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April 18,
2017 Week: 15 \ Day: 108
86004 Today: H 68° \
L 33° Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 20mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 79°[1989] Record Low: 16°[1978]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Albert
Einstein
The
hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Adult Autism Day
Income Tax Pay Day Link
International Amateur Radio Day
National Health Care Decisions Days: Thru 22 Link
National Lineman
Appreication Day Link
World Amateur Radio Day Link
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
15-22
International
Wildlife Film Week Link
National Park Week Link
Coin Week
National Karaoke Week
National Paperboard Packaging Week
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week Link
National Occupational Health Nursing Week Link
Safe Kids Week Link
18-24
Cleaning For A
Reason Week
Consumer Awareness
Week
Fiddler's Frolic
Police Officers Who
Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
≈1506 The
cornerstone of the current St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, is laid.
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≈1738 Real
Academia de la Historia ("Royal Academy of History") founded in
Madrid.
1775 Paul
Revere and William Dawes ride from Charleston to Lexington warning the
"regulars are coming!"
1783 Fighting
ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.
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≈1853 1st
train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1861 Battle
of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, part of the Maryland Campaign (US Civil War)
1861 Battle
of Harpers Ferry, Virginia, part of the Maryland Campaign (US Civil War)
≈1874 David
Livingstone, African explorer, buried in Westminster Abbey
1879 Trial
of Standing Bear-Crook on Indians citizen rights begins
≈1881 Natural
History Museum opens in South Kensington, England
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1906 San
Francisco earthquake and fire kills nearly 4,000 while destroying 75% of the
city
1906 The
Los Angeles Times story on the Azusa Street Revival launches Pentecostalism as
a worldwide movement.
1921 Junior
Achievement incorporated in Colorado Spring
1924 1st
crossword puzzle book published (Simon & Schuster)
1925 World's
Fair opens in Chicago
≈1927 Chiang
Kai-shek forms anti-government in China
1934 1st
"Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Fort Worth, Tx)
1942 "Stars
& Stripes" paper for US armed forces starts
≈1949 Republic
of Ireland withdraws from British Commonwealth
1958 A
United States federal court rules that poet Ezra Pound is to be
released from an insane asylum.
1966 Bill
Russell became 1st black coach in NBA history (Boston Celtics)
1968 178,000
employees of US Bell Telephone System go on strike
≈1968 London
Bridge is sold to US oil company (to be erected in Arizona)
1977 Alex
Haley, author of "Roots", awarded Pulitzer Prize
1977 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Michael Cristofer for "Shadow Box"
1978 Senate
votes to turn Panama Canal over to Panama on Dec 31, 1999
≈1980 Zimbabwe
(formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK
1983 Pulitzer
Prize awarded to Alice Walker for "The Color Purple"
1984 Joan
Benoit runs world record female marathon (2:22:43)
1990 Supreme
Court rules states could make it a crime to possess or look at child
pornography, even in one's home
1991 US
Census Bureau said it failed to count up to 63 million in 1990 census
1998 1998
NFL Draft: Peyton Manning from University of Tennessee first pick by
Indianapolis Colts
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2007 The
Supreme Court of the United States upholds the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act
in a 5-4 decision.
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Been
a less than fruitful day on the phone, trying to get information on some of my
taxes. The new guy says I owe a huge sum and it just can’t be right. I hate tax
time but will gladly pay the taxes I owe. Just won’t pay more than I should.
Turns out the problem K-1 has been losing money and has now closed. During the
time it was losing, each year I used the loss to lower my tax bill. Now I have
to pay the piper, but I took off losses much greater than what I owe. Confused?
So am I but I can live with this.
Had
a great Easter dinner with friends. My ham was a success as were all the other
dishes. Great way to spend the holiday. So nice to watch families grow and change. Hard to believe so many 'little kids' are not married and have kids of their own.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
Where
is Graceland located?
Nashville,
Tennessee
Denver,
Colorado
Memphis,
Tennessee
New
Orleans, Louisiana
87.5%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
7→Number of species that scientists have named after Barack
Obama
2→After the four previous US presidents combined
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
A
soldier in my National Guard platoon became concerned when the Army insisted
that he sign up for direct deposit. "It’s not going to work for me,"
he said, panicked.
"Why not?" I asked.
