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April 19,
2017 Week: 15 \ Day: 109
86004 Today: H 69° \
L 32° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 16mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 77°[1989] Record Low: 10°[1917]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Edmund
Burke
Beauty
is the promise of happiness.
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Bicycle Day Link
Education & Sharing Day
John Parker Day
National Hanging Out Day
National Stress Awareness Day
National Wear Your Pajamas To Work Day Link
Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration 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
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1775 American
Revolution begins - Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
1775 Paul
Revere, William Dawes and Samuel Prescott are captured by British troops riding
from Lexington to Concord, Prescott escapes to warn Concord
≈1782 John
Adams secures Dutch Republic's recognition of the United States as an
independent government and house he purchased in The Hague, Netherlands became
first American embassy.
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1837 Cheyney
University forms as the Institute for Colored Youth
1852 California
Historical Society forms
1897 1st
Boston Marathon won by John J. McDermott in 2:55:10. Becomes the world's oldest
annual marathon.
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≈1909 Joan
of Arc receives beatification by the Roman Catholic Church
≈1916 Alderman
Kelly reads the 'Castle Order' to a meeting of Dublin Corporation; this forged
document supposedly from Dublin Castle, indicated that there was to be mass
arrests of Irish Volunteers to prevent "trouble"
1932 President Herbert
Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1934 Shirley
Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer"
1945 Rodgers
& Hammerstein musical "Carousel" opens on Broadway
1982 Sally
Ride announced will be 1st American woman astronaut
1993 After
a 51 day siege by the FBI 76 Branch Davidians die in a fire near Waco Texas
(accident, suicide, tear gas are disputed causes)
1994 Rodney
King award $3,800,000 in compensation for his police beating
1994 Supreme
Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
1995 Oklahoma
City bombing - a truck bomb at Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building kills 168
& injures 500
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≈2005 Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the
Papal conclave.
≈2011 Fidel Castro resigns
from the Communist Party of Cuba's central committee after 45 years of holding
the title.
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Finally
picked up my taxes, wrote the checks, mailed the checks and don’t have to think
about taxes for another year. Glad it is over. One of my investments has paid
me well since 2008, but it died at the end of 2016. I got, on paper, a big chunk
and had to pay taxes on it, even though I didn’t get any of it in the real
world. It did well for me, so I’m not complaining, but it is still hard to
write a check for $8000. Happy to find out I could e-file all returns. In the
past, if I owed any entity money I had to mail the damn thing. Saved time and
money.
Yesterday’s
Boston Marathon had 2 of my former students running and the daughter of another
former student. Running has been part of the Navajo culture for centuries and
it is nice to see it continues. Both former students are in their early 50’s
now, but I had them when they were in middle school. Both are successful and continue
to run. The daughter is in her early 20’s. Proud ‘Grandpa’ mode.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
Surprise,
another Executive Order that means nothing, but sounds like something. This
time it has to do with VISA’s for workers. The laws are already there, he
changed nothing, but is crowing about how he is helping the American workers,
while he and his daughter continue to have their clothing lines made in China.
Crazy.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
Who
won the Heisman trophy in 2007?
Tom
Brady Reggie Bush Cameron Newton Tim Tebow
48.9% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
4,000→Estimated number of local-government mascots
in Japan
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
A
couple was relating their vacation experiences to a friend. "It sounds as
if you had a great time in Texas," the friend observed. "But didn't
you tell me you were planning to visit Colorado?"
"Well," the husband said, "we changed our plans because, uh..."
His wife cut in, "Oh, tell the truth, Fred!"
Fred was completely silent. After a long pause, the wife continued, "You
know, it's just ridiculous! Fred simply will not use any navigation devices or
ask for directions!"
