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Almanac: Week: 10 \ Day: 063 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 42°\L 24° Average Sky Cover: 75% 
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  21mph
Ave. High: 48° Record High:  68° (1910) Ave. Low: 22° Record Low:  -16° (1966)
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Observances Today:
US: Vermont: Statehood Day-1791-14th state
Benjamin Harrison Day
Courageous Follower Day
Discover What Your Name Means Day
Holy Experiment Day
Hug a GI Day
International Scrapbooking Industry Day
March Forth-Do Something Day
National Grammar Day
Old Inauguration Day
Toy Soldier Day

Observances This Week:
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 …Celebrate Your Name Week
…National Cheerleading Week
…National Consumer Protection Week
National Pet Sitters Week  
…National Procrastination Week

…National Ghostwriters Week
…National Maple Syrup Days
…National Schools Social Work Week 
National Severe Storm Preparedness Week 
…National Sleep Awareness Week
…National Words Matter Week
…Professional Pet Sitters Week
…Read an E-Book Week 
Return The Borrowed Books Week
…Save Your Vision Week
…Severe Weather Preparedness Week 
Telecommuter Appreciation Week (Always Week that has Alexander Graham Bell's Birthday 3/2)
…Women in Construction Week 
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…National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
…Universal Human Beings Week
...Will Eisner Week

…Newspaper in Education Week
National School Breakfast Week
…Share A Story - Shape A Future Week  
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1628 - England's King Charles I grants a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
1681 - English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1793 - Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)
1801 - 1st US President inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)
1809 - Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
1829 - President Jackson gives his "just policy for Indians" speech today
1841 - Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
1861 - Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag (US Civil War)
1863 - Territory of Idaho established
1880 - NY Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan
1881 - California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1902 - American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
1909 - US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds
1913 - Dept of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments
1915 -Arizona State Senate joined the House in asking the U.S. Congress to build a barbed-wire fence along the U.S.-Mexican border.
1924 - "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1930 - Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated
1929 - Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP
1944 - 1st US bombing of Berlin
1997 - President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
1998 - Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
2005 - The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.

Today’s World Events through History
    51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth)
1492 - King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England
1936 - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany, later crashes and burns in NJ
1966 - John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
1972 - Abercorn Restaurant bombing: a bomb explodes in a crowded restaurant in Belfast, killing two civilians and wounding 130
1991 - Iraq releases 6 US, 3 British & 1 Italian POW
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp directly above the Sun (1.04 AU)
2009 - The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur
2012 - Vladimir Putin wins Russian presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


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My Rambling Thoughts
Light snow, sunshine, more light snow, sunshine was the weather today as our local schools stayed closed for a 2nd day in the road. Not that cold. Roads not bad at all..just the school system using up its unused snow days.
Ran some errands today and the roads were wet, but not slippery. Just enough water to make the vehicles very dirty. They say we got about 18” of snow during the last week, but most was melted by the 4+” of rain. Crazy for March.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Fill in the sentence below so that the first two words combine to make the third word. For example, given "The ____ was closing in, making his ____ harder but through his ____ of contacts he was able to evade the police." you would fill in NET, WORK, and NETWORK. 

The ____ count in the imported food was particularly worrying as there weren't ____ holes in the packaging, which had been shipped from ____.

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Color Facts…
Before the English speaking world was exposed to the fruit, the color orange was referred to as “geoluhread” which is Old English for red-yellow.
Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The United States Census Office is open and is recruiting applications for full and part time positions.
25 years ago-1990
The gas station and muffler shop on the corner of W. Santa Fe and Beaver has fallen to the wreaker. The plan is to create a landscaped parking lot with 25 spaces for city workers and another 25 for shoppers.

Harper’s Index…
300,000
Number of counts of ‘accessory to murder’ a 93-yr-old former Auschwitz guard was chard with in September.

Prison Facts…
In 2013, the Netherlands scheduled 19 prisons to be closed due to a lack of criminals.
Future biotechnology could be used to trick a prisoner's mind into thinking they have served a 1,000 year sentence in only eight hours, a group of scientists have claimed.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Only 1% of all the readily accessible water on earth is drinkable.
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2 jokes for the day
Q: Do you know why a bicycle can't stand alone?
A: It's two tired.

