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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1514 - Copernicus
makes his 1st observations of Saturn
1654 - Jews are
expelled from Brazil
1913 - Panama-Pacific
International Exposition opens in SF
1913 - Sun Yet San
calls for revolt against pres Yuan Shikai in China
1933 - Jewish
students are barred from school in Germany
1957 - Jamestown,
Va 350th Anniversary Festival opens
1971 - Heaviest
rains ever in Bahia district of Brazil, 15" in 24 hrs
1982 - Rod Stewart
is mugged, gunman steals his $50,000 Porsche
1988 - NBA approves
addition of 3rd referee in 1988-89 season
1995 - Coors Field,
opens in Denver, Rockies beat Mets 11-9 in 14 innings
Free Rambling
Thoughts
Strange day in Flag. The
Forest Service is doing a ‘prescribed burn’ just a few miles east of my place.
The notice said smoke may settle in during the night. Well about 10AM, not
night, the smoke was here and stayed all day. Clouds might have been rain
clouds, or might just have been the haze of smoke. The smell has been ‘almost
bearable’. We are promised rain tonight, which will bring all that smoke onto
our vehicles, and all the vegetation. From what I smell and breath, someone
messed up. Oh, did I mention eyes have been burning most of the day. Never seen
anything like this if Flag unless there is a real wildfire. Windows closed,
doors closed, almost ready for wet towels around the door frame…oh memories of college daze. But that was too
keep a smell inside…I have been told.
I had coffee with a Rez
friend and artist this afternoon. He shared some great family and area history
of his homeland…Bitahochee…a small community on the Rez. He’s working by
helping youth and not letting their history be forgotten. Great Job.
SB1070, now we wait…all has been said and done at the Supreme
Court. Now we wait till June for an answer. From the questions today that were
reported in the media…doesn’t sound good for
those against SB1070.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A
close up picture of what?
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NPR Sunday Puzzle
You are given a word. Drop
two letters so that the remaining letters, in order, spell the name of a world
capital. For example, given "backup," the answer would be
"Baku," the capital of Azerbaijan.
1.
Parties:
2.
Clairol:
3.
Delphic:
4.
Heathens:
5.
Accrual:
6.
Tammany:
7.
Mantilla:
Riddle of the day
Take one out and scratch
my head,
I am now black but once was red.
I am now black but once was red.
What am I ?
Anagram:
unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s
Index
Percentage of the vote received by the Pirate Party in Berlin’s Sept. Municipal Election: 8.9
Found on You
Tube
WAX MUSEUM: MADAME TUSSAUDS LONDON
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
Four best friends met at
the hospital since their wives were giving births to their babies. The nurse
comes up to the first man and says, "Congratulations, you got twins."
The man said "How strange, I'm the manager of Minnesota Twins." After
awhile the nurse comes up to the second man and says, "Congratulations,
you got triplets." Man was like "Hmmm, strange I worked as a director
for the "3 musketeers." Finally, the nurse comes up to the third man
and says
"Congratulations, you
got twins x2." Man is happy and says, "Ironic, I work for the hotel
"4 Seasons." All three of them are happy until they see their last
buddy jumping all over the place, cursing God and banging his head on the wall.
They asked him what's wrong and he answered, "What's wrong? I work for
7up"!
Rules of
Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
The half-life of knowledge in medical school is four years. Fifty percent of what you learn as a freshman is obsolete when you graduate.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A
soccer ball swept into the Pacific Ocean in Japan's deadly earthquake and
tsunami in March 2011 has washed ashore in Alaska, its owner confirmed. The
ball was found by David Baxter on the shore of Middleton Island, south of the
Alaskan mainland, the Kyodo news agency reported. His Japanese wife Yumi
translated writing on the ball as messages from Grade 3 school children in 2005
for a 16-year-old high school student in Iwate Prefecture, an inland region in
northern Japan. Kyodo contacted the teenager, Misaki Murakami, who confirmed he
had owned the ball and couldn't find it after the tsunami. There are increasing
amounts of tsunami debris washing ashore in the United States and Canada,
although the bulk of the "debris field" isn't expected to wash ashore
until 2014, oceanographers have said. Last month, in the Gulf of Alaska, the
U.S. Coast Guard sank an abandoned 164-foot Japanese fishing boat cast adrift
by the disaster as it was deemed a hazard to other ships.
Somewhat Useless
Information
Unlike many other fishes,
seahorses swim upright, and their eyes can move independently.
The female seahorses
deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male's pouch, which they are supposed to carry
until fully developed, tiny seahorses are emerged. Seahorses never nurture
their young after birth, leaving them susceptible to predators.
