3-21-15

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Almanac: Week: 12 \ Day: 080 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 58°\L 28° Average Sky Cover: 80% 
Wind ave:   9mph\Gusts:  24mph
Ave. High: 51° Record High:  70° (2004) Ave. Low: 23° Record Low:  5° (1948)
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Observances Today:
Corn Dog Day
Fairy Fun Day
Honors a series of books about Fairies and rights of spring
Fragrance Day
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
International Day of Forests and The Tree
International Day of Nowruz
This ancient New Year tradition coincides with the arrival of spring, giving rise to a rich array of customs, rituals and festivities, from communities in Western, Central and Southern Asia, to the Caucasus, Balkans and other regions. Nowruz is inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
International Sports Car Racing Day
Memory Day
National Common Courtesy Day
National Day of Action On Syringe Exchange
National Quilting Day
National Renewable Energy Day
National Single Parent Day
Poetry Day Spring
WE Day
An Annual Celebration of the Power of Youth to Create A Better World
World Down Syndrome Day

Observances This Week:
       14-22
…Act Happy Week
…American Chocolate Week 
…Campfire USA Birthday Week
…Flood Safety Awareness Week
…Health Information Professionals Week
…International Brain Awareness Week
…National Animal Poison Prevention Week
…National Button Week
…National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week
…National YoYo and Skills Toys Days
…Termite Awareness Week
…Shakespeare Week
…Wellderly Week
…Wildlife Week
…World Folktales & Fables Week
      20-22
…International Tree Climbing Days
…Sherlock Holmes Weekend

Quote of the Day 

US Historical Highlights for Today
 1788 - Fire destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana
1859 - Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1865 - Battle of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
1866 - US Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
1868 - 1st US professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC
1883 - CHIRICAHUA APACHE are raiding American locations then returning
to Mexico. Chato, Bonito and Chihuahua raid a mining town near Tombstone. This is just the pretext General George Crook needs to mount a raid into Mexico to find the APACHE
1901 - Gov. Nathan Murphy authorizes establishment of the Arizona Rangers.
One company of rangers was to be raised, consisting of a captain, a sergeant and not more than twelve privates.
1917 - Loretta Walsh becomes US Navy's 1st female Petty Officer
1924 - 1st foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
1947 - Pres Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal
employees to have allegiance to the United States
1951 - 2,900,000 US soldiers in Korea
1952 - Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland
Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock & roll concert ever
1946 - UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now Lehman) College (Bronx)
1963 - Alcatraz federal penitentiary in SF Bay closed
1982 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 - Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
1985 - Arthur Ashe is named to Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
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Today’s World Events through History
  630 - Byzantine emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem
1857 - Earthquake hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1859 - Scottish National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1925 - Edinburgh's Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
1935 - Persia officially renamed Iran
1960 - Sharpeville Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC
1975 - Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years
1990 - Namibia becomes independent of South Africa
1998 - Good Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland
2006 - Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United
Arab Emirates and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M in damage
2013 - The European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that
the universe is 13.82 billion years old
2014 - Russia formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


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My Rambling Thoughts
First day of Spring…wonderful…great weather…cleaned of the deck and got out or uncovered all of the summer stuff…I’m ready! I will finish the setup of the fountain tomorrow. All the warm days we had through February and much of March has really gotten me pumped for nice weather. I know there is still a chance for snow, but I’m not going on any trips for a while, so I can enjoy it and cover everything for a short snowfall. Spring flowers are coming along—no flowers yet, but lots of green stems.
Congress still playing its playground games with our foreign policy and the running of our government. Time for a time-out.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Only a small space and a single mark turns a deadly situation into a funny one.

What can that be?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Average Facts…
--The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years.
--Dutch, on average are the tallest people.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
Earl Slipher has returned from Columbus, Ohio. He met there with the American Astronomical Society where he aroused international comment with his observations of Mars at the Lamont Hussey Observatory at Bloem Fonten in South Africa, where he took over 8,000 photographs. Mr. Slipher told the astronomers that no doubt remains in his mind about the canals of Mars existence and cannot be said to be artificial or unnatural.

Funny Facts…
-- In Lucerne, Switzerland, you can hire an evil clown to stalk your child for a week before their birthday, and on that day, he will smash a cake into your child’s face.
--Viagra dissolved in water can make cut flowers stand up straight for up to a week beyond their natural lifespan.

Harper’s Index…
13
Percentage of electricity consumed in the US that is generated from renewable sources
24
Of electricity in Germany

Skin Facts…
-- There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
--Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
At 6000 degrees Kelvin, the surface of the Sun is actually one of its coolest spots. Both the Sun's interior and its corona measure in the millions of degrees Kelvin.
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2 jokes for the day
Q: Why did Waldo only wear stripes?

A: Because he didn't want to be spotted!

