Mar 26


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1668 - England takes control of Bombay India
1790 - Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1812 - Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas Venezuela; about 20,000 die
1830 - The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York
1878 - Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens
1916 - Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
1973 - A Native American mass held in New York City at Saint John the Divine Cathedral. Almost 4,000 people attend.
1982 - Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Happy Birthday To:                      
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
A little cloudy, a little windy, but a good Sunday overall. Ready to have my taxes done this week. Such a pain to gather all the stuff. And Mad Men returns to TV…DVR is set.
I took a nice neighbor walk, with a light jacket. I am really getting ready for spring to begin. I was able to open my office window today, so now the office is all fresh and nice.
I read an interesting article today about how the military compensates civilians in Afghanistan for death and injuries caused by American troops. Under most circumstances they give the family $2000 for a death and $1000 for a serious injury. In the case of the slaughter recently, those families got $50,000 for a death in their family. While I realize that is a fortune for the average Afghanistan citizen,  it still seems like a pittance for an avoidable death.  
Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)
Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every answer is the name of a famous person whose first and last names start with the same letter and end in the same letter. For example, given "the poet who wrote poems about imaginary gardens with real toads in them" and the letters M and E, the answer would be "Marianne Moore." ("Marianne" and "Moore" both start with M and end in E.)
1.      P; o; a Spanish cubist:
2.      R; n; White House boy of the 1980’s:
3.      S; n; actress and political activist:
4.      A; n: actor who won Oscar for “Little Miss Sunshine’:
5.      H; y; Leona’s husband in hotel management:
6.      A; e; Fred’s sister and partner is dance:
7.      M; y: Michael J. Fox’s character in ‘Back to the Future’:
8.      B; n; Title character in Oscar Nominee ‘The Curious Case of’:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     
Planet Earth—

Found on You Tube         
Harper’s Index         
Female scientists who say they had fewer children than they wanted because of their careers: 45
Joke-of-the-day
60 above - Floridians wear coats, gloves, and wooly hats. Chicago people sunbathe.
50 above - New Yorkers try to turn on the heat.  Chicago people plant gardens
40 above - Italian cars won't start.  Chicago people drive with the windows down.
32 above - Distilled water freezes. Lake Michigan's water gets thicker.
20 above - Californians shiver uncontrollably. Chicago people have the last cookout before it gets cold.
15 above - New York landlords finally turn up the heat.  Chicago people throw on a sweatshirt.
0 degrees - Californians fly away to Mexico.  Chicago people lick the flagpole and throw on a light jacket over the  sweatshirt.
20 below - People in Miami cease to exist.  Chicago people get out their winter coats.
40 below - Hollywood disintegrates. Chicago's Girl Scouts begin selling cookies door to door.
60 below - Polar bears begin to evacuate Antarctica.  Chicago's Boy Scouts postpone "Winter Survival" classes until it gets cold enough.
80 below - Mount St. Helen's freezes. Chicago people rent some videos.
100 below - Santa Claus abandons the North Pole.  Chicago people get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg.
297 below - Microbial life survives on dairy products. Illinois cows complain of farmers with cold hands.
460 below - ALL atomic motion stops. Chicago people start saying. . ."Cold 'nuff for ya??"
500 below - Hell freezes over.  The Chicago Cubs win the World Series.
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
Texture and sheen look bigger; smooth and dull look smaller. This is why most of us should never appear in public in tight pink satin jeans.
Somewhat Useless Information   
In 1903, Mary Harris Jones organized the famous "March of the Mill Children" to demand an end of child labor. Mother Jones (as she came to be called) and several dozen children, some of them crippled by machinery in the textile mills, marched from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home on Long Island. 
During the Russo-Japanese War, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt offered to serve as mediator. He summoned representatives of the warring countries to Portsmouth, New Hampshire in the summer of 1905 to discuss their differences, and the war came to a close shortly thereafter. A year later, in recognition of his role as a peacemaker, Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the first American to receive the prestigious award.
In 1928, Herbert Hoover ran for President of the United States with the campaign slogan "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage".
Calvin Coolidge refused to use the telephone while he was President. A man of few words, he once said, "If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."
Yeah, It Really Happened                 
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. - A Florida man serving a 60-day jail sentence for misuse of 911 called the emergency line because his wife would not leave him alone to check his Facebook.
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office said Doyle Hardwick, who began serving his sentence Tuesday, called 911 on Sept. 24 and told the dispatcher his wife refused to stop sitting next to him and go to bed, the Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla., reported Thursday. Hardwick, 57, told the operator his wife told him she would go to bed if he let her drink some beers, but she refused to leave the seat next to him upon finishing her beverages. He said he was upset his wife would not let him "look at Facebook peacefully," the 911 transcript states. Deputies said both Hardwick and his wife smelled of alcohol when they arrived at their home. Hardwick pleaded no contest to misuse of 911 in February and an arrest warrant was issued when he failed to show up to serve his sentence. He turned himself in Tuesday and began serving his 60 days.
Calendar Information        
…Happening This Week:
21-27
Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
25-31 
Consider Christianity Week:
Passiontide (3/25-4/7)
National Conference on Family Literacy
Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week
Root Canal Awareness Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
National Cleaning Week
Today Is                                                                      
Legal Assistants Day
Make Up Your Own Holiday Day
National Cherry Blossom Festival
Bangladesh: Independence Day: স্বাধীনতা দিবস Shwadhinata Dibôsh (1971 from Pakistan)

