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Almanac: Week: 14 \ Day: 092
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 64°\L 37° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 27mph [wind advisory]
Ave. High: 55° Record High: 72°
(1966) Ave. Low: 25° Record
Low: -2° (1975)
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Observances Today:
Autism Day
International Children's
Book Day
National Ferret Day
National Love Your Produce
Manager Day
National Peanut Butter and
Jelly Day
Reconciliation Day World
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Observances This Week:
1-7
The APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1513 - Florida
discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon
1792 - The
Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint and
authorizing the $10
Eagle, $5 half-Eagle & 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins & silver dollar, ½
dollar, quarter, dime & half-dime
1819 - 1st
successful agricultural journal ("American Farmer") begins
1827 - Joseph
Dixon begins manufacturing lead pencils
1866 - US
President Johnson ends civil war in Ala, Ark, Fla, Ga, Miss, La, NC,
SC, Tn & Va
1877 - 1st
Easter egg roll held on White House lawn
1902 - 1st
motion picture theater opens (LA) "Electric Theatre"
1917 - Jeannette
Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) begins her term as 1st woman House of Reps
1917 - US President
Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1921 - Albert
Einstein lectures in NYC on his new "Theory of Relativity"
1932 - Charles
Lindbergh turns over $50,000 as ransom for kidnapped son
1935 - Mary
Hirsch, becomes 1st woman licensed as a horse trainer
1955 - Pancho
Gonzales retains tennis title by winning a tournament playing
under table tennis
rules
1968 - Stanley
Kubrick's "2001: A Spacey Odyssey" is released
1969 - Milwaukee
Bucks sign (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor)
1975 - A 3 day
National Conference on Indian Water Rights is convened today
in D.C.
Representatives from almost 200 tribes will attend the meeting.
1977 - Fleetwood
Mac's "Rumours" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks
1978 - Velcro was
1st put on the market
1986 - NYC Mayor Ed Koch signs
& brings the Gay Rights Bill into effect
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Today’s World Events through History
1801 - Napoleonic
Wars: naval Battle of Copenhagen - The British
led by Horatio
Nelson destroy the Danish fleet.
1884 - London
prison for debtors closed
1905 - Cairo-Capetown
railway opens
1960 - Cuba
buys oil from USSR
1966 - Soviet
Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon
1970 - Qatar gains
independence from Britain
2013 - Uruguay
passes legislation to legalize same-sex marriage
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
I’m an old fashioned type guy…when I retired—8years ago—is signed
up for internet here. I got a lifetime price guarantee for the price. I have
been on the internet long before that…I remember dial up with all the noise
when connected. Times have changed. I checked with Centurylink and Suddenlink
and found the best deal at Centurylink. So starting Friday I will have a new
modem and 40mb internet. Right now I have 1.2mb. It will cost a little more,
but the slow speed I have now makes Netflix and certain webpages very long
times to load. It was time. I hate giving up the lifetime price guarantee, but it
was just too slow. As expected, the new modem I got about 6 months ago is not
new enough for the high speed. While I took the fastest available here, some
cities have 1gb speed. That makes my 1.2mb laughable.
It is pretty windy here today, raising the fire danger even higher.
A couple of small fires in the past few days remind us here in the
high-mountain desert that fire and dry forest or dry grass do not mix.
Thankfully, so far, our fire department and forest service personnel have kept
the damage to a minimum.
Sick of politics…’Religious Freedom Bills’…are popping up around
the country. I have to ask all these Christian-claiming legislators: WWJD?
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Complete
the words below using three consecutive letters in alphabetical order, e.g. _ _
A _ U S; add A B and C it would become ABACUS.
1. _ _ R _ E S,
2. D O _ I _ _,
3. _ R A _ I _,
4. _ O U _ _ T,
5. _ _ A _ U E,
6. _ A Y _ A _.
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
Returns tomorrow
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…Author
Fact…
~ Author Ian McEwan helped his son write his A-level English exam
about one of his own novels, Enduring Love. The teacher disagreed with his
interpretation.
…Education
Facts…
~ In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days
(up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.
~ Japanese schools do not have proms.
~ The founder of McDonald's has a Bachelor degree in
Hamburgerology.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
~Coasting on Observatory Hill is taking its toll, with skinned
hands, faces and sore bodies. Eleanor Greenlaw broke a limb in a collision,
Albert Dennis has a ragged wound above his kneecap and John Kennedy was knocked
out for some time. The element of speed is very enticing to young America and
shatters the nerves of Old America looking on. Banking the edges of the runs
could eliminate the sled tree-climbing events.
~ During the winter, Babbitt Bros. ships several tons of flour and
groceries to Payson and Pine by Parcel Post! During the summer months, long
strips of freight trains come up from Payson freighting goods to that railroad
point. Then traffic stops in the winter. Parcel Post relieves this condition
and keeps this market open during the winter months. Mail goes to Globe by
rail, then on to Payson by mail carrier.
~ M. N. Perkins and Ben J. Perkins of Williams came in from their
winter camp in the lower country on Wednesday reporting there is lots of both
rain and snow there.
~ Leave address at “Phone 75” for all transfer of baggage and
express. D. S. Lewis.
~ A series of earthquakes shook the county northeast of the
mountain this week. Paul Mitchellback says the shock threw things off the
shelves, turned over his stove, and threw him out of his bunk. It lasted for
several minutes but did not open the earth. This same area experienced shocks
several years ago as well.
~ No. 7 now carries a Sleeper, which you may board at 8:05 p.m.
here in Flagstaff and get up in the morning in Phoenix without having to
transfer. Hereafter, No. 3 Westbound will not carry passengers, given the
accommodation offered by No. 7.
