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4.5.16 Week: 14 \ Day: 96
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 69° \ L 34° Average
Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave: 12mph\Gusts: 22mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 75°[1959] Record Low: 8°[1958]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Equal Pay Day Link
Go for Broke Day
Go for Broke Day
National Deep Dish Pizza Day Link
National Sexual Assault Awareness Month's Day of Action (SAAM) Link
Read A Road Map Day Link
National Sexual Assault Awareness Month's Day of Action (SAAM) Link
Read A Road Map Day Link
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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
2-10
Golden Rule Week Link
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!) Link
2-10
National Robotics Week Link
3-9
Bat Appreciation Week
National Blue Ribbon Week Link (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
Week of The Ocean
4-10
3-9
Bat Appreciation Week
National Blue Ribbon Week Link (Child Abuse)
National Public Health Week
National Window Safety Week
Week of The Ocean
4-10
Explore Your Career Options
Hate Week
The Masters Tournament
National Youth Violence Prevention Week Link
Hate Week
The Masters Tournament
National Youth Violence Prevention Week Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1768 1st US Chamber of Commerce
forms (NYC)
1887 Anne Sullivan teaches
"water" to Helen Keller
1922 KOB-AM in Albuquerque NM
begins radio transmissions
1923 Firestone Co put their
inflatable tires into production
1927 Johnny Weissmuller set
records in 100 & 200 m free style
1948 WGN TV channel 9 in Chicago,
IL (IND) begins broadcasting
1951 Julius & Ethel
Rosenberg, atomic spies, sentenced to death
1962 NASA civilian pilot Neil
Armstrong takes X-15 to 54,600 m
1965 37th Academy Awards - "My
Fair Lady", Rex Harrison & Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) win
awards1965 Lava Lamp Day celebrated
1969 Vietnam War: Massive antiwar
demonstrations occur in many U.S. cities.
1971 US Lt Wiliam Calley (My Lai
Massacre) sentenced to life
1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks Wilt
Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31,419 points (31,421)
1993 Colorado Rockies 1st game -
lose to NY Mets 3-0
1993 Construction begins on
Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
456 Saint Patrick returns to Ireland as a missionary bishop
1895 Oscar Wilde loses libel
case against Marquess of Queensberry, who accused him of homosexual practices
1939 Membership in Hitler Youth
becomes obligatory
1997 Steve Irwin's "The
Crocodile Hunter" debuts
1962 - Guinness formally
adopts the harp as its symbol
2011 - Filmmaker and lecturer Barry
Dignam and and his partner of 17 years, Hugh Hugh Walsh become the first gay
couple in Irish history to enter into a civil partnership. The event takes
place at the Registry Office in Dublin city centre.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday was a lazy day, some friends stopped
by and I didn’t have the time or the energy to do this blog.
Another nice spring day with a tad of wind.
Did some minor cleaning this morning, but not
enough to get tired. HaHa.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Van Gogh's Relatives Return
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
Van Gogh (pronounced "Go")
is back, with more of his relatives.
e.g. One of them was a well-known musical cousin from Liverpool, England. His name? Ring Gogh! (Ringo)
From the clues, can you guess the other names?
1. An elderly uncle who plays the numbers game at his community hall.
2. His young nephew who bounces everywhere.
3. A long-lost brother who had been on his yacht exploring a group of islands in the Pacific.
4. An aunt, famous for her milk pudding recipe.
5. His cousin with the skin infection.
6. The teenage niece who wears dark, trendy shades of blue and purple.
7. His Great Uncle Emil, the famous lecturer on self-esteem.
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e.g. One of them was a well-known musical cousin from Liverpool, England. His name? Ring Gogh! (Ringo)
From the clues, can you guess the other names?
1. An elderly uncle who plays the numbers game at his community hall.
2. His young nephew who bounces everywhere.
3. A long-lost brother who had been on his yacht exploring a group of islands in the Pacific.
4. An aunt, famous for her milk pudding recipe.
5. His cousin with the skin infection.
6. The teenage niece who wears dark, trendy shades of blue and purple.
7. His Great Uncle Emil, the famous lecturer on self-esteem.
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…Harper’s Index…
6,000-Estimated number of federal prisoners relased
in November after a change in sentencing guideline
3.8-Percentage of the federal prison population
that number represents
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
discoverychannelPhoto
by @macstonephoto: Though apex
predators in the Everglades, alligators are still part of the system, just as
much as anything else. The cycle continues as a black vulture feasts on the
remains of a dead alligator in Big Cypress National Preserve.
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2 jokes for the day
Why do the French like to eat snails
so much?
They can't stand fast food!
They can't stand fast food!
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Interviewer: How do you spell Mississippi?
Dumb Guy: Which one? The river or the state?
Dumb Guy: Which one? The river or the state?
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Yep, It Really Happened
*------ Mother Hires Stripper for 8-Year-Old ------*
Police in Florida, launched an investigation
after a mother hired a stripper to perform on her young son as part of his 8th
birthday party. The incident was recorded on video and posted online. The video
shows the boy slapping the stripper's backside and throwing dollar bills on her
nearly naked body. Officers from several police departments are investigating
the mother and the stripper, but so far, no arrests have been made.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Mars is a cold desert world, and is
the fourth planet from the sun. It is half the diameter of Earth and has the
same amount of dry land.
