Apr 2

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1827 - Joseph Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils

1866 - Pres Johnson ends war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC, SC, Tn & Va

1877 - 1st Easter egg roll held on White House lawn

1917 - Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of US House of Reps

1954 - Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced

1978 - Velcro was 1st put on the market

2004 Madrid attacks attempt to bomb the Spanish high-speed train AVE near Madrid. Their attack is thwarted.

 

Free Rambling Thoughts   

Another sunny but very windy, with winds close to 50mph around my house. Temps dropped about 20° since yesterday. The wind also blew most of the night. Not a great day to be outside. All this wind is bringing us more wind and no moisture. What a waste of good wind and  a good Sunday.

Flagstaff’s little town attitude has a dark secret that seldom make the local paper or the local news. We have a problem with intoxicated people having to be taken to the local hospital, or to jail, or to a shelter. Our local community does have a Facebook page, called Flagscanner that opens up the wound. Last year when I first saw ‘Man Down’ posts I feared that it was either racial or worse. The guy who runs the page only does his ‘man down’ count every couple of months. After that first post, he as fully explained why he does it, and warns everyone that if they post anything racial or culturally biased, the post will be removed and the writer will be banned from the site. OK, good for him. He also posted that each ‘man down’ costs about $7200 in ambulance, police, fire department, and hospital costs. The weekend isn’t over yet, but since noon Friday, there have been 12 ‘man down’ calls. This is horrific. Some of the ‘man down’ reports are coming from downtown sidewalks, some in city parks, some in less obvious sites like wooded areas within the city limits. The other day I was driving to our new WalMart and an ambulance and fire truck were on the side of the road. As I drove by, they were carrying an intoxicated male up from a nearby wash. That one never made the newspaper or news shows. No one is going to fix the issue until they know about it. I’m sure the paper, city government, and others feel that this will tarnish our image. So Sad!

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game—A close up picture of what?

NPR Sunday Puzzle

For each category, name five items, each one beginning with a different letter in the word "Aries," the first Zodiac sign in spring. For example, given the category "elements on the periodic table," the answers could be "argon, radium, iron, einsteinium and silicon."

1.     European countries:

2.     Old Testament names:

3.     TV sitcoms:

4.     Terms related to poetry:

Riddle of the day

The following sentence is false. The preceding sentence is true.
Are these sentences true or false?

Anagram: unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in each answer word

Lifestyle  Substance     

Harper’s Index         

Amount of the $1 billion Emergency Homeowner’s Loan Program returned to the Treasury after its allocation deadline passed: $568,000,000

Found on You Tube 

      David Copperfield Magic Trick 

Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day

Don't steal, the Government hates competition!

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

People will lapse into silence after every 20 minutes of conversation.

Yeah, It Really Happened

 PARADISE, CA - A California man said he was attacked by a mountain lion while out hiking and he was rescued by a mother bear. Robert Biggs, 69, of Paradise said he went out hiking and gold panning Monday morning near Whiskey Flats, and stopped to watch a mother bear with a yearling and a cub sitting on a stream bank, ABC News reported Friday. Biggs said he was turning to leave when a mountain lion jumped onto his back. He said he hit the lion on the head with a rock pick and he turned to see the mother bear grab the mountain lion by the neck and throw it to the ground. The hiker, who suffered a wound to his arm, said the lion fled after a brief struggle. "I think the lion was stalking the bear's cub and I got in the way," Biggs said. "The bear walked calmly back to her cub after, and I wrapped my arm up with a T-shirt and went gold panning before I went home."     

         

Somewhat Useless Information   

David Copperfield is most famous for making the Statue of Liberty disappear, levitating over the Grand Canyon, and walking through the Great Wall of China. The youngest person ever admitted to the Society of American Magicians, Copperfield (born David Seth Kotkin) was teaching magic at New York University by the age of sixteen.

In 2003, David Blaine lived in a transparent case suspended 30 feet in the air on the south bank of the River Thames for 44 days, apparently without any food or sleep. His only nourishment was provided by a tube which carried water into the case.

