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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1855 - Louisiana
establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1867 - Michigan becomes
1st state to tax property to support a university
1869 -
Col.George Custer, and his troops will discover 2 Cheyenne villages, of over
250 lodges, on Sweetwater Creek near the Texas-Oklahoma boundary. The Cheyenne
had been order to report to their reservation. Custer captures 4 Chiefs. He
threatens to hang the Chiefs unless the Cheyenne surrender. Both of the
villages decide to give up.
1887 - 1st
salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
1916 - Gen
Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos
1937 - 1st blood
bank forms (Chicago IL)
1937 - 1st state
contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
1960 - Key Largo
Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
1960 - National
Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
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Rambling Thoughts
A nice day for a walk. I took full advantage. I stayed around the house and complex area today. No need to go anywhere else.
Surprise, the price of gold is very high. Our states and measures department just announced that 18 out of 45 scales were not working properly. Surprise, all 18 were under weighing the gold. Yeah, those conservatives in the legislature know that government needs to be smaller. Right.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Start
with two sentences. Each sentence has two blanks. Put a word in the first
blank. Add a long 'A' sound to the end of it to get a new word, phonetically,
that will go in the second blank to complete the sentence.
Example:
A designer bag costing you more ____ will probably give you more ____. The
answers are 'cash' and 'cache.'
1.
Yesterday my sister ____ all day at the beach,
then cooled off by eating an ice cream____:
2.
When getting up from the table, my partner
accidently kicked me in the ____ at the sidewalk ____:
3.
The old geezer dislikes lawn games so much he’s
rather ____ than play ____:
4.
For the kitchen cabinets, either maple or ____
would be ____:
5.
On a European vacation last year we had
wonderful lobster ____ in a restaurant by the Bay of ____:
6.
A pricey apartment along New York’s pricey ____
Avenue is likely to beautiful ____ floor: By searching underwater on a coral
reef you’ll be ____ likely to see a ____ eel.
7.
Near the end of the show the host ____ up the
lessons which ____ will prove valuable:
8.
After slaving over a computer for a full work
week my brain is completely ____ by ____:
Wuzzles
What concept or phrase do these suggest?
Lifestyle Substance
Planet Earth—Ireland
Found on You Tube
Harper’s Index
Percentage of all oxycodone sold to doctors in the US last year that went to Florida: 89
Joke-of-the-day
During a terrible storm, all the highway signs were covered with snow. The following spring, the state decided to raise all the signs twelve inches at a cost of six million dollars.
“That’s an outrageous price!” said a local farmer, “but I guess we’re lucky the state handled it instead of the federal government.” “Why’s that?” “Because knowing the federal government, they’d decided to lower the highways.”
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guessIf your tank is on empty and you're trying to make it to the next gas station, cut your speed to 35 miles per hour.
Somewhat Useless Information
The name Madison was virtually unheard of as a first name for girls until Daryl Hannah's character used it in the 1984 movie Splash. In the film, she adopted the name after seeing a sign for Madison Avenue in New York.According to Social Security Administration records, 1,022 girls born in America between 2000 and 2005 were given the not-so-unique name of Unique.Because boxer George Foreman never knew his father, he made the decision to name all five of his sons George Edward Foreman. The heavyweight champ wanted them to always remember the patriarch of their family.After it was announced that Gwyneth Paltrow had named her daughter Apple, Peaches Geldof (daughter of Sir Bob) wrote an open letter to London's Daily Telegraph pleading with celebrities to stop giving their offspring "ridiculous" names. Peaches, who has sisters Fifi, Heavenly, and Pixie, revealed that her "weird" name has always haunted her.Four children in the United States are named Espn after the cable sports channel. In at least three of those cases, the mother admitted she'd let the father choose the name.On a 2000 episode of MTV's Cribs, Sonny Sandoval revealed that his daughter's name was Nevaeh ("heaven" spelled backwards). After word spread across the Internet, the name began to gain popularity, and by 2003, it was number 150 on the list of most popular names for newborn girls in the United States.
Yeah, It Really Happened
DUNWOODY, Ga. - Emergency responders in Georgia said they rescued a woman who fell down her apartment's garbage chute while trying to retrieve her dropped cellphone. Dunwoody police said rescue crews responded to the Gables Metropolitan apartments Sunday when the woman fell while trying to reach down the chute for her phone and ended up stuck between the first and second floors of the building, WSB-TV, Atlanta, reported Monday. DeKalb County Fire Department rescuers said they moved the building's trash compacter, which was blocking the woman from falling the rest of the way down the chute, and retrieved her before she hit the ground. The woman was taken to a local hospital for treatment.
