Archive for April, 2016

BORN IN ITALY ON THIS DAY IN 1452


Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, (more commonly Leonardo da Vinci)
(April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519)   

Leonardo da Vinci was a renaissance artist, inventor, polymath, musician, and
architect who painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper and drew the iconic
Vitruvian Man. He is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. He
also devised such futuristic technology as tanks, concentrated solar power, and
adding machines, and spearheaded some vital breakthroughs in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

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The Last Supper


Mona Lisa

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ROY CLARK IS 83 TODAY


Roy Linwood Clark was born in Meherrin, Virginia.

Country musician Roy Clark hosted Hee Haw for 20 years on CBS/syndication. He 
frequently guest-hosted for Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show during the 1970s. 

Clark is highly regarded and renowned as a guitarist and banjo player, and is also
skilled in classical guitar along with several other instruments. He is a member of
the Grand Ole Opry, since 1987 and The Country Music Hall of Fame.


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PAST NEWS HEADLINES

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First known photograph of Lincoln.


Lincoln’s last formal photograph, taken February 5, 1865.


                 Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)

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TV APPEARANCE ON THIS DAY IN 1965

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Millicent Dolly May "Millie" Small turned 69 on October 6.

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OREGON ZOO ELEPHANT IS 54 TODAY!

Packy was born April 14, 1962. He’s an Asian elephant at the Oregon Zoo, Portland Zoological Gardens at the time, in Portland, Oregon. Packy is famous for having
been the first elephant born in the Western Hemisphere in 44 years. Currently, he
is the oldest male Asian elephant in North America.


The new elephant habitat at the Oregon Zoo.

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