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4.19.16 Week: 16 \ Day: 110
April Averages:
58°\27°
86004 Today:
H 60° \ L 22° Average Sky Cover: 65%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 77°[1989] Record
Low: 10°[1917]
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Quote
of the Day
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Observances
Today
Bicycle
Day Link
Education & Sharing Day
John Parker Day
National Garlic Day Link
National Hanging Out Day
Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day
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Education & Sharing Day
John Parker Day
National Garlic Day Link
National Hanging Out Day
Oklahoma City Bombing Commemoration Day
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Observances
This Week
16-23
International
Wildlife Film Week Link
National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW Link
National Park Week Link
National Toddler Immunization Week Link
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link
Coin Week
National Karaoke Week
National Pet ID Week Link
National Paperboard Packaging Week
18-24
National Infant Immunization Week (NIIW Link
National Park Week Link
National Toddler Immunization Week Link
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link
Coin Week
National Karaoke Week
National Pet ID Week Link
National Paperboard Packaging Week
18-24
Cleaning
For A Reason Week
Consumer Awareness Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link
Safe Kids Week Link
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Consumer Awareness Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link
Safe Kids Week Link
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Good start to a new week…weather is warming
up.
Watched much of the Boston Marathon today.
Running was always big on Navajo and I worked at two schools that had the Jr. High
State Cross Country Champions. The high school in Tuba had a real run of state
championships too. A very good friend qualified for the Boston Marathon in the
early 80’s and finished the race with a good time. Today two of my former
students from Tuba ran in Boston. No results yet, but quite an accomplishment.
Proud teacher.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Five Siblings
Riddles are little poems or
phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme,
but this is not a requirement.
Five
siblings are they, their color is true;
One belongs to one, four are shared by two.
Connected together, some by locks;
Many meet their fate upon the rocks.
Arrange their initials, and you should
Find things that are found in a neighborhood.
What has just been described?
One belongs to one, four are shared by two.
Connected together, some by locks;
Many meet their fate upon the rocks.
Arrange their initials, and you should
Find things that are found in a neighborhood.
What has just been described?
☼☼☼☼…Harper’s
Index…
1/2 –Portion of the insurance co-ops created under
the Affordable Care Act that will not offer plans this year
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
- earthpormHuangshan
Anhui China 📷: @golden_heart
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1775 American Revolution begins -
Lexington Common, shot "heard round the world"
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.
1837 Cheyney University forms as
the Institute for Colored Youth
1852 California Historical Society
forms
1859 Ft.Mojave is establsihed
today to "protect" the area from
the MOJAVE and PAIUTEs.
1874 Barracks on Alcatraz Island
destroyed in fire
1897 1st Boston Marathon won by
John J. McDermott in 2:55:10. Becomes the world's oldest annual marathon.
1921 25th Boston Marathon won by
Frank Zuna of NJ in 2:18:57.6
1932 President Herbert
Hoover suggests 5 day work week
1934 Shirley Temple appears
in her 1st movie, "Stand Up & Cheer
1943 Bicycle Day - Swiss chemist
Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.
1971 75th Boston Marathon: Alvaro
Mejia of Colombia 1st man in 2:18:45 and Sara Mae Berman of United States 1st
woman in 3:08:30
1982 Sally Ride announced as
1st woman astronaut
1987 Last wild condor captured on
California wildlife reserve
1994 Rodney King award
$3,800,000 in compensation for his police beating
1994 Rodney King award
$3,800,000 in compensation for his police beating
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1770 British explorer Captain James
Cook first sights Australia
1909 Joan of Arc receives
beatification by the Roman Catholic Church
1998 - Key members of the 32 County
Sovereignty Committee, led by the sister of H-Block hunger striker, Bobby
Sands, meet to draft an outright condemnation of the Good Friday peace deal
2002 - Ireland's first cash-free petrol
station, Carrigdhoun Service Station, near Ballygarvan, Co Cork, opens with all
business being transacted by credit card or petrol card.
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.
My
Dad bought my Mom a piano for her birthday. A few weeks later, I asked how she
was doing with it.
"Oh," said My Dad, "I persuaded her to switch to a clarinet."
"How come?" I asked.
"Well," he answered, "because with a clarinet, she can't sing."
"Oh," said My Dad, "I persuaded her to switch to a clarinet."
"How come?" I asked.
"Well," he answered, "because with a clarinet, she can't sing."
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The
old pastor made it a practice to visit the parish school one day a week. He
walked into the 4th grade class, where the children were studying the states,
and asked them how many states they could name.
