Apr 27

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Apr 27, 2019 Week: 17 \ Day: 117

86004:   H 74° \ L ° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest wildfire:  487mi. Nearest lightning:  167mi

Record High: 77°[2009]   Record Low: 10°[1984]

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

Today’s Quote

Art does not reproduce what we see;

rather, it makes us see.

Paul Klee

Random Tidbits

The average child in the United States will wear down 730 crayons by his or her tenth birthday.

The scent of Crayola crayons is among the twenty most recognizable to American adults.

Observances This Week

National Dance Week: 19-28 Link 
National Park Week: 20-28  Link
Passover: 20-27
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week: 21-27 Link 
Administrative Professionals Week: 21-27 
Bedbug Awareness Week: 21-27  
Chemists Celebrate Earth Week: 21-27
Festival of Ridvan: 21-5/2
Fibroid Awareness Week: 21-27  
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week:21-27  Link
National Coin Week: 21-27
National Infertility Awareness Week: 21-27  Link
National Paperboard Packaging Week: 21-27
National Pet ID Week: 21-27 Link  Link
National Princess Week: 21-27    Link
Orthodox Holy Week: 21-27
Preservation Week:21-27 Link (re: Libraries)
Sky Awareness Week: 21-27  
World Hula Week: 21-27 
International Dark Sky Week: 22-28
American Quilters Society Week: 24-27
National Scoop The Poop Week: 24-30
World Immunization Week: 24-30
International Mariachi Week: 24-27
National Tattoo Week: 24-29 Link
Fiddler's Frolic: 25-28
Gathering of the Nations Powwow: 25-27 Link
AFRMA (Fancy Rat & Mouse) Days: 26-28 Link
Interstate Mullet Toss:  26-28
National Dream Hotline:  26-28
Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of Prayer and Fasting: 27-28  Link
National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW): 27-5/4  Link

Observances for Today

Babe Ruth Day
Bob Wills Day Link  
Eeyore's Birthday Day  Link
Independent Bookstore Day 
International Table Top Day  Link 
International Sculpture Day Link  
Mantanzas Mule Day
Morse Code Day 
National Dance Day 
National Devil Dog Cakes Day  Link
National Go Birding Day:  27 
National Herb Day:27 
National Kiss of Hope Day  Link
National Little Pampered Dog Day  Link  Link
National Pool Opening Day:  27 Link  
National Prepare-A-Thon Day:  27 Link  
National Prime Rib Day

National Rebuilding Day:  27 
National Take Back Day:  27 Link  (DEA) 
National Sense of Smell Day:  27 Link 
Record Store Day
Save The Frogs Day:27 Link  
Tell a Story Day

World Healing Day:  27 Link 
World Tai Chi & Qigong Day Link  
World Veterinary Day

My Rambling Thoughts

I had a great lunch yesterday with our retirement group. Mary shared her pics from her trip to Prague and Budapest. The architecture was astounding. She had a great adventure with her brother and his wife.

Joe Biden has been all over the TV since he announced. I like him, he has good ideas, but I’m not sure he will be able to get the younger generation behind him. Guess I’ll just let the cards play out.

Tomorrow night is our discussion group…on US/Mexico trade. Lots to read between now and the meeting.

This measles issue is getting scary. And what caused it? Those who know say that it is because a very large number of youth have not been vaccinated as their parents believed a disproved link to other problems, like autism. I just keep remembering the post I saw a few years ago. It was a picture of Abe Lincoln and the quote: Not everything on the internet is true. Signed Abraham Lincoln.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Picture three boxes containing fruit. The first box is marked peaches, the second is marked oranges, and the third box is marked peaches and oranges. Each of the boxes is labeled incorrectly. How could you label each box correctly if you were allowed to select only one fruit from one of the boxes?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1500’s

1539 Re-founding of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann and Sebastián de Belalcázar.

1600’s

1667 Blind and impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for £10

1800’s

1865 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) is chartered

1900’s

1911 Indian passive resistance is suspended when General J.C. Smuts enters into negotiations with Mahatma Gandhi

1937 1st US social security payment made

1946 1st radar installed aboard a commercial ship

1959 Mao Zedong resigns as Chairman of the PRC after the disastrous failure of the Great Leap Forward

1981 Xerox PARC introduces the computer mouse

1986 Soviet authorities order the evacuation of the city of Pripyat (pop. 50,000) 1 day after the Chernobyl nuclear accident

1989 Beijing students take over Tiananmen Square in China

1992 Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history.

1994 Former US President Richard Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California

2000’s

2006 Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City

2011 The deadliest day of the 2011 Super outbreak of tornadoes, the largest tornado outbreak, in United States history.

2011 U.S. President Barack Obama, coerced by incessant false "birther" accusations, publicly releases a copy of his birth certificate

2018 Historic Korean summit, the North's Kim Jong-un and Moon Jae-in of South Korea agree to officially end Korean war and rid peninsula of nuclear weapons

2018 German leader Angela Merkel has a 1-day trip to Washington meeting US President Donald Trump

Birthdays Today

1791 Samuel Morse,

(d. 1872: @80)

American inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter,

born in Charlestown, Massachusetts

1822 Ulysses S. Grant,

(d. 1885: @63: throat cancer)

18th US President (1869-77) and Union general, born in Point Pleasant, Ohio

1900 Walter Lantz,

 (d. 1994: @94)

American cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker's creator), born in New Rochelle, New York

1904 Cecil Day-Lewis,

(d. 1972: @68)

Irish poet (British Poet Laureate 1968-72) and detective writer (Nicholas Blake),

born in Ballintubbert, Queen's County

1922 Jack Klugman,

(d. 2012: @90)

American actor (Oscar-Odd Couple, Quincy, Goodbye Columbus), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1927 Coretta Scott King,

(d. 2006: @78: ovarian cancer)

American activist and wife of Martin Luther King Jr.,

born in Heiberger, Alabama

1927 Sheila Scott,

(d. 1988: @66: cancer)

English aviator (completes 1st round-the-world solo flight by a woman),

born in Worcester, Worcestershire

1932 Casey Kasem,

 (d. 2014: @82)

American radio personality (creator of American Top 40),

born in Detroit, Michigan

1939 Judy Carne,

(d. 2015: @76: pneumonia)

English comedienne and actress (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop),

born in Northampton, England

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60’s

67- Paul "Ace" Frehley,

American heavy metal guitarist (Kiss; Frehley's Comet),

born in The Bronx, New York

50’s

50- Cory Booker,

American politician, 36th Mayor of Newark (2006-13),

born in Washington, D.C.

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@85-2002 Ruth Handler,

American toy manufacturer (invented the Barbie doll)

70’s

@78-1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson,

American poet (Representive Men),

dies of pneumonia

@76-1999 Al Hirt,

American trumpeter (Java)

@72-1998 Carlos Castaneda,

Peruvian-born American writer and mystic,

dies from cancer

50’s

@57-1965 Edward R. Murrow,

American newscaster (Person to Person),

dies of lung cancer

@50-1521 Ferdinand Magellan,

Portuguese explorer,

killed by Filipino natives dies while on voyage to circumnavigate the world

30’s

@34-1813 Zebulon Pike,

American brigadier general and explorer (Pike's Peak),

dies in battle

Puzzle answer:

First you select a fruit from the box marked peaches and oranges. If it was a orange you selected, you know that the box could only contain oranges. If it was a peach, you know that the box could only contain peaches since each box is incorrectly marked. If, for example an orange was selected, you would mark that box oranges and switch the other two incorrect labels around. Now all three would be correctly labeled.