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Almanac: Week: 15 \ Day: 098
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 61°\L 33° Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind
ave: 12mph\Gusts: 37mph
Ave. High: 56° Record High: 78°
(1989) Ave. Low: 26° Record
Low: 14° (1999)
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Observances Today:
All
is Ours Day
Buddah
Day (Historical
Birth Date)
Draw
A Bird Day
International
Roma Day
National
Dog Fighting Awareness Day
Trading
Cards For Grown-ups Day
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Observances This Week:
4-12
Hate Week
National Robotics Week
5-11
Bat Appreciation Week
Explore Your Career Options
Mule Days
National Blue Ribbon Week (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1730 - 1st Jewish congregation in US forms
synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC"
1756 - Governor
Robert Morris will declare war on the DELAWARE and SHAWNEE.
As a part of his
declaration, he will offer the following bounties: prisoners: men over 12=150
Spanish pieces of eight, women or boys=130; scalps: men=130, women and boys=50.
The bounty on scalps will lead to the killing of many innocent Indians who were
members of neither tribe. The legislation for this would be called "The
Scalp Act"
1869 - American Museum of Natural History opens
(NYC)
1879 - Milk was sold in glass bottles for 1st time
1913 - 17th amendment, requiring direct election of
senators, ratified
1913 - Tucson posted warnings
stating that state speed laws limiting vehicles
to 10 miles an hour in the business district
had to be observed.
1914 - US & Colombia sign a treaty concerning
Panama Canal Zone
1942 - Arnold Schoenberg & Tudor's ballet
"Pillar of Fire" premieres in NYC
1943 - U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, in
an attempt to check inflation,
freezes wages and
prices, prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be
aided thereby, and bars rate increases to common carriers and public utilities
1960 - US Senate passes Civil Rights Bill with
measures against discriminatory
voting practices
1971 - 1st legal off-track betting system begins
(OTB-New York)
1974 - Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits 715th
HR, breaking Babe Ruth's
record in Atlanta
1979 - 204th & final episode of "All in
the Family"
1986 - Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel
California
1991 - Michael Landon announces he has inoperable
cancer of pancreas
2000 - Nineteen US Marines are killed when a V-22
Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft
crashes near Marana,
Arizona
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Today’s World Events through History
1093 - The new Winchester Cathedral is dedicated by
Walkelin
1766 - 1st fire escape patented, wicker basket on a
pulley & chain
1783
- Catharina II of Russia annexes the Crimea
1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the
Aegean island of Melos
1886 - William Ewart Gladstone introduces the
first Irish Home Rule Bill
into the British
House of Commons.
1924 - South African State pass the Industrial
Conciliation Act No 11:
the act provided for
job reservation, excluded blacks from membership of registered trade unions, and
prohibited registration of black trade unions
1946 - League of Nations assembles for last time
1985 - India files suit against Union Carbide over
Bhopal disaster
1992 - After 151 years Britain's "Punch
Magazine" final issue
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Windy day…getting very tired of our annual spring winds. The only
good part is that I’m in Flagstaff and there is no sand with the wind, unlike
the Rez where the sky turns brown at this time of year.
PCP visit was good, but it is time for annual or semi-annual blood
draws with fasting. Also it’s been 4 years since I had a heart check so that is
also on the list of things to do. I’ll do it on a non-windy day.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
do these words have in common?
Full
Green
Halfway
Light
Tree
Ware
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
~ For use by the Flagstaff City Police, the City Council has
approved the purchase of a TWX network warning system using teletype for
continuous contact with region-wide law enforcement to aid in the apprehension
of fleeing suspects and stolen cars. It is expected to be in place by July 1.
~ The new city sales tax has already added $15,703 to the city
coffers and not all of January’s reports are in.
~ On Monday the Flagstaff City Police, the Coconino County
Sherriff and the Arizona Highway Patrol will begin a statewide crackdown on
unregistered vehicles per order by the State Division of Motor Vehicles.
~ At the Two Gun City Zoo display, Lee Gardner was bitten by a
cottonmouth moccasin. The reptile was killed. Lee is being treated and expected
to be all right.
…Harper’s
Index…
410,000:
estimated number of US preschoolers who spend pasrt of every night at a day-car
facility
…Illegal
Facts
~ In Australia, Taxi cabs are required to carry a bale of hay in
the trunk.
~ In Australia, it is illegal to walk on the right-hand side of a
footpath.
…Language
Facts…
~ More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
~ There is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich
Manuscript, that’s written language is still completely unknown today.
…North
Korea Fact…
~ North Korea holds elections every 5 years - and there's only 1
name on the ballot.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
~ In Mobile, Alabama, they ring in the New Year by dropping a
giant MoonPie.
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2 jokes
for the day
"I have bad news, and very bad
news."
"What's the bad news?" Asked the patient.
"You only have 24-hours to live."
"And the really bad news?"
"I should have told you yesterday."
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While walking down the street one day a US
senator is tragically hit by a truck and dies. His soul arrives in heaven and
is met by St. Peter at the entrance.
"Welcome to heaven," says St. Peter. "Before you settle in, it
seems there is a problem. We seldom see a high official around these parts, you
see, so we're not sure what to do with you."
"No problem, just let me in," says the man.
"Well, I'd like to, but I have orders from higher up. What we'll do is have
you spend one day in hell and one in heaven. Then you can choose where to spend
eternity."
"Really, I've made up my mind. I want to be in heaven," says the
senator.
