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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1565 - 1st
Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
1805 - US
Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1865 - Cornell
University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
1897 - Grant's
Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
1935 - Brussel's
World Expo opens
1937 - 1st US
social security payment made
1947 - Babe Ruth
Day celebrated at Yankee Stadium & throughout US
1978 - Accident at
nuclear reactor Willow Island, W Virginia, kills 51
1989 - Beijing
students take over Tiananmen Square in China
2006 - Construction
begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City
Free Rambling
Thoughts
Lots of nice gentle rain,
a little snow, more gentle and soaking rain. What a wonderful time in Flag.
I had lunch with our
retirement group. Went to Little America. I had a hot turkey sandwich that had
the thickest sliced turkey I have ever seen on a open face sandwich. NO dinner
tonight, for sure. The waiter left a lot to be desired…but we weren’t in any hurry so that was
tolerable. Mary had great pics of her new grandson…and seemed to have a great two weeks with him
in Chicago. Cheryl is healing very well and was able to drive in to Flag.
What’s this I hear that
poor Mr. Zimmerman, whose attorney is doing the case pro bono has $200K in
internet donations to his defense…and he forgot to tell the
attorney, the judge and possibly his family about that money…Really? How dumb does he think everyone
is?
I just listened to yet
another debate for Flagstaff’s mayor. At this point…I vote for neither…and that’s not on the ballot.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A
close up picture of what?
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NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every answer is a
two-word, rhyming phrase in which both words have three syllables. For example,
given the clue "unexplained circumstance of the past," the answer
would be "history mystery."
1.
Monthly pay for working at an art store:
2.
Better looking guy paying for a kidnapee:
3.
An average amount of boringness:
4.
Chance drawing for some clayware:
5.
Not as neat a Xerox machine:
6.
A more sadistic worker with gems:
7.
Faithfulness to the Crown:
8.
Whoever is the current resident of the White House:
9.
Merriment for average church goers:
Riddle of the day
My thunder comes before
the lightning;
My lightning comes before the clouds;
My rain dries all the land it touches.
My lightning comes before the clouds;
My rain dries all the land it touches.
What am I?
Anagram:
unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s
Index
Number of Afghan army battalions currently able to fight without coalition support: 0
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Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
Four high school boys
afflicted with spring fever skipped morning classes. After lunch they reported
to the teacher that they had a flat tire.
Much to their relief she
smiled and said: "Well, you missed a test today so take seats apart from
one another and take out a piece of paper."
Still smiling, she waited
for them to sit down. Then she said:
"First Question:
Which tire was flat?"
Rules of
Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
With retriever litters, pups seen carrying objects around fairly regularly are best bets.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
At a press conference
Wednesday evening, police said Toledo had been arrested and charged with two
counts of felony mischief, 47 counts of criminal mischief, false reports and
other related offenses.
Police say they questioned
Toledo extensively on April 16, the same day the most recent vandalism was
reported on Aldine and Teesdale Streets as a dozen or so more cars were
targeted.
Toledo has spoken to NBC10
several times since coverage of tire slashings in the area of the 4000 block of
Aldine Street and surrounding roads began to surface in February. The vandalism
dates back even further than that, according to neighbors.
"I hope the cops get
them before the neighbors find out who it is because something bad is going to
happen," Toledo said after some cars were vandalized in mid-March.
"My wife said 'somebody is watching us, watching the cops' because when
they're here nothing happens."
Now police say that it was
Toledo who was causing sleepless nights for neighbors concerned that their cars
would be vandalized while they slept. A town watch was formed and police even
offered a big reward for an arrest in the case.
All along, Toledo, who
lives on Aldine Street, was there speaking out against the vandalism.
"This will be the
last time that you're going to get my car because you will get caught,"
Toledo told NBC10 after just his tires were slashed on March 20. "The
$10,000 reward, I don't want the money, all I want is their hands so I can smash
them so they can never do it again."
It's unclear if Toledo is
responsible for all the area vandalism but police do believe he at least
committed some of the tire slashings on Teesdale, Aldine and Erdrick Streets,
McGinnis said.
Somewhat Useless
Information
A favorite cheerleading
tune, the video for Toni Basil's number one hit song "Mickey"
included real-life cheerleaders. Toni's uniform was real as well; the
"LVH" patch stood for Las Vegas High, where she was on the squad in
the early 1960s.
Many of the stunts
performed in the 2000 film Bring It On, including the fly-overs and the basket
tosses with head-over-heels rotation, are illegal in competitions at the high
school level because of safety concerns.
The first organized chant
that occurred during a football game at Princeton in the 1880s:
Rah, Rah, Rah!
Tiger, Tiger, Tiger!
Sis, Sis, Sis!
Boom, Boom, Boom!
Aaaah! Princeton,
Princeton, Princeton!
