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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1814 - Napoleon
abdicates for the first time
1818 - Congress
decided US flag is 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
1870 - Golden
Gate Park forms by City Order #800
1896 - Announcement
of Gold in Yukon
1916 - US Senate
agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I
1947 - Largest group
of sunspots on record
1968 - Martin
Luther King, Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee
1974 - Hank
Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home-run record by hitting his 714th
1975 - Microsoft is
founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen
1981 - Henry
Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
1989 - Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar's last NBA game in Seattle
Free Rambling
Thoughts
An interesting day. I
certainly learned today a lot about taxes. When you make money, you have to pay
taxes big time. About 25% of the money I made in one account went to taxes. I
had been warned by my financial advisor that this would happen, and it did. I
didn’t make enough to be like Mitt who only pays 15%. I think that the part
that bothers me the most is that our tax system is so friggin complicated, it
costs an arm and a leg and a couple more toes to have my taxes done. Every year
there are new forms, new tables, new laws, and they seldom help out people like
me. I trust my tax preparer so we joked, and I wrote the checks. I’m not
mailing anything to the government until the last day. I wish I had a little
more control—strike that—I wish I had a lot more control over where my tax
dollars went.
That 40 year old guy who
went to his college and killed 7 people in CA…sure sounds like a guy who was bullied. When will our country and its
citizenry realize that bullying leads to problems? He lined up those who had
made fun of him and shot them one by one. Some ran, and he chased them down to
shoot them. So sad and so unnecessary!
On the other side of the
bullying issue is the new, yet to be signed, AZ law that will make many
criminals. House Bill 2549 : "Prohibits using any electronic or digital
device, instead of a telephone, with the intent to terrify, intimidate,
threaten, harass, annoy or offend a person." The bill specifies that an
"electronic or digital device includes any wired or wireless communication
device and multimedia storage device." It is supposed to stop bullying on
social network sites…a good thing. However the
language is a tiny bit broad for my liking. People, even me, are annoyed or offended by some of the stuff
I read on Facebook or in emails. Some of the stuff is from politicians who
blather on and on about their so-called accomplishments. Some of the stuff is
religious zealots who hope I find their message enjoyable. Some of the stuff is
on-line arguments where one person calls another ‘too old to understand’ or ‘are
you insane?’. In AZ that might soon get you in trouble. Really?!? Yep, only in AZ.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A
close up picture of what?
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every answer is the name
of an animal you might see in the zoo. Name the animals from their anagrams.
For example, given "oil" plus "N," the answer would be
"lion."
1.
Reb+a:
2.
Ezra+b:
3.
Napa+d:
4.
Rite+ g:
5.
Nabob + o:
6.
Rawls _ U:
7.
Allege+ z:
8.
Gaffer + I :
9.
Enrapt + h:
10.
Gloria + l:
11.
Reload + p:
12.
Heeltap + n:
13.
Needier + r:
14.
Mechanize + P:
Riddle of the day
A man is lying drowned in a dead forest, far from water. How did this happen?
Anagram:
unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s
Index
Percentage by which the
average contracted project costs the government more than the equivalent government
run project: 83
Found on You
Tube
ANDY WARHOL INTERVIEW 1964
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
A woman in her eighties
made the evening news because she was getting married for the fourth time. The
following day she was being interviewed by a local TV station, and the
commentator asked about what it felt to be married again at that age and would
she share part of her previous experiences, since it seem quite unique the fact
that her new husband was a ‘funeral director.’
After a short time to
think, a smile came to her face and she proudly explained that she had first
married a banker when she was in her twenties, in her forties she married a
circus ring master, and in her sixties she married a pastor and now in her
eighties, a funeral director.
The amazed commentator
asked her why she had married men with such diverse carriers. With a smile on
her face she explained, ‘I married one for the money, two for the show, three
to get ready, and four to go.’
Rules of
Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
Three times the average distance you run every day is close to the maximum distance you should run in a race.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
London: A British businessman has discovered
what could be the earliest piece of Andy Warhol's "Pop Art" ever
found.
An art expert told the
U.K.'s ITN that the $5 bargain could be worth millions, if it's authenticated.
Channel 4 News in the U.K.
reported that the painting was bought by Andy Fields, of Devon, in Las Vegas,
from a drug user whose aunt cared for Warhol as a child. It said the picture
had been valued at more than $2 million.
Warhol was supposed to
have made the work when he was just 10 or 11 in the 1930s, Channel 4 said.
Somewhat Useless
Information
The earliest written record of magnification dates back to the 1st century AD, when Seneca the Younger, a tutor of Emperor Nero of Rome, wrote: "Letters, however small and indistinct, are seen enlarged and more clearly through a globe or glass filled with water". Nero (reigned 54-68 AD) is also said to have watched the gladiatorial games using an emerald as a corrective lens.
25% of the global population needs eyeglasses. The price for glasses in many African countries can exceed three months' average salary.
