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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1793 - 1st cabinet meeting
(At George Washington's home)
1837 - 1st US electric
printing press patented by Thomas Davenport
1859 - 1st use of
"insanity plea" to prove innocence
1862 - Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US
by Pres Abraham Lincoln
1901 - US Steel Corp organized under J P Morgan
1913 - 16th Amendment
ratified, authorizing income tax
1956 - Khrushchev denounces
Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
1964 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Sonny
Liston in 7 for heavyweight title
1986 - Corazon Aquino becomes president of
Philippines, Marcos flees
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Rambling Thoughts
The Flagstaff Celtic community is abuzz with news of an upcoming concert. The three world class top pipers are coming to America to tour Route 66. They will be playing in Flagstaff in mid-April. Very exciting to say the least. To top that off, the local Southwest Skye Pipe and Drums will be on stage too. The excitement of old Route 66 is still alive and well in Europe. Reminds me of the three Finnish guys I met on a plane who were celebrating their 50th birthdays by taking motorcycles from Chicago to LA.Tomorrow night is our discussion group. We will be discussing Mexico. Should be an interesting discussion. Here in the SW, Mexico has some very bizarre rumors and fears shared daily from people who don’t know. Mexico is so much more than drugs, cartels, and illegals slipping across the border. Yes, these are problems, but not as bad as the politicians make them sound.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Each
clue is a word that contains the letter "I" inside. Rearrange the
letters to get a new word that starts with the letter "I." For
example, if the clue is "Susie," the answer would be
"issue."
1. Coin:
2. Aide:
3. Annie:
4. Runic:
5. Bedim:
6. Sunlit:
7. Renoir:
8. Cinema:
9. Stifle:
10. Region:
11. Umpire:
12. Excitation:
Wuzzles
What concept or phrase do these suggest?
Lifestyle Substance
Planet Earth—Orkney Islands
Found on You Tube
Palenque – Mexico
Harper’s Index
Value of public-health benefits for every dollar spent on pollution control, according to the EPA: $30
Joke-of-the-day
A boy was teaching a girl arithmetic, he said it was his mission. He kissed her once; he kissed her twice and said, "Now that's addition."
In silent satisfaction, she sweetly gave the kisses back and said, "Now that's subtraction."
Then he kissed her, she kissed him, without an explanation. And both together smiled and said, "That's multiplication."
Then her Dad appeared upon the scene and made a quick decision. He kicked that boy three blocks away and said, "That's long division!"Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guessWhen attending a meeting, walk in with one thing in mind - what is your primary objective? Knowing what you want to get out of the meeting will help you keep discussion on-track and eliminate digression.
Somewhat Useless Information
The term "zugzwang" is frequently used in chess. A player whose turn it is to move, but whose move would serve to worsen their position is said to be in zugzwang.Chess originated in India during the Gupta empire, where its early form in the 6th century was known as "caturanga," which translates to "four divisions of the military" (infantry, cavalry, elephants, and chariotry). In time, these pieces evolved into the modern pawn, knight, bishop, and rook, respectively.Diana Lanni, one of America's top ten female chess players, used chess to beat a drug addiction problem and suicidal tendencies.Marcel Duchamp, the renowned French artist, was also a chess player who competed in the 1924 world amateur championship, four French championships from 1924 to 1928, and four Olympiads from 1928 to 1933.The rook is named from an Arabic word rukh, meaning chariot. This reflects its ability to move quickly in straight lines, but not leap over obstacles. During the Middle Ages, when chariots were no longer in use, the rook was gradually modified to look more like the turret of a castle.The folding chess board was originally invented in 1125 by a chess-playing priest. Since the Church forbid priests to play chess, he hid his chess board by making one that looked simply like two books lying together.
Yeah, It Really Happened
As Facebook gets ready to go public, the eyes of the world will become even more focused on the Menlo Park-based social network.That's just partly why Friday's report of an insurance advertisement on Facebook featuring the face of 9/11 terrorist Mohamed Atta is not the type of publicity the site wants ahead of its initial public offering.Atta's face reportedly appeared on the site as part of an ad selling car insurance.
The ad appeared on the right hand side of some users' profiles and it read "Important: Drivers in Texas Who Drive Less than 35 Miles a Day Read This."The text was alongside a Texas driver's license with Atta's picture on it, which was actually originally taken from his Florida's driver's license.The company behind the ad has since removed it and said it is conducting a full investigation as to how the image was used.A request for comment from Facebook was not immediately returned.Often times smaller advertisers on Facebook pick images randomly from the Internet to show in their graphic.But this is also not the first time Atta's face has appeared on the social network.
Two years ago Atta's image was reportedly used in another insurance ad, but it was not clear if it was by the same company.Atta was named as one of the terrorists who crashed planes into the World Trade Center in New York more than 10 years ago.
