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Almanac: Week: 14 \ Day: 093
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 62°\L 30° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 9mph\Gusts: 35mph Wind Advisory
Ave. High: 58° Record High: 71°
(1960) Ave. Low: 25° Record
Low: 8° (1980)
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Observances Today:
Don't Go To Work Unless It's Fun Day
Find A Rainbow Day
Pony Express Day
Tweed Day
Weed Out Hate: Sow The Seeds of Greatness
Day
Hospital Admitting Clerks Day
National Walk To Work Day
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Observances This Week:
1-7
The APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1776 - George Washington receives honorary
Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1790 - Revenue Marine Service (US Coast Guard)
created
1860 - Pony Express began between St Joseph Mo
& Sacramento Calif
1868 - A Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever - a
50-foot tidal wave
1882 - American Old West: Outlaw Jesse
James is killed by Robert Ford
1910 - Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's
Mt McKinley climbed
1918 - House of Representatives accepts American
Creed written by William Tyler
1926 - 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket
by Robert Goddard
1944 - US Supreme Court (Smith v Allwright) "white
primaries" unconstitutional
1948 - 1st US figure skating championships held
1948 - US President Harry Truman signs
Marshall Plan ($5B aid to 16
European countries)
1955 - ACLU announces it will defend Ginsberg's
book Howl against obscenity
charges
1967 - WNYE TV channel 25 in Brooklyn, NY (PBS)
begins broadcasting
1968 - "Planet of the Apes" United States
wide premiere
1968, students gathered
at the U of Arizona to protest the draft for the war
1973 - The first portable cell phone call is made
in New York City
1979 - Jane M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of
Chicago, Illinois
2012 - Barack Obama officially secures
Democratic presidential nomination
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Today’s World Events through History
1783 - Sweden & US sign a treaty of Amity &
Commerce
1930 - Ras Tafari becomes Emperor Haile Selassie of
Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1933 - 1st airplane flight over Mt Everest
1957 - Samuel Beckett's "Endgame"
premieres in London
1958 - Fidel Castro's rebels attacked Havana
1970 - As part of a new 'get tough' policy in
Northern Ireland, Ian Freeland of
the British Army, warned that those throwing
petrol bombs could be shot dead
1975 - Bobby Fischer stripped of world chess
title for refusing to defend it
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Our retirement group had a great weekly lunch. Mary is headed to
Phx for the weekend, Cheryl is spending time in Williams. It was very windy
around here today…typical spring…and both Cheryl and I mentioned the problems
of driving on the freeway in the wind.
Mostly it is the big trucks who have more trouble than we do staying in
their own lanes.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I
am bacterial waste, oh yes,
But just what type, can you guess?
Some put me on their fish and chips,
Others on floors to prevent slips.
Some put me on salads, some in stews,
Some on windows, even shoes.
So I'm bacterial waste, oh yes,
But my name can you guess?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Author
Fact…
~ Critic Michael Crowley gave such a
poor review of one of author Michael Crichton's books that, in his next book,
Crichton made a character 'Mick Crowley' who was a child molester with a small
penis.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
~ Master Cleaners, Dyers & Hatters are open and ready for
business in the former Lightning Delivery space at 120 N. Beaver St. Their
equipment is new and thoroughly modern. It even includes a modern electric hat
blocking machine. Jim Stell & D.A. McClatchy. Proprietors.
~ Thirty-five CCC men have gone out to work at the Anita Moquel
Ranger Station and 15 went to Williams for forest work there. Ed Grosbeck,
Asst. Supervisor, Coconino National Forest.
~ WANTED: A good cinnabar deposit for portable retort. Write for
particulars. Owners only. Elco Welding Works, 3885 E. Slauson, Los Angeles,
Calif.
…Harper’s
Index…
$1,092: amount
a Russian man was fined last fall for delivering a pizza by drone
…Language
Facts…
~ Before it was repressed during World War I, German was the
second most widely spoken language in the United States and many local
governments, schools, and newspapers operated in German.
~ A single banana is called a finger and a bunch of bananas is
called a hand.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
While it's probably the best-known waterfall in North America,
Niagara Falls is only the 23rd highest on the continent.
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2 jokes
for the day
A little girl asked her mother, "Can I go
outside and play with the boys?"
Her mother replied, "No, you can't play
with the boys, they're too rough."
The little girl thought about it for a few
moments and asked, "If I can find a smooth one, can I play with him?"
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A policeman parked his police van in front of
the station, while gathering his equipment, his K-9 partner Tops was barking.
He saw a little boy staring in at him, “Is that a dog you got back there?” he
asked.
“It sure is,” the policeman replied.
Puzzled, the boy looked at him and towards the back of the van.
Finally he asked; “What did he do?”
