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Almanac: Week: 15 \ Day: 100
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 58°\L 18° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave. High: 57° Record High: 74°
(1989) Ave. Low: 26° Record
Low: 13° (1999)
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Observances Today:
ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals) Day
Golfer's
Day
National Farm Animals Day
National Sibling Day
Salvation Army Founder's Day
Safety Pin Day 1849
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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
1790 - US Patent system forms
1825 - 1st hotel in Hawaii opens
1841 - New York Tribune begins publishing under
editor Horace Greeley
1849 - Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold
rights for $400
1866 - American Society for Prevention of Cruelty
to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1869 - Congress increases number of Supreme Court
judges from 7 to 9
1871 - APACHEs raid the San Xavier mission,
south of Tucson, and steal livestock
1872 - 1st Arbor Day celebrated in Nebraska, later
changed to Apr 22
1910 - Eastern interests
obtained a government concession for a dam in
Sabino Canyon and hoped to sell water to
Tucson. The concession was later withdrawn.
1925 - Scribners publishes "The Great
Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald
1930 - Synthetic rubber 1st produced
1938 - NY makes syphilis test mandatory in order to
get a marriage license
1953 - "House of Wax", 1st 3-D movie,
released (NYC)
1955 - Dr Jonas Salk successfully tests
Polio vaccine
1963 - USS Thresher, a nuclear powered submarine,
sinks 220 miles east of Boston
1974 - Magicians Penn & Teller 1st meet
1989 - H J Heinz, Van Camp Seafood & Bumble Bee
Seafood say they would not
buy tuna caught in nets that also trap
dolphins
1991 - Last automat (coin operated cafeteria)
closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
1991 - A rare tropical storm develops in the
Southern Hemisphere near Angola;
the 1st to be documented by satellites
1995 - NYC bans smoking in all restaurants that
seat 35 or more
2012 - Apple Inc claims a value of $600 billion
making it the largest
company by market capitalization in the world
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Today’s World Events through History
1516 - 1st ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in
specific area of Venice
1710 - The first law regulating copyright is issued
in Great Britain
1858 - "Big Ben", a 13.76 ton bell, is
recast in the Tower of Westminster
1864 - Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes Maximilian
I, Emperor of Mexico
1877 - 1st human cannonball act performed in London
1942 - Cigarettes & candy rationed in Holland
1971 - The Republican commemorations is held in
Belfast of the Easter Rising
(in 1916 in Dublin), revealing conflicts
between the two wings of the Irish Republican Army
1981 - Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands
elected to British Parliament
1998 - The Good Friday/Belfast Agreement for
Northern Ireland is signed
by the British and Irish governments
2013 - Japan
and Taiwan sign an agreement on fishing rights around the
Senkaku Islands
2014 - The Council
of Europe suspends Russia's right to vote
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Finished my carotid artery ultrasound this morning. So simple.
Got home and soon the UPS guy rang my bell. Another modem from
Century Link. Refused it, got the tracking number, called Century Link and told
them to stop sending modems that I don’t need. Got transferred 4 times, but
about 45 minutes later was assured that they would send no more. Total and
complete incompetence. The first lady would not allow me to speak to her
supervisor, for fear they would both get in trouble, but connected me to an ‘escalation’
person on the East coast who had no access to my account. Of course I have to
give all my personal information and tell the whole story before she realizes
she can’t help. She did get me to someone else who promises me that the 1st
modem is already in their hot sweaty hands, that the 2nd on has been
marked by UPS as refused by customer and that my bill will not reflect any
modem charges. As my mom used to say “I’ll believe it when I see it.”
Thankfully, the wind has greatly subsided today and it is a
beautiful day, but a little cooler than I enjoy. Being able to spend time
outside is nice.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Below
are five movie titles. However, they have been rephrased, and it is your job to
figure them out.
Note: The capitalization in the following phrases is the same as it would be in
the actual title. Good Luck!
1. Realm of the Land of angels and saints
2. The Ruler over the Hoops and circlets
3. Dignity and Bias
4. Vacation in Italy's capital
5. Artist and scientist Leonardo's Cipher
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
~ It starts to look as though street paving has just as good a
chance as on old man will have in Europe after the war is over. To pave or not
to pave, that is the question -- a mud hole in an alley is worth two on a
crossing.
