3-10-15

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Almanac: Week: 11 \ Day: 069 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 56°\L 26° Average Sky Cover: 3% 
Wind ave:   2mph\Gusts:  13mph
Ave. High: 49° Record High:  70° (1989) Ave. Low: 22° Record Low:  -9° (1952)
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Observances Today:
Festival Of Life In The Cracks Day- to be grateful for all of our Blessings no matter what our walk in life may be. As in cracks in a sidewalk where the first signs of Spring grass starts to sprout through...March 10th is a day in some communities to get out, enjoy your neighbors and give thanks even though you may not live in a more affluent place where they do not have "cracks" in the sidewalk where the grass peaks through........ a sign to appreciate what we have and our daily blessings.
International Bagpipe Day
International Day of Awesomeness
Land Line Telephone Day
Mario Day
Middle Name Pride Day
Organize Your Home Office Day
Salvation Army Day-1880
US Paper Money Day-1862
Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Observances This Week:
      8-14
…Universal Women's Week
…National Agriculture Week
…Teen Tech Week
…Girl Scout Week
…Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
 1789 - Franklin College founded in Indiana
1791 - John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver
1847 - 1st money minted in Hawaii
1849 - Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (only US president to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions
1862 - US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)
1874 - Purdue University (Indiana) admits its 1st student
1876 - 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
1880 - Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
1893 - New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony; its only graduate was robbed & killed the night before
1896 - Bronx acquires O'Brien Square
1922 - KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1934 - Arizona Gov. Benjamin Moeur sent two detachments of National Guardsmen up the Colorado River to patrol the Arizona shore where California wanted to build Parker Dam
1959 - Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" premieres in NYC
1969 - James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr
1982 - President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
2006 - The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars
Today’s World Events through History
   418 - Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
1801 - First census in Great Britain
1893 - Ivory Coast becomes a French colony
1910 - China ends slavery
1920 - Home Rule Act is passed by the British Parliament, dividing Ireland into two parts; it is rejected by southern counties, where the Ango-Irish war continues for a year
1945 - Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.
1975 - Dog spectacles patented in England
2013 - Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy
2014 - German Chancellor Merkel warns Russia's Putin that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another great day in Flag weather-wise. Sure ready for Spring.
Sad news that a friend who I met years ago in Flag is in Hospice in Michigan. He moved back a couple a years ago to be near family, but didn’t expect cancer. Sad.
For all the Republicans in elected office, before you start screaming about the US constitution, how about reading it and understanding it. All this grandstanding is only going to hurt the people of the United States. Let the negotiations with Iran continue and let the process work itself out, as we have done in all negotiations since 1783. If the Congress, as a whole, does not want the treaty, they will vote and more negotiations will take place. To tell Iran that the Congress won’t approve a deal, without even seeing it, and that it could easily end at the end of the Obama presidency with the stoke of a pen is not right. I am tired to the far right Republicans working hard to make Obama and our country fail at every turn.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A man killed his mother, was born before his father, and married his sister.
How did the man do all three things legally?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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America Facts…
╪ The United States does not have an official language.
╪ In the US, there's quite a few cities called Gaylord.

***New***Ant Facts…
Army ants are used as “natural sutures”. Their jaws are so powerful, Natives staple wounds by forcing ants to bite them and break off the body.
If an ant is drunk, a fellow comrade will carry him back to the nest to sleep off the alcohol.

***NEW***Car Facts…
A Swiss man replaced his car's broken heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
License plates in the Canadian Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.

***NEW***Charity Facts…
 (Former) Billionaire Chuck Feeney gave away over 99% of his multi-billion dollar fortune to philanthropic endeavors, such as helping underprivileged kids go to college. He is now worth a few million dollars.
Ecosia is a search engine that helps to save the environment by donating 80% of its income to planting trees in Brazil.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1938
--The Iron Lung is now assured -- there are only a few more dollars to reach the $1,535 purchase price. It will be a full-sized Emerson Lung Machine. Dr. S.W. Sechrist plans a new wing on the north end the hospital building to accommodate it. Construction to begin as soon as weather permits. W. E. Jolly.
--A bas-relief representing Arizona logging was installed in the Post Office last week. It was designed and executed by D. C. Kittredge of Oak Creek to show the old logging methods. It pictures the driver and two loaders taking the team over the logs preparing to load them.
--Have you lost your shoe appeal? There is nothing quite so damaging to your smart appearance as a pair of rundown shoes. Bring them to Savage Shoe Repair, 18 N. Leroux St., for a quick, neat inexpensive repair.
--A new movie about the Northwest Mounted Police is to be made near Flagstaff by Paramount. A crew of 175 regulars, plus 100 Indians and other "extras" are expected to be needed in this Cecil B. De Mille film.

Harper’s Index…
$5,000,000
Estimated amount Olive Garden loses annually from breadsticks that are served and not eaten

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Dimples may be cute, but they are an inherited genetic flaw. They are caused by a fibrous band of tissue that connects the skin to an underlying bone.
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2 jokes for the day
Did you hear about the calendar thief? 
He got 12 months; they say his days are numbered!