Like Earth, Mars has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and weather, but its atmosphere is too thin for liquid water to exist for long on the surface.
There are signs of ancient floods on the Red Planet, but evidence for water now exists mainly in icy soil and thin clouds.
Mars has two moons. Phobos (fear) and Deimos (panic) are the Red Planet's two small moons. They are named after the horses that pulled the chariot of the Greek war god Ares, the counterpart to the Roman war god Mars.
The diameter of Mars is 4220 miles (6792 km). That means that the Red Planet is twice as big as the moon, but the Earth is twice as big as Mars.
Since Mars has less gravity than Earth, you would weigh 62% less than you do here on our home planet.
Like Earth, Mars has seasons, polar ice caps, volcanoes, canyons and weather, but its atmosphere is too thin for liquid water to exist for long on the surface.
There are signs of ancient floods on the Red Planet, but evidence for water now exists mainly in icy soil and thin clouds.
Mars has two moons. Phobos (fear) and Deimos (panic) are the Red Planet's two small moons. They are named after the horses that pulled the chariot of the Greek war god Ares, the counterpart to the Roman war god Mars.
The diameter of Mars is 4220 miles (6792 km). That means that the Red Planet is twice as big as the moon, but the Earth is twice as big as Mars.
Since Mars has less gravity than Earth, you would weigh 62% less than you do here on our home planet.
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Ways to Spot an
American Abroad
Trying Someone Else's Accent
Of course, when you're trying not to
sound American, that's when you sound most American. We're notorious for being
convinced that we can sound just like the people we're around, and that's when
we break out an Australian accent in London or a Northern accent in Wales.
If you try this in the U.K., you should know that being compared to Dick van
Dyke is not a compliment in this context.
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Birthdays Today
“( )” indicates age at death
(91) Thomas
Hobbes,
Westport, England, English
philosopher (Leviathan) (d. 1679)
(87) Gregory Peck,
San Diego, American actor
(To Kill a Mockingbird, MacArthur), (d. 2003)
(87) Gale Storm,
Bloomington Tx, actress (My
Little Margie, Gale Storm Show) (d.2009)
(84) Joseph Lister,
England, physician (founded
aseptic surgery) (d.1912)
(84) Arthur Hailey,
Luton England, novelist
(Hotel, Airport) (d.2004)
(81) Bette Davis,
Lowell, Mass, American
actress (Of Human Bondage, Jezebel)
(d. 1989)
79- Colin Powell,
The Bronx, general/asst to
president (Nat Sec Affairs)
(77) Robert
[Albert] Bloch,
US, sci-fi author (Hugo,
Psycho) (d.1994)
75- Michael Moriarty,
Detroit, actor (Bang the
Drum Slowly, Q, Stuff)
(72) Frank Gorshin,
Pittsburgh, comedian/impersonator
(Riddler-Batman) (d.2005)
(71) Robert Q Lewis,
NYC, TV host (Masquerade
Party, Robert Q Lewis Show) (d.1991)
(67) Spencer
Tracy,
Milwaukee, American actor
(Woman of the Year, Adam's Rib) (d. 1967)
(59) Booker T. Washington,
Hale's Ford, Va American
education pioneer and 1st African American on a US stamp (d. 1915)
59- Vince Gill,
Norman Oklahoma, country
singer (When I Call Your Name)
43- Pharrell Williams,
Virginia Beach, Va, American
music producer (The Neptunes)
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Historical Obits Today
@89-2005 Saul
Bellow,
Canadian born writer, Nobel
laureate
@86-2015 Richard
Dysart,
American actor (Leland
MacKenzie - LA Law)
@84-2008 Charlton
Heston,
American actor (The Ten
Commandments, Ben-Hur)
@84-1964 Douglas
MacArthur,
US general (Pacific
theater-WW II)
@80-1997 Allen
Ginsberg,
beat poet
@74-1992 Sam
Walton,
Billionaire CEO (Wal-Mart),
multiple myeloma
@71-1982 Abe Fortas,
Supreme court justice, ruptured
aorta
@71-1976 Howard
Hughes,
reclusive billionaire, kidney
failure
@66-2006 Gene
Pitney,
American singer, heart
attack
@27-1994 Kurt
Cobain,
grunge rocker (Nirvana), suicide
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Bing Gogh (Bingo)
2. Poe-Gogh (Pogo)
3. Archie Pele-Gogh (Archipelago)
4. Sae Gogh (Sago)
5. Impa Tai-Gogh (Impetigo)
6. Indy Gogh (Indigo)
7. Prof. E Gogh (Ego)
2. Poe-Gogh (Pogo)
3. Archie Pele-Gogh (Archipelago)
4. Sae Gogh (Sago)
5. Impa Tai-Gogh (Impetigo)
6. Indy Gogh (Indigo)
7. Prof. E Gogh (Ego)
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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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