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4.22.16 Week: 16 \ Day: 113
April Averages:
58°\27°
86004 Today:
H 75° \ L 33° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 78°[1989] Record
Low: 12°[1972]
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Quote
of the Day
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Observances
Today
Chemists
Celebrate The Earth Day
Earth Day
Global Selfie Earth Day (NASA) Link
"In God We Trust Day" Day (coins)
Mother Earth Day
Satchmo Days Link
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Observances
This Week
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
21-24
Fiddler's
Frolic
Interstate Mullet Toss
22-30
National
Dance Week Link
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1793 Pres
Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US
1864 US
mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust")
1889 Oklahoma
land rush officially starts
1964 World's
Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens
1969 1st
human eye transplant performed
1976 Barbara
Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
1981 Largest
US bank robbery in Tucson Arizona, more than $3.3 million stolen
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1370 Building begins of Bastille
fortress in Paris
1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral
discovers Brazil & claims it for Portugal
1817 Curacao prohibits use of
white paint due to fierce sunlight
1823 R J Tyers patents roller
skates
1884 Thomas Stevens starts 1st
bike trip around world (2 yrs 9 mos)
1906 10th anniversary Olympic
games open at Athens, Greece
1915 1st military use of poison
gas (chlorine-by Germany) in WW I
1976 Director Ingmar Bergman leaves
Sweden due to taxation
1997 The Japanese embassy hostage
crisis ends in Lima, Peru.
2006 243 people are injured in
pro-democracy protest in Nepal after Nepali security forces open fire on
protesters against King Gyanendra.
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Great lunch with Mary…but traffic was amazing.
A new coffee place and a Jimmy Johns opened in the same area as our lunch.
We have finally surpassed the 70° mark by
quite a lot. It’s been forecasted for the past few days. Windows and doors wide
open bringing in the nice spring air.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Publications Part II
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
Difficulty 1.82/4
Below
you will find uncommon titles to five award winning, or popular children's
books. How many can you decipher?
1. Where the Crimson Foliage Propagates.
2. Obscure Oasis
3. The Sunny Season of the Cygnus.
4. Feline in the Bonnet.
5. A Crumple in Chronology.
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…Harper’s
Index…
+105-Percentage change in the stock price of Weight Watchers on the day
Oprah bought 10% of the company
$70,412,000-Estimated amount Oprah made in the stock that day
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
discoverychannelFrom @renan_ozturk :
"Yaks (and female naks) play such an important role in the Everest region
not only for getting equipment to base camp but also in daily life. Most Sherpa
families have a number of yaks that help them move food up the valley from the
Sunday market. They also eat nak milk and cheese throughout the year, and, most
important, the dung patties are crucial fuel to heat homes during in the winter
time. These beautiful mountain creatures cannot survive at altitudes below ~9K
feet and are highly respected in the region beyond their roles as the “beasts
of burden.” The yak herders themselves lead incredibly beautiful lives, ones I
admire for what seems to me so peaceful an existence. #NepaliLoveYou#SherpaFilm #HeroesOfTheHimalya"
Renan is a @thenorthface professional
climber, @camp4collective adventure
filmmaker and landscape artist who was the high-altitude director and main
cinematographer of the feature doc SHERPA. He's taking over our Instagram today
in honor of #Sherpa,
part of #ElevationWeekend on #Discovery.
Image Credit: Renan Ozturk
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2
jokes for the day
Kofi
walks in to a restaurant and wants to order chicken. Unfortunately, English is
not his first language and he can't remember how to say chicken in English.
Kofi sees the guy at the table next to him with a plate with 4 boiled eggs on
it.
Kofi points to the plate of eggs and says to the waiter, “I want their
mother!"
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Whenever
I see a woman driving a bus I smile and think about how far we, as a society,
have come in equality.
And then I wait for the next bus.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*-------- Stripper Triggers Security
Alert --------*
MAINZ, Germany - A male stripper sparked panic
in Frankfurt's red-light district after being spotted with what appeared to be
an assault rifle and bullet-proof vest emblazoned with FBI. "A significant
number" of police officers were deployed to the area after Saturday
night's sighting, officials said. The 30-year-old Hungarian man was later found
in a table-dance bar, where he revealed the suspicious items were part of the
costume for his act. The weapon turned out to be a plastic replica, according
to a police statement. After a delay, the stripper was permitted to perform,
"but whether his act was a success, is not known," police added.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
U.S. didn't institute an income tax until the time of the Civil War, as a
temporary measure. It took the Sixteenth Amendment, ratified in 1913, to make
it possible for the federal government to tax individuals directly.
***
But
the story of tax day doesn't end there. In 1954, Congress passed nearly 1,000
pages of revision to the Internal Revenue Code. In it, Tax Day would be moved
from March 15 to April 15, giving the taxpayer an extra month to recover from
Christmas expenses.
***
The
federal tax code is now 74,608-page-long. It is 187 times longer than it was a
century ago.
***
From
2010, when Obamacare was passed, to 2014, the tax code grew by nearly 3,000
more pages.
***
Tax
deniers (tax defiers or tax protesters) are people who refuses to pay tax on
constitutional or legal grounds.
***
Tax
protesters raise a number of different kinds of arguments, these typically
include constitutional arguments, such as claims that the Sixteenth Amendment
to the Constitution was not properly ratified or that it is unconstitutional
generally, or that being forced to file an income tax return violates the Fifth
Amendment privilege against self-incrimination.
These arguments rarely work out for them.
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Birthdays
Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
(99) Eddie
Albert [Heimberger],
Rock Island, Ill. American actor (Roman
Holiday, Green Acres), (d. 2005)
90- Charlotte Rae,
Milwaukee, actress (Edna-Facts of Life)
(85) Bettie
Page,
Nashville, American Playboy pin-up model (d.2008)
(83) Aaron
Spelling,
American television producer (Charlie's Angels), (d.
2006)
(79) Immanuel
Kant,
Konigsberg Germ, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason) (d.1804)
79- Jack Nicholson,
Neptune City, NJ American actor (One Flew
Over Cuckoo's Nest, Shining)
69- John Waters,
director (Hairspray)
66- Peter Frampton,
Kent England, guitarist/vocalist (Frampton Comes Alive)
(62) [Julius] Robert
Oppenheimer,
NYC, head of Manhattan (A-bomb) Project (d.1967)
57- Ryan Stiles, Seattle actor
(Lewis-Drew Carey Show)
(53) Vladimir
Lenin [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov],
Simbirsk, Russia Marxist Revolutionary and Soviet
Leader, (d. 1924)
(47) Henry
Fielding,
English novelist (Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones) (d.1754)
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Historical
Obits Today
@82-1984 Ansel Adams,
US photographer
@81-1994 Richard
Nixon,
37th President (1969-75)
@75-1978 Will
Geer,
actor (Grandpa Walton-Waltons), stroke
@72-2013 Richie
Havens,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist, heart attack
@69-1996 Erma
Bombeck,
humorist (Grass is Greener), cancer
@66-1993 Cesar
Chavez,
US farm worker (United Farm Workers), natural causes
@27-2004 Pat
Tillman,
American football player and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in
action) (b. 1976)
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Where the Red Fern Grows
2. Secret Garden
3. The Summer of the Swans
4. Cat in the Hat
5. A Wrinkle in Time
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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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