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4.1.16 Week: 13 \ Day: 91
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 52° \ L 20° Average
Sky Cover: 45%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 73°[1966] Record Low: 2°[1970]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
American Crossword Puzzle Days -3
April Fool's Day or
All Fools Day
Atheist Day Link
Boomer Bonus Days
Hospital Admitting Clerks Day )
Library Snap Shot Day
Myles Day
National Fun at Work Day
Poetry & The Creative Mind Day
Reading is Funny Day
Sorry Charlie Day
St. Stupid Day Link
US Air Force Academy Day
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Observances This Week
1-7
APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week Link
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!) Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1778 New Orleans businessman
Oliver Pollock creates "$" symbol
1789 US House of Representatives
1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
1826 Samuel Morey is issued the
first U.S. patent for an internal-combustion engine, which he calls a “Gas or
Vapour Engine"
1853 Cincinnati became 1st US city
to pay fire fighters a regular salary
1863 1st wartime conscription law
in US goes into effect
1866 US Congress rejects
presidential veto giveing all equal rights in US
1876 1st official NL baseball game
(Boston-6, Phila-5)
1889 1st dishwashing machine
marketed (Chicago)
1891 The Wrigley Company is
founded in Chicago, Illinois.
1916 1st US national women's
swimming championships held
1931 Jackie Mitchell became 1st
female in professional baseball
1946 400,000 US mine workers
strike
1946 Weight Watchers forms
1954 US Air Force Academy forms
1960 1st weather satellite
launched (TIROS 1)
1967 The United States Department
of Transportation begins operation.
1976 Stephen Wozniak
& Steve Jobs found Apple Computer
1982 US formally transfers Canal
Zone to Panama
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1748 Ruins of Pompeii rediscovered
by Spaniard Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre
1867 Singapore, Penang &
Malacca become British crown colonies
1905 SOS first adopted as a morse
distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by German government
1910 Dumitru Dan (Romania)
completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
1924 The Royal Canadian Air Force
is formed.
1925 Hebrew University, Jerusalem
dedicated
1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His
Master's Voice
1942 Mexico changes from 3 time
zones to 2
1952 Big Bang theory proposed in
Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
1966 1st world festival of black
art (Dakar Senegal)
1974 Ayatollah Khomeini calls
for an Islamic Republic in Iran
2001 Same-sex marriage becomes
legal in the Netherlands - first country in the world.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday was very busy. I had my weekly
shopping and then Mary decided that she would rather do lunch Wed as Cheryl is
sick with a cold. By the time I got home I was too lazy to do the blog.
Today is still a little chilly and windy…can’t
wait for spring to return to our little mountain town.
I did some quick run arounds today, but only
made a few stops, the wind was too chilly for my taste…more tomorrow when the
wind stops.
I hope that everyone heard the abortion thing
by the GOP front-runner. Very scary, and can’t be pulled back. This is 2016,
not 1816.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Difficulty 2.56/4
O E R D V B R A O
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
Using
the grid below, how many words can you find? Each word must contain the
central V and no letter can be used twice, however, the letters do not have
to be connected. Proper nouns are not allowed, however, plurals are. There is
at least one nine letter word.
O E R D V B R A O Genius: 28 words. Excellent: 20 words. Good: 16 words. Average: 12 words. |
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…Harper’s Index…
1/3-Portion of Turkish citizens who hold a
positive view of the European Union
1/2-Who favor joining
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
nakedplanet Vancouver, Canada by @matthewpastula
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2 jokes for the day
Man: Your place or mine?
Woman: Both. You go to yours and i will go to mine.
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At
a psychiatrist's office:
- Do you consume alcohol?
- No.
- Do you smoke?
- No.
- Do you use drugs?
- No.
- Do you play cards?
- No.
- Do you run after other women?
- No.
- So why did you come to me?
- You see, doc, I have one little problem... I lie a lot.
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-- Man Appears In Court In Spider-Man Costume --*
Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider
can, if that included kicking tourists for not giving him a tip. This
particular web-slinger, Abdelamine el-Khezzani, is the kind of Spider-Man who
gives the costumed characters who stalk Times Square in New York a bad name.
