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Today’s Historical Highlights
1751 - 1st American cricket
match is played
1778 - American Revolution: The
Battle of Crooked Billet begins in Hatboro, Pennsylvania
1863 - Battle of
Chancellorsville, VA (29,000 injured or died)
1867 - Howard University
chartered
1883 - "Buffalo Bill"
Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
1889 - Bayer introduces aspirin
in powder form (Germany)
1927 - 1st British airliner to
serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
1979 - Elton John becomes 1st
pop star to perform in Israel
1997 - Tasmania becomes the
last state in Australia to decriminalize homosexuality
Free Rambling
Thoughts
I have decided I have way
too much ‘stuff’ and it is time to get rid of some of it. I want to change the
furniture arrangement in my living room and in the den downstairs. To do this I
have to get rid of some stuff. Maybe tomorrow…then again maybe not.
I was out and about for
much of the morning…lots of errands with good success. The weather really
helped keep me going. This afternoon a friend stopped by, needing help with the
local housing authority. She is trying to get Section 8 housing so she can
continue to live in Flag. Her son works at Sam’s and has two kids as a single
parent—he has Section 8 housing. Her daughter works at a grocery store and
lives with 3 other roommates. She can’t legally live with her son, and there’s
no room at her daughters. She was an aide at the boarding school and doesn’t
get that much in retirement. It’s a very common story for the poor of
Flagstaff. On the Rez it isn’t unusual for three generations to live in the
same house, but here in Flag, if you are getting assistance, that is not
possible, legally. Yesterday’s paper had a lot of space talking about our town’s
‘street alcoholic’ problem…homeless alcoholics, usually from the nearby
reservations. The social service volunteers seemed surprised that when street alcoholics
were given apartments that the Rez relatives moved in the then everyone had to
move out. So many just don’t get the power of a culture.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up
picture of what?
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NPR Sunday Puzzle
Each answer is a familiar
two-word phrase in which the first word ends in R-E and the second word starts
with C. For example, if the clue is "text that comes from the Associated
Press or Reuters," the answer would be "wire copy."
1.
What BC means in a date:
2.
Container for a pirate’s jewels and gold:
3.
Numismatist’s find:
4.
Group in the 2nd year of high school:
5.
French scientist who co-discovered radium:
6.
Rules for building safety in case of conflagration:
7.
Aide for insuring traction on slippery highways:
8.
Pot for making stews and meats quickly:
9.
1980’s pop group led by Boy George:
10.
Item a golfer carries with a pencil:
11.
Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters that you are free to give:
12.
What a thermostat affords:
13.
Grinning animal in Alice in
Wonderland:
Riddle of the day
My voice is tender, my waist is slender and I'm often invited to play. Yet wherever I go I must take my bow or else I have nothing to say. What am I?
Anagram: unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s Index
Returns tomorrow
Found on You Tube
Cheerios, the 'Terribly Adult Cereal' w/Stan Freberg
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
Irving arrived at the
edge of the river, the fisherman soon realized he had forgotten to bring any
bait. Just then he happened to see a little snake passing by who had caught a
worm. The fisherman snatched up the snake and robbed him of his worm. Feeling sorry
for the little snake with no lunch, he snatched him up again and poured a
little beer down his throat. Then he went about his fishing.
An hour or so later the fisherman felt a tug
at his pant leg. Looking down, he saw the same snake with three more worms in
his mouth...
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
If you're fully insured, you will spend two full days doing insurance paperwork to cover seven days in the hospital.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
He had the means and the opportunity, but we
may never know the motive of an 11-year-old student who urinated on a couple
dozen laptops left unattended at Upper Allen Township Elementary in
Pennsylvania.
In a report now bemusing
Mac fan forums across the Internet, the Upper Allen Township Police Department
states that "the cart and computers were damaged beyond repair, resulting
in the loss of over $36,000."
The cart in question
contained approximately 30 school-owned MacBooks, according to a police
department spokesperson I spoke to, who couldn't tell me why the kid did it —
let alone how. Because, c'mon — 30
MacBooks, even stacked, make for a formidable amount of square footage to
cover, especially for a kid.
Nevertheless, all
MacBooks went down as a total loss, and John Brownlee at Cult of Mac educates
us on the likely reason why.
For the crime of creating
$36K in Apple biohazards, the boy in question was charged with institutional
vandalism and criminal mischief. While the police spokesperson assures me that,
contrary to some reports, the kid was not arrested, his case was forwarded to
the Cumberland County Juvenile Probation Department.
Somewhat Useless
Information
It took two jolts of
electricity to kill convicted murderer Frank J. Coppola when he was executed by
electrocution in 1982, the second of which caused Coppola's head and leg to
catch fire.
