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Week 17 Day 116 Flag Today 71°/34° Wind 9mph Gusts 18mph Active Fire: 3 miles away Risk of fire: Extreme Nearest Lightning: 389 miles away Air Quality: Fair SunshineBreezy Apr. Averages: Temps: 60°\27° Moisture: 3 Days |
Weekly Observations
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20-25 International
Wildlife Film Week: Link |
21-28 National
African Violet Week 22-26 Financial Practice Week 22-28 National
Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) Link |
Daily Observations
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Celebrate Teen Literature Day Meets West Day (aka Elbe Day) Link
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Hairstylists Appreciation Day Link Hug a Plumber Day |
Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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"The happiness of your life depends on the quality
of your thoughts." — Marcus
Aurelius |
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Today’s Thoughts
Blue sky, fairly nice, a little breeze.
It’s springtime. College campus demonstrations are nothing unusual. In my
day it was to protest the Vietnam. Now it’s all about the Middle East issues. I
hate to see it, but it looks like the police learned some lessons from 1968 and
know better how to prevent violence. I’m
hoping for peace at these demonstrations so each side can say what they want.
A couple of nights ago I was fixing a Knorr side dish for dinner. It was
still a little runny so I left it on the stove after I took out my portion.
Sadly, I forgot to turn off the burner. As I as cleaning up I smelled something
burning. Yep, the side dish was a lot of burned pasta stuck to the bottom of
the corning ware I was using. I soaked it, then added Dawn Power spray, let it
soak. The next day a scrubbed it, soaked the few burnt places, added mor Dawn,
let it soak. The day after that I added a lot of water and boiled water in the
dish, scraped off more black. Now it’s in the dishwasher and I hope I learned a
good lesson.
Did you Know?
Interesting Facts
A Litter Of Kittens Can
Have Different Fathers
Cats are induced ovulators, meaning the act of copulation triggers the release
of multiple eggs from the ovaries into the uterus. The eggs remain in
utero for 24 hours. If the female mates with multiple males, each egg can
technically be fertilized by sperm from a different donor, called superfecundation.
Simply
put, it means that each kitten in a litter can have a different father.
However, just because each kitten looks different doesn't mean they
actually do have different fathers. Sometimes that's just how cat genetics are.
Historic Events
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1901 – New York required the first license plates.
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1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson published
Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids: A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid
describing the double helix structure of DNA.
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1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed.
Birthdays with some quotes
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85 – Al Pacino, American actor “They say we die twice – once when the last breath
leaves our body and once when the last person we know says our name.” 78 – Talia Shire, American actress 77 – Jeffrey DeMunn, American
character actor 63 – Dinesh D’Souza, Indian-American
journalist and author 60 – Hank Azaria, American actor
and voice artist 55 – Joe Buck, American
sportscaster 55 – Renée Zellweger, American actress 54 – Jason Lee, American actor 50 – Marguerite Moreau, American actress |
@91 – William Brennan, American jurist,
US Supreme Court Associate Justice (d. 1997) “The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to
‘create’ rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our
Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.” @79 – Ella Fitzgerald, American singer
(d. 1996; stroke) “It isn’t where you came from, it’s where you’re
going that counts.” @78 – Jerry Leiber, American
songwriter (d. 2011) @78- Len Goodman, Judge,
DWTS @63 – Guglielmo Marconi, Italina
inventor; wireless telegraph (d. 1937; heart attack) @59 – Oliver Cromwell, English general
and politician, Lord Protector of Great Britain (d. 1658; malaria) @57 – Edward R. Murrow, American
journalist (d. 1965; lung cancer) “A nation of sheep will beget a government of
wolves.” |
…The End for today…
