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April 14,
2017 Week: 14 \ Day: 104
86004 Today: H 68° \
L 32° Average Sky Cover: 30%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: 21mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 75°[1937] Record Low: 5°[1972]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Thomas
Jefferson
The
glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
American Fancy Rat
& Mouse Day: thru 16
Children with
Alopecia Day
Dictionary Day Link
National Dolphin Day
National Ex-Spouse Day Link
Pan American Day
Pathologists' Assistant Day
World Marbles
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
≈966 Christianization
of Poland
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1775 1st
abolitionist society in US organizes in Philadelphia
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1818 US
Medical Corps forms
1828 First
American Dictionary: its author Noah Webster registers its copyright
for publication
1836 US
Congress forms Territory of Wisconsin
1841 1st
detective story published, Edgar Allan Poe's "Murders in Rue
Morgue" (April 1841)
1865 US
President Abraham Lincoln is shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's
Theater in Washington
1894 1st
public showing of Thomas Edison's kinetoscope (moving pictures)
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1906 US
President Theodore Roosevelt denounces "muckrakers" in US
press, taken from John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress
1910 President
Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day
≈1919 Following
Gandhi's nonviolent methods, Muslim and Hindu protest British rule; British
troops fire on the crowds, killing 400
≈1927 The
first Volvo car premieres in Gothenburg, Sweden.
1939 John
Steinbeck novel "The Grapes of Wrath" published
1945 American
planes bomb Tokyo & damage the Imperial Palace
≈1958 Sputnik
2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1961 1st
live television broadcast from Soviet Union
1964 Sandy
Koufax throws his 9th complete game without allowing a walk
1969 41st
Academy Awards: "Oliver", Cliff Robertson & Katharine
Hepburn and Barbra Streisand win (1st ever tie for best actress)
≈1971 President
Nixon ends blockade against People's Republic of China
1971 Supreme
Court upheld busing as means of achieving racial desegregation
≈1972 The
Provisional Irish Republican Army explodes twenty-four bombs in towns and
cities across Northern Ireland
≈1980 1st
Cubans of the Mariel boatlift sail to Florida
1980 52nd
Academy Awards: "Kramer vs Kramer", Dustin Hoffman & Sally
Field win
≈1980 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Executioner's Song)
1983 US President
Reagan signs $165 billion Social Security rescue
≈1986 Desmond
Tutu elected Anglican Archbishop of Capetown
≈1989 1,100,000,000th
Chinese born
1994 Branch
Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender after completion of his
Seven Seals manuscript
≈1999 NATO
mistakenly bombs a convoy of ethnic Albanian refugees - Yugoslav officials say
75 people are killed.
≈1999 A
severe hailstorm strikes Sydney, Australia causing A$1.7 billion in insured
damages, the most costly natural disaster in Australian history.
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2000 Metallica
drummer Lars Ulrich files a lawsuit against P2P sharing phenomenon Napster.
This law-suit eventually leads the movement against file-sharing programs.
2003 The
Human Genome Project is completed with 99% of the human genome sequenced to an
accuracy of 99.99%
≈2010 Icelandic
Volcano Eyjafjallajökull begins erupting from the top crater in the center of
the glacier
2012 J.
K. Rowling, author of the Harry Potter novels, launches her website
"Pottermore"
≈2013 Justin
Trudeau, son of long-serving Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, is elected
leader of the Liberal Party of Canada
≈2015 Archeologists
announce they have found at Lomekwi in Kenya 3.3 million-year old stone tools,
the oldest ever discovered and which pre-date the earliest humans
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Windy…typical
spring. Happy to see pics from Mary in Ireland and Scotland and Ann in Costa
Rica. Facebook is a great way to stay in contact with travelers.
My
computer tech guy called as I hadn’t had my monthly checkup was due. It usually
takes about 30 minutes, but todays took almost 2 hours. So nice to have it done
remotely and I don’t have to sit in front of the computer while they do it. All
is good. I had previously bought monthly service and email virus check that is
good until 2021. Can’t beat Tech Alliance. Glad I found them.
The
United Airlines mess just keeps getting worse. Lawsuit on the way. The lawyer
for the guy gave a very good plea that the airlines need to change their entire
culture, from the gate thru the flight. I am really glad to hear that. Next in
my book is TSA. Most TSA people are good, but some sure know how to wield their
power. On my last trip one TSA guy was threatening to close the line if the
travelers didn’t listen to him about what to take out of their bag. Crazy.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
How
many main islands make up the state of Hawaii?
3
6
8
12
31.6%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
1→Number of San Francisco homes for sale in September that
were affordable on the average local teacher’s salary
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
A
child comes home from his first day at school.
His mother asks, "Well, what did you learn today?"
The kid replies, "Not enough. They want me to come back tomorrow."
