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April 1, 2017 Week: 12 \ Day: 91
86004 Today: H 45° \ L 23°
Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts:
-mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992) L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 73°[1966]
Record Low: 2°[1970]
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‡‡Quote of the Day‡‡
Aldous Huxley
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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‡‡Observances Today‡‡
April Fool's Day or All Fools Day
Atheist Day Link
American Crossword Puzzle Days: 1-3
Boomer Bonus Days
Library Snap Shot Day
Myles Day
National Fun Day
Poetry & The Creative Mind Day
Reading is Funny Day
Sorry Charlie Day
St. Stupid Day Link
US Air force Academy Day
Every Day is Tag Day Link (First Saturday)
International Pillow Fight Day Link (Always First
Saturday)
National Love Our Children Day Link (First
Saturday)
Tangible Karma Day (First
Saturday) Link
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‡‡Observances This Week‡‡
1-7
APAWS Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!) Link
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‡‡Today’s Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1693 Cotton
Mather's four-day-old son dies, and witchcraft is blamed
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≈1724 Jonathan Swift publishes
Drapier's letters
≈1748 Ruins of Pompeii
rediscovered by Spaniard Rocque Joaquin de Alcubierre
1778 New
Orleans businessman Oliver Pollock creates the "$" symbol
1789 US
House of Representatives 1st full meeting, NYC, F Muhlenberg 1st speaker
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1826 Samuel
Morey is issued the first U.S. patent for an internal-combustion engine, which
he calls a “Gas or Vapour Engine"
1853 Cincinnati
becomes 1st US city to employ fulltime professional firefighters
1866 US
Congress rejects presidential veto giveing all equal rights in US
≈1867 Singapore,
Penang & Malacca become British crown colonies
1889 1st
dishwashing machine marketed (Chicago)
1891 The
Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
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≈1905 "SOS"
first adopted as a morse distress signal (· · · – – – · · ·) by German
government
≈1910 Dumitru Dan
(Romania) completes a 62,137 mile (100,000 m) walk
≈1924 The Royal
Canadian Air Force is formed.
≈1925 Hebrew
University, Jerusalem dedicated
1927 1st
automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
≈1931 Earthquake
devastate Managua Nicaragua, kills 2,000
1941 US
Navy takes over Treasure Island (San Francisco Bay)
≈1942 Mexico changes
from 3 time zones to 2
1946 400,000
US mine workers strike
≈1946 The Malayan
Union is formed as a federation of the Malay states and the Straits Settlements
of Penang and Malacca
1952 Big
Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe & Gamow
1954 US
Air Force Academy established
1960 1st
weather satellite launched (TIROS 1)
1963 NYC's
newspapers resume publishing after a 114 day strike
≈1966 1st world
festival of black art (Dakar Senegal)
1967 The
United States Department of Transportation begins operation.
1970 US
President Richard Nixon signs bill limiting cigarette advertisements
from 1st Jan 1971
≈1974 Ayatollah
Khomeini calls for an Islamic Republic in Iran
1976 Steve
Wozniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Computer in the garage of
Jobs' parents house in Cupertino, California
≈1977 Attempt for
Muslim state in Chad fails
≈1979 Iran proclaimed
an Islamic Republic following fall of Shah
1980 New
York City's Transit Worker Union 100 begins a strike lasting 11 days.
≈1981 Daylight saving
time is introduced in the USSR.
≈1982 US formally
transfers Canal Zone to Panama
1990 It
becomes illegal in Salem Oregon to be within 2 feet of nude dancers
1991 US
Supreme Court rules jurors cannot be barred from serving due to race
≈1991 Warsaw Pact
officially dissolves
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≈2001 Netherlands
becomes the first country in the world to make same-sex marriage legal
2004 Google
introduces Gmail: the launch is met with skepticism on account of the launch
date.
≈2013 The world’s
first smelling TV screen is unveiled in Japan
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‡‡My Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Very productive day after high winds much of the night. Winds were
50+mph for most of the night. That brought in colder temps, then snow, then
rain, then grapple, then snow. Nothing is sticking but not a day to be outside.
At 8:15 the plumber called. He would be within the hour. Got here at 9:00,
Looked at the garbage disposal and said, “well it’s time for a new one.” He
made a few calls, and it was installed and working by 9:45. Great work. While he was busy replacing the disposal, I
was busy updating the Focus Travel site, with the new itinerary for the Amazon
trip and calling to get my first payment taken care of. This took a little
longer than the disposal issue. By 10:15, all was updated. Then I had to put
the under the sink stuff away. Luckily, I caught the leak early, so I just had
to empty the bucket and slide the 2 plastic containers back in place. Could
have been a lot messier.
I am back watching PBS News Hour again. I had been watching ABC or CBS
but News Hour is so much better.
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‡‡Today’s Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers at the end of post)
What NFL team has the most Super Bowl appearances as of 2017?
Pittsburgh Steelers
New England Patriots
Denver Broncos
Dallas Cowboys
59.8% taking the internet quiz got it
correct.