When Jimmy Lee Gray was
executed by asphyxiation in 1983 for murder in a three-year-old girl, his gasps
for air were so desperate, authorities cleared the room of witnesses. His
lawyer reports that he died banging his head against a steel pole in the gas chamber.
Calendar Information
…Happening This Month:
A
ALS (Lou Gehrig's Disease) Awareness
Month
American Wetlands Month
Arthritis Awareness Month
Asian American & Pacific
Islander Heritage Month
Awareness of Medical Orphans Month
B
Better Hearing & Speech Month
Borderline Personality Disorder
Month
Brain Tumor Awareness Month
C
Carrots and Cauliflower
Celiac Awareness Month
Clean Air Month
Creative Beginnings Month
E
EcoDriving Month
F
Family Wellness Month
Fibromyalgia Education and
Awareness Month
Freedom Shrine Month
G
Get Caught Reading Month
Gifts From The Garden Month
Go Fetch! Food Drive for Homeless
Animals Month
Grapefruit and Kiwi Month
H
Haitian Heritage Month
Heal the Children Month
Healthy Vision Month
Huntington's Disease Awareness
Month
I
International Audit Month
International Business Image
Improvement Month
International Civility Awareness
Month
International Victorious Woman
Month
J
Jewish-American Heritage Month
L
Latino Books Month
Lupus Awareness Month
M
Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection
& Prevention Month
Motorcycle Safety Month
N
National Allergy/Asthma Awareness
Month
National Barbeque Month
National Better Hearing Month
National Bike Month
National Egg Month
National Family Month
National Foster Care Month
National Good Car Keeping Month
National Hamburger Month
National Hepatitis Awareness Month
National Inventors Month
Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month
(aka NF Month)
National Meditation Month
National Mediterranean Diet Month
National Mental Health Month
National Military Appreciation
Month
National Moving Month
National Osteoporosis Prevention
Month
National Photo Month
National Physical Fitness &
Sports Month
National Physiotherapy Month
National Preservation Month
National Salad Month
National Salsa (the food) Month
National Smile Month
National Stroke Awareness Month
National Vinegar Month
National Youth Traffic Safety
Month
Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month
T
Toxic Encephalopathy and Chemical
Injury Awareness Month Link
O
Older Americans Month
P
Personal History Month
Potatoes and Limes Month
R
React Month
Revise Your Work Schedule Month
S
Skin Cancer Awareness Month
Strike Out Strokes Month
Sweet Vidalia Onions Month
T
Tay-Sachs and Canavan Diseases Month
Teen CEO Month
Tennis Month
U
Ultra-violet Awareness Month
W
(World) Lyme Disease Awareness
Month
Women's Health Care Month
Y
Young Achievers of Tomorrow Month
…Happening This Week:
Apr 19-5/4
Kentucky Derby Week
1-7
Bread Pudding Recipe Exchange Week
Update Your References Week
Today Is
Amtrak Day
Batman Day
Childhood Depression Awareness Day
Executive Coaching Day
Keep Kids Alive - Drive 25 Day
Labor Day (Most of the World)
Law Day USA
Lei Day 1928 -(a Hawaiian celebration)
Labor Day (Most of the World)
Law Day USA
Lei Day 1928 -(a Hawaiian celebration)
Loyalty Day
May Day
Mother Goose Day
May Day
Mother Goose Day
National Dance Day
National Infertility Survival Day
New Homeowner's Day
National Infertility Survival Day
New Homeowner's Day
Save The Rhino Day
School Principal's Day
Stepmothers Day
Stepmothers Day
Festival of Saint Efisio (Italy)
International Labor Day (Russia)
Yom Hashoah- Holocaust Day (Israel)
Today’s Other Events
Pulitzer Prize Awards today to
Americans
1944 - Pulitzer prize awarded
to Martin Flavin (Journey in the dark)
1961 - Pulitzer prize awarded
to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1950 - Pulitzer prize awarded
to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific)
1000’s
1006 - Supernova observed by
Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
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1300’s
1328 - Wars of Scottish
Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - the Kingdom of England recognizes
the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state
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1600’s
1637 - After numerous
incidents, and incursions on both sides, English settlers in Connecticut
declare war on the Pequot Indians. Most of the fighting takes places in
Connecticut and Massachusetts.
1682 - Louis XIV & his
court inaugurates Paris Observatory
1700’s
1704 - Boston Newsletter
publishes 1st newspaper ad
1753 - Publication of Species
Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant taxonomy adopted by the
International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
1800’s
1833 - A census of the
Creek upper towns shows 14,142 people, including 445 Negro slaves.