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Joe, a college student, was taking a course in ornithology, the study of birds. The night before the biggest test of the semester, Joe spent all night studying. He had the textbook nearly memorized. He knew his class notes backward and forward. Joe was ready. 

The morning of the test, Joe entered the auditorium and took a seat in the front row. On the table in the front was a row of ten stuffed birds. Each bird had a sack covering its body, and only the legs were showing. When class started, the professor announced that the students were to identify each bird by looking at its legs and give its common name, species, habitat, mating habits, etc. 
Joe looked at each of the birds' legs. They all looked the same to him. He started to get angry. He had stayed up all night studying for this test and now he had to identify birds by their LEGS? The more he thought about the situation, the angrier he got. 
Finally he reached his boiling point. He stood up, marched up to the professor's desk, crumpled up his exam paper and threw it on the desk. "What a ridiculous test!" he told the prof. "How could anyone tell the difference between these birds by looking at their legs? This exam is the biggest rip-off I've ever seen!" 
With that, Joe turned and stormed toward the exit. The professor was a bit shocked, and it took him a moment to regain his composure. Then, just as Joe was about to walk out the door, the prof shouted out, "Wait a minute, young man, what's your name?" 
Joe turned around, pulled up his pant legs and hollered, "You tell me, prof! You tell me!"         

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Yep, It Really Happened
32-year-old Christina Leos certainly wasn't expecting what she got herself into. She met a 33-year-old lawyer named Ryan Hemphill online and pretty soon they were role-playing and making kinky sex videos. 

Some people like to dress up in bondage gear, or maybe like a policeman or a fireman. Hemphill liked to dress up like a TSA agent and give Leos body cavity searches (hey, still not as weird as furries), but during one 'date' he got a little too rough and Leos got scared, so she decided to end the relationship. 
When she went to his apartment to break up with him, Hemphill became so enraged he choked her and held a Bowie knife to her throat, saying, "I'm going to f-king slit your throat!" Leos testified. She thought was going to die, so when Hemphill released her she fled and called the police. 
And it looks like Leos got off easy with a little choking and a body cavity search. Investigators found 20 homemade porn videos featuring Hemphill choking, water-boarding and torturing women.
Prosecutor Sara Weiss said, "He is in multiple videos holding a sword to the neck of blindfolded women, women he, on some occasions, urinates on, while he makes them recite prayers."
Yeah, she got off easy with the body cavity search. 
Hemphill has denied the charges.

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Somewhat Useless Information
Down is the layer of soft feathers closest to a bird's skin, primarily on the breast. These feathers keep ducks and geese warm during chilly flights.

Ancient down-filled quilts have been discovered through archeological digs in Norway, leading scientists to attribute the first use of goose down to the Vikings.
Because its properties enable people to regulate their natural body temperature and maintain warmth, lightweight goose down is used to fill comforters, pillows, and outerwear such as vests and coats.
The down in these items takes the form of clusters, similar to snowflakes. The clusters have fine filaments radiating out in every direction; these filaments expand and form air pockets that trap body heat, a process called "lofting."
The more down an item contains, the warmer (and more expensive) the product will be. The insulation down provides is rated by "fill power," which reflects the size of down clusters and their related loft.
Fill power is measured as the number of cubic inches one ounce of down occupies. A good down comforter will have a fill power of at least 575; more warmth is provided by comforters with fill powers up to 800.

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Birthday’s Today
71 - Timothy Dalton, North Wales, actor (James Bond-Living Daylights)
66 - Eddie Money, [Mahoney], Bkln, singer/guitarist (Take Me Home Tonight)
57 - Gary Oldman, actor (Sid & Nancy, Criminal Law, State of Grace)
53 - Matthew Broderick, actor (WarGames, Biloxi Blues)
53 - Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne (League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie)
37 - Kevin Federline, American dancer/hip hop artist
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Remembered for being born today
1768-1832@60 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist
1806-1872@66 - Benito Pablo Juarez, Oaxaca Mexico, president of Mexico
1869-1942@73 - Albert Kahn, Prussia, American architect (architect of Detroit)
1904-1999@95 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999)
1906-1972@72 - John D. Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil)
1906-1967@61 - Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman
1930-1987@56 - James Coco, Bronx, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death)
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Historical Obits Today
Chinua Achebe, Nigerian poet and novelist-2013@82
Macdonald Carey, actor (Days of Our Lives)-1994@81
John Ireland, actor (Rawhide), leukemia-1992@78
Michael Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips), Parkinson's-1985@77
Robert Preston, actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), cancer-1987@68
Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico, epilepsy-1843@56
Dack Rambo, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), AIDs-1994@52
Pocahontas, Native American, epilepsy?\TB?-1617@21ish
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Brain Teasers Answers
With a small space and an apostrophe you can change a "manslaughter" into a "man's laughter".
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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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