4-9-15

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Almanac: Week: 15 \ Day: 099 
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 55°\L 34° Average Sky Cover: 10% 
Wind ave:   13mph\Gusts:  40mph
Ave. High: 57° Record High:  75° (1989) Ave. Low: 26° Record Low:  9° (1953)
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Observances Today:
Appomattox Day
Jenkins Ear Day
Name Yourself Day
National Alcohol Screening Day
National Cherish An Antique Day
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
Winston Churchill Day
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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
 1682 - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1768 - John Hancock refuses to allow two British customs agents to go below
 deck of his ship, considered by some to be the first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies
1833 - 1st tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH)
1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee and 26,765 troops surrender at
 Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant General Ulysses S. Grant
1941 - PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
1947
 - Atomic Energy Commission confirmed

1950 - Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
1953 - "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1963 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen
1967 - 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
1976 - US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear tests for peaceful use
1993 - Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos
2012 - The Lion King becomes highest grossing Broadway show after
 overtaking The Phantom of the Opera
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Today’s World Events through History
1483 - Edward V (aged 12) succeeds his father Edward IV as king of England.
 He was never crowned, and disappeared, presumed murdered, after incarceration in the Tower of London with his younger brother Richard (the "Princes in the Tower")
1667 - 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)
1731 - British mariner Robert Jenkins' ear cut off by Spanish Guarde Costa
 in the Caribbean, later catalyst for war between Britain & Spain
1838 - UK National Gallery re-opens in its new dedicated building in
 Trafalgar Square, London
1906 - 3½th modern Olympic games opens in Athens
1916 - The Libau sets sail from Germany with a cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist
 Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection
1940 - Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WW II
1981 - Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands wins a by-election to be elected as a
 Member of Parliament at Westminster; the law is later changed to prevent prisoners standing in elections
2013 - The French Senate approves a bill for same-sex marriage
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Another very windy spring day…looking at the temps, today the wind chill played a big role…drop the thermometer temp by about 13°.
The plan was to stay home today, but fate would not allow that. Awakened about 3am to the ‘dead battery’ squeak of one of my 5 smoke alarms. Removing the battery doesn’t stop the squeak. Go downstairs to discover I have no 9 volt batteries. So at 3am I take the battery out of one of the downstairs alarms and let it squeak and put that battery in the bedroom one. The noise stops. I return to sleep.
Being the cheap guy I am, I wait till Sam’s opens at 10am and head over to get a pack of 9v batteries. While I am out, I stop for a quick haircut. Had to deal with the cold wind four times and was glad to be back home in about an hour.
Once home I called to make my heart check-up appointment. The last time it took about 3 weeks to get the appointment. This time I am set up for tomorrow. Nice!
Our retirement group is not doing our regular Thurs. lunch this week…we are waiting for Friday and doing the local home show and then lunch. I’ll be looking for a deal on blinds that let me pull them down from the top or raise them from the bottom, or both. There are 3 vendors of blinds there, so hopefully I’ll find something.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Whilst my body is usually made from wood,
I have keys that don't unlock doors,
and a bell that does not ring.
Moreover, I cannot speak without the help of a single piece of cane.
What am I?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
~ We have received a $47,928 grant, with the city required to match this amount, from the National Park Service for our Urban Trail System. The purpose is to link up the Rio de Flag, the backbone of our system that was completed last October, with the Sinclair Wash section that will be completed this next summer.
~ Rt. 66 is a new recreational vehicle and auto service center on the west side of Flagstaff at 824 W. Highway 66.
~  The Thrifty Drug Store at 2550 East 7th St. is closing. Everything is on sale 20-50% off.
~ Tuition at NAU is up again:$116 more for residents and $1,000 more for out-of-staters. Regent Arthur Hurwitz argues that this works a great hardship on middle-class students. The Regents plan on raising out-of-state tuition up to 100 percent of the cost. The 2015 cost for residents is now $951/credit hour

…Harper’s Index…
$850,000: amount a Canadian woman owes a Hawaii hospital after giving birth there while on vacation last year.

…Illegal Facts
~ In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
~ In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.

…Language Facts…
~ Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
~ Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying "jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".

***NEW***…Longevity Facts…
~ There are still 5 people living who were born in the 1800s - and they're all women.
~ There was a man named Li Ching-Yuen, a Chinese herbalist and martial artist, who allegedly lived 197 - 256 years. There's even an official document from the Chinese government congratulating him on his 150th birthday in 1827.

…North Korea Fact…
~ North Korea uses a fax machine to send threats to South Korea.

