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Almanac: Week: 16 \ Day: 104
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 70°\L 29° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave. High: 58° Record High: 75°
(1937) Ave. Low: 27° Record
Low: 5° (1972)
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Observances Today:
Children with Alopecia Day
Dictionary Day
Equal Pay Day
Ex
Spouse Day
International Moment of Laughter Day
Look
up at the Sky Day
National Be Kind To Lawyers Day
National Dolphin Day
National Library Day
National Library Workers Day
National Pecan Day
Pan American Day
Pathologists' Assistant Day
Reach
as High as You Can Day
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Observances This Week:
12-18
American Indian Awareness
Week Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week
Health Information Privacy and Security
Week
National Animal Control Appreciation
Week
National Library 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
1528 - Panfilo de
Narvaez, with 4 or 5 ships, and approximately 400-500
men, including Cabeza de Vaca, sight land, on
the western coast of Florida. This will be the first significant exploration of
Florida
1614 - John Rolfe
marries Pocahontas
1775 - 1st
abolitionist society in US organizes in Phila
1777 - NY
adopts new constitution as an independent state
1818 - US
Medical Corp forms
1828 - First American
Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers
its copyright for publication
1841 - Edgar
Allen Poe's "Murders in the Rue Morgue" published
1863 - William
Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
1865 - US Secret Service created to fight
counterfeiting
1865
- President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at
Ford's Theater
1890 - Pan
American Day-1st conference of American states (Wash DC)
1894 - 1st
public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
1903 - Dr Harry
Plotz discovers vaccine against typhoid (NYC)
1906 - US
President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in
US press, taken from John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s
Progress
1910 - President
Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
1935 - Black
Sunday: The worst sandstorm ravages US midwest (creates
the Dust Bowl)
1939 - John
Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published
1952-Television coming to
Tucson receiving four channels
1960 - 1st underwater launching of Polaris missile.
1969 - Student Afro-American Society seized at
Columbia College
1971 - President Nixon ends blockade against
People's Republic of China
1980 - 1st
Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
2003 - The
Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human
genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%
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Today’s World Events through History
43 BC - Battle
of Forum Gallorum: Mark Antony, besieging Julius Caesar's
assassin Decimus Junius Brutus in Mutina,
defeats the forces of the consul Pansa,
who is killed
1611 - Word
"telescope" is 1st used (Prince Federico Cesi)
1831 - Soldiers
marching on a bridge in Manchester, England cause it to collapse
1849 - Hungary
declares itself independent of Austria
1927 - The
first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden
1958 - Sputnik
2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1989 - 1,100,000,000th
Chinese born
2002 - Venezuelan
President Hugo Chávez returns to office two days after
being ousted and arrested by the country's
military
2010 - Icelandic
Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting from the top crater
in the center of the glacier
2012 - J. K.
Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, launches her website
"Pottermore"
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice Monday…spent some time on the deck after running some
errands. So nice and quiet and peaceful.
I have had 3 gnomes at my house in the summer, since I moved here. After
the HOA made me move them to the back deck, everything has been fine. This
year, a couple of weeks ago, one of the gnomes left the deck for parts unknown.
Didn’t think much about it, as I figured he was tired to the limited view. I
went to the store and got a replacement plus 4 tiny gnomes to put in the
planters. This morning I discovered the new gnome and two of the tiny gnomes
had also headed for parts unknown. Since I understand that the deck view is so
much better than the one they had at the store, I have decided that a human
child is involved in their travels. I am about 85% sure I know who the human
child is…a 7 or 8 yr old girl who is a real brat with the neighborhood kids. I
was on the deck the other day and she came running by and was looking at each
deck. She saw me and gave out a little yelp of surprise and ran on. Today I put
a ‘No Trespassing’ sign on the deck railing that also says that motion
activated camera present. I added “You will be caught.” I hope this discourages her. I should mention
that the area behind the deck is really just an alley that is open at one end
and blocked by a very tall fence on the other end. It is not a place that has any
traffic, except for the cats, dogs, and squirrels. None of the decks have gates
or openings to get to that alley.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you rank the following series of words in the proper order?
admission, cook, governor, league, message, mustard, pepper, punishment
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
~ F. E. Brooks' new general store at
Railroad Avenue and Park Street will include a corral for the accommodation of
ranchers and out-of-town people.
~ G. H. Slater has been awarded a
contract for $500 to cut down the rocky hill grade on North San Francisco
Street, north of the Court House.
~ C. P. Heisser, Babbitt Bros. salesman,
had an accident while driving near Holbrook last Friday. His team became
fractious and threw him from the buggy, breaking one of his legs. It’s not a
bad break but will put him out of commission for a few weeks.
~ The City Council said that the
proposal for nine miles of new sidewalks cannot be expected to please everyone
but should happen anyway -- when it
actually commences it should bring desirable results.
~ There’s a leak in the new city
reservoir. There is some hope that the work currently going on will solve the
problem.
…Harper’s
Index…
11/18/2014: date of
which Bob Marley’s estate announced the launch of Marley Natural, a ‘global
cannabis brand’
…Language
Facts…
~ In Turkish, the bird we call a Turkey is called
"Hindi" ("from India"). In India, it's called
"Peru." In Arabic, the bird is called "Greek chicken"; in
Greek it's called "French chicken"; and in French it's called
"Indian chicken." The bird is indigenous to none of these places.
~ '⸮' is a
punctuation mark that was first proposed in the 1580s to denote sarcasm or
irony.
