Apr 9,
2021 Week: 15 Day: 99
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Visibility: 10 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover: 30% |
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Local:
H 71°\ L 35° |
Nearest Lightning: 981mi. |
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Wind:
8mph/ Gusts: 18mph |
EXTREME Risk of Fire: Active fire: 149mi |
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Record:77 °[1991] Record: 16°[1977] |
Apr. Averages: 60°/27° (3 days w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
We are going to have
peace even if we have to fight for it.
~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Random Tidbits
Most historians believe
that the Dutch were the first to introduce the modern doughnut to North America
in the form of olykoeks, or "oil cakes" as early as the mid-19th
century. These early doughnuts were balls of cake fried in pork fat.
Today over 10 billion
doughnuts are made in the U.S. each year.
Common Words: New Meanings
The Washington Post's Style Invitational also asked readers to take
any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one
letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year's winners:
1. Bozone (N.): The substance surrounding stupid people
that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately,
shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
2. Foreploy (V): Any misrepresentation about yourself for
the purpose of getting laid.
Weekly Observations
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National Cherry Blossom
Festival Link |
Thru
4/10 |
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National Robotics Week Link |
3-11 |
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Bat Appreciation Week |
4-10 |
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American
Indian Awareness Week Link CANCELLED |
5-9 |
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International
Dark Sky Week Link |
5-11 |
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Satchmo Days: Link Moved to
September 30 due to COVID |
8-11 |
Today’s Observations
Appomattox Day Link
Jenkins Ear Day
Jumbo Day (Elephant came to US and created the word for big in
our language.)
Name Yourself Day
National Cherish An Antique Day
National Chinese Almond Cookie
Day
National Dive Bar
Day Link
National Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
National Unicorn Day Link (Note: This is in
Scotland, but it's become popular worldwide.)
Siblings Day
Winston Churchill Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Nice day but clouds are coming in over the mountain. No precipitation
expected.
This vaccine hesitancy has me puzzled. I just read that 1/3 of active
troops decline the vaccine, even though 260,000 active troops have been
infected. Some are saying it is because the young all-volunteer force has
access to internet misinformation. Maybe, but where are the parents encouraging
their offspring to get the vaccine?
I have two medical stories: I’ve been using a CPAP machine for the
past 5+ years…not enough Oxygen at 7000’ when I sleep, and my breathing slows. I
have had to call them for new supplies every 3 months. Then I must wait a few
days for the stuff to arrive. This morning I got a call from the supplier that
my supplies were waiting to be picked up. What a happy shock as I was going to
call them tomorrow. Then there is my dentist office. I had an exam and cleaning
last month. The crazy lady said I owed $210. I asked about my insurance. She said
they don’t pay very much. I said to send it in and then send me a bill. I got
the bill; it was for $210. I called to
see why. She said the IT guy was on their server and she would call me back.
When she called back, she said that the billing person messed up and didn’t
send anything to the insurance. She will call me when it is straightened out. I said not to bother, just send the bill. Thank
goodness I didn’t pay when I was at the office, or I never would have known.
Tomorrow I’m pulling my tax info together and giving it to my tax guy.
I hate this time of year.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
54. A sundial has the fewest moving parts of any timepiece. Which has
the most?
Historical Events
1585 – Sir Walter Raleigh
departed England for Roanoke Island (now in North Carolina) to establish the
Roanoke Colony.
1865 – At Appomattox, Virginia, Confederate General Robert E. Lee
surrendered his 28,000 troops to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, ending the US
Civil War.
1867 – The Alaska
Purchase – the United States bought Alaska from the Russian Empire for $7.2
million, in a treaty ratified by the U.S. Senate.
1945 – The United States
Atomic Energy Commission was formed.
1957 – The Suez Canal in
Egypt was cleared and opened to shipping following the Suez Crisis.
1959 – NASA announced the selection of America’s first seven
astronauts for Project Mercury. They were Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper, John
Glenn, Gus Grissom, Wally Schirra, Alan Shepard, and Donald Slayton – the
“Mercury Seven”
1965 – Astrodome opened
with the first indoor baseball game is played. It was an exhibition game
between the Houston Astros and the New York Yankees. The Astros won 2-1.
1967 – The first Boeing
737 made its maiden flight.
1974 – Phil Brooks was
issued a US patent (#3,802,434) for a disposable syringe.
1981 – Nature published
the longest scientific name in history. With 16,569 nucleotides, the systematic
name for human mitochondrial DNA is 207,000 letters long. That would be over
1000 typical web pages.
1992 US Fed court finds
Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega guilty of 8 out of 10 drug and racketeering
charges
2002 Funeral of Queen
Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey UK. More than a million people
line the streets
2003 Baghdad falls to U.S. forces, ending the invasion of Iraq, but
resulting in widespread looting
2018 US Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois becomes the first
senator to give birth while in office
2019 Wolves have returned
to the Netherlands after 140 years claim ecologists
2019 Nine prominent Hong
Kong pro-democracy protesters found guilty on public nuisance charges for their
part in 2014 "Umbrella Movement"
Birthdays Today
@91 – Hugh Hefner, American publisher, founded Playboy Enterprises
(d. 2017)
82 – Michael Learned,
American actress
@77 – Paul Robeson, American singer, actor, and activist (d. 1976;
stroke)
67 – Dennis Quaid,
American actor
@65 – Carl Perkins, singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998; lung
cancer)
58 – Joe Scarborough,
American journalist
56 – Jeff Zucker,
American businessman
55 – Cynthia Nixon,
American actress
31 – Kristen Stewart,
American actress
21 – Lil’ Nas X [Montero Lamar Hill], rapper
Puzzle Answer
An hourglass, with thousands of grains of sand
