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Almanac: Week: 18 \ Day: 119
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 68°\L 33° Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 62° Record High: 78°
(1992) Ave. Low: 30° Record
Low: 7° (1970)
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Observances Today:
Day
of Remembrance for all Victims of Chemical Warfare
Greenery
Day National Shrimp
Scampi Day
International
Dance Day "Peace" Rose
Day
International
Guide Dogs Day World Wish Day Zipper
Day
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Observances This Week:
24-30
Interstate Mullet Toss National Dance Week
National Dream Hotline National Scoop
The Poop Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1813 - Ist US Rubber
patent granted to Jacob F Hummel
1862 - 100,000 federal
troops prepare to march into Corinth, Miss
1871- The Camp Grant
Massacre, in which a group of nearly 150 Anglo-American,
Mexican-American and Tohono O'odham men
ambushed and killed a group
of 118 Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches, mostly women
and children, took place in AZ
1894 - Commonwealth
of Christ (Coxey's Army) arrives in Wash, DC 500 strong
to protest unemployment; Coxey arrested for
trespassing at Capitol
1902 - Congress
extends the Chinese Exclusion Act (of 1882) prohibiting
immigration of Chinese laborers from
territories to the mainland, a rule
clearly aimed at Chinese in the Philippines
1953 - The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast
showed an episode of
Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate
KECA-TV.
1961 - ABC's
"Wide World of Sports" debuts
1967 - Aretha
Franklin releases "Respect"
1968 - "Hair"
opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 1750 performances
1975 - Vietnam War: Operation Frequent Wind: The
U.S. begins to evacuate US
citizens from Saigon prior to an expected
North Vietnamese takeover. U.S.
involvement in the war comes to an end.
2002 - The
United States is re-elected to the United Nations Commission on
Human Rights, one year after losing the seat
it had held for 50 years.
2004 - Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107
years of production.
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Today’s World Events through History
1429 - Joan of
Arc arrives at the seige of Orleans
1553 - Flemish
woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
1672 - Franco-Dutch
War: Louis XIV of France invades the Netherlands
1707 - English and
Scottish parliaments accept Act of Union; form
United Kingdom of Great Britain
1852 - 1st
edition of Peter Roget's Thesaurus published
1864 - Battle of Gate Pa (Pukehinahina): 1,700
British troops suffer their
worst defeat of the New Zealand Wars at the
hands of 230 entrenched Maori
warriors in Tauranga, leaving 31 British
troops dead and 80 wounded. Maori
losses were 25 killed and an unknown number
wounded.
1916 - Irish
republicans abandon the post office in Dublin and surrender
unconditionally, marking the end of the
Easter Rising
1922 - 1st
official Intl Weightlifting Federation Champ (Tallinn, Estonia)
1975 - Ethiopia
nationalizes all land
1990 - Wrecking cranes began tearing down Berlin
Wall at Brandenburg Gate
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Had an appointment to get my teeth cleaned. The hygienist found
some infection in one part of my gum. As technology improves, now they have a
laser that can kill bad bacteria in the mouth without killing the good
bacteria. And it is based on the color of the bacteria. Really?!?. Sounded a
little ‘snake oil’ish to me, but let her do it. Interesting for sure. I go back
in 6 weeks to see if it worked. Next week another laser will be used to destroy
the scar tissue after my cataract surgery. Amazing….I guess.
Got a call from a college friend today. He is in WA and I guess is
having a difficult time with retirement. Not sure what to say…I suggested he
find a Great Decisions group up there. He is certainly right of center, but I
couldn’t tell him that was his issue. Wish him luck in finding more happiness
in his life.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Two
children, who were all tangled up in their reckoning of the days of the week,
paused on their way to school to straighten matters out.
"When
the day after tomorrow is yesterday," said Priscilla, "then 'today'
will be as far from Sunday as that day was which was 'today' when the day
before yesterday was tomorrow!"
