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April 22,
2017 Week: 15 \ Day: 112
86004 Today: H 68° \
L 37° Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 1mph\Gusts:
-mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 76°[1949] Record Low: 11°[1963]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Far
and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at
work worth doing.
Theodore
Roosevelt
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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
National Dance Day
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‡‡Observances
This 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
18-24
Cleaning For A
Reason Week
Consumer Awareness
Week
Fiddler's Frolic
Police Officers Who
Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
21-23
Global Youth
Service Days
Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of Prayer and Fasting
22-29
National Infant
Immunization Week (NIIW) Link
Money Smart Week Link
National Dance Week Link
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week Link
Administrative Professionals Week
Air Quality Awareness Week Link
Bedbug Awareness Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
National Princess Week Link
National Environmental Education Week Link
National Infertility Awareness Week Link
National Volunteer Week
Preservation Week Link (re:
Libraries)
Sky Awareness Week
Spring Astronomy Week
National Playground Safety Week Link
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
<§>1500’s<§>
1526 1st
slave revolt occurs in SC
<§>1600’s<§>
1692 Edward
Bishop is jailed for proposing flogging as a cure for witchcraft
<§>1700’s<§>
1793 President
Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in US
<§>1800’s<§>
≈1838 English
steamship "Sirius" docks in NYC after crossing the Atlantic, first
transatlantic steam passenger service
1864 US mints 2 cent coin (1st
appearance of "In God We Trust")
≈1876 Tchaikovsky
completes his "Swan Lake" ballet
1889 Oklahoma
land rush officially starts
<§>1900’s<§>
≈1906 10th
anniversary Olympic games open at Athens, Greece
1906 New
rule puts umpire in sole charge of all game balls
≈1915 1st
military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
1951 Ticker-tape
parade for General MacArthur in NYC
1952 1st
atomic explosion on network news, Nob, Nevada
≈1964 World's
Fair (Flushing Meadow, Corona Park, NY) opens
1969 1st
human eye transplant performed
≈1969 Bernadette
Devlin, the youngest woman ever to be elected to Westminster, makes a
controversial maiden speech in the House of Commons concerning the situation in
Northern Ireland
≈1970 1st
Earth Day held internationally to conserve natural resources, founded by
Gaylord Nelson
1976 Barbara
Walters becomes 1st female nightly network news anchor
1981 More
than $3.3 million is stolen from the First National Bank of Arizona in Tucson
in the then largest US bank robbery in history
1991 Shalom
America (Jewish cable network) is launched in Brooklyn & Queens
<§>2000’s<§>
≈2016 Paris
Agreement on climate change signed in New York binding 195 nations to an
increase in the global average temperature to less than 2°C above
pre-industrial levels and to pursue efforts to limit the increase to 1.5°C
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
My
left eye was a little irritated last night. Woke up this morning to a crusty
eye that had a fairly large swelling under it. Called my ophthalmologist and
got in at 11:30. The nurse looked at it, said it was some fancy name for
infection in ducts, Dr. came in and looked. Then looked with his magic eye
machine and said it was an infection. Asked him how I got it, his response was ‘bad
luck’. Then he added after a long pause, ‘we really don’t know what causes it.’
He put some antibiotic drops, then drained it, then more drops and then some
gunky cream. Told me it was good I came in while it was still early, suggesting
that waiting till Monday would have been not so good. Warm packs and gunk cream
should clear it up. Not the way I had
wanted to spend my Friday.
Have
to do some reading tonight to get ready for our Great Decisions meeting
tomorrow night…it’s about world oil prices. I hope I’m ready to not sound too
dumb.
I
was student teaching 6th grade in Broomfield, CO in 1971 for the
second Earth Day. My class spent a week before Earth Day to collect recyclables around the small town. It was a great learning experience for me and for the
students in the farming community.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
AG
complains about a Federal judge on a Pacific Island for disrupting the plan on
immigration. Talk about a stupid comment.
Hawaii is our 50th state and has been for a long time.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
From
which Roman festival does the month of February derive its name?
Faunas Feralia Februa Feroniae
73.1% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
1/4→Portion of US workers who believe strongly
in their company’s values
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
As
I stepped out of the shower, I heard someone in my kitchen downstairs. Knowing
that my wife was out, I grabbed my 1903 heirloom rifle—which no longer
works—and crept downstairs, forgetting the fact that I was in my birthday suit.
I came around the corner with the gun raised, only to find my wife loading the
dishwasher. “What are you doing?” she asked.
“I thought I heard an intruder.
I came down to scare him.”
Scanning the contours of my doughy, naked body, she mumbled, “You didn’t need
the gun.”
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*------
In the Jungle, The Mighty Jungle ------*
A mountain lion snatched a small dog from a California bedroom in the early
morning hours, after the residents reportedly left their French doors partially
open for the dog to go outside, according to the San Mateo County Sheriff's
office. The dog, a 15-pound Portuguese Podengo, was at the foot of a bed near
the dog's owner and a child when it woke them up around 3 a.m. by "barking
aggressively." The adult witness told authorities she saw the shadow of an
animal come into the room through the French doors, grab the dog from the bed,
and walk out. When she grabbed a flashlight, she saw "large wet paw
prints" near the bedroom's entrance, and called 911. When police arrived
on scene, they discovered paw prints resembling those of a mountain lion, and
notified the Department of Fish and Wildlife. Now, the San Mateo authorities
are advising and reminding local residents to secure their doors and windows
before sleeping.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
In
1968, A Plague on Both Your Houses, The Second City's 28th Mainstage Revue,
runs the night of the Democratic Convention. 1968 also saw the first film from
The Second City.