1840 - 1st adhesive postage
stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1841 - 1st emigrant wagon train
leaves Independence, Missouri for Calif
1863 - Confederate congress passed resolution to
kill black soldiers
1866 - American Equal Rights
Association
forms
1873 - 1st US postal card
issued
1883 - Amsterdam World's Fair
opens
1884 - Construction begins on
Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
1892 - US Quarantine Station
opens on Angel Island, SF Bay
1898 - George Dewey commands,
"You may fire when you are ready, Gridley" as US route Spanish fleet
at Manila1901 - Herb McFarland hit 1st
grand slam in American League
1900’s
1908 - World's most intense
shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo Panama
1931 - Singer Kate Smith begins
her long-running radio program on CBS
1939 - Batman comics hit street
1939 - Pulitzer Prize awarded
to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
1940 - The 1940 Olympics are
cancelled
1941 - General Mills introduces Cheerios
1948 - North Korean proclaims
itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea
1950 - Mayor of Brussels
reluctantly bans May Day parade
1960 - Pancho Gonzalez retires
from tennis
1961 - 1st US airplane hijacked
to Cuba
1963 - 1st American (James Whittaker)
conquers Mount Everest
1971 - Amtrak Railroad begins
operation
1989 - US Supreme Court rules
employees have legal burden to prove non- discriminatory reasons for not hiring
or promoting
1994 - Charles Kuralt, retires
as CBS newsman (On the Road)
1997 - Toni Blair elected PM of
UK
2000’s
2003 - 2003
invasion of Iraq: In what becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished"
speech, U.S. President George W. Bush declares that "major combat
operations in Iraq have ended" on board the USS Abraham Lincoln off the
coast of California
2004 - Cyprus,
Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia,
and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish
President in Dublin
2007 - The Los
Angeles May Day mêlée occurs, in which the Los Angeles Police Department's
response to a May Day pro-immigration rally become a matter of controversy2009 - Same-sex
marriage is legalized in Sweden
2010 - Car bomb
fails to go off in Times Square, New York City2011 - Pope John Paul
II is beatified by his successor, Pope Benedict XVI
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Sonny James, [James
Loden], Hackelburg AL, rocker (Young Love) is 83
Malcolm Scott Carpenter,
Boulder Colo, astronaut (Mercury 7-Aurora 7) is 87
In their 70’s
In their 60’s
John Woo, Hong Kong
director
is 66
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In their 40’s
Remembered for being born on this day
Calamity [Martha] Jane
[Burke], frontier adventurer/Indian fighter in 1852
Ethel Jane Cain, original
UK Speaking Clock voice in 1909
Glenn Ford, Quebec
Canada, actor (Cade's County, Big Heat, Midway) in 1916
Kamehameha I, King of
Hawaii (1782-1819) in 1738
Louis Nye, American
comedian and actor in 1913
Jack Paar, Canton Ohio,
American television host of the Jack Paar Show in 1918
Max Robinson, Richmond
Virginia, American broadcast journalistr (ABC Evening News) in 1939
Today’s Obits
Isabella of Portugal,
queen of Spain and empress of Germany dies in childbirth in 1539 at 36
Spike Jones, composer
(Spike Jones Show), dies of emphysema in
1965 at 53
David Livingstone,
British physician/explorer (Africa), dies of malaria in 1873 at 60
[Edith] Matilda of Scotland, first wife of
Henry I of England dies in 1118 at 38
Gene Sheldon, actor
(Bernardo-Zorro), dies of heart attack in 1982 at 72
Bebe, AKA Flipper,
dolphin, dies in 1997 at 40
Eldridge Cleaver,
American activist in 1998 of prostate cancer at 62
Answers
Brain Game: Close Up
Picture
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Riddle of the day
A violin
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
What BC means in a date:
a.
before Christ
2.
Container for a pirate’s jewels and gold:
a.
treasure chest
3.
Numismatist’s find:
a.
rare coin
4.
Group in the 2nd year of high school:
a.
sophomore class
5.
French scientist who co-discovered radium:
a.
Pierre Currie
6.
Rules for building safety in case of conflagration:
a.
fire code
7.
Aide for insuring traction on slippery highways:
a.
tire chains
8.
Pot for making stews and meats quickly:
a.
pressure cooker
9.
1980’s pop group led by Boy George:
a.
Culture Club
10.
Item a golfer carries with a pencil:
a.
score card
11.
Pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters that you are free to give:
a.
spare change
12.
What a thermostat affords:
a.
temperature control
13.
Grinning animal in Alice in
Wonderland:
a.
Cheshire cat
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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