Mar 4


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1837 - Chicago becomes incorporated as a city
1861 - Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag
1924 - "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1944 - 1st US bombing of Berlin
1985 - Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA
Happy Birthday To:                      
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
A good Saturday…good day for a walk. Gotta love Flag. Amazing, NFL team members playing a lottery to see who can hurt the opposing team members. Really?!? One team, two teams, the list is growing. The coach who started this lottery has apologized for the mistake, acknowledging that they knew it was wrong when they did it. And, while he has moved to another team, he still has his job. Really?!? Hey, Rush…too little too late. Too bad he doesn’t understand how birth control works. He apologized the grad student, but still believes the use of birth control is to allow recreational sex. Time for him to stop being a shock jock, and getting his life together, away from the public view.
Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)
Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle
This week's puzzle involves the letters P-S-U as in Portland State University, where Will spoke on Saturday. Each answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word starts with "P" and the second word starts with "SU." So if the clue is "What a lawyer conducts to see if an invention has been made before," the answer would be "patent survey."
1.      Luxury accommodations at the top of a building:
2.      NBA team in AZ:
3.      Medical procedure to improve one’s appearance:
4.      Buddy Holly hit with lyrics ‘I love you, yes I do’:
5.      Women’s business attire that is not a dress:
6.      A wood court for basketball or a grass field for football:
7.      Shrub that can give you a rash:
8.      Former football star who was spokesman for True Value:
9.      Chemical compound K2SO4:
10.   Community event where everyone brings a dish for everyone to share:
11.   One week before Easter:
12.   Like a weather forecast with some clouds:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     
Planet Earth—Ireland

Found on You Tube         
Orion nebula M42 live through telescope
Harper’s Index         
Percentage of Americans who disapprove of a deficit-reduction with no tax increases: 60
Joke-of-the-day
Two man playing golf were held up by two women playing in front of them.
One man said: "I'll walk up to them and tell them to hurry up."
When he returned he said: "I have a problem, one of the women is my wife and the other one is my mistress."
The second man said: "I'll walk up to them and hurry them up."
He came back and said: " We both have the same problem.”
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
If a taxi driver talks a lot, let him; if he doesn't talk, don't ask him to; and if he laughs all the time, never ask him why.
Somewhat Useless Information    
Poet and novelist Jack Kerouac coined the term "Beat" in the late 1940s, but was not until the 1950s that it would become a slang term symbolizing a literary movement by writers such as Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. The "Beat" movement rejected the social constraints of the 1950s and reflected a growing disillusionment with the "establishment" and traditional American values.
Ben Jonson was named the first poet laureate of England in 1616. The title, however, did not become an official royal office until 1668, when John Dryden assumed the honored post.
T.S. Eliot wrote "The Waste Land", arguably his most famous poem, which documents the journey of the human soul in its search for redemption.
Yeah, It Really Happened                 
CHANGSHA, China - Doctors in China said they are trying to figure out how they will remove a thermometer that has been inside a woman's lung for 44 years. The Hunan province doctors said they found the 2-inch-long medical thermometer in the lungs of a patient identified only as Liu and she told them she accidentally swallowed the object when she was 12-years-old and her family couldn't afford medical care, MSNBC.com reported Thursday. Doctors said the woman only recently began to feel discomfort from the thermometer and they are concerned about the damage the mercury could do to the woman's body if the glass breaks.
Calendar Information        
…Happening This Month:
Education Observations
Credit Education Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science & Engineering Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Expect Success Month
International Ideas Month
International Listening Awareness Month
Music In Our Schools Month 
National Cheerleading Safety Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National March Into Literacy Month
National Social Work Month
National Women's History Month
Play The Recorder Month
Sing With Your Child Month
Small Press Month  
Women's History Month
Youth Art Month
Food Observations
Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month 
Berries and Cherries Month 
Exotic Winter Fruit & Leeks and Green Onions Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Frozen Food Month National Peanut Month
National Nutrition Month
Health & Wellness Observations
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month  
Child Life Month Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month 
Deaf History Month
 Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Kidney Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Save Your Vision Month
Spiritual Wellness Month
Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month
Miscellaneous Observations
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month 
Employee Spirit Month
International Mirth Month
International Women's Month
Irish-American Heritage Month
National Athletic Training Month
National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month
National Color Therapy Month
National Craft Month 
National Kite Month 
National On-Hold Month
National Umbrella Month
Optimism Month
Supply Management Month
 