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A mean lookin' cowboy was sitting by himself in a Saloon. He was a pretty intimidating sight, so no one bothered him as he downed a few whiskey and beers. After chugging his last drink he slammed some coins on the tabletop and got up to leave. Right after he left though he came storming back in and said, 
"Listen up you mangey bastards" and everyone, terrified, immediately fell silent. 
"Someone done took my horse. Now here's what's gunna happen. I'm gunna order me another drink, finish it, and when I walk back outside this time my horse BETTER be there or else I'm gunna do what I did in Texas... and believe me, I don't want to do what I did in Texas!" 
Like he said, after he finished his drink he walked outside and sure enough, someone had returned his horse. He was getting on it when one of the bar patrons ran up to him and sheepishly asked, 
"Sir I don't mean to bother you but I just have to know, what did you do in Texas?" 
The cowboy looked at him square in the eyes and replied, 
"I walked home".    

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Yep, It Really Happened
The Oregonian
Shooting "upskirt" photos of a 13-year-old girl is not illegal in Oregon, declared Judge Eric Butterfield in February, thus acquitting Patrick Buono, 61, of the crimes of invasion of privacy and "encouraging child sexual abuse." Buono's behavior was "appalling," Judge Butterfield noted, but since the girl was in a public place (a Target store) and no nudity was involved (she wore underpants), the specifics of Oregon statutes were not violated. Said Buono's lawyer, "It's incumbent on us as citizens to cover up whatever we don't want filmed in public places."      
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Somewhat Useless Information
--In the Middle Ages wearing spectacles signified knowledge and learning. Painters of the time often included spectacles when portraying famous persons even when depicting people who lived before the known invention of spectacles. On numerous paintings the religious teacher Sofronius Eusebius Hieronymus (340 - 420 AD) is portrayed with a lion, a skull and a pair of reading glasses. He is the patron saint of spectacle makers.
--It actually is true that eating carrots can help you see better. Carrots contain Vitamin A, which feeds the chemicals that the eye shafts and cones are made of. The shafts capture black and white vision. The cones capture color images.
--Healthy eyes are so sensitive to light that a candle burning in the dark can be detected a mile away. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different colors. There currently is no machine that can achieve this remarkable feat.
--Roman tragedian Seneca is said to have read "all the books in Rome" by peering through a glass globe of water. A thousand years later, presbyopic monks used segments of glass spheres that could be laid against reading material to magnify the letters, basically a magnifying glass, called a "reading stone." They based their invention on the theories of the Arabic mathematician Alhazen (roughly 1000 AD). Yet, Greek philosopher Aristophanes (c. 448 BC-380 BC) knew that glass could be used as a magnifying glass. Nevertheless it was not until roughly 150 AD that Ptolemy discovered the basic rules of light diffraction and wrote extensively on the subject. 
--Venetian glass blowers, who had learned how to produce glass for reading stones, later constructed lenses that could be held in a frame in front of the eye instead of directly on the reading material. It was intended for use by one eye; the idea to frame two ground glasses using wood or horn, making them into a single unit was born in the 13th century.
--In 1268 Roger Bacon made the first known scientific commentary on lenses for vision correction. Salvino D’Armate of Pisa and Alessandro Spina of Florence are often credited with the invention of spectacles around 1284 but there is no evidence to conclude this. The first mention of actual glasses is found in a 1289 manuscript when a member of the Popozo family wrote: "I am so debilitated by age that without the glasses known as spectacles, I would no longer be able to read or write." In 1306, a monk of Pisa mentioned in a sermon: "It is not yet 20 years since the art of making spectacles, one of the most useful arts on earth, was discovered." But nobody mentioned the inventor.
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            Birthday’s Today
75 - Chuck Norris, [Carlos Ray], OK, martial arts actor (Missing in Action)
68 - [Avril] Kim Campbell, Canada's 1st female and 19th Prime Minister
57 - Sharon Stone, actress (Basic Instinct)
53 - Jasmine Guy, actress (Whitley-Different World)
44 - Jon Hamm, actor (Mad Men - Don Draper)
38 - Shannon Miller, gymnast (Oly2 gold-2 silver/3 bronze-92, 96)
38 - Robin Thicke, American singer
32 - Carrie Underwood, American country singer
31 - Olivia Wilde, actress (The Black Donneleys)
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Remembered for being born today
1810-1886@76 - Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet
1847-1934@87 - Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement
1888-1961@72 - Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Acad Award-Going My Way)
1908-2000@91 - Carl Albert, US speaker of house (1971-77)
1920-1989@68 - Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, US country singer (Homer & Jethro)
1928-1998@70 - James Earl Ray, assassin (Martin Luther King Jr.)
1935-2015@80 - Gary Owens, announcer (Laugh-in)
1945-2012@67 - Elizabeth Brumfiel, [Stern], American feminist archaeologist
1957-2011@54 - Osama bin Laden, Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda
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Historical Obits Today
Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR-1913@91ish
Lloyd Bridges, actor (Sea Hunt)-1998@85
Ray Milland, actor (Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945)-1986@81
Glenn Cunningham, US world record miler-1988@78
Herman Tarnower, doctor (Scarsdale Diet), shot-1980@69
Zelda Fitzgerald, artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, fire in hospital-1948@47
Corey Haim, Canadian actor, OD-2010@38
Andy Gibb, singer, heart infection-1988@30
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Brain Teasers Answers
He killed his mother in child birth, he was born in front of his father, and he married his sister to another man as he was a priest.
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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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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