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April 23, 2017 Week: 16 \ Day: 113
86004 Today: H 63° \
L 27° Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 77°[1949] Record Low: 14°[1963]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Forget
not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play
with your hair.
Khalil
Gibran
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
English Language
Day Link
Movie Theatre Day
Talk Like
Shakespeare Day Link
World Book & Copyright Day Link
World Book Night Link
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
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
21-23
Global Youth
Service Days
Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of Prayer and Fasting
22-29
National Infant
Immunization Week (NIIW) Link
Money Smart Week Link
National Dance Week Link
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week Link
Administrative Professionals Week
Air Quality Awareness Week Link
Bedbug Awareness Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
National Princess Week Link
National Environmental Education Week Link
National Infertility Awareness Week Link
National Volunteer Week
Preservation Week Link (re:
Libraries)
Sky Awareness Week
Spring Astronomy Week
National Playground Safety Week Link
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
<§>1000’s<§>
≈1014 King
Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of Clontarf, freeing
Ireland from foreign control
<§>1300’s<§>
≈1348 1st
English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)
<§>1500’s<§>
≈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
<§>1600’s<§>
1635 Oldest
US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
1662 Connecticut
chartered as an English colony
<§>1800’s<§>
≈1851 Canada
issues its 1st postage stamps
≈1867 Queen Victoria &
Napoleon III turn down plans for a channel tunnel
<§>1900’s<§>
≈1932 Shakespeare Memorial
Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
1953 KTAR
(now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 1st
US satellite to reach the moon launched
≈1968 1st
decimal coins issued in Britain (5 & 10 new pence, replacing shilling and
two-shilling pieces)
1968 United
Methodist Church forms
1971 Columbia
University operations virtually end, by student strike
1984 AIDS-virus
identified as HTLV-III (acquired immune deficiency syndrome)
≈1991 USSR
grants republics right to secede under certain conditions
1992 McDonald's
opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
1993 Peter
Townshend's musical "Tommy" premieres in NYC
1995 President
Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City
<§>2000’s<§>
≈2009 Gamma
ray burst (GRB) 090423 is observed for 10 seconds, the most distant object of
any kind and also the oldest known object in the universe
2015 Loretta
Lynch is confirmed as the first African-American woman as US Attorney-General
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Nice
Saturday in our little mountain town. Great Earth Day with a science march this
afternoon downtown.
Already
tired of the warm packs on my eye and trying to put an ointment IN my eye. But
both seem to be working.
I
spent most of the morning reading for tonight’s discussion. It is amazing how
petroleum plays such a big role in world politics and world economy. One of my
favorite internet tools is an inflation calculator. You put in an amount and a
year and it tells you how much it would cost in any other year. For example,
gas in 1965 was around .39/gallon. In today’s money that would be $3.15. We all
need perspective.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
The
President honored an injured combat soldier at Walter Reed today on his first
visit. Great that he gave the Purple Heart to the soldier, but somehow I don’t
think ‘Congratulations’ is the correct term to use when pinning it on him. ‘Thank
You for Your Service’ seems much more appropriate.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
How
many months did Martha Stewart serve in a federal prison?
5 3 7 2
40.5%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
55→Percentage of Americans who turn first to
Amazon.com when online shopping
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
Why
didn't the man look for his lucky watch?
He didn't have the time!
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*--------
Don't Climb If You Can't Hang --------*
Firefighters in Kansas said they responded to a local tree to rescue a climbing
cat -- and the feline's unlucky owner. The Shawnee County Emergency
Communications Center said the Topeka Fire Department was dispatched when a
call came in about 9:59 p.m. about a woman who became stuck in a tree while
trying to rescue her cat. Firefighters arrived to find the woman and cat
stranded on a branch about 16 feet up in the tree. They were bought brought
down safely. Fire Department Shift Commander Todd Williams said firefighters
occasionally are called to perform similar rescues in the area. An Illinois
woman ended up in a similar situation in December when she attempted to rescue
her dog after the canine fell through the ice of a frozen pond behind their
home. The woman and her dog both ended up needing to be plucked out of the
water by Aurora firefighters.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Persians
first began using colored eggs to celebrate spring in 3,000 B.C. 13th century
Macedonians were the first Christians on record to use colored eggs in Easter
celebrations. Crusaders returning from the Middle East spread the custom of
coloring eggs, and Europeans began to use them to celebrate Easter and other
warm weather holidays.
The
origin of the Easter Bunny can be traced back to 13th-century, pre-Christian
Germany. The Teutonic deity Eostra was the goddess of spring and fertility, and
feasts were held in her honor on the Vernal Equinox. Her symbol was the rabbit
because of the animal's high reproduction rate.