The Washington Redskins
cheerleaders are the oldest active cheerleading organization in the NFL. The
First Ladies of Football made their debut as the Redskinettes on September 30,
1962.
Cheerleading was an
all-male sport until World War II summoned the fittest men overseas. When the
war ended, co-ed squads became the norm, as the teams could perform more
dramatic stunts using the lighter-weight female cheerleaders.
The quintessential
cheerleading jump, the Herkie, was invented by and named for Lawrence Herkimer.
Herkimer developed the move, which features the right arm thrust upward and one
leg bent behind, in order to gain more height in his jumps while serving on the
Southern Methodist University cheerleading squad.
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
Arbor Day
Babe Ruth
Day
National
Hairball Awareness Day
Mantanza’s
Mule Day (1st naval action of Spanish
American War)
Morse Code
Day
Tell A Story
Day
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South Africa:
Freedom Day (1994 from apartheid)
Sierra Leone: Independence Day (1961 from UK)
Togo: Independence Day (1960 from France)
Sierra Leone: Independence Day (1961 from UK)
Togo: Independence Day (1960 from France)
Today’s Other Events
1200’s
1296 - Battle of
Dunbar: The Scots are defeated by Edward I of England
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1500’s
1526 - Mogol
King Babur beats sultan of Delhi
1600’s
1650 - The Battle of
Carbisdale: A Royalist army invades mainland Scotland from Orkney Island but is
defeated by a Covenanter army
1667 - The blind
and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10
1700’s
1763: Today, Pontiac will
hold a council with a large group of Ottawa, Wyandot, and Potawatomi Indians.
He will tell them of his plans to attack Fort Detroit. He will extol the
virtues of returning to the old Indian ways, before the coming of the
Europeans.
1800’s
1810 - Beethoven
composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise
1838 - Fire
destroys half of Charleston
1877 - President
Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends
1877: General George Crook
contacts Red Cloud with a message for Crazy Horse. Crook promises that if Crazy
Horse surrenders, he will get a reservation in the Powder River area. On this
date, Red Cloud delivers the message to Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse agrees and
heads to Fort Robinson, in northwestern Nebraska, where he will surrender to
the U.S. Army.
1900’s
1908 - 4th
modern Olympic games opens in London
1941 - German
troops occupy Athens Greece
1946 - 1st radar
installation aboard a commercial ship installed
1950 - South Africa
passes Group Areas Act segregating races
1984 - Over 70
inches of snow falls on Red Lake Montana
1989 - Hurricane in
Bangladesh, kills 500
1990 - 50th
annual barbershop quartet singing convention held (Mich)
2000’s
2005 - The
Superjumbo jet aircraft Airbus A380 makes its first flight from Toulouse,
France
2011 - The
deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado
outbreak, in United States history
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
Jack Klugman,
actor (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus) is 90
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In their 70’s
Judy Carne, Northhampton
Engl, comedienne (Laugh-in, Fair Exchange) is 73
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In their 50’s
Sheena Easton ,
[Shirley Orr], Glasgow Scotland, singer (Sugar Walls) is 53
Remembered for being
born on this day
Sandy Dennis, American
actress in 1937
Ulysses S. Grant, [Hiram],
Ohio (R), 18th president (1869-77) in 1822
Walter Lantz, animator
(Woody Woodpecker's creator) in 1899
Thomas Lewis, Irish-born
Virginia settler in 1718
Samuel Morse, Charlestown,
Massachusetts, American inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter in 1791
Marc-Antoine Parseval,
French mathematician in 1755
George Petty, WWII Pin-Up
Artist in 1894
Today’s Obits
Carlos Castaneda,
Peruvian-born writer dies of cancer in 1998 at 72
Ralph Waldo Emerson, US
poet (Representive Men), dies in 1882 at 78
Al Hirt, American
trumpeter died of liver failure at 76 in 1999 Ferdinand Magellan, world
traveler, killed in 1521 by Filipino natives at 40ish
Julius Sterling Morton,
who started Arbor Day, dies in 1902 at 72
Edward R Murrow,
newscaster (Person to Person), dies of
cancer at 57 in 1965
Zebulon M Pike, US
explorer (Pike's Peak), dies in 1813 in battle at 34
Answers
Brain Game: Close
Up Picture
Riddle of the day
A volcano
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Monthly pay for working at an art store:
a.
gallery salary
2.
Better looking guy paying for a kidnapee:
a.
handsomer ransomer
3.
An average amount of boringness:
a.
medium tedium
4.
Chance drawing for some clayware:
a.
pottery lottery
5.
Not as neat a Xerox machine:
a.
sloppier copier
6.
A more sadistic worker with gems:
a.
crueler jeweler
7.
Faithfulness to the Crown:
a.
loyalty royalty
8.
Whoever is the current resident of the White House:
a.
resident President
9.
Merriment for average church goers:
a.
laity gayety
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for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates
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