3-7-15

FYI: Any blue text is a link. Click to check it out!
Almanac: Week: 10 \ Day: 066 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 50°\L 19° Average Sky Cover: 0% 
Wind ave:   11mph\Gusts:  21mph
Ave. High: 48° Record High:  66° (1972) Ave. Low: 22° Record Low:  -1° (1945)
« » « »
Observances Today:
Day of Prayer
Dress in Blue Day-Colon Cancer
National Crown Roast of Pork Day
National Day of Unplugging World

Observances This Week:
      1-7
…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 
…Women in Construction Week 
       5-8

…Crufts (World’s Largest Dog Show)  
…National Money Show
Festival of Owls Week

« »  « »
Quote of the Day 

« » 
US Historical Highlights for Today
 1644 - Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies
1778 - Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
1801 - Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1843 - 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh of Maine, takes office
1847 - US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1850 - Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1854 - Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1887 - North Carolina State University is founded 
1908 - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before city council & announces that, "women are not physically fit to operate automobiles"
1911 - US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1917 - 1st jazz record released on a 78 by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company ("Dixie Jazz Band One Step," one side "Livery Stable Blues" other)
1922 - Tucson city firemen would be outfitted in new uniforms of olive drab with black ties and brass buttons bearing the letter F. Except for their badges, the firemen would pay for the uniforms themselves
1926 - 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
1933 - Game of "Monopoly" invented
1939 - Glamour magazine begins publishing
1942 - 1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1955 - Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
1965 - Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors clash in Selma
1981 - 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1983 - TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
1995 - NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
1996 - 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)

Today’s World Events through History
1524 - Giovanni da Verrazano, sailing for France, anchors near Wilmington, North Carolina, in the "Dauphine"
1530 - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope. Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church
1799 - The Royal Institution of Great Britain founded; dedicated to scientific research and education
1876 - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes beats Egyptians
1906 - Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage, except for poor
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1939 - Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
1941 - 50,000 British soldiers land in Greece
1941 - British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1959 - 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
1974 - 1st general strike in Ethiopia
« » « »
  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today

« » « »
My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful Friday. Can’t complain. Great weather here in our little mountain town.
Had to run some errands and get some ice melt. The beautiful Colorado Blue Spruce was really weighed down during the last storm. While the guys were good about clearing the sidewalks, after a day of nice weather the snow fell off the tree and onto my sidewalk. Being lazy I didn’t clear it right away and it froze solid into ice. It is in the shade so it would have been weeks before it melted naturally. The ice melt did the job and the sidewalk is clear again.
I also did 4 loads of laundry. Everything folded and back where it belongs. If anything exciting happens this weekend, I’ll have clean clothes and be ready to go. While I was busy folding laundry, the kids go out of school and about 8 of them had a nice little snowball fight in the parking lot. Cool.
I am really enjoying ‘Finding Jesus’ on CNN. Well put together with good explanations.
« » « »
Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I come and I go, more than once in a day.
Yet I've always been here; for eons my stay.
A bearer of life, I bring fear and great dread;
A destