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Almanac: Week: 16 \ Day: 105
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 66°\L 33° Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind
ave: 15mph\Gusts: 38mph
Ave. High: 58° Record High: 76°
(1948) Ave. Low: 37° Record
Low: 11° (1965)
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Observances Today:
Holocaust Remembrance Day
Income Tax Pay Day
Jackie Robinson Day
McDonald's Day—1st to
open-1955
National Bookmobile Day
Rubber Eraser Day
Take a Wild Guess Day
That Sucks Day
Titanic
Remembrance Day
World Art Day
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Observances This Week:
12-18
Animal Control Officer Appreciation
Week
Health Information Privacy and Security
Week
National Animal Control Appreciation
Week
National Library Week
National Public Safety
Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week
National Student Employment Week
National Volunteer Week
Pan American Week
Undergraduate Research Week
Week of The Young Child
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1528 - Pánfilo the
Narváez, Spanish conquistador arrives in Florida with
350 men to a hostile reception from native
Indians
1817 - 1st
American school for the deaf opens (Hartford Conn)
1850 - City of
San Francisco incorporated
1865 - Abraham Lincoln is
shot & killed while attending, "Our American
Cousin", at Ford's Theatre
1874 - NY
legislature passes compulsory education law
1877 - 1st
telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Mass
1878 - Harley
Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1892 - General
Electric Company, forms & is incorporated in NY
1911 - Jack
Lawrence Theater (Playhouse) opens at 137 W 48th St NYC
1922 - Banting,
MacLeod & Best discover insulin
1923 - 1st
sound on film public performance shown at Rialto Theater (NYC)
1923 - Insulin becomes generally available for
diabetics
1924 - Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas
1927 - Babe
Ruth hits 1st of 60 HRs of season (off A's Howard Ehmke)
1928 - Arizona Historical
Society and Southern Pacific Railroad erected a
stone marker over the graves of Union
soldiers who died in the skirmish
with Confederate forces at Picacho Pass, AZ
1941 - 1st
helicopter flight of 1 hr duration, Stratford, Ct
1947 - Jackie
Robinson becomes 1st African-American to play in US major
league baseball (Dodgers)
1955 - Ray
Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants (Illinois)
1957 - Congress
gives Post Office $41M; restoring Saturday mail delivery
1959 - Fidel
Castro begins US goodwill tour
1960 - Student
Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), organizes at Shaw U
1961 - "Music
Man" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 1375 performances
1981 - Janet
Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story
is a lie, Wash Post relinquishes Pulitzer
Prize on fabricated story
1996 - 100th Boston Marathon won by Moses Tanui of
Kenya in 2:09:15.9
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Today’s World Events through History
1250 - Pope
Innoncent III refuses Jews of Cordova Spain to build a synagogue
1793 - Bank of
England hands out first £5 note
1802 - William
Wordsworth and his sister, Dorothy see a "long belt"
of daffodils, inspiring the former to pen
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud"
1896 - 1st
Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1912 - RMS
Titanic sinks at 2:27 AM off Newfoundland
1972 - A member of the Official Irish Republican
Army is shot dead by British
soldiers at Joy Street in the Markets area of
Belfast close to his home
1972 - A member of the British Army is shot dead by
the Official IRA in the
Divis area of Belfast
2010 - Volcanic
ash from the eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland leads
to the closure of airspace over most of
Europe.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
We had a great lunch at one of our favorite places. Cheryl is
heading for CA on Thursday to spend time with her son and his family. Mary is
headed to Phx this weekend. All of us are very tired of these strong winds. The
two positive things about this wind—there is no sand associated with it—our little
mountain town has enough humidity to prevent a Red Flag warning, while most
other places around us are in a Red Flag warning. Still it is a pain to move
around in, either on foot or in a vehicle.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Stronger
than steel, yet lighter than cotton
Found in a corner, forever forgotten
I bother so many, but marvel a few
You can't seem to make me
I'm a mystery to you.
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
~ The immense amount of snowmelt water
has caused a 60-foot washout at the west end of town about 100 yards west of
Davenport Lake.
~O. H. Johnson, agent and troubleshooter
for the Santa Fe, has purchased Studebaker Autos and joined the Good Roads
Association.
~ Louis Benedict came in from his sheep
camp this week saying the lamb crop is over 100 percent, with all the sheep in
good condition.
~ Art Williams out in Fort Valley says
the tremendous amount of snowmelt is apt to make a big flood in the River de
Flag.
…Harper’s
Index…
3: number
of US states that observe a Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and a Robert E. Lee holiday
on the same day
…Language
Facts…
~ The United States does not have an official language.
