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Almanac: Week: 17 \ Day: 110
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 63°\L 30° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave. High: 60° Record High: 78°
(1989) Ave. Low: 28° Record
Low: 8° (1966)
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Observances Today:
Boston
Marathon
Chinese
Language Day
Look
Alike Day
National
Pot Smokers Day
Patriot's
Day
Volunteer
Recognition Day
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Observances This Week:
18-23
National Toddler Immunization Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In
The Line of Duty Week
19-25
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness
Week
Bedbug Awareness Week
Coin Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer
Awareness Week
National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
National Environmental Education Week
National Occupational Health Nursing Week
National Infertility
Awareness Week
National Karaoke Week
National Pet ID Week
National Princess Week
Sky Awareness Week
20-24
National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Playground Safety
Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
Safe Kids Week
Spring Astronomy Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1606 - According to
the first charter of Virginia, issued today, part of
the colonists goals are to civilize the
natives. "...and may in time
bring the infidels and savages, living in
those parts, to human civility."
1841 - 1st detective story (Edgar Allen Poe's
"Murders in Rue Morgue") published
1896 - 1st public film showing in US John
Philip Sousa's "El Capitan"
premieres in NYC
1920 - Grand Canyon
National Park dedicated
1940 - 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA),
Philadelphia, PA
1971 - US Supreme Court upholds use of busing to
achieve racial desegregation
1980 - Cubans begin to arrive in US from Mariel
boatlift
1999 - Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris
and Dylan Klebold
kill 13 people and injure 24 others before
committing suicide at
Columbine High School located in Jefferson
County, Colorado
2008 - Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300
becoming the first female
driver in history to win an Indy car race
2010 - Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion
kills 11 and causes
rig to sink, initiating a massive oil
discharge in the Gulf of Mexico
2013 - 5 snowboarders are killed by an avalanche in
Loveland Pass, Colorado
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Today’s World Events through History
1611 – 1st
known performance of Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth
at the Globe Theatre
1862 - The first pasteurization test completed by Louis
Pasteur and Claude Bernard
1879 - 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a
journey from London & Cyprus
1902 - Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the
radioactive element radium chloride
1918 - Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red
Baron, shoots down his
79th and 80th victims marking his final
victories before his death
the following day
1920 - 7th modern Olympic games opens in Antwerp
Belgium
1969 - Bombs planted by Loyalists members of the
Ulster Volunteer Force
and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers explode
at Silent Valley reservoir
in County Down and at an electricity pylon at
Kilmore, County Armagh
1974 - 'The Troubles', a period of conflict in
Northern Ireland involving
republican and loyalist paramilitaries, the
British security forces,
and civil rights groups claims its 1000th
victim
1986 - Michael Jordan sets NBA playoff record
with 63 points in a game
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice Sunday…clouds most of the day finally brought a light rain in
the late afternoon.
Caught up on my Sunday news programs and a few DVRd TV shows from
the past week. Nice.
Did some minor cleaning but nothing major.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Find
the correct words that fit with the following words:
Example: Air PORT Wine
1. Birth _ _ _ Light
2. Knock _ _ _ Line
3. Rock _ _ _ _ _ Bar
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO - 1915
~ An odd and remarkable phenomenon has
occurred near Black Canyon. J. E.
Richards and his boy had just driven some horses
over the spillway from Richards' reservoir when a cow that had been resting
quietly under a tree suddenly disappeared. Upon going to look they were
confronted with a yawning chasm! The cow was soon followed by the tree
disappearing into the “infernal pit.” It’s about 400 yards long, 50 feet wide
and of unknown depth.
~ Lake Mary is full of water and Al Sims
has a new gasoline launch for his
resort. The Board of Supervisors agree that the road
out to there is in good condition for travel.
…Harper’s
Index…
90: percentage of the 300 highest paid physician’s consultants to pharma-
ceutical
and medical device companies who are men
…Language
Facts…
~ The word "clitoris" comes from the Greek word meaning
"side of a hill".
~ The Danish word for condom is 'svangerskabsforebyggendemiddel'.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
~ G-rated family films earn more money than any other rated films;
however,
only 4% of Hollywood's output is G-rated.