For the second time in months he appeared in court for assault charges. This
time it was for kicking a Virginia woman who wouldn't tip him after he posed
for pictures with her kids. el-Khezzani said that he told Rodney Merrill and
Margaretta Patman that he worked for tips, but after the pics were snapped and
the tourists attempted to walk away, that is when Spidey got aggressive.
el-Khezzani wore his Spidey costume to court where Justice Laura Ward told him,
"Have you heard the expression 'Three strikes and you're out'? If you come
to the plate and you strike out a third time, you're out" Ward warned
el-Khezzani that if he is arrested again, "bail will be set so high that
you won't be able to get out." Outside the Manhattan Criminal Court
building el-Khezzani struck a Spider-Man pose for cameras and told a reporter
that he was innocent. It is not reported whether he asked the reporter for a
tip after his picture was taken.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The earliest known types of knitting
by nomadic people in the desert places of North Africa actually used circular
or narrow, oblong wooden frames.
One of the earliest known examples of knitting (formed on two sticks by pulling
loops through loops) were a pair of cotton socks found in Egypt from the first
millennium A.D.
The knitting machine was invented in 1589 (during the reign of Queen Elizabeth)
by William Lee, a clergyman. After the invention of the knitting machine,
knitting was gradually taken over by guild-organized cottage industries in the
17th and 18th centuries.
Knitting first appeared in England during the 13th century in the form of
felted caps that were worn by soldiers and sailors. However, knitting did not
become a popular method for creating other garments due to the difficulty of
producing quality steel needles
Early knitting needles were typically made from bone, ivory, or tortoise shell.
Changes in fashion in the late 1980s and early 1990s, as well as the huge
influx of cheap imported knitwear, led to decreased interest in knitting. The
cost of buying yarn compared unfavorably to buying ready-made clothes.
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Ways to Spot an
American Abroad
Tipping
Tipping is important in America
because most waiters make less than $3 an hour and rely on tips to pay
their rent. However, most other countries actually make restaurants pay their
employees. Tipping is baffling across most of Europe, for instance.
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Birthdays Today
“( )” indicates age at death
87- Jane Powell,
Portland Oregon,
singer/actress (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
(85) Anne [Inez]
McCaffrey,
Cambridge, Mass, American
sci-fi author (Dragonflight, Dragondrums), (d. 2011)
84- Debbie Reynolds, El
Paso, Tx, actress (Singin' in the Rain)
(83) Otto Von Bismarck,
Schönhausen, Prussia, German
chancellor,helped unify Germany, (d. 1898)
(79) William Harvey,
England, physician
(discovered blood circulation) (d.1657)
(77) Toshiro Mifune, Tsingtao,
China, Japanese writer and actor (Shogun), (d. 1997)
77- Ali MacGraw,
Pound Ridge NY, actress
(Love Story, Goodbye Columbus)
(71) Gordon Jump,
Dayton Ohio, actor (Arthur
Carlson-WKRP) (d.2003)
66- Samuel Alito,
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
(47) Lon Chaney,
CO, man of 1000 faces,
actor (High Noon, Phantom of Opera) (d.1930)
43- Rachel Maddow,
American radio personality
and political analyst
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Historical Obits Today
@96-1991 Martha Graham,
US,
choreographer (Appalachian Spring)
@92-2010 John Forsythe,
American
actor (Charlie's Angels, Dynasty)
@92-1965 Helena
Rubinstein,
Polish-born
American cosmetics manufacturer
@58-2004 Carrie Snodgress,
American
actress, heart/liver failure
@49-1917 Scott Joplin,
ragtime
composer (The Entertainer), syphilis
@45-1950 Charles R. Drew,
surgeon/developer
of blood bank concept, auto accident
@44-1984 Marvin Gaye,
singer
(Sexual Healing), shot by his father
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Brain Teasers Answers
above, adverb, ave, aver, brave, braved,
braver, bravo, bravoed, deva, dove, drove, drover, ova, over, OVERBOARD,
OVERBROAD, overdo, rave, raved, raver, rev, rove, roved, rover, var, verb, voe.
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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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