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4.12.16 Week: 15 \ Day: 103
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 61° \ L 33° Average
Sky Cover: 85%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 11mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 75°[1904] Record Low: 7°[1953]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
D.E.A.R. Day (aka Drop Everything
And Read) Link
International Day of Human
Space Flight
International Day for Street Children Link
National Be Kind To Lawyers Day Link
National Library Workers Day
National Library Day Link
National Licorice Day Link
Walk on Your Wild Side Day
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Observances This Week
9-17
YoYo & Skill Toys Week
10-16
Animal Control Officer Appreciation
Week Link
Spring Astronomy Week
National Library Week
National Public Safety Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week Link
National Student Employment Week Link
Pan American Week:
National Volunteer Week
Week of The Young Child Link
American Indian Awareness Week Link
International Dark Sky Week
Undergraduate Research Week
Health Information Privacy and Security Week Link
12-18
National Animal Control Appreciation
Week Link
National Tattoo Week Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1654 The Ordinance of Union comes into effect, uniting
Ireland and Scotland with England
1811 1st US
colonists on Pacific coast arrive at Cape Disappointment, WA
1844 Texan
envoys sign Treaty of Annexation with the United States
1847 - The American
relief ship, Jamestown, lands supplies in Cork for famine victims
1858 1st US
billiards championship (Michael J Phelan wins in Detroit)
1861 Fort
Sumter, SC is shelled by Confederacy, starting Civil War
1869 North
Carolina legislature passes anti-Klan Law
1877 Catcher's mask 1st used in a
baseball game
1898 Army
transfers Yerba Buena Island in SF Bay to Navy
1900 The US
Congress passes the Foraker Act, establishing Puerto Rico as an unincorporated
territory (effective 1 May)
1905 Hippodrome
arena opens (NYC)
1908 Fire makes
17,000 homeless in Chelsea Massachusetts
1917 Bijou
Theater opens at 222 W 45th St NYC (Demolished 1982)
1932 "Grand
Hotel" directed by Edmund Goulding and starring Greta Gabo and John
Barrymore premieres in New York, includes the line "I want to be
alone" (Best Picture/Production 1932)
1945 US
President Franklin Roosevelt dies in office and
Vice-President Harry Truman is sworn in as 33rd US President
1955 Salk polio
vaccine safe & effective; 4 billion dimes marched
1963 Birmingham
police use dogs & cattle prods on peaceful demonstrators
1976 Anne Rice's
debut novel "Interview with a Vampire" is published by Knopf.
1980 US Olympic
Committee endorses a boycott of the Moscow Olympic games
1983 Harold
Washington elected Chicago's 1st black mayor
1987 Texaco
files for bankruptcy
1990 H. J.
Heinz, Chicken of the Sea and Bumble Bee Seafood say they wouldn't buy tuna
caught in nets that trap dolphins
1992 Euro Disney
(Disneyland Paris) opens in Marne-la-Vallee France
1999 US
President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving "intentionally
false statements" in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1204 4th Crusade occupies & plunders
Constantinople
1557 Cuenca is
founded in Ecuador.
1606 England
adopts the Union Flag, replaced in 1801 by current Union Flag/Union Jack
1654 The Ordinance of
Union comes into effect, uniting Ireland and Scotland with England
1857 Gustave
Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" published
1907 In
Switzerland, parliament passes a new army bill reorganizing the nation's forces
into a standing militia, with training required for all males
1935 Germany
prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers
1946 Syria gains
independence from France
1961 Yuri
Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth (Vostok 1)
1973 France
recognizes North Vietnam
2000 - The Irish Red
Cross launches an appeal for approximately £3 million in an effort to avert the
impending famine in Ethiopia
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy after all the rain over the weekend.
Still nice. Enjoyed the rain yesterday.
Did a lot of running around after a weekend at
home.
Friends dropped by yesterday afternoon and
didn’t leave until early evening, so no post yesterday.
