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Week 17 Day 113 Flag Today 71°/37° Wind 4mph Gusts 5mph Active Fire: 98 miles away Risk of fire: High Nearest Lightning: 1117 miles away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine Apr. Averages: Temps: 60°\27° Moisture: 3 Days |
Weekly Observations
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18-24 Cleaning
For A Reason Week 20-25 International
Wildlife Film Week Link |
21-27 National
Crime Victims Rights Week Link 22-28 National
Infant Immunization Week (NIIW) Link |
Daily Observations
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Beagle
Day Link Link |
International
Mother Earth Day National
Baseball Day Link |
Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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"An unexamined life is not worth living." — Socrates |
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Today’s Thoughts
Another great spring day.
I was student teaching in Broomfield CO in 1970. To recognize that day, I
had my class collect trash in the community for 5 days. We had a lot of trash
at the end and I had to work with the city to have the trash removed. It was a
great learning experience, probably more for me than for my 6th
graders.
Did you Know?
Did you know…part 2
The
Distance Between London And Moscow Is Shorter Than Between Sydney And Perth
London and Moscow seem to
lie halfway across the world from each other. One is in the United Kingdom
and the other in Russia, although both cities are located on the European
continent. The distance between London and Moscow is 1,795.6 miles, or almost 2,890 km. A flight from London to Moscow takes approximately 3 hours and 50 minutes.
Sydney and Perth, on the other hand, are Australian cities
but much further apart. The distance between the two is 2,444.5 miles, or 3,934 km. The approximate flight time between the two
is a surprising 5 hours.
Historic Events
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1864 – The US Congress passed the Coinage Act of 1864
that mandates that the inscription In God We Trust be placed on all coins
minted as United States currency.
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1906 – The 1906 Intercalated Games, now recognized as
part of the official Olympic Games, opened in Athens.
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1970 – The first Earth Day was celebrated.
Birthdays with some quotes
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87 – Jack Nicholson, actor 78 – John Waters, American
director, producer, and screenwriter “Technique is nothing more than failed style.” 74 – Peter Frampton, English
singer-songwriter 73 – Paul Carrack, English
singer-songwriter 65 – Catherine Mary
Stewart, Canadian actress 65 – Ryan Stiles,
American-Canadian comedic actor 58 – Jeffrey Dean
Morgan, American actor “The only reason I went to college was to play
basketball. I injured my knee and couldn’t play.” 57 – Sherri Shepherd, American actress
and talk show panelist “Run towards that very thing that you fear, because
there’s amazing blessings on the other side.” 38 – Amber Heard, American actress 37 – Marshawn Lynch,
NFL Football |
@92 – Charlotte Rae, American
character actress (d. 2018) “You can take wonderfully talented actors,
wonderfully talented writers, and producers, and, uh, do a wonderful show!…
but if it doesn’t hit with the public in two minutes, it’s bye-bye.” @85 – Bettie Page, American model
and actress (d. 2008) @81 – Glen Campbell, American
singer-songwriter (d. 2017) @63 – Steve Fossett, American
businessman, pilot, and sailor (d. 2007; plane crash) “I pick projects according to how fascinating they
are to me, and it has resulted in a broad reach. My records are actually in
five different sports: balloons, airplanes, airships, gliders, and
sailboats.”@62 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American
physicist and academic (d. 1967; cancer) @56 – Charles Mingus, American
bassist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1979; motor neuron disease) “Creativity is more than just being different.
Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach.
Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” @53 – Vladimir Lenin, Russian
revolutionary and founder of Soviet Russia (d. 1924; strokes) @47 – Henry Fielding, English novelist
and playwright (d. 1754; cirrhosis) |
…The End for today…
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