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‡‡Harper’s Index‡‡
70,724→Number of
general-election TV ads aired by the Clinton campaign before the Trump campaign
aired its first one
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‡‡ Joke For The Day‡‡
I am a first-grade teacher and a new empty nester. One night I was
trying out an art project: making a person with simple materials.
I took a coat hanger, attached a paper-plate face, put a shirt on the hanger
and stuffed it. Then I sat it on the couch to see how it looked.
Later that evening my son walked in the door, home for a surprise visit. Taking
one look at my coat-hanger friend sitting on the couch, he said, "Mom,
it’s not that bad, is it?"
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‡‡Yep, It Really Happened‡‡
A hair salon owner in Germany, came up with a unique way to give women
relaxing neck massages after taking a trip South Africa. The Haar Mode Team
salon located in Dresden, uses a large snake to give women deep relaxing neck
massages.
Hair salon owner Frank Doehlen, said that he was inspired to use the reptile
during a visit to South Africa, where he saw snakes being used for massages.
He charges about $40 for a-la python neck massage service that lasts around 30
minutes. Doehlen named his 13-year-old snake Monty, which is estimated to be 90
percent pure muscle.
Doehlen said that many customers tried the neck massage and are very happy. One
customer revealed that she often gets neck pain during her work as a chimney
cleaner.
She said that the a-la python neck massage service helps her a lot, and vowed
to come back for more.
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‡‡Somewhat Useless Information‡‡
Spiders cannot fly - but they can balloon. Young spiderlings pull out
silk until the breeze can lift them into the sky. Most don't travel high or
far, but some have been seen at altitudes of 10,000 feet and on ships more than
200 miles from land.
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The decoration in the web of some orb-weaving spiders serves a variety
of purposes. It can be a warning so birds don't fly into the web, an attractant
so insect-prey fly in on purpose, or an "umbrella" to shade the
spider from the hot sun.
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Some spiders live underwater all of their lives. They surface to collect
a bubble of air, which acts as an underwater lung. An underwater spider fills
its bell-shape web with air bubbles and derives oxygen from them.
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‡‡How our states were named‡‡
Montana
Montana is a variation of the Spanish montaña,
or "mountain,"
a name applied because of its numerous mountain ranges (3,510 mountain peaks,
total). Who first used the name, and when, is unknown.
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‡‡Birthdays Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
@87- Clara "Mother"
Hale
US social worker (Hale House) (D 1992)
@85- Anne [Inez] McCaffrey
American sci-fi author (Dragonflight, Dragondrums), born in Cambridge,
Massachusetts (d. 2011)
@84- Debbie Reynolds
actress (Singin' in the Rain), born in El Paso, Texas
@83- Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor (1866-90) who helped unify Germany, born in
Schönhausen, Prussia (d. 1898)
83- Vladimir Posner
Russian/French/American journalist who represented and explained the
views of the Soviet Union during the Cold War, born in Paris
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@77- Toshiro Mifune
Japanese writer and actor (Shogun), born in Tsingtao, China (d. 1997)
@71- Gordon Jump
actor (Arthur Carlson-WKRP, Growing Pains), born in Dayton, Ohio (D
2003)
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@69- Sergei Rachmaninoff
Novgorod Russia, composer (Prelude in C# Minor) (D 1943)
67- Samuel Alito
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
60- Andreas Deja
Disney cartoonist/animator (Gaston in Beauty and the Beast)
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56- Susan Boyle
pop singer
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@47- Lon Chaney
actor, "man of 1000 faces" (High Noon, Phantom of Opera, born
in Colorado Springs, Colorado (d. 1930)
44- Rachel Maddow
American radio personality and political analyst
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‡‡Historical Obits Today‡‡
@101-2004 Aaron Bank
American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces
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@92-2010 John Forsythe
American actor (Charlie's Angels, Dynasty)
@92-1965 Helena
Rubinstein
Polish-born American cosmetics manufacturer
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@58-2004 Carrie
Snodgress
American actress (Diary of a Mad Housewife), liver failure
@53-1930 Zawditu (ዘውዲቱ)
1st reigning female monarch of Ethiopia, typhoid?
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@49-1917 Scott Joplin
ragtime composer (The Entertainer), tertiary syphilis
@45-1950 Charles R. Drew
surgeon/developer of blood bank concept, auto accident
@44-1984 Marvin Gaye
singer (Sexual Healing), shot to death by his father
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‡‡Trivia Hive
Answers‡‡
New England Patriots
The New England Patriots broke several records when they played against
the Atlanta Falcons on Feb. 5th in Houston for Super Bowl LI. This was the
team's ninth appearance in the Super Bowl and first since it beat the Seattle
Seahawks in Super Bowl XLIX in 2015. For Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, it was
his seventh Super Bowl with the team and his fifth win. Brady also earned the
Patriots their last four wins. The previous three teams to tie for the most
Super Bowl appearances were the Denver Broncos, Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas
Cowboys. Source: NESN
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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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