Calendar
Information
…Happening This Week:
3-18
Iditarod Race
11-17
Girl Scout Week
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
National Agriculture Week
12-18
International Brain Awareness Week
Wildlife Week
13-19
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Today Is
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
Brutus Day
Buzzards Day
Companies That Care Day
Everything You Think Is Wrong Day
Ides of March
44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of
the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius
Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of
March
True Confessions Day
World Consumer Rights Day
Belarus: Constitution Day (1994)
US: Maine: Admission Day (1820; 23rd state)
Today’s Other Events
1400’s
1493 - Christopher
Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage
1500’s
1580 - Spanish
king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange
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1800’s
1812 - 1st
Russian settlement in California
1858 -
After fighting the Americans for almost 25 years, today one of the last of the
Seminole leaders, Billy Bowlegs, will be surrender with 163 of his followers.
They will be shipped west.
1875 - 1st US
cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1892 - 1st
escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC) 1892 - NY State unveils automatic ballot booth
(voting machine)
1897 - 1st
indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
1900’s
1906 - Brits
Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1907 - Finland
is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
1912 - Pitcher
Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1934 - US
Information Service opens
1945 - Dodgers open
spring training at Bear Mountain NY
1954 - "CBS
Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
1957 - 3rd
nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
1961 - South
Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth
1962 - Wilt
Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season
1964 - LBJ asks
for a War on Poverty
1965 - T.G.I.
Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC
1968 - LIFE mag
calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1971 - CBS TV
announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"
1972 - Assassination
attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama
1985 - The first
Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1989 - Dept of
Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1999 - Pluto
again becomes outermost planet
2000’s
2003 - Hu Jintao
takes over presidency for the People's Republic of China
2004 - Announcement
of the discovery of 90377 Sedna , the farthest natural object in the
Solar system so far observed
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
E. Donnall
Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is 92
In their 80’s
Alan
Lavern Bean, Capt USN/astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3) is 80
In their 70’s
Robert
Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man) is 73
Jimmy Lee
Swaggart, evangelist is 77
In their 60’s
In their 50’s
Jimmy Baio,
actor (Billy Tate-Soap, Brass, Playing for Keeps) is 50
Fabio
Lanzoni, Italian romance novels model is 53
In their 40’s
In their 30’s
Eva
Longoria, actor, Desperate Housewives will be 37
Will.i.am,
American musician, Black-eyed Peas is 37
Remembered for being
born on this day
Liberty
Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding) in 1858
George
Brent, Dublin Ireland, actor (42nd St, Jezebel) in 1904
MacDonald
Carey, actor (Days of Our Lives, Dream Girl) in 1913
Alice
Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land) in 1838
Hadrian,
Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall) in 76
Andrew
Jackson, General/(D) 7th pres (1829-37) in 1767
Today’s Obits
Henry
Bessemer, English metallurgist dies at 85 in 1898
Julius
Caesar (murdered at 64 in 44BC
Gail
Davis, actor, (Annie Oakley), dies at 72 in 1997
Dennis
Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40 in 1993
Bowie
Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball dies at 81 in 2007
Giuseppe
Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist dies at 75 in 1849
Eileen
Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93 in 1991
Ann
Sothern, American actress dies at 92 in 2001
Benjamin
Spock, American pediatrician and writer dies at 95 in 1998
Answers
Brain Game
Numbers 4 and 5 are identical
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Yesterday my sister ____ all day at the beach,
then cooled off by eating an ice cream____:
a.
sunned, sundae
2.
When getting up from the table, my partner
accidently kicked me in the ____ at the sidewalk ____:
a.
calf, café
3.
The old geezer dislikes lawn games so much he’s
rather ____ than play ____:
a.
croak; croquet
4.
For the kitchen cabinets, either maple or ____
would be ____:
a.
oak, OK
5.
On a European vacation last year we had
wonderful lobster ____ in a restaurant by the Bay of ____:
a.
bisque, Biscay
6.
A pricey apartment along New York’s pricey ____
Avenue is likely to beautiful ____ floor:
a.
Park, Parquet
7.
By searching underwater on a coral reef you’ll
be ____ likely to see a ____ eel.
a.
More, moray
8.
Near the end of the show the host ____ up the
lessons which ____ will prove valuable:
a.
summed, someday
9.
After slaving over a computer for a full work
week my brain is completely ____ by ____:
a.
fried, Friday
Wuzzle
- Half brother
- The last roundup
- Good intentions
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