They came up with about 40 names. He jokingly told them that in his day students knew the names of all the states. One lad raised his hand and said, "Yes, but in those days there were only 13."
They came up with about 40 names. He jokingly told them that in his day students knew the names of all the states. One lad raised his hand and said, "Yes, but in those days there were only 13."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*---- A Very Difficult Way to Commit Suicide ----*
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - A man from Florida has constructed a bubble-like vessel that he plans to use to travel to along the Bermuda triangle. Reza Baluchi has set out to travel from Pompano Beach to Bermuda, Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico in a man-propelled bubble he calls a hydro-pod. The bubble has 36 buoyancy balls on each side and Baluchi will be equipped with a life vest containing a water filter, a GPS tracking device, and shark repellent. Baluchi attempted the trip once before in October 2014, but his voyage was cut short when Coast Guard officials rescued him after his GPS fell into the ocean 70 miles off of St. Augustine. "They burst my bubble, and now I put signs up that say 'Please don't burst my bubble,'" he said. Baluchi is an endurance athlete and has also attempted other feats including surviving six weeks in Death valley and running around the perimeter of the United States. He also said he began jumping rope in a sauna and running 20 miles a day to prepare for the trip. Baluchi said that he uses his stunts to raise money for children in need and plans to run through every country in the world to gather funds for that cause. "I try to do the best thing from my heart. Giving help to children," he said. He began his journey by casting off from Pompano Beach on Wednesday afternoon and requested that Coast Guard officials leave him alone this time around.
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - A man from Florida has constructed a bubble-like vessel that he plans to use to travel to along the Bermuda triangle. Reza Baluchi has set out to travel from Pompano Beach to Bermuda, Haiti, Cuba and Puerto Rico in a man-propelled bubble he calls a hydro-pod. The bubble has 36 buoyancy balls on each side and Baluchi will be equipped with a life vest containing a water filter, a GPS tracking device, and shark repellent. Baluchi attempted the trip once before in October 2014, but his voyage was cut short when Coast Guard officials rescued him after his GPS fell into the ocean 70 miles off of St. Augustine. "They burst my bubble, and now I put signs up that say 'Please don't burst my bubble,'" he said. Baluchi is an endurance athlete and has also attempted other feats including surviving six weeks in Death valley and running around the perimeter of the United States. He also said he began jumping rope in a sauna and running 20 miles a day to prepare for the trip. Baluchi said that he uses his stunts to raise money for children in need and plans to run through every country in the world to gather funds for that cause. "I try to do the best thing from my heart. Giving help to children," he said. He began his journey by casting off from Pompano Beach on Wednesday afternoon and requested that Coast Guard officials leave him alone this time around.
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Birthdays
Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
91- Hugh O'Brian,
[Krampke],
Rochester, NY,
actor (Wyatt Earp)
70- Tim Curry,
Cheshire England, actor (Rocky Horror Show)
(66) Dudley
Moore,
London,
actor (10, Arthur,
Bedazzled, 6 Weeks) (d.2002)
(54) Eliot
Ness, Chicago,
US Federal agent "The Untouchables" (put away
Al Capone) (d. 1957)
38- James Franco,
American actor
37- Kate Hudson,
LA,
CA, American actress (Almost
Famous, You, Me and Dupree)
35- Hayden Christensen,
Vancouver, Canadian actor (Sam-Life as
a House, Star Wars)
(34) Jayne
Mansfield, [Vera Jane Palmer],
Bryn Mawr Pa, American actress (Fat Spy) (d.1967)
29- Maria Sharapova,
Nyagan,
Russia, Russian
tennis player
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Historical
Obits Today
@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
@73-1882 Charles
Darwin,
English naturalist (Origin of the Species) who conceived
the theory of evolution by natural selection, heart failure
@36-1824 George
Gorden Noel "Lord" Byron,
poet, sepsis
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Brain
Teasers Answers
The Great Lakes: Superior, Michigan, Huron,
Erie, Ontario
There are five, lakes being blue (as in true blue). Lake Michigan belongs to the United States, the other lakes are shared by the United States and Canada. The lakes are part of a chain, with locks between some of them. Many shipwrecks occur by grounding on rocks in shallow water. The initials spell "homes", which are found in neighborhoods.
There are five, lakes being blue (as in true blue). Lake Michigan belongs to the United States, the other lakes are shared by the United States and Canada. The lakes are part of a chain, with locks between some of them. Many shipwrecks occur by grounding on rocks in shallow water. The initials spell "homes", which are found in neighborhoods.
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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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