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Post by soutxed on Apr 16, 2021 8:07:39 GMT -5
Today would have been the 50th birthday of the Tejano singer Selena. Her life was cut short when she was killed by her business manager at a motel in Corpus Christi.
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Post by MidnightSun on Apr 16, 2021 14:23:23 GMT -5
On Mars, sunsets are blue. The sunsets we know are typically mellow yellow, fiery pink or red/orange. But if we were on Mars, we'd witness blue sunsets, as seen in a series of images snapped by NASA's Curiosity rover in 2015. As Mark Lemmon, a scientist who worked on the Curiosity Team, explained to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, "The colors come from the fact that the very fine dust is the right size so that blue light penetrates the atmosphere slightly more efficiently."
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Post by sandipaws on Apr 16, 2021 21:54:15 GMT -5
Who Knew??? Each year on April 17th, National Ellis Island Family History Day encourages families to explore their ancestry and discover family who immigrated through Ellis Island.
From 1892 to 1924, Ellis Island served as the busiest inspection station for millions of immigrants to the United States. On this day in 1907, officials recorded 11,747 names passing through Ellis Island. It was the busiest day of immigration in the station’s history. During all of 1907, officials processed over one million immigrants through Ellis Island.
During its operation, approximately 12 million immigrants passed through the halls of Ellis Island. It operated from 1892 to 1954. Before Ellis Island, immigrants entered the United States in New York City at Castle Garden. Just months before Ellis Island’s opening, the old depot was demolished and ushered in a new era of immigration. The Statue of Liberty overlooks Ellis Island and was one of the first sights the nearly 2,000 immigrants a day would see as they disembarked.
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Post by johnmori on Apr 17, 2021 4:39:29 GMT -5
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April 17, 1961
Bay of Pigs Invasion: A group of Cuban exiles financed and trained by the CIA lands at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba with the aim of ousting Fidel Castro.
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Post by soutxed on Apr 17, 2021 9:22:15 GMT -5
April 17, 1521 Martin Luther faces charges for his revolutionary religious writings. The German monk was a leading figure of the Protestant Reformation. As a result of the hearing before the Diet of Worms, he was excommunicated and declared an outlaw.
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Post by BillG on Apr 17, 2021 9:47:44 GMT -5
Who knew??? On April 17th, 1704 John Campbell published what would eventually become the first successful American newspaper, known as "The Boston News-Letter". The first issue of the weekly paper was dated "From Monday, April 17, to Monday, April 24, 1704."
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Post by sandipaws on Apr 17, 2021 20:43:16 GMT -5
Who Knew???
 National Lineman Appreciation Day on April 18th honors the men and women who work around the clock to keep the power going. If the power is on where you are reading this article, you likely have a lineman to thank.
From the power plant, the grid crisscrossing the country both above and underground and right up to the meters on our homes, these men and women build and maintain the system that keeps our nation running.
Regardless of the source, the electricity has to be transported by employing transformers and other equipment. Due to the dangerous conditions power poses, safety is of utmost importance for both the lineman and the consumer.
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Post by MidnightSun on Apr 17, 2021 21:51:12 GMT -5
Where the Wild Things Are was supposed to have been about horses — but the illustrator couldn't draw them. Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are is a beloved children's book from 1963 that was inspired by the author's own childhood. But it wasn't always about the so-called "wild things." The book was originally going to be about a young boy who finds himself in a land filled with wild horses. Although Sendak's editor loved the idea, there was one problem: Sendak, who was also the book's illustrator, couldn't draw horses. However, he was able to draw "wild things" — and so the entire premise of the book changed.
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Post by johnmori on Apr 18, 2021 5:16:06 GMT -5
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April 18, 1831
The University of Alabama is founded in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
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Post by soutxed on Apr 18, 2021 7:53:39 GMT -5
April 18, 1906 A massive earthquake destroys San Francisco. About 3000 people died in the disaster. Over 80 percent of the city was destroyed by the quake and resulting fires.
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Post by MidnightSun on Apr 19, 2021 0:10:37 GMT -5
There's a Russian village where every resident is a tightrope walker. Traversing a highwire may seem like a relatively uncommon ability. However, there's one Russian community where it's a perfectly normal thing to be able to do. In Tsovkra-1—a small, secluded village in the southern republic of Dagestan—everyone who's physically able can walk on a tightrope in a tradition that's existed for more than 100 years. It's even taught in school to the village children. Only 400 people still live in the region, at least 17 tightrope walkers from the area have found fame in circuses due to their impressive aerial abilities.
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Post by johnmori on Apr 19, 2021 5:56:25 GMT -5
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April 19, 2011
Fidel Castro resigns as First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba after holding the title since July 1961.
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Post by BillG on Apr 19, 2021 8:10:06 GMT -5
Who knew??? Each year on April 19th, National Garlic Day celebrates a vegetable also known as the stinking rose.
... Garlic is quite versatile, too. It is also used for medicinal purposes.
 
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Post by soutxed on Apr 19, 2021 8:41:01 GMT -5
April 19, 1995, a truck bomb destroyed the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people. (Bomber Timothy McVeigh, who prosecutors said had planned the attack as revenge for the Waco siege of two years earlier, was convicted of federal murder charges and executed in 2001.)
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Post by MidnightSun on Apr 19, 2021 21:35:52 GMT -5
Domino's Japan trained reindeer to deliver pizza. Back in 2016, Domino's Japan wanted reindeer to do a little more than just pull Santa's sleigh. They wanted the animals to deliver pizzas to hungry customers. The company released a video of employees tying pizzas to the animals' backs and said customers would be able to track their pies via GPS. The delivery program was stopped just one week after it launched.
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