"I'm sorry, but we have our rules." And with that, St.Peter escorts
him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.
The doors open and he finds himself in the middle of a green golf course. In
the distance is a clubhouse and standing in front of it are all his friends and
other politicians who had worked with him. Everyone is very happy and in
evening dress.
They run to greet him, shake his hand, and reminisce about the good times they
had while getting rich at the expense of the people. They play a friendly game
of golf and then dine on lobster, caviar and champagne.
Also present is the devil, who really is a very friendly & nice guy who has
a good time dancing and telling jokes. They are having such a good time that
before he realizes it, it is time to go. Everyone gives him a hearty farewell
and waves while the elevator raises.
The elevator goes up, up, up and the door reopens on heaven where St. Peter is
waiting for him. "Now it's time to visit heaven."
So, 24 hours pass with the senator joining a group of contented souls moving
from cloud to cloud, playing the harp and singing.
They have a good time and, before he realizes it, the 24 hours have gone by and
St. Peter returns. "Well, then, you've spent a day in hell and another in
heaven. Now choose your eternity."
The senator reflects for a minute, then he answers: "Well, I would never
have said it before, I mean heaven has been delightful, but I think I would be
better off in hell."
So St. Peter escorts him to the elevator and he goes down, down, down to hell.
Now the doors of the elevator open and he's in the middle of a barren land
covered with waste and garbage. He sees all his friends, dressed in rags,
picking up the trash and putting it in bags as more trash falls from above.
The devil comes over to him and puts his arm around his shoulder. "I don't
understand," stammers the senator. "Yesterday I was here and there
was a golf course and clubhouse, and we ate lobster and caviar, drank
champagne, and danced and had a great time. Now there's just a wasteland full
of garbage and my friends look miserable. What happened?"
The devil looks at him, smiles and says, "Yesterday we were
campaigning....Today you voted."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Seattle
Times- An unarmed man, suspected of no crime, who three years ago was
shot 16 times by police while lying in his bed, told a Seattle Times reporter
in March that he bears no ill will for the cops who shot him. Said Dustin
Theoharis, now 32, "Sometimes (police) make mistakes." Theoharis was
napping in a friend's house in Puyallup, Washington, when police arrived to
arrest the friend's son, and when Theoharis reached for his ID, one officer
imagined a gun, and the two officers opened fire, hitting Theoharis in the jaw,
both upper arms, both lower arms, wrist, hand, shoulder, abdomen and both legs.
He spent months in a hospital and skilled nursing facility and today is largely
immobile and unable to work. (He "won" legal settlements totaling
$5.5 million, but one-third went to lawyers, and much of the rest has paid
medical bills.)
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Before
he introduced hypnotism in 1775, Franz Mesmer tried to heal patients by having
them swallow a drink with tiny grains of iron and then moving magnets over
their bodies to sway the magnetic currents. When he realized people were
reacting to his performance, he stopped using magnets and relied on the effect
of his own voice.
The first recorded use of hypnosis as anaesthesia took place in the 19th
century. Dr. James Esdaile, a Scottish surgeon working in India, used hypnosis
successfully in hundreds of limb amputations.
People with the best imaginations are the easiest to hypnotize. Hypnosis
researcher Theodore Sarbin calls hypnosis "believed-in imaginings."
Between 70 and 80 percent of people respond to certain hypnotic suggestions but
not others. For example, they may scratch their head when a buzzer goes off if
the hypnotist has told them to, but they won't go so far as to pour a bucket of
water over their heads.
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette believed so strongly in Franz Mesmer's technique
that they created the Magnetic Institute in France. At first, Mesmer had
patients put their feet in buckets of magnetized water, with cables attached to
magnetized trees. The French medical community - and visiting diplomat Benjamin
Franklin - denounced him as a fraud.
Falling under the power of a hypnotist was a legal defense in France in the
19th century. It was believed that a hypnotist could make someone "a toy
in his hands" and that the person "could not reject the ideas of the
beguiler." People who committed crimes under such influence could not be
held legally or morally responsible for their acts.
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Birthday’s Today
74 - Peggy Lennon, singer (Lennon Sisters),
born in Los Angeles, California
67 - Gerald McRaney, Collins Miss, actor
(Rick-Simon & Simon, Major Dad)
66 - Jim Lampley, Hendersonville NC,
newscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
47 - Patricia Arquette, actress (Ed Wood,
Nightmare on Elm Street 3)
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Remembered for being born today
- Betty
Ford, US 1st lady\founder of the Betty Ford Center 1918-2011@93
- Mary
Pickford, [Gladys Smith], actress (Poor Little Rich Girl) 1892-1979@87
- Melvin
Calvin, US chemist (photosynthesis, Nobel 1961) 1911-1997@85
- Charles
W. Woodworth, American entomologist 1865-1940@75
- Jim "Catfish"
Hunter, major-league pitcher (A's, Yankees) 1946-1999@53
- Juan Ponce
de Leon, conquistador, fountain of youth, found Florida1460-1521@47
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Historical Obits Today
Pablo (Ruiz
y) Picasso, Spanish/French
painter (Guernica)-1973@91
Omar
Bradley, last US 5-star general, (Normandy)-1981@88
Margaret
Thatcher, British Prime Minister-2013@87
Richard
Sears, 1st to win US amateur national tennis match-1943@81
Laura
Nyro, singer, ovarian cancer-1997@49
Phil Ochs, rock
producer (Joe Hill), suicide-1976@35
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Brain Teasers Answers
They are all types of houses.
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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…§
