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Apr 14, 2019 Week: 16 \ Day: 104
86004: H 55° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 6mph\Gusts: 11mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest wildfire: 521mi. Nearest lightning: 322mi
Record High: 75°[1937] Record
Low: 5°[1972]
Mar Averages: 59°\28°
(3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
The glow of one warm thought
is to me worth more than money. Thomas Jefferson
Random Tidbits
The cell is the basic unit of life, and an
organism must be composed of at least one cell to qualify as a living thing.
The cells of every living organism contain
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a nucleic acid that holds the genetic instructions
for the development and functioning of a life form. It is this substance that
allows a living thing to grow and reproduce.
Observances This Week
National Robotics Week: 6-14 Link
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Passiontide: 7-20
The Masters Tournament: 8-14
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
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Passiontide: 7-20
The Masters Tournament: 8-14
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
Observances for Today
National
Dolphin Day
National Ex-Spouse Day Link
National Gardening Day Link
National Pecan Day Link
National Perfume Day Link
Palm Sunday
Pan American Day
Palm Sunday
National Ex-Spouse Day Link
National Gardening Day Link
National Pecan Day Link
National Perfume Day Link
Palm Sunday
Pan American Day
Palm Sunday
Pathologists' Assistant Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Our predicted
snow was another bust. Today is sunny and nice.
More great pics
are showing up on the FB page for Focus Travel. Thanks to all who are adding
pics.
A few months ago,
the HOA took away most of the visiting parking areas and made them by permit
only. And towed any vehicles without a permit at 10p @ night. Visitors now had
to walk a substantial distance to get to most of the units. Yesterday I got a
survey from the HOA about the new parking. Obviously, there have been a number of
concerns. This is a first for this HOA. I’m hoping they choose one of the choices,
not including the current situation. I figure one of two things happened to get
the change: first, a very loud squeaky wheel made a stink or two, a member of
the HOA is financially attached to the tow company as each of the 15+ towed or
booted vehicles had to pay $150 to get the vehicle back. In the past they have
towed permitted vehicles that backed into their parking space and disrupted the
uniformity of having all vehicles parking forward. The HOA loves uniformity…all
doors are the same color, security doors must be approved for their style, and
nothing can be placed in the front area or on the door without permisiion.
PUZZLE OF THE DAY
Answer at the bottom of this page
Which of the following statements are true, and
which are false?
1. Only one of the statements is false
2. Exactly two of the statements are false.
3. Only three of the statements are false.
4. Exactly four of the statements are false.
5. All five of these statements are false.
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1400’s
1434 The foundation stone of Cathedral St. Peter
and St. Paul in Nantes, France is laid
1600’s
1611 Word "telescope" is 1st used by
Prince Federico Cesi
1700’s
1775 1st abolitionist society in US organizes in
Philadelphia
1800’s
1828 First American Dictionary: its author Noah
Webster registers its copyright for publication
1836 US Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin
1841 1st detective story published, Edgar Allan
Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue" (April 1841)
1860 1st Pony Express rider arrives in San
Francisco from St Joseph, Missouri
1865 US President Abraham Lincoln is shot by
John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theater in Washington
1890 Pan American Day-1st conference of American
states (Washington, D.C.)
1900’s
1902 J. C. Penney opens his first store, The
Golden Rule Store, in Kemmerer, Wyoming
1906 US President Theodore Roosevelt denounces
"muckrakers" in US press, taken from John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
1910 President Taft begins tradition of throwing
out ball on opening day
1912 RMS Titanic hits an iceberg at 11.40pm off
Newfoundland
1927 The first Volvo car premieres in
Gothenburg, Sweden
1935 Black Sunday: Severe sandstorm ravages the
US Midwest, creating the "Dust Bowl"
1939 John Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of
Wrath" published
1940 RCA demonstrated its new electron
microscope in Philadelphia
1958 Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in
atmosphere
1960 American record company Motown, founded by Berry
Gordy Jr., is incorporated as Motown Record Corporation
1969 Student Afro-American Society seized at
Columbia College
1971 Supreme Court upheld busing as means of
achieving racial desegregation
1972 The Provisional Irish Republican Army
explodes twenty-four bombs in towns and cities across Northern Ireland
1977 US Supreme Court says people may refuse to
display state motto on license
1980 1st Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to
Florida
1980 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer
(Executioner's Song)
1981 1st Space Shuttle, Columbia 1, returns to
Earth
1983 US President Reagan signs $165 billion
Social Security rescue
1986 Desmond Tutu elected Anglican Archbishop of
Capetown
1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh
promises to surrender after completion of his Seven Seals manuscript
2000’s
2003 The Human Genome Project is completed with
99% of the human genome sequenced to an accuracy of 99.99%
2010 Icelandic Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins
erupting from the top crater in the center of the glacier
2015 Archeologists announce they have found at
Lomekwi in Kenya 3.3 million-year old stone tools, the oldest ever discovered
and which pre-date the earliest humans
Birthdays Today
1866 Anne Sullivan
[Johanna Sullivan Macy],
(d. 1936: @70: stroke)
American teacher who educated Helen Keller, born
in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts
1889 Arnold J. Toynbee,
(d. 1975: @86)
English historian (A Study of History), born in
London
1906 Faisal,
(d. 1975: @68: assassinated)
King of Saudi Arabia (1964-75),
born in Riyadh, Emirate of Nejd and Hasa
1907 François Duvalier
"Papa Doc",
(d. 1971: @64: heart disease)
Dictator of Haiti (1957-71),
born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti
1904 Sir John Gielgud,
(d. 2000: @96)
British stage and screen actor and director
(Arthur, Hamlet, Ages of Man),
born in London, England
1925 Rod Steiger,
(d. 2002: @77: kidney failure)
American actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker),
born in Westhampton, New York
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80’s
87- Loretta Lynn,
American country singer-songwriter (Coal Miner's
Daughter),
born in Butcher's Hollow Kentucky
83- Frank Serpico,
American policeman
70’s
79- Julie Christie,
British actress (Darling, Doctor Zhivago),
born in Chukua, Assam, India
50’s
59- Brad Garrett
[Brad H. Gerstenfeld],
American actor and comedian (Everybody Loves
Raymond),
born in Los Angeles, California
40’s
46- Adrien Brody,
American actor (The Pianist, The Grand Budapest
Hotel),
born in New York City
42- Sarah Michelle Gellar,
American actress (Kendall-All My Children, Buffy
the Vampire Slayer),
born in
New York City
Historical Obits Today
80’s
@85-1995 Burl Ives,
American folk singer and actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
70’s
@78-1986 Simone de Beauvoir,
French author and feminist
(The Mandarins, The Second Sex, She Came to Stay),
dies of pneumonia
@77-1975 Fredric March,
American actor (Inherit the Wind),
dies of prostate cancer
@76-2007 Don Ho,
American musician (Tiny Bubbles)
dies of heart failure
@74-1759 George Frideric Handel,
German-British baroque composer and organist
(Messiah, Water Music)
@73-2015 Percy Sledge,
American soul singer (When A Man Loves A Woman),
dies of liver cancer
60’s
@67-1999 Anthony Newley,
British actor and singer-songwriter
(Doctor Dolittle; Goldfinger theme; Willy Wonka score),
dies of renal cancer
@67-1924 Louis Sullivan,
American architect (father of skyscrapers)
50’s
@56-1964 Rachel Carson,
American biologist/author (Silent Spring),
dies after heart attack
Puzzle answer:
The only true statement can be #4.
The others are false.
#5 can't be true, because it says all the
statements are false.
