Apr 1

 

In Navajo, April is ‘T’aachil’, Growth of Early Plant Life

Apr 1, 2021   Week: 14    Day: 91                             

Visibility: 10 miles

Ave. Sky Cover: 5%

Local: H 52°\ L 31°

Nearest Lightning: 1132mi.        

Wind:  11mph/ Gusts:  16mph

High Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  610mi

Record: 74°[2011]  Record:[1970] 

Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

~Abraham Lincoln

Random Tidbits

Sleep is a universal characteristic of complex living organisms and has been observed in insects, mollusks, fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals. In fact, sleep is so important that humans can survive longer without food than they can without sleep.

A Little Something to Think About

The Eiffel Tower was the centerpiece for the Paris World’s Fair in 1889.

The four corners are pointed North, South, East and West

True Things

A New York auction house said a 15th century Chinese bowl bought for $35 at a yard sale was auctioned for $721,800. Sotheby's said the small floral bowl, purchased from a Connecticut yard sale for $35, had been expected to sell for up to $500,000 when it was sold as part of the auction house's Asia Week, but it exceeded expectations by fetching a top bid of $721,800. The selling price was nearly 29,000 times the price that it was purchased for at the yard sale. The seller, who was not identified, told Sotheby's he bought the bowl at a New Haven yard sale in 2020 and sent photos to auction specialists to determine whether it was potentially a valuable antique. The porcelain bowl was identified as a "lotus bowl" from the court of the Yongle Emperor, who ruled from 1403 until 1424. Sotheby's said only six other lotus bowls from the same period are known to still exist.

Monthly Observations

 

Adopt A Ferret Month
Adopt A Greyhound Month 
Link
Atlanta Food & Wine Month
Arab American Heritage Month 
Link
ASPCA Month  
Link  Link
Alcohol Awareness Month
Amateur Radio Month
Autism Acceptance Month 
 Link
Autism Awareness Month 
Link

 

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]

Passover [Jewish]

Thru 4/3

Thru 4/4

Passiontide

Thru 4/3

National Cherry Blossom Festival Link

Thru 4/10

Holy Week
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week

Thru 4/3

APAWS Pooper Scooper  Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week 
(aka Get A Grip Day!)  Link

 

 

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Today’s Observations

April Fool's Day

Atheist Day Link
Boomer Bonus Days
Fun at Work Day
Holy Thursday 
International Fun at Work Day

International Tatting Day Link
Library Snap Shot Day
Myles Day
National Burrito Day 

National Fun Day
National Fun at Work Day 
National Soylent Green Day
National Sourdough Bread Day

Poetry & The Creative Mind Day
Reading is Funny Day
Sorry Charlie Day
Sourdough Bread Day

St. Stupid Day Link
Take Down Tobacco Day 
Link  (Formerly Kick Butts Day)
US Air force Academy Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

March is going out like a lamb...nice weather. Looking forward to other’s April Fools Day pranks.

I decided I would finally get a new computer today. Best Buy has restarted in-store shopping after months of ‘by appointment only’. Little did I realize that Covid made new computers almost impossible to find. They aren’t selling the display models and they had only a few computers actually available. Disappointed for sure. The clerk said he had been there for 5 years and now is the worst time he has seen for electronics. They can’t get them because Covid shut down so many plants that make the electronics parts and the plants that assemble the electronics. A little bummed, but I can wait a while longer.

I watched some of the George Floyd trial. It is difficult to see so many witnesses watch videos and relive this event. I have great empathy for the jurors and the long list of witnesses.

The Focus Travel Club website has been updated. There is a new event some might be interest in…It is a live, virtual tour of one of the world’s most famous museums. It is happening in mid-April, but sign-up has to happen soon.   

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

Guess the next three letters in the series: GTNTL.

Historical Events

33 – Estimated date of Jesus Christ’s Last Supper

1853 – The first professional, full-time US fire department with salaried firemen was established in Cincinnati, Ohio.

1875 – Sir Francis Galton published the first newspaper weather map, in The Times in London, England

1877 – Edward Schieffelin founded Tombstone, Arizona, best known as the place where Doc Holliday and the Earp brothers had their shoot-out with the Clantons and McLaurys at the O.K. Corral in 1881

1934 – Bonnie and Clyde kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.

1938 – The first panda to live in captivity outside China, Su Lin, died after a twig lodged in his throat at the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago.

1957 – The BBC broadcast the ‘spaghetti-tree hoax’ on its current affairs program Panorama, showing spaghetti being harvested from trees.

1960 – The first weather observation satellite, Tiros I, was launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, and made the first television picture from space.

1963 – ABC premiered General Hospital, the daytime drama that eventually became the network’s longest-running (soap opera) serial program produced in Hollywood. On the same day, NBC debuted The Doctors.

1965 – On April 1, 1965, Michael O’Mahony claimed on BBC TV to have invented Smell-O-Vision. Numerous viewers called in and reported having experienced coffee and onion aromas through their TV sets. #dontbeleiveanythingaprilfirst

1970 – President Richard Nixon signed legislation officially banning cigarette ads on television and radio.

1976 – Apple Computer Company was formed by Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.

1983 – Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life was released in theaters.

1984 – Singer Marvin Gaye was shot three times and killed by his father during a domestic dispute.

1993 – Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority is founded in Los Angeles, California, USA.

1997 – As part of a crossover April Fools joke, Pat Sajak hosted Jeopardy and Alex Trebek hosted Wheel of Fortune.

2001 – Same-sex marriage became legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country allowing it.

2004 – Gmail was launched on April 1 and was widely assumed to be an April Fools’ Day prank. They offered 1GB free storage in 2004 while other webmail services typically provided between 5MB – 50MB.

2007 – Google sent an email to all of its employees warning that a python was loose inside of their New York office. It was not a joke.

2011 After protests against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.

2013 The world’s first smelling TV screen is unveiled in Japan

2017 Chinese leaders announce plans to build city in Xiongan New Area, 3x size of New York

2019 Major archaeological site announced discovered on a reef in the middle of Lake Titicaca, in Andes, dated 8th and 10th centuries AD from Tiwanaku state

2019 US online sales overtake retail sales for the first time, with 11.813% online compared with 11.807% for general merchandise stores.

2020 US President Donald Trump says the US Strategic National Stockpile is almost depleted amid widespread shortages of medical equipment to fight COVID-19

 

Birthdays Today

@84 – Debbie Reynolds, actor (d. 2016)

@83 – Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer, politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1898)

82 – Ali MacGraw, American actress

71 – Samuel Alito, American lawyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court

60 – Susan Boyle, Scottish singer

48 – Rachel Maddow, American journalist and author

@47 – Lon Chaney, American actor, director, screenwriter (d. 1930; hemorrhage)

 

Puzzle Answer

I, T, S. The complete sequence is the first letter of every word in the sentence.

 

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