~ Mrs. J. C. Kelly has just been added to the force of operations
at the Santa Fe Depot, making 3 instead of the 2 who were doing the work during
the dull season.
Union Oil has opened a supply store and is ready to supply the
wholesale trade with gas, kerosene, lubricating oils and greases. E. W.
Brewster, Agent. Office Ph. 151 Res. Ph. 274W
~ M. A. Murphy’s residence on West Aspen Avenue caught fire from
the kitchen range on Wednesday morning. A bad fire was narrowly averted by its
discovery before much damage occurred.
~ You can’t beat the SUN when it comes to new faces of type and
the latest in paper stock to do the work. You can even transfer that embroidery
pattern you like so much with carbon paper and get a clear blue print. Joseph
Pavelock has just returned from a month in San Francisco, where he has been
learning “the innards” of the typesetting machine.
…Harper’s
Index…
137: number
of women who received TB last November as part of a mass sterilization drive in
Bilaspur, India
16: number
of these women who subsequently died.
…Illegal
Facts
~ Anyone under the age of 21 who takes out household trash
containing even a single empty alcohol beverage container can be charged with
illegal possession of alcohol in Missouri.
~ Oral sex was illegal in 18 states under old sodomy law until
2003 when they were invalidated.
…Language
Facts…
~ The equivalents of the English saying "That's Greek to
me" are "This appears to be Spanish" (German), "This is
Chinese to me" (Dutch), "It's German to me" (Philippines),
"It's Hebrew" (Finnish), "It's Chinese to me" (Hebrew),
"Sounds like Mars language/These are chicken intestines" (China).
~ Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since
the Vikings that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak
Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
…Longevity
Facts…
~ There is a genetic disease called Laron syndrome that results in
short stature, longer life expectancy, and near immunity to cancer and diabetes
- amongst other things.
~ Japan's Okinawa Island has more than 450 people living above the
age of 100, and is known as the healthiest place on Earth.
…North
Korea Fact…
~ Kim Jong-il is only 5' 2'' tall. He wears four-inch lifts in his
shoes to compensate for his short stature.
…Paleontology
Facts…
~ Megalodon was the biggest shark that ever existed. It was larger
than the average city bus and could bite down with a force between 10.8 and
18.2 tons - enough to crush a prehistoric whale's skull as easily as a grape.
~ Ancient Europeans were Lactose intolerant thousands of years
after they started making cheese
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
7-Up was originally called "Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime
Soda."
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2 jokes
for the day
A police recruit was asked during the exam,
"What would you do if you had to arrest your own mother?"
He said: "Call for backup."
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As a butcher is shooing a dog from his shop,
he sees $10 and a note in his mouth, reading: "10 lamb chops,
please."
Amazed, he takes the money, puts a bag of chops in the dog's mouth, and quickly
closes the shop. He follows the dog and watches him wait for a green light,
look both ways, and trot across the road to a bus stop. The dog checks the
timetable and sits on the bench. When a bus arrives, he walks around to the
front and looks at the number, then boards the bus. The butcher follows,
dumbstruck.
As the bus travels out into the suburbs, the dog takes in the scenery. After a while
he stands on his back paws to push the "stop" button, then the
butcher follows him off.
The dog runs up to a house and drops his bag on the stoop. He goes back down
the path, takes a big run, and throws himself -Whap! - Against the door. He
does this again and again. No answer. So he jumps on a wall, walks around the
garden, beats his head against a window, jumps off, and waits at the front
door. A big guy opens it and starts cursing and pummeling the dog.
The butcher runs up screams at the guy: "What the hell are you doing? This
dog's a genius!"
The owner responds, "Genius, no way! It's the second time this week he's
forgotten his key!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
NEW YORK
(UPI) - A New York judge granted a woman permission to serve divorce
papers to her elusive husband via Facebook message. Manhattan Supreme Court
Justice Matthew Cooper ruled Ellanora Baidoo, 26, "is granted permission
serve defendant with the divorce summons using a private message through
Facebook." "This transmittal shall be repeated by plaintiff's
attorney to defendant once a week for three consecutive weeks or until
acknowledged" by Victor Sena Blood-Dzraku, Baidoo's husband, Cooper wrote
in his decision. Andrew Spinnell, Baidoo's lawyer, said Blood-Dzraku has proven
difficult to find and only communicates with his client via phone and Facebook.
