4-20 Easter

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 117  / Week: 17 
Today: L 33°…H 60°… Ave. humidity: 59%
     Wind: ave:   9mph; Gusts:  11mph  
     Average Low: 28° Record Low:  8° (1966)
    Average High: 60° Record High:  78° (1989)
     

Quote of the Day

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. Virginia Woolf  

Today’s Historical Highlights

1505 - Jews are expelled from Orange Burgundy

1537: 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 Frederic Handel is buried in Westminster Abbey
1799 - Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1836 - Territory of Wisconsin created
1841 - 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published
1879 - 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London & Cyprus
1902 - Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium chloride
1940 - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia
1977 - Woody Allen's film "Annie Hall" premieres
1999 - Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injured 24 others
2013 - 5 snowboarders are killed by an avalanche in Loveland Pass, CO

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫  

How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below

 

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Happy Easter/Ishtar everyone! Another overcast day…that’s basically two in a row. Last night did bring some a light much needed rain. Only hope these grey clouds decide to dump some more moisture on our very dry mountain town and forest.

After years with Windows 7 learning new quirks of Windows 8.1 is frustrating but I am getting it slowly. I would probably be better if I spent more time on using it, but I still have a life beyond my computer. Guess it will all come eventually. The most frustrating thing so far is the many many pop ups that suggest I upgrade something…I quickly learned that they all lead to commercial sites that try to download crap too. I have a security program and it stops these downloads, but then has to scan the computer to be sure that everything was erased…a good thing…but a little time consuming.

CNN keeps coming up with new ways to show us about the search for the missing plane. For weeks we watched a flight simulator and how the plane changed course, now they have decided to show the underwater recovery of the black box. Even if the box is found, it is a lot like those machines that used to be in kids places, where you put in a dollar and used a grabbing devise to get a stuffed animal. Few got the animal and the grabber seldom worked in the easy way it appeared. I have lost my fascination with the whole thing and really don’t need to hear anymore until the damn plane debris or the damn plane is found.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

My first is simply a vegetable, delicious, round and green.

My third and fourth are sound asleep, as plainly can be seen.

My fifth is fifty, clear enough for any riddle-setter.

Two of my second stacked on their sides will give my final letter.

Now that my second has my parts, fit them together well.

You see me now before your eyes; it's plain for all to tell.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Benny Hill - Australia Bum Dreams

CANTINFLAS

Johnny Tillotson - Poetry In Motion

Luther Vandross - Dance With My Father

OK Then…

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.

Buddy Hackett

Harper’s Index 

Portion of immigrant detainees in the US who are held in privately run prisons: 2/5

Unusual Fact of the Day

Albert Einstein never learned how to drive.           

Joke-of-the-day

The lawyer was cross-examining a witness.

“Isn’t it true, “he bellowed, “that you were I given $500.00 to throw this case?”

The witness did not answer. Instead, he just stared out the window as though he hadn’t heard the question. The attorney repeated himself, again getting the same reaction - no response.

Finally, the judge spoke to the witness, “Please answer the question.”

“Oh,” said the startled witness, “I thought he was talking to you.”

Rules of Thumb:   

TRANSLATING GREEK

If you can't identify a word in a Greek sentence, it is a verb with a prefix. To figure it out, go through the lexicon chopping off one letter from the front at a time.

Yeah, It Really Happened

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (UPI) - A Florida judge was a little surprised when a bailiff announced the name of a man who was appearing in his courtroom on drug possession charges. Edward Cocaine. "What?" Judge John "Jay" Hurley responded. "You know, I'd thought I'd seen it all." Mr. Cocaine explained. "My last name is Cocaine," he said. "My great-grandparents came over here from Greece and they changed it. That was like in the 1920s." "How many times have the police told you to step out of the car during your life?" Hurley asked. "Just about every time I get pulled over," Cocaine replied. The 34-year-old, who was accused of possessing Xanax, was released on his own recognizance.

Somewhat Useless Information   

Inflation-adjusted federal tax revenues hit a record $1,320,793,000,000 in the first half of fiscal 2014, but the federal government still ran a $413,264,000,000 deficit during that time.

If someone reports their company for tax evasion in the U.S., he or she will receive 30 percent of the amount collected.

Calendar Information        

Today Is   

Chinese Language Day

Easter (Christian)
National Equal Pay Day

National Pot Smokers Day                                                                  

Plum Pudding Day

Today’s Events through History  

1606: 1st 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."

1865 - Chicago's Crosby Opera House opens
1974 - Paul McCartney & Wings release single "Band on the Run"
1992 - 100th episode of "Murphy Brown" airs
2008 - Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race.

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Mother Angelica, American nun and broadcaster is 91

George Takei, actor (Sulu-Star Trek) is 77

Johnny Tillotson, singer (Gidget, Poetry in Motion) is 75

Ryan O'Neal, actor (Love Story, Paper Moon) is 73

Jessica Lange, actress (King Kong, Tootsie) is 65

Shemar Moore, actor (Crimnal Minds) is 44

Carmen Electra [Tara Leigh Patrick], model and actress is 42

Joey Lawrence, actor (Blossom) is 38

 

Remembered for being born today

1889-1945 - Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born dictator and Führer of Nazi Germany

1923-2000 - Tito Puente, Puerto Rico, bandleader (Dance Mania)

1924-2008 - Nina Foch, Leiden Netherlands, actress (American in Paris)

1951-2005 - Luther Vandross, rock vocalist (Dance with my Father)

 

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Dorothy Height, American civil rights activist, 2010, @ 98

Cantinflas, [Mario Moreno], Mexican actor (Pepe), 1993, @ 81

George Clinton, 4th US VP, 1st VP to die in office, 1812, @ 72

Benny Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show), heart attack, 1992, @68

Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), stroke, 1912, @64

Pontiac (Obwandiyag), Ottawa chief to Ottawa, murdered, 1769, @ 49ish

Elizabeth Barton, [St Magd van Kent], British prophet, 1534, @ 28ish

Abigail Williams, American accuser in the Salem trials, 1765, @ 17

 

Brain Teasers                                         

Puzzle

My first is simply a vegetable, delicious, round and green. - Pea / P

My third and fourth are sound asleep, as plainly can be seen. - ZZ

My fifth is fifty, clear enough for any riddle-setter. - L (Roman Numeral)

Two of my second on their sides will give my final letter. - E (Take 2 U's and stack them sideways.)

Now that my second has my parts, fit them together well. - Now that YOU (u) have my parts...

You see me now before your eyes; it's plain for all to tell.

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.

§    And That Is All for Now  §