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Today 67°/43° Wind 14 mph Gusts - mph
Active
Fire: 137 miles away Risk of fire: Extreme Nearest Lightning: 910 miles away
Air
Quality: Moderate Sunshine Breezy
April
Averages: Temps: 60°\35°
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Weekly Observations
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17-26 National
Park Week Link 19-25 National
Library Week Link Mule
Days 21-5/2 Sky
Awareness Week Festival of Ridvan American
Quilters Society Week Link National
Scoop The Poop Week Gathering
of the Nations Powwow Link Fiddler's
Frolic Link
National Dream
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Daily Observations
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Bob Wills
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Today’s Quotes
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Today’s Memes
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Today’s Thoughts
Finally, a day that is just breezy and
not windy.
Yesterday I got a nice call from Duane
Hunter, a long-time focus travel fellow traveler. He and his late wife did many
trips that I was on. His wife always printed a nice book with pictures about
the trip. He had read my blog and had advice about my bruising issue. It was
great to talk; and he is living the good life. He moved to a retirement community, close to
where they had lived for years. His children and grandchildren are doing great.
I filled up with gas yesterday. It was
$4.53 at Sam’s…the lowest price in town.
Almost 1100 Afghans who helped our soldiers
during the war and then came to the US after the war. Now the administration is
deporting them to Congo in Africa. This should be unacceptable unless they committed
some big crime.
Tomorrow I am leading a discussion on US
Engagement with Africa at our discussion group. It should be a good
discussion.
How well do you know the U.S. states?
Hawaii grows coffee commercially
Coffee production in the United States is rare, but Hawaii, sitting in the
Pacific Ocean about 2,000 miles southwest of the U.S. mainland, is one of the
few places where it happens on a large scale. The state’s volcanic soil and
tropical climate make perfect conditions for growing coffee, especially the
famous Kona coffee grown on the slopes of volcanoes on the Big Island.
Kansas is flatter than a pancake, sort of
Kansas has long been joked about as being
extremely flat.
But, in
2003, researchers from the geography departments of Texas State University and
Arizona State University took the matter to the lab and worked to
mathematically determine if Kansas is actually flatter than a standard pancake
purchased from IHOP.
The researchers concluded that, mathematically speaking, Kansas is actually flatter than a pancake when measured over large distances. The study became famous for both its humor and its unusual approach.
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Random historical facts you didn’t
know
The Boston Marathon didn't have female
runners until 1967
As women
were not allowed to run the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer signed up in 1967
using only her initials. When she showed up, race officials were enraged as she
wasn't a man, and several attempted to stop her from running. Nevertheless, she
powered through and finished the race.
A group of female Soviet pilots called
the Night Witches terrorized Nazis during World War II
Pilot
Marina Raskova convinced Joseph Stalin to let her form an all-female flying
unit, which became known as the Night Witches. And even with their outdated
equipment and planes, they still managed to fly over the Germans without being
detected, launching surprise attacks.
Historic Events
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Birthdays Today
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╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫╫ American actor (And Justice
For All, The Godfather, Scorpio), born in New York City
Swedish pop songwriter, producer,
guitarist and singer (ABBA), born in
Gothenburg, Sweden
Talia Shire [Coppola] (80 years old), American actress
(Adrienne-Rocky), born in Lake Success, New York
Christa Johnson (68 years old) American golfer (Women's PGA
C'ship 1997), born in Arcata, California
American actor (The Birdcage)
and voice behind many characters in The Simpsons (Moe,
Apu, Chief Wiggum, Comic Book Guy, Carl Carlson), born in New York City
Renée Zellweger (57 years old) American actress (Bridget
Jones), born in Katy, Texas
American NBA forward
(San Antonio Spurs), born in Christiansted, U.S. Virgin Islands
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Gone but not forgotten Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658; @59, sepsis) English general
and puritan Lord Protector of England (1653-58), born in Huntingdon,
Huntingdonshire, England
Charles Dowd (1825- 1904; @79, RR accident), American principal
who was the 1st to propose standardized time zones (for America's railways),
born in Madison, Connecticut
John Long Routt (1826-1907; @81), American
politician, 1st and 7th Governor of Colorado (1876-79, 1891-93), supported
women's suffrage, born in Eddyville, Kentucky
Guglielmo Marconi (1874-1937; @63, heart attacks) Italian inventor and
electrical engineer who pioneered work on long distance radio transmission
(Nobel 1909), born in Bologna, Kingdom of Italy
Arthur Chevrolet, (1884-1946; @61, suicide) Swiss auto racer
and car designer (co-founder Chevrolet Motor Car Company), born in La
Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Edward R. Murrow (1908-1965; @57, lung cancer) American
broadcast journalist,
war correspondent, and television host ("See it Now"; "Person
to Person"), born in Guilford County, North Carolina
Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996; @79, stroke) American jazz,
swing, pop, and blues singer, known as "The First Lady of Song"
(Verve "Songbook" series), born in Newport News, Virginia
"Meadowlark" Lemon (Meadow George Lemon III), (d.2015; @83) American
basketball star (Harlem Globetrotters, 1955-80, 1990, and 3 other teams), and
clergyman, born in Wilmington, North Carolina
Len Goodman, (1944-2023; @78, cancer) British ballroom
dancing champion and television personality (Strictly Come Dancing, 2004-16;
Dancing with the Stars, 2005-22), born in London, England
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