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Yep, It
Really Happened
BULLHEAD
CITY, AZ (UPI) - An Arizona man who was surveying the bag of a recently
purchased used set of golf clubs says he found a loaded pistol inside one of
its pouches. Mel Grewing and his wife, Cheryl, originally spotted the clubs in
a thrift store in Sedona, the Mojave Valley Daily News reported. Though he
already owned a set, Grewing purchased the clubs and brought them to the
couple's seasonal home in Bullhead City. While searching the golf bag's pouches
for extra balls, tees and other accessories, Grewing says he found a Browning
Arms .22-calber match-shooting pistol. A loaded magazine was inserted and the
safety was off, he said. "If a child would have pulled that out and pulled
the trigger, something (tragic) could have happened," Grewing told the
Daily News. The Grewings already own similar firearms and say they are
recreational target shooters. The couple took the pistol to the Bullhead City
Police Department, which found through a search of federal databases that the
weapon was not reported stolen and was not registered to an owner. Grewing said
he and his wife would keep the gun. "If no owner is located or contact
attempts have failed, the gun may be released to its finder," department
spokeswoman Emily Fromelt told the Daily News.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Dead
soldier’s bedroom remains untouched for 96 years
Hubert
Rochereau’s parents left his bedroom in the village of Belabre untouched when
the young French soldier fell in a battle on the Western Front in the final year
of World War I in 1918, as the Daily Mirror reports.
The
bedroom has been left untouched for almost a century in honour of his memory.
However,
the house was sold in 1936 by his parents, with the instruction that the
bedroom remain untouched for 500 years!
+++
Why
do dogs sneeze?
~Have
you ever tried to interprete dogs’ language? What message do they want to
communicate when they sneeze or turn their head?
While
two dogs are playing roughly, sneezing means that hey should consider it as
just a game and they should stop being aggressive.
Regarding
turning of the head, when a dog meets a strange dog for the first time or a
person, it means “I mean you no harm”.
~Dead
soldier’s bedroom remains untouched for 96 years
Hubert
Rochereau’s parents left his bedroom in the village of Belabre untouched when
the young French soldier fell in a battle on the Western Front in the final
year of World War I in 1918, as the Daily Mirror reports.
The
bedroom has been left untouched for almost a century in honor of his memory.
However,
the house was sold in 1936 by his parents, with the instruction that the
bedroom remain untouched for 500 years!
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Birthday’s Today
91 - Doris Day, Cincinnati Oh, "girl
next door" actress (Pillow Talk)
81 - Jane Goodall, ethologist (studied
African chimps)
73 - Marsha Mason, St Louis Mo, actress (Cinderella
Liberty)
57 - Alec Baldwin, Amityville NY, actor
(Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice)
56 - David Hyde Pierce, NY, actor (Niles
Crane-Fraiser)
54 - Eddie Murphy, Brooklyn, actor (SNL, 48
Hours, Beverly Hills Cop, Raw)
43 - Picabo Street, skier (Olympic-gold-94)
42 - Jennie Garth, actress (Kelly
Taylor-Beverly Hills 90210)
29 - Amanda Bynes, American actress
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Remembered for being born today
- Iron
Eyes Cody, NOT Native American, actor 1904-1999@94
- John
Demjanjuk, Ukrainian-born American auto worker, alleged Nazi
and
convicted war criminal (under appeal at death) 1920-2012@91
- Edward
Everett Hale, clergy/author (Man without a Country) 1822-1909@87
- John
Burroughs, writer/nature enthusiast 1837-1921@83
- George
Jessel, toastmaster general/entertainer 1898-1981@83
- Marlon Brando
actor (Superman Godfather) 1924-2004@80
- Washington
Irving, American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow) 1783-1859@76
- Jan Berry,
American rock and roll vocalist (Jan and Dean) 1941-2004@62
- William Macy "Boss" Tweed, corrupt political boss (NYC) 1823-1878@55
- Leslie
Howard, [Stainer], actor (Gone With the Wind) 1893-1943@50
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Historical Obits Today
Freda
Kida, American cartoonist-2014@93
Pinky Lee, kiddie
host (Pinky Lee Show)-1983@85
Jean
Petitot, Swiss enamel painter-1691@83
Carl
Stokes, 1st African American mayor of major US city (Cleve),
cancer-1996@68
Warren
Oates, actor (East of Eden, Stoney Burke), heart attack-1982@53
Jesse
James, outlaw, shot dead-1882@34
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Brain Teasers Answers
I am VINEGAR, I'll bet you guessed.
I'm used on food for the taste test.
I'm used as a cleaner on floors, windows & shoes.
And as for the hint, if I'm found in your booze,
Your wine has sat too long and soured, my friend.
And vinegar is all that is left for you at the end. I am VINEGAR, I'll bet you guessed.
I'm used on food for the taste test.
I'm used as a cleaner on floors, windows & shoes.
And as for the hint, if I'm found in your booze,
Your wine has sat too long and soured, my friend.
And vinegar is all that is left for you at the end. I am VINEGAR, I'll bet you guessed.
I'm used on food for the taste test.
I'm used as a cleaner on floors, windows & shoes.
And as for the hint, if I'm found in your booze,
Your wine has sat too long and soured, my friend.
And vinegar is all that is left for you at the end.
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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 contains
mistakes and sadly once 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.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
