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4..16 Week: 16 \ Day: 108
April Averages:
58°\27°
86004 Today:
H 43° \ L 33° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 13mph\Gusts: 21mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 77°[1946] Record
Low: 13°[1995]
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Quote
of the Day
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Observances
Today
Bat
Appreciation Day (Emerge from hibernation)
Ellis Island Family History Day
Ford Mustang Day
International Haiku Poetry Day Link
Nothing
Like A Dame Day
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Observances
This Week
9-17
YoYo
& Skill Toys Week
12-18
National
Animal Control Appreciation Week Link
National Tattoo Week Link
15-17
Global
Youth Service Days
16-23
International
Wildlife Film Week Link
National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW Link
National Park Week Link
National Toddler Immunization Week Link
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link
Coin Week
National Karaoke Week
National Pet ID Week Link
National Paperboard Packaging Week
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1704 1st successful US newspaper;
published in Boston by John Campbell
1817 1st US school for deaf
(Hartford, Conn)
1853 US Marine Hospital at
Presidio (SF) forms
1865 Mary Surratt is arrested as a
conspirator in Lincoln's assassination
1907 Ellis Island, NY-11,745
immigrants arrive
1920 American Professional
Football Association forms (NFL)
1930 DuPont scientist Elmer K.
Bolton invents neoprene using Julius Nieuwland's divinyl acetylene
1937 Debut of cartoon characters
Daffy Duck, Elmer J Fudd & Petunia Pig
1941 US
Office of Price Administration forms (handled rationing)
1961 1,400 Cuban exiles land in
Bay of Pigs in a doomed attempt to overthrow Castro
1961 33rd
Academy Awards - "Apartment" wins best film, Burt Lancaster
& Elizabeth Taylor win best actor/actress
1964 Ford Mustang formally
introduced ($2,368 base)
1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of
assassinating US Senator Robert F. Kennedy
1978 82nd Boston Marathon: Bill
Rodgers of United States 1st man in 2:10:13 and Gayle Barron of United States
1st woman in 2:44:52
1978 Pulitzer prize awarded to
Carl Sagan for "Dragons of Eden"
1983 Nolan Ryan strikes out
his 3,500th batter
1987 Julius Erving becomes
3rd NBA player to score 30,000 points
2011 "Game of Thrones",
based on the fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin premieres on HBO
2015 Jazz composer and
musician John Coltrane is awarded a posthumous Special Citation by
the Pulitzer Prize board
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1387 In Geoffrey Chaucer's
"Canterbury Tales" the date the pilgrimage to Canterbury begins
(according to scholars)
1397 Geoffrey Chaucer tells the
"Canterbury Tales" for the first time at the court of English King
Richard II
1534 Sir Thomas More confined in
Tower of London
1629 1st commercial fishery
established
1783
- The British Renunciation Act acknowledges the exclusive right of the Irish
parliament and courts to make and administer laws for Ireland
1875 Modern Snooker invented by
Sir Neville Chamberlain in Jabalpur India
1932 Emperor Haile Selassie of
Ethiopia ends slavery
1969 People's Democracy activist
Bernadette Devlin becomes the youngest woman Member of Parliament ever elected
to Westminster at 21 years old
1983 In Warsaw, police route 1,000
Solidarity supporters
2013 Same-sex marriage is
legalized in New Zealand
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Strong wind, then rain, then snow overnight.
Snow has blown away but high winds and chilly temps continue. Not a day to
spend much time outside. Bird feeder empty this morning, and after refilling it
at 7a, it is now half empty. The birds know this ain’t going away soon. Spring
at 7000’ is always unexpected weather. Sounds like Denver is up for a lot
worse, but haven’t seen any posts about snowmageden yet.
Nice day for Netflix and some playoff
basketball.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Oxy the Moron!
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
Difficulty
1.98/4
Oxy
the Moron set out into the world and learned a big word, OXYMORON!!! After
searching about this new word for some time, he came up with a teaser made
especially for you!
Can you figure out which well-known oxymorons these words are?
Ex) Initial facsimile = original copy
1) solitary option
2) approximately precise
3) trivial calamity
4) accurate approximation
5) authentic duplication
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…Harper’s
Index…
46-extimated percentage of women under 30 in
Monrovia who have engaged in transactional sex with UN workers
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @anandavarma. This is a closeup of a male Violetcrowned
Woodnymph hummingbird photographed in the Santa Marta Mountains of northern
Colombia.
