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Apr 18, 2019 Week: 16 \ Day: 109

86004:   H 56° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 25% 

Wind:  4 mph\Gusts:  6mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  436mi. Nearest lightning:  260mi

Record High: 79°[1989]   Record Low: 15°[2013]

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

Today’s Quote

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Random Tidbits

Previous to 1862, the government only collected sales tax on certain items such as alcohol and tobacco. President Lincoln created the IRS and enacted a 3 percent income tax on those who made between $600 and $10,000 to assist in covering Civil War costs. This would be repealed 10 years later.

The income tax system employed by the IRS that we know today would not be put into place until 1913 with the addition of the 16th amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which reads, "Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived..."

Observances This Week

Passiontide: 7-20
International Wildlife Film Week: 13-19  Link
Animal Control Officer Appreciation Week: 14-20 Link 
Holy Week: 14-20
National Karaoke Week: 14-20
National Dog Bite Prevention Week:14-20 Link 
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week: 14-20
National Student Employment Week: 14-20   Link
Pan American Week: 14-20
World Irish Dancing Week: 14-21
National Occupational Health Nursing Week: 15-19 Link
Cleaning For A Reason Week: 18-24
Consumer Awareness Week: 18-23
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week:

18-23

Observances for Today

Adult Autism Day
Get to Know Your Customers Day 
High Five Day Link 
International Amateur Radio Day
International Day for Monuments and Sites  Link
International Juggler's Day

National Animal Crackers Day

National Ask An Atheist Day Link 
National Columnists' Day:  18 Link

National D.A.R.E. Day Link   
National Health Care Decisions Day: thru 22 Link

National High Five Day

National Lineman Appreciation Day Link
Newspaper Columnists Day

Pet Owners Independence Day  Link  Link
Poem In Your Pocket Day  Link
World Amateur Radio Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

A decent day here at 7000’. I have a little fever today, can’t tell if it’s Spring Fever or Travel Fever. It’s been almost a year since an international trip and spring has definitely arrived. The only known meds are to travel or to get outside and enjoy the spring. I have to wait until June for the international travel, so guess I’ll just start spending more time outside.

I heard about and read about the crazy lady in Colorado who bought a shotgun and had some crazy thoughts about Columbine High School shooters. It’s been 20 years this weekend since that tragedy. We probably won’t know ever know much about her plans…she killed herself. About 60% of all high school students in Colorado got a day off. Thankfully no one else was injured or killed.

45 will never learn his place. Yesterday he chided Fox News for the Bernie Sanders Town Hall meeting on Fox. When I saw the ads for the Town Hall I wondered why Bernie wanted to be in the lion’s den, but from the highlights, it was really quite educational for all who watched. Fox may be changing…first hiring Donna Brazile, the former DNC chair and now Bernie’s town hall, another Dem Town Hall in May. There is hope after all.

Some of my FB friends are getting a message from me asking ‘How are you doing?’. It is not me. I was hacked and have changed my password. If you get the message, don’t respond and simply delete it. If you answer it, the jerk gets your FB information.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Alice is walking through the forest of forgetfulness. She wants to know what day of the week it is. She stops and asks a lion and a unicorn. Now the lion lies all of the time on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. The unicorn always lies on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Alice asks the lion what day it is, he says, "Well, yesterday was one of my lying days." Alice can't figure it out just from the lion's answer, so she asks the unicorn and the unicorn says, "Yesterday was also one of my lying days." What day is it?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1500’s

1506 The cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica is laid in the Vatican

1600’s

1676 Sudbury, Massachusetts, attacked by Indians

1688 "Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery": Francis Daniel Pastorius authors 1st formal written protest against African-American slavery in English colonies in Germantown, Pennsylvania

1700’s

1775 Paul Revere and William Dawes ride from Charlestown to Lexington warning the "regulars are coming!"

1783 Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day when it began

1800’s

1879 Trial of Standing Bear-Crook on Indians citizen rights begins

1900’s

1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city

1906 The Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement

1921 Junior Achievement incorporated in Colorado Spring

1924 1st crossword puzzle book published by Simon & Schuster

1925 World's Fair opens in Chicago

1934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Texas)

1942 "Stars & Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts

1955 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed

1958 A United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.

1968 London Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)

1973 US Government ends Mandatory Oil Import Program, established in 1959 by President Eisenhower

1977 Alex Haley author of "Roots" awarded Pulitzer Prize

1978 Senate votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999

1983 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Alice Walker for "The Color Purple"

1990 Supreme Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child pornography, even in one's home

2000’s

2012 The Casoria Contemporary Art Museum in Naples begins burning artworks after cultural institution budget cuts

2017 British Prime Minister Teresa May announces she will seek a "snap" election

Birthdays Today

1480 Lucrezia Borgia,

(d. 1519: @39: after childbirth)

Italian noblewoman, daughter of Pope Alexander VI,

born in Subiaco, Lazio, Italy

1857 Clarence Darrow,

(d. 1938: @80 )

American defense attorney at Scopes Monkey Trial,

born in Kinsman, Ohio

1881 Max Weber,

(d. 1961: @80)

Polish-Russian-American cubist painter,

born in Białystok, Russian Empire

1901 Al Lewis,

(d. 1967:@65)

American lyricist, songwriter and music publisher

(Blueberry Hill, You Gotta Be a Football Hero),

born in NYC, New York

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1922 Barbara Hale,

(d. 2017: @94)

American actress (Della Street in Perry Mason),

born in DeKalb, Illinois

1926 Günter Meisner,

(d. 1994: @68: heart failure)

German actor

(Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, Between Wars, Adolf Hitler, Quiller Memorandum),

born in Bremen, Weimar Republic

1927 Samuel P. Huntington,

(d. 2008: @81)

American political scientist (The Clash of Civilizations) and presidential adviser,

born in NYC, New York

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70’s

73- Hayley Mills,

English actress (Parent Trap, Pollyanna),

born in London, England

72- James Woods,

American actor (Salvador, Against All Odds),

born in Vernal, Utah

60’s

65- Rick Moranis,

Canadian actor (SCTV, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs),

born in Toronto, Ontario

50’s

58- Jane Leeves,

actress (Murphy Brown, Daphne Moon-Fraiser),

born in London, England

56- Conan Chris O'Brien,

American TV host (Late Night),

born in Brookline, Massachusetts

40’s

48- David Tennant [McDonald],

Scottish actor (Doctor Who, Broadchurch),

born in Bathgate, Scotland

43- Melissa Joan Hart,

American actress (Clarissa, Sabrina),

born in Smithtown, New York

40- Kourtney Kardashian,

American reality television star,

born in Los Angeles, California

30’s

35- America Ferrera,

American actress

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87-2002 Thor Heyerdahl,

Norwegian anthropologist and explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)

@87-1990 Robert D Webb,

American director and actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals)

@82-2012 Dick Clark

[Richard Wagstaff Clark],

American radio and television personality

(American Bandstand)

70’s

@76-1955 Albert Einstein,

German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity),

dies of an abdominal aortic aneurysm

60’s

@69-2013 Storm Thorgerson,

British graphic designer and music video director

(Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Genesis, The Cranberries),

dies of cancer

40’s

@44- 1945 Ernie Pyle,

American correspondent during WW II (Pulitzer Prize 1944),

killed during a battle

Puzzle answer:

Thursday.