Apr 11

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Apr 11, 2019 Week: 15 \ Day: 101

86004:   H 48° \ L 31° \ Average Sky Cover: 60% 

Wind:   15mph\Gusts:  37mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire: 324 mi. Nearest lightning:  479mi

Record High: 75°[1907]   Record Low: 18°[1945]

Mar Averages: 59°\28° (3 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

I don't paint things.

I only paint the difference between things.

Henri Matisse

Random Tidbits

The theory of evolution suggests that ultimately every living thing can trace its ancestry to a bacterium that lived billions of years ago.

Charles Darwin did not come up with his theory of evolution while at the Galapagos Islands. His ideas came later, after his return from the voyage.

Bears, seals, and dogs are closely related carnivores but are on a different branch of the evolutionary tree than cats and hyenas.

Observances This Week

National Robotics Week: 6-14 Link
Bat Appreciation Week: 7-13 
Consider Christianity Week: 7-13 
National Blue Ribbon Week:  7-13  Link  (Child Abuse)
National Crime Victims Rights Week: 7-13  Link
National Library Week: 7-13  
National Public Health Week:  7-13 
National Volunteer Week: 7-13
National Window Safety Week:   7-13 
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Passion Week: 7-13
Passiontide: 7-20
American Indian Awareness Week:  8-12  Link
National Dental Hygienest Week: 8-12  Link 
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week: 8-12  Link
National Youth Violence Prevention Week: 8-12 Link
The Masters Tournament: 8-14
Undergraduate Research Week: 8-12  Link  
Week of The Young Child: 8-12 Link

Observances for Today

Barbershop Quartet Day
Celebrate Teen Literature Day
International "Louie Louie" Day
National Pet Day Link  Link
National Pie Day-13  Link
National Teach Children To Save Day
Submarine Day Link
World Parkinson's Disease Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

I woke up to some grey clouds and a lot of wind. When I headed out about 8a there was blowing snow. As I drove to the other side of town there was sun and wind, then no sun, wind, and snow, then the sun and wind again. A very weird storm. Nothing stuck but the sky remains cloudy and the wind continues to blow. My phone says: extreme pollen alert…whatever that is, high wind warning, and some blowing snow throughout the day. Last night the weatherman said it would snow on Friday. Ahh, Spring at 7000’. Hmmm.

How cool to ‘see’ a black hole. That photography is amazing. It was about 100 years ago that Albert Einstein first predicted them.  And now we have a pic of one.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Somehow you end up in a room which has three doors. Behind the first door, there is deadly poisonous gas. Behind the second door, there are trained assassins with knives. Behind the third door, there are lions which have not eaten in years. Which door would you choose to open?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s

1865 Abraham Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction

1876 Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks organizes in New York City

1881 Spelman College founded as Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary in basement of Friendship Baptist Church, Atlanta

1890 Ellis Island, New York, designated as an immigration station

1900’s

1900 The first modern submarine designed and built by John Philip Holland is purchased by the U.S. Navy

1951 US President Harry Truman relieves General Douglas McArthur of command in Korea

1953 US Department of Health, Education and Welfare created

1961 Trial of Adolf Eichmann for war crimes in World War II begins in Jerusalem, Israel

1967 Harlem (NYC) voters defy Congress & reelect Adam Clayton Powell Jr

1967 Tom Stoppard's play "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead" debuts in London at the Old Vic

1976 The Apple I computer, created by Steve Wozniak is released

1980 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment

1986 Halley's Comet makes closest approach to Earth this trip, 63 M km

1993 450 prisoners riot at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, and continue for ten days, citing grievances about prison conditions and the forced vaccination of Nation of Islam prisoners (for tuberculosis)

2000’s

2012 Billionaire Warren Buffett is diagnosed with prostate cancer

2013 Fossilized dinosaur eggs with embryos are discovered in China

2015 Barack Obama and Raúl Castro meet in Panama, the 1st meeting of US and Cuban heads of state since the Cuban Revolution

2016 UN-backed ceasefire comes into effect in Yemen conflict between Iranian-backed Houthis rebels and government forces

2016 Updated "Tree of Life" published in "Nature Microbiology" by scientists from Berkeley University in California

Birthdays Today

1755 James Parkinson,

(d. 1824: @69: stroke)

English physician (First description of Parkinson's disease) and political activist,

born in Shoreditch, London

1899 Percy Lavon Julian,

(d. 1975: @76)

African American chemist who received 130 patents, pioneer in the chemical synthesis of medicinal drugs from plants,

born in Montgomery, Alabama

1901 Adriano Olivetti,

(d. 1960: @58)

Italian engineer and manufacturer (typewriter),

born in Ivrea, Italy

1913 Oleg Cassini,

(d. 2006: @92)

American fashion designer (for Jackie Kennedy),

born in Paris, France

1947 Meshach Taylor,

(d. 2014: @76: cancer)

American actor (Designing Women),

born in Altadena, CA,

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90’s

91- Ethel Kennedy,

American human-rights campaigner (wife of Bobby Kennedy),

born in Chicago, Illinois

80’s

87- Joel Grey

[Joe Katz],

American actor (Cabaret, Remo Williams, 7% Solution),

born in Cleveland, Ohio

80- Louise Lasser,

American actress (Mary Hartman! Mary Hartman!),

born in NYC, New York

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@88-2013 Maria Tallchief

[Ki He Kah Stah Tsa],

American (Osage tribe) prima ballerina (The Nutcracker)

@84-2007 Kurt Vonnegut Jr,

American author,

dies from head trauma

70’s

@78-1983 Dolores Del Rio,

actress (Cheyenne Autumn),

dies of liver failure

@77-1926 Luther Burbank,

American horticulturist who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants,

dies of gastrointestinal complications

@71-2017 J. Geils

[John Warren Geils Jr],

American rock guitarist (J. Geils Band - Centerfold),

dies of natural causes

50’s

@58-1906 James Anthony Bailey,

American circus ringmaster and showman (Barnum & Bailey),

dies of acute infection

Puzzle answer:

You should open the door with the lions. If they have not eaten in years, they will be dead already.