3-22-15

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Almanac: Week: 13 \ Day: 081 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 65°\L 28° Average Sky Cover: 50% 
Wind ave:   12mph\Gusts:  22mph
Ave. High: 51° Record High:  68° (2004) Ave. Low: 24° Record Low:  -1° (1952)
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Observances Today:
As Young As You Feel Day
Black Marriage Day
Education and Sharing Day
International Day of the Seal
International Goof-off Day
National Goof-off Day
Tuskegee Airmen Day
World Day for Water (aka World Water Day)
World Day of Metta
to create a change in global consciousness so that the basic needs of ALL beings may be met.
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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
      22-28
…Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
…Consider Christianity Week
…International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week

…Meat Free Week
…National Cleaning Week
National LGBT Health Awareness Week

…National Youth Violence Prevention Week
…Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week
…Root Canal Awareness Week
...Tsunami Awareness Week


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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
 1622 - 1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of whites
Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain
1630 - 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
1638 - Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled from Massachusetts
Bay Colony
1765 - Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on colonists
1790 - Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State
1794 - Congress bans US vessels from supplying slaves to other countries
1822 - NY Horticultural Society founded
1841 - Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1861 - 1st US nursing school chartered
1871 - William Holden of NC becomes 1st governor removed by impeachment
1872 - Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1873 - Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico
1907 - Territorial Legislature moved the Territorial Prison from Yuma to Florence
1933 - FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
1941 - Jimmy Stewart is inducted into the Army, becoming the first major
American movie star to wear a military uniform in World War II
1946 - 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1954 - 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Mich
1960 - 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
1965 - US confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
1978 - Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off
a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Today’s World Events through History
1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its
current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand
1903 - Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a drought
1971 - Brian Faulkner becomes the Prime Minister of Northern Ireland
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth (1.315 AU)
2014 - Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has already killed 59 people
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
A quiet, but nice spring day. Went to Sprouts for some ‘real’ food, unpacked and hooked up small fountain for deck, enjoyed some quiet time on the deck. Really nice day to just enjoy our local beauty and our neighborhood quiet.
Sadly a Navajo Nation Police Officer was killed by a crazy near Shiprock. I didn’t know him, but I did know one of the other officers that was wounded. This killing or wounding of law enforcement officers is such a tragedy. Happening way to often across the US.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What U.S. state does the following mean?

HLIBNMT

Hint: becomes a
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Average Facts…
-- On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
--As many as one third Americans flush the toilet while they are still on it.

***NEW***…Education Facts…
--In Finland, you are given a top hat and a sword when you get a PhD diploma.
--People with poor mathematical skills aren't necessarily bad at math because they are 'ungifted'. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety' that makes people perform worse, sometimes leading to math avoidance, which leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more math anxiety.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 years ago-1940
--The Saturday night’s annual bonfire was put off until this week due to last week’s inclement weather and is rescheduled for this Friday.
--The Flagstaff Fire Department reports that there were 39 fires in 1939 caused by hot ashes, chimneys, stoves and fireplaces. 19 residential fires, 5 business buildings, 5 automobile fires and 4 misc. fires

…Funny Facts…
-- In 2013, a man bought a house next to his ex-wife just to install a giant middle finger statue for her to see every day.
--A couple invited the Queen to their wedding as a joke, and she turned up.

***NEW***…Game Facts…
-- There's a video game called "Lose/Lose" that deletes a random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.
--In 2011, Mortal Kombat was banned in Australia.

…Harper’s Index…
$160,000
Amount by which a watercolor painting by Adolf Hitler was bought at auction in Germany November 2014
…Skin Facts…
-- Smokers get ten times more wrinkles than non-smokers.
--The skin on your lips is 200 times more sensitive than your fingertips.

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
The Spanish omelet was actually invented in Spain, but over there it’s eaten as lunch or dinner and is often served cold.
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2 jokes for the day
A limbo champion walks into a bar... 
...and loses his title.

