Apr 3,
2021 Week: 14 Day: 93
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Visibility: 10 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover: 10% |
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Local:
H 69 °\ L 40° |
Nearest Lightning: 10mi. |
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Wind:
7mph/ Gusts: 15mph |
High Risk of Fire: Active fire: 61 mi |
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Record: 71°[1961] Record: 8°[1990] |
Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
From now on, I'll connect
the dots my own way.
~Bill Watterson
Random Tidbits
Persians first began
using colored eggs to celebrate spring in 3,000 B.C. 13th century Macedonians were
the first Christians on record to use colored eggs in Easter celebrations.
Crusaders returning from the Middle East spread the custom of coloring eggs,
and Europeans began to use them to celebrate Easter and other warm weather
holidays.
A Little Something to Think About
The Eiffel Tower is the most photographed object on Instagram
They discovered Cosmic Rays at the Eiffel Tower.
Today it has 8 elevators and two restaurants.
They still have a post office, near the gift shop, with its own
special postmark!
Common Words: New Meanings
Abdicate (V.), to give up all
hope of ever having a flat stomach.
Esplanade (V.), to attempt an
explanation while drunk.
Willy-nilly (Adj.), impotent.
True Things
Free-diver swims 394 feet
under ice
A French free-diver
plunged into a frigid lake in Finland to swim 394 feet under the ice and break
a world record. Arthur Guerin-Boeri, 36, a five-time world champion free-diver,
plunged into the lake while wearing a wet suit, but no gloves or flippers.
Guerin-Boeri swam 394 feet under the ice, spending about three minutes
submerged. The free-diver's feat came just one month after Czech free-diver
David Vencl swam 265 feet under the ice of a quarry northwest of Prague while
wearing only his bathing suit. Evidence from Guerin-Boeri's swim is now being
submitted to Guinness World Records.
Monthly Observations
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Fair Housing Month Link |
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 |
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National Robotics Week Link |
3-11 |
Today’s Observations
Don't Go to Work Unless it's Fun Day - I know your decision
Every Day is Tag Day Link
Fan Dance Day
Find a Rainbow Day Link ("Share A Rainbow
Day.")
Holy Saturday [Christian]
International Pillow Fight Day CANCELLED
National Chocolate Mousse Day
National Film Score Day Link
National Hand Made Day Link
National Love Our Children Day
National Play Outside Day Link
NCAA Men's Basketball Final Four Championships
Pony Express Day
Tangible Karma Day
Tweed Day
Walk to Work Day
Weed Out Hate
World Party Day Link Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Great day…I have my windows open for the first time in forever. Spring
is definitely here.
Good Friday always reminds me of my youth. Until I was about 11, every
Good Friday my mom would get us ‘cleaned up’ and drive to a good friend’s house
where 5 more kids and a Catholic mom would drive us around to many…probably 4
or 5…Catholic Churches. We would go in, kneel, say a prayer, leave a coin in
the collection plate and head out to another church. We either ended at a
Catholic or Episcopal Cathedral in town. Then it was back to one of the houses
for snacks. An amazing memory.
Our country is beginning to remind me of the movie Jaws…Just when
you thought it was safe to back in the water… A cop is shot, another cop and
the suspect are killed on the Capitol grounds. Complete coverage from the news
networks with he banner CAPITOL LOCKED DOWN, showing cops and yellow
tape everywhere, flags drop to half mast, prayers are offered to the families
and injured, lots of ‘thank you’ comments to the Capitol police, Nat’l Guard,
Metro Police. More barriers go up around a free country’s legislative buildings.
Then in a couple of days the conservatives will change their babbling that we
have too many barriers around the Capitol. I also noted that the Chief of Capitol Police
and the Chief of Metropolitan Police are both acting as both former Chiefs lost
their jobs after the Jan. 6th insurrection. This has to stop. I must
wonder if April 3, 2021 is really a countdown…4-3-21.
On a lighter note: Gov. Kristie Noem [R-SD] is very vocal of her conservative
agenda. She has sent out a tweet about Biden’s plan to fix the infrastructure.
She is upset because there is $80million for AMTRAK to upgrade various tracks and
there is zero dollars that go to South Dakota, Alaska, or Hawaii. SMH
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
Find a number less than 100 that is increased by one-fifth of its
value when its digits are reversed.
Historical Events
33 – Two researchers from
Oxford published a paper that put the definitive date of Jesus’ crucifixion: Friday,
April 3, 33 AD
1860 – Pony Express mail,
traveling by horse and rider relay teams, simultaneously left St. Joseph,
Missouri, and Sacramento, California. They used horses, not ponies.
1882 – A Tombstone reads,
“Jesse W. James, Died April 3, 1882, Aged 34 years, 6 months, 28 days, Murdered
by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here.” Jesse James
was shot and killed by frenemy Robert Ford for the reward money. There was a
$5,000 bounty on the bank-robber, but they gave Ford $500 and then arrested
him.
1885 – Gottlieb Daimler
was granted a German patent for his engine design.
1895 – The trial in the
libel case brought by Oscar Wilde began, eventually resulting in his
imprisonment on charges of homosexuality.
1936 – Bruno Richard
Hauptmann was executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus
Lindbergh, Jr., the baby son of pilot Charles Lindbergh.
1953 – TV Guide published
its first issue
1955 – The American Civil
Liberties Union announced it would defend Allen Ginsberg’s book Howl against
obscenity charges.
1956 – Elvis Presley
appeared on the Milton Berle Show.
1966 – The USSR’s Luna
10, the first spacecraft to orbit the moon, entered lunar orbit and completed
its first orbit 3 hours later.
1968 – Martin Luther
King, Jr. delivered his ‘I’ve Been to the Mountaintop’ speech. in Memphis,
Tennessee.
1973 – The first portable
phone call was placed by inventor Martin Cooper to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs.
1983 – Martin Cooper,
Motorola project manager, demonstrated the 1st mobile phone, the DynaTAC 8000x.
It was designed by Rudy Krolopp and the 2½ pound cell phone was soon made
available for $3,995.
1996 – “Unabomber”
Theodore Kaczynski was captured at his cabin in Montana.
2000 – Microsoft was
ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping “an oppressive
thumb” on its competitors.
2009 Australia formally
adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
2012 Spanish unemployment
reaches record high, youth unemployment stands at 50%
2020 US aircraft carrier
captain Brett Crozier cheered off his ship after being fired for a letter
demanding more help for his sailors infected with COVID-19
2020 London's Nightingale
hospital opened by Prince Charles (remotely) after nine days with 4,000 beds to
treat COVID-19 patients at the ExCeL Centre
Birthdays Today
@97 – Doris Day, actor [d. 2019]
87 – Jane Goodall,
English primatologist and anthropologist
@80 – Marlon Brando, American actor (d. 2004)
79 – Marsha Mason,
American actress
79 – Wayne Newton,
American singer
77 – Tony Orlando,
American singer
@76 – Washington Irving, American short story writer, essayist,
historian (d. 1859; heart attack)
63 – Alec Baldwin,
American actor and comedian
62 – David Hyde Pierce,
American actor
60 – Eddie Murphy,
American comedic actor
@43 – Lyle Alzado, football player, actor (d. 1992; brain cancer/steroids)
22 – Paris Jackson,
American celebrity
Puzzle Answer
45 (1/5 of 45 = 9, 9 + 45 = 54)