…Water
Facts..,.
~ A person can live without food for about a month, but only about
a
week
without water.
~ Spain's capital Madrid means "place of abundant
water".
…World Record
Facts…
~ The Guinness Book of Records was originally published by
Guinness Breweries
as a
reference for settling bar arguments.
~ The most push-ups ever performed in one day was 46,001 by
Charles Servizio.
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2 jokes
for the day
A man visits his psychiatrist and talks about
being haunted by visions of his departed relatives. He says; these ghosts are
perched on the tops of fence posts around my garden every night. They sit there
and watch me and watch me. What can I do?
The psychiatrist says; that's easy … just sharpen the tops of the posts.
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A Sunday school teacher was discussing the Ten
Commandments with her five and six year olds.
After explaining the commandment to "honor thy father and thy
mother," she asked, "Is there a commandment that teaches us how to
treat our brothers and sisters?"
Without missing a beat one little boy answered: "Thou shall not
kill."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
SAN DIEGO
(UPI) - A team of San Diego doctors said a 29-year-old man was treated
for "Candy Crush thumb" after he tore a tendon from playing the
smartphone color-matching game. The doctors, writing in medical journal JAMA
Internal Medicine, said the man was found to have ruptured a tendon in his
thumb and he told doctors the injury had come after he played Candy Crush Saga
on his phone "all day for 6 to 8 weeks." The tendon was fixed in
surgery, the study said. The study authors said the man did not report any pain
in his thumb until the tendon actually ruptured, indicating an addiction to the
game may have caused the patient to feel less pain. "The potential for
video games to reduce pain perception raises clinical and social considerations
about excessive use, abuse, and addiction," they wrote. "Future
research should consider whether pain reduction is a reason some individuals
play video games excessively, manifest addiction, or sustain injuries
associated with video gaming." "Candy Crush thumb" is the latest
condition to result from smartphone technology that previously gave rise to the
term "text neck."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Do
you know who wore first high heel shoes? And red colored, to be more exact?
The answer might surprise you!
The
answer is men!
In the beginning men wore high heels and then women followed the trend!
In
fact, Louis XIV was a big fan of them, since he was short, and he favoured red
high heeled shoes.
He
was 1.63 meters, so the monarch boosted his stature with heels—always red
colored, an expensive dye.
In the 1670s, Louis XIV issued an edict limiting red heels to members of his
court.
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Birthday’s Today
95 - John Paul Stevens, Illinois, 103rd
Supreme Court Justice (1975- )
92 - Mother Angelica, American nun and
broadcaster
77 - George Takei, actor (Sulu-Star Trek,
Green Berets)
76 - Johnny Tillotson, Jacksonville Fla,
singer
74 - Ryan O'Neal, actor (Love Story, Paper
Moon)
66 - Jessica Lange, Cloquet Minnesota,
actress (King Kong, Tootsie)
45 - Shemar Moore, actor (Malcolm-Young
& Restless)
43 - Carmen Electra [Tara Leigh
Patrick], model and actress (Scary Movie)
39 - Joey Lawrence, Phila Pa, actor (Gimme a
Break, Blossom, Summer Rental)
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Remembered for being born today
- Nina
Foch, Leiden Netherlands, actress (American in Paris) 1924-2008@84
- Tito Puente,
Puerto Rico, bandleader (Dance Mania) 1923-2000@77
-Adolf Hitler, Austrian-born German Führer-Nazi 1889-1945@56
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Historical Obits Today
Sean
O'Faolain, [J Whelan], Irish writer (Nest of Simple)-1991@91
Cantinflas, [Mario
Moreno], Mexican actor (Pepe)-1993@81
George
Clinton, 4th US VP, 1st VP to, die in office-1812@73
Benny
Hill, comedian (Benny Hill Show), heart attack-1992@67
Bram
Stoker, Irish theater manager/writer (Dracula), syphilis-1912@64
Pontiac (Obwandiyag),
Ottawa chief, murdered-1769@48ish
Abigail
Williams, American accuser in the Salem witch trials-?-1765@17
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. DAY
2. OUT
3. CANDY
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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…§
