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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 2021 On This Date 753 BC – Rome was founded by Quote of the Day Romulus and Remus. “I would always rather be 1878 – At Engine Company 21 in happy than dignified.” Chicago, fireman George Reid slid down the binding pole from the hayloft ~ from Jane Eyre to answer an alarm. His actions inspired poles in fire stations everywhere. 1986 – The Chernobyl nuclear plant Happy Birthday! in Pripyat, Ukraine, exploded in the Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855) was world’s worst civil nuclear catastrophe. one of the most famous female 1956 – ’s first hit novelists of the Victorian era. Early record, Heartbreak in her career, she devoted herself Hotel, reached No. to poetry. After completing school 1 on the charts. A and becoming a newspaper article teacher, Charlotte about the suicide of turned to fiction, in a lonely man who large part because it jumped from a hotel had become a more window inspired the lyrics, which marketable genre. In were written by and 1847, she finished . Jane Eyre, her most popular novel, which was originally published 1989 – The student-led Tiananmen under the pen name Currer Bell. Square protest in China began. Her other works include Shirley and Daily Trivia Villette. She married parish priest Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1854 but died Reno, Nevada, is farther west than the next year due to complications Los Angeles, California. with a pregnancy.

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Today is Kindergarten Day, honoring the birthday of Friedrich Frobel, inventor of the first kindergarten in Germany in 1837. Frobel realized that

children have unique learning needs that require a unique form of pedagogy.

Eye in the Sky Root of the Matter

In 2008, a massive nine-ton meteorite Chasing rainbows exploded over the desert of Sudan. Those who are criticized for chasing Scientists named it Almahata Sitta rainbows are dismissed as pursuing for a nearby bus depot. goals that are unrealistic, fanciful, or Meteor fragments that unlikely to happen. The expression were recovered awed most likely comes from the Irish myth astronomers because that pots of gold are hidden by they were studded with leprechauns at the end of rainbows. In tiny diamonds. Scientists were this old tale, a couple digs up a carrot equally awed when new analysis of to find a leprechaun dangling from its the meteor showed that the space end. In exchange for his release, the rocks were part of a much larger clever leprechaun tells the couple they asteroid, one as large as a small can find a pot of gold at the end of a planet. The meteorite was made up of rainbow. The couple ends up chasing unusual minerals that could only rainbows, without finding any exist on much larger asteroids out in treasure, for the rest of their days. our solar system. Where that asteroid is hiding is anyone’s guess. Word Scramble

L E I C T L A V A Punny Business

To waver between different My therapist told me to buy a

opinions, be indecisive

VACILLATE book on phobias, but I was ANSWER:

afraid it wouldn’t help me.

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