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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1682 - Robert La
Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1833 - 1st
tax-supported public library (Peterborough, NH)
1912 - Titanic
leaves Queenstown Ireland for NY
1928 - Mae West's
NYC debut in a daring new play "Diamond Lil"
1953 - "TV
Guide" publishes 1st issue
1963 - Winston
Churchill becomes 1st honorary US citizen (posthumously)
2002 - The
funeral of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother at Westminster Abbey
Free Rambling
Thoughts
Happy Easter to All. Some
friends dropped by yesterday evening, so no time to do the blog.
A great Easter. Brunch
with some friends. Beautiful weather. Talked with my brother in NY. They are
relaxing at their loft in Brooklyn. Lots of new views for them. I had to smile…seems that NYC will close major streets
around the 5 boroughs on weekends for street fairs. He says it really disrupts
travel…so most people just stay
around the neighborhood. And Flagstaff limited its street closures to a couple
a year. Hmmm.
An interesting news story
about Water in Arizona. Our senators have brokered a deal that has the Navajo
and Hopi giving up some of their water rights to Colorado River water—which
helps Phoenix—with a promise of someday giving more running water to tribal
members of both tribes. The problem is the tribes have to give up their water
rights with no date for their new running water. Sounds pretty familiar.
Senator Kyl is not running again, and Senator McCain probably won’t run again.
People who don’t live on the reservation don’t understand how important water
is and people who don’t live on the reservation don’t understand all the
promises that have been broken in the past fifty years. Navajo President
Shelly, Kyl, and McCain were all in Tuba yesterday to talk to the people. They
were greeted by over 300 protestors and President Shelly was actually
out-shouted when he talked outside the meeting. I say, give every home on both
reservations running water then talk to the people about giving up water for
the people of Phoenix.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A
close up picture of what?
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every answer is a familiar
two-word phrase in which one word starts with S-T, as in Steelers, and the
other starts with C-A, as in Cardinals. The words can be in either order. For example,
given "people who work for a political candidate," the answer would
be "campaign staff."
1.
A racing vehicle:
2.
Booking listing prices for philatelists:
3.
What Juneau is to Alaska:
4.
Place to buy chocolate and peppermint sticks:
5.
Antique elevator compartment or used by shark hunters:
6.
What Bugs Bunny munches on:
7.
60’s singer now known as Usuf Islam:
8.
Complete the title: The ___ of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
9.
The worker who changes beds and makes up rooms on a cruise ship:
10.
A knitted piece of headwear you pull over your head:
11.
An ownerless feline:
12.
Someone who can eat large quantities of hot spicy food is said to have:
Riddle of the day
You have the misfortune to own an unreliable clock.
This one loses exactly 24 minutes every hour. It is now showing 3:00am and you
know that is was correct at midnight, when you set it. The clock stopped 1 hour
ago, what is the correct time now?
Anagram:
unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s
Index
Date on which Gov. Rick
Scott said that Florida doesn’t need ‘more anthropologists’: 10/10/2011
Date on which Scott’s
daughter received her anthropology degree: 11/01/2008
Found on You
Tube
Cat Stevens Biografie - How he becomes Yusuf Islam Mashallah
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
Notice to Employees
(Includes Part Time Workers)
SICKNESS
We will no longer accept your doctors'
statements as proof.
We believe if you are able to go to the
doctor, you are able to work.
LEAVE OF ABSENCE FOR SURGERY
We are no longer allowing this practice. As
long as you are employed here, you will need all of whatever you have and
should not consider having anything removed. We hired you as you are, and to
have anything removed would certainly make you less than we bargained for.
Anyone having operations will be FIRED immediately.
PREGNANCY
In the event of extreme pregnancy, you will be
allowed to go to the first aid room when the pains are FIVE MINUTES apart. If
it is false labor, you will have to take an hour's leave without pay.
DEATH
This will be accepted as an excuse, BUT we
would like two week’s notice, as we feel it is your duty to teach someone your
job prior to . . . or after death.
This new benefit program
started yesterday.
The Management
Rules of
Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
Returns Tomorrow!
Yeah, It Really
Happened
ABBOTSFORD, British
Columbia - Three young, drunken and naked British Columbia men escaped charges
and came out squeaky clean after riding a grocery cart through a car wash,
police said. Police in Abbotsford were called after midnight Tuesday by
neighbors who heard screaming coming from a drive-through, 24-hour car wash,
the Vancouver Sun reported.
Constable Ian MacDonald
said when officers arrived, they found three 23-year-old inebriated men getting
dressed. The trio told officers they had stripped and gotten into a shopping
cart to ride through the car wash, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported.
"Not knowing at this point whether they picked 'typhoon' or 'super
typhoon' I'd suggest that either of those and the combination of the brushes
that would have come past them would be enough to definitely leave you with a
little bit of a memory of what you had done the prior night," MacDonald
said. Police issued warnings, but didn't charge the men. MacDonald told the CBC
it was fortunate the trio hadn't selected a hot wax cycle.
Somewhat Useless
Information
The name Easter owes its
origin from Eastre, the Anglo-Saxon goddess who symbolizes hare and egg.
Easter always falls
between March 22 and April 25.
Pysanka is a specific term
used for the practice of Easter egg painting.
From the very early times,
egg has been considered the most important symbol of rebirth.
The initial baskets of
Easter were given the appearance of bird's nests.
The maiden chocolate eggs
recipes were made in Europe in the nineteenth century.
Each year witnesses the
making of nearly 90 million chocolate bunnies.
Next to Halloween, Easter
holiday paves way for confectionary business to boom.
When it comes to eating of
chocolate bunnies, the ears are preferred to be eaten first by as many as 76%
of people.
