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April 10,
2017 Week: 14 \ Day: 100
86004 Today: H 59° \
L 30° Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 74°[1989] Record Low: 13°[1999]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Benjamin
Disraeli
The
first magic of love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
ASPCA (American Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) Day Link
National Farm
Animals Day Link
Salvation Army Founder's Day
Safety Pin Day
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
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
8-16
Animal Control
Officer Appreciation Week
Holy Week
International Dark
Sky Week
National Animal
Control Appreciation Week Link
National Dental
Hygienest 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
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
≈1710 The
first law regulating copyright is issued in Great Britain.
1790 US
Patent system forms
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1825 1st
hotel in Hawaii opens
1841 New
York Tribune begins publishing under editor Horace Greeley
1845 More
than 1,000 buildings damaged by fire in Pittsburgh, Pa
1849 Safety
pin patented by Walter Hunt (NYC); sold rights for $400
≈1858 "Big
Ben", a 13.76 tonne bell, is recast in the Tower of Westminster
≈1864 Austrian
Archduke Maximilian becomes Maximilian I, Emperor of Mexico
1866 American
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) forms
1869 Congress
increases number of Supreme Court judges from 7 to 9
1872 1st
Arbor Day celebrated in Nebraska, later changed to Apr 22
≈1877 1st
human cannonball act performed in London
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1916 The
Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is founded in NYC.
≈1919 Mexican
Revolution leader Emiliano Zapata is ambushed and shot dead by government
forces in Morelos.
1925 Scribners
publishes "The Great Gatsby" by F Scott Fitzgerald
1938 NY
makes syphilis test mandatory in order to get a marriage license
≈1953 Dag
Hammarskjöld becomes the 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations
1955 Dr Jonas
Salk successfully tests Polio vaccine
1961 Adolf
Eichmann tried as a war criminal in Israel
1967 39th
Academy Awards: "A Man For All Seasons," Best Picture, Elizabeth
Taylor & Paul Scofield best actress/actor
1968 40th
Academy Awards: "In the Heat of the Night", Rod Steiger &
Katherine Hepburn win
≈1971 US
table tennis team arrives in People's Republic of China
1972 44th
Academy Awards: "The French Connection", Gene Hackman & Jane
Fonda win
1984 US
Senate condemns CIA mining of Nicaraguan harbors
1986 Benazir
Bhutto returns to Pakistan
1991 Last
automat (coin operated cafeteria) closes (3rd & 42nd St, NYC)
≈1996 Fastest
wind speed ever recorded (not a tornado) 408 km/h (220 kn; 253 mph; 113 m/s)
during tropical cyclone Olivia on Barrow Island, Australia
≈1998 The
Good Friday/Belfast Agreement for Northern Ireland is signed by the British and
Irish goverments
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≈2012 Apple
Inc claims a value of $600 billion making it the largest company by market
capitalization in the world
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Beautiful
Sunday. Hoping for spring to stay around for a while.
Sunday
morning news shows interviewed lots of politicians and most seem happy that the
US bombed the Syrian airport. Everyone wants the use of Chemical warfare to
stop. Could it be that the Russians are not really watching over Syria’s
chemical weapons and then saying they are? Hmmm.
A
friend from the Rez stopped by yesterday afternoon and we ended up watching
movies until late into the night and catching up on stuff in-between. Nice. We
had a late breakfast and then she headed back to Tuba.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
How
many feet are in a fathom?
3
6
10
12
43.3%
taking
the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
4→Number of states in which it is legal to text while
driving
0→In which a texting ban has been shown to decrease
accidents
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
A
young lady stops at the gas station to fill up and realizes she has locked her
keys inside the car. When going inside to pay, she asks for a hanger to unlock
her car.
After a few minutes the attendant comes to help.
The not so bright lady is moving the hanger, while inside the car is her not so
bright friend giving directions. "RIGHT, NOW LEFT, JUST A LITTLE MORE
RIGHT..."
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*--
Every Woman Should Have a Talented Tongue --*
A circus entertainer set a world record on an Italian game show by stopping the
blades of a fan with her tongue. Australian daredevil performer Zoe Ellis,
known by her stage name Zoe L'Amore, appeared on Italy's Lo Show dei Record to
break her own Guinness World record for most electric fan blades stopped using
the tongue in one minute. Ellis held two 35W fans running at the highest speed
and managed to top her previous record of 20 by sticking her tongue to stop the
blades on each fan 16 times for a new record total of 32. Her record was later
surpassed by Ashrita Furman, who used her tongue to stop the blades 35 times,
after the show was recorded. Ellis' household still holds multiple world records
however, as she maintains the record for "Most mouse traps released on the
tongue in one minute (female)" and her husband Chayne Hultgren, a.k.a.
