3-30-15

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Almanac: Week: 14 \ Day: 089 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 70°\L 32° Average Sky Cover: 25% 
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  18mph
Ave. High: 54° Record High: 70° (1971) Ave. Low: 23° Record Low:  1° (1998)
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Observances Today:
Doctors Day
Grass Is Always Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day
I Am In Control Day
Pencil Day
Take a Walk in the Park Day
Torrents Day
World Bi-polar Day
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Observances This Week:
28-4/5
…Nano Days
…National Protocol Officer's Week
…National Week of the Ocean
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1802 - The Indian Trade and Intercourse Act takes effect
1822 - Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 - Ether used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Ga)
1858 - Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Phila)
1867 - US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre - Seward's Folly)
1870 - 15th Amendment to the US constitution is adopted, guarantees
right to vote regardless of race
1870 - Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
1890 - Fire destroyed an entire business block in Flagstaff
1893 - Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
1945 - World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt
Me 262A-1 to Americans
1950 - Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
1980 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 - Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W Hinckley III
2012 - Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with
over ten million compromised credit card numbers
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Today’s World Events through History
1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what
 becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers
1778 - Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, discovers the
construction of the heptadecagon-17 sided polygon
1856 - Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean War
1972 - Northern Ireland's Government and Parliament dissolved by
the British Government and 'direct rule' from Westminster is introduced
1987 - Vincent van Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds
($39.7 million)
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Able to read the morning paper out on the deck. NICE! Strangely, one of my plaster little gnomes has taken off for parts unknown. It was on the back deck, which has a fence. All its friends are still there…he is the only one gone. There is no traffic of people back there so I hope he finds his way back home.  
Also watched my Sunday news programs so I remain as confused as ever regarding the State of the World. Note to self: Ted Cruz is wrong when he says the ‘world is on fire’, most of the problems have been around for centuries and aren’t going away anytime soon. One of the news items is the plane that crashed. Whenever something happens involving a plane, everybody and every country jumps to find a band aid to prevent the problem. One idiot years ago got on a plane with a ‘shoe-bomb’ and we are still taking off our shoes. One co-pilot crashes and plane and overnight there has to be 2 people in the cockpit at all times during a flight. Unarmed Black teens are killed by cops and months later, no changes. Crazy people with guns massacre people at schools or shopping malls and years later, no changes. What is that makes airplanes so important?
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
If to you I'm given you should thankfully receive,
Then look me over carefully, just don't look at my teeth.
Show me to a cool stream and I'll follow willingly,
Though I might not do what you want, although parched I may be,
But if you're really hungry and are looking for a bite,
I don't think you could eat me even though you say you might.
Decipher all these clues and then together they should tie
To help you solve the question which, of course, is "what am I?
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Education Facts…
~ In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
~ An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 years ago-1940
291 persons enjoyed, the snow, the skiing, and the sun at the Snow Bowl this weekend The skiing is on 10 inches of old snow and 6 inches of new -- A.R. Kallaus, Manager. Chains are required on the Snow Bowl Road and the tow will be operating on both Saturday and Sunday.

…Harper’s Index…
49,000: Estimated number of US citizens targeted for surveillance by the US Postal Office in the past year

…Memory Facts…
~ Our brains have a negativity bias and will remember bad memories more than good ones.
~ You can only remember 4 things at a time.

…Strange State Laws…
~ In St. Louis, it's illegal to sit on the curb of any city street and drink beer from a bucket.
~ In Detroit, couples are banned from making love in an automobile unless the act takes place while the vehicle is parked on the couple's own property.

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Cheerleading was initially an all-male sport. Females were only added to the equation when smaller, lighter bodies were needed for "flying."
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2 jokes for the day
Q: Why did the guy get fired from the orange juice factory?

