3-26-15

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Almanac: Week: 13 \ Day: 085 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 61°\L 35° Average Sky Cover: 8% 
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  19mph
Ave. High: 53° Record High:  73° (1988) Ave. Low: 25° Record Low:  -8° (1902)
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Observances Today:
International Sister Cities Day
Legal Assistants Day
Make Up Your Own Holiday Day
Purple Day
Supporting Epilepsy Research worldwide
Spinach Festival 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
      26-28

…American Crossword Puzzle Days
…International Listening Weekend


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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1790 - US Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1830 - The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York
1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of bandaid
1682 - la Salle first meets the NATCHEZ Indians—1st recorded meeting
of Europeans with the NATCHEZ
1885 - Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1910 - US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
1913 - Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum
Rivers reach flood stage simultaneously
1926 - 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1930 - Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
1936 - 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech
1937 - Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
1939 - Tucson Mayor bought the 1st four boxes of cookies from Tucson Girl
Scouts who were starting a citywide sales project
1945 - Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1945 - Iwo Jima occupied, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed
1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio
1955 - "Ballad of Davy Crockett" becomes the #1 record in US
1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1982 - Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1994 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)
1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail
systems around the world
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Today’s World Events through History
1636 - University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1668 - England takes control of Bombay, India
1780 - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1812 - Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela; about 20,000 die
1859 - 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1872 - Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1878 - Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens
1886 - 1st cremation in England
1931 - New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
1934 - Driving tests introduced in Britain
1970 - The Police (Northern Ireland) Act becomes law; the act provides for
the disarmament of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve force
1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email
1979 - OPEC makes full 14.5% oil price increase effective on April 1
1985 - Pope John Paul II proclaims first ever World Youth Day
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


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My Rambling Thoughts
While out running errands I delivered my tax stuff to my accountant…now the wait begins.
Another nice spring day here. Spent some time on the deck…nice. Otherwise a quiet day.
Our little mountain town has been described as ‘poverty with a view’ for decades now. High property prices, low wages, high cost of essentials. Today our local paper said that Flagstaff has the lowest wages in the US…not news for people around here, just conformation.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Five of the six listed words share a common characteristic. Which word does not belong?

1. fantasy
2. smother
3. smidge
4. stick
5. bunker
6. smite


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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Average Facts…
-- On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
--The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.

…Education Facts…
-- Taking a nap after learning something can help your retention of it.
--Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 years ago--1990
--The Snow Bowl really needed this storm. All lifts are now running with 39 inches at the base and 32 inches at Hart Prairie. The slopes are being groomed every night and, contrary to a rumor, will be staying open throughout the entire week.
--The snowmobilers are enjoying the fresh snow out at Mormon Lake. Since the water is low, there is a great area open for this sport.

…Harper’s Index…
$29,420
Average annual salary predicted by white Americans for a worker who is described as ‘black’
$37,040
Who is described as ‘African-American’
…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Twinkies originally had banana-flavored filling, but switched to vanilla when WWII brought the banana trade to a halt.
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2 jokes for the day
Father: "Son, when Abraham Lincoln was your age, he walked 12 miles to school." 
Son: "Dad, when Abraham Lincoln was your age, he was President."

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A married couple rushed to the hospital because the woman was in labor the doctor asked the couple, "I have invented a new machine that you might want to try, it takes some of the labor pains away from the mother and gives it to the father." 
So the married couple decided that they would try this. The doctor hooked the machine up and put it on 10% of pain switched from the mother to the father and the husband said "I feel okay turn it up a lot more." 
So the doctor turned it up to 50% and the husband said "Why don't you just put it all on me cause I'm not feeling a thing." 
The doctor warned them, "This much could kill you if you’re not prepared," and the husband replied "I'm ready." 
So the doctor turned the machine up to 100% but the husband didn't fell a thing so they went home happy with a pain free labor. 
When they got home the mailman was dead on the front porch!     

