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April 4, 2017 Week: 13 \ Day: 94
86004 Today: H 58° \
L 33° Average Sky Cover: %
Wind ave: 11mph\Gusts: 27mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 74°[1961] Record Low: 5°[1977]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Epictetus
Only
the educated are free.
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Equal
Pay Day Link
International
Day for Mine Awareness& Assistance in Mine Action
National Sexual Assault Awareness Day of Action Link
Victims
of Violence Wholly Day
Vitamin C Day
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
1-7
APAWS
Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!) Link
2-8
American
Indian Awareness Week Link
Bat
Appreciation Week
Consider
Christianity Week
National
Blue Ribbon Week Link (Child Abuse)
National
Crime Victims Rights Week Link
National
Public Health Week
National
Window Safety Week
Oral,
Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week Link
Week
of The Ocean
3-10
Explore
Your Career Options
Hate Week
(The) Masters Tournament
National Youth Violence Prevention Week Link (Formerly in March)
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link
Undergraduate
Research Week
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
≈1460 University
of Basle in Swizerland forms
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1818 Congress
decides on the US flag: 13 red & white stripes & 20 stars
≈1828 Casparus
van Wooden patents chocolate milk powder (Amsterdam)
1841 Vice
President John Tyler becomes the 10th President of the United States
after the death of President William Henry Harrison
1850 City
of Los Angeles incorporated
1859 Bryant's
Minstrels debut "Dixie" in New York City in the finale of a blackface
minstrel show.
1870 Golden
Gate Park forms by City Order #800
1887 Susanna
Medora Salter elected 1st US woman mayor (Argonia, KS)
≈1896 Announcement
of Gold in Yukon
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≈1900 Assassination
attempt on Prince of Wales, later British King Edward VII when shot by
Jean-Baptiste Sipido in protest over Boer war
≈1912 Chinese
republic proclaimed in Tibet
1914 "Perils
of Pauline" shown for 1st time in LA
1917 US
Senate agrees (82-6) to participate in WW I
1932 Vitamin
C 1st isolated, CC King, Univ of Pittsburgh
≈1945 Hungary
liberated from Nazi occupation (National Day)
≈1947 UN's
International Civil Aviation Organization forms
≈1949 North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) treaty signed in Washington DC
1968 US
civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis,
Tennessee
1975 Microsoft
is founded as a partnership between Bill Gates and Paul Allen to
develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800
1981 Henry
Cisneros becomes 1st Mexican-American mayor (San Antonio)
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≈2007 15
British Royal Navy personnel held in Iran are released by the Iranian
President.
2008 Raid
on Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints owned YFZ Ranch
in Texas; 401 children and 133 women taken into state custody
≈2014 President
of the World Bank, Jim Yong Kim, claims that climate change will lead to
battles over water and food within the next five to ten years
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
I
had hoped to get my taxes done today, but have to wait until noon tomorrow. So
I took my vehicle to a drive through car wash to get all the pollen/mud that
covered the vehicles here after our last snow storm.
While
listening to NPR there was an interesting conversation I still have to absorb.
The guy was talking about the problems coal miners have as the world moves away
from coal to renewable energy. He said this is a group of people who will not to
move to where renewable energy jobs are. He blames this on lack of knowledge
regarding jobs that are available elsewhere. I see another part that was not
discussed…many groups have lived in the same area for generations and simply
don’t want to leave the land they were born on, where all their relatives live,
and where many of the family are buried. I believe this is a bigger challenge
that most recognize. Is the US responsible for making jobs for people in the
area they were born? Where would the US be if everyone believed that you are
born, live and die in the same county? Everyone not in a coal family knows that
the president’s promise to bring back the coal jobs is an empty promise.
I
do not have answers, but certainly understand the issues after living on the
Rez for 3½ decades. I worked in a community where the elected leaders joined
with a neighboring community (30+ miles away) to get a paved road. It took
years to get the many, many families to agree that a paved road would be a benefit. It would be easier to get children to school each day and it would make it easier for community members to get to the community store/PO/Chapter House. It was one of those ‘Yes, but not in my backyard’ things. The paving began with
everyone behind it except one grandma who herded her sheep where the road would
cut her grazing land in half, with a road, a lots of fast moving vehicles that
would hit and kill her herd. The officials in both communities went ahead with
the paving and simply left about 4 miles unpaved. After the grandma passed,
some 8 years after the paving, the siblings agreed to have the paved road as
they could have grazing rights on one side or the other side of the road,
meaning the sheep would be safer. Then it took another 6 years to finish the
road. One lesson, I guess, is patience.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
Which
two U.S. states are tied for having the most national parks?
California
& Massachusetts
Washington
& Alaska
Alaska
& California
California
& Washington
54.9% taking the internet quiz got it
correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
36→Number of successive years that the US has been operating
under a ‘state of emergency’
28→Number of different ‘states of emergency’ currently in
effect in the US
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
Why
is Alabama the smartest state?
Because it has 4 A's and one B!
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*------
Grabher? I Hardly Even Know Her. ------*
A Nova Scotia man said the province revoked his personalized license plate
because his unusual family name, Grabher, was dubbed "socially
unacceptable." Lorne Grabher said he has no problem getting a
"GRABHER" license plate for his father in 1991, but in December he
received a letter from the Nova Scotia Registrar of Motor Vehicles saying his
own vanity plate was being revoked after a complaint. He said the letter branded
his license plate "socially unacceptable" because it can be read as
"grab her," which could be seen as promoting violence against women.
