3-16-15

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Almanac: Week: 12 \ Day: 075 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 61°\L 29° Average Sky Cover: 5% 
Wind ave:   12mph\Gusts:  18mph
Ave. High: 50° Record High:  72° (2007) Ave. Low: 23° Record Low:  -1° (1969)
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Observances Today:
Curlew Day
Everything You Do Is Right Day
Freedom of Information Day
Goddard Day
Lips Appreciation Day
No Selfies Day Well-Elderly or Wellderly Day

Observances This Week:
      11-17
…Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
       14-22

…National YoYo and Skills Toys Days
…American Chocolate Week  
Campfire USA Birthday Week

…Health Information Professionals Week
…National Animal Poison Prevention Week
…National Button Week
…National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week
Termite Awareness Week
…International Brain Awareness Week
…Shakespeare Week
…Flood Safety Awareness Week
…Act Happy Week
…Wellderly Week
…Wildlife Week
…World Folktales & Fables Week


Quote of the Day 



US Historical Highlights for Today
 1621 - Native American chief Samoset visits colony of Plymouth Mass
1802 - Law signed to establish US Milt Academy (West Point, NY)
1802 - US Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1829 - Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1833 - Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of a pharmacy college
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter" published
1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union (US Civil War)
1871 - 1st fertilizer law enacted
1881 - Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts
1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the Red Cross
1890 - Tucson received $25,000 from Andrew Carnegie to build a library
1912 - Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Wash DC
1915 - Federal Trade Commission organizes
1916 - US & Canada sign migratory bird treaty
1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1941 - National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
1945 - Allies secure Iwo Jima
1948 - Billie Holiday is released from prison early because of good behavior
1950 - 1st annual National Book Awards
1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
1974 - 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville
1977 - US president Carter pleads for Palestinian homeland
1985 - Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
1991 - Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
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Today’s World Events through History
1830 - London's re-organized police force (Scotland Yard)
1867 – 1st publication of Lister’s outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery
1970 - New English Bible published
1988 - North Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
1998 - Pope John Paul II asks God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust
2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


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My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful day and lazy Sunday.
Last night’s discussion was very good. I was odd man out believing that lots is currently being done to stop both trafficking and smuggling of humans around the world and therefore the information was positive. Others in the group believed it was very depressing when one studies the possible numbers of people being trafficked or smuggled every year. I agreed but since these types of activities have been going on for centuries, today is still improving on these horrific acts against humanity. We also drifted a little to discuss illegals in the US who got here by smuggling. Two of our regulars are Canadian citizens here on VISAs who worked at various universities during their work careers. While they do agree that ‘dreamers’ should be a ‘special circumstance’ group they also believe that any who came into this country without paperwork need to be sent back and get in line. It was a good night of banter.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can you decipher this:

PBLUESAISNUERSES

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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America Facts…
-- Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
--The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around 5000 B.C.

Average Facts…
-- There are about 255 babies born worldwide every minute.
--95% of people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd number.

Charity Facts…
-- Boxer Wladimir Klitshko auctioned his Olympic gold medal to raise money for underprivileged Ukrainian children. He raised $1,000,000. The buyer immediately returned the medal to Wladimir as he wanted it to remain in the Klitschko family.
--Newman’s Own foods donates 100% of its post-tax profits to charity. As of June 2012 these donations have exceeded 330 million dollars.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
--J. H. Bradley has leased the Poynter Food Emporium on South San Francisco Street across from the Findley Building. He will dispense eatings to the hungries.
--Power Conway, Warren Bros. paving man, was in Flagstaff on Monday to look at paving possibilities and met with the Council. He has been in charge of paving for Phoenix and is an expert in the business.
--O. B. Raudebaugh Stationery and News Stand on Railroad Avenue provides fine cigars, both domestic and Havana, as well as fresh fruits and confectionery and has just received a full line of Jevenes fine cigars.
--Winter winds are very hard on your skin but you will have no trouble if you use Rex-all Theatrical Cream, sold only at Will Marker’s Pharmacy. Ph. 24 . Free delivery.

Harper’s Index…
1/10
Portion of Americans betweenthe ages of 25 and 34 in 1960 who had never been married
1/2
Number today

Unusual Fact of the Day…
On the week of April 4th, 1964, The Beatles held each of the top five spots on the Billboard pop singles chart.
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2 jokes for the day
I submitted 10 puns to a contest to see which one would win. 
Sadly, no pun in ten did.