The court heard Baidoo and Blood-Dzraku were married in a civil ceremony in
2009, but the relationship fell apart when Blood-Dzraku backed out of his
promise to follow-up the wedding with a traditional Ghanaian wedding ceremony
attended by the couple's families. Cooper's ruling said the "last address
plaintiff has for defendant is an apartment that he vacated in 2011." Baidoo
"has spoken with defendant by telephone on occasion, and he has told her
that he has no fixed address and no place of employment. He has also refused to
make himself available to be served with divorce papers." "The post
office has no forwarding address for him, there is no billing address linked to
his prepaid cellphone, and the Department of Motor Vehicles has no record of
him," Cooper wrote in the decision, which is dated March 27. Spinnell said
the first Facebook message was sent last week. "So far, he hasn't
responded," Spinnell told the New York Daily News.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
New
Orleans was founded in 1718 by Jean Baptiste Le Moyne, Sieur de Bienville. At
first, the community was nothing more than a trading camp on the curving east
bank of the Mississippi River. Later, the city was organized into a
rectangular, fortified community, which still exists today as the French
Quarter. The original streets, laid out in a grid, were named for French
royalty and nobility.
Canal Street, once the widest street in the world, was named for a canal that
was planned for, but never built, on the street's dividing median. For decades,
the median's only use was public transportation, mostly by the Canal Street
streetcars.
The first New Orleans "skyscraper" was built in 1807. It was the
first four-story building in the city, and is still in use, standing on the
corner of Royal Street and St. Peter Street in the French Quarter. New Orleans
also boasted the first opera house in America.
The monument to General Andrew Jackson at Jackson Square was the world's first
equestrian statue in which the horse had more than one foot off the base.
In 1872, the official colors of Mardi Gras were chosen based on an honored
visitor to New Orleans: Russian Grand Duke Alexis Romanoff. The purple stands
for justice, the green for faith, and the gold for power.
Established as the capital of the French colony of Louisiana, New Orleans was
actually twice named the state capital. The title of capital city was moved
from New Orleans to Donaldsonville in 1825, to Baton Rouge in 1846, to New
Orleans in 1864 (during the Reconstruction period), and then again to Baton
Rouge in 1879.
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Birthday’s Today
86 - Max Von Sydow, Lund Sweden, actor
(Hawaii, Exorcist)
83 - Omar Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub], Egypt,
actor (Dr Zhivago)
79 - John Madden, NFL coach (Raiders)/sports
commentator (CBS, FOX)
74 - Paul Theroux, American travel book
writer (Mosquito Coast)
63 - Steven Seagal, actor (Above the Law,
Hard to Kill)
47 - Orlando Jones, American actor and
comedian
31 - Mandy Moore, American singer/actor
27 - Haley Joel Osment, actor ("Sixth
Sense")
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Remembered for being born today
- Harry
Morgan, actor (December Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet) 1915-2011@96
- Clare
Boothe Luce, US ambassador (to Vatican) 1903-1987@84
- Sheb
Wooley, vocalist (Purple People Eater, Hee Haw) 1921-2003@82
- Don
Meredith, NFL QB (Cowboys)/Mon Night Football 1938-2010@72
- Chuck
Connors, Brooklyn, actor (Rifleman, Branded) 1921-1992@71
- Matthew
Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened
Japan 1794-1858@63
- Hugo
Grotius, Holland, jurist, father of international law 1583-1645@62
- "Alvin" Junior Samples, country singer (Hee Haw) 1926-1983@57
- James Bowie,
American pioneer and soldier 1796-1836@39
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Historical Obits Today
Dixie
Carter, actress (Designing Women), cancer-2010@70
Larry
Linville, actor (MASH), cancer-2000@60
Little
Eva (Eva Boyd) American pop singer (Locomotion), cancer-2003@59
Emiliano
Zapata, Mexican leader, murdered-1919@39
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Kingdom of Heaven
2. The Lord of the Rings
3. Pride and Prejudice
4. Roman Holiday
5. The Da Vinci Code
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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…§
