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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1862 - Slavery
abolished in District of Columbia
1900 - US Post
Office issues 1st books of postage stamps
1947 - Lens to
provide zoom effects demonstrated (NYC)
1956 - 1st solar
powered radios go on sale
1980 - Arthur
Ashe retires from professional tennis
1987 - Michael
Jordon, becomes 2nd NBA to score 3000 points in a season
Free Rambling
Thoughts
Gotta love Flagstaff.
Yesterday brought almost a foot of very wet snow. Today the sun shone and
almost all the snow is gone. Strange for sure. I’m not complaining because most
of the snow ended up in the ground…there was almost no
run-off. Lots of events around town were
postponed or poorly attended due the weather forecast saying to only travel if
necessary.
I took a short walk this
afternoon…a little chilly but nice
to be out and about. A few shady spotted sidewalks never got shoveled. Lots of
kids and dogs on leashes out playing. Good Sunday
Game
Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A
close up picture of what?
NPR Sunday Puzzle
You are given two
seven-letter words. Rearrange the letters in one of the words to get a synonym
of the other. For example, if the clue is "gratify" and
"eluding," the answer would be "indulge," which is an
anagram of eluding and means gratify. The anagram can be the first or second
word.
1.
Sincere, ingénue:
2.
Witness, verbose:
3.
Relieve, sausage:
4.
Phantom, respect:
5.
Ecstasy toenail:
6.
Donator, twister”:
7.
Eternal, sea legs:
Riddle of the day
Captain is to Private as Master is to
Anagram:
unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s
Index
Number of messages in bottles sent out by one resident of Prince Edward Islnd since 1996: 5,230Number of responses he has received: 3,201
Found on You
Tube
Francisco Goya
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
An elderly couple was in
bed one night and the woman woke up from a bad dream. She was scared and
panicking. Her husband awoke and turned the light on to calm her. He asked what
was wrong.
She said "I had a
dream that I died and you got remarried." she asked him "if I died
tomorrow would you get remarried?"
He said "sure, I
don’t want to spend the rest of my life lonely."
Then she asked "well
would you two live in this house?"
He replied "sure, we
just got finished paying off our mortgage."
She asked again, angry now
"well would she sleep in this bed?"
He snickered and said
"yes, of course, this bed is brand new and expensive, there's no reason to
rid of it."
She asked irately,
"well would she use my golf clubs?"
He replied with a
straight, serious face "no. She's left handed."
Rules of
Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
The circumference of a normal infant's head should equal the distance from the crown of the head to the rump.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
DALLAS - A truck driver whose mother was a
midwife said a baby he helped deliver on the side of a Texas interstate was his
third on-the-job delivery. Michael Hawthorne, a driver for Vineland, N.J.,
company NFI Industries, said he pulled over to check his load on a secluded
stretch of road about 75 miles northwest of Dallas March 27 when Jack Smith ran
over to him from a parked car and told him his wife, Tammy, was in labor and
his cellphone had no service in the area, ABCNews.com reported Wednesday.
"I went ahead, got my bottle of water, gloves and birth kit and took it to
the car," he said. Hawthorne, whose mother and grandmother were midwives,
said he started carrying a "birth kit" in his truck after helping two
other couples deliver roadside babies during the past 13 years. The truck
driver said the healthy baby boy was born just as emergency responders arrived.
"The state police showed up. Meanwhile I am trying to keep the mother
calmed. The mother gave birth. I cleaned it up what I could, wrapped the baby
in a towel," he said. Sidney Brown, chief executive officer of NFI, said
the company is nominating Hawthorne for a third Highway Angel Award, an award
given by the Truckload Carriers Association to truck drivers who display
heroism on the road. "Mike is an extraordinary individual and we're proud
to have him as part of the NFI family," Brown said.
Somewhat Useless
Information
Unlike most other fish, a
shark has no bones! Its skeleton is made of cartilage, a material
somewhat softer and more flexible than bone.
Your kidneys filter fifty gallons of
blood every day, producing about 1.5 liters of urine!
The Flu killed 43,000
American servicemen mobilized for World War I, representing nearly 40 percent
of U.S. military casualties.
