3-11-15

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Almanac: Week: 11 \ Day: 070 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 58°\L 23° Average Sky Cover: 0% 
Wind ave:   7mph\Gusts:  25mph
Ave. High: 49° Record High:  69° (1900) Ave. Low: 23° Record Low:  -5° (1948)
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Observances Today:
Johnny Appleseed Day
Registered Dietitian Day
World Plumbing Day
Worship of Tools Day

Observances This Week:
      8-14
…Universal Women's Week
…National Agriculture Week
…Teen Tech Week
…Girl Scout Week
…Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week
      11-17

…Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign-they return to trees in Canisteo, NY.


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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
 1779 - US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1791 - Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
1823 - 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt
1824 - US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair
1850 - Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1892 - 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
1918 - Save the Redwoods League founded
1918 – 1st confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in US reported at Fort Riley, Kansas
1927 - 1st golden gloves tournament
1941 - FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1948 - 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)
1953 - 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1954 - US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1959 - "Raisin in the Sun", 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
1966 - Civil rights demonstrators in Tucson protested the visit of Selma, Alabama, Sheriff James Clark whose talk was sponsored by a new group named the Tucson Committee to Support Your Local Police.
1995 - Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US

Today’s World Events through History
1669 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1702 - 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant" publishes

1872 - Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins
1936 - British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany
1974 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
1977 - Muslims hold 130 hostages in Wash DC
1982 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC
1986 - 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC
1997 - Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
2006 - Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile
2009 - Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany
2011 - Earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people; also triggered the 2nd largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


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My Rambling Thoughts
Great day here in Flag-weather-wise. Keep this spring weather around.
When I was growing up we learned about ‘fallout’ as it related to nuclear attack. IN today’s world it has taken on a different meaning.
First: ‘The Letter’ sent by Republican US Senators is, thankfully, backfiring. 1st time it was done in our history; Iran responds with a lesson on International relations; these political leaders have certainly allowed the world to see the US’s dirty laundry.
Second: Hillary’s email. I was a government employee for a long time. I was required each year to box up all my memos and have them sent to a salt mine somewhere where they would be catalogued and saved for ever. When electronic stuff entered the BIA, the box got bigger as all government related emails had to be boxed up too. As was true of all government employees, it was my responsibility to do this…not my boss…not my secretary…to do this. They also had to do it for their own communications. It was a crazy system but that’s what we did. Only those trying to discredit Hilary would make this ‘news’.
Third: The Univ of OK mess. A black cook at the fraternity has lost his job…fallout. The expelled students may have a friend in the ACLU who believe this is ‘free speech’ issue and students cannot be expelled from a federally funded University for exercising ‘free speech’. Fallout for sure. This one is far from over.
Fourth: Rant is now ended.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)

What common, English word has the letters "WSP", in that order, without any letters between?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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America Facts…
--The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
--The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last Month's Newsletter.

Ant Facts…
--Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help them navigate.
--Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the coolest spot and wait!

Car Facts…
--Putting your car alarm remote under your chin or beside your head increases its range.
--Mackinac Island, Michigan, has banned cars since 1898!

Charity Facts…
--In 2010, George Lucas said "I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human race." Two years later, Lucas sold Lucasfilm Ltd. to Disney for 4.05 billion dollars and is donating the majority of the proceeds to a charity that focuses on education.
--John F. Kennedy Gave His $100k/Yr Salary to Charity

Flagstaff, AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
--The City Council voted to lease 4 acres of its land on the eastern slope of McMillan Mesa to Flagstaff School Board as a property for the location of the new East Flagstaff High School. The 60-year lease is conditional to the passage of the $3.8 million school bond issue for its construction. Our schools are overflowing -- vote for the school bond issue coming up next Tuesday.
--The Council tabled the requests for sewer and water service outside the city limits by the Ponderosa Paper Co. and Ralph Bilby.
--The Elks have broken ground for their new lodge at the north end of North San Francisco, where their pool is already located.
--The skiing is just fine at both ski areas, with new  powder on the lower Snow Bowl slopes. Chains or 4-wheel drive are required on the road.
--On Wednesday, the City woke to 6 inches of fresh, wet snow holding 0.55 inches of moisture.