"Because I use my Guard pay for spending money."
"So?"
"For the past ten years, I’ve been telling my wife that I serve for
free!"
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
A
man carrying what was described as a "samurai" sword was tackled by a
worker inside a Pennsylvania bar.
Tina Malachi, a server in Rookie's Craft Burger Bar, said the man, who wasn't
wearing a shirt, walked in and sat at the bar. When he got up and walked into
the pool room she asked him to put on a shirt, which is when she saw the sword.
Another employee sitting at the bar stood up and looked at the man, and the man
then raised the sword up with both arms, said the worker. The employee ducked
under the man's arms and grabbed him from behind, tackling him to the ground,
assisted by some customers. They held him down until police arrived.
The man was arrested for summary warrants and the sword was confiscated, said
Capt. Gabriel Olivera of Harrisburg police.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Bears,
seals, and dogs are closely related carnivores but are on a different branch of
the evolutionary tree than cats and hyenas.
Some snakes have hipbones, which shows they once had four legs like lizards,
their close cousins.
Inside some whales and dolphins are small bones that show they once had back
legs and that their ancestors walked on land. These occasionally reappear as
tiny rear flippers.
Darwin
did not argue that humans came from monkeys. Rather he wrote only that monkeys,
apes, and humans have a common ancestor.
A hobbit-like species of human lived about 18,000 years ago. About the size of
a 3-year-old, they lived with pygmy elephants and 10-foot-long lizards.
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‡‡How
our states were named‡‡
Vermont
Derived
from the French words vert (“green”) and mont (“mountain”).
Samuel Peters claimed that he christened the land with that name in 1763 while
standing on top of a mountain, saying, “The new name is Vert-Mont,
in token that her mountains and hills shall be ever green and shall never
die." Most historians would disagree, as would Thomas Young, the
Pennsylvania statesman who suggested that his state’s constitution be used as
the basis for Vermont's and is generally credited with suggesting the name to
maintain the memory of the Green Mountain Boys, the militia organization formed
to resist New York’s attempted take-over of the area.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
@94- Barbara
Hale, American actress (Della Street in Perry Mason), born in DeKalb, Illinois
(d. 2017)
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83- James
Drury, American actor (Virginian), born in NYC, New York
@81- Samuel
P. Huntington, American political scientist (The Clash of Civilizations) and presidential
adviser, born in NYC, New York (d. 2008)
@80- Clarence
S Darrow, defense attorney at Scopes monkey trial (d. 1934)
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73- Robert
Hanssen, FBI agent and Soviet spy, born in Chicago Illinois
71- Hayley
Mills, actress (Parent Trap, Pollyanna), born in London, England
70- James
Woods, American actor (Salvador, Against All Odds), born in Vernal, Utah
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64- Rick
Moranis, Canadian actor (SCTV, Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Spaceballs), born in
Toronto, Ontario
61-
Eric Roberts, actor
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56- Jane
Leeves, actress (Murphy Brown, Daphne Moon-Fraiser), born in London, England
54- Conan
Chris O'Brien, American TV host (Late Night), born in Brookline, Massachusetts
@50- Kathy
Acker, American author (d. 1997)
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41- Melissa
Joan Hart, american actress (Clarissa, Sabrina), born in Smithtown, New York
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@39- Lucretia
Borgia, murderess (poison)/daughter (Pope Alexander VI) (d. 1519)
38-
Kourtney Kardashian, reality person
33- America
Ferrera, American actress
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
@97-2016 Patricio
Aylwin, Chilean lawyer and politician, President of Chile (1990-94)
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@87-2002 Thor
Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist and explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku)
@82-2012 Dick
Clark, American radio and television personality (American Bandstand)
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@76-1955 Albert
Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of
relativity), abdominal aortic aneurysm
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@44-1945 Ernie
Pyle, American journalist (WWII correspondent), shot in battle
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Memphis,
Tennessee
Do
you have a reason to believe that you'll be received in Graceland? If so, you
should head down to Memphis, Tennessee. The home of Elvis Presley from 1957
until his death, Graceland is a 13.8-acre property that has been on the
American National Register of Historic Places since 1991. About 600,000 people
visit every year, so you certainly won't be alone if you choose to take the
trip. Source: Graceland.com.
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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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