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Today 46°/28° Wind 17 mph Gusts 22 mph
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Fire: 377 miles away Risk of fire: Very Low Nearest Lightning: 307 miles away
Air
Quality: Fair Sunshine Partly Cloudy Windy
April
Averages: Temps: 60°\35°
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Weekly Observations
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11-17 Black
Maternal Health Week Animal
Control Officer Appreciation Week Link National
Student Employment Week Link International
Dark Sky Week Link 14-15 World Water
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Daily Observations
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Children
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Today’s Quotes
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Today’s Memes
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Today’s Thoughts
There is moisture on the horizon for
our mountain town. I’m hoping for rain, but it may even have some snow.
I needed another blood draw this morning.
All went well. There was a traffic problem. Our little town has several roundabouts
in heavy traffic areas. One of them is on the way to the lab. This morning
around 8:45 I was the 6th vehicle in my lane. It took way too long
to get through the roundabout as traffic was heavy. Twenty minutes later, on my
way home, I drove through the roundabout with no stopping needed. On the same street
there are 3 different 4-way stops. I’ll take roundabouts over 3- or 4-way stops
every day.
If I go to the west side of town, I always
take the freeway. On that freeway there are always lot of 18-wheelers hauling
good through our town. Last night on 60 Minutes there was a piece on ‘chameleon
truckers’. Very interesting and a little frightening. There are long-haul
trucking companies that have these chameleon trucks on our highways. All
long-haul trucks have a DOT number on them. This number is used to track the
trucks for hours on the road, weights, accidents, and other things about that
particular truck. Some bad companies will simply change the logo and the DOT
number on a truck that has too many violations. It costs about $1000 to
register a truck with DOT. With the new DOT number, it appears that the truck
has no violations. It can have the same driver, with the same bad driving
record, just stay on the highway. For everyone’s highway safety, DOT needs to
fix this ASAP.
Strange Historical Facts
A 75-Year War Ended
Without a Single Casualty
The
Three Hundred and Thirty Five Years’ War was fought between the Netherlands and
the Isles of Scilly, a small archipelago off the coast of England. It began in
1651 and was never officially ended — until a historian brought it to
everyone’s attention in 1985, at which point the Dutch ambassador traveled to
Scilly and signed a peace treaty.
Not
one person died during those 335 years of “conflict.”
Marie Curie's
Notebooks Are Still Radioactive
Curie
died in 1934 from aplastic anemia caused by radiation exposure. Her personal
notebooks — along with her cookbook — are so contaminated that they’re stored
in lead-lined boxes in France.
Researchers
who want to study them must sign a waiver and wear protective gear. The
notebooks will remain radioactive for another 1,500 years or so.
Her dedication to science was, in the most literal sense, written in her own health.
Rebus returns
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Historic Events
Rebus Answers
Feeling under the weather slap
on the wrist
Birthdays Today
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Frank Serpico [90
years old], American policeman who blew whistle on NYPD corruption, born in
Brooklyn, New York City ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ British BAFTA and
Academy Award-winning actress (Darling;
Doctor Zhivago; Away From Her), born in Chukua, Assam, India ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ Ritchie Blackmore (81
years old) English guitarist (Rainbow
- "Stone Cold"; Deep Purple - "Smoke On The Water"), born
in Weston-super-Mare, England ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ Francis Collins [76
years old], American scientist who led the Human Genome Project, born in
Staunton, Virginia ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ American actor and comedian
(Everybody Loves Raymond), born in Los Angeles, California ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ British actor (Trainspotting,
The Full Monty), born in Glasgow, Scotland ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ American Baseball Hall of
Fame pitcher (4 x NL Cy Young Award; World Series 1995; 8 x MLB All
Star; 18 x Gold Glove; Atlanta Braves), born in San Angelo, Texas ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ Anthony Michael
Hall [58 years old], American actor (SNL, Breakfast Club), born in Boston,
Massachusetts ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ American actor (The Pianist,
The Grand Budapest Hotel), born in New York City ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ Sarah Michelle
Gellar (49 years old) American actress (All My
Children, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), born in New York City ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ |
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Gone but not forgotten Christiaan Huygens
(1629-1695; 66
years old) Dutch mathematician, astronomer (discovered
Saturn's rings) scientist (dynamics),
born in The Hague, Netherlands ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ Anne Sullivan [Johanna Macy],
American teacher who educated Helen Keller, born in Feeding Hills,
Massachusetts (d. 1936; @70, stroke) ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ Arnold J. Toynbee (1889-1975; @86) English historian (A
Study of History), born in London ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ British stage and screen actor and director
(Arthur, Hamlet, Ages of Man), born in London ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ Rod Steiger (1925-2002; @77, pneumonia, kidney failure) American actor (In the Heat of
the Night; The Pawnbroker; The Illustrated Man), born in Westhampton, New
York ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ American country singer-songwriter ("Coal
Miner's Daughter"; "Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man"), born
in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ Lilly Ledbetter (née McDaniel)
Ledbetter, American fair labor and pay equality activist, born in Possum
Trot, Alabama (d. 2024; @86) ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ American baseball
infielder (17 × MLB All-Star;
NL MVP 1973; World Series MVP 1975, 76 Cincinnati Reds, 1980 Philadelphia
Phillies) and manager (Cincinnati Reds 1984-89; banned for gambling), born in
Cincinnati, Ohio ╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ |
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