The Magic Castle, a classy Victorian mansion and private club for magicians in Hollywood, California, features Irma, an invisible ghostly piano player who can play almost any song suggested by visitors.

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

1-7

The APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week

Holy Week
International Pooper-Scooper Week
Laugh at Work Week
National Blue Ribbon Week
National Public Health Week
National Week of the Ocean
National Window Safety Week
Medication Safety Week

2-7

Testicular Cancer Awareness Week

Explore Your Career Options
The Masters Tournament

Today Is                                                                      

International Children's Book Day

National Love Our Children Day

National Peanut Butter and Jelly Day

Reconciliation Day to patch up relationships

Tangible Karma Day

Tater Day ( It's Sweet Potatoes) 

World Autism Day

Today’s Other Events                                                             

1300’s

1513 - Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon

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1700’s

1792 - Congress establishes Philadelphia mint US authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½ dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime

1800’s

1819 - 1st successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins

1865 - CSA Pres Jefferson Davis flees Confederate capital of Richmond, VA

1884 - London prison for debtors closed

1900’s

1902 - 1st motion picture theater opens (LA)

1905 - Cairo-Capetown railway opens

1921 - Prof Albert Einstein lectures in New York City on his new theory of relativity

1968 - Senator E Mccarthy wins Democratic primaries in Wisconsin

1971 - Sci-fi soap opera "Dark Shadows" concludes an almost 5 year run

1975 - A 3 day National Conference on Indian Water Rights is convened today in Washington,D.C. Representatives from almost 200 tribes will attend the meeting.

1978 - TV show "Dallas" premieres on CBS (as a 5 week mini-series)

1980 - Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st teenager to score 50 goals in a season

1992 - John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos

2000’s

2002 - Israeli forces surround the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem into which armed Palestinians had retreated. A siege ensues.
2004 - Islamist terrorists involved in the 11 March

2006 - Over 60 tornadoes break out, hardest hit is Tennessee with 29 people killed.

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 70’s

Sharon Acker, Canadian  actress is 77

Leon Russell (Claude Russell Bridges), pianist/singer (Carny)  is 71

In their 60’s

Emmylou Harris, country singer (Together Again) is  65

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In their 40’s

Rodney King, Sacramento California, black motorist beaten by LA cops is 47

In their 30’s

Adam Rodriguez, TV actor (CSI) is 37

Remembered for being born on this day

Hans Christian Andersen, Danish author of 150 fairy tales in 1805

Charlemagne, 1st Holy Roman emperor in 742

Buddy Ebsen, Belleville Il, actor (Beverly Hillbillies , Barnaby Jones ) in 1908

Alec Guinness, London England, British actor (Bridge on River Kwai) in  1914

Dabbs Greer, Fairview Mo, actor (Gunsmoke,  Little House on the Prairie ) in 1917

Jack Webb, Santa Monica California, actor (Joe Friday- Dragnet) in 1920

Today’s Obits                                                           

Boudouin I, of Bologne/Edessa, 1st crusader/king of Jerusalem dies of food poisoning at about 60 in 1118

Esther Morris, suffragist and first female American judge dies at 89 in 1902

Georges Pompidou, French president, dies of cancer at 62 in 1974

Richard, 1st Earl of Cornwall, Holy Roman Emperor dies of stroke at 63 in 1272

Tomoyuki Tanaka, producer (Godzilla), dies of a stroke at 86 in 1997

Ray Teal, actor (Sheriff Roy Coffee-Bonanza), dies at 74 in 1976

Pope John Paul II (Karol Józef Wojtyła), Polish Roman Catholic Pope dies at 84 in 2005

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day

Neither, it's a paradox. If the first is true, then the second must be false, which makes the first false; it doesn't work.

NPR Sunday Puzzle

There are other answers that are correct

1.     European countries:

a.      Austria, Russia, Ireland, Estonia, Spain

2.     Old Testament names:

a.      Abraham, Ruth, Isaac, Esther, Sarah

3.     TV sitcoms:

a.      All in the Family, Rhoada, I love Lucy, Ellen Seinfield

4.     Terms related to poetry:

a.      anapest, rhyme, iambic, elegy, sonnet

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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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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.

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