Calendar
Information
…Happening This Week:
19-25
National Entrepreneurship Week
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week
National Engineers Week
National Pancake Week
National Justice for Animals Week
National Future Farmers of America
Week
Read Me Week
Texas Cowboy Poetry Week
Today Is
International Sword Swallowers Day
Pistol Patent Day (Samuel
Colt) 1836
Kuwait: National Day (1961
from UK and Iran)
Today’s Other Events
Before 1000CE
529 - Palenque Maya Lord Kan - Xul I
ascends the throne according to the museum at Palenque, Mexico
1600’s
1634 - Irish captain Walter
Devereaux kills duke Wallenstein
1700’s
1751 - 1st performing monkey
exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)
1799 - Congress passes 1st federal quarantine
legislation
1799 - Congress passes "An Act
Making Appropriations for Defraying the Expenses Which May Arise in Carrying
into Effect Certain Treaties Between the United States and Several Tribes or
Nations of Indians."
1800’s
1836 - US Showman Phineas Taylor Barnum exhibits
African American slave Joice Heth
1838 - London pedestrian
walks 20 miles backward then forward in 8 hours
1839 - Seminoles & black
allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to West
1862 - Congress forms US
Bureau of Engraving & Printing
1875 - Kiowa Indians under
Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill
1885 - US Congress condemns
barbed wire around government grounds
1900’s
1908 - 1st tunnel under
Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens
1925 - Glacier Bay National
Monument established in Alaska
1950 - "Your Show of Shows"
with Sid Caesar & Imogene
Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen
1951 - 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires
Argentina)
1952 - 6th Winter Olympic
games close at Oslo, Norway
1954 - Abdul Nasser
appointed Egyptian premier
1969 - Pension plan for baseball is agreed to
1982 - Final episode of
"The Lawrence Welk Show" airs
1987 - Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record
58 points in a game
1989 - Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a
29-year career
1991 - US, barracks in Dhahran Saudi Arabia, hit by
scud missile, kills 28
2000’s
2011 - In the Irish general
election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting
government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921
Today’s Birthdays
In their 70’s
Diane Baker, actress (Diary of Anne
Frank, Marnie) is 74
Karen Grassle, American
actress(Caroline-Little House on Prairie)
is 70
Bob Schieffer, newscaster (CBS Weekend
News) is 75
In their 60’s
Rick Flair, [Richard Fliehr], wrestling champ
(NWA/WWF/WCW/AWA) is 62
Sally Jessy Raphael, American TV talk
show host (Sally) is 69
In their 40’s
Carrot Top, [Scott Thompson], comedian
(Amer Comedy Award-1994) is 47
In their 30’s
Chelsea Handler, TV host is 37
Remembered for being
born on this day
Jim Backus, Cleve, actor (Mr Magoo,
Thurston Howell III-Gilligan Is) in 1913
Anthony Burgess, essayist/novelist
(Clockwork Orange) in 1917
Enrico Caruso, Naples Italy, operatic
tenor (Faust) in 1873
Mary Coyle Chase, playwright
(Harvey-Pulitzer Prize) in 1907
John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of
State (1953-59) in 1888
George Harrison, rocker
(Beatle/Travelling Willberries-My Sweet Lord) in
1943
[Herbert] Zeppo Marx, comedian/actor
(Marx Brothers) in 1901
Tommy Newsom, musician/bandleader/saxophonist
(Tonight Show) in 1929
Pierre Auguste Renoir, Limoges France,
Impressionist painter/sculptor in 1841
Robert Lorimer "Bobby"
Riggs, US tennis star (US Open 1939, 41) in 1918
Faron Young, country singer/actor ("He Stopped Loving Her Today", Daniel
Boone) in
1932
Today’s Obits
James Coco, actor (Joe-Dumplings),
dies of heart attack at 56 in 1987
Darren McGavin, American actor dies at
83 in 2006
Thomas Moore, writer (Utopia), dies at
72 in 1852
Elijah Muhammad, leader of Nation of
Islam, dies in Chicago at 78 in 1975
Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the
news agency (Reuters), dies at 83 in 1899
Tennessee Williams, US playwright and
writer (Streetcar Named Desire), chokes to death at 71 in 1983
Christopher Wren, England,
astronomer/architect, dies at 90 in 1723
Answers
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1. Coin:
a. icon
2. Aide:
a. idea
3. Annie:
a. inane
4. Runic:
a. incur
5. Bedim:
a. imbed
6. Sunlit:
a. insult
7. Renoir:
a. ironer
8. Cinema:
a. iceman
9. Stifle:
a. itself
10. Region:
a. ignore
11. Umpire:
a. impure
12. Excitation:
a. intoxicate
Wuzzle
- A punch in the nose
- Pennies from heaven
- Self-centered
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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