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April 13, 2017 Week: 14 \ Day: 103
86004 Today: H 65° \
L 28° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 75°[1962] Record Low: 0°[1965]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe
To
rule is easy, to govern difficult.
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Make Lunch Count
Day Link
Thomas Jefferson Day
Celebrate Teen Literature Day
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
8-16
Animal Control
Officer Appreciation Week
Holy Week
International Dark
Sky Week
National Animal
Control Appreciation Week Link
National Dental
Hygienist Week Link
National Library
Week
National Public
Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week Link
National Robotics
Week Link
National Student
Employment Week Link
Pan American
Week
15-22
International
Wildlife Film Week Link
National Park Week Link
Coin Week
National Karaoke Week
National Paperboard Packaging Week
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link
National Occupational Health Nursing Week Link
Safe Kids Week Link
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
≈837 Best
view of Halley's Comet in 2,000 years
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≈1250 The
Seventh Crusade is defeated in Egypt, Louis IX of France is captured.
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≈1742 George
Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" performed for the 1st time at
New
Music Hall in Dublin
≈1796 First
elephant arrives in US from India
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1860 1st
Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California
1863 Hospital
for Ruptured & Crippled in NY is 1st orthopedic hospital
≈1868 Abyssinian
War ends as British and Indian troops capture Magdala and
Ethiopian Emperor commits suicide
1869 Steam
power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
1870 Metropolitan
Museum of Art forms in NYC
1883 US
prospector Alfred Packer convicted of manslaughter though accused of
cannibalism
1896 John
Philip Sousa's "El Capitan" premieres at the Tremont Theatre in Boston
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1902 J
C Penney opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming
1904 US
Congress authorizes Lewis & Clark Expo $1 gold coin
1911 The
US House of Representatives votes to institute direct elections of
senators
to Congress, a step towards direct democracy
≈1912 Royal
Flying Corps forms (later Royal Air Force)
≈1926 Cyclists
without bicycle-tax-stamp rounded up in Amsterdam
≈1933 1st
flight over Mount Everest (Lord Clydesdale)
1934 4.7
million US families report receiving welfare payments
1943 FDR dedicates
Jefferson Memorial
1954 Robert
Oppenheimer accused of being a communist
1957 Saturday
postal delivery in US is temporarily halted due to lack of funds
≈1961 UN
General Assembly condemns South-Africa's apartheid
1964 36th
Academy Awards: "Tom Jones", Best Film, Sidney Poitier & Patricia
Neal win Best Actor/Actress
1965 7th
Grammy Awards: The Girl From Ipanema, The Beatles wins
1980 US
boycotts Summer Olympics in Moscow
≈1981 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Beth Henley for "Crimes of the Heart"
≈1986 Pope John
Paul II met Rome's Chief Rabbi Elio Toaff at Rome synagogue
1992 American
Airlines reduce its 1st-class fares 20%-50%
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≈2012 North
Korean long range rocket testing ends in failure after the rocket broke up
after launch
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Beautiful
day…windows open, wearing shorts, little wind…Spring @ 7000’ can be
outstanding.
Headed
out and did my weekly Sam’s Club and grocery shopping. Ready for the Easter
Weekend. Taxes may be ready tomorrow, or not. Still have a few days.
I
take an extended release allergy prescription year round. Better than red eyes
and runny nose. Yesterday I went to the pharmacy to pick them up. Got home and
it was the same med but not extended release. Called the Dr. to be sure they
had called in the right one. They had. Called the pharmacy and the pharmacists
said ‘oops, we goofed. Bring it back and we will credit your account’. Cool. So
I go in and not only did they credit my account for the charge of the wrong
meds, I got the 90 day supply for free. It usually only costs me $3.50 for a 90
day supply, but the meds are $125 without insurance. Thanks BC/BS for the great
savings.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
Our
neophyte president did a lot of lambasting of long held institutions during his
campaign and I believe that got him votes. Now that he has been in office less
than 100 days, most of his outrageous claims have done a 180° turn…NATO,
Russia, Syria, China….Amazing that NATO was obsolete before he was elected, and
now it has suddenly changed to be very important. Just wondering why his base is still supporting
him. They wanted us out of NATO, fighting in Syria, and stopping trade with
China. Hmmm.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
What
is the capital of Ukraine?
Kiev
Moscow
Kharkiv
Odessa
61.9%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
4→Factor by which a teacher in a ‘low-minority’ school is
more likely to be certified that one in a ‘high-minority’ school
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
Wanting
to lose weight, a woman placed a picture of a shapely, pinup model on her
refrigerator to remind her of her goal.
The reminder worked like a charm as the woman discovered that she had lost ten
pounds in the first month of using this method.
The downside to this was that her husband ended up gaining fifteen pounds.
