3-23-15

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Almanac: Week: 13 \ Day: 082 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 63°\L 30° Average Sky Cover: 60% 
Wind ave:   7mph\Gusts:  23mph
Ave. High: 52° Record High:  67° (1990) Ave. Low: 24° Record Low:  -1° (1963)
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Observances Today:
National Organize Your Home Office
National Chip and Dip Day
National Puppy Day
Near Miss Day
OK Day
World Meteorological Day
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Observances This Week:
      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
1836 - Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale for US coins
1839 - 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1840 - Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
1857 - Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488 Broadway, NYC)
1858 - Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Phila)

1868 - University of California founded (Oakland California)

1880 - Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisc)
1889 - Pres Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization
1896 - The Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature,
restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels.
1910 - 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US auto speedway)
1912 - Dixie Cup invented
1922 - 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, DC
1923 - Frank Silver & Irving Conn release "Yes, We Have No Bananas"
1925 - Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1929 - 1st telephone installed in White House
1942 - US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers
1952 - The smell of orange blossoms wafted across cities in Arizona as
one of Arizona's Five Cs - citrus - was a cornerstone of the state's economy
1965 - Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight (Grissom & Young)
1972 - Evel Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
1973 - Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence in US
1981 - Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
1983 - US President Ronald Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI)
1987 - Soap "Bold & Beautiful" premieres
1997 - Betsy King wins LPGA Standard Register PING
2013 - The US Senate approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 50–49

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Today’s World Events through History
1708 - English pretender to the throne James III lands at Firth of Forth
1743 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London
1950 - UN World Meteorological Org established
1956 - Sudan becomes independent
1966 - 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic & Anglican Church
1976 - International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the
atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji

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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Lazy Sunday with nice weather.
Watched several episodes of ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix. Great storyline. Also caught up with Sunday News shows. Nothing spectacular.
Our little local paper announced that we can now get the digital edition on line without paying each month. Tried to sign up, but it didn’t work. Looking to see the real cost as the story stated that subscriptions would be changed. Tried to call but the offices back east are closed. Oh well.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In this teaser you have two tasks. First, you need to fill in the correct blank letter of each word. Second, when you have done this, each letter then needs to be transferred to the numbered blanks in order to discover the keyword.

1. _ AINT
2. TIME _
3. B _ AST
4. MI _ ER
5. ST _ LL
6. BRI _ E
7. PLAN _
8. _ IFTY
9. RE _ AP
10. DIAR _

1. _ 2. _ 3. _ 4. _ 5. _ 6. _ 7. _ 8._ 9. _ 10. _

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Average Facts…
-- The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
--On average people fear spiders more than they do death.

…Education Facts…
-- In Iceland, more books are published and sold per person every year than anywhere else in the world. Ten percent of Icelanders become a published author in their lifetime.
--Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 years ago-1940
--At Babbitt’s Thriftway this week. Mission Coffee 20 cents a pound, Ground beef 18 cents or Steak 23 cents a pound , Bacon whole or slab 25 cents and Arizona Grapefruit 23 cents a dozen.
--1940 Studebaker Champion, 29.9 MPG, Commander 24.7 MPG, President 23.4 MPG. Our classic model finished first in economy class again. It’s the pick of the nation’s motor cars. $660. Low down pay - easy credit terms at Joseph J. Waldhaus. 202 E. Santa Fe. Ave. Phone 55

…Game Facts…
-- Playing video games like Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed can boost your ability to learn motor skills.
--Grand Theft Auto was originally a racing game called Race’n’Chase. However, a glitch made the police cars go crazy, ramming the player. This glitch was so popular with testers that they rebuilt the game around it, creating GTA.

…Harper’s Index…
$0.01
Amount of a tax on each ounce of soda sold in Berkeley, CA, passed last year by ballot initiative
…Unusual Fact of the Day…
An infant human has about 300 bones, some of which fuse together as the youngster grows up. An adult human's body typically contains 206 bones.
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2 jokes for the day
Did you hear the rumor about butter?
Never mind, I better not spread it.

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A man asked his wife what she'd like for her birthday. 
"I'd like to be eight again..." she replied. 
On the morning of her birthday, he arose early, made her a nice big bowl of Coco Pops, and then took her off to the local theme park. 
What a day! He put her on every ride in the park: the Death Slide, the Wall of Fear, the Screaming Monster Roller Coaster, every thing there was. 
Five hours later she staggered out of the theme park. Her head was reeling and her stomach felt upside down. 
Right away, they journeyed to a McDonald's where her loving husband ordered her a Happy Meal with extra fries and a refreshing chocolate shake. 
Then it was off to the movies with popcorn, all the Coke she could drink, and her favorite M&M's. What a fabulous adventure! 
Finally she wobbled home with her husband and collapsed into bed exhausted. 
He leaned over his precious wife with a big smile and lovingly asked, "Well, Dear, what was it like being eight again?" 
Her eyes slowly opened and her expression suddenly changed. "I meant my dress size!!!!!!!" 
The moral of the story: Even when a man is listening, he's gonna get it wrong.  

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Yep, It Really Happened
CHICAGO (UPI)
More than 150 Chicago firefighters were called to fight flames at a building housing one of the department's closest allies -- a fire extinguisher factory. Chicago Fire Department officials said the building in the Archer Heights neighborhood on the southwest side of the city ignited Thursday night and the fire worsened to three alarms about 9:30 p.m., leading to a total 156 firefighters responding with 26 pieces of equipment. A portion of the building, which firefighters said housed a fire extinguisher manufacturing business, collapsed as a result of the intense fire, the department said. First Deputy Fire Commissioner Charles Stewart III said the nature of the blaze made it difficult to reach the flames with water. "We had one engine feed another engine to another engine until we got water on the fire," he told WMAQ-TV. Firefighters said no injuries were reported and the cause of the fire remained under investigation Friday.     
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Somewhat Useless Information
The common thing between classical and heavy metal music
Professor Adrian North has conducted a study demonstrating the links between musical tastes and personality type.
The outcomes show that classical and heavy metal music attract listeners with similar personalities but dissimilar ages.
“Younger members of the personality group apparently go for heavy metal, while their older counterparts prefer classical. However, both have the same basic motivation: to hear something dramatic and theatrical, a shared ‘love of the grandiose,’ he said.
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Birthday’s Today
86 - Roger Bannister, England, 1st to run a 4 minute mile (May 6, 1954)
65 - Patricia Richardson, Bethesda MD, actress (Jill-Home Improvement)
62 - Chaka Khan, [Stevens], Great Lakes Il, rocker
60 - Moses Malone, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks, Milw Bucks, Phila '76ers)
50 - Richard Grieco, Waterton NY, actor (21 Jump Street, Booker)
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Remembered for being born today
1769-1839@70 - William Smith, geologist (Strata Identified by Organized Fossils)
1823-1885@61 - Schuyler Colfax, 17th VP
1857-1915@57 - Fannie Farmer, American culinary figure
1902-1982@80 - Philip Ober, actor (Gen Stone-I Dream of Jeannie)
1905-1977@73 - Joan Crawford, [Lucille Le Sueur], Texas, actress
1912-1977@65 - Werner von Braun, Wirsitz Germany, rocket expert
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Historical Obits Today
Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress, heart failure-2011@79
William Maclure, Scottish-American Geologist (first geological map)- 1840@76
Barney Clark, 1st artifical heart recipient, after 112 days-1983@62
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.      p AINT
2. TIME r
3. B e AST
4. MI s ER
5. ST i LL
6. BRI d E
7. PLAN e
8. n IFTY
9. RE c AP
10. DIAR y

Keyword: PRESIDENCY
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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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