Calendar Information
…Happening This
Week:
1-7
The
APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week
Golden Rule Week
Holy
Week
International Pooper-Scooper Week
Laugh at Work Week
National Blue Ribbon Week
National Public Health Week
National Week of the Ocean
National Window Safety Week
Medication Safety Week
International Pooper-Scooper Week
Laugh at Work Week
National Blue Ribbon Week
National Public Health Week
National Week of the Ocean
National Window Safety Week
Medication Safety Week
2-7
Testicular
Cancer Awareness Week
Explore
Your Career Options
The Masters Tournament
The Masters Tournament
4-10
Hate
Week
Today Is
International
Day for Mine Awareness & Assistance in Mine Action
National
Day of Hope
Paraprofessional
Appreciation Day
Square
Root Day
Victims
of Violence Wholly Day
Vitamin
C Day
World
Rat Day
Tell-A-Lie
Day
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Senegal:
Independence Day
(1960 from France)
Today’s Other Events
1500’s
1581 - Frances
Drake completes circumnavigation of world; he becomes knight
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1800’s
1840 - Comanche Chief
Piava arranges an exchange of 2 prisoners with the residents of San Antonio.
Two captives from each side are released
1859 - Bryant's
Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the
finale of a blackface minstrel show
1879 - According to Army
files, a group of Indians stole almost 30 horses from Countryman's ranch, on
the Yellowstone River. Local citizens and "friendly" Crow pursued
them. They would be found on April 22, 1879.
1900’s
1900 - Assassination
attempt on prince of Wales/king Edward VII
1913 - The Greek
aviator Emmanuel Argyropoulos becomes the first pilot victim of the Hellenic
Air Force when his plane crashes
1914 - "Perils
of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA
1932 - George
Bernard Shaw's "Too True to be Good," premieres in NYC
1944 - British
troops capture Addis Ababa Ethiopia
1947 - Convention
on International Civil Aviation goes into effect
1949 - North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed (Wash DC)
1958 - 1st march
against nuclear weapons (Aldermaston England)
1966 - Pirate
Radio Scotland changes name to Radio Ireland
1972 - 1st
electric power plant fueled by garbage begins operating
1979 - President
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto of Pakistan is executed
1988 - Eddie Hill
becomes the world's first driver to cover the quarter mile in under 5 seconds
1994 - LA Dodger Darryl
Strawberry begins substance abuse treatment
2000’s
2002 - The
Angolan government and UNITA rebels sign a peace treaty ending the Angolan
Civil War
2008 - The raid
on the FLDS owned ranch called the YFZ Ranch in Texas, 401 children were taken
into custody. 133 woman were taken into state custody also, the total number of
woman and children is 534
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Clive Davis, American
record producer is 80
Cloris Leachman, Des
Moines Iowa, actress (Phyllis, High Anxiety) is 86
In their 70’s
Christine Lahti, Detroit,
actress (Chicago Hope) is 62
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In their 50’s
In their 40’s
Robert Downey Jr, NYC,
comedian (SNL, Less than Zero, Back to School) is 47
Nancy McKeon, Westbury NY,
actress (Jo Polniazek-Facts of Life) is 46
In their 30’s
David Blaine, American
illusionist is 39
Remembered for being
born on this day
Benjamin Kennicott,
English churchman and Hebrew scholar in 1718
Tad Lincoln, son of U.S.
president Abraham Lincoln in 1853
Pierre Monteux, Paris
France, conductor (Boston Symph Orch 1919-24) in 1875
Anthony Perkins, actor (Psycho)
in 1932
Karl Wilhelm Siemens,
inventor (laid undersea cables) in 1823
Thaddeus Stevens, US
Radical Republican congressional leader (Rep-R) in 1792
Today’s Obits
Oliver Goldsmith, Irish
poet (She Stoops to Conquer), dies of kidney failure at 43 in 1774
Martin Luther King Jr,
assassinated at 39 in 1968
John McLean, U.S. Supreme
Court Justice dies at 76 in 1861
John Napier, Scottish
mathematician/inventor (logarithms), dies of gout at 66 in 1617
Adam Clayton Powell Jr,
(Rep-D-NY), dies of acute prostatitis at 63 in 1972
Gloria Swanson, actress
(Airport 1975), dies of a heart ailment at 84 in 1983
Answers
Brain Game: Close
Up Picture
Riddle of the day
A firefighting plane
filled its tanks with water from a lake, sucking a scuba-diver in (Is this an
urban legend, or did I see this on the news?). He drown while the plane was in
flight and was dumped onto a burning forest with the water.
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Reb+a:
a.
bear
2.
Ezra+b:
a.
zebra
3.
Napa+d:
a.
panda
4.
Rite+ g:
a.
tiger
5.
Nabob + o:
a.
baboon
6.
Rawls _ U:
a.
walrus
7.
Allege+ z:
a.
gazelle
8.
Gaffer + I :
a.
giraffe
9.
Enrapt + h:
a.
panther
10.
Gloria + l:
a.
gorilla
11.
Reload + p:
a.
leopard
12.
Heeltap + n:
a.
elephant
13.
Needier + r:
a.
reindeer
14.
Mechanize + p:
a.
chimpanzee
Anagrams
Disclaimer: All opinions
are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from
the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I
have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is
out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also
for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates
may not be totally accurate.
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