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Farmer Joe was in his car when he was hit by a truck. He decided his injuries from the accident were serious enough to take the trucking company (responsible for the accident) to court. In court the trucking company's fancy lawyer was questioning farmer Joe. "Didn't you say, at the scene of the accident, 'I'm fine'?" said the lawyer. 
Farmer Joe responded, "Well I'll tell you what happened. I had just loaded my favorite mule Bessie into the...." "I didn't ask for any details," the lawyer interrupted, "just answer the question." 
"Did you not say, at the scene of the accident, 'I'm fine'!" 
Farmer Joe said, "Well I had just got Bessie into the trailer and I was driving down the road...." 
The lawyer interrupted again and said, "Judge, I am trying to establish the fact that, at the scene of the accident, this man told the Highway Patrolman on the scene that he was just fine. Now several weeks after the accident he is trying to sue my client. I believe he is a fraud. Please tell him to simply answer the question." 
By this time the Judge was fairly interested in Farmer Joe's answer and said to the lawyer, "I'd like to hear what he has to say about his favorite mule Bessie." 
Joe thanked the Judge and proceeded, "Well as I was saying, I had just loaded Bessie, my favorite mule, into the trailer and was driving her down the highway when this huge semi-truck and trailer ran the stop sign and smacked my truck right in the side. I was thrown into one ditch and Bessie was thrown into the other. 
I was hurting real bad and didn't want to move. However, I could hear ole Bessie moaning and groaning. I knew she was in terrible shape just by her groans. 
Shortly after the accident a Highway Patrolman came on the scene. He could hear Bessie moaning and groaning so he went over to her. After he looked at her, he took out his gun and shot her between the eyes. 
Then the Patrolman came across the road with his gun in his hand and looked at me. He said, "Your mule was in such bad shape I had to shoot her. How are you feeling?"       

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Yep, It Really Happened
Baghdad, Iraq
In 1258 the Mongols laid siege to Baghdad and committed one of history's greatest crimes. Upon taking the city the Mongols sacked The Grand Library of Baghdad (as well as most of the rest of the city), destroying countless precious historical documents and books on subjects from medicine to astronomy. Survivors said that the waters of the Tigris ran black with ink from the enormous quantities of books that were thrown into the river. 

Baghdad at the time was one of the most brilliant intellectual centers in the world. Lord knows how far back progress was held when the Mongols destroyed the accumulated wisdom of ages. 
Thank God culture and understanding have advanced a lot in 757 years. Or has it? 
A video has surfaced recently of Islamic State militants ransacking the central museum in Mosul, Iraq, destroying priceless artifacts that are thousands of years old. The destruction of artifacts that date from the Assyrian and Akkadian empires drew ire from the international community. 
"The birthplace of human civilization is being destroyed," said Kino Gabriel, one of the leaders of the Syriac Military Council in a telephone interview.
"In front of something like this, we are speechless. Murder of people and destruction is not enough, so even our civilization and the culture of our people is being destroyed."
The five-minute video begins with a Qur'anic verse on idol worship. An ISIS representative then speaks to the camera, condemning Assyrians and Akkadians as polytheists, justifying the destruction of the artifacts and statues.
The militants then smash the statues with hammers, drills and jackhammers.

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Somewhat Useless Information
There’s an ice cream that changes color as you lick it
‘Xamaleón’ is an ice cream invented by 37-year-old Spanish physicist and electronic engineer-cum-chef and ice cream master Manuel Linares.
The awkward thing about this ice cream is that it changes color as you lick it!
Linares says that it’s entirely made with natural ingredients and that the formula is a patent-pending secret.
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The world’s oldest surviving aerial photo
Did you know that the first ever aerial photograph of an American city is of Boston back in 1860?
The photo was captured from 2,000 feet from a hot air balloon by James Wallace Black and was  titled: “Boston, as the Eagle as the Wild Goose See It”.
However, the first real photograph was taken in 1826 when Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took a picture out of his window. It took more than 30 years for someone to put these two inventions together to bring us the world’s first photo from the air.
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Birthday’s Today
89 - Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway
77 - Paula Prentiss, [Ragusa] San Ant Tx, actress (Parallax View, He & She)
65 - Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
54 - Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, boxer (killed a boxer in the ring)
54 - Steven Weber, Queens, actor (Brian Hackett-Wings)
52 - Jason Newsted, US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Nothing Else Matters)
46 - Chaz Bono [Chastity Sun Bono], American actress
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Remembered for being born today
1394-1460@66 - Henry the Navigator, Prince/ Portuguese voyages of discovery
1754-1846@92 - Benjamin Waterhouse, physician (smallpox vaccine pioneer)
1873-1904@31 - Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
1888-1931@43 - Knute Rockne, Norwegian/football player/coach (Notre Dame)
1889-1938@49 - Pearl White, [Victoria], actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline)
1912-1952@39 - John Garfield, actor (Air Force, Destination: Tokyo, Juarez)
1918-2012@94 - Margaret Osborne DuPont, tennis pro (US Open 1948-50)
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Historical Obits Today
Horton Foote, Pulitzer Prize\ Academy Award 2009@92
Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1999@90
Minnie Pearl, country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry), 1996@84
Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona 1978@68
Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail 1868@63ish
Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant, 1950@52
John Candy, actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), heart attack, 1994@43
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Brain Teasers Answers
GERM, ANY, GERMANY
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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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