Calendar Information
…Happening This
Week:
19-5/4
Kentucky
Derby Week
20-29
National
Dance Week
21-28
Money Smart
Week
Administrative Professionals Week
National Crime Victims Rights Week
Administrative Professionals Week
National Crime Victims Rights Week
National
Playground Safety Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Preservation
Week
Sky Awareness Week
Week of The Young Child
(Spring) Astronomy Week
Sky Awareness Week
Week of The Young Child
(Spring) Astronomy Week
Safe Kids
Week
24-30
National
Dream Hotline
National Pie Championships
National Pie Championships
Today Is
Audubon Day
Hug An
Australian Day
National
Kids and Pets Day
National
Pretzel Day
Poem In Your
Pocket Day
Richter
Scale Day
Take Our
Daughters & Sons to Work Day
US: Ga,Fl: Confederate
Memorial Day
Tanzania: Union Day
Tanzania: Union Day
Today’s Other Events
Before 1000CE
757 - Paolo
Orsini replaces his brother Pope Stephen II, as Paul I
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1500’s
1564 - William
Shakespeare baptized
1600’s
1655 - Dutch
West Indies Co denies Peter Stuyvesant's desire to exclude Jews from New
Amsterdam
1700’s
1721 - Smallpox
vaccination 1st administrated
1755 - 1st
Russian university opens (Moscow)
1800’s
1872 - Captain Charles
Meinhold, and Troop B, 3rd Cavalry, encounter an Indian war party on the South
Fork of the "Loup" River, Nebraska. A fight ensues, in which, 3
Indians are killed. Scout William F. "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Sergeant
John H. Foley, Privates William Strayer and Leroy Vokes will be given the
Congressional Medal of Honor for "gallantry in action" during this
engagement.
1893 - 1st
Cleveland Board of Park Commissioners forms
1900’s
1906 - A law is passed
which grants the President to pick the Cherokee Chief.
1920 - H Shapley
& H D Curtis hold "great debate" on nature of nebulae
1928 - Madame
Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London
1941 - A
tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
1954 - Nationwide
test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
1959 - Cuba
invades Panama
1976 - Pan Am
begins non-stop flights NYC-Tokyo
1984 - Pres Reagan
visits China
1992 - "Who's
The Boss," final episode after 8 years on ABC TV
1993 - NBC announces
Conan O'Brien to replace David Letterman
1994 - 1st
multi-racial election in South Africa begins [3 days] Dr Nomaza Paintin in NZ
is 1st black South African to vote
2000’s
2005 - Under
international pressure, Syria withdraws the last of its 14,000 troop military
garrison in Lebanon, ending its 29-year military domination of that country
2007 - Queen's
Pier is officially closed by the Hong Kong Government, after a bitter struggle
by conservationists, in order to facilitate land reclamation in Hong Kong's
Central district
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
I.M. Pei, Chinese-born
architect is 95
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In their 70’s
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In their 40’s
Jet Li, Beijing,
Chinese actor and martial artist (Romeo Must Die, Unleashed) is 49
In their 30’s
Channing Tatum, actor
is 32
Tom Welling, actor
is 35
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Remembered for being
born on this day
John James Audubon, Haiti,
bird watcher/artist in 1785
Muhammad (Ù…Øمد بن عبدالله بن عبد المطلب), founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a
sect. Other sources suggest April 20 in 570.
Ma Rainey, [Gertrude
Pridgett], "Mother of the Blues” in 1886
Erminnie Adelle Platt, US,
ethnologist (Iriquois-English Dictionary) in 1836
Charles Richter, Ohio,
Earthquakes seismologist (Richter scale) in 1900
Today’s Obits
William "Count"
Basie, jazz piano great (Swingin' the Blues), dies in 1984 of pancreatic
cancer at 79
John Wilkes Booth,
assassin, is shot dead in 1865 at 26
Wander J de Haas, Dutch
physicist (Einstein-De Haas effect), dies in 1960 at 82
Gypsy Rose Lee,
stripper/actress, dies of lung cancer in 1970 at 59
Charles J Sax, Belgium
musician and father of Adolphe Sax inventor of the saxophone, dies in 1865 at
74
Jack Valenti ,
American political advisor and film executive in 2007 at 85
Simonetta Vespucci,
inspiration of Botticelli in 1476 of TB at 23
Answers
Brain Game: Close
Up Picture
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Riddle of the day
A Match
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Parties: Paris, France
2.
Clairol: Cairo, Egypt
3.
Delphic: Delhi, India
4.
Heathens: Athens
5.
Accrual: Accra, Ghana
6.
Tammany: Amman, Jordon
7.
Mantilla: Manila, Philippines
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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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