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April 3, 2017 Week: 13 \ Day: 93
86004 Today: H 59° \
L 26° Average Sky Cover: 30%
Wind ave: 14mph\Gusts: 26mph Visibility: 10 mi
April Averages: 58°\27°
April Records: H: 80° (1992)
L: -2 (1975)
Record High: 71°[1961] Record Low: 8°[1980]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Antoine
de Saint-Exupery
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together
in the same direction.
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
American
Crossword Puzzle Days
Fan Dance Day
Find A Rainbow Day Link (Some also call it "Share A Rainbow Day.")
Pony Express Day
Tater Day ( It's Sweet Potatoes) Link
Weed Out Hate: Sow The Seeds of Greatness Day
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
1-7
APAWS
Pooper Scooper Week
Golden Rule Week
Laugh at Work Week
Medication Safety Week
Testicular Cancer Awareness Week (aka Get A Grip Day!) Link
2-8
American
Indian Awareness Week Link
Bat
Appreciation Week
Consider
Christianity Week
National
Blue Ribbon Week Link (Child
Abuse)
National
Crime Victims Rights Week Link
National
Public Health Week
National
Window Safety Week
Oral,
Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week Link
Week
of The Ocean
3-10
Explore
Your Career Options
Hate Week
(The) Masters Tournament
National Youth Violence Prevention Week Link (Formerly in March)
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link
Undergraduate
Research Week
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
≈ Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
1776 George
Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1790 Revenue
Marine Service (US Coast Guard) created
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1860 Pony
Express began between St Joseph Mo & Sacramento Calif
1865 Union
forces occupy Confederate capital of Richmond & Petersberg, Virginia
1868 A
Hawaiian surfs on highest wave ever - a 50-foot tidal wave
1882 American
outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford at home in St Joseph
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1910 Highest
mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley claimed to have been 1st
climbed by 4 local men
≈1922 Joseph
Stalin appointed General Secretary of the Russian Communist Party by Vladimir
Lenin
1926 2nd
flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
≈1933 1st
airplane flight over Mt Everest
≈1949 North
Atlantic Treaty signed by US, Britain, France & Canada
1955 The
American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's
book Howl against obscenity charges.
≈1967 113
East Europeans attending World Amateur hockey championships in Vienna, ask for
political asylum
≈1968 N
Vietnam agrees to meet US reps to set up preliminary peace talks
1979 Jane
M Byrne (D), elected 1st woman mayor of Chicago, Illinois
≈1988 Somalia
& Ethiopia sign accord about Ogaden desert
≈1997 Thalit
massacre begins in Algeria; all but 1 of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are
killed by guerrillas.
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≈2009 Australia
formally adopts the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous
Peoples.
≈2016 Panama
Papers published - 11.5 million confidential documents from offshore law firm
Mossack Fonseca expose widespread illegal activities including fraud,
kleptocracy, tax evasion and the violation of international sanctions by the
world's elite in the world's largest ever data leak
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Typical
spring day with a wind that keeps most of us inside. Spent the morning watching my Sunday morning
news shows and digging through the pile to get my tax stuff ready for the tax
preparer. I always have one investment that never arrives before Mar 30, and it
finally came on the 29th. So now I have no excuse to procrastinate. On
the Sunday morning news I heard from both Republicans and Democrats that they
need to work together on a new healthcare bill. Really?
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
Nepotism
used to be a big deal in government work. Because I worked in isolated areas
that was always in need of teachers, I worked were several of my Principal’s
wives or husbands or siblings worked at the school too. DC had to give special
dispensation for those ‘spousal hires’ and it was always clear that the one
could not supervise the other. Guess the president believes that he does not
have to follow those rules. When JFK named RFK as the Attorney General, many
saw it as the nepotism it was. The current president just doesn’t pay his daughter
to be in a White House position to get around the nepotism. Hmmm
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
How
many executive positions are in a U.S. President's Cabinet, not counting the
Vice President?
14
15
16
17
36.4%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
2,1→Respective ranks of Clinton and Trump among
the least liked presidential candidates since polling began
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
My
wife and I were having a very hypothetical discussion... In the unlikely event
that Hollywood made a movie based on our lives, we wondered what stars would
play us.
"Who
would you pick to portray you?" she asked me.
I
thought about it for a minute, then answered, "George Clooney."
"In
that case," she said, "I’ll play myself."
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
The
Beer Belly Defense (only available in Canada)
A doctor in Canada, who was accused of sexually assaulting his female patients
by pressing his private parts against their legs, told a committee that he
could not physically do that due to his large belly. A 5-member panel of the
College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario's discipline committee, heard
that Dr. Rodion Andrew Kunynetz, who is a dermatologist, sexually assaulted
female patients on multiple occasions. After reviewing all the evidence in the
cases, the committee found the doctor guilty of sexually abusing one patient by
touching her chest under her bra without clinical justification for doing so.