…Happening This Week:
1-7
National Cheerleading Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
Universal Human Beings Week
2-4
Festival of Owls Week
3-18
Iditarod Race
4-10
 Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Save Your Vision Week
Read an E-Book Week
Return The Borrowed Books Week
Teen Tech Week
Women in Construction Week
Today Is                                                                      
Courageous Follower Day
Daughters' and Sons' Day
Iditarod
International Scrapbooking Industry Day
Holy Experiment Day:
a day to try something religious-- Pray for someone to get better; Pray for snow; Pray for your team to win the super bowl; Pray someone will ask you on a date; Try saying grace at dinner and see if others join you; Try to get a person to attend religious services; Plan to convert someone to your religion
March Forth-Do Something Day
National Day of Unplugging
National Grammar Day
Old Inauguration Day
1793 - Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)
1797 - John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US
1801 - 1st president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
1809 - Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
1825 - John Quincy Adams inaugurated as 6th president
1829 - Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president
1837 - Martin Van Buren inaugurated as 8th president
1845 - James K Polk inaugurated at 11th president
1849 - US had no president, Polk’s term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd
1861 - Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th pres; 1st time US has 5 former pres
1869 - Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president
1881 - James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th president
1885 - Grover Cleveland inaugurated as 1st Democratic pres since Civil War
1889 - Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president
1893 - Grover Cleveland (D) inaugurated as 24th US president (2nd term)
1897 - William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US
1901 - President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president
1909 - President Taft inaugurated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm
1913 - Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president
1925 - Pres Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
1929 - Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president
1933 - FDR inaugurated as 32nd pres
Toy Soldier Day
World Day of Prayer

US: Vermont: Admission Day (1791 as 14th state)

Today’s Other Events                                                             
Before 1000CE
51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth)
1400’s
1492 - King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England
1600’s
1681 - King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn
1700’s
1774 - 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
1791 - Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session
1800’s
1804 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only significant convict uprising
1841 - Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
1863 - Territory of Idaho established
1881 - California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1900’s
1902 - American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
1909 - US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
1921 - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas
1930 - Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
1957 - The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90
1966 - John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
1977 - 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM
1978 - Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue
1997 - President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
2000’s
2001 - 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA
2002 - Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions
2005 - United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 60’s
Rick Perry, Governor of Texas is 62
In their 50’s
Patricia Heaton, actor (Debra-Everybody Loves Raymond ) is 54
Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, boxer is 51
Steven Weber, actor (Brian Hackett-Wings) is 51
In their 40’s
Chaz Bono [Chastity Sun Bono], actor is 43
Remembered for being born on this day

Chief Tahachee (Jeff Davis Tahchee Cypert), Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor and author in 1904
Harry B Helmsley, billionaire builder (Empire State Building) in 1909
Henry the Navigator, Prince/sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery in 1394
Miriam Makeba, Johannesburg South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965) ( Click Song) in 1932
Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter in 1756
 Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (Freight Train) in 1935

Today’s Obits                                                           
Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court dies at 91 in 1999
Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail dies of food poisoning eating rancid bear meat at  62 in 1868
Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II dies at 27 in 1238
Minnie Pearl, country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 84 in 1996
Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.      Luxury accommodations at the top of a building:
a.      penthouse suite
2.      NBA team in AZ:
a.      Phoenix Suns
3.      Medical procedure to improve one’s appearance:
a.      plastic surgery
4.      Buddy Holly hit with lyrics ‘I love you, yes I do’:
a.      Peggy Sue
5.      Women’s business attire that is not a dress:
a.      Pants Suit
6.      A wood court for basketball or a grass field for football:
a.       playing surface
7.      Shrub that can give you a rash:
a.      poison sumac
8.      Former football star who was spokesman for True Value:
a.      Pat Summerall
9.      Chemical compound K2SO4:
a.      Potassium Sulfate
10.   Community event where everyone brings a dish for everyone to share:
a.      Potluck supper
11.   One week before Easter:
a.      Palm Sunday
12.   Like a weather forecast with some clouds:
a.      Partly Sunny

Wuzzle
  • Operating above board
  • Partially
  • Working around the clock


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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