"The Space Cowboy," holds records for "Most blow torches
extinguished with the tongue in one minute," "Most swords swallowed
underwater and Heaviest weight pulled by the eye sockets."
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Atkins
and Taylor made preliminary measurements using professional laser equipment
based on goniometry, and found not one, not two, but three trees that were
taller than the Stratosphere Giant.
The tallest of the lot, named Hyperion, was found to be a good 10ft taller than
the Giant, standing at a whopping a 379 ft.
When Atkins and Taylor announced their discovery, a team of scientists led by
Humboldt State University ecologist Steve Sillett arrived at the park to
measure it again. They were aiming for more accuracy, so they used a tape. They
actually climbed to its very top and dropped the tape to the ground. The epic
stunt was filmed for National Geographic.
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‡‡How
our states were named‡‡
Ohio
A
common translation, “beautiful river,” originates in a French traveler’s 1750
account of visiting the region. He referred to the Ohio River as “une belle
riviere” and gave its local Indian name as Ohio. People took his
description of the river as a translation of the Indian name, though there is
no evidence that that was his intention or that that is even a correct
translation. In fact, no definitive meaning for the word is available,
though ohio is more likely a Wyandot word meaning
“large/great” or “the great one,” than “beautiful river.” It could also be
derived from the Seneca ohi:yo’ (“large creek”).
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
@96- Harry
Morgan,
actor
(December Bride, M*A*S*H, Dragnet), born in Detroit,
(d 2011)
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87- Max
Von Sydow,
Swedish
actor (Hawaii, Exorcist, Dune, Dreamscape), born in Lund,
Sweden
@85- Frances
Perkins,
American
politician and 1st woman to hold cabinet-level position
(Labor), (d. 1965)
@84-
Clare Boothe Luce,
US
ambassador (to Vatican), author (d 1987)
@83- William
Booth,
founder
(Salvation Army) (d 1912)
@83- Omar
Sharif, [Michael Shalhoub],
Egyptian
actor (Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia),
born in Alexandria (d. 2015)
@82- Sheb
Wooley, Erick Oklahoma, vocalist (Purple People Eater,
Hee Haw) (d 2003)
81- John
Madden,
NFL
coach (Oakland Raiders) and sports commentator (CBS, FOX),
born in Austin,Minnesota
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76- Paul
Theroux,
American
travel book writer (Mosquito Coast)
@74- John
Whitehurst,
English
clockmaker and scientist (d. 1788)
@72- Don
Meredith,
NFL
QB (Cowboys)/Mon Night Football, born in Mount Vernon,
Texas (d 2010)
@71- Chuck
Connors,
American
actor (Rifleman, Branded, Cowboy in Africa),
born in Brooklyn, (d 1992)
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65- Steven
Seagal,
actor
(Above the Law, Hard to Kill), born in Detroit, Michigan
@63- Matthew
C. Perry,
Commodore
of the United States Navy who opened Japan
to Western influence and trade,
born in Newport, Rhode Island
(d. 1858)
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49- Orlando
Jones,
American
actor and comedian
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@39- James
Bowie,
American
pioneer and soldier (d. 1836 at The Alamo)
37- Charlie
Hunnam,
English
Actor (Sons of Anarchy) born in Newcastle, England
33- Mandy
Moore,
American
singer (Candy) and actress (Rebecca Pearson-This Is Us),
born in Nashua, New
Hampshire
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29- Haley
Joel Osment,
actor
("Sixth Sense"), born in Los Angeles, California
27- Alex
Pettyfer,
English
actor
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
@70-2010 Dixie
Carter,
an
American actress, cancer
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@60-2000 Larry
Linville,
American
actor (MASH), pneumonia
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@59-2003 Little
Eva [Eva Boyd],
American
pop singer (Locomotion), cervical cancer
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@48-1931 Khalil
Gibran,
Lebanese
poet and painter, cirrhosis/TB
@39-1919 Emiliano
Zapata,
Mexican
leader, murdered
@38-1992 Sam
Kinison,
loud
mouth comedian, car crash
@31-is 1958 Chuck
Willis,
rocker,
(Locomotion)
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Typically
a measurement for nautical depth, a fathom measures 6 feet, or roughly the
length of the average sailor's arm span fingertip to fingertip. In fact, that's
where the name "fathom" comes from. It's derived from the Old English
words for outstretched arms, faedm or faethm. The Mariana Trench, the lowest
point in any of Earth's oceans, is more than 6,000 fathoms deep, several
thousand feet deeper than Mount Everest is tall. Source: Encyclopaedia
Britannica, MarianaTrench.com
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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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