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4.27.16 Week: 17 \ Day: 118
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 60° \ L 39° Average
Sky Cover: 60%
Wind ave: 11mph\Gusts: 47mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 77°[2000] Record Low: 17°[1984]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Administrative Professionals Day or
Secretary's Day
International Guide Dogs Day Link
Mantanzas Mule Day
Morse Code Day
National Little Pampered Dog Day
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Observances This Week
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
1763 Pontiac will hold a council with a
large group of OTTAWA, WYNADOT, and POTAWATOMI Indians. He will tell
them of his plans to attack Fort Detroit. He will extol the virtues of
returning to the old Indian ways, before the coming of the Europeans.
1838 Fire
destroys half of Charleston
1861 US
President Abraham Lincoln suspends writ of habeas corpus (US Civil
War)
1861 West
Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from Union (US Civil War)
1865 Cornell
University (Ithaca NY) is chartered
1877 General
George Crook contacts Red Cloud with a message for Crazy Horse. Crook promises
that if Crazy Horse surrenders, he will get a reservation in the Powder River
area. On this date, Red Cloud delivers the message to Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse
agrees and heads to Fort Robinson, in northwestern Nebraska. Where he will
surrender to the U.S.Army.
1877 President
Hayes removes Federal troops from LA, Reconstruction ends
1897 Grant's
Tomb (famed of song & legend) dedicated
1911 Following
the resignation and death of William P. Frye, a compromise is reached to rotate
the office of President pro tempore (for the time being) of the United States
Senate.
1956 Heavyweight
champ, Rocky Marciano, retires undefeated from boxing
1965 RC Duncan
patents "Pampers" disposable diaper
2006 Construction
begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.
2011 U.S.
President Barack Obama, coerced by incessant false "birther"
accusations, publicly releases a copy of his birth certificate
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1539 Re-founding
of the city of Bogotá, New Granada (nowadays Colombia), by Nikolaus Federmann
and Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1667 Blind and
impoverished, John Milton sells the copyright of Paradise Lost for
£10. 1805 US Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1810 Beethoven composes his
famous piano piece, Für Elise. 1828 Zoological
Gardens at Regent's Park London, opens
1880 - The Royal
University of Ireland is founded by charter
1891 - The first ever
Irish musical comedy, The Irish Girl, written by Percy French and Dr. W.
Houston Collisson, is staged at the Queen’s Theatre, Dublin
1905 World
Exposition opens in Liège
1908 4th modern
Olympic games opens in London
1935 Brussels
World Exposition opens
1989 Beijing
students take over Tiananmen Square in China
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My Rambling Thoughts
Wind has finally calmed down. Hit a snag with
my blood draw. Won’t go back until Monday. Yesterday a lab drew a small amount
of blood for tests and screwed up my remaining good vein. Oh well.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Great Place
Riddles are little poems or phrases
that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this
is not a requirement.
I am seen through many eyes.
Even the blind see me.
Through me, nothing is impossible.
Many stories come from within me.
Time can hold still, or move at the speed of light.
The unthinkable comes to life in me.
I am a wondrous world full of life, or even death.
Love can rule, and hate fades out of the picture.
Peace can be found throughout and no wars.
It is within me where only I can control; no one else can.
I am a place that no one can take from you.
What am I?
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…Harper’s Index…
4.5-Established
number of firearms in the average US gun-owning household in 1994
8.2-Today
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeocreativeHappy #WorldPenguinDay!
Photo by Maria Stenzel. #penguins#arctic #icebergs
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2 jokes for the day
During a sixth grade sex education
class, the young professor asked, "What happens to a young woman during
puberty?"
There was no reply from her students, so she rephrased the question. "What
happens to young women as they mature?"
One girl raised her hand and answered, “We start carrying purses?”
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Wife comes downstairs and asks her
husband, who is lying on a sofa, "What have you been doing?"
He replies, "Killing Flies."
"How many you have killed so far?"
"Five, three males and two females."
"How did you figure that out?"
"Well, three were sitting on the remote and two were sitting on the
phone."
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Somewhat Useless Information
Martha Washington is the only woman so
far whose portrait has appeared on a U.S. currency note. It appeared on the
face of the $1 Silver Certificate of 1886 and 1891, and the back of the $1
Silver Certificate of 1896.
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The highest denomination bill ever
printed was a $100,000 note that was printed from December 18, 1934 to January
9, 1935. It was used for transactions between Federal Reserve Banks. President
Woodrow Wilson was pictured on the front.
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The following bills have not been in
print since 1946: $500 (William McKinley); $1,000 (Grover Cleveland); $5,000
(James Madison); and $10,000 (Salmon P. Chase, former Treasury Secretary).
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The highest current denomination is
the $100 bill.
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It is suspected that the largest
counterfeiter of U.S. currency is the nation of North Korea.
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Birthdays Today
“( )” indicates age at death
(94) Walter Lantz,
animator (Woody
Woodpecker's creator) (d.1994)
(82) Casey Kasem, Detroit,
radio personality (American Top 40) (d.2014)
(80) Samuel Morse,
Charlestown, Mass, American
inventor (telegraph, Morse code) and painter, (d. 1872)
(78) Coretta Scott
King,
Marion Ala, civil rights
leader (d.2006)
(76) Judy Carne,
Northampton, English
comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop) (d. 2015)
(63) Ulysses S. Grant,
Point Pleasant, Ohio, 18th
US president and Union general (d. 1885)
(68) Cecil Day-Lewis, Ballintubbert,
Queen's County, Irish poet
(British Poet Laureate 1968-72) and detective writer (Nicholas Blake) (d. 1972)
57- Sheena Easton,
[Shirley Orr],
Glasgow, Scotland singer
(Sugar Walls)
(54) Sandy Dennis,
American actress (d. 1992)
47- Cory Booker,
Mayor of Newark, New Jersey
32- Patrick Stump,
Evanston, Ill, American
musician (Fall Out Boy)
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Historical Obits Today
@78-1882 Ralph Waldo
Emerson,
American poet (Representive
Men), pneumonia
@74-1991 Ken Curtis,
actor (Lost, Freckles, Festus
: Gunsmoke), heart attack
@72-1998 Carlos
Castaneda,
Peruvian-born writer,
cancer
@50-1521 Ferdinand
Magellan,
Portuguese explorer, killed
by Filipino natives while on voyage to circumnavigate the world
@34-1813 Zebulon M
Pike,
US explorer (Pike's Peak), in
battle
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Brain Teasers Answers
Your imagination.
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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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