Harper’s Index…
$55,000,000
Amount the US mint lost last year making pennies.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
The first person to successfully go over Niagara Falls in a barrel was 63 year old Annie Taylor, a former school teacher who needed money. She died destitute about 20 years later.
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2 jokes for the day
What was the shy rock's wish? 
To be a little boulder!

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A young waiter just had his first customer, which turned out to be a BIG BURLY truck driver. 
The young man walked up to the table where the truck driver was sitting and asked; "Can I take your order sir?" 
The truck driver replied, "Sure kid, I want three flat tires and two headlights." 
The young man was very puzzled and said, "I beg your pardon?" 
The truck driver said again, "Look kid; I want three flat tires and two headlights." 
The young man was still puzzled, but replied; "Yes sir, whatever." 
The young man then took the request to his boss who was the head cook. 
He told him about the truck driver's order, and that he wanted three flat tires and two headlights, “I think he's in the wrong place.” 
The head cook said, "I know what he wants, he wants three flap jacks and two eggs sunny side up; the truck driver is just trying to be smart, I know him." 
The cook said to the waiter "Here, take this bowl of beans, give it to him and say this." 
The truck driver said, "Listen kid, I didn't order this; I said I wanted three flat tires and two headlights." 
The waiter replied, "Well sir, the head cook said while you wait for your parts, you can gas up!"

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Yep, It Really Happened
New York Times
Felons, and those convicted of domestic assault, and those with a history of mental illness, cannot by federal law buy firearms or explosive devices, but Americans on the National Counterterrorism Center's consolidated watch list can -- and may possess an unlimited quantity. (In 2013 and 2014, 455 of 486 prospective purchasers on the list passed the background check, and going back to 2004, 2,043 of 2,233, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report.) Legislation to add watch listees as a banned category was introduced again this year, but has failed several times in the past.        
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Somewhat Useless Information
--Curious whether the child you are going to bring to life will be a boy or a girl?
It seems that the father’s family has the answer for baby gender prediction, according to Newcastle University researchers.
After looking at 927 family trees, with details on 556,387 people from North America and Europe, going back to 1600, they found that there is a link between father’s sibling sex and offspring sex.
To be more specific, the research showed that men were more likely to have sons if they had more brothers and vice versa if they had more sisters.
--We all, certainly, have played, with Lego bricks as kids. We have built lots of constructions with them and enjoyed our time playing.
But have you ever wondered after how many times of using them this way, they will lose their clutch power?
Their clutch power is their ability to connect with each other properly.
LEGO bricks are made from ABS plastic and they will wear off by use, of course, in time.
But how many times can you assemble and dis-assemble two pieces of them before they no longer can stay together?
And the answer is 37,112 times, according to a man that tested this theory, in a specifically, for this reason, built machine.
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Birthday’s Today
84 - Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV)
81 - Sam Donaldson, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time)
65 - Jerry Zucker, director (Airplane, Naked Gun)
61 - Gale Norton, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
44 - Johnny Knoxville, American television personality
33 - Thora Birch, American actress (American Beauty)
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Remembered for being born today
1549-1612@63 - Henric/Hendrik Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance writer and poet
1725-1807@82 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain
1879-1958@79 - Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph tests)
1903-1992@89 - Lawrence Welk, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show)
1916-1995@79 - [James] Harold Wilson, (L) British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
1916-1983@67 - Ezra Jack Keats, children's literature author
1926-1990@64 - Ralph Abernathy, leader-Southern Christian Leadership
1952-2001@49 - Douglas Adams, England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
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Historical Obits Today
Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer-1955@95
Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason)-1970-80
Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), heart attack-1955@73
Merlin Olsen, American football player/Actor, mesothelioma-2010@69
Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), heart disease-1957@68
Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey), cancer-1996@67
Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, heart attack-1874@63
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Brain Teasers Answers
neWSPaper
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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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