Apr 14,
2021 Week: 16 Day: 104
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Visibility: 10 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover: 20% |
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Local:
H 68°\ L 38° |
Nearest Lightning: 658mi. |
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Wind: 7 mph/ Gusts: 14mph |
High Risk of Fire: Active fire: 93mi |
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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
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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
Children with Alopecia Day
Dolphin Day
Ex
Spouse Day
International
Be Kind to Lawyers Day
International
Moment of Laughter Day
National Ex-Spouse Day Link
National Gardening Day Link
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.
