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Almanac: Week: 16 \ Day: 102
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 65°\L 30° Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 19mph
Ave. High: 57° Record High: 75°
(1904) Ave. Low: 27° Record
Low: 7° (1953)
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Observances Today:
D.E.A.R. Day (aka Drop Everything And
Read)
Global Day to End Child Sexual Abuse
Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day
International Day for Street Children
International Day of Human Space Flight -1961
Look
Up At The Sky Day
Russian
Cosmonaut Day
Walk on Your Wild Side Day
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Observances This Week:
4-12
Hate Week
National Robotics Week
9-12
The Masters Tournament
National Pie Championships
11-12
Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of
Prayer and Fasting
12-18
American Indian Awareness Week
Animal Control Officer Appreciation
Week
Health Information Privacy and Security Week
International Dark Sky Week
National Library Week
National Animal Control
Appreciation Week
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week
National Student Employment Week
National Volunteer Week
Pan American Week
Undergraduate Research Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1770 - Townsend Acts repealed
1787 - Philadelphia's Free African Society forms
1811 - 1st US colonists on Pacific coast arrive at
Cape Disappointment, WA
1844 - Texan envoys sign Treaty of Annexation with
the United States
1858 - 1st US billiards championship (Michael J
Phelan wins in Detroit)
1861 - Fort Sumter, SC is shelled by Confederacy,
starting Civil War
1869 - North Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan
Law
1877 - Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game
1900 - The US Congress passes the Foraker Act,
establishing Puerto Rico
as an unincorporated territory (effective 1
May)
1902 - Village of Yuma,
AZ was incorporated as a town.
1905 - Hippodrome arena opens (NYC)
1908 - Fire makes 17,000 homeless in Chelsea
Massachusetts
1909 - Philadelphia's Shibe Park (later Connie Mack
Stadium) opens
1934 – 2nd
highest ever wind -- 231 mph recorded on Mt Washington
1938 - 1st US law requiring medical tests for
marriage licenses (NY)
1945 - Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd pres
1954 - Bill Haley & Comets records "Rock
Around Clock"
1955 - Salk polio vaccine safe &
effective; 4 billion dimes marched
1966 - 1st B-52 bombing on North Vietnam
1969 - Simon & Garfunkel releases "Boxer"
1976 - Anne Rice's debut novel "Interview with
a Vampire" is published by Knopf
1982 - 3 CBS employees shot to death in NYC parking
lot
1987 - Texaco files for bankruptcy
1988 - Sonny Bono elected mayor of Palm Springs CA
1991 - US announces closing of 31 major US military
bases
2014 - New
drug, ABT-450, with a 90-95% success rate for treating Hepatitis C
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Today’s World Events through History
1204 - 4th Crusade occupies & plunders
Constantinople
1606 - England adopts the Union Flag, replaced in
1801 by current Union
Flag/Union Jack
1654 - Ordinance of Union between England and
Scotland passed by the
Council of State
1894 - British & Belgian secret accord on
dividing Central-Africa
1927 - Gen Chiang Kai-shek begins counter
revolution in Shanghai
1961 - Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st
person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)
1975 - Six Catholic civilians are killed in a
Ulster Volunteer Force gun and
grenade attack on Strand Bar in Belfast,
North Ireland
2013 - A man-made 32-foot and 60 ton monument that
is dates
around 2000 BC is discovered in the Sea of
Galilee
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Wonderful Saturday here in our little mountain town. Little
breeze, warm temps, nice to be able to read the morning paper outside on the
deck.
A friend called and needed to borrow my Sam’s card to get gas. Met
her there, filled my vehicle, used my card so she could get gas. All good.
Finished my presentation this morning for this evening’s
discussion on Brazil. Then the news comes out that the Brazilian President is
visiting the US in June, a trip rescheduled after she learned that the NSA had
been spying on her and her people. Great news for all. Then just after that,
Raul Castro, Cuban President, met with Obama and apologized for what happened
after the Revolution and said that he knows that Obama is not responsible for
previous US policy. WOW! Then the Far-right gets on the airways and blathers on
about gloom and doom with both decisions and how Obama is destroying America.
Please give the thawing a chance.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Each
pair of definitions is for two words, where the second word is the first word
with an extra letter added somewhere (example: band & brand). The length of
the short word in each pair is provided.
1) low in fuel content & to gain knowledge (4 letters)
2) a small vessel for liquids & essential (4 letters)
3) a low or open slipper & malicious gossip (6 letters)
4) a mark used to indicate the place where something is to be inserted & a
floor covering (5 letters)
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
~ The Arizona Department of Public Health has turned down a plea
by the Snow Bowl to truck water in to a proposed subdivision on the mountain
near the Snow Bowl.
~ Drivers are warned of falling rock in Oak Creek Canyon. There
are occasional boulders falling in the switchbacks. Warnings are placed at the
top and crews “keeping an eye on things” are going up and down all the time, according
to the State Highway Department.
~ Fire Department Chief James Samson reminds all about
the ordinance requiring a permit for all open burning. This includes “Just
Trash.”
~ The resounding 5 to 1 “yes” vote on the bond issue for five
new schools is a confident vote in our future.
…Harper’s
Index…
857:
percentage increase in the annual number of polio cases in Pakistan since 2005
…Language
Facts…
~ In Denmark, "Fart-kontrol" means "Speed
check".
~ Borat, when supposedly speaking in Kazakh with his partner
throughout the film, was actually speaking fluent Hebrew.
