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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1808 - John Jacob
Astor incorporates the American Fur Company
1868 - Brigham Young
marries his 27th & final wife
1869 - 1st plastic,
Celluloid, patented
1889 - George
Eastman places Kodak Camera on sale for 1st time
1906 - 1st animated
cartoon copyrighted
1925 - 1st film
shown on an airplane (British Air)
1930 - Hostess
Twinkies invented by bakery executive James Dewar
1938 - Teflon
invented by Roy J Plunkett
1954 - TV Dinner was
1st put on sale by Swanson & Sons
1957 - NYC ends
trolley car service
1980 - Post It
Notes, introduced
1992 - Serbian
troops begin siege of Sarajevo
Free Rambling
Thoughts
Another Fire Warning today…I’m not sure if the NWS has changed it
notification from Red Flag to Fire Warning. I checked around but couldn’t find
anything. Whatever you call it, we have low humidity and high winds. There was
a small fire in the forest today, quickly put out by our alert FPD and Forest
Service…it was a campfire of a
transient. Really, a campfire, in the middle of the afternoon on a windy day?
They think they have the fire starter. As I was out and about today, I found an
truck with one of those ladder cages that rises up, changing a street light. Not
a job I would want on such a windy day. I did get a lot done, even with the
wind. Such is life in Flagstaff in the spring.
Some good news: Mary, from
the retirement group, went to my tax guy and really liked him and the service…said it was the best, and fastest tax session
they ever had. I so hate to recommend people to friends..it doesn’t always turn
out this well. Then Mary told me that she went to AT&T with her phone. She told
them the problem and ended with ‘what are you going to do to fix this?’ The guy
offered her a new phone for a couple of hundred dollars. She said that didn’t
fix the problem and just cost her money. The manager was called in…long story short, she got a new phone, just
like the one she bought a couple of months ago.
She is happy. Gotta stand up to these corporations.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A
close up picture of what?
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every clue is an anagram
for the name of a Shakespeare character. For example, given, "real,"
the answer would be "Lear."
1.
Moore:
2.
Pairs:
3.
Ailer:
4.
Anger:
5.
Thelma:
6.
Ascare:
7.
Tropia:
8.
Stealer:
9.
Proposer:
10.
Ancestral:
Riddle of the day
What year comes next in
this sequence: 1973 1979 1987 1993 1997 1999
Anagram:
unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s
Index
Chances that a school has lowered its proficiency standards to inflate test scores since 2005: 1 in 2
Found on You
Tube
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
A man hasn't been feeling
well, so he goes to his doctor for a complete checkup. Afterward, the doctor
comes out with the results.
"I'm afraid I have
some very bad news," the doctor says. "You're dying, and you don't
have much time left."
"Oh, that's
terrible!" says the man. "Give it to me straight, Doc. How long have
I got?"
"Ten," the
doctor says sadly.
"Ten?" the man
asks. "Ten what? Months? Weeks? What?!"
"Nine..."
Rules of
Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
There is no such thing as a minor accident on a motorcycle.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
NEW YORK - A car that hit
a guardrail on a New York road was photographed with a bumper sticker
proclaiming the motorist is the only good driver "on the planet." The
car, which was smashed on its front end and flipped over after colliding with the
guardrail in a northbound lane of the FDR Drive at 9 a.m. Sunday, was
photographed bearing a bumper sticker reading, "Why am I the only one on
the planet who knows how to drive?" the New York Post reported Monday.
Police said the male driver, who was alone in the car, was taken to Weill
Cornell Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries.
Somewhat Useless Information
The three smallest bones
in the human body are found in the middle ear: the malleus, the incus, and the
stapes.
Wrist fractures are the
most common broken bone injury in people under the age of 75. After that, the
hip moves into first place.
Infants are born with up
to 300 "soft" bones, many of which harden and fuse together as the
baby grows. As an adult, a typical human adult's body contains 206 bones.
Stuntman Evil Knievel
earned a place in the record books by having broken 35 bones during his career.
He's suffered more than a dozen surgeries to repair them, including one to
rebuild his pelvis after he shattered it during a motorcycle jump attempt in
1967.
The tingling you feel when
you hit your "funny bone" occurs when the ulnar nerve hits the
humerus bone in the arm. It's uncertain whether the "funny bone"
nickname came about due to the strange sensation, the name of the bone itself,
or both.
Men and women have the
same number of ribs: 24. Fourteen true ribs connect to the spine and the
sternum, six false ribs connect to the spine and the bottom true rib, and four
floating ribs connect only to the spine.
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
4-10
Hate
Week
Today Is
Army
Day
Drowsy
Driver Awareness Day
Hospital
Admitting Clerks Day
National
Day of Hope
National
Student Athlete Day
National
Walk To Work Day
New
Beers Eve
Tartan
Day
National
Tartan Day honors and celebrates Scottish culture and the role it has played in
the development of the United States. Canada has been celebrating Tartan Day
since 1993 and the U.S. Senate officially passed it into law in 1998.
There
are three groups of people that came from Scotland to America -- the Lowland
Scotts, the Highland Scotts, and the Scotch-Irish. Each of these groups has
influenced American culture. They've passed on Scottish last names, introduced
the sport of golf, shared the sounds of the bagpipes, and made tartan a fashion
staple!