***
As
if the 60's didn't provide enough excitement for the growing enterprise, in
1973 producers Bernard Sahlins and Joyce Sloane headed north and opened the
doors to a permanent space in downtown Toronto. Del Close returns to The Second
City to become Resident Director
***
In
1975, Saturday Night Live debuted with The Second City alums John Belushi,
Gilda Radner and Dan Aykroyd.
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‡‡How
our states were named‡‡
Wisconsin
Derived
from Meskousing, the name applied to the Wisconsin River by the
Algonquian-speaking tribes in the region. The French explorer Jacques Marquette
recorded the name in 1673, and the word was eventually corrupted into Ouisconsin,
anglicized to its modern form during the early 19th century, and its current
spelling made official by the territorial legislature in 1845. Modern linguists
had been unable to find any word in an Algonquian language similar to the one
Marquette recorded, and now believe that the tribes borrowed the name from the
Miami meskonsing, or “it lies red,” a reference to the reddish
sandstone of the Wisconsin Dells.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
<§>90’s<§>
@99- Eddie
Albert [Heimberger],
American
actor (Roman Holiday, Green Acres), born in Rock Island,
Illinois
(d. 2005)
@93- Paula
Fox,
American
writer for children (The Slave Dancer) and adults, born in New
York
City (d. 2017)
91- Charlotte
Rae,
actress
(Edna-Facts of Life), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
<§>80’s<§>
@85- Bettie
Page,
American
Playboy pin-up model, born in Nashville, (d. 2008)
@83- Aaron
Spelling,
American
television producer (Charlie's Angels), (d. 2006)
81- Glen
Campbell,
Delight
Ark, actor/singer (Time I Get to Phoenix)
80- Jack
Nicholson,
American
actor (One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest, Shining), born in Neptune
City,
New Jersey
<§>70’s<§>
@79- Immanuel
Kant,
Konigsberg
Germ, philosopher (Critique of Pure Reason) (d. 1804)
74- Louise
Glück,
American
poet and 12th US Poet Laureate
@70- Julius
Sterling Morton,
Gov-Neb,
started Arbor Day (d.1902)
<§>60’s<§>
67- Peter
Frampton,
Kent
England, guitarist/vocalist (Frampton Comes Alive)
66- James
Stirling,
Scottish
D-day-parachutist/architect/knight (d. 1992)
@62- Robert
Oppenheimer,
American
theoretical physicist known as the father of the atomic bomb
(Manhattan
Project), born in NYC, New York (d. 1967)
<§>50’s<§>
58- Ryan
Stiles,
actor
(Lewis-Drew Carey Show), born in Seattle, Washington
@53-Queen
Isabella,
supported
Chris Columbus
@53- Vladimir
Lenin [Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov],
Marxist
Revolutionary and Soviet Leader, born in Simbirsk, Russia
(d.
1924)
50- Sherri
Shepherd,
American
comedian and actress
<§40’s><§>
@49- Hal
March,
actor/TV
host ($64,000 Question, Outrage), born in San Francisco,
California
(d. 1970)
45-
Willie Robertson,
Reality
TV (Duck Dynasty)
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
<§>80’s<§>
@89-1995 Maggie
Kuhn,
activist
(Gray Panthers)
@84-1989 Emilio
G. Segrè,
Italian
physicist and Nobel laureate (discovered the elements
technetium,
astatine and the sub-atomic antiparticle antiproton)
@82-1984 Ansel
Adams,
US
photographer
@81-1994 Richard
Nixon,
37th
President (1969-75)
@80ish-1782 Anne
Bonny,
Irish
pirate, dies in prison (date is approximate)
<§>70’s<§>
@76-1978 Will
Geer,
actor
(Grandpa Walton-Waltons), respiratory failure
@72-2013 Richie
Havens,
American
singer-songwriter and guitarist, heart attack
@72-1980 Jane
Froman,
singer
(Jane Froman's USA Canteen), heart disease
<§>60’s<§>
@69-1996 Erma
Bombeck,
American
humorist (The Grass is Greener over the Septic Tank), kidney
disease
@66-1993 Cesar
Chavez,
US
farm worker (United Farm Workers), natural causes
<§>40’s<§>
@47-1989 Huey
Newton,
US,
Black Panther founder/leader, shot
<§>20’s<§>
@27-2004 Pat
Tillman,
American
football player (Cardinals) and U.S. Army Ranger (killed in action by friendly
fire)
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Februa
The
Gregorian calendar, named after Pope Gregory XIII, was introduced in the 16th
century. The names of the 12 months that make up the modern calendar year have
strong Roman ties. Februa was the Roman festival of purification, which
occurred every year in the month then known as Februarius. While there is a
Roman god named Februus, the festival came first, and it gave both this god and
the month of February their names. Source: Dictionary.com blog
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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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