In Navajo, April is ‘T’aachil’,
Growth of Early Plant Life
Apr 1,
2021 Week: 14 Day: 91
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Visibility: 10 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Local:
H 52°\ L 31° |
Nearest Lightning: 1132mi. |
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Wind:
11mph/ Gusts: 16mph |
High Risk of Fire: Active fire: 610mi |
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Record: 74°[2011] Record: 2°[1970] |
Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Tact is the ability to
describe others as they see themselves.
~Abraham Lincoln
Random Tidbits
Sleep is a universal
characteristic of complex living organisms and has been observed in insects,
mollusks, fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals. In fact, sleep is so important
that humans can survive longer without food than they can without sleep.
A Little Something to Think About
The Eiffel Tower was the centerpiece for the Paris World’s Fair in
1889.
The four corners are pointed North, South, East and West
True Things
A New York auction house
said a 15th century Chinese bowl bought for $35 at a yard sale was auctioned
for $721,800. Sotheby's said the small floral bowl, purchased from a
Connecticut yard sale for $35, had been expected to sell for up to $500,000
when it was sold as part of the auction house's Asia Week, but it exceeded
expectations by fetching a top bid of $721,800. The selling price was nearly
29,000 times the price that it was purchased for at the yard sale. The seller,
who was not identified, told Sotheby's he bought the bowl at a New Haven yard
sale in 2020 and sent photos to auction specialists to determine whether it was
potentially a valuable antique. The porcelain bowl was identified as a
"lotus bowl" from the court of the Yongle Emperor, who ruled from
1403 until 1424. Sotheby's said only six other lotus bowls from the same period
are known to still exist.
Monthly Observations
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Adopt A Ferret Month |
Weekly Observations
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Lent [Christian] Passover [Jewish] |
Thru
4/3 Thru
4/4 |
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Passiontide |
Thru
4/3 |
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National Cherry Blossom
Festival Link |
Thru
4/10 |
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Holy Week |
Thru
4/3 |
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APAWS Pooper Scooper Week |
1-7 |
Today’s Observations
Atheist Day Link
Boomer Bonus Days
Fun at Work Day
Holy Thursday
International Fun at Work Day
International Tatting Day Link
Library Snap Shot Day
Myles Day
National Burrito Day
National Fun Day
National Fun at Work Day
National Soylent Green Day
National Sourdough Bread Day
Poetry & The Creative Mind Day
Reading is Funny Day
Sorry Charlie Day
Sourdough Bread Day
St. Stupid Day Link
Take Down Tobacco Day Link (Formerly Kick Butts
Day)
US Air force Academy Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
March is going out like a lamb...nice weather. Looking forward to
other’s April Fools Day pranks.
I decided I would finally get a new computer today. Best Buy has restarted
in-store shopping after months of ‘by appointment only’. Little did I realize
that Covid made new computers almost impossible to find. They aren’t selling
the display models and they had only a few computers actually available.
Disappointed for sure. The clerk said he had been there for 5 years and now is
the worst time he has seen for electronics. They can’t get them because Covid
shut down so many plants that make the electronics parts and the plants that assemble
the electronics. A little bummed, but I can wait a while longer.
I watched some of the George Floyd trial. It is difficult to see so
many witnesses watch videos and relive this event. I have great empathy for the
jurors and the long list of witnesses.
The Focus Travel
Club website has been updated. There is a new event some
might be interest in…It is a live, virtual tour of one of the world’s most
famous museums. It is happening in mid-April, but sign-up has to happen soon.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
Guess the next three letters in the series: GTNTL.
Historical Events
33 – Estimated date of
Jesus Christ’s Last Supper
1853 – The first
professional, full-time US fire department with salaried firemen was
established in Cincinnati, Ohio.
1875 – Sir Francis Galton
published the first newspaper weather map, in The Times in London, England
1877 – Edward Schieffelin
founded Tombstone, Arizona, best known as the place where Doc Holliday and the
Earp brothers had their shoot-out with the Clantons and McLaurys at the O.K.
Corral in 1881
1934 – Bonnie and Clyde
kill two young highway patrolmen near Grapevine, Texas.
1938 – The first panda to
live in captivity outside China, Su Lin, died after a twig lodged in his throat
at the Brookfield Zoo, Chicago.
1957 – The BBC broadcast
the ‘spaghetti-tree hoax’ on its current affairs program Panorama, showing
spaghetti being harvested from trees.
1960 – The first weather
observation satellite, Tiros I, was launched from Cape Kennedy, Florida, and
made the first television picture from space.
1963 – ABC premiered
General Hospital, the daytime drama that eventually became the network’s
longest-running (soap opera) serial program produced in Hollywood. On the same
day, NBC debuted The Doctors.
1965 – On April 1, 1965,
Michael O’Mahony claimed on BBC TV to have invented Smell-O-Vision. Numerous
viewers called in and reported having experienced coffee and onion aromas
through their TV sets. #dontbeleiveanythingaprilfirst
1970 – President Richard
Nixon signed legislation officially banning cigarette ads on television and
radio.
1976 – Apple Computer
Company was formed by Steve Jobs Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne.
1983 – Monty Python’s The
Meaning of Life was released in theaters.
1984 – Singer Marvin Gaye
was shot three times and killed by his father during a domestic dispute.
1993 – Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority is founded in Los Angeles, California,
USA.
1997 – As part of a
crossover April Fools joke, Pat Sajak hosted Jeopardy and Alex Trebek hosted
Wheel of Fortune.
2001 – Same-sex marriage
became legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country allowing it.
2004 – Gmail was launched
on April 1 and was widely assumed to be an April Fools’ Day prank. They offered
1GB free storage in 2004 while other webmail services typically provided
between 5MB – 50MB.
2007 – Google sent an
email to all of its employees warning that a python was loose inside of their
New York office. It was not a joke.
2011 After protests
against the burning of the Quran turned violent, a mob attacked a United
Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan and killed thirteen people,
including eight foreign workers.
2013 The world’s first
smelling TV screen is unveiled in Japan
2017 Chinese leaders
announce plans to build city in Xiongan New Area, 3x size of New York
2019 Major archaeological
site announced discovered on a reef in the middle of Lake Titicaca, in Andes,
dated 8th and 10th centuries AD from Tiwanaku state
2019 US online sales
overtake retail sales for the first time, with 11.813% online compared with
11.807% for general merchandise stores.
2020 US President Donald
Trump says the US Strategic National Stockpile is almost depleted amid
widespread shortages of medical equipment to fight COVID-19
Birthdays Today
@84 – Debbie Reynolds, actor (d. 2016)
@83 – Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer, politician,
1st Chancellor of the German Empire (d. 1898)
82 – Ali MacGraw,
American actress
71 – Samuel Alito, American
lawyer, Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court
60 – Susan Boyle,
Scottish singer
48 – Rachel Maddow,
American journalist and author
@47 – Lon Chaney, American actor, director, screenwriter
(d. 1930; hemorrhage)
Puzzle Answer
I, T, S. The complete sequence is the first letter of every word in
the sentence.