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*-----
Those Chinese Know How to Have Fun -----*
A Chinese zoo is making some extra cash and promoting education by charging
guests $145 for the privilege of cleaning up polar bear poop. The Wuhan
Haichang Ocean Park in Hubei province is offering a service once a week to
adult guests interested in spending three hours experiencing the life of a
polar bear keeper. The guests, who must undergo health checks and attend a
short training session prior to their shifts, are given the opportunity to
prepare food and feed the bears, but their main duties involve cleaning up the
bear's doodies.
"It
really costs money to smell poop, but it's quite funny," Li Fengfan, 26, a
zoo guest who recently took the polar bear experience, told China News Service.
"It's hard to see polar bears, not to mention come into close contact with
them."
Park
spokesperson Chen Ting said the goal of the program is education. "It's
the first time the park has had a program targeting adults," Chen said.
"It is a pilot to popularize science and knowledge of the animal for the
public good, not for money. We actually don't want too many participants as
that would disturb them."
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Coulrophobia
is the fear of clowns. It is a basic survival instinct to react with suspicion
to a "person" with a painted smile and unsmiling eyes, but people
with this phobia are terror-stricken when they see this circus staple.
***
Dendrophobia is the fear of trees. People with this phobia usually have strange
stories about why they are terrified of a particular type of tree.
***
Nyctophobia is an irrational fear of nighttime or the dark. An adult (the fear
is common among children) may understand that there is nothing to be afraid of,
but he or she still experiences heightened anxiety when the lights go out.
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‡‡How
our states were named‡‡
Rhode
Island
First
used in a letter by Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, in which he
compares an island near the mouth of Narragansett Bay (a bay on the north side
of Rhode Island Sound) to the island of Rhodes in the Mediterranean. The
explanation preferred by the state government is that Dutch explorer Adrian
Block named the area Roodt Eylandt (“red island”) in reference
to the red clay that lined the shore and the name was later anglicized under
British rule.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
97- John
Paul Stevens,
Supreme
Court Justice
@96- John
Gielgud,
actor
and director (Arthur, Ages of Man), born in London, England (d 2000)
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@86- Arnold
J. Toynbee,
English
historian (A Study of History), born in London (d. 1975)
85- Loretta
Lynn,
American
country singer-songwriter (Coal Miner's Daughter), born in
Butcher's
Hollow Kentucky
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@77- Rod
Steiger,
American
actor (Illustrated Man, Pawnbroker), born in Westhampton,
New
York (d. 2002)
76- Julie
Christie,
British
actress (Darling, Doctor Zhivago), born in Chabua, Assam, India
76- Pete
Rose,
MLB
player and manager (Cincinnati Reds), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
@70- Anne
Sullivan,
US
teacher, educated Helen Keller, born in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts
(d.
1936)
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@68- Faisal,
King
of Saudi Arabia (1964-75), born in Riyadh, Emirate of Nejd and Hasa
(d.
1975)
@66- Christian
Huygens,
Holland,
astronomer (discovered Saturn's rings) (d 1695)
<§><§>
59- John
D'Aquino,
American
actor
58-
Peter Capaldi,
actor
(12th Dr. Who)
56- Robert
Carlyle,
British
actor (Trainspotting, The Full Monty), born in Glasgow, Scotland
<§><§>
49- Anthony
Michael Hall,
American
actor (SNL, Breakfast Club), born in Boston, Massachusetts
44- Adrien
Brody, American actor (The Pianist, The Grand Budapest Hotel), born in NYC, New
York
44- David
Miller,
American
tenor (Il Divo)
40- Sarah
Michelle Gellar,
actress
(Kendall-All My Children, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), born in NYC
<§><§>
21-
Abigail Breslin,
movie
actress
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
@85-1995 Burl
Ives,
folk
singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
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@78-1986 Simone
de Beauvoir,
French
author and feminist (The Mandarins, The Second Sex, She Came to
Stay),
pneumonia
@77-1975 Fredric
March,
American
actor (Inherit the Wind), prostate cancer
@76-2007 Don
Ho,
American
musician (Tiny Bubbles), cardiac arrest
@74-1759 George
Frideric Handel,
German-British
baroque composer and organist (Messiah, Water Music)
<§><§>
@67-1999 Anthony
Newley,
English
actor and singer-songwriter (Dr Doolitte, Goldfinger theme), renal
cancer
@67-1924 Louis
Sullivan,
architect
(father of skyscrapers)
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@57-1917 Lew
[Lejzer L] Zamenhof,
Polish
doc/linguist (Esperanto)
@56-1964 Rachel
Carson,
American
biologist/author (Silent spring), breast cancer
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
8
Originally
annexed by the U.S. in 1898, Hawaii became the 50th state on Aug. 21, 1959.
Nicknamed the "Aloha State," Hawaii is composed of eight main
islands: Hawaii, Maui, Oahu, Kauai, Molokai, Lanai, Niihau and Kahoolawe. Of
these, the most popular among tourists is Oahu, which is home to Pearl Harbor
and Waikiki, as well as the capital city of Honolulu. The largest island is
Hawaii, which is also known as the "Big Island." Sources:
HISTORY.com, USA Today
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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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