"Where does the Province of Nova Scotia and this government have a person
with that kind of power to discriminate against my name?" Grabher told
local news. He wondered whether the objections to his plate stemmed from the
infamous recording released during last year's U.S. presidential election,
featuring Donald Trump using the phrase "grab her" in a vulgar
fashion. He said he shouldn't be punished for the now-president's actions.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Although
human nature suggests that the first kiss would have been shared much earlier,
anthropologists have traced the first recorded kiss to India in approximately
1500 B.C. Early Vedic documents report people "sniffing" with their
mouths and describe how lovers join "mouth to mouth."
***
The
tradition that inspired the phrase "You may kiss the bride" probably
originated in ancient Rome. To seal their marriage contract, couples kissed in
front of a large group of people. The Romans had three different categories of
kisses: osculum, a kiss on the cheek; basium, a kiss on the lips; and savolium,
a deep kiss.
***
The strange but sweet butterfly kiss is named for its similarity to a
butterfly's fluttering wings. Simply put your eye a whisper away from your partner's
eye or cheek, and bat your leashes repeatedly.
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‡‡How
our states were named‡‡
New
Hampshire
John
Mason named the area he received in a land grant after the English county of
Hampshire, where he had lived for several years as a child. Mason invested
heavily in the clearing of land and building of houses in New Hampshire, but
died, in England, before ever venturing to the new world to see his property.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
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91- Cloris
Leachman,
actress
(Phyllis, High Anxiety), born in Des Moines, Iowa
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@89- John
Cameron Swayze,
Wichita
Ks, newscaster (Timex, Hindenberg) (D 1995)
@86- Maya
Angelou [Marguerite Johnson],
American
author ("I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"), poet and
actress (Nyo-Roots), born in St Louis, (D 2014)
actress (Nyo-Roots), born in St Louis, (D 2014)
@83- Raoul
Pictet,
Geneva,
Switzerland, Swiss physicist who invented liquid nitrogen
and was a pioneer of cryogenics (D 1929)
and was a pioneer of cryogenics (D 1929)
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@76- Bob
Stump,
(Rep-R-AZ) (D
2003)
73- Craig
T. Nelson,
actor
(Poltergeist, Hayden Fox-Coach), born in Spokane,
Washington
Washington
@68- Muddy
Waters [McKinley Morganfield],
American blues guitarist
(Hoochie Coochie Man), born in Jug's Corner (Issaquena
County) or Rolling Fork,
Mississippi (d. 1983)
67- Christine
Lahti,
American
actress (Harvey Korman Show, Swing Shift), born in
Detroit
Detroit
@62- Bea
Benaderet,
American
actress (Kate-Petticoat Junction), born in NYC, (D 1968)
61- David
E. Kelley,
American
writer and TV producer
@60- Anthony
Perkins,
American actor
(Psycho, Fear Strikes Out, Pretty Poison), born in
NYC, (D 1992)
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54- Graham
Norton,
interviewer,
born in Clondalkin, Ireland
52- Robert
Downey Jr,
American
actor ( Chrlie Chaplin, Iron Man, Avengers), born in NYC
51- Nancy
McKeon,
Westbury
NY, actress (Jo Polniazek-Facts of Life)
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43- David
Blaine,
American
illusionist
41- James
Roday,
Actor
(Psych)
<§><§>
@28- Heath
Ledger,
Australian-American
Actor (Brokeback Mountain, The Dark
Knight), born in Perth, Western Australia (d. 2008)
Knight), born in Perth, Western Australia (d. 2008)
<§><§>
@18- Tad
Lincoln,
son
of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln (d. 1871)
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
@93-1993 Alfred
Mosher Butts,
US
architect/game maker (Scrabble)
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@88-1941 Andre
Michelin,
French
tire manufacturer
@84-1983 Gloria
Swanson,
actress
(Airport 1975)
@84-1929 Karl
Benz,
German
inventor, engine designer and automobile manufacturer
(Mercedes-Benz)
<§><§>
@77ish-636 Saint
Isidore of Seville,
Church
Father and the proposed patron of Internet
@76-1987 C[atherine]
L[ucille] Moore,
author
(Judgment Night), Alzheimer's
@76-1979 Edgar
Buchanan,
DDS,
actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction), stroke
<§><§>
@68-1841 William
Henry Harrison,
9th US President (Whig:
March 4-April 4, 1841), pneumonia and becomes 1st president to die in office
@67ish-1617 John
Napier,
Scottish
mathematician/inventor (logarithms), effects of gout
@63-1972 Adam
Clayton Powell Jr,
(Rep-D-NY),
acute prostatitis
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@39-1968 Martin
Luther King Jr.,
American clergyman and
leader of the Civil Rights Movement (Nobel 1964), assassinated at the Lorraine
Hotel in Memphis, Tennessee
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Alaska
& California
Both
California and Alaska have eight national parks. Denali National Park, located
in Alaska, features 6 million acres of wilderness yet has only one road cutting
through it. Another Alaskan park, Glacier Bay, is a popular spot for tourists
and travelers to visit by boat and cruise ship. Two of the most well-known
national parks found in California are Death Valley National Park and Joshua
Tree National Park. Death Valley contains the lowest and driest spot in North
America. Joshua Tree, meanwhile, encompasses the flora and fauna of two deserts
- Mojave and Colorado. Source: US Parks 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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