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Almanac: Week: 15 \ Day: 097
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 61°\L 35° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 33mph
Ave. High: 56° Record High: 80°
(1989) Ave. Low: 26° Record
Low: 10° (1922)
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Observances Today:
Caramel
Popcorn Day
Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the
Rwanda Genocide
International Beaver Day
International Snailpapers Day-print newspapers (like snail-mail)
Metric System Day
National Beer Day
National Sexual Assault Awareness Month's
Day of Action (SAAM)
No Housework Day
World Health Day (UN)
World Health Organization 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
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
1788 - 1st settlement in Ohio, at Marietta
1798 - Mississippi Territory organized
1818 - General Andrew Jackson conquers St
Marks Fla from Seminole
1830 - President Jackson has
submitted a bill that would call for the removal
of most of the
Indians in the southeast to lands west of the Mississippi
1922 - Warren G. Harding's Interior Secretary,
Albert B. Fall, leases the Teapot
Dome oil reserves to Harry Sinclair, setting
in motion what comes to be known over the next two years as the Teapot Dome
scandals
1923 - 1st brain tumor operation under local
anesthetic performed (Beth Israel
Hospital in NYC) by
Dr K Winfield Ney
1948 - World Health Organization forms by UN
1954 - US President Eisenhower in news
conference first to voice fear of a
"domino-effect" of communism in
Indo-China
1966 - US recovers lost H-bomb from Mediterranean
floor (whoops!)
1969 - Supreme Court strikes down laws prohibiting
private possession of
obscene material
1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date:
publication of RFC 1
1970 - Fire started at the
Southern Pacific Ice House in AZ takes 26 hours to
extinguish
1978 - Guttenberg bible sold for $2,000,000 in NYC
2003 - U.S. troops capture Baghdad; Saddam
Hussein's regime falls two days later
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Today’s World Events through History
30 - Scholars' estimate of Jesus' crucifixion by Roman
troops in Jerusalem
529 – 1st draft of Corpus Juris
Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence)
is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian
I
1348 - Prague U, 1st university in central Europe,
formed by Charles IV
1521 - Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans
Lutheran books
1645 - Michael Cardozo becomes 1st Jewish lawyer in
Brazil
1795 - France adopts the metre as the basic measure
of length
1805 - Premiere of Beethoven's "Eroica"
(conducted by himself)
1827 - English chemist John Walker invents wooden
matches
1902 - Texas Oil Company (Texaco) forms
1921 - Revolutionary leader, Sun Yat-sen is elected
President of China
1934 - In India, Mahatma Gandhi suspended
his campaign of civil disobedience
1972 - Three members of the Irish Republican Army
(IRA) die in a premature
bomb explosion in Belfast
1983 - Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years,
discovered in Egypt
1994 - Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazis
killing Jews) for 1st time
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Eye doctor today. I had noticed over the past month, that my near
vision was getting worse…trouble reading the small print in the newspaper.
Turns out to be scar tissue from last year’s cataract procedure. Next month I
get a quick laser treatment to remove the scar tissue from on one eye, then
about 2 weeks later, the other eye. Interesting…wasn’t discussed earlier because
only about 30% of patients get it. At least I know why and that it can be
corrected.
Picked up my taxes, and will pay the gov’t the money they want on
Apr. 14. Hurts to write a big check like this, but I have the money and did
well this year, so no complaints…just a little pain.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A
common three-letter word can be added in the spaces below to create four common
English words. What is the three letter word?
C _ _ _ ED
T _ _ _ SIT
ST _ _ _ D
F _ _ _ TIC
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
~ House Rock Buffalo Hunt. Mrs. A. G. Pilcher, James E. Babbitt
and Tim Knowles each returned with a fine buffalo head, a hide and a quarter of
the meat. The weather was ideal and there was no snow.
~ There’s a new garage in Sunnyside in connection with the Conoco
Cactus Garden Service Station. The whole station has been remodeled with new
equipment and 24-hour service is to be provided. Managers are Herschel T. Hill
and John Motley, who expects to live at the garage.
~ Snow Bowl and the Forest
Service have a complete series of maps of the trails. Tailspin is improved to
2,131 feet in length with a 500 foot drop in elevation. On the north slope
where the snow lingers longer with no sun, powdery snow lingers all
winter, there‘s need to take out a few trees and shrubs. 2520-foot Log Jam has
a 1,376-foot drop and a larger, longer tow is needed. The Ski Club can obtain a
permit to install it.
…Harper’s
Index…
1 in 8: chance
that an American getting married in 1960 had been married before
1 in 4: that an
American getting married today has been
…Illegal
Facts
~ In Switzerland, it is illegal to own only one guinea pig,
because they are prone to loneliness.
~ In 1970, Richard Nixon signed the Controlled Substance Act into
law, making DMT and many other substances illegal. However, DMT is produced
naturally by the body, and found in a multitude of human bodily fluids and
tissues. Essentially, this makes all humans illegal.
