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Almanac: Week: 16 \ Day: 108
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 55°\L 21° Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 29mph
Ave. High: 59° Record High: 79°
(1989) Ave. Low: 28° Record
Low: 16° (1978)
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Observances Today:
Adult
Autism Day
Auctioneers
Day
Husband
Appreciation Day
International
Juggler's Day
National
Columnists' Day
National
Golf Day
National
Lineman Appreciation Day
Pet
Owners Independence Day
Record
Store Day
World
Amateur Radio Day
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Observances This Week:
12-18
Animal Control Officer Appreciation
Week
Health Information Privacy and Security
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
Cleaning For A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
Global Youth Service Days
International Home Furnishings Market
International Wildlife Film Week
Money Smart Week
18-23
National Toddler Immunization Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In
The Line of Duty Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1775 - Paul
Revere & William Dawes ride from Charleston to Lexington
warning
the "regulars are coming!"
1783 - Fighting
ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day
since it began
1861 - Battle
of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, part of the Maryland Campaign (Civil War)
1906 - San Francisco earthquake and fire kills
nearly 4,000 destroys 75% of the city
1921 - Junior
Achievement incorporated in Colorado Springs
1923 - 74,000
(62,281 paid) on hand for opening of Yankee Stadium
1924 - Chiricahua
National Monument was established in AZ
1924 - 1st
crossword puzzle book published (Simon & Schuster)
1925 - World's
Fair opens in Chicago
1934 - 1st
"Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Tx)
1936 - Pan-Am
Clipper begins regular passenger flights from SF to Honolulu
1942 - "Stars
& Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
1942 - James
Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities
1955 - 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk"
lighted street signals installed
1958 - US federal
court rules-poet Ezra Pound is to be released from insane asylum
1966 - Bill
Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
1977 - Alex Haley,
author of "Roots", awarded Pulitzer Prize
1977 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Cristofer
for "Shadow Box"
1983 - Pulitzer
Prize awarded to Alice Walker for "The Color Purple"
2007 - The
Supreme Court upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
in a 5-4 decision
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Today’s World Events through History
1506 - The
cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid
1853 - 1st
train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1902 - Denmark
is first country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1949 - Republic
of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
1954 - Colonel
Nasser seizes power & becomes PM of Egypt
1961 - CONCP is
founded in Casablanca as a united front of African movements
opposing Portuguese colonial rule
1980 - Zimbabwe
(formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK
2014 - 12
Nepalese climbers are killed by an avalanche on Mt Everest
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Awoke this am to a dusting of snow covering everything. Nice to
see, but unexpected. It warmed up but stayed overcast all day.
CenturyLink called today. Interesting because I wasn’t home and
she called my cell, which is not listed with CenturyLink. Anyway she is now my ‘first
contact’ with CenturyLink regarding my issue. Turns out the last lady who I called
did NOT credit my account with the returned modems, but this lady promised she
would do it…and said that all the problems I have had may be dismissed with a
free month of service. I’ll see how all this plays out…I’ve been given so much
misinformation I don’t believe anything until I see it from CenturyLink.
Some friends from Tuba called and will be dropping by early this
evening for dinner and whatever, so this post is being done early.
Talked to Mary about her new vehicle. When she got there she was
cornered by a salesperson. After looking around and test driving the car she
bought, she went to his desk and gave him her driver’s license. Within seconds
he knew she had bought 6 vehicles from this dealership; that her husband, who
has a different last name, owned an old Ford truck; that her daughter lived in
Chicago and her son lived in Phoenix and the years they graduated from HS in
Flagstaff. And the Universities that everyone had attended. She saw all this on
his computer screen. Now I get that the dealer needs to know her financial
standing and maybe her husband’s finances—even though the car will be only in
her name. I don’t get why they knew all that other personal and private
information. Guess it’s just the computer age.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In
this teaser, I have given you 4 words. Beside each word are a series of letter
groupings. Your task is to find the 8-letter answer to the word on the left by
choosing one letter from each of the letter groups to the right of each clue.
Example:
Statuette: fro evI Gse rpU loR naI Ngd rEp
Answer:
fro evi gse rpu lor nai ngd rep
= FIGURINE
1. Spine: btc har com bak bol tro and ent
2. Private: phr eai lrd oms gop nep anl wld
3. Proclaim: abc ran uon mou umk ens sch tec
4. Canine guard: cwt ahr ort cul ghi dgh hio trg
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
Returns tomorrow
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
~ With the quick thaw in progress
flooding is to be expected. The Rio is seriously
clogged with debris.
~ The City Council has spurned the
proposed liquor law that would allow adults
to bring their minor children in bars where food is served.
…Harper’s
Index…
$2,000: estimated
average amount Louisiana hospitals bill patients for compiling rape kits
…Language
Facts…
~ Stressed is Desserts spelled backwards.
~ Floccinaucinihilipilification, the
declaration of an item being useless, is the longest non-medical term in the
English language.
… Sea Facts…
~ Water is actually naturally blue.
