There are:
2 days until Earth
Day;
8 days until Arbor
Day;
15 days until Cinco
de Mayo;
24 days until Mother's
Day;
36 days until the
start of Ramadan;
39 days until Memorial
Day;
45 days until Pentecost;
55
days until Flag
Day;
62 days until the
Summer Solstice;
66 days until the
end of Ramadan;
66 days until Father's
Day;
75 days until Independence
Day (July 4);
137 days until Labor
Day;
565 days until the
2018 mid-term elections; and
1,371 days until the end of Donald
Trump's term as President, assuming he doesn't resign or is otherwise
removed from office.
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On this day in 1999, two senior students at Columbine High School in Colorado, Eric David Harris and Dylan Bennet Klebold, killed 13 and injured 24 others in the Columbine High School massacre. The two then committed suicide in the library, where they had killed ten of their victims.
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Among other things, today is also Lima Bean Respect Day.
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The New York Times' On This Day for today.
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Florida man bites dog. "I'm obviously not happy about it," said Jessica Wenner, the suspect's girlfriend and dog's owner.
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Some persons born on April 20 who said interesting things:
- Pietro Aretino (1492-1556), satirist, created modern literate pornography;
- Peter S. Beagle (1939), American novelist and screenwriter (The Last Unicorn);
- Dinah Craik (1826-1887), English novelist and poet;
- Maurice Duplessis (1890-1959), Canadian lawyer and politician;
- Sebastian Faulks (1953), British novelist, journalist and broadcaster;
- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), Austrian-German soldier and politician, Chancellor of Germany;
- Jessica Lange (1949), American actress;
- Robert Wilson Lynd (1879-1979), Irish writer;
- Joan Miró (1893-1983), Spanish painter and sculptor;
- José Norosky (1930), Argentine notary public abd writer;
- Philippe Pinel (1745-1826), French physician, founder of modern psychiatry;
- Odilon Redon (1940-1916), French artist;
- George Takei (1937), American actor, director, author, and activist of Japanese descent; and
- Andrew Tobias (1947), American writer
(The KGB Quotations Database currently contains 52,042 entries.)
Quote of the day:
"If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them."
-Pietro
Aretino
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Lost city found: Etzanoa of the great Wichita Nation. Really. But the jokes came, anyway: "An archaeologist is claiming he's discovered an amazing lost city in Kansas. He didn't realize he'd just got drunk and watched the Wizard of Oz."-Conan O'Brien
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Trillions of plastic bits, swept up by current, are littering Arctic waters.Every year, about eight million tons of plastic gets into the ocean, and scientists estimate that there may be as much as 110 million tons of plastic trash in the ocean. Though the environmental effects of plastic pollution are not fully understood, plastic pollution has made its way into the food chain. Plastic debris in the ocean was thought to accumulate in big patches, mostly in subtropical gyres- big currents that converge in the middle of the ocean- but scientists estimate that only about one percent of plastic pollution is in these gyres and other surface waters in the open ocean.
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Just ten companies control just about everything you eat or drink.
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Prejudice AI? Machine learning can pick up society’s biases. Swell. Skynet with Archie Bunker's attitude...
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Have a good weekend. See you Monday.
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