…Language
Facts…
~ The word "gorilla" comes from a Greek word that means
"a tribe of hairy women".
~ In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between
the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck
became a slang for a dollar.
…North
Korea Fact…
~ Kim Jong Un was voted Most Sexiest Man Alive by The Onion and
ended up as real news in China.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Pentheraphobia is the persistent fear of your mother-in-law.
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2 jokes
for the day
My wife handed me two kayak paddles and asked,
"Which one do you want?"
I said I'd take either/oar.
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Hospital regulations require a wheel chair for
patients being discharged.
However, while working as a student aide, Sam found one elderly gentleman
already dressed and sitting on the bed with a suitcase at his feet, who
insisted he didn't need Sam's help to leave the hospital.
After a chat about rules being rules, he reluctantly let Sam wheel him to the
elevator.
On the way down Sam asked him if his wife was meeting him.
"I don't know," he said. "She is till upstairs in the bathroom
changing out of her hospital gown."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
In the Philippines, Good Friday is celebrated with a reenactment
of the crucifixion, right down to the flogging and the nails.
Dozens of people were crucified in villages across the Roman Catholic country,
in one of the world's most bizarre practices. The event drew more than 10,000
Filipino and foreign spectators.
And this is done every year, often by the same people! You'd think it would be
difficult to find volunteers to get nailed to a cross, but apparently people
are lining up. Ruben Enaje, a 49-year-old sign painter, was nailed to a cross
for the 24th time this year as his way of thanking God for his survival after
falling from a building.
And so you don't think the Philippines is some backward kind of country, they
even have a female 'Jesus'. This year was her 14th crucifixion.
The Church rejects such practices, of course, but you know how hard it is to
keep people from having a good time.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Did
you know that there’s a country in the world, where the owner of a
building with windows that have received natural daylight for 20 years or more
can forbid any construction or other obstruction?
This
country is England and according to English law, the “Ancient Lights law” states
that the owner of a building in the above case can forbid any construction or
other obstruction that would deprive him/her of that illumination or “their
portion of natural light”.
+++
Did
you know that in the 1930s the American mapmakers included a false town to try
and catch plagiarism?
Although
there was no town between Rockland and nearby Beaverkill, it was stated in
the map that there was a place called ‘Agloe’.
Since
it wasn’t an important or often visited place, it was considered as a perfect
spot for what’s called a “paper town,” or a map “trap.”
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Birthday’s Today
85 - Andrew Sachs, actor (Manuel-Fawlty Towers)
84 - Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower
(Pentagon Papers)/patriot
82 - Wayne Rogers, Birmingham Ala, actor
(M*A*S*H, House Calls)
77 - [Edmund G] Jerry Brown Jr, 2x Governor (D) of
California
76 - Francis Ford Coppola, director
(Godfather, Apocalypse Now)
66 - John Oates, rock guitarist/vocalist
(Hall & Oates)
64 - Janis Ian, [Janis Eddy Fink], lesbian/folk
rocker (At 17)
61 - Jackie Chan, martial art actor (Rumble
in the Bronx)
61 - Tony Dorsett, NFL running back (Dallas
Cowboys, Heisman Trophy)
51 - Russell Crowe, Australian/New Zealand
actor (A Beautiful Mind, Gladiator)
50 - Bill Bellamy, actor (Fled, How to be a
Player, Joey Breaker)
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Remembered for being born today
- Ravi
Shankar, Varanasi, British India, musician (the Pandit) 1920-2012@92
- James
Garner, actor (Rockford Files, Bret Maverick) 1928-2014@86
- Hugh Blair,
Scottish preacher and man of letters 1718-1800@82
- William
Wordsworth, England, poet laureate (Prelude) 1770-1850@80
- David
Frost, England, TV host (That Was the Week That Was) 1939-2013@74
- Walter
Winchell, Harlem newscaster/columnist 1897-1972@74
- Kenneth
Oakley, English Anthropologist, Palaeontologist\Geologist - method for
the
relative dating of fossils using fluorine content was instrumental in exposing
the Piltdown Man hoax 1911-1981@70
- William
Rufus DeVane King, (D) 13th VP 1786-1853@67
- Percy
Faith, conductor (Summer Place) 1908-1976@67
- Francis
Xavier, saint/Jesuit missionary to India, Malaya, & Japan 1506-1552@46
- Billie
Holiday,[Eleanora Fagan], jazz singer (Lady Sings the Blues)1915-1959@44
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Historical Obits Today
Mike
Wallace [Myron], American media personality-2012@93
Barry
Nelson, American actor-2007@89
Phineas T Barnum, US circus promoter (B &
Bailey)-1891@88
William
Lisle Bowles, English poet (14 Sonnets)-1850@87
John Agar,
American actor-2002@81
El Greco,
Greek-born artist working in Spain-1614@72ish
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Brain Teasers Answers
The three-letter word is "RAN", which yields:
Craned
Transit
Strand
Frantic
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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…§