Calendar Information
…Happening This
Week:
10-16
Health
Information Privacy and Security Week
National
Animal Control Appreciation Week
14-22
National
Karaoke Week
National
Volunteer Week
National Pet ID Week
National Pet ID Week
National
Paperboard Packaging Week
Today Is
National
Auctioneers Day
National
Eggs Benedict Day
National
Health Care Decisions Day
National
Stress Awareness Day
Record Store
Day
Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day
Teach Your Daughter to Volunteer Day
Today’s Other Events
Before 1000CE
1178 BC - A
solar eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary King of Ithaca,
to his kingdom after the Trojan War
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1071 - Bari
falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy
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1500’s
1528 - Panfilo de Narvaez
sights Indian houses near Tampa Bay, Florida. He will anchor his boats in the
area, today. Seeing Narvaez, the Indians will abandon their village. Narvaez
hold Spanish royal title to the land between the Rio de las Palmas, and the
cape of Florida.
1550: Charles V orders a
stop to Indian land conquests.
1582 - Spanish
conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina
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1700’s
1724 - 1st
Easter observed
1800’s
1854 - San Salvador
destroyed by earthquake
1861 - US
president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states
1862 - US
Confederate Congress calls up all white males (18-35 years)
1881 - In Dodge
City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle
1900’s
1922 - Annie
Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
1935 - 1st radio
broadcast of "Fibber McGee & Molly"
1943 - Dr. Albert
Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD
1962 - Walter
Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
1977 - Alex
Haley finds his Roots in Juffure, Gambia
1986 - To dispel
rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV
2000’s
2003 - The
Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the
European Union
2004 - The super
liner Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first Trans-Atlantic crossing, linking the
golden age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel
2007 - Virginia
Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. The
gunman, Seung-Hui Cho, shoots 32 people to death and injures 23 others before
committing suicide
2008 - Start of
Papal Journey of Pope Benedict XVI to the United States
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Pope Benedict XVI [Joseph
Aloisius Ratzinger], Marktl, Bavaria, Germany is 85
In their 70’s
Bobby Vinton, Pitts Pa,
singer (Roses are Red, Blue on Blue) is 77
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In their 40’s
Jon Cryer actor, (Two
and Half Men) is 47
Martin Lawrence, comedian,
actor is 47
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Remembered for being
born on this day
Edie Adams, Kingston Pa,
Mrs Ernie Kovacs (Murial Cigar), actress in 1925
Charlie Chaplin, (Tramp),
comedian (City Lights)/IBM salesman in 1889
Charles Montagu, 1st Earl
of Halifax, British poet and statesman in 1661
Barry Nelson, American
actor actor (Airport, My Favorite Husband) in 1917
Selena, Texas, Spanish
singer (Grammy-1994) in 1971
Hans Sloane, England,
physician/naturalist/founder (British Museum) in 1660
Dusty Springfield, [Mary
O'Brien], London, vocalist (Growing Pains) in 1939
Peter Ustinov, London,
actor (Death on Nile, Logan's Run, Billy Budd) in 1921
Today’s Obits
Louis de Berquin, French
humanist/reformer/heretic, burned at stake at 49 in 1529
Neville Brand, actor
(Stalag 17), dies of emphysema at 71 in 1992
Jacques Cassini, Fr
astronomer (Discover rings of Saturn), dies at 79 in 1756
Francisco Goya y
Lucientes, Spanish painter/cartoonist, dies at 82 in 1828
David Lean, director (28
academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83 in 1991
Alexis de Tocqueville,
French historian dies at 53 of TB in 1859
Marie [Gresholtz] Tussaud,
maker of wax figures, dies at 88 in 1850
Robert Urich, American
actor dies of synovial cell sarcoma at 55 in 2002
Answers
Brain Game: Close
Up Picture
Riddle of the day
Slave
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Sincere, ingénue:
a.
genuine
2.
Witness, verbose:
a.
observe
3.
Relieve, sausage:
a.
assuaged
4.
Phantom, respect:
a.
specter
5.
Ecstasy toenail:
a.
elation
6.
Donator, twister”:
a.
tornado
7.
Eternal, sea legs:
a.
ageless
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All ‘data’ info is from
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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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