On which day of the week did this puzzling prattle occur?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Cool
Facts…
~ Caucasian Mountain Dog (aka Russian Bear Dog) males reach over
200lb and have historically been used to hunt bears.
~ There's a Hello Kitty-themed hospital in Taiwan.
~ Paul Walker was in a jeweler store one day when he noticed a
young U.S. military veteran with his fiancée shopping for a wedding ring. Paul
went to the manager and said “Put that girl’s ring on my tab.”
…Film
Fact…
~ Lindsay Lohan was approached to star in The Hangover, but she
declined because the screenplay "had no potential".
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
~
W. S. Beard has purchased an auto and will make regular trips
twice a week to Tuba City and return carrying both mail and passengers up and
back in one day. Up until now, an Indian has been going on horseback and taking
2 to 3 days for the journey
…Harper’s
Index…
–69--Percentage
change since 2004 in the annual number of adoptions by U.S. families
…Linguistic
Facts…
If you randomly select two people in Cameroon, for instance, there
is a 97 percent likelihood that they will have different mother tongues. In the
United States, there is only a 33 percent likelihood that this is going to
happen.
…Murphy’s
Real Laws…
22. It is said that if
you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid
enough to try and pass them.
23. You can't have
everything. Where would you put it ?
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Bela Lugosi became famous for playing the title character in the
classic 1931 movie Dracula. When he died in 1956, he was buried
wearing his Dracula cape.
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2 jokes
for the day
What do you call a group of musical pigs?
An oinkestra!
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A frog walks into a bank, and approaches the
teller. He sees the tellers name tag read Paddy Black and says
"I'd like to take out a loan, Mrs. Black"
"Certainly," says the teller, "how much would that be for?"
"One million dollars." replies the frog. "Don't worry, it's ok,
I know the manager."
The teller is understandably taken aback by this, and asks if the frog has any
collateral to cover this.
"As a matter of fact, I do!" says the frog, and he reaches into his
pocket and hands over a tiny ceramic elephant.
"What?!" says the teller, "This is garbage! I can't take
this!"
"Well, take it up with my father then!" The frog retorts.
"Oh yeah, and who might that be?" The teller is quickly getting more
and more annoyed at the frog.
"Why, it's Keith Richards!" The frog is waiting impatiently, tapping
his toe on the ground. "Now, can I have that loan or not?"
"Wait right here" the teller says, as she storms into the back room,
looking for her manager.
"There's a frog out there who claims to know you, and wants a million
dollar loan. He claims his father his Keith Richards! He even gave me this as
collateral," she says, holding up the elephant. "I mean, what even is
this?"
The manager takes a look at the elephant and replies "It's a knick knack,
Paddy Black, give the frog a loan. His old man's a rolling stone!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Los
Angeles, CA-Los Angeles surgeons working to remove a tumor from an Indiana
woman's brain said the growth turned out to be the patient's embryonic twin.
Yamini Karanam, 26, a Ph.D. student at Indiana University, said she underwent
surgery at the Skull Base Institute after problems she started having with
reading and listening comprehension were determined to be the result of a tumor
in her brain.
Karanam said she was shocked when she woke up after the surgery and Dr. Hrayr
Shahinian's team revealed the tumor to be an embryonic twin with bone, hair and
teeth. Shahinian said such a tumor, or "teratoma," is rare to find in
modern medicine.
"This is my second one, and I've probably taken out 7,000 or 8,000 brain
tumors," Shahinian said.
Shahinian removed the tumor using fully endoscopic resection, a minimally
invasive brain surgery.
Karanam said she now refers to the tumor as an "evil twin sister who's
been torturing me for the past 26 years."
Shahinian said the tumor was not cancerous and Karanam is expected to make a
full recovery.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
When
John Stamos signed on to "Full House," his character's name was Adam
Cochran. But before the pilot was shot, his first name was changed to Jesse. In
Season 2, Stamos requested that his last name become Katsopolis to reflect his
Greek heritage.