Kunynetz denied all the allegations, claiming that it was physically impossible
for him to press his manhood against his patients' legs because the size of his
belly. However, the committee ruled that Kunynetz failed to prove this. He is
facing 11 criminal counts of sexual assault and one count of gross indecency. A
total of 11 women filed complaints with the police against the doctor.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Triceratops
had the biggest skull with a solid shield than any other dinosaur. It was up to
6 1/2 feet long, with a bony shield over its neck.
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Sauropods were the tallest animals that ever lived. Some were more than twice
the height of a giraffe.
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Many scientists believe that a massive meteorite hit the Yucatan Peninsula of
Mexico 65.5 million years ago and caused the extinction of the dinosaurs as
well as the pterosaurs and plesiosaurs. The 112-mile-wide crater was caused by
a rock 6 miles in diameter. It would have hit Earth's crust with immense force,
sending shockwaves around the world. No land animal heavier than a large dog
survived. However, animals such as sharks, jellyfish, fish, scorpions, birds,
insects, snakes, turtles, lizards, and crocodiles survived.
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‡‡How
our states were named‡‡
Nevada
The
state's name is the Spanish word for "snowfall" and
refers to the Sierra Nevada ("snow-covered mountains") mountain
range. The non-Nevadan pronunciation of the name "neh-vah-dah"
(long A sounds like the a in father) differs
from the local pronunciation "nuh-vae-duh" (short
A sounds like the a in alligator) and is said
to annoy Nevadans endlessly.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
@94- Iron
Eyes Cody,
Sicilian-American actor (Black Gold, Ernest
Goes to Camp), born in Tulsa, Ok (D 1999)
NOT NATIVE AMERICAN
95- Doris
Day,
"girl next door" actress (Pillow
Talk), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
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@87- Edward
Everett Hale,
US, clergyman/author (Man without a
Country) (D 1909)
@83- George
Jessel,
toastmaster general/entertainer (Diary of
Young Comic) (d 1981)
83- Jane
Goodall,
ethologist (studied African chimps), born
in London, England
@80- Marlon
Brando,
actor (On the
Waterfront, The Godfather), born in Omaha, (D 2004)
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@75- Washington
Irving,
American writer (Legend of Sleepy Hollow), born in NYC, (D 1859)
75- Marsha
Mason,
actress (Blume in Love, Cinderella
Liberty), born in St Louis, Missouri
75- Wayne
Newton,
American singer
@73- Billy
Joe Royal,
country and pop singer (Down in the Boondocks),
born in Valdosta, Georgia (d. 2015)
73- Tony
Orlando,
American singer (& Dawn-Tie a Yellow
Ribbon), born in NYC, New York
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@69- Bud
Fisher,
American cartoonist “Mutt and Jeff” (d.
1954)
@62- Jan
Berry,
American rock and roll vocalist (Jan and
Dean-Dead Man's Curve), born in LA, (D 2004)
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59- Alec
Baldwin,
actor (Joshua-Knots Landing, Beetlejuice),
born in Amityville, NY
58- David
Hyde Pierce,
NY, actor (Niles Crane-Fraiser)
56- Eddie
Murphy,
American actor (SNL, 48 Hours, Beverly
Hills Cop), born in Brooklyn
@55- William
Magear Tweed "Boss Tweed",
American politician and corrupt fraudster, born in NYC (d. 1878)
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48- Mellody
Hobson,
American businesswoman (Chairman of
Dreamworks Animation), born in Chicago
@40- Virgil
Grissom,
Mitchell Ind, Lt Col USAF/astronaut (Merc
4, Gemini 3) (D 1967)
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31- Amanda
Bynes,
American actress
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18- Paris
Jackson,
model, Michael Jackson’s daughter
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
@102-2016 Joseph
Medicine Crow,
Crow Nation chief and historian
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@86-1991 Graham
Greene,
British writer (3rd Man, Our man in Havana)
@85-1993 Pinky
Lee,
kiddie host (Pinky Lee Show)
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@78-1994 Betty
Furness,
actress/news consumer reporter (WNBC), stomach
cancer
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@66-1990 Sarah
Vaughn,
jazz singer, lung cancer
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@58-1946 Masaharu
Homma,
Lt Gen (responsible for Bataan Death
March), executed
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@36-1936 Bruno
Hauptmann,
convicted Lindbergh baby killer, executed
@35ish-33 Christ,
crucified (according to astronomer
Humphreys & Waddington)
@34-1882 Jesse
James,
American
outlaw, shot dead by Robert Ford
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
15
You
think finding people to join your garage band is hard? Try staffing the White
House! The U.S. Cabinet consists of 15 different department heads, including
the Secretaries of Education, Energy, Homeland Security, State, Transportation
and the Treasury. While the idea of the cabinet dates back to the Constitution,
some of these positions, like Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development, are relatively recent, appearing in the mid-20th century.
Source: Mental Floss, The White House
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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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