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Yep, It Really Happened
SUNDERLAND, England
Security camera footage from a British restaurant recorded the moment a man set his pet rat on the ground in an attempt to scam a free meal. Christopher Baker, 28, pleaded guilty in Sunderland Magistrates' Court to a charge of fraud by false representation after he released his pet rat at the Borneo Bistro in Sunderland, England, on Valentine's Day and demanded a refund for his meal. Kevin Smith, the restaurant's owner, said he reviewed security footage after noticing the black and white rat seemed suspiciously clean and tame. "Mr. Smith perhaps smelled a rat at this particular point and he retrieved the rat from the floor. It was a black and white rat, very calm. It did not appear to be wild at all. Acorn Pest Control attended and they said it appeared to be a pet," prosecutor Lee Poppett said. "Mr. Smith viewed the CCTV and saw the defendant fiddling in his pocket. He waited until a family moved from the table next to him and retrieved what appeared to be a rat from his pocket and dropped it on the floor. He then jumped out of his seat." The court heard Baker later told police the rat was a gift for his daughter and had bitten his finger and escaped his pocket accidentally. Smith had harsh words for Baker after the trial. "He is just the scum of the earth," Smith told the Sunderland Echo. "He could have destroyed the reputation I have built up over seven years. I was devastated. I thought 'that's it my business is gone.' I didn't sleep that night." "People like him deserve the death penalty. As far as I'm concerned, he shouldn't be in our society," Smith said. "He is no use to anybody and he's caused nothing but grief. I find it unbelievable that someone could be willing to go to those lengths for a free meal."           
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Somewhat Useless Information
It used to take 27 hours to make a Peep. That was in 1953, when Sam Born acquired the Rodda Candy Company and its line of marshmallow chicks. Back then, each chick was handmade with a pastry tube. Just Born quickly set about automating the process, so that it now takes just six minutes to make a Peep.
The recipe has remained pretty much the same. The recipe begins with a boiling batch of granulated sugar, liquid sugar and corn syrup, to which gelatin and vanilla extract are later added. 
Since Just Born turned Peeps-making into an automated process, their chicks have been carefully formed by a top-secret machine known as The Depositor. Created by Sam Born's son, Bob, The Depositor could manufacture six rows of five Peeps apiece at a fraction of the time it took workers to form them by hand.
The final flourish for all of these squishy balls of sweetness is adding the eyes, which are made of carnauba - a non-toxic edible wax.
All over the country, Peeps have become the preferred media for a number of highly anticipated annual art contests, including The Washington Post's Peeps Diorama Contest, which is now in its ninth year.
Peeps used to have wings. They were clipped in 1955, two years after the first marshmallow chicks hatched, to give the candy a sleeker, more "modern" look.

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Birthday’s Today
85 - Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice
80 - Alan Arkin, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark)
75 - James Caan, Bronx NY, American actor (Misery, Godfather)
75 - Nancy Pelosi, (Rep-D-California)
72 - Robert "Bob" Woodward, Washington Post investigative reporter
69 - Johnny Crawford, actor (Mark-The Rifleman)
67 - Steven Tyler, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun)
66 - Vicki Lawrence, Inglewood Ca, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's Family)
65 - Martin Short, Hamilton Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
58 - Leeza Gibbons, SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)
55 - Marcus Allen, NFL running back (LA Raiders, KC Chiefs, Heisman 1981)
47 - Kenny Chesney, American singer
42 - Larry Page, co-founder of Google
30 - Keira Knightley, English actress (Pirates of the Caribbean)
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Remembered for being born today
Nathaniel Bowditch, math/astronomy (Marine Sextant) 1773-1838@64 
Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36) 1868-1936@68 
Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken) 1874-1963@88
Duncan Hines, restaurant guide writer 1880-1959@78 
Betty MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I) 1908-1958@57 
Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis star (French 1935) 1908-1981@72
Tennessee Williams, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) 1911-1983@71
William Westmoreland, Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era) 1914-2005@91
Strother Martin, Kokomo Ind, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot) 1919-1980@61 
Leonard Nimoy, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible) 1931-2015@83 
Teddy Pendergrass, Phila, singer (Turn Off the Lights) 1950-2010@59
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Historical Obits Today
Edmund S Muskie, VP candidate/(Gov-D-Maine)-1996@81
Sarah Bernhardt, [Henriette], actress (Queen Elizabeth), uremia-1923@77
Geraldine Ferraro, Congresswoman and VP nominee, cancer, 2011@75
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator, infection-2003@76
Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), heart failure-1973@73
Walt Whitman, American poet, pneumonia-1892@72
Jacob van Eyck, Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur-1657@69
Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean), seizure-2004@62
John Winthrop, 1st Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony-1649@61
Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer, liver failure-1827@56
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Brain Teasers Answers
Answer: Number five (5) bunker does not belong.
The common words hidden inside each original word are insects.

1. ant
2. moth
3. midge
4. tick
6. mite

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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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