~ Tidal forces between the Earth and Moon are slowing the Earth
down and
pushing the Moon
further away.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
~ If the oceans were to gradually rise, Florida (350 feet above
sea level at its
highest point) would become the first U.S.
state to be completely submerged.
…Water Facts..,.
~ The water of the Antarctica is so cold that nothing can rot
there.
~ Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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2 jokes
for the day
The latest reports from the Internal Revenue
service shows that it has streamlined its tax form this year.
It goes like this:
A. How much did you make last year?
B. How much do you have left?
C. Send B.
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While getting a checkup, a man tells his
doctor that he thinks his wife is losing her hearing.
The doctor says, "You should do a simple test. Stand about 15 feet behind
your wife and say 'honey?’ Move 3 feet closer and do it again. Keep moving 3
feet closer until she finally responds. Remember how close you were when she
gives you an answer. That will help me know how bad her hearing loss is."
About a month later the same guy is at the doctor again and the doctor asks,
"Well, did you do that experiment with your wife's hearing?”
The man says "yes". "How close did you get before she
answered?"
"Well, by the time I got about 3 feet away she just turned around and said
"For the FIFTH TIME... WHAT???"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Boston,
Mass-It is unclear whether Joseph Brennan of Massachusetts was planning
to make a bomb. What is clear is that he blew himself clean out of the driver's
door of his Toyota Camry when he lit a smoke.
A bystander heard the explosion from a block away and came running. He found
Brennan with singed hair and burns on his face, lying in the street next to his
burning vehicle.
"I'm an idiot," was the first thing Brennan allegedly told the
bystander. "I lit a cigarette with gunpowder in the front seat."
Once again, what Brennan was doing with loose gunpowder is unclear, but
according to the bystander he risked his life to go back to his wrecked vehicle
where he allegedly removed multiple items and put them in the trunk.
This, of course, did not deter the police who searched Brennan's car, where
they removed 14 liquids and powders, some of which when combined could create
what they called a destructive device.
Sounds like 'bomb'.
Brennan allegedly told police he had gotten various materials from a friend to
tinker with. "I wasn't going to do anything malicious," he said,
according to the report.
Police Chief Theodore Ross said in a statement that law enforcement searched
Brennan's house and found "precursor components, detonators, and one
completed incendiary device." Although Brennan's Facebook page shows an
interest in rocket propellants, so it is probably harmless tinkering.
Bomb or amateur rocketry, he certainly found a quick way to remove a lot of
body hair.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
federal tax code is now 74,608-page-long. It is 187 times longer than it was a
century ago.
From 2010, when Obamacare was passed, to 2014, the tax code grew by nearly
3,000 more pages.
If the tax code continues to grow at the same pace it did over the last
century, it will pass 100,000 pages in 2050.
Tax
deniers (tax defiers or tax protesters) are people who refuses to pay tax on
constitutional or legal grounds.
Tax protesters raise a number of different kinds of arguments, these typically
include constitutional arguments, such as claims that the Sixteenth Amendment
to the Constitution was not properly ratified or that it is unconstitutional
generally, or that being forced to file an income tax return violates the Fifth
Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
These arguments rarely work out for them.
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Birthday’s Today
93 - Barbara Hale,
Dekalb Ill, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason)
76 - Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of the
Islamic Republic of Iran
69 - Hayley Mills, actress (Parent Trap,
Pollyanna)
68 - James Woods,
Warwick RI, actor (Salvador, Against All Odds)
59 - Eric Roberts, Miss, actor (Pope of
Greenwich Village, King of Gypsies)
54 - Jane Leeves, actress (Daphne
Moon-Fraiser)
52 - Conan
Chris O'Brien, Brookline Mass, TV
host (Late Night)
52 - Eric McCormack, Canadian-American actor
(Will and Grace)
39 - Melissa Joan
Hart, Sayville NY, actress (Clarissa, Sabrina)
36 - Kourtney Kardashian, American reality
television star
31 - America
Ferrera, American actress
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Remembered for being born today
- Susan
Bosence, textile designer 1913-1996@93
- Beryl Platt
[Baroness Platt of Writtle], British Engineer,
politician and CEO (Equal
Opportunities Comm) 1923-2015@91
- Bernard Ogilvie
Dodge, American botanist-heredity in fungi 1872-1960@87
- Clarence S Darrow,
defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial 1857-1938@80
- Lucretia Borgia,
murderess (poison) 1480-1519@39
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Historical Obits Today
Thor
Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (Kon Tiki expedition)-2002@87
Dick
Clark, American radio and television personality-2012@82
Albert
Einstein, Nobel laureate, aneurysm-1955@76
Ernie
Pyle, American journalist, killed in action-1945@44
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Spine: Btc hAr Com baK Bol trO aNd Ent = BACKBONE
2. Private: Phr Eai lRd omS gOp Nep Anl wLd = PERSONAL
3. Proclaim: Abc raN uoN mOu Umk eNs sCh tEc = ANNOUNCE
4. Canine guard: cWt Ahr orT Cul gHi Dgh hiO trG = WATCHDOG
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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.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