Tartan
is a crisscrossed pattern of horizontal and vertical bands woven into cloth. It
is made by weaving colored threads at right angles to each other. The Dress Act
of 1746 attempted to ban tartan and other aspects of Gaelic culture in order to
bring people under tighter government control. The law was repealed in 1782 and
tartan became symbolic as the national dress of Scotland.
Teflon
Day
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Good
Friday for Western World Christians
Passover
begins at sunset for Jewish
The
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Day
Today’s Other Events
Before 1000CE
46 BC - Julius Caesar
defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) in
the battle of Thapsus
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1300’s
1320 - The Scots
reaffirm their independence by signing the Declaration of Arbroath
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1600’s
1672 - France
declares war on Netherlands
1700’s
1789 - 1st US
Congress begins regular sessions, Federal Hall, NYC
1792 – Chickamauga Chief
Captain Bench, and followers, will attack settlements near Holston. After
killing 4 people, he will leave a declaration of war beside the bodies. A
former friend to Europeans, the death of his great uncle, Old Tassel, at the
hands of whites, turned his heart to war.
1800’s
1862 - Battle of
Shiloh, Union defeats Confederacy in SW Tennessee
1886 - City of
Vancouver BC incorporated
1875 - Black Horse in one
of several Southern Cheyenne being sent to prison from the Cheyenne and Arapaho
Agency (later called Fort Reno) in west-central Indian Territory, to St.
Augustine, Florida, for his part in the uprisings in Indian Territory, and
Texas. While handcuffed, he attempts to escape into the rest of his tribe. He
is pursued, and mortally wounded, by the Army guards under Captain Andrew
Bennett, 5th Infantry
1896 - 1st modern
Olympic games open in Athens Greece [3/25 OS] American, James Connolly, wins
1st Olympic gold medal in mod history
1900’s
1909 - North Pole
reached by Americans Robert Peary & Matthew Henson
1947 - The first
Tony Awards are presented for theatrical achievements
1976 - 1st
quadrophonic movie track: "Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling Stones"
1982 - Largest crowd
ever to see a baseball game in Minn 52,279
1984 - 1st time 11
people in space
1994 - Liberal
Supreme Court Justice Blackmun (Roe v Wade) resigns
2000’s
2004 - Rolandas
Paksas becomes the first president of Lithuania to be peacefully removed from
the post by impeachment
2005 - Kurdish
leader Jalal Talabani becomes the Iraqi president; Shiite Arab Ibrahim
al-Jaafari is named premier the next day
2006 - NZSL (New
Zealand sign language) is made an official language of New Zealand
2009 - A 6.3
magnitude earthquake strikes near L'Aquila, Italy, killing at least 253
Today’s Birthdays
In their 70’s
Roy Thinnes, actor (Invaders, Falcon Crest, Gen Hospital)
is 74
Merle Haggard, Bakersfield
California, country singer (Death Valley Days) is 75
James Dewey Watson,
chemist (co-discovered structure of DNA) is 74
Billy Dee Williams, Harlem
NYC, actor (Chiefs, Empire Strikes Back) is 75
In their 60’s
Marilu Henner, actress (Taxi, Man Who Loved Women, Eve
Shade) is 60
John Ratzenberger,
Bridgeport Ct, actor (Cliff Clavin-Cheers) is 65
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In their 40’s
Paul Rudd, American actor (Clueless, The 40-Year-Old Virgin)
is 43
In their 30’s
Zach Braff, actor (Scrubs) is 37
Tim Hasselbeck, American
football player is 34
Remembered for being
born on this day
Ivan Dixon, NYC, actor
(Car Wash, Hogan's Heroes) in 1931
Philip Gosse, intentor of
institutional aquarium, writer (Omphalos) in 1810
James Mill, Scotland,
philosopher/historian (Hist of British India) in 1773Jean- Gustave
Moreau, French painter in 1826
Baptiste Rousseau, French
playwright/poet (Sacred Odes & Songs) in 1671
Raphael Sanzio, Italian
painter/master builder (Madonna Sistina) in 1483
Today’s Obits
Bobby Hutton, US Black
Panther leader, shot to death at 17 in 1968
Wilma Mankiller,
Native-American activist, chief of the Cherokee Nation dies of pancreatic
cancer at 64 in 2010
Raphael [Sanzio], artist
(Sistine Madonna), dies on his 37th birthday of fever in 1520
Richard I, the
Lion-hearted, King of England (1189-99), dies of gangrene at 41 in 1199
Tammy Wynette, American
singer dies of blood clot at 55 in 1998
Answers
Brain Game: Close
Up Picture
Riddle of the day
2003:
they are prime years
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Moore:
a.
Romeo
2.
Pairs:
a.
Paris
3.
Ailer:
a.
Ariel
4.
Anger:
a.
Regan
5.
Thelma:
a.
Hamlet
6.
Ascare:
a.
Ceasar
7.
Tropia:
a.
Portia
8.
Stealer:
a.
Leartes
9.
Proposer:
a.
Prospero
10.
Ancestral:
a.
Lancaster
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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