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*--
The Wrong Time and Place to Buy Lingerie --*
A woman shot her love rival who was shopping for sexy lingerie at Victoria's
Secret, according to police in Ohio. Columbus police said that they have
arrested 22-year-old Anikqua A.E. Williams, after being accused of shooting
23-year-old Daneshia Elmore. According to the police investigation, Williams
and Elmore were fighting over a man for more than a year. When Williams saw
that Elmore was buying sexy lingerie at a Victoria's Secret Pink store,
apparently to entice her boyfriend, she pulled out a gun. Williams then shot
Elmore in the chest. Elmore was rushed to the OhioHealth Grant Medical Center,
where she is said to be in stable condition.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Pony
Express Riders, who were paid approximately $25 per week and carried loads
estimated at up to 20 pounds of mail, were changed every 75 to 100 miles, with
horses switched out every 10 to 15 miles. Among the riders was the legendary
frontiersman and showman William "Buffalo Bill" Cody (1846-1917), who
reportedly signed on with the Pony Express at age 14.
***
The initial cost of Pony Express delivery was $5 for every half-ounce of mail.
The company began as a private enterprise and its owners hoped to gain a profitable
delivery contract from the U.S. government, but that never happened. With the
advent of the first transcontinental telegraph line in October 1861, the Pony
Express ceased operations.
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‡‡How
our states were named‡‡
Pennsylvania
Named
in honor of Admiral William Penn. The land was granted to Penn’s son, William
Penn, to pay off a debt owed by the crown to the senior Penn. The name is made
up of Penn + sylva (“woods” ) + nia (a noun
suffix) to get “Penn's Woodland.” The younger Penn was embarrassed by the name
and feared that people would think he had named the colony after himself, but
King Charles would not rename the land.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
@93- Alfred
Moser Butts,
game
inventor (Scrabble) (d 1993)
@93- Harold
Stassen, W
(Gov-R-Minn)
perennial presidential candidate, born in Saint Paul, Minnesota
(d
2001)
@92- Eudora
Welty,
Jackson
Ms, novelist (Optimist's Daughter-Pulitzer 1973) (d 2001)
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@85- Philippe
de Rothschild,
manager
(Bordeaux Vineyard), born in Paris, (d 1988)
@85- Howard
Keel, Ill,
actor/singer
and president of the Screen Actors Guild (7 Brides for 7 Brothers,
Kiss
Me Kate) (d 2005)
84- Ben
Nighthorse Campbell,
former
Sen-D Colorado
@83- Thomas
Jefferson,
3rd
President of the United States (1801-09), born in Albemarle County, Virginia
(d.
1826)
@83- Samuel
Beckett,
Irish
novelist and playwright (Waiting for Godot, Nobel 1969), born in Foxrock,
Ireland (d. 1989)
@82- Don
Adams,
American
actor and comedian (Get Smart), born in New York City (d. 2005)
82- Lyle
Waggoner,
KC
Kansas, actor (Carol Burnette Show, Wonder Woman)
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78- Paul
Sorvino,
actor
(Chiefs, Dick Tracy)
@76- Madalyn
Murray O'Hair,
American
atheist who opposed prayer in school and was murdered in 1995,
born
in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1995)
@74- Seamus
Heaney,
Irish
poet and playwright (Nobel Prize in Literature 1995), born in
Castledawson,
County Londonderry, Northern Ireland (d. 2013)
72-
Tony Dow,
American
actor and director (Wally-Leave it to Beaver), born in Hollywood
71- Al
Green,
Forest
City Arkansas, singer (Lets Stay Together)
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67- Ron
Perlman,
actor
(Quest for Fire, Beauty & the Beast), born in The Bronx, New York
@66- Frank
W. Woolworth,
American
businessman, founder of F. W. Woolworth Co, born in Rodman, New
York
(d. 1919)
66- Peter
Davison,
English
actor (fifth Doctor in Doctor Who, All Creatures Great and Small), born
in London
@62- Christopher
Hitchens,
English
author and columnist (Vanity Fair, New Statesman), born in
Portsmouth,
England (d 2011)
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54- Gary
Kasparov,
Russian
chess player, undisputed world champion (1985-93), born in Baku, Azerbaijan
53-
Caroline Rhea,
actress,
comedienne, born in Montreal
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47- Rick
Schroder,
SI
NY, actor (Ricky-Silver Spoons, Champ, Earthling)
@42- Butch
Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker],
American desperado (Wild Bunch
Passage), born in Beaver, Utah (d. 1908)
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@35- Guy
Fawkes,
English
Catholic conspirator who was convicted in the "Gunpowder Plot" to
blow
up the British Parliament, born in York, England (d. 1606)
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@27- Jonathan
Brandis,
American
actor (Lucas Wolenczak-seaQuest DSV), born in Danbury, Connecticut
(d. 2003)
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
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@88-2006 Muriel
Spark,
Scottish
author
@87-2015 Günter
Grass,
German
writer (The Tin Drum) and playwright and Nobel Prize laureate (1999)
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Kiev
Viewed
by many as the center of Ukrainian culture, the capital city of Kiev is located
on the Dnieper (Dnipro) River. It had a population of nearly 3 million people
in 2008. Though the exact origins of the city are unclear, the recognized year
of its establishment is 482 AD, making Kiev more than 1,500 years old. It is an
important industrial center and is also home to multiple research facilities
run by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. Source: Encyclopedia
Britannica Online
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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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