~ The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic,
Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
… Sea Facts…
~ In 2011, a 200 ft circular anomaly in the Baltic Sea that has
unusual characteristics and almost perfectly etched curvatures was discovered.
To this day, its origin remains unknown.
~ There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor,
worth billions in value and treasure.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
A research shows that there is a difference in the way of
unrolling the toilet paper between people of higher levels of income
and the ones with lower levels!
To be more specific, the 60% of people who make more than $50,000
per year prefer their toilet paper to hang over the roll.
In contrast, the 73% of people who make less than $20,000 per
year prefer it to hang under the roll.
The mysteries of life…
…Water Facts..,.
~ Penguins have a gland above their eye that turns saltwater into
freshwater.
~ Water, electricity, and gas has been free in Turkmenistan since
1991.
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2 jokes
for the day
Confusius say--boy who brings ladder to school
must be in High School.
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Attending a wedding for the first time, a
little girl whispered to her mother, "why is the bride dressed in
white?"
"Because white is the color of happiness," her mother explained.
"And today is the happiest day in her life."
The child thought about this for a moment. "So why is the groom wearing
black?"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Register-Herald (Beckley, W.Va.): A single traffic stop in
Alderson, West Virginia, resulted in the arrest of six people from the same
family, trafficking in stolen power tools (including one man who traded a leaf
blower, hedge trimmer and weed trimmer for Percocet pills). However, a month
later, members of an even more charming family were caught in raids in Elyria,
Ohio. Officers from three jurisdictions arrested 34 people -- all related to
each other -- in connection with a $400,000 drug operation.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
~
Stress can make it difficult to lose weight. Stress can trigger cravings for
carb-rich snack foods which tend to calm stress hormones. Stress hormones can
also increase fat storage. In addition to physical exercise, relaxation
techniques can help control weight.
~ Sleep deprivation can make it harder to lose weight. Inadequate sleep upsets
a person's hormone balance, which decreases leptin (a hormone that makes a
person feel full) and increases ghrelin (which triggers hunger). Scientists
argue that getting enough sleep is the cheapest and easiest obesity medicine
there is.
~
Muscle uses more calories to maintain itself than any other body tissue. For
every pound of muscle someone puts on, they automatically burn an extra 22 to
36 more calories a day.
~Amid the many hundreds of diet books are really only four basic rules for
weight loss: 1) eat carbs in the form of whole grains or fiber, 2) avoid trans
and saturated fats, 3) eat lean protein, and 4) eat lots of fruits and veggies.
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Birthday’s Today
82 - Roy Clark, Meherrin, Virginia, American
country singer (Hee Haw)
68 - Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, TV producer-Designing
Women,Murphy Brown
56 - Emma
Thompson, England, actress (Henry V, Howards End, Oscar-1992)
33 - Seth Rogen,
Canadian actor and writer
25 - Emma Watson,
English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series)
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Remembered for being born today
- Kim II Sung,
"The Great Leader" of North Korea 1912-1994@92
- Walter Channing,
Am. physician 1st to use anesthesia-childbirth 1786-1876@89
- John
Williams, England, actor (Dial M for Murder) 1903-1983@80
- Nikita Khrushchev,
First Secretary of the Communist Party 1894-1971@77
- Leonhard Euler, Sweden,
mathematician (Euler's Constant) 1707-1783@76
- Leonardo da Vinci,
Italy, painter/sculptor/scientist/visionary 1452-1519@67
- Harold Washington,
1st African American mayor of Chicago 1922-1987@65
- Elizabeth Montgomery,
actress (Samantha/Serena-Bewitched) 1933-1995@62
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Historical Obits Today
Greta
Garbo, actress (Anna Karenina, Camille)-1990@84
Byron
"Whizzer" White, CU football player\ Supreme Court
Justice-2002@84
Jean-Paul
Sartre, existentialist philosopher (Nobel 1964), edema-1980@74
Pol Pot,
Cambodian dictator, suicide?-1998@72
Abraham
Lincoln, 16th American president, assassinated-1865@56
Father
Damien, Belgian missionary, leprosy-1889@49
Madame de
Pompadour, mistress-King Louis XV, TB-1764@42
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Brain Teasers Answers
Spider silk.
Spider silk is one of the most remarkable materials on Earth. Besides being
five times stronger than steel, it is also extremely lightweight: a strand of
spider silk long enough to circle the earth would weigh less than 16 ounces.
Despite years of study, researchers are still baffled by spider silk and have
not been able to duplicate it.
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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…§