In the catalogue of kids'
favorite Easter foodstuff, Red jellybeans occupy top most position.
Calendar Information
…Happening This
Week:
4-10
Hate
Week
7-15
National
Robotics Week
Passover Week
Bat Appreciation Week
National Library Week
National Networking Week
Orthodox Holy Week
Pan American Week
Consider Christianity Week
Passover Week
Bat Appreciation Week
National Library Week
National Networking Week
Orthodox Holy Week
Pan American Week
Consider Christianity Week
Today Is
Appomattox
Day 1865: R.E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia. Ending the Civil
War!
Baby
Massage Day
Dyngus
Day Polish-American tradition, Dyngus Day celebrates the end of
the often restrictive observance of lent and the joy of Easter
Easter
Monday : White House Easter Egg Roll
Jenkins
Ear Day a conflict between Great Britain and Spain that lasted from
1739 to 1748, with major operations largely ended by 1742; coined by Thomas Carlyle in 1858,[5] relates to Robert Jenkins, captain of a British merchant ship, who exhibited
his severed ear in Parliament following
the boarding of his vessel by Spanish coast guards in 1731.
Name
Yourself Day
National
Cherish An Antique Day
National
Former Prisoner of War Recognition Day
Winston
Churchill Day
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Tunisia:
Martyr's Day
Today’s Other Events
Before 1000CE
475 - Byzantine
Emperor Basiliscus issues a circular letter (Enkyklikon) to the bishops of his empire,
supporting the Monophysite christological position
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1600’s
1667 - 1st
public art exhibition (Palais-Royale, Paris)
1700’s
1772 - Whites can now buy
Indian land in Indian territories without government approval in New England.
1800’s
1869 - Hudson
Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada
1884 - A woman, identified
by local missionaries as Sacajawea, dies today in Wyoming. If this is the
Sacajawea of the Lewis and Clark expedition, she would be almost 100 years old.
1900’s
1914 - 1st full
color film shown "World, Flesh & Devil" (London)
1927 - Italy
& US anarchists Sacco & Vanzetti given death sentences
1928 - Turkey passes
separation of church & state
1947 - Atomic
Energy Commission confirmed
1947 - Baseball
suspends Bkln Dodger Leo Durocher for 1 year
1950 - Bob Hope's
1st TV appearance
1957 - Suez Canal
cleared for all shipping
1972 - USSR &
Iraq sign friendship treaty
1981 - LA
Dodgers Fernando Valenzuela's 1st start, beats Astros 2-0
1993 - Colorado
Rockies 1st home game & 1st victory, 11-4 over Mont Expos
2000’s
2003 - Baghdad
falls to U.S. forces resulting in widespread looting
2005 - His Royal
Highness Charles, Prince of Wales marries Camilla Parker Bowles
2011 - A gunman
murdered five people, injured eleven, and committed suicide in a mall in the
Netherlands
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
Alexander Moulton, English
bicycle designer (folding bicycle) is 92
In their 80’s
Hugh Hefner, [Marston],
Chicagp, magazine publisher (Playboy) is 86
Paul Krassner, comic strip
cartoonist (MAD Magazine)/founder (Yippies) is 80
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In their 60’s
Chico Ryan, rock vocalist
(Sha Na Na)
In their 50’s
Dennis Quaid, actor (Big
Easy, Dreamscape, Right Stuff) is 58
In their 40’s
Joe Scarborough, American
television personality is 49
In their 30’s
Rachel Stevens, English
singer-songwriter, actress, presenter, dancer, television personality and
model is 34
Under 30 years old
Jesse
McCartney, American actor and singer will be 25
Remembered for being
born on this day
Theobald Boehm, German
inventor of the modern flute in 1794
Ward Bond, Denver Colo,
actor (Seth-Wagon Trains) in 1903
Isambard Kingdom Brunel,
designer of 1st transatlantic steamer in 1806
John Presper Eckert,
co-inventor (1st electronic computer-ENIAC) in 1919
Johann Matthias Gesner,
German classical scholar in 1691
Carl Perkins, Jackson Tn,
singer/songwriter (Blue Suede Shoes)
Today’s Obits
Francis Bacon, English
statesman and philosopher, dies from pneumonia at 65 in 1626
Lord Lovat, Simon Fraser, English
jacobiet, last man beheaded in England at 80 in 1747
Willie Stargell, American
baseball player dies after stroke at 61 in 2001
Frank Lloyd Wright, US
architect (Guggenheim Museum NY), dies at 89 in 1959
Answers
Brain Game: Close
Up Picture
Riddle of the day
6:00am: since the clock is
losing 24 minutes every hour, for every real hour that has passed, the clock
will only show 36 minutes. Since the clock shows 3:00am, we know that 180 clock
minutes have passed. This therefore equals 300 real minutes and hence 5 hours.
The clock stopped 1 hour ago and the time must now be 6.00am.
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
A racing vehicle:
a.
stock car
2.
Booking listing prices for philatelists:
a.
stamp catalogue
3.
What Juneau is to Alaska:
a.
state capital
4.
Place to buy chocolate and peppermint sticks:
a.
candy store
5.
Antique elevator compartment or used by shark hunters:
a.
steel cage
6.
What Bugs Bunny munches on:
a.
carrot sticks
7.
60’s singer now known as Usuf Islam:
a.
Cat Stevens
8.
Complete the title: The ___ of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde:
a.
Strange Case
9.
The worker who changes beds and makes up rooms on a cruise ship:
a.
Cabin Steward
10.
A knitted piece of headwear you pull over your head, like a bank robber:
a.
stocking cap
11.
An ownerless feline:
a.
stray cat
12.
Someone who can eat large quantities of hot spicy food is said to have:
a.
Castiron stomach
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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