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On This Date
1803 – France and the U.S.
concluded negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, a massive land purchase that doubled the size of the American Republic.
1859 – Charles Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities was published. The 31 weekly installments ran in the periodical All the Year Round.
1960 – Lt. General H.D. Graham retired from the Canadian Armed Forces. He was the last officer with a World War I ribbon to leave the service.
1975 – The Vietnam War finally ended when the North Vietnamese troops entered the Independence Palace of South Vietnam in Saigon.
Vietnamese refer to the war as the American War.
Word Trivia
The names of all the continents end with the same letter that they
start with (not counting the words “North” and “South”).
Happy Birthday!
Cloris Leachman (1926-2021) was a beloved American actress and comedian who worked in entertainment since 1942. From the iconic TV shows The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Phyllis to dozens of films, such as Young Frankenstein, History of the World, Part I, The Beverly Hillbillies, The Croods, and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Leachman made her mark on Hollywood. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for 1971’s The Last Picture Show. Leachman starred in the 2008’s Dancing with the Stars and published Cloris: My Autobiography in 2009.
Quote of the Day
“If it’s funny, I’ll do anything.”
~ Cloris Leachman
FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 2021
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Think-tionary
thalweg
A. The middle of a waterway that is the border between states
or
B. The waterproof hides of sea mammals used as raincoats
When Was It?
It was during this year that Amelia Earhart was officially pronounced dead over a year after her mysterious disappearance.
John Steinbeck published The Grapes of Wrath.
Batman debuted in Detective Comics
#27. Lou Gehrig ended his streak of 2,130 baseball games played. The Wizard of Oz premiered in Hollywood, and Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II. When was it?
What’s the Difference?
What’s the difference between a mineral and a rock? Minerals are individual inorganic elements with crystalline structures. This basically means that they are not alive and occur naturally in the earth. Rocks are made up of many different minerals. If you think of a rock as a chocolate cookie, then think of the flour, sugar, butter, and chocolate chips as the minerals that make up the rock cookie. A crystal is a term for a mineral that has a crystalline structure. Patterns of atoms make crystals geometric and shiny.
Today is
Arbor Day. The first Arbor Day took place in Nebraska in 1872. More than one million trees were planted on that day! 250 million trees have been planted since then, a testament to the importance of trees for all living things.F
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