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Almanac: Week: 15 \ Day: 099
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 55°\L 34° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind
ave: 13mph\Gusts: 40mph
Ave. High: 57° Record High: 75°
(1989) Ave. Low: 26° Record
Low: 9° (1953)
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Observances Today:
Appomattox Day
Jenkins Ear Day
Name
Yourself Day
National Alcohol Screening Day
National Cherish An Antique Day
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition
Day
Winston Churchill Day
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Observances This Week:
4-12
Hate Week
National Robotics Week
5-11
Bat Appreciation Week
Explore Your Career Options
Mule Days
National Blue Ribbon Week (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
9-12
The Masters Tournament
National Pie Championships
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1682 - Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi
(Louisiana) for France
1768 - John Hancock refuses to allow two
British customs agents to go below
deck of his ship, considered by some to be the
first act of physical resistance to British authority in the colonies
1833 - 1st tax-supported public library
(Peterborough, NH)
1865 - Confederate General Robert E. Lee and
26,765 troops surrender at
Appomattox Court House to US Lieutenant
General Ulysses S. Grant
1941 - PGA establishes Golf Hall of Fame
1947
- Atomic Energy Commission confirmed
1950 - Bob Hope's 1st TV appearance
1953 - "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1963 - Winston Churchill becomes 1st honorary
US citizen
1967 - 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
1976 - US & Russia agreed on size of nuclear
tests for peaceful use
1993 - Colorado Rockies 1st home game & 1st
victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos
2012 - The Lion King becomes highest grossing
Broadway show after
overtaking The Phantom of the Opera
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Today’s World Events through History
1483 - Edward V (aged 12) succeeds his father
Edward IV as king of England.
He was never crowned, and disappeared,
presumed murdered, after incarceration in the Tower of London with his younger
brother Richard (the "Princes in the Tower")
1667 - 1st public art exhibition (Palais-Royale,
Paris)
1731 - British mariner Robert Jenkins' ear cut off
by Spanish Guarde Costa
in the Caribbean, later catalyst for war
between Britain & Spain
1838 - UK National Gallery re-opens in its new
dedicated building in
Trafalgar Square, London
1906 - 3½th modern Olympic games opens in Athens
1916 - The Libau sets sail from Germany with a
cargo of 20,000 rifles to assist
Irish republicans; Captain Karl Spindler
changes the name of the vessel to the Aud to avoid British detection
1940 - Germany invades Norway & Denmark during
WW II
1981 - Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands wins a
by-election to be elected as a
Member of Parliament at Westminster; the law
is later changed to prevent prisoners standing in elections
2013 - The French Senate approves a bill for
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
Another very windy spring day…looking at the temps, today the wind
chill played a big role…drop the thermometer temp by about 13°.
The plan was to stay home today, but fate would not allow that.
Awakened about 3am to the ‘dead battery’ squeak of one of my 5 smoke alarms.
Removing the battery doesn’t stop the squeak. Go downstairs to discover I have
no 9 volt batteries. So at 3am I take the battery out of one of the downstairs
alarms and let it squeak and put that battery in the bedroom one. The noise
stops. I return to sleep.
Being the cheap guy I am, I wait till Sam’s opens at 10am and head
over to get a pack of 9v batteries. While I am out, I stop for a quick haircut.
Had to deal with the cold wind four times and was glad to be back home in about
an hour.
Once home I called to make my heart check-up appointment. The last
time it took about 3 weeks to get the appointment. This time I am set up for
tomorrow. Nice!
Our retirement group is not doing our regular Thurs. lunch this
week…we are waiting for Friday and doing the local home show and then lunch. I’ll
be looking for a deal on blinds that let me pull them down from the top or
raise them from the bottom, or both. There are 3 vendors of blinds there, so
hopefully I’ll find something.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Whilst
my body is usually made from wood,
I have keys that don't unlock doors,
and a bell that does not ring.
Moreover, I cannot speak without the help of a single piece of cane.
What am I?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
~ We have received a $47,928 grant, with the city required to
match this amount, from the National Park Service for our Urban Trail System.
The purpose is to link up the Rio de Flag, the backbone of our system that was
completed last October, with the Sinclair Wash section that will be completed
this next summer.
~ Rt. 66 is a new recreational vehicle and auto service center on
the west side of Flagstaff at 824 W. Highway 66.
~ The Thrifty Drug Store at
2550 East 7th St. is closing. Everything is on sale 20-50% off.
~ Tuition at NAU is up again:$116 more for residents and $1,000
more for out-of-staters. Regent Arthur Hurwitz argues that this works a great
hardship on middle-class students. The Regents plan on raising out-of-state
tuition up to 100 percent of the cost. The 2015 cost for residents is now
$951/credit hour
…Harper’s
Index…
$850,000: amount
a Canadian woman owes a Hawaii hospital after giving birth there while on
vacation last year.
…Illegal
Facts
~ In Utah, it is illegal to swear in front of a dead person.
~ In Scotland it is illegal to be a drunk in possession of a cow.
…Language
Facts…
~ Shakespeare invented over 1,700 words that we use today.
~ Switching letters is called spoonerism. For example, saying
"jag of Flapan", instead of "flag of Japan".