Our Sat night discussion was very good. As
usual we raised a lot of questions and had only a few answers…guess that is why
we aren’t politicians. Immigration has been an issue in the world ever since
political boundaries were drawn. Glad I attended.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Look Before You Leap
These brain teasers rely
on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these
puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they
are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word
into the correct group.
Difficulty 1.94/4
Read the sentence below and
determine what the four uppercase words have in common.
As you put down your bowl of STEW and take your SEAT, you let out a SHOUT and
leap back up; you sat on a THORN!
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…Harper’s Index…
68-Percentage of Chinese men who are now or once
were habitual smokers
3-Of Chinese women
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2 jokes for the day
How many tickles does it take to
make an Octopus laugh?
Ten-tickles.
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An old man goes to see a Wizard to
ask him if he can remove a curse he has been living with for the last 50 years.
The wizard says, “Maybe, but you
will have to tell me the exact words that were used to put the curse on you.”
The old man says without hesitation, “I now pronounce you man and wife.”
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Yep, It Really Happened
How Do You Shoot Yourself in the Ass with a Rifle?
A father was arrested on a charge of child
neglect after his son shot himself in the behind when he was home alone, police
in Michigan said. According to the police investigation, the father of the
11-year-old boy went to work, and he left the boy home alone with access to a
rifle. The boy found the gun and shot himself in the behind. The boy was taken
to the Children's Hospital, where he is said to be in stable condition. The
father told investigators that he kept the gun at home for protection, but he
faces a charge of child neglect for leaving the boy alone with it. The boy was
placed in the custody of the state.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Pollution in China alters the
weather in the United States. It takes just five days for the jet stream to
carry heavy air pollution from China to the U.S. Once in the atmosphere over
the U.S., the pollution stops clouds from producing rain and snow--i.e., more
pollution equals less precipitation.
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According to the World Health Organization, an estimated 6,400 people die every
year in Mexico City and more than 1 million suffer from permanent breathing
problems due to air pollution.
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Each person in the U.S. produces about 4 pounds (2 kg) of garbage a day.
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The world's largest CO2 emitter is China. China emits more CO2 than the U.S.
and Canada combined, up by 171 percent since 2000.
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The world's largest polluter is the
U.S. Department of Defense, producing more hazardous waste than the five largest
U.S. chemical companies combined.
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The Mississippi River carries an estimated 1.5 million metric tons of nitrogen
pollution into the Gulf of Mexico each year, creating a 'dead zone' in the Gulf
each summer about the size of New Jersey.
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Birthdays Today
“( )” indicates age at death
79- Dennis Banks,
Anishinaabe tribe, American
Indian activist
(75) Henry Clay,
Hanover County, Va American
politician known as "the Great Compromiser", born in (d. 1852)
70- Ed O'Neill,
actor (Al Bundy-Married
with Children)
69- David Letterman,
Indianapolis, comedian
(Late Night)
(66) Tom Clancy,
Baltimore Maryland,
American author
66- David Cassidy,
NYC, singer/actor
(Keith-Partridge Family),
(64) Tiny Tim [ Herbert Khaury],
New York, musician, (d.
1996)
60- Andy Garcia,
Cuba, actor (Stand &
Deliver, 8 Million Ways to Die)
59- Vince Gill,
Norman, Ok, country singer
(When I Call Your Name)
37- Claire Danes,
NYC, actress (Angela-My
So Called Life, Romeo & Juliet)
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Historical Obits Today
@90-1912 Clara Barton,
organizer (American Red
Cross)
@67-1999 Boxcar Willie,
American singer, leukemia
@67-1989 Sugar Ray Robinson,
heavyweight boxer, Alzheimer
@66-1981 Joe Louis, [Brown bomber],
US heavyweight boxing
champion (1937-49), cardiac arrest
@63-1945 Franklin Roosevelt,
32nd US President, stroke
@55-1878 William M "Boss" Tweed,
NY politician, pneumonia,
@52-1989 Abbie Hoffman,
yippie peace activist of
the 60's, suicide
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Brain Teasers Answers
They are anagrams of the four directions:
WEST, EAST, SOUTH, and NORTH.
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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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