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4.8.16 Week: 14 \ Day: 99
April Averages:
58°\27°
86004 Today:
H 69° \ L 30° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 14mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 78°[1989] Record
Low: 14°[1999]
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Quote
of the Day
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Observances
Today
International
Roma Day
National Dog Fighting Awareness Day
Trading Cards For Grown-ups Day Link
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Observances
This Week
2-10
National
Robotics Week Link
3-9
Bat Appreciation Week
National Blue Ribbon Week Link (Child
Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
Week of The Ocean
4-10
Explore
Your Career Options
Hate Week
The Masters Tournament
National Youth Violence Prevention Week Link
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1730 1st Jewish congregation in US
forms synagogue, "Shearith Israel, NYC"
1756 Governor Robert Morris will
declare war on the DELAWARE and SHAWNEE Indians.
As a part of his declaration, he will offer the following bounties: prisoners:
men over 12=150 Spanish pieces of eight, women or boys=130; scalps: men=130,
women and boys=50. The bounty on scalps will lead to the killing of many
innocent Indians who were members of neither tribe. The legislation for this
would be called "The Scalp Act".
1808 The Roman Catholic Diocese of
Baltimore was promoted to an archdiocese, with the founding of the dioceses of
New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Bardstown (now Louisville) by Pope Pius
VII.
1913 17th amendment, requiring
direct election of senators, ratified
1935 Works Progress Administration
approved by Congress
1943 U.S. President Franklin
Roosevelt, in an attempt to check inflation, freezes wages and prices,
prohibits workers from changing jobs unless the war effort would be aided
thereby, and bars rate increases to common carriers and public utilities.
1979 204th & final episode of
"All in the Family"
1986 Clint
Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel California, Make his day
2000 Nineteen
US Marines are killed when a V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft crashes near
Marana, Arizona
2003 - U.S. president George W. Bush
leaves Belfast at the end of a two-day summit attended by British Prime
Minister, Tony Blair and Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1093 The new Winchester Cathedral is
dedicated by bishop Walkelin
1766 1st fire escape patented,
wicker basket on a pulley & chain
1783 Catherine II of Russia
annexes the Crimea
1820 The Venus de Milo is
discovered on the Aegean island of Melos
1886 William
Ewart Gladstone introduces the first Irish Home Rule Bill into the British
House of Commons.
1951 - A census on this date shows the
population of the Republic to be 2,960,593 and that of Northern Ireland
is1,370,921
1963 35th Academy Awards -
"Lawrence of Arabia", Anne Bancroft & Gregory Peck win
1968 40th Academy Awards postponed
to Apr 10th due to death of Martin Luther King
1968 Baseball's Opening Day is
postponed because of Martin Luther King's assassination
1974 Hammerin' Hank Aaron hits
715th HR, breaking Babe Ruth's record in Atlanta
1975 47th Academy Awards -
"The Godfather Part II", Ellen Burstyn & Art Carney win
2003 - Paul Muldoon wins the Pulitzer
prize for poetry. The 51-year-old Belfast poet is awarded the prestigious prize
for his work Moy Sand and Gravel.
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Went in early this morning for a fasting blood
test to make my new PCP happy. Don’t mind the blood test, just the fasting
part. Did it at 7:30a so it was not as bad. Later got a haircut, also, not on
any list of my favorite activities, and finally did three loads of laundry,
also not on any list of favorites. Glad it is all taken care of.
Another warm spring day with just a little
wind. Weatherman says to expect rain/snow tomorrow and through the weekend. I’ll
see, sometimes his ‘I’m a skier’ mode takes over his forecasts.
Last night I got a call from a friend. She was
calling to let me know she got a weird email from me. Then she gave the long
story about how first she got an email from a mutual acquaintance that was
weird. I checked my email and found the same weird email from the first person
she mentioned. She said not to open it as her computer guru had tracked down
that my email and his email were both infected with a virus. I told her I had
not sent her an email. Her conclusion was that I had been hacked. Maybe, but I
have a company monitoring my email since it was hacked about 4 months ago. So I
call the guy she mentioned and turns out it was his email that was hacked. He
had gotten an email from a mutual friend of all of us that started the whole thing.
The lesson here: if you receive an email from someone you know and you don’t
usually get emails from them, be suspicious. Than read the header before
opening it. If it sounds funky…like…”I know you will love this’, or “This will
make your day” or anything else that doesn’t sound like them, delete it without
opening it. Also check the email address...the one from me to the friend had my
name, but the @ was ‘simpletown.com.’ I do check my emails and if I get one
that is odd, I’ll delete it, then send an email to that person to let them know
I didn’t open it and that they were probably hacked and need to change their
password and notify their contacts. Good practice.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Another Common Theme
These brain teasers rely on your
ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these puzzles
you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are.
Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word into
the correct group.
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Difficulty:
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Your
task here is to change one letter in each of the following words, in order to
find six (6) words with a common theme.
FIG
MUST
HIND
SLOW
SMUG
MAIL
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…Harper’s
Index…
26- Number of US state attorneys general who have sued the federal
government over new climate regulations
61-Average approval rating of the regulations in those states
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeotravelPhoto
by @CarltonWard // I love the color of new cypress needles
in spring. I found this tree on the Choctawhatchee River in the Florida
panhandle beside Nokuse Plantation, an important piece of the Florida Wildlife
Corridor
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2
jokes for the day
"Daddy,
did you know that girls are smarter than boys?"
"No, I didn’t know that."
"See, there you go."
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Teacher:
Where were you born?