These days, everyone knows that Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen shared the role of
Michelle on "Full House." But in the second season of the series,
producers decided that they didn't want audiences to be aware that two
actresses were playing the one part. During most of the show's run they had a
shared credit: Mary-Kate Ashley Olsen. In Season 8, they were finally called
out as individuals: Mary-Kate Olsen and Ashley Olsen.
Bob Saget was not the original Danny Tanner. In the unaired pilot episode, John
Posey played the family patriarch. By the time the show went to series, Saget
was freed up from his commitment to CBS's "The Morning Program" and
took over the starring role.
During part of its run, "Full House" was shot on Stage 24 at the
Warner Bros. lot in Burbank, California. That same soundstage housed
"Wonder Woman" from 1977 to 1978, "Scarecrow and Mrs. King"
from 1983 to 1987, and "Homefront" from 1991 to 1993. Stage 24 was
then home to "Friends" during the show's 1994 to 2004 run.
Although most of the show was taped on the WB lot, the main title sequence was
filmed on location in San Francisco, where the show was set. The iconic lineup
of Queen Anne Victorian homes is known as "Postcard Row," and it's
located across from Alamo Square. According to some reports, the Tanner house was
located at 1709 Broderick Street.
D.J. Tanner attended the fictional Van Atta Junior High, which was named after
Don Van Atta. Van Atta served as a producer on the show from 1987 to 1992. In
1993, he got bumped up to co-executive producer and remained in that capacity
until the series ended.
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Birthday’s Today
82 - Willie Nelson,
Abbott Texas, American country singer (On the Road Again)
71 - Richard Kline, American actor and
director
61 - Jerome 'Jerry' Seinfeld,
Brooklyn, comedian/actor ('Seinfeld')
60 - Kate Mulgrew,
Dubuque Iowa, actress (Capt Janeway-Star Trek Voyager)
58 - Daniel Day-Lewis,
England, actor (Last of the Mohicans, My Left Foot)
57 - Eve Plumb,
Burbank, actress (Jan-Brady Bunch)
57 - Michelle Pfeiffer, Midway City
California, actress (Married to the Mob)
45 - Andre Agassi,
Las Vegas Nevada, tennis star (Oly-gold-96, US Open 1994)
45 - Uma Thurman,
actress (Baron Munchausen, Pulp Fiction)
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Remembered for being born today
- Celeste Holm,
actress (Gentleman's Agreement, All About Eve) 1919-2012@95
- William Randolph
Hearst, newspaper publisher (SF Examiner) 1863-1951@88
– Hirohito (Shōwa-tennō),
Emperor of Japan 1901-1989@87
- Tom
Ewell, [S Yewell Tompkins], Ky, actor (7 Yr Itch) 1909-1994@85
- Rod McKuen,
singer/composer (I Live Alone,) 1933-2015@81
- Lorado Taft, US,
sculptor (Black Hawk) 1860-1936@76
- Duke Ellington,
bandleader, composer\pianist (Take the A
Train) 1899-1974@75
- Dale Earnhardt,
American race car driver 1951-2001@49
- Tommy
Noonan, WA, actor (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) 1922-1968@46
- Tammi Terrell,
soul singer (Ain't No Mountain High Enough) 1945-1970@24
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Historical Obits Today
Edward
Wortley Montagu, English traveler and writer-1776@63
Abraham
Gesner, Canadian geologist (inventor of kerosene)-1864@66
Alfred
Joseph Hitchcock, English director (Psycho, Birds, Rear Window)-1980@80
John
Kenneth Galbraith, Canadian economist-2006@97
Albert
Hofmann, Swiss chemist, known as the first to synthesize LSD-2008@102
Bob
Hoskins, English actor (Who Framed Roger Rabbit), pneumonia-2014@71
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Brain Teasers Answers
The two children were so befogged over the calendar that they had
started on their way to school on Sunday morning!
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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…§