***NEW***…Longevity
Facts…
~ There are still 5 people living who were born in the 1800s - and
they're all women.
~ There was a man named Li Ching-Yuen, a Chinese herbalist and
martial artist, who allegedly lived 197 - 256 years. There's even an official
document from the Chinese government congratulating him on his 150th birthday
in 1827.
…North
Korea Fact…
~ North Korea uses a fax machine to send threats to South Korea.
***NEW***…Paleontology
Facts…
~ Helicoprion was a relative of the shark that lived 270 million
years ago. It was approximately 7.5m long and had chainsaw-like teeth.
~ In 2007, the 5000-year-old skeletal remains of two lovers embracing
each other were found at Mantua, Italy.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
~ The Hudson's Bay Company (now known as "The Bay" or
"HBC") is the oldest commercial corporation in North America, having
been incorporated on May 2nd, 1670, by British royal charter under King Charles
II.
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2 jokes
for the day
What did the pirate say on his 80th birthday?
Aye matey
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A middle-aged woman had a heart attack and was
taken to the hospital.
While on the operating table, she had a near death experience. Seeing God, she
asked, "Is my time up?"
God said, "No, you have another 43 years, two months and eight days to
live."
Since she had so much more time to live, she figured she might as well look
even nicer.
Upon recovery, the woman decided to stay in the hospital and have a face-lift,
liposuction and tummy tuck.
After her last operation, she was released from the hospital.
While crossing the street on her way home, an ambulance killed her.
Arriving in front of God, she demanded, "I thought you said I had another
40 years? Why didn't you pull me out of the path of that ambulance?"
God replied, "Girl, I didn't recognize you!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
CHANGSHA,
China (UPI) - A philandering Chinese man who secretly had 17 girlfriends was
exposed when all of his paramours arrived at the same time to visit him in the
hospital. The Changsha man, identified by the surname Yuan, was hospitalized
March 24 with non-life-threatening injuries from a car accident and doctors got
into contact with a number of people they believed to be family members.
However, the 17 people who turned up at the hospital were revealed to be Yuan's
girlfriends, who were unaware of each other’s existence until they all arrived
at the hospital at the same time. A girlfriend who identified herself as Xiao
Li said she has spoken with several of the other women and discovered many of
them had been regularly giving him money. She said one of the women had been
supporting him financially for nine years. Yuan, who also allegedly fabricated
his education background to get a job with a large company, is facing a fraud
charge after he allegedly bilked his ex-wife of more than $40,000.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Geologists believe sea levels could
rise between seven and 23 inches by the end of the century if current warming
trends continue.
Worldwide, one hundred million people live within three feet of sea level, and
much of the world's population is clustered in coastal areas.
***
The
earth has always experienced cyclical bouts of climate change. Recorded
temperatures throughout history display graphs of peaks and valleys with
occasional extreme periods, such as the Little Ice Age of the seventeenth and
eighteenth century and the Medieval Warm Period of the eleventh century.
The last two decades of the twentieth century were the hottest decades in more
than 400 years and may have been the hottest decades for several thousand
years.
Deserts worldwide are increasing as a result of warmer temperatures. At the end
of the year 2007, Australia lost 25 percent of crop production due to
desertification.
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Birthday’s Today
89 - Hugh Hefner, [Marston], Chicago,
magazine publisher (Playboy)
87 - Tom Lehrer, parody/folk singer (That
Was The Week That Was)
83 - Jim Fowler, Albany Ga, naturalist (Wild
Kingdom)
82 - Jean-Paul Belmondo, Paris France, actor
(Casino Royale, Magnifique)
76 - Michael Learned, Wash DC, actress
(Olivia-Waltons, Nurse)
61 - Dennis Quaid, actor (Big Easy,
Dreamscape, Right Stuff)
52 - Joe Scarborough, American television
personality
49 - Cynthia Nixon, actress (Sex in the City)
36 - Keshia Knight Pulliam, Newark NJ,
actress (Rudy-Crosby)
28 - Jesse McCartney, American actor and
singer
25 - Kristen Stewart, American actress
(Bella Swan-The Twilight Saga)
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Remembered for being born today
- Paul
Robeson, singer (Old Man River)/actor/footballer1898-1976@77
- George
Peacock, English Mathematician (algebraic theory) 1791-1858@67
- [Earl] Curly Lambeau, NFL coach (GB Packers) 1898-1965@67
- Ward
Bond, Denver, CO, actor (Seth-Wagon Trains) 1903-1960@57
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Historical Obits Today
Frank
Lloyd Wright, US architect (Guggenheim Museum NY)-1959@89
Simon
Fraser, 11th baron Lovat Jacobite, last man beheaded in England-1747@79
Sharlot
Hall, Prescott historian known as Arizona's poet laureate-1943@72
Francis
Bacon, English statesman and philosopher, pneumonia-1626@65
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Brain Teasers Answers
A Clarinet--Clarinets are usually made out of wood. The sound is
made by the vibration of a single piece of cane which is attached to the
mouthpiece. The keys of the clarinet are fingered in various ways in order to
alter the pitch of the instrument. The lower section of the clarinet is called
'the bell' because it resembles the general shape of a bell.
The term 'Denner' in the title refers to the inventor of the clarinet - J.C.
Denner, a German instrument maker.
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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…§