Louis Benedict, up from Cordes, says weather conditions on the
range in his section shows a good prospect for lambing.
…Harper’s
Index…
8/28/14: date of
which Apple’s market capitalization first exceeded that of the Russian stock
market
…Language
Facts…
~ The Chief Translator for the European Parliament can speak 32
different languages fluently.
~ Before WWI, German Was the 2nd Most Widely Spoken Language in
the US
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Gilbert L. Loomis of Westfield, Massachusetts, was the first
American to purchase an auto insurance policy in 1897.
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2 jokes
for the day
Q: How does a man show that he is planning for
the future?
A: He buys two cases of beer.
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A woman is cooking eggs in the kitchen when
her husband comes running in. Immediately, he sees the eggs and gasps in
horror.
"Be careful! CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh, my GOSH!"
The wife, startled at her husband's violent reaction, dashes to the fridge to
get some butter.
"You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM
NOW!"
The wife, concerned by the status of her husband's mental state, forgets about
the butter and goes running to the eggs.
"WE NEED BUTTER! Are you CRAZY??? Where are we going to get the butter?
They're going to stick! HURRY!"
The wife runs to the fridge-
"CAREFUL about the eggs! CAREFUL. You NEVER listen to me when you're
cooking! Never! Turn them quickly! Oh not that quickly, don't you know how to
cook? Are you insane? Turn the EGGS!"
At this point, the wife starts crying, since she has no idea what to do.
She gasps, "What is WRONG with you? I know how to cook eggs."
The husband simply smiles and replies, "I just wanted to show you what it
feels like while I'm driving with you in the car," and leaves.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
PHILADELPHIA
(UPI) - A Philadelphia 4-year-old who wandered away from home at 3 a.m.
and boarded a bus in a search for a slushie has promised to wait for her
parents next time. Harlan Jenifer, driver of the Southeastern Pennsylvania
Transportation Authority No. 56 bus, said a man flagged down his vehicle about
3 a.m. Friday in the Tacony neighborhood and told him he had found the young
girl wandering the streets alone. "Got to be kidding me! At this time, at
3 o'clock on the morning," Jenifer told WPVI-TV. "She's a small little
thing. It kind of just shocked me." The girl, Annabelle, got onto the bus
while Jenifer called police. "All I want is a slushie, that's all she
said!" Jenifer said. "It was too funny," Jenifer told the
Philadelphia Inquirer. "I was scared for her, but it was funny. She was in
good hands." Annabelle's parents, Jaclyn Mager and Timothy Ridgeway, said
the girl has promised not to wander off on her own in the future, but they
changed the locks on their home just in case. "There are no words, he saved
my daughter's life," Mager said of Jenifer. "I'll be forever
grateful."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
~
The Scottish love April Fools' Day. In fact they love it so much, they
celebrate it for two days. In Scotland they call it "hunting the
gowk" (the cuckoo), and if you are tricked, you are an "April
gowk." The second day, called "Taily Day," is devoted to pranks
involving the back side of the body. The "butt" of these jokes may
often have a "kick me" sign placed on their back.
~ Kids in France fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their backs. When
the victim discovers the fish, the prankster yells "Poisson d'Avril!"
(April Fish!)
~ In Portugal, April Fools' Day is actually celebrated on the Sunday and Monday
before Lent. The big trick there? Throwing flour at your friend's face.
~ In Poland everyone takes part in April Fools' Day activities, including the
media and sometimes public institutions. All serious activities are completely
avoided for the day. A favorite joke? Pouring water on people.
~ In certain areas of Belgium, children lock out their parents or teachers and
only let them in if they promise to give them sweets.
~ Depending on where you live in England, instead of a "fool" you
could be called a "noodle," "noddy," "gobby" or
"gob."
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Birthday’s Today
80 - Sharon Acker, Toronto Canada, actress
70 - Linda Hunt, Morristown NJ, actress
(Bostonians, Silverado, NCIS-LA)
68 - Emmylou Harris, Birmingham Alabama, country
singer (Together Again)
49 - Bill Romanowski, NFL linebacker (Eagles,
Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
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Remembered for being born today
1908-2003@95 - Buddy
Ebsen, actor (Beverly Hillbillies,
Barnaby Jones)
1917-2007@90 - Dabbs
Greer, actor (Gunsmoke, Little House
on Prairie)
1914-2000@86 - Alec
Guinness, British actor (Bridge on
River Kwai)
1725-1798@73 - Giacomo
Casanova, Italian writer, adventurer
and famous lover
742- 814@71 - Charlemagne, 1st Holy Roman emperor (800-14)
1805-1875@70 - Hans
Christian Andersen, Denmark, author of 150 fairy tales
1920-1982@62 - Jack
Webb, actor (Joe Friday-Dragnet)
1965-2012@47 - Rodney
King, African American motorist
beaten by LA cops
1939-1984@44 - Marvin
Gaye (Jr), Wash DC, singer (Sexual Healing)
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Historical Obits Today
Elizabeth Catlett, American-born Mexican
artist-2012@96
Pope John Paul II [Karol Józef
Wojtyła], Polish Pope-2005@84
Johannes E. B. Warming, Danish Botanist (plant
ecology)-1924@82
Samuel Morse developer of electric
telegraph-1872@80
Buddy Rich, drummer/orchestra leader (Away We
Go), heart failure-1987@69
Georges Pompidou, French President\Prime
Minister, cancer, 1974@62
Theodore Richards, US chemist (Nobel 1914), lung
disease-1928@60
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Turves,
2. Domino,
3. Arabic,
4. Fought,
5. Opaque,
6. Layman.
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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 contains
mistakes and sadly once 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…§