A: He couldn't concentrate.
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A woman was rushed into the hospital in an ambulance as she was just about to give birth to twins.
At the hospital the lady was in such pain she had to be sedated.
A couple of hours after the babies had been delivered, she woke up and asked to see her children.
"Doctor, could you bring my babies to me so I can name them?"
The doctor replied, "You don't need to worry about names, your brother has already named them."
"Why did you let him name them, he has no sense! What did he call the little girl then?"
"Denise." replied the doctor.
"Oh that’s not too bad, I thought u were going to tell me he'd named her something awful! So what did he call the little boy?"
"De-nephew, of course!"   
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Yep, It Really Happened
MELBOURNE (UPI)
Activists are criticizing the National Disability Summit in Australia after a speaker had to be carried on stage because the venue wasn't wheelchair accessible. Jarrod Marrinon, who attended the conference organized by Informa Australia in Melbourne last week, tweeted a picture showing Deborah Haygarth, a speaker at the event, being carried off the stage because the venue was not wheelchair accessible. "This is a disabled speaker carried off stage. No ramps. #shame," he tweeted. Marrinon took another photo showing the disabled restroom at the conference was out of use because it was being used to store extra chairs. Jax Jacki Brown, a disabled rights activist who also attended the conference, said only seven disabled people and their five carers were invited to participate in the conference, which had a total 133 attendees. "I feel like I was actively excluded when they realized I was a person with a disability wanting to attend, and I also feel rather annoyed that they said that they were going to give the remaining tickets to people with disabilities so that more than 12 people with disabilities could attend," Brown told 9News. "But that never eventuated." "They positioned us at special little tables away from where everyone else was sitting ... way off to the right and the left further up the back of the room," Brown said. "It really created this feeling that people with disabilities weren't part of the bigger conference and the bigger discussion." Brown said in a blog post that there were other accessibility issues at the event. "The food provided was up on really tall tables... wheelchair users could not access it," she said. Susan Ryan, disability discrimination commissioner at the Australian Human Rights Commission, said on Twitter the organizers of the event have been contacted "regarding the accessibility issues."            
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Somewhat Useless Information
The most prolific mother ever gave birth to 69 children-wife of a Russian farmer?
She gave birth to 69 children, 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.
The case was reported to Moscow by the Monastery of Nikolsk on 27 Feb 1782 and when the woman died her husband remarried and had another 18 kids!
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Birthday’s Today
89 - Peter Marshall, Huntington WV, TV game show host (Hollywood Squares)
86 - Richard Dysart, Brighton Mass, actor (Leland MacKenzie-LA Law)
78 - Warren Beatty, Richmond Va, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Shampoo, Dick Tracy)
70 - Eric Clapton, Ripley England, singer/guitarist (Tears in Heaven)
65 - Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor (Harry Potter films-Rubeus Hagrid)
58 - Paul Reiser, actor (My 2 Dads, Diner, Aliens, Mad About You)
53 - M C Hammer, [Stanley Kirk Burrell], rapper (Hammer Time)
51 - Ian Ziering, American actor ("Beverly Hills 90210")
50 - Piers Morgan, editor (Daily Mirror)\TV host (CNN)
47 - Celine Dion, Quebec Canada, singer (I'm Your Lady)
36 - Norah Jones, American singer and pianist
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Remembered for being born today
Brooke Astor, American philanthropist 1902-2007@105 
Frankie Laine, actor (Frankie Laine Show, Rawhide) 1913-2007@93 
- Richard Helms, CIA head (1966-73) 1913-2002@89
Sean O'Casey, Ireland, playwright (Playboy of the Western World)
1880-1964@84 
Francisco Jose de Goya, Fuendetodos Spain, painter/etcher 1746-1828@82 
Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist/politician 1864-1943@79 
McGeorge Bundy, national security adviser (JFK) 1919-1996@77 
John Hawkins, England, wrote 1st history of music 1719-1789@70 
Vincent van Gogh, artist, painter and pioneer of Expressionism 1853-1890@37 
- Secretariat, American racehorse and 1973 triple crown winner 1970-1989@19
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Historical Obits Today
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother of the United Kingdom-2002@101
Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist-2004@95
James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy)-1986@86
Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-born American high school teacher
(Stand & Deliver), cancer, 2010@79
Manolis Andronicos, Greek archaeologist discovered ancient royal
Macedonian tombs in northern Greece-1992@ 72
George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, syphilis-1840@61
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Brain Teasers Answers
If you answered "horse" then you're quite clever, very shrewd,
For to look a gift horse in the mouth is very, very rude!
Though I may (or not) be thirsty it's a well-known thing, I think,
That you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink,
And though you might be famished, I don't think you mean a word
In saying, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse," it's quite absurd!
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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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