These legends were brought to America in the 1700s, when German immigrants
settled in Pennsylvania Dutch country.
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‡‡How
our states were named‡‡
Wyoming
Derived
from the Delaware (Lenape) Indian word mecheweami-ing (“at/on
the big plains”), which the tribe used to refer their home region in
Pennsylvania (which was eventually named the Wyoming Valley [Wilkes-Barre
represent!]). Other names considered for the new territory were Cheyenne,
Shoshoni, Arapaho, Sioux, Platte, Big Horn, Yellowstone and Sweetwater,
but Wyoming was chosen because it was already in common use by
the territory’s settlers.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
<§>80’s<§>
@89- Max
Planck,
German
physicist (Planck Constant, Nobel 1918) father of Quantum
Physics
(d. 1947)
@85- Shirley
Temple,
American
actress, famous as a child star in the 1930s (Bright Eyes, Heidi)
and
diplomat, born in Santa Monica, (d. 2014)
<§>70’s<§>
78- Lee
Majors, [Harvey Lee Yeary],
Wyandotte
Mich, TV actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy)
@77- James
Buchanan,
15th
US president (1857-61), born in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania (d. 1868)
<§>60’s<§>
68- Joyce
DeWitt,
Wheeling
WV, actress (Janet Wood-Three's Company)
63- Michael
Moore,
American
filmmaker (Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Sicko),
born
in Flint, Michigan
@62- Sandra
Dee, [Zuck],
actress
(Gidget, Imitation of Life), born in Bayonne, New Jersey (d. 2005)
@61- Sergei
Prokofiev,
Russian
composer (Peter and the Wolf), born in Sontsovka, Ukraine
(d.
1953)
<§>50’s<§>
@57- Jan
Hooks,
Decatur
Georgia, comedienne actress (SNL, Designing Women)
57- Valerie
Bertinelli,
American
actress (Barbara Cooper Royer-1 Day at a Time, Hot in
Cleveland),
born in Wilmington, Delaware
56- George
Lopez,
American
actor and comedian
@52- William
Shakespeare,
Stratford
upon Avon, English Poet and playwright, traditionally regarded
as
his birthdate (d. 11616)
@52- Roy
Orbison,
rock
musician (Pretty Woman), born in Vernon, Texas (d. 1988)
@52- Jim
Fixx,
jogger/writer
(Jim Fixx on Running) (d. 1984)
@50- Herve
Villechaize,
France,
"Da Plane! Da Plane!" (Fantasy Island) (d. 1993)
<§>40’s<§>
@48- Stephen
Arnold Douglas,
(Little
giant), US senator (Lincoln debates) (d. 1861)
40- John
Cena, American professional wrestler
40- Kal
Penn,
American
actor (Dr. Lawrence Kutner-House, The Namesake) and civil
servant,
born in Montclair, New Jersey
40- John
Oliver,
English
comedian (The Daily Show, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver),
born
in Birmingham, West Midlands
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
<§>90’s<§>
@96-1996 Pamela
Lyndon Travers,
writer
(Mary Poppins), dies at 96
<§>80’s<§>
@85-1951 Charles
G. Dawes,
Vice
President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
@80-1986 Otto
Preminger,
director
(Advise & Consent, Anatomy of Murder)
@80-1850 William
Wordsworth,
English
Romantic poet (The Prelude)
<§>70’s<§>
@77-1995 Howard
Cosell,
sportscaster
(Monday Night Football), blood clot
@76-2007 Boris
Yeltsin,
Russian
politician and 1st President of Russian Federation (1991-99),
congestive
heart failure
@76-1971 William
Tubman,
President
of Liberia (1944-71)
@70-1998 James
Earl Ray,
American
assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., dies while still under
detention
of complications related to kidney disease and liver failure
caused
by hepatitis C
<§>60’s<§>
@69-1616 Miguel
de Cervantes Saavedra,
Spanish
writer (Don Quixote), cirrhosis
@65-1907 Alfred
Packer,
American
Cannibal, senility
<§>50’s<§>
@52-1616 William
Shakespeare,
English
poet and playwright
<§>teens<§>
@19-2015 Sawyer
Sweeten,
American
actor (Everyone Loves Raymond), suicide
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
5
Convicted
of conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements during a federal
investigation of possible insider trading, Martha Stewart was sentenced to five
months in prison, an additional five months under house arrest and 19 months’
probation. She also received a fine and court fees, adding up to $30,000. How
did Martha pass her hard time? By making jam from a crabapple tree on the
prison grounds and crafting a ceramic nativity scene. Source: The New York
Times
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And
That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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