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Almanac: Week: 17 \ Day: 111
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 64°\L 30 Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 24mph
Ave. High: 60° Record High: 78°
(1989) Ave. Low: 30° Record
Low: 12° (1972)
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Observances Today:
Bulldogs
are Beautiful Day
Kindergarten
Day
National
Surprise Drug Test Day
Queen's
Birthday (real
date)
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Observances This Week:
18-23
National Toddler Immunization Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In
The Line of Duty Week
19-25
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness
Week
Bedbug Awareness Week
Coin Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer
Awareness Week
National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
National Environmental Education Week
National Occupational Health Nursing Week
National Infertility
Awareness Week
National Karaoke Week
National Pet ID Week
National Princess Week
Sky Awareness Week
20-24
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Playground Safety
Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
Safe Kids Week
Spring Astronomy Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1649 - Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all
freedom of worship
1789 - John Adams sworn in as 1st US VP (9
days before Washington)
1794 - NYC formally declares coast of Ellis Island
publically owned, so
they can build forts to protect NYC from
British
1806 - Department of War
establishes the office of Superintendent of Indian Trade.
1836 - Battle of San Jacinto, in which Texas wins
independence from Mexico
1857 - Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1862 - Congress establishes US Mint in Denver, Co
1869: Donehogawa (Ely Samuel Parker), a SENECA IROQUOIS, is appointed
as the first Indian to be Commissioner of
Indian Affairs. Donehogawa,
was trained as a lawyer and a civil engineer
1878 - First Lady Lucy Hayes begins egg rolling
contest on White House lawn
1878 - NY installs 1st firehouse pole
1919 - The State Prison,
Pioneers' Home and State Hospital in AZ for
the Insane were without funds. The Governor
ordered emergency
drafts to fund the institutions.
1952 - Secretaryies' Day (now Administrative
Professionals' Day) is first celebrated
1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st hit record,
"Heartbreak Hotel", becomes #1
1959 - Alf Dean using a rod & reel hooks a
2,664lb, 16' 10" white shark
1960 - Founding of the Orthodox Bahá'í Faith in
Washington, D.C.
1965 - New York World's Fair reopens for 2nd &
final season
1980 - 84th Boston Marathon won by Bill Rodgers of
Mass in 2:12:11
1984 - Centers for Disease Control says virus
discovered in France causes AIDS
1997 - Ashes of Timothy Leary & Gene
Roddenberry launched into orbit
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Today’s World Events through History
753 BC - Romulus and Remus found Rome (traditional
date)
1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England
1536 - Thomas Cromwell begins to plot Anne
Boleyn's downfall while
feigning illness
1689 - William III & Mary Stuart proclaimed
king & queen of England
1916 - Irish nationalist activist and poet Roger
Casement is discovered
at McKenna's Fort and is arrested by the
Royal Irish Constabulary
1916 - The Aud, carrying a cargo of 20,000 rifles
to assist Irish republicans
in staging what would become the 1916 Rising,
is captured by the British
Navy and forced to sail towards Cork Harbour
1960 - Brasilia becomes capital of Brazil
1970 - The Alliance Party of Northern Ireland
(APNI) is formed; it attempts
to
appeal to Catholics and Protestant to unite in support of moderate policies
1976 - Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters
testing
1989 - Thousands of Chinese crowd into Beijing's
Tiananmen Square cheering
students demanding greater political freedom
2013 - 185 people are killed in a conflict between
Islamic extremists and
the Nigerian military
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Started out very sunny but soon after high clouds rolled in. Thankfully still a warm day.
Ran some errands and decided that laundry can wait a few more
days. No big plans for the week, so things can always wait till the mood hits
me.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
do these three objects have in common?
Corn
Weasel
Balloon
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO - 1915
~ The population of Flagstaff is now
nearly 4,000. The City Council has purchased 500 feet of fire hose and a cart
to contain it.
~ The Confection Den bought 250 new
bread pans to meet the new demand and O. B. Raudenbough has installed a soda
fountain in his newsstand on Railroad Avenue.
~ W. H. Power, County Road
Superintendent reports the road between Flagstaff and Williams can now be used
by teams and autos since with the water going down rapidly in Davenport Lake
there is now no need for an outlet.
~ H. Hopkins has been appointed “Special
Speed Cop” for the purpose of reducing the speed of auto speed fiends. Two or
three prominent owners have been required to visit City Hall and explain why
they stepped so hard on their speed reservoirs.
…Harper’s
Index…
1/4: portion of US women aged 18-24 who have been stalked on line
…Language
Facts…
~ TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the
letters only on one row of the keyboard.
