Apr 14

 

 

 

Apr 14, 2021   Week: 16    Day: 104       

Visibility: 10 miles

Ave. Sky Cover: 20%

Local: H 68°\ L 38°

Nearest Lightning: 658mi.          

Wind: 7 mph/ Gusts:  14mph

High Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  93mi

Record: 83°[1968]  Record: 19°[1973] 

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

 

Today’s Quote

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.

Thomas Jefferson

Random Tidbits

In 1839 the editor of the Boston Post was inspired to invent the phrase "o.k.," which he defined as "Oll Korrect." It was supposed to be a joke, perhaps on the literary competency of the Post's readership, but whether readers found it funny the phrase was picked up by another newspaper, the Evening Transcript, and o.k. was on the road to immortality.

New Words

The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners:

14.  Beelzebug  (N.): Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

15.  Caterpallor  (N.): The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you're eating.

And the pick of the literature:

16. Ignoranus (N): A person who's both stupid and a jerk

True Things

BERLIN (AP) — About two dozen monkeys broke out of a southwestern German zoo and spent the day lolling in the sun near a forest before being recaptured, authorities said Thursday.

The Barbary macaques, commonly known as Barbary apes, escaped from the zoo in Loeffingen, southwest of Stuttgart and not far from the Swiss border. It was not entirely clear how they got away, but construction work at the zoo might have been a factor, police said.

The primates were spotted roaming the area in a pack, but zoo employees were unable to recapture them and eventually lost track of them.

A few hours later they were spotted, recaptured, and returned to their cages without incident, police said.

“The animals apparently took advantage of the nice weather and spent the afternoon on the edge of a forest near the zoo,” police said.

The Barbary macaque is native to the Atlas Mountains of North Africa and has a small but famous presence across the water in Europe in the British territory of Gibraltar.

Weekly Observations

 

Money Smart Week Link

10-17

Week of The Young Child Link

10-16

Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week Link 
National Dog Bite Prevention Week 
Link  
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week 
National Occupational Health Nursing Week 
Link
Pan American Week 

 

 

11-17

National Student Employment Week     Link

12-18

National Youth Violence Prevention Week Link 

12-16 

Ramadan

Thru 5/11

 

Today’s Observations

 

Children with Alopecia Day

Dolphin Day
Ex Spouse Day

International Be Kind to Lawyers Day

International Moment of Laughter Day

Look up at the Sky Day 

National Bookmobile Day 

National Dolphin Day

National Ex-Spouse Day Link
National Gardening Day 
Link

National Pecan Day

National Perfume Day Link 
Pan American Day
Pathologists' Assistant Day 
Link
RAINN Day
 (Rape Abuse Incest National Network) Link 
Reach as High as You Can Day

World Chagas Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Another great spring day.  I headed out this morning to pick up some essentials. So nice to be vaccinated and able to go when the mood hits me.

Another killing by cop, another school shooting, more peaceful demonstrations. This morning CNN had trouble trying to cover those events and the trial. So sad.

I updated the Focus site today. I hope those who did the virtual tour enjoyed it.  When I got the notice, I didn’t have a camera on my computer, so I didn’t sign up. Then I bought a new computer with a camera and forgot to sign up. Next time I’ll be ready.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

I have a large money box, 10 inches wide and 5 inches tall.  Roughly how many coins can I place until my money box is no longer empty?

Historical Events

1775 – The Society for the Relief of Free Negroes Unlawfully Held in Bondage was organized in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Benjamin Franklin and Benjamin Rush.

1863 – The US Patent (No. 38,200) for a continuous-roll printing press was issued to William Bullock, enabling two sides of a newspaper to be printed at once. It was first used by the New York Sun.

1865 – John Wilkes Booth fatally shot President Abraham Lincoln at a play (Our American Cousin) at Ford’s Theater in Washington, DC.

1900 – The Exposition Universelle began in Paris, France.

1912 – RMS Titanic hit an iceberg, killing 1514 people that evening, and into the next day.

1927 – The first Volvo car was presented in Gothenburg, Sweden.

1933 – Jack Mackay and his wife reported seeing the Loch Ness Monster – ‘Nessie’, although the earliest report was in 565 AD when St. Columbia turned away a giant beast that was threatening a man in the Ness River, which flows into the lake.

1935 – ‘Black Sunday Storm’ – the worst dust storm of the US Dust Bowl, hit from the Oklahoma Panhandle and Northwestern Oklahoma to the Texas Panhandles. The Duststorm of April 14th, 1935 is also immortalized in the Woody Guthrie song “Dusty Old Dust” aka “So long been good to know you.”

1939 – The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck was first published by the Viking Press.

1953 – The CIA started to give unwitting subjects LSD in a search for a mind-controlling drug.

1961 – The man-made element 103 – Lawrencium (Lw), was produced in the US by Albert Ghiorso, Torbjørn Sikkeland, Almon Larsh and Robert M. Latimer.

1969 – Katharine Hepburn (The Lion in Winter) and Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl) tied for Best Actress Oscar.

1971 Supreme Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation

1977 US Supreme Court says people may refuse to display state motto on license

1980 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida

1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)

2007 At least 200,000 demonstrators in Ankara, Turkey protest against the possible candidacy of incumbent Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

2019 Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at center of controversy over comments about 9/11 at speech to Council on American-Islamic Relations after tweet by Donald Trump, defended by Nancy Pelosi

2020 US President Donald Trump freezes funding for the World Health Organization pending a review, for mistakes in handling the COVID-19 pandemic and for being "China-centric", prompting international criticism

 

Birthdays Today

89 – Loretta Lynn, American singer-songwriter

81 – Julie Christie, English actress

80 – Pete Rose, American baseball player

@77 – Rod Steiger, American actor (d. 2002; kidney failure)

@70 – Anne Sullivan, American educator (d. 1936; heart attack)

@58 – Cecil Chubb, English barrister, one-time owner of Stonehenge (d. 1934; heart disease)

53 – Anthony Michael Hall, American actor

44 – Sarah Michelle Gellar, American actress

26 – Abigail Breslin, American actress

Puzzle Answer

Just one, after which it will no longer be empty.

 

 

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