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Almanac: Week: 18 \ Day: 116
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 50°\L 40° Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 29mph
Ave. High: 61° Record High: 79°
(1996) Ave. Low: 29° Record
Low: 17° (1984)
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Observances Today:
Audubon
Day National Pet
Parent's Day
Do
Dah Day (Pasadena) National
Pretzel Day
Hug
An Australian Day Pinhole
Photography Day
Kids
and Pets Day Richter Scale
Day
Mother,
Father Deaf Day Satchmo
Days
National
Help A Horse Day World Intellectual
Property Day
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Observances This Week:
22-27
24-30
Interstate Mullet Toss National Dance Week
National Dream Hotline National Scoop
The Poop Week
24-26
Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of
Prayer
National & Global Youth Service
Days
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1607 - 1st
British colony in American lands at Cape Henry, Virginia
1819 - Odd
Fellows Lodge forms
1906 - 1st
motion pictures shown in Hawaii
1907 - Jamestown,
Va Tercentenary Exposition opens
1925 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Edna Ferber for "So big"
1941 - A
tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium (Chicago Cubs)
1957 - Jamestown,
Va 350th Anniversary Festival opens
1971
- SF lightship replaced by automatic buoy
1977 - Opening
of Studio 54 in New York, N.Y.
1984
- President Reagan visits China
1992
- Alex Haley, (Roots), wins 1992 Ellis Island Award, posthumously
1995
- Coors Field, opens in Denver, Rockies beat
Mets 11-9 in 14 innings
2012
- Indonesia suspends imports of American beef
after a confirmed case of
mad cow disease in California
1925
- A monument honoring Charles Poston, the "Father of Arizona,"
dedicated
on Poston Butte near Florence
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Today’s World Events through History
1467 - Miraculous
image in Our Lady of Good Counsel appear in Genazzano, Italy
1514 - Copernicus makes
his 1st observations of Saturn
1654 - Jews
are expelled from Brazil
1755 - 1st
Russian university opens (Moscow)
1841 - "Bombay
Gazette" begins publishing on silk
1928 - Madame
Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London
1959 - Cuba
invades Panama
1968 - Students
seize administration building at Ohio State
1980
- Iran begins scattering US hostages from US
Embassy
1986
- World's worst nuclear disaster:
4th reactor at
Chernobyl nuclear power station in USSR explodes, 31 die,
contamination reach
much of Western Europe
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy and wet day here in our usually dry mountain town.
NICE! Still expecting 2” of snow
tonight. OK. Wind didn’t help us either.
Another lazy Saturday with not a whole lot to do…minor cleaning,
catching up on DVR and Netflix. Very enjoyable.
When I lived on the Rez I had no problem with house plants…even
had a huge fern in the middle of the desert. Here is a much different story. I
can’t figure out if it is that there is not enough sunlight or what. Some just
don’t grow even after replanting in larger pots. They are just fine, they just
never grow. Others just don’t live that long. My Pathos has been near the
living room window, replanted in a bigger pot and after 2 years it is the same
size as when I bought it. Oh well, I’m the only one who knows it isn’t growing.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Each
group of three definitions describes three words that are spelled the same,
except for one letter (each group describes a different set of words). Example:
king, ring, wing.
1a) competition
1b) satisfied
1c) the circumstances surrounding an act or event
2a) to rain hard
2b) sullen
2c) a number
3a) a tartan skirt
3b) a heated enclosure used for drying
3c) to deprive of life
4a) to contaminate
4b) to force into something
4c) flea
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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***NEW***…Cool
Facts…
~ "Monowi" is a town in Nebraska that has a population
of 1; the Mayor pays taxes to herself.
~ There's a restaurant in Albuquerque called Tim's Place that
serves breakfast, lunch, and hugs - and it's owned by a man with Down's
Syndrome.
***NEW***…Film
Facts…
~ In the Harry Potter series, Tom Riddle has a different name
depending on which language the book is in, in order to preserve the anagram in
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
~ A movie theater in China mistakenly used a gay fan-made
Photoshop picture as the official poster for Thor 2.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
~
The City Beautification Commission has voted to spend $150,000 to
bury the utilities between Humphreys and Switzer Canyon on Santa Fe Avenue,
saying that the lines constitute visual clutter and therefore contributes to
the uglification of the downtown area. The Main Street Foundation is working on
installing historic signs and streetlights. Work on paving, curbs, gutters and
sidewalks may be delayed. Shartie Barre workers are back on the job as of this
Monday morning and expect the work to be complete in about 8 weeks
~
There’s to be a Re-cyclathon on Saturday between 9 and 4 in the
new Bashas' parking lot in Woodlands Shopping Center.
~
A new pump house has been built at Banjo Bill campground to
replace the one destroyed by a fallen tree last summer.
…Harper’s
Index…
1 in 3-Chance that a Republican voter has thought about the
midterm elections “only a little”
1 in 2-That a Democratic voter has
…Linguistic
Facts…
There are at least 7201 languages in the world today
2301 in
Asia; 2138 in Africa; 1313 in the Pacific;
1064 in
the Americas; 286 in Europe
…Murphy’s
Real Laws…
28. Flashlight: A case for
holding dead batteries.
29. The shin bone is a device for finding
furniture.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Lead will float in mercury, but a lump of tungsten will sink right
to the bottom
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2 jokes
for the day
Q: Why did the T-rex
go to the doctor?
