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4.18.16 Week: 16 \ Day: 109
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 53° \ L 29° Average
Sky Cover: 85%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 22mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 79°[1989] Record Low: 16°[1978]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Adult Autism Day
Boston Marathon
National Columnists' Day: 18 Link
National Golf Day Link
National Lineman Appreication Day Link
National Stress Awareness Day
Pet Owners Independence Day
World Amateur Radio Day Link
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Observances This Week
12-18
National Animal Control Appreciation
Week Link
National Tattoo Week Link
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
18-24
Cleaning For A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In
The Line of Duty Week
National Work Zone Safety
Awareness Week Link
Safe Kids Week Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1775 Paul Revere & William
Dawes ride from Charleston to Lexington warning the "regulars are
coming!"
1868 San Francisco Society for
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
1906 San Francisco earthquake and
fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the city
1906 The Los Angeles Times story
on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as a worldwide movement.
1921 Junior Achievement
incorporated in Colorado Spring
1924 1st crossword puzzle book
published (Simon & Schuster)
1925 World's Fair opens in Chicago
1934 1st "Washateria"
(laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Tx)
1942 "Stars &
Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
1958 A United States federal court
rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be released from an insane asylum.
1966 Bill Russell became 1st
black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
1968 178,000 employees of US Bell
Telephone System go on strike
1968 London Bridge is sold to US
oil company (to be erected in Arizona)
1977 Alex Haley, author of
"Roots", awarded Pulitzer Prize
1983 Pulitzer Prize awarded
to Alice Walker for "The Color Purple"
1984 Joan Benoit runs world record
female marathon (2:22:43)
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1738 Real Academia de la Historia
("Royal Academy of History") founded in Madrid.
1853 1st train in Asia (Bombay to
Tanna, 36 km)
1899 The St. Andrew's Ambulance
Association is granted a Royal Charter by Queen Victoria.
1902 Denmark is first country to
adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1972 The Widgery Report on 'Bloody
Sunday' in Northern Ireland is published, causing outrage among the people of
Derry who call it the "Widgery Whitewash"
1996 In Lebanon, at least 106
civilians are killed when the Israel Defense Forces accidentally shell the UN
compound at Quana.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another chilly, windy, cloudy day. Glad it is
Sunday so I can catch up on shows.
Still listen to my Sunday morning news shows
but very tired of people guessing what will happen in the election cycle. Just
give me news…not polls, not guesses, just the damn news.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Sunnies
Math brain teasers require
computations to solve.
It was going to be another really
hot day, but Ted needed a new pair of cool sunnies* before he could hit the
surf. He needed another $52 to buy the ones he wanted.
Ted decided to sell home-made smoothies at his gate: $2 each, or three for $4.
He had the $52 after selling 32 smoothies, stopped work and headed off to the
beach.
How many smoothies had been sold at the $2 price?
* sunnies = sunglasses in New Zealand & Australia
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…Harper’s Index…
1-number of practicing psychiatrists in Liberia
0-in Sierra Leone
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeoApril 8th, 2016 | Zimbabwe African baobab tree during
sunset in Zambezi Valley, Zimbabwe. Photo by @shaulschwarz
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2 jokes for the day
TEACHER: Joey, how do you spell
'crocodile'?
Joey: K-R-O-K-O-D-I-A-L'
TEACHER: No, that's wrong.
GLENN: Maybe it is wrong, but you did ask me how I spelled it."
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The VP hobbled in to his house and
was greeted by his wife. “Dear,” she said, startled, “what are you doing home
so early?”
“The boss and I had a fight,” he grumbled. “He would not take back what he
said.”
Glowing with pride, his wife asked, “What did he say?"
The VP shrugged, “You’re fired.”
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Yep, It Really Happened
*--------------- 21st Century Perv ---------------*
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Residents of an Alaska
neighborhood said their privacy is being violated by an unusually high-tech
peeping Tom using a camera drone. Neighbors in the Prominence Pointe area of
Anchorage said the drone has been seen flying close to homes and appeared to
use its camera to look into windows. Melissa Bolland said her children alerted
her to the drone flying around their home. "My children noticed it first.
It kind of came down, hovered around like above the trampoline over there, went
around the house kind of really low, hanging to the windows, and then went
straight up to the tree and then off again," Bolland said. Neighbor Bri
Tollefsen said she tried chasing the drone in her car to find its owner, but
she lost track of it. "My gut feeling is it's here casing homes and trying
to find out who's there or not," Tollefsen said. "The moment you feel
like your privacy is taken away in your own home, it's not a good
feeling." Police confirmed they responded to at least one call about a
window-peeping drone, but the device was not located and no report was filed.
The Federal Aviation Administration bars the use of personal drones over
private property without permission and the law requires owners to be within
line-of-sight of their aircraft at all times.
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Birthdays Today
“( )” indicates age at death
94- Barbara Hale, Dekalb
Ill, actress (Della Street-Perry Mason)
(81) Samuel P.
Huntington, NYC, American political scientist (The Clash of Civilizations) and
presidential adviser, (d. 2008)
70- Hayley Mills, London,
actress (Parent Trap, Pollyanna)
(69) Lenny Baker,
rocker (Sha Na Na) (d.2016)
69- James Woods, Vernal,
Ut, American actor (Salvador, Against All Odds)
63- Rick Moranis, Toronto,
Canadian actor (SCTV, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs)
55- Jane Leeves, London,
actress (Murphy Brown, Daphne Moon-Fraser)
53- Conan Chris O'Brien,
Brookline, Mass, American TV host (Late Night)
53- Eric McCormack,
Canadian-American actor (Will and Grace)
40- Melissa Joan Hart, Smithtown,
N,Y american actress (Clarissa, Sabrina)
(39) Lucretia
Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI) (d.1519)
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Historical Obits Today
@87-2002 Thor
Heyerdahl, Norwegian explorer (Kon Tiki expedition) (b. 1914)
@82-2015 Joseph
Lechleider, American electrical engineer (invented DSL/high speed internet
technology)
@82-2012 Dick
Clark, American radio and television personality (American Bandstand)
@76-1955 Albert
Einstein, Nobel laureate, abdominal aortic aneurysm
@67-1853 William
King, US 13th VP, dies a month after his inauguration, TB
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Brain Teasers Answers
14
[14 @ $2 = $28; 18 @ 3 for $4 = $24]
Solution:
If he had sold them all at $2, he would have earned $64. The $12 difference is
the discount he gave to six people buying 3 for $4.
So 18 were sold at the discount price - the other 14 were sold individually.
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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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That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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