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2
jokes for the day
No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.
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When the Smith family moved into their new house, a visiting grandparent asked
five-year-old Tommy how he liked the new place.
“It’s great,” he said. “I have my own room, Alex has his own room, and Jamie
has her own room. But poor mom is still stuck with dad.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*-- 149 Daredevils Jump From Bridge for Record --*
HORTOLANDIA, Brazil - I guess it's one way to
get your name in a book. A group of 149 daredevils tied to ropes jumped from a
98-foot bridge in Brazil to establish a world record for "rope
jumping." The bridge-jumping event in Hortolandia involved 149 people tied
to ropes, and many holding hands, jumping from the bridge and swinging from
their nylon ropes underneath the structure. Organizers said it took four months
to prepare for the event, as rope jumping requires the assembly of complicated
pulleys and bolts. The feat, which has been submitted to Guinness World Records
for official recognition, bested an unofficial record set in Tver, Russia, in
July 2012.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
You
don't vote for the President or Vice President of the United States. Citizens
cast ballots for a set of members of the U.S. Electoral College. These electors
then cast direct votes for the President and Vice President.
***
If
a majority of electors do not vote for President, the House of Representatives
chooses the President; if a majority of electors do not vote for Vice
President, the Senate votes.
***
In
1945, Congress voted to commemorate the work FDR did for the March of Dimes by
putting his profile on the coin.
***
President
Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) is the only president to be elected to two
nonconsecutive terms. He was the 22nd and 24th president.
***
In
1978, President Jimmy Carter, the first Southerner elected to the presidency
following the Civil War, restored U.S. citizenship to Jefferson Davis,
president of the Confederate States of America. You
don't vote for the President or Vice President of the United States. Citizens
cast ballots for a set of members of the U.S. Electoral College. These electors
then cast direct votes for the President and Vice President.
***
If
a majority of electors do not vote for President, the House of Representatives
chooses the President; if a majority of electors do not vote for Vice
President, the Senate votes.
***
In
1945, Congress voted to commemorate the work FDR did for the March of Dimes by
putting his profile on the coin.
***
President
Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) is the only president to be elected to two
nonconsecutive terms. He was the 22nd and 24th president.
***
In
1978, President Jimmy Carter, the first Southerner elected to the presidency
following the Civil War, restored U.S. citizenship to Jefferson Davis,
president of the Confederate States of America.
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Birthdays
Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
(94) Vincent
Wigglesworth,
entomologist
(79) Marguerite
Bourgeoys,
Troyes, France, French founder of the
Congregation of Notre Dame (first Canadian saint) (d. 1700)
(75) J.
P. Morgan,
Hartford, Cn, American banker/CEO (US
Steel Corporation), (d.1913)
(68) Harry Reasoner,
Dakota City, Iowa, American newscaster (60
Minutes, ABC, CBS) (d. 1991)
(63) William
Holden,
O'Fallon, Ill, American actor (Stalag 17,
Bridge Over River Kwai, SOB) (d. 1981)
57- Sean Bean,
English actor (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, A Game of
Thrones)
44- Jennifer Garner [Affleck],
Houston, American actress (Sydney Bristow-Alias)
42- Victoria Beckham [Adams],
Harlow, Essex,
English singer (Posh
Spice-Spice Girls)
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Historical
Obits Today
@87-2014 Gabriel García Márquez,
Colombian
novelist, short-story writer, screenwriter and journalist (1982 Nobel Prize in
Literature)
@84-1790 Benjamin Franklin,
US,
US Founding Father, inventor ambassador and writer (Poor Richards Almanac)
@64-1990 Ralph David Abernathy,
US
civil rights leader, blood clots
@57-1987 Dick Shawn,
comedian
(Producers), on stage heart attack
@56-1998 Linda McCartney,
American-born
photographer and wife of Paul McCartney, breast cancer
@52-1974 Frank McGee,
Today
show host, cancer
@24-1680 Kateri Tekakwitha, first Mohawk to receive
beatification, ill health
@21-1960 Eddie Cochran,
rocker
(Summertime Blues), car crash
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1) only choice
2) almost exactly
3) minor crisis
4) exact estimate
5) genuine imitation
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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.
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