…Longevity
Facts…
~ The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may
slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to
scientists in China.
~ According to official documents, Luo Meizhen was born in 1885,
which would make her 127 years old when she died in 2013 and the oldest person
ever to have lived.
…Paleontology
Fact…
~ In 2005, a portion of T-Rex bone was dissolved in acid, it
revealed soft tissue with sections of possible DNA.
***NEW***…
Survival Facts…
~ Army ants are used as “natural sutures”. Their jaws are so
powerful, natives staple wounds by forcing ants to bite them and break off the
body.
~ In 1972, Vesna Vulovic, a flight attendant, fell 33,000 feet in
an aircraft explosion and survived. She now holds the Guinness world record for
highest freefall without a parachute.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
~ Furbies, the hamster-like
toys that repeated what they ‘heard’- were banned by the NSA because it was
feared that they may repeat national security secrets.
***NEW***…Water
Facts..,.
~ The LifeStraw is a simple and compact, yet powerful water
filtration system which may be the solution to the world's water emergency.
~ By peeing in the shower, you can save 1,157 gallons of water a
year.
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2 jokes
for the day
Father: Don't you think our son gets his
brains from me?
Mother: Probably, dear. I still have all of mine.
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A wife went to the police station with her
next-door neighbor to report that her husband was missing.
The policeman asked for a description. She said, "He's 35 years old, 6
foot 4, has dark eyes, dark wavy hair, an athletic build, weighs 185 pounds, is
soft-spoken, and is good to the children."
The next-door neighbor protested, "Your husband is 5 foot 4, chubby, bald,
has a big mouth, and is mean to your children."
The wife replied, "Yes, but who wants HIM back?"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
ORMOND
BEACH, Fla. (UPI) - Police in Florida said a man arrested for aiming a laser
pointer at motorists was found to be concealing a bag of suspected marijuana in
his rectum. Ormond Beach police said officers investigating a report of a
person shining a laser pointer at a woman's face while she was driving Sunday
determined Jesse Roepcke, 27, had aimed his laser at the woman and multiple
other drivers while he was a passenger in a car driven by his girlfriend,
Brandie Tate, 28. Police said Roepcke, who told officers he was "just
having fun" with the laser pointer and didn't know shining it at motorists
was illegal, had a smoking device that smelled like marijuana in his
possession. The suspect was taken to the Volusia County Jail, where officers
conducting a strip search said a bag of a leafy green substance fell out of his
rectum. The contents of the bag smelled like marijuana, police said. Roepcke
was charged with pointing a laser at a driver or pilot, possession or use of
narcotic paraphernalia, possession of marijuana and smuggling contraband into a
prison. He was ordered held in lieu of $4,250 bail.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
~
The eagle on the United States Great Seal faces the olive branch in its right
paw. However, until 1945 the eagle on the Presidential Seal faced the arrows
gripped in its left paw.
~ The gag rule was instituted in the Senate in 1836 in order that the senators
would not have to accept, debate, or vote on anti-slavery petitions.
~ West Virginia is the only state to have formed by seceding from a
pre-existing state.
~ The original Library of Congress was burned down by the British in 1814 along
with the Capitol. To replace it, the Congress bought Thomas Jefferson's
personal book collection, which consisted of approximately 6,500 volumes.
~ The middle initial "S" in Harry S. Truman's name does not actually
stand for anything - his parents could not agree on a middle name.
~ The first time John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon locked in public debate was
not as presidential candidates in 1960 but as young congressmen in 1947, when a
political club invited them to discuss the pros and cons of a labor bill.
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Birthday’s Today
68 - David Letterman, Indianapolis Ind,
comedian (Late Night)
65 - David Cassidy, singer/actor
(Keith-Partridge Family)
59 - Andy Garcia, Cuba, actor (Stand &
Deliver)
44 - Shannen Doherty, actress (Little House,
Bev Hills 90210)
36 - Claire Danes, actress (Romeo &
Juliet)
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Remembered for being born today
- Ann
Miller, [Lucille Ann Collier], dancer (On the Town) 1923-2004@80
- Henry
Clay, [the Great Compromiser], Virginia, US politician 1777-1852@75
- Billy
Vaughn, American musician and bandleader 1919-1991@72
- Tiny
Tim [Herbert Khaury], New York, musician 1932-1996@64
- José
Gautier BenÃtez, Puerto Rican poet 1848-1880@31
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Historical Obits Today
Clara
Barton, organizer (American Red Cross)-1912@90
George
Wald, scientist, (Nobel Prize, vitamin A in retina)-1997@90
Patrick 'Paddy' Hillery,
6th Pres. of Ireland, EEC Commissioner-2008@84
Philip K
Wrigley, baseball owner (Chicago Cubs)-1977@82
William G
Sumner, US sociologist/politicologist (Folkways), stroke-1910@69
Sugar Ray
Robinson, heavyweight boxing champ, Alzheimer-1989@67
Joe Louis, [Brown
bomber],heavyweight boxing champion,cardiac arrest-1981@66
Franklin
Roosevelt, 32nd US President, stroke-1945@63
William M "Boss"
Tweed, NY politician, pneumonia-in prison-1878@55
Abbie
Hoffman, yippie peace activist of the 60's, OD-1989@52
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) lean & learn
2) vial & vital
3) sandal & scandal
4) caret & carpet
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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…§