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A lady walks into the drugstore and asks the pharmacist for some arsenic. 
"Ma'am, what do you want with arsenic?" "To kill my husband." 
"I can't sell you arsenic to kill a person!" 
The lady lays down a photo of a man and a woman in a compromising position. 
The man is her husband and the woman is the pharmacist's wife. 
He takes the photo, and nods. "I didn't realize you had a prescription!"    

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Yep, It Really Happened
CHICAGO (UPI)
A man who co-owns a wrestling-themed restaurant in Chicago with his wife, a former WWE star, used his own moves to take down an armed man at the business. Lee Varon, who co-owns The Squared Circle with wife Lisa Marie Varon, who performed in the WWE as Victoria, said a server told him about 9:30 p.m. Saturday a young man in the eatery was behaving strangely. Varon said the man walked into a women's bathroom before walking into the kitchen and telling him he was being pursued by men with guns. "He said some guys with guns were chasing him, and I thought, 'If guys with guns were really chasing you, then you shouldn't be out front,'" Varon told ABC News. "I escorted him back to the kitchen and he was immediately combative with me." Varon said he took action when the man appeared to be reaching for a weapon in his pants. Security camera footage from the restaurant shows Varon wrestle the suspect into submission. Lee said one of his cooks was able to get the suspect's gun. "My chef pulled the gun out of the kid's pants and said, 'where do I put it?' I said, 'On the table.' He said, 'Where?' I said. 'Next to the sprinkles' and just hearing put the gun next to the sprinkles is not something you say on a daily basis," Lee told CBS Chicago. Arnez Harper, 18, was arrested on charges of possession of a controlled substance, battery, aggravated assault and unlawful use of a weapon.       
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Somewhat Useless Information
--Female wolf spiders carry their egg sacs behind them, attached to their spinnerets. After the spiders emerge, they crawl onto the mother's abdomen and hold on while she actively runs and hunts. After about a week, the spiderlings molt to a larger size and then take off to live on their own.
--Spiders eat more insects than birds and bats (combined) eat, so they should be considered another of human's best friends. They play a big role in controlling insect populations.
--Male spiders are almost always smaller than the females and are often much more colorful. Some males are so small that they actually look like they're newly hatched.
--Spiders cannot fly - but they can balloon. Young spiderlings pull out silk until the breeze can lift them into the sky. Most don't travel high or far, but some have been seen at altitudes of 10,000 feet and on ships more than 200 miles from land.
--The decoration in the web of some orb-weaving spiders serves a variety of purposes. It can be a warning so birds don't fly into the web, an attractant so insect-prey fly in on purpose, or an "umbrella" to shade the spider from the hot sun.
--Some spiders live underwater all of their lives. They surface to collect a bubble of air, which acts as an underwater lung. An underwater spider fills its bell-shape web with air bubbles and derives oxygen from them.

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Birthday’s Today
89 - Jerry Lewis, [Joseph Levitch], comedian/fund raiser (MDA),
83 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US Supreme Court)
74 - Bernardo Bertolucci, director (Last Tango in Paris)
74 - Chuck Woolery, TV game show host (Love Connection)
73 - Jerry Jeff Walker, country singer (Mr Bojangles)
66 - Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor (CHiPS)
61 - Nancy Wilson, SF, rock guitarist (Heart-Never, What about Love)
56 - Flavor Flav [William Jonathan Drayton Jr.], American rapper\reality tv star
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Remembered for being born today
1750-1848@97 - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, 1st modern woman astronomer
1751-1836@85 - James Madison, 4th US president
1799-1871@72 - Anna Atkins, 1st to publish a book illustrated with photographs
1903-2001@98 - Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority whip
1906-1998@91 - Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife please)
1927-2003@76 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/Sen-NY
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Historical Obits Today
Lord Lovat, Clan Fraser of Lovat [Shimi], Scottish landowner-1995@83
Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer and Nobel Prize laureate-1940@81
Arthur Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), cancer-1983@79
Roy Bean, American jurist, heavy drinking-1903@78ish
Thomas E. Dewey, US president candidate, heart attack-1971@68
T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town), stroke-1975@64
Tammi Terrell, soul singer (You're All I Need), brain tumor-1970@24
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Brain Teasers Answers
Mixing business with pleasure.

PbLuEsAiSnUeRsEs

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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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