Student: Tiruvananthapuram.
Teacher: Spell it.
Student: Sorry, I meant Goa.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*----------- Luck Doesn't Get Any Worse -----------*
LOS ANGELES, CA - A man almost drove off a cliff
on a Malibu road, stumbled away from the teetering car, to then be hit by a
passing tour bus, authorities said. The driver lost control of his SUV,
slamming it through the guard rail on the windy canyon road. Still disoriented
after pulling himself out of the car, he took a few steps out onto the road
where he was struck by a tour bus. Deputies responded around 4:30 p.m. The man
was treated by California Highway Patrol and the Los Angeles County Fire
Department before he was transported to a local hospital. "This is a
reminder of the need to drive safely through the canyons of our beautiful area
and to use extreme caution at the scene of a traffic collision," sheriff's
officials said.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
1. Largest flower
The Corpse flower, also known as Rafflesia arnoldii. The poetically named posy
boasts the largest bloom in the world, measuring in at 3-feet wide with
blossoms that weigh 15 pounds.
2. The largest animal
The blue whale. When a baby blue whale is born, it measures up to 25 feet and
weighs up to three tons. Growing to lengths of up to 100 feet and weighing up
to 200 tons, the blue whale is, in fact, the biggest animal known to live on
Earth.
3. The heaviest known organism
In Utah's Fishlake National Forest in Utah there lives a massive grove of trees
called Pando, which is actually a single clonal colony of a male quaking aspen.
Nicknamed the Trembling Giant, this enormous root system is comprised of some
47,000 stems that create the grove. All together - with all of the individual
trunks, branches and leaves - this quivering organism weighs in at an estimated
6,600 short tons. It is the heaviest known organism on the planet, and perhaps
even more impressive is its age. Conservative estimates put it at 80,000 years
old, making it also the oldest living thing known to man.
4. The largest land animal
The African bush elephant holds the title for largest land animal. Reaching
lengths of up to 24 feet and gaining heights of 13 feet, these beautiful gray
beasts weigh in at 11 tons. Their trunks alone can lift objects of more than
400 pounds.
5. The largest tree by volume
The world's largest tree is a stately giant sequoia, known as General Sherman
in California's Sequoia National Park. This majestic arboreal master is about
52,500 cubic feet in volume.
6. The largest invertebrate
The aptly named colossal squid is the world's largest squid species and the
largest invertebrate on the planet. They can weigh as much as 1,000 pounds and
can grow to 30 feet long. That's a lot of calamari.
7. The tallest land animal
The title of the world's tallest mammal belongs to the giraffe. The legs of
these even-toed ungulates are taller than many people. Giraffes can grow to
heights of 19 feet and can weigh as much as 2,800 pounds. They can sprint up to
35 miles-an-hour over short distances.
8. The largest reptile
As the largest of living reptiles - as well as the largest terrestrial and
riparian predator in the world - the saltwater crocodile can reach lengths of
22 feet and can weigh in at 4,400 pounds.
9. The heaviest bird
The ostrich is the world's heaviest bird, with a weight of 350 pounds and a
height of 9 feet. While they cannot fly, they can sprint up to 43 miles an hour
and run long distance at 31 miles an hour.
10. The largest thing of all
In 1998 a single colony of honey fungus was discovered in the Malheur National
Forest in east Oregon that covered an area of 3.7 square miles, and occupied
some 2,384 acres.
The discovery was remarkable in that not only would the massive specimen be
recognized as the world's largest known organism, but based on its growth rate,
the fungus is estimated to be 2,400 years old - and maybe as old as 8,650 years
- making it one of the planet's oldest living organisms as well.
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Birthdays
Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
(93) Betty
[Bloomer] Ford,
Chicago, US 1st
lady (1974-77) and founder of the Betty Ford Center clinic (d. 2011)
89- Shecky
Greene,
Chicago, comedian/actor (Love Machine, Combat)
(87) Mary
Pickford [Gladys Smith],
Toronto, Canadian actress (Poor Little
Rich Girl), (d. 1979)
(80) Jim
Barnes,
Lelant, Cornwall, English golfing pioneer (4
major wins) (d. 1966)
(57) Sonja
Henie,
Oslo Norway, ice skater/actress
(Olympic-gold-1928,32,36) (d.1969)
(53) Jim
"Catfish" Hunter,
major-league pitcher (A's, Yankees)(d.1999)
53- Julian Lennon,
Liverpool, singer (Too Late for Goodbyes) and son of
John
48- Patricia Arquette,
NYC, actress (Ed Wood, Nightmare on Elm Street 3)
(47) Juan
Ponce de León,
Castile, Spain, explorer and conquistador
who searched for the fountain of youth and the first European to discover
Florida, (d. 1521)
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Historical
Obits Today
@91-1973 Pablo
(Ruiz y) Picasso,
Spanish/French painter (Guernica)
@88-1981 Omar
Bradley,
last US 5-star general, (Normandy)
@87-2013 Margaret
Thatcher,
British Prime Minister (1979 - 1990)
@81-1943 Richard
Sears,
1st to win US amateur national tennis match
@50-1861 Elisha
Otis,
American founder of the Otis Elevator Company and
inventor of a safety device that prevents elevators from falling if the
hoisting cable fails, diphtheria
@49-1997 Laura
Nyro,
singer, ovarian cancer
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Brain
Teasers Answers
FIG --> FOG
MUST --> MIST
HIND --> WIND
SLOW --> SNOW
SMUG --> SMOG
MAIL --> HAIL
'Weather conditions' is the common theme.
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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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