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4.23.16 Week: 16 \ Day: 114
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 73° \ L 35° Average
Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave: 13mph\Gusts: 27mph Visibility: 10 mi
Red Flag Warning
Record High: 77°[1949] Record Low: 11°[1963]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Satchmo Days Link -4
English Language Day Link
National Dance Day
National Lost Dog Awareness Day Link
National
Zucchini Bread Day-they hold this at a time when you
are not sick of all that zucchini.
Movie Theatre Day
Talk Like Shakespeare Day Link
World Book & Copyright Day Link
World Book Night Link
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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
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
21-24
Fiddler's Frolic
Interstate Mullet Toss
22-30
National Dance Week Link
22-24
National Dream Hotline
National & Global Youth Service Days
Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of Prayer
23-30
Money Smart Week: Link
Administrative Professionals Week
Air Quality Awareness Week Link
Bedbug Awareness Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week Link
National Crime Victims Rights Week Link
National Environmental Education Week Link
National Occupational Health Nursing Week Link
National Infertility
Awareness Week Link
National Princess Week Link
National Scoop The Poop Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week Link
Sky Awareness Week
World Week of Action for Animals in
Laboratories Link
National Playground Safety Week Link
Preservation Week Link (re: Libraries)
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1635 Oldest US
public institution, Boston Latin School founded
1900 1st know
occurrence of word "hillbillie" (NY Journal)
1953 KTAR (now
KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 1st US
satellite to reach the moon launched
1968 United Methodist
Church forms
1984 AIDS-virus
identified as HTLV-III (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
1985 New Coke
debuts; Coca-Cola announced it is changing its secret flavor formula
1995 President
Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1014 King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats
Viking forces at Battle of Clontarf, freeing Ireland from foreign control
1348 1st English
order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)
1516 Duke
Wilhelm IV of Bavaria endorses "The German Beer Purity Law"
(Reinheitsgebot) and adds to it standards for the sale of beer
1597 William
Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor" is first performed, with
Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance
1851 Canada
issues its 1st postage stamps
1918 - The Military
Service Act18 April threatens conscription for Ireland: there is a one-day
general strike in protest (except in Ulster) on this date
1932 Shakespeare Memorial
Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
1968 1st decimal
coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 new pence, replacing shilling and
two-shilling pieces)
1969 The
Unionist Parliamentary Party votes by 28 to 22 to introduce universal adult
suffrage in local government elections in Northern Ireland; the demand for 'one
man, one vote' had been one of the most powerful slogans of the civil rights
movement
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My Rambling Thoughts
A tad windy for my taste but still a beautiful
spring day. Red Flag warning always puts us a little on edge.
Numbers keep falling in my blood draws, that
is a good thing. See the hematologist on Monday…more news then.
Quiet weekend ahead…looking forward to some
time on the deck.
The guy who sets up our trips for Tumlare is
on a trip with his family. They are on a Disney cruise to the Bahamas. Today
the ship saved 3 Cuban refugees who were on a capsized boat in the ocean. Very
cool, no word on where these survivors will be dropped off.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
High Above
Riddles are little poems
or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme,
but this is not a requirement.
High above the lowly earth, and yet
I flourish for all I'm worth.
I hang between the earth and sky, green or brown as the seasons pass by.
As around me all the birds do fly, and just before winter, away go I.
Tell me true, what am I?
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…Harper’s Index…
985- Number of chemicals the World Health
Organization has evaluated for their carcinogenic potential since 1971
1-Number it has found ‘probably not’
carcinogenic
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2 jokes for the day
My boss told me yesterday, “Ken, you
shouldn't dress for the job you have, dress for the job you want.”
But when I turned up at the office today in Ghostbuster's clothing, she said I
was fired.
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A social worker from Ohio who was
recently transferred to the mountains of North Georgia, was on the first tour
of his new territory when he came upon the tiniest cabin he had ever seen in
his life. Intrigued, he went up and knocked on the door.
"Anybody home?" he asked. "Yep," came a kid's voice through
the door.
"Is your father there?" asked the social worker.
"Pa? Nope, he left before Ma came in," said the kid.
