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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1537- Hernado de Soto
receives royal permission to "conquer, pacify, and people" the land
from Rio de las Palmas to Cape Fear (Florida) on the Atlantic
1759 - George
Frideric Handel is buried in Westminster Abbey
1841 - 1st
detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published
1879 - 1st
mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus
1898 - US Assay
Office in Deadwood, South Dakota opens
1914 - 33 killed by
soldiers during mine strike in Ludlow, Colo
1940 - 1st
electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia
1985 - ATF raid on
The Covenant, The Sword, and the Arm of the Lord compound in northern Arkansas
1986 - Michael
Jordan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game
1999 - Columbine
High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure
24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School located in
Jefferson County, Colorado
Free Rambling
Thoughts
Another beautiful and warm
day here in Flagstaff. So nice to be able to open windows and doors again
without freezing or wasting precious energy. Today was such a beautiful day; I did little
work…so tomorrow will be busy.
Cheryl called and her eye
surgery went well. She is back in Williams with a purple/black eye, but feeling
that everything was a success. Surgery is always a little scary, and when it is
on your eye…that simply increases the
fear. Her son is staying until Saturday before going back to CA, so she is in
good hands.
Game Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A
close up picture of what?
NPR Sunday Puzzle
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Riddle of the day
Three people check into a
hotel. They pay $30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly
remembers that the room rate is $25 and gives $5 to the bellboy to return to
the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that $5 would be difficult
to share among three people so he pockets $2 and gives $1 to each person. Now
each person paid $10 and got back $1. So they paid $9 each, totaling $27. The
bellboy has $2, totaling $29. Where is the missing $1?
Anagram:
unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s
Index
Two of the new codes for
medical insurance payment: W5803XA is for ‘crushed by an alligator, initial
encounter’ and W5803XS is for ‘crushed by alligator, subsequent encounter
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Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
A guy was driving when a
policeman pulled him over. He rolled down his window and said to the officer,
"Is there a problem, Officer?"
"No problem at all. I just observed your
safe driving and am pleased to award you a $5,000 Safe Driver Award.
Congratulations. What do you think you're going to do with the money?"
The driver thought for a minute and said,
"Well, I guess I'll go get that drivers' license." The lady sitting
in the passenger seat said to the policeman, "Oh, don't pay attention to
him - he's a smart butt when he's drunk and stoned." The guy from the back
seat said, "I TOLD you guys we wouldn't get far in a stolen car!"
At that moment, there was a knock from the
trunk and a muffled voice said, "Are we over the border yet?"
Rules of
Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
If you're playing cards in
any gambling game for over 20 minutes and have not figured out who the patsy at
the table is, then it's you.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
ISTANBUL, Turkey - Turkish
officials said they have put a three-month suspension on a controversial TV ad
using images of Adolf Hitler to sell shampoo. The Turkish Industry Ministry's
advertising commission decided last week to suspend the advertisement by
shampoo brand Biomen due to concerns about gender discrimination and racist
sentiments in the commercial, Today's Zaman reported Monday. The commercial
features footage of Hitler delivering a speech with subtitles giving a made-up
translation to sell the "100 percent male shampoo." "If you are
not wearing a woman's dress, you should not use her shampoo, either," the
subtitles read.
Somewhat Useless
Information
Producer Hal Roach worked
with scores of legendary comedians including Laurel and Hardy, the Our Gang
kids, and Abbott and Costello. He outlived most of them, too, before he passed
away in 1992 at the age of 100.
After being forced to give
up embroidery due to arthritis pain, Anna Mary "Grandma" Moses took
to painting in the 1930s when she was in her seventies. Far from being at the
end of her career, Moses' continued work earned her near-universal praise. She
published an autobiography at age 91 and passed away a decade later.
Amos Alonzo Stagg
revolutionized the game of football, bringing innovations ranging from helmets
to huddles. The charter member of the College Football Hall of Fame finally
found his way to the end zone in 1965. He was 102.
Bob Hope was five years
old when his family emigrated from England and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. He
performed USO shows for 50 years, beginning in World War II and continuing
through the Persian Gulf War. Hope passed away in 2003, just a few weeks after
topping the century mark.