~ 'Go', is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
~ Everyone knows that the first video played on MTV was
"Video Killed the Radio Star." But what about VH1? Marvin Gaye's
version of "The Star-Spangled Banner." MTV2? "Where It's
At" by Beck. And MTV Europe went with "Money for Nothing" by
Dire Straits.
…Water
Facts..,.
~ The density of Saturn is so low that if you were to put it in a
giant glass of water it would float.
~ Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
…World Record
Facts…
~ The highest speed ever achieved on a bicycle was 167.04 mph by
Fred Rompelberg in 1995.
~ Ralph, the world's largest bunny, weighs 55 pounds; eats $90
worth of food a week.
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2 jokes
for the day
A woman in Atlantic City was losing at the
roulette wheel. When she was down to her last 10 dollars, she asked the fellow
next to her for a good number.
"Why don't you play your age?" he
suggested.
The woman agreed, and then put her money on
the table. The next thing the guy with the advice knew, the woman had fainted
and fallen to the floor. He rushed right over. "Did she win?" he
asked.
"No" replied the attendant.
"She put 10 dollars on 33 and 46 came in."
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A woman is in the bar of a cruise ship and she
asks the bartender for a scotch and two drops of water. As the bartender gives
her the drink, she says, "It's my birthday today, and I'm on the cruise to
celebrate my 80th birthday."
The bartender says, "Well, since it's your birthday I'll buy you a drink;
in fact, I'll take care of this one for you."
As the women finishes her drink the woman to her right says, "I guess I
should buy you a drink."
The old woman says, "All right. Bartender, I want a scotch and two drops
of water."
"All right," says the bartender. As she finishes her drink, the man
to her right says, "Since I'm the only one around you that hasn't bought
you a drink, I guess I might as well buy you one."
The old woman says, "All right. Bartender I want a scotch and two drops of
water."
"Coming right up," the bartender says. As he gives her the drink he
says,
"Ma'am, I'm dying of curiosity. Why the scotch and only two drops of
water?"
The old woman replies, "Sonny, you learn that when you're my age, you can
hold your liquor but you sure can't hold your water."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Bloomberg
Business: In March, offensive
lineman John Urschel of the Baltimore Ravens added to his curriculum vitae by
co-authoring the latest of his several peer-reviewed academic articles --
"A Cascadic Multigrid Algorithm for Computing the Fiedler Vector of Graph
Laplacians" in the Journal of Computational Mathematics. If Urschel can
understand, and even advance, tangled, obtuse formulas (which use familiar
numbers, e.g., 1, 2, 3, and Greek letters such as phi, lambda, and sigma --
lots of sigmas), why is he a football player, he asked himself on the Players
Tribune website. "There's a rush you get when you go out on the field . .
. and physically dominate the player across from you." He added, "I
love hitting people."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
We
all know the famous and successful Hollywood actress Anne Hathaway from
her roles in movies.
Movies such as “The Dark Knight Rises”, “Les Miserables”, “The Devil Wears
Prada” etc.
The
thing that you would probably didn’t know is that she has the same name as
William Shakespeare’s wife, Anne Hathaway!
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Birthday’s Today
89 - Elizabeth
Alexandra Mary Windsor, Elizabeth
II, Queen of the United Kingdom
68 - Iggy Pop, [James Osterberg], Mich,
rocker (Zombie Birdhouse)
64 - Tony Danza, Brooklyn, (Tony Banta-Taxi,
Tony Micelli-Who's the Boss)
36 - James McAvoy, Scottish actor
35 - Tony Romo, American football player
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Remembered for being born today
1915-2001@86 - Anthony Quinn, Mexico, actor, Zorba the
Greek)
1882-1961@79 - Percy Williams Bridgman, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1838-1914@76 - John Muir, US, naturalist/discoverer
(glaciers in High Seirras)
1816-1855@38 - Charlotte Brontë, English novelist
(Jane Eyre)
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Historical Obits Today
Gummo [Milton]
Marx, US comic (Marx
Brothers)-1977@83
Charles
Colson, Nixon adviser (Watergate)-2012@80
Joe
Sawyer, actor (Biff O'Hara-Adventures of Rin Tin Tin)1982@80
Jimmy
"The Greek" Snyder, oddsmaker/sportscaster, heart attack-1996@76
Mark
Twain [Samuel Clemens], author (Huckleberry Finn), heart
attack-1910@74
Nina
Simone, American singer and pianist, cancer-2003@70
Francois "Doc"
Duvalier, dictator of Haiti-1971@64
John
Maynard Keynes, English economist, heart attacks-1946@62
Johann
Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician-1825@59
"Red Baron",
[Manfred von Richtofen], shot down in WW I-1918@25
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Brain Teasers Answers
They all pop
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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…§