…
Survival Facts…
~ In 1965, a four-year-old nearly drowned at a beach, but was
rescued by a woman named Alice Blaise. 9 years later, that boy saved a man at
the same beach. That man was Alice's husband.
~ Steven Callahan spent 76 days at sea while he drifted 1,800
perilous miles across the Atlantic in a rubber raft, battling starvation,
thirst, sharks and storms. He later became the technical adviser for the
acclaimed movie Life Of Pi.
~ Poon Lim survived 133 days alone on a raft at sea by fishing,
drinking bird blood, and killing a shark with a jug of water.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
~ Gureng-gureng, Gabi-Gabi, Waga-Waga, Wemba-Wemba, and
Yitha-Yitha are all names of native Australian languages.
…Water Facts..,.
~ Tap water in Canada is held to a higher health standard than
bottled water.
~ Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water
or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the
brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
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2 jokes
for the day
Peter says, "Doctor, I see double!"
"Sit on the chair please," the doctor says.
"Which one?" Peter replied.
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Three sisters, ages 92, 94, and 96, live
together. One night the 96-year-0ld draws a bath. She puts one foot in and
pauses. "Was I getting in the tub or out?" she yells.
The 94-year-old hollers back, "I don't know, I'll come up to see."
She starts up the stairs and stops. She shouts, "Was I going up or going
down?"
The 92-year-old is sitting at the kitchen table having tea, listening to her
sisters. She shakes her head and says, "I sure hope I never get that
forgetful", and knocks on wood for good measure. Then she yells,
"I'll come up and help both of you as soon as I see who's at the
door."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Jakarta,
Indonesia: Mario Stevan Ambarita, 21, was spotted staggering around the
tarmac at Jakarta airport, shortly after the Garuda Indonesia domestic flight
landed from Sumatra Island to the north.
"The case was quite a surprise to us," Garuda CEO Arif Wibowo told
reporters.
The stowaway scaled a 8-foot fence to reach the aircraft, where he tucked
himself into the rear wheel housing.
He collapsed after the flight and was taken to hospital with a bleeding ear and
other light injuries before spending the night in a police cell.
"He said he wanted to meet Jokowi," a spokesman for Soekarno-Hatta
Airport Police said, referring to Indonesian President Joko Widodo by his
nickname.
According to local media reports, Ambarita had spent up to a year studying
aircraft taking off and landing, had learned from the Internet how to hide in
the wheel well and had made an unsuccessful attempt in the past to hitch a free
plane ride.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
~
The first man to fly over the North Pole-and indeed the South Pole-was called
Dickie Byrd.
~ Steven Seagal was the first non-Asian to successfully open a martial-arts
academy in Japan.
~ The first ready-to-eat breakfast cereal was Shredded Wheat in 1893 )it beat
Kellogg's Corn Flakes by just five years).
~ The first ice pop dates back to 1923, when lemonade salesman Frank Epperson
left a glass of lemonade with a spoon in it on a windowsill one very cold
night; the next morning the ice pop was born.
~ The first member of the British royal family ever to leave home for a haircut
was Queen Elizabeth II. It was in Malta back in the days when she was a
princess, and she is said to have enjoyed the experience.
~ Gustav Mahler composed his first piece of music at the age of four, Sergei
Prokofiev composed his first piece of music aged five, and Wolfgang Mozart was
just eight when he composed his first symphony.
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Birthday’s Today
94 - John Paul Stevens, Supreme Court Justice
85 - Bradford
Dillman, SF California, actor (Piranha, Sudden Impact, Enforcer)
82 - Loretta Lynn, Butcher's Hollow Ky,
singer (Coal Miner's Daughter)
79 - Frank Serpico, American policeman
74 - Julie Christie, Assam India, actress
(Dr Zhivago)
74 - Pete Rose,
Cincinnati Ohio, MLB player and manager (Cincinnati Reds)
54 - Robert Carlyle,
Glasgow, Scotland, actor (Trainspotting, The Full Monty)
42 - Adrien Brody,
American actor (The Pianist)
38 - Sarah
Michelle Gellar, actress (Kendall-All My Children, Buffy)
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Remembered for being born today
- Arnold Toynbee,
England, historian (Study of History) 1889-1975@86
- Rod
Steiger, West Hampton NY, actor (Pawnbroker) 1925-2002@77
- Junius S Morgan,
philanthropist (Metro Museum of Art) 1813-1890@76
- Edward C Tolman,
US psychologist (behaviorism) 1886-1959@73
- Anne Mansfield Sullivan, US, educated Helen Keller 1866-1936@70
- Christian Huygens,
astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings) 1629-1695@66
- Francois "Doc"
Duvalier, dictator of Haiti 1907-1971@64
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Historical Obits Today
Burl Ives, folk
singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)-1995@85
Simone de
Beauvoir, French author (She Came to Stay), pneumonia-1986@78
Fredric
March, American actor (Inherit the Wind), cancer-1975@ 77
George Frideric Handel,
Baroque composer-1759@74
Anthony
Newley, British actor and singer, cancer-1999@67
Louis
Sullivan, architect (father of skyscrapers)-1924@67
Rachel
Carson, American biologist/author (Silent spring), cancer-1964@56
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Brain Teasers Answers
message, punishment, pepper, governor, cook, league, mustard,
admission
The reverse order is also acceptable.
Explanation:
Each of the words can be preceded by a military rank to form a phrase.
(private) message,
(corporal) punishment,
(sergeant) pepper,
(lieutenant) governor,
(captain) cook,
(major) league,
(colonel) mustard,
(general) admission
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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…§