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These are from a book called Disorder in the Court, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down and now published by court reporters - who had the torment of staying calm while these exchanges were actually taking place. 

Q: What is your date of birth? 
A: July 15th. 
Q: What year? 
A: Every year. 


Q: How old is your son, the one living with you? 
A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which. 
Q: How long has he lived with you? 
A: Forty-five years. 


Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that morning? 
A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?" 
Q: And why did that upset you? 
A: My name is Susan. 


Q: How was your first marriage terminated? 
A: By death.


Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I sent to your attorney? 
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work. 


Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse? 
A: No. 
Q: Did you check for blood pressure? 
A: No. 
Q: Did you check for breathing? 
A: No. 
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the autopsy? 
A: No. 
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor? 
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar. 
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless? 
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.      

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Yep, It Really Happened
PATNA, India (UPI)
Parents in India's Bihar state were caught on camera scaling school walls to help 10th grade students cheat on their exams. Officials said more than 600 students -- possibly up to 1,600 -- were expelled in Bihar after being caught cheating on exams Wednesday and Thursday as 1.4 million 10th grade students sat for the tests. Education officials said many students smuggled in textbooks and notes, while pictures and video shot outside several of the state's schools recorded parents and other family members scaling walls to pass cheat sheets to students. Education minister PK Shahi said it would be impossible to completely eradicate cheating without the cooperation of parents in the state. "It is impossible to hold completely fair examination without the cooperation of the parents. There are over 1.4 million examinees and with each of them there are usually three-four people. Managing six to seven million people is not a cup of tea for any administration. It requires parental and societal support as well," Shahi told the Hindustan Times. Prasad Sinha, who formerly served as chair of the Bihar School Examination Board, said part of the problem is the low quality of instruction in schools. "After all, unless they are taught in schools, how can they be expected to answer? Just passing the test should not be the goal, but unfortunately that is the mindset," Sinha said. Bihar, one of India's poorest states, has only a 64 percent literacy rate, compared to 74 percent for the country as a whole.
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SSomewhat Useless Information
French people prefer sandwiches and France is the only country where hamburger sales do not supersede that of other sandwiches.
The most popular sandwich in France is the ham and butter sandwich “Parisien”, consisting of bread baguette, spread butter and slices of ham.
The ham and butter sandwich covers 64% of the total consumption of sandwiches in France, as 830 million sandwiches are bought annually.
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Birthday’s Today
85Pat Robertson, televangelist (700 club)
85Stephen Sondheim, lyricist (West Side Story, Company)
84William Shatner, Montreal Canada, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker)
81May Britt, Sweden, actress (Young Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr
79Roger Whittaker, Nairobi Kenya, country singer (Durham Town)
74Jeremy Clyde, England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday's Gone)
72 - George Benson, American jazz/blues singer/guitarist (Greatest Love of All)
67 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats)
67Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
56 - Matthew Modine, Loma Linda Cal, actor (Full Metal Jacket)
39Reese Witherspoon, American actress
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Remembered for being born today
 1846-1886@39 - Randolph Caldecott, England, illustrator (Caldecott Medal)
1887-1961@74 - Chico Marx, [Leonard Martin], comedian (Marx Brothers)
1902-1988@85 - Ellin Berlin, [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain)
1908-1988@80Louis D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett)
1912-2009@97Karl Malden, actor (Mike-Streets of SF, American Express)
1920-1981@61 - Ross Martin, Grodek Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West)
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Historical Obits Today
Walter Lantz, US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker)-1994@94
William Hanna, American animator and studio founder-2001@90
James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor-2010@85
J W Goethe, writer-1832@82
Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire-1978@73
Mike Todd, US film and theatre producer, plane crash-1958@48
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Brain Teasers Answers
ALABAMA.
Hint: becomes a = Take the letters in HINT, and change it into the letter A.

(H)L(I)B(N)M(T) = ALABAMA

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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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