***NEW***…Paleontology Facts…
~ Helicoprion was a relative of the shark that lived 270 million years ago. It was approximately 7.5m long and had chainsaw-like teeth.
~ In 2007, the 5000-year-old skeletal remains of two lovers embracing each other were found at Mantua, Italy.

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
~ The Hudson's Bay Company (now known as "The Bay" or "HBC") is the oldest commercial corporation in North America, having been incorporated on May 2nd, 1670, by British royal charter under King Charles II.
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2 jokes for the day
What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday? 

Aye matey

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A middle-aged woman had a heart attack and was taken to the hospital. 
While on the operating table, she had a near death experience. Seeing God, she asked, "Is my time up?" 
God said, "No, you have another 43 years, two months and eight days to live." 
Since she had so much more time to live, she figured she might as well look even nicer. 
Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital and have a face-lift, liposuction and tummy tuck. 
After her last operation, she was released from the hospital. 
While crossing the street on her way home, an ambulance killed her. 
Arriving in front of God, she demanded, "I thought you said I had another 40 years? Why didn't you pull me out of the path of that ambulance?" 
God replied, "Girl, I didn't recognize you!"       

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Yep, It Really Happened
CHANGSHA, China (UPI) - A philandering Chinese man who secretly had 17 girlfriends was exposed when all of his paramours arrived at the same time to visit him in the hospital. The Changsha man, identified by the surname Yuan, was hospitalized March 24 with non-life-threatening injuries from a car accident and doctors got into contact with a number of people they believed to be family members. However, the 17 people who turned up at the hospital were revealed to be Yuan's girlfriends, who were unaware of each other’s existence until they all arrived at the hospital at the same time. A girlfriend who identified herself as Xiao Li said she has spoken with several of the other women and discovered many of them had been regularly giving him money. She said one of the women had been supporting him financially for nine years. Yuan, who also allegedly fabricated his education background to get a job with a large company, is facing a fraud charge after he allegedly bilked his ex-wife of more than $40,000.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Geologists believe sea levels could rise between seven and 23 inches by the end of the century if current warming trends continue.
Worldwide, one hundred million people live within three feet of sea level, and much of the world's population is clustered in coastal areas.

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The earth has always experienced cyclical bouts of climate change. Recorded temperatures throughout history display graphs of peaks and valleys with occasional extreme periods, such as the Little Ice Age of the seventeenth and eighteenth century and the Medieval Warm Period of the eleventh century.
The last two decades of the twentieth century were the hottest decades in more than 400 years and may have been the hottest decades for several thousand years.
Deserts worldwide are increasing as a result of warmer temperatures. At the end of the year 2007, Australia lost 25 percent of crop production due to desertification.

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Birthday’s Today
89 - Hugh Hefner, [Marston], Chicago, magazine publisher (Playboy)
87 - Tom Lehrer, parody/folk singer (That Was The Week That Was)
83 - Jim Fowler, Albany Ga, naturalist (Wild Kingdom)
82 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, Paris France, actor (Casino Royale, Magnifique)
76 - Michael Learned, Wash DC, actress (Olivia-Waltons, Nurse)
61 - Dennis Quaid, actor (Big Easy, Dreamscape, Right Stuff)
52 - Joe Scarborough, American television personality
49 - Cynthia Nixon, actress (Sex in the City)
36 - Keshia Knight Pulliam, Newark NJ, actress (Rudy-Crosby)
28 - Jesse McCartney, American actor and singer
25 - Kristen Stewart, American actress (Bella Swan-The Twilight Saga)
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Remembered for being born today
Paul Robeson, singer (Old Man River)/actor/footballer1898-1976@77
George Peacock, English Mathematician (algebraic theory) 1791-1858@67 
- [Earl] Curly Lambeau, NFL coach (GB Packers) 1898-1965@67 
Ward Bond, Denver, CO, actor (Seth-Wagon Trains) 1903-1960@57
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Historical Obits Today
Frank Lloyd Wright, US architect (Guggenheim Museum NY)-1959@89
Simon Fraser, 11th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England-1747@79
Sharlot Hall, Prescott historian known as Arizona's poet laureate-1943@72
Francis Bacon, English statesman and philosopher, pneumonia-1626@65
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Brain Teasers Answers
A Clarinet--Clarinets are usually made out of wood. The sound is made by the vibration of a single piece of cane which is attached to the mouthpiece. The keys of the clarinet are fingered in various ways in order to alter the pitch of the instrument. The lower section of the clarinet is called 'the bell' because it resembles the general shape of a bell.
The term 'Denner' in the title refers to the inventor of the clarinet - J.C. Denner, a German instrument maker.

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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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