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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
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
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
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
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
In their 60’s
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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
Alec Guinness, London
England, British actor (Bridge on River Kwai) in 1914
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
Anagrams
Disclaimer: All opinions
are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
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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