Born Isadore Baline,
songwriter Irving Berlin adopted his new name after it was misprinted that way
on the first sheet music he ever published. The man behind legendary songs like
"White Christmas" and "God Bless America" was 101 when he died
in 1989.
While many members of the
Kennedy clan were lost in the prime of their lives, the matriarch of the family
- Rose Kennedy - lived to the ripe old age of 104. She survived her husband
Joe; sons Joe Jr., John and Robert; and daughter Kathleen.
Calendar Information
…Happening This
Week:
14-22
National
Karaoke Week
National
Volunteer Week
National Pet ID Week
National Pet ID Week
National
Paperboard Packaging Week
18-23
Cleaning For
A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
International Whistlers Week
Consumer Awareness Week
International Whistlers Week
Police
Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
19-5/4
Kentucky
Derby Week
20-29
National
Dance Week
20-22
National
& Global Youth Service Days
Today Is
DNA Day
Husband
Appreciation Day
Look Alike
Day
National Day
of Silence
National
Equal Pay Day
National Pot
Smokers Day
Today’s Other Events
Before 1000CE
295 - 8th
recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
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1500’s
1505 - Jews are
expelled from Orange Burgandy by Philibert of Luxembourg
1600’s
1606 - According to the
first charter of Virginia, issued today, part of the colonists goals are to
civilize the natives. "...and may in time bring the infidels and savages,
living in those parts, to human civility."
1700’s
1777 - New York
adopts new constitution as an independent state
1799 - Napoleon
issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1800’s
1828 - René
Caillié is first non-Muslim to enter Timbuktu
1836 - Territory
of Wisconsin created
1853 - Harriet
Tubman starts Underground Railroad
1871 - 3rd
Enforcement Act (President can suspend writ of habeas corpus)
1888 - 246
reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
1900’s
1902 - Marie
& Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium chloride
1910 - Halley's
Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1920 - 7th
modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp Belgium
1920 - Tornadoes
kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
1946 - 50th Boston
Marathon won by Stylianos Kyriakides of Greece in 2:29:27
1949 - Jockey
Bill Shoemaker wins his 1st race, in Albany, California
1962 - New Orleans
Citizens Co gives free 1-way ride to blacks to move North
1968 - Pierre Elliott
Trudeau sworn-in as Canada's PM
1971 - Barbra
Streisand records "We've Only Just Begun"
1971 - US Supreme
Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
1981 - Final
performance of TV show "Soap" airs
1993 - Uranus
passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
2000’s
2007 - Johnson
Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA's
Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and
himself
2008 - Danica
Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to
win an Indy car race
2010 - Deepwater
Horizon drilling rig explosion kills 11 and causes rig to sink, initiating a
massive oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
John Paul Stevens,
Illinois, 103rd Supreme Court Justice is 92
In their 80’s
Mother Angelica, American
nun and broadcaster is 89
In their 70’s
George Takei, LA
California, actor (Sulu-Star Trek, Green Berets) is 75
In their 60’s
Jessica
Lange, Cloquet Minnesota, actress (King Kong, Tootsie) will be 63
Andrew Tobias, American
journalist and author, treasurer of the Democratic National Committee is 65
Remembered for being
born on this day
Princess Beatrice of
Edinburgh and Saxe-Coburg and Gotha in 1884
Adolph Hitler, Braunau,
Austria, dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany (1936-45) in 1889
Charles Plumier, French
botanist in 1646
Alan Reed, actor/voice
(Fred Allen Show, Fred Flintstone) in 1907
Today’s Obits
Cantinflas, [Mario
Moreno], Mexican actor (Pepe), dies at 81 in 1993
Chief Pontiac, an Ottawa,
murdered at 49 in 1769
George Clinton, 4th US VP,
dies at 73 1st VP to, dies at 72 in office in 1812
Benny Hill, comedian
(Benny Hill Show), dies of a heart attack at 67 in 1992
Bram Stoker, Irish theater
manager/writer (Dracula), dies of
stroke/syphilis at 64 in 1912
Answers
Brain Game: Close
Up Picture
Riddle of the day
We have to be careful what
we are adding together. Originally, they paid $30, they each received back $1,
thus they now have only paid $27. Of this $27, $25 went to the manager for the
room and $2 went to the bellboy.
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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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