dome oil reserves to Harry Sinclair, setting in motion what comes to be known over the next two years as the Teapot Dome scandals
1923 - 1st brain tumor operation under local anesthetic performed (Beth Israel
Hospital in NYC) by Dr K Winfield Ney
1948 - World Health Organization forms by UN
1954 - US President Eisenhower in news conference first to voice fear of a
 "domino-effect" of communism in Indo-China
1966 - US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean floor (whoops!)
1969 - Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting private possession of
 obscene material
1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1
1970 - Fire started at the Southern Pacific Ice House in AZ takes 26 hours to
 extinguish
1978 - Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam Hussein's regime falls two days later
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Today’s World Events through History
    30 - Scholars' estimate of Jesus' crucifixion by Roman troops in Jerusalem
 529 – 1st draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence)
 is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I
1348 - Prague U, 1st university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV
1521 - Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1645 - Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in Brazil
1795 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure of length
1805 - Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica" (conducted by himself)
1827 - English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches
1902 - Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1921 - Revolutionary leader, Sun Yat-sen is elected President of China
1934 - In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended his campaign of civil disobedience
1972 - Three members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature
  bomb explosion in Belfast
1983 - Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt
1994 - Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis killing Jews) for 1st time
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


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My Rambling Thoughts
Eye doctor today. I had noticed over the past month, that my near vision was getting worse…trouble reading the small print in the newspaper. Turns out to be scar tissue from last year’s cataract procedure. Next month I get a quick laser treatment to remove the scar tissue from on one eye, then about 2 weeks later, the other eye. Interesting…wasn’t discussed earlier because only about 30% of patients get it. At least I know why and that it can be corrected.
Picked up my taxes, and will pay the gov’t the money they want on Apr. 14. Hurts to write a big check like this, but I have the money and did well this year, so no complaints…just a little pain.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A common three-letter word can be added in the spaces below to create four common English words. What is the three letter word?

C _ _ _ ED
T _ _ _ SIT
ST _ _ _ D
F _ _ _ TIC

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
~ House Rock Buffalo Hunt. Mrs. A. G. Pilcher, James E. Babbitt and Tim Knowles each returned with a fine buffalo head, a hide and a quarter of the meat. The weather was ideal and there was no snow.
~ There’s a new garage in Sunnyside in connection with the Conoco Cactus Garden Service Station. The whole station has been remodeled with new equipment and 24-hour service is to be provided. Managers are Herschel T. Hill and John Motley, who expects to live at the garage.
~  Snow Bowl and the Forest Service have a complete series of maps of the trails. Tailspin is improved to 2,131 feet in length with a 500 foot drop in elevation. On the north slope where the snow lingers longer with no sun, powdery snow lingers all winter, there‘s need to take out a few trees and shrubs. 2520-foot Log Jam has a 1,376-foot drop and a larger, longer tow is needed. The Ski Club can obtain a permit to install it.

…Harper’s Index…
1 in 8: chance that an American getting married in 1960 had been married before
1 in 4: that an American getting married today has been

…Illegal Facts
~ In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig, because they are prone to loneliness.
~ In 1970, Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act into law, making DMT and many other substances illegal. However, DMT is produced naturally by the body, and found in a multitude of human bodily fluids and tissues. Essentially, this makes all humans illegal.

…Language Facts…
~ The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means "a tribe of hairy women".
~ In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.

…North Korea Fact…
~ Kim Jong Un was voted Most Sexiest Man Alive by The Onion and ended up as real news in China.

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Pentheraphobia is the persistent fear of your mother-in-law.
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2 jokes for the day
My wife handed me two kayak paddles and asked, "Which one do you want?" 

I said I'd take either/oar.

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Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for patients being discharged. 
However, while working as a student aide, Sam found one elderly gentleman already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who insisted he didn't need Sam's help to leave the hospital. 
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let Sam wheel him to the elevator. 
On the way down Sam asked him if his wife was meeting him. 
"I don't know," he said. "She is till upstairs in the bathroom changing out of her hospital gown."           

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Yep, It Really Happened
In the Philippines, Good Friday is celebrated with a reenactment of the crucifixion, right down to the flogging and the nails. 
Dozens of people were crucified in villages across the Roman Catholic country, in one of the world's most bizarre practices. The event drew more than 10,000 Filipino and foreign spectators. 
And this is done every year, often by the same people! You'd think it would be difficult to find volunteers to get nailed to a cross, but apparently people are lining up. Ruben Enaje, a 49-year-old sign painter, was nailed to a cross for the 24th time this year as his way of thanking God for his survival after falling from a building. 
And so you don't think the Philippines is some backward kind of country, they even have a female 'Jesus'. This year was her 14th crucifixion. 
The Church rejects such practices, of course, but you know how hard it is to keep people from having a good time.

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Somewhat Useless Information
Did you know that there’s a country in the world, where the owner of a building with windows that have received natural daylight for 20 years or more can forbid any construction or other obstruction?
This country is England and according to English law, the “Ancient Lights law” states that the owner of a building in the above case can forbid any construction or other obstruction that would deprive him/her of that illumination or “their portion of natural light”.
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Did you know that in the 1930s the American mapmakers included a false town to try and catch plagiarism?
Although there was no town between Rockland and nearby Beaverkill, it was stated in the map that there was a place called ‘Agloe’.
Since it wasn’t an important or often visited place, it was considered as a perfect spot for what’s called a “paper town,” or a map “trap.”
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Birthday’s Today
85 - Andrew Sachs, actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers)
84 - Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower (Pentagon Papers)/patriot
82 - Wayne Rogers, Birmingham Ala, actor (M*A*S*H, House Calls)
77 - [Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr, 2x Governor (D) of California  
76 - Francis Ford Coppola, director (Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
66 - John Oates, rock guitarist/vocalist (Hall & Oates)
64 - Janis Ian, [Janis Eddy Fink], lesbian/folk rocker (At 17)
61 - Jackie Chan, martial art actor (Rumble in the Bronx)
61 - Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys, Heisman Trophy)
51 - Russell Crowe, Australian/New Zealand actor (A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator)
50 - Bill Bellamy, actor (Fled, How to be a Player, Joey Breaker)
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Remembered for being born today
Ravi Shankar, Varanasi, British India, musician (the Pandit) 1920-2012@92 
James Garner, actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick) 1928-2014@86
Hugh Blair, Scottish preacher and man of letters 1718-1800@82 
William Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude) 1770-1850@80 
David Frost, England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was) 1939-2013@74 
Walter Winchell, Harlem newscaster/columnist 1897-1972@74
Kenneth Oakley, English Anthropologist, Palaeontologist\Geologist - method for
the relative dating of fossils using fluorine content was instrumental in exposing the Piltdown Man hoax 1911-1981@70 
William Rufus DeVane King, (D) 13th VP 1786-1853@67 
Percy Faith, conductor (Summer Place) 1908-1976@67
Francis Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan 1506-1552@46 
Billie Holiday,[Eleanora Fagan], jazz singer (Lady Sings the Blues)1915-1959@44 
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Historical Obits Today
Mike Wallace [Myron], American media personality-2012@93
Barry Nelson, American actor-2007@89
Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B & Bailey)-1891@88
William Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets)-1850@87
John Agar, American actor-2002@81
El Greco, Greek-born artist working in Spain-1614@72ish
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Brain Teasers Answers
The three-letter word is "RAN", which yields:

Craned
Transit
Strand
Frantic

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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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