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*--------------
Now THAT'S a Cube --------------*
A group of students at the University of Michigan's Engineering program built
what is believed to be the largest hand-solvable, stationary Rubik's Cube. The
massive 1,500 pound puzzle was unveiled at the university's North campus in an
event streamed on Facebook Live. "There is no other human-manipulable cube
like this, to the best of our knowledge," a spokesperson for the group
said. "So to be very precise, it is the world's largest stationary, human
manipulable Rubik's cube." "It took over my life, but it no longer is
a project," Noel Perkins, a professor of mechanical engineering, who
served as an advisor for the group said. "My dream for the cube would be
to bring joy and inspiration to anyone who ever uses it and solves it. If it
does that, there's nothing I'd rather be behind at UM."
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
It
used to take 27 hours to make a Peep. That was in 1953, when Sam Born acquired
the Rodda Candy Company and its line of marshmallow chicks. Back then, each
chick was handmade with a pastry tube. Just Born quickly set about automating
the process, so that it now takes just six minutes to make a Peep.
***
The
recipe has remained pretty much the same. The recipe begins with a boiling
batch of granulated sugar, liquid sugar and corn syrup, to which gelatin and
vanilla extract are later added.
***
Since
Just Born turned Peeps-making into an automated process, their chicks have been
carefully formed by a top-secret machine known as The Depositor. Created by Sam
Born's son, Bob, The Depositor could manufacture six rows of five Peeps apiece
at a fraction of the time it took workers to form them by hand.
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‡‡How
our states were named‡‡
Virginia
Named
for Queen Elizabeth I of England (known as the Virgin Queen), who granted
Walter Raleigh the charter to form a colony north of Spanish Florida.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
@91- Hugh
O'Brian [Krampke],
actor
(Wyatt Earp, Search), born in Rochester, New York (d. 2016)
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@72- Getulio
Vargas,
President
of Brazil (1930-45, 1951-54), modernizer and dictator, born in São
Borja,
Rio Grande do Sul, Brazilian Empire (d. 1954)
71- Tim
Curry, Cheshire England,
actor
(Rocky Horror Show)
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@66- Dudley
Moore,
British
actor abd comedian (10, Arthur, Bedazzled), born in London, England
(d.
2002)
@64- Dick
Sargent [Richard Stanford Cox],
American
actor (Bewitched), born in Carmel, California (d. 1994)
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@58- Frank
Fontaine,
comedian
(Crazy Guggenheim), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts (d. 1978)
@54- Eliot
Ness,
US
Federal agent "The Untouchables" (put away Al Capone), born in
Chicago,
(d. 1957)
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49- Ashley
Taylor Judd,
Granada
Hills California, actress (Kuffs, Sisters)
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39- James
Franco,
American
actor
38- Kate
Hudson,
American
actress (Almost Famous, You, Me and Dupree), born in Los Angeles
36- Hayden
Christensen,
Canadian
actor (Sam-Life as a House, Star Wars), born in Vancouver
@34- Jayne
Mansfield, [Vera Jane Palmer],
American
actress (The Girl Can't Help It), born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
(d.
1967)
30- Maria
Sharapova,
Russian
tennis player, born in Nyagan, Russia
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
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@91-1967 Konrad
Adenauer,
West
Germany chancellor (1949-63)
@84-1998 Octavio
Paz,
Mexican
diplomat and writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1914)
@82-1989 Daphne
Du Maurier,
English
writer (Rebecca, Jamaica Inn)
@80-1684 Roger
Williams,
English
theologian and colonist
@77-1987 Hugh
"Lumpy" Brannum,
Actor
(Mr Green Jeans), cancer
@76-1881 Benjamin
Disraeli,
1st
Earl of Beaconsfield, British Prime Minister (Tory: 1868, 1874-80) and writer,
bronchitis
@73-1882 Charles
Darwin,
English
naturalist (Origin of the Species) who conceived the theory of evolution
by
natural selection, heart failure
@46-1906 Pierre
Curie,
French
physicist/chemist (Nobel 1903), street car accident
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Tim
Tebow
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And
That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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