Today’s Other Events                                                             
1100’s
1147 - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
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1400’s
1484 - William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables
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1600’s
1682: Today, on the Mississippi River, la Salle first meets the Natchez. This will be the first recorded meeting of Europeans with the Natchez. Fellow explorer Henri de Tonti will be the first to meet them.
1700’s
1780 - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1800’s
1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of band aid
1872 - Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1885 - Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1886 - 1st cremation in England 1895 - King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
1900’s
1926 - The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1934 - Driving tests introduced in Britain
1945 - Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1951 - USAF flag approved
1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio[myelitis]
1955 - "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the #1 record in US
1958 - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," is best picture
1971 - "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
1977 - Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson
1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides in order to reach an alien space craft which they believed was following the Comet Hale-Bopp,.
1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
2000’s
2005 - The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
2006 - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.
2006 - The military junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital.

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 80’s
Leonard Nimoy, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible) is 81
Sandra Day O'Connor, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice is 82
In their 70’s
James Caan, actor (Misery, Godfather) is 73
Barry Newman, actor is 74
Nancy Pelosi, (Rep-D-California) is 72
In their 60’s
Johnny Crawford, actor (Mark-The Rifleman) is 66
Vicki Lawrence, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's Family) is 63
Diana Ross, [Earle], Detroit, (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany) is 68
Martin Short, comedian is 62
Steven Tyler, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun) is 64
Bob Woodward, American journalist(Watergate, CIA crimes) is 69
In their 50’s
Marcus Allen, NFL running back (LA Raiders, KC Chiefs, Heisman 1981) is 52
Leeza Gibbons, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza) is 55
In their 40’s
Kenny Chesney, American singer is 44
In their 30’s
Keira Knightley, actor is 27
Remembered for being born on this day
Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant) in 1773
Duncan Hines, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens) in 1880
Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1871
Betty MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I) in 1908
Teddy Pendergrass, singer (Turn Off the Lights) in 1950
George Smith, London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script)) in 1840
William Westmoreland, army general (Vietnam era) in 1914
Tennessee Williams, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) in 1911

Today’s Obits                                                           
Paul Baran, internet pioneer who helped create the technical underpinnings of Arpanet, dies at 84 in 2011
Sarah Bernhardt, [Henriette], actress (Qn Elizabeth), dies at 77 in 1923
Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies of liver damage of alcohol at 56 in 1827
Geraldine Ferraro, Congresswoman and VP nominee dies of cancer at 75 in 2011
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator dies at 76 in 2003
John Winthrop, Puritan & 1st Governor (Mass), dies at about 61 in 1649

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.      P; o; a Spanish cubist:
a.      Pablo Picasso
2.      R; n; White House boy of the 1980’s:
a.      Ron Reagan
3.      S; n; actress and political activist:
a.      Susan Sarandon
4.      A; n: actor who won Oscar for “Little Miss Sunshine’:
a.      Alan Arkin
5.      H; y; Leona’s husband in hotel management:
a.      Harry Helmsley
6.      A; e; Fred’s sister and partner is dance:
a.      Adele Astaire
7.      M; y: Michael J. Fox’s character in ‘Back to the Future’:
a.      Marty McFly
8.      B; n; Title character in Oscar Nominee ‘The Curious Case of’:
a.      Benjamin Button

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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