Apr 13,
2021 Week: 16 Day:
103
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Visibility: 10 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover: 10% |
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Local:
H 71°\ L 39° |
Nearest Lightning: 1831mi. |
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Wind: 10 mph/ Gusts: 16 mph |
EXTREME Risk of Fire: Active fire: 128mi |
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Record: 87°[1977] Record: 19°[1874] |
Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Every portrait that is
painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
~Oscar Wilde
Random Tidbits
The Capital of Niger is
Niamey
The biggest film of 1958:
South Pacific earned ~ $36,800,000
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:
Dopeler effect (N): The
tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
Arachnoleptic fit (N.): The
frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider
web.
True Things
According to a TTS /AAS
statement, its team members who have been “operating under the shadows of
top-secrecy for decades” believe that “there is sufficient credible evidence of
UAP that proves exotic technologies exist that could revolutionize the human
experience.”
Weekly Observations
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Money
Smart Week Link |
10-17 |
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Week of The Young Child Link |
10-16 |
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Animal Control Officer
Appreciation Week Link |
11-17 |
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National Student Employment
Week Link |
12-18 |
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National Youth Violence
Prevention Week Link |
12-16 |
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Ramadan |
Thru 5/11 |
Today’s Observations
International
Plant Appreciation Day
Make Lunch
Count Day
National Be Kind To Lawyers Day
National Peach
Cobbler Day
Plant Appreciation Day
Thomas Jefferson Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
The new week is starting great…nice weather, windows open, nice walk.
I headed out about 10am. First stop was Sam’s gas. Prices are slowing
going down, today it was a mere $2.85 and the Scan & Go app was great. Then
into Sam’s for some essentials. I headed over to pick up taxes. In a couple of
weeks, I’ll be getting a nice chuck of change in my bank account. I earned a
tad more money on my investments, so my taxes went up too. Happy camper here.
One interesting note: The Feds accepted my taxes about 5 minutes after sent
through the internet machine. AZ too almost 90 minutes longer to accept them. That
says about all one needs to know about Arizona.
I read several articles yesterday on the amazing find of an ancient
city in Luxor, Egypt. When I was there, I probably walked on the sand that buried
that city. Focus is returning to Egypt soon. I hope they get to see this new
ancient city.
Another cop kills a Black in Minneapolis suburb. I was not there, so I’ll
wait to make any judgement. All I know is that officer is claiming that the
officer thought it was his taser, not a gun when shot. Sad.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
59. Two boxers are in a match scheduled for 12 rounds. (Pure boxing
only. There are no kicking or takedowns). One of the boxers gets knocked out
after only six rounds, yet no man throws a punch. How is this possible?
Historical Events
1204 – Constantinople
fell to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade.
1360 – On “Black Monday,” a hailstorm killed 1,000 English soldiers
and 6,000 horses. Edward III, fearing it a sign from God, paused the Hundred
Years’ War.
1570 – Guy Fawkes was
born (died in 1606)
1742 – Handel’s Messiah
premiered in Dublin, Ireland.
1829 – The Roman Catholic
Relief Act gave Roman Catholics in the United Kingdom the right to vote and to
sit in the UK’s Parliament.
1869 – The first US
Patent (#88,929) for an air brake was issued to George Westinghouse of
Schenectady, N.Y., called an “Improvement in steam-power-brake devices”.
1870 – The New York City
Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded.
1902 – James C. Penney opened
his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1943 – The Jefferson Memorial was dedicated in Washington, DC.
1970 – An oxygen tank exploded on Apollo13, but everyone survived.
It was also the major plot for the 1995 film, Apollo 13.
1974 – Western Union,
with NASA and Hughes Aircraft, launched the US’ first commercial geosynchronous
communications satellite, Westar 1.
1997 – Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to win the Masters
Tournament.
2015 Migrant ship
carrying around 550 sinks off the Libyan coast, about 400 drown
2019 World's largest
plane by wingspan at 117m (385 ft), the Stratolaunch, built as a flying launch
pad for satellites, takes its first flight from Mojave, California
Birthdays Today
@93 – Alfred Mosher Butts, American architect and game designer,
created Scrabble (d. 1993)
@83 – Samuel Beckett, Irish novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize
laureate (d. 1989)
@83 – Thomas Jefferson, American lawyer and politician, 3rd
President (d. 1826)
82 – Paul Sorvino, American
actor
@76 – Madalyn Murray O’Hair, American activist, founded American
Atheists (d. 1995; murdered)
75 – Al Green, American
singer-songwriter and pastor
@74 – Seamus Heaney,
Irish poet (d. 2013; short illness)
71 – Ron Perlman,
American actor
57 – Caroline Rhea,
Canadian comedic actress
51 – Ricky Schroder,
American actor
@42 – Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American criminal (d. 1908; shot)
@35 – Guy Fawkes, English soldier, planned the Gunpowder Plot (d.
1606; executed)
Puzzle Answer
Both the boxers were female