A: Because he had a Dino-sore!
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An elderly couple was in bed one night and the
woman woke up from a bad dream. She was scared and panicking.
Her husband awoke and turned the light on to calm her. He asked what was wrong.
She said "I had a dream that I died and you got remarried." She asked
him, "If I died tomorrow, would you get remarried?"
He said "Sure, I don’t want to spend the rest of my life lonely."
Then she asked, "Well would you two live in this house?"
He replied "Sure, we just got finished paying off our mortgage."
She asked again, angry now, "Well would she sleep in this bed?"
He snickered and said "Yes, of course, this bed is brand new and
expensive, there's no reason to rid of it."
She asked irately, "Well would she use my golf clubs?!"
He replied with a straight, serious face, "No. She's left handed."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
AMARILLO,
Texas (UPI) - A California woman broke her own world record by eating three
steak dinners -- 13.5 pounds of steak plus sides -- in less than 20 minutes at
a Texas event. Competitive eater Molly Schuyler, a 124-pound mother of four,
downed three 72-ounce steak dinners, which each came with a baked potato, a
shrimp cocktail and a side salad, to take the top spot Sunday at the The Big
Texan Steak Ranch's Big Texas Steak Challenge in Amarillo. Schuyler downed two
of the meals in less than 15 minutes last year, so the restaurant gathered four
teams of two people to face off against Schuyler, who ate solo. Schuyler came
in first, with a finish of less than 20 minutes. "They would have had to
eat their half in like four minutes," Schuyler told the Amarillo
Globe-News of her competitors. "If you're not used to doing this, four
minutes is hard." The eatery said Schuyler set a world record last year
when she finished her first steak dinner in 4 minutes, 58 seconds, and she
broke her own record Sunday by finishing off her first meal in 4 minutes, 18
seconds. "I come in thinking I'm going to fail, but you know if I win it's
a lovely parting gift and that's cool. I also get free steak so I don't really
lose," she told KFDA-TV. Organizers of the competition said Schuyler's
feat will be submitted to Guinness World Records.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Butterflies
are a long-standing part of the earth's environmental fabric, with butterfly
fossils dating back as far as 40-50 million years ago.
Butterflies go through four stages - egg, caterpillar, pupae and adult. Some
species have just one brood a year, while others may spawn up to four
generations annually.
Millions of Monarch butterflies, which reside in the Northeast in the summer,
make a 2,000-mile migration down to Mexico for the winter months. After
congregating there, they'll mate and new generations will make the return trip
back north in the warmer months.
Monarchs are toxic and in fact, some butterfly species such as the Viceroy play
on that feature by mimicking the signature bright orange and black coloring of
Monarchs to discourage birds from eating them.
Butterflies are sensitive to pesticides and habitat loss, both of which have
been driving a decline in butterfly populations. Some of the most successful
butterflies eat agricultural products that man has modified.
In addition to their physical beauty, butterflies act as one of nature's
couriers. In the case of Monarch butterflies, which pollinate milkweed, they
may transfer a pollen sac to the next plant on their legs or other body parts.
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Birthday’s Today
97 - I[eoh] M[ing] Pei, Canton, China, architect (1961 Brunner Prize)
82 - Carol
Burnett, comedian/actress (Annie, 4 Seasons)
77 - Duane Eddy,
Phoenix, Az, country singer (Peter Gunn, Cannonball)
73 - Bobby Rydell,
Phila Pa, rock singer (Wild One, Bye Bye Birdie)
52 - Jet Li,
Beijing, Chinese actor and martial artist (Romeo Must Die)
50 - Kevin James,
comedian (King of Queens)
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Remembered for being born today
- Vicente
Aleixandre, Spain, writer (Ambito, Nobel 1977) 1898-1984@86
- Frederick Law
Olmsted, landscape architect (Central Park)1822-1903@81
- Gracie Allen,
Mrs George Burns, comedienne 1906-1964@69
- Warren
Clarke, English actor (Clockwork Orange) 1947-2014@67
- Muhammed,
founder of Islam, according to the Shi'a sect.
Other
sources suggest April 20. Observed according to the Islamic lunar calendar 570-632@61ish
- Antonius Marcus
Aurelius, Rome, Emperor of Rome 121-180@58
- Alice Cary,
Cincinnati, American poet (Cincinnati Sentinel) 1820-1871@50
- Erminnie Adelle Platt, ethnologist (Iriquois-English
Dictionary)1836-1886@50
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Historical Obits Today
Mason
Adams, American actor-2005@86
Jack
Valenti, American political advisor and film executive-2007@85
George
Jones, American country musician-2013@81
William "Count"
Basie, jazz piano great, cancer, 1984@79
Lucille
Ball, comedienne (I Love Lucy), heart attack, 1989@78
[William] Broderick
Crawford, actor (Highway Patrol), strokes-1986@74
Jim Davis, actor
(Jack Ewing-Dallas), cancer, 1981@71
Irene
Ryan, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies), stroke, 1973@69
Johan N C "Joan"
Collette, painter-1958@68
John
Wilkes Booth, assassin, shot-1865@27
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) contest, content, context
2) pour, dour, four
3) kilt, kiln, kill
4) infect, inject, insect
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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…§