"Well, is your mother there?" persisted the social worker.
"'Ma? Nope, she left just before I got here," said the kid.
"But what," protested the social worker, "are you never together
as a family?"
''Sure, but not here," said the kid through the door. "This is the outhouse."
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Somewhat Useless Information
France gifted the Statue of Liberty
to the United States in 1886 as a celebration of 100 years of U.S. independence
and continued allegiance between the two countries. The statue was shipped as 350
pieces in 214 crates and took 4 months to assemble at its current home on New
York's Ellis Island.
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New York is known as the
"Empire State" due to its growth and prosperity early in its history.
George Washington is said to have seen New York as "the seat of the
empire."
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If your dog's feet smell like corn
chips, you're not alone. The term 'Frito Feet' was coined to describe the
scent.
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The most shoplifted food item in the
U.S. is candy. In Europe, it's cheese.
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In a study by the Smell & Taste
Research Foundation, the scent women found most arousing was Good & Plenty
candy mixed with cucumber.
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Birthdays Today
“( )” indicates age at death
(93) Gordon Hirabayshi,
Seattle, Wa, American civil
rights activist and WWII internment opponent (Hirabayshi v. United States), (d.
2012)
(85) Shirley Temple,
Santa Monica, American
actress, famous as a child star in the 1930s (Bright Eyes, Heidi) and diplomat (d.2014)
(77) James Buchanan,
Cove Gap, Pa, 15th US
president (1857-61), (d. 1868)
77- Lee Majors, [Harvey
Lee Yeary],
Wyandotte Mich, TV actor
($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy)
(76) Duncan Renaldo, Spain, actor (Cisco Kid) (d.1980)
(74) Ray Tomlinson,
Amsterdam, NY, computer
programmer (invented email and the @ sign), (d. 2016)
67- Joyce DeWitt,
Wheeling WV, actress (Janet
Wood-Three's Company)
62- Michael Moore,
Flint, Michigan, American
filmmaker (Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Sicko)
(61) Sergei Prokofiev,
Sontsovka, Ukraine, Russian
composer (Peter and the Wolf), (d. 1953)
(57) Halston, [R Halston Frowick],
fashion designer (1972 Hall
of Fame) (d.1990)
(57) Jan Hooks,
Decatur Georgia, comedienne
actress (SNL, Designing Women) (d.2014)
56- Valerie Bertinelli,
Wilmington, De, American
actress (Barbara Cooper Royer-1 Day at a Time, Hot in Cleveland)
55- George Lopez,
American actor and comedian
(52) Jim Fixx,
jogger/writer (Jim Fixx on
Running) (d.1984)
(52) Roy Orbison,
Vernon, TX rock musician
(Pretty Woman), (d. 1988)
(50) Herve Villechaize,
France, "Da Plane! Da
Plane!" (Fantasy Island) (d.1993)
39- John Cena,
American professional
wrestler-Actor
39- Kal Penn,
Montclair, NJ American
actor (Dr. Lawrence Kutner-House, The Namesake) and civil servant
39- John Oliver,
English comedian (The Daily
Show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver)
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Historical Obits Today
@96-1996 Pamela Lyndon Travers,
writer (Mary Poppins)
@85-1951 Charles G. Dawes,
Vice President of the
United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
@80-1986 Otto Preminger,
dir (Advise & Consent,
Anatomy of Murder)
@80-1850 William Wordsworth,
English Romantic poet (The
Prelude)
@77-1995 Howard Cosell,
sportscaster (Monday Night
Football), cardiac embolism
@76-2007 Boris Yeltsin,
first President of the
Russian Federation, heart failure
@75-1983 Buster Crabbe,
400m US swimmer
(Olympics-gold-1932), Actor-Tarzan, heart attack
@69-1616 Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra,
Spanish writer (Don
Quixote), cirrhosis
@52-1616 William Shakespeare,
English poet and playwright
(b. 1564) (Julian calendar), fever
@23-303 Saint George,
Greek officer in the Roman
army, beheaded. Patron saint of many lands including England
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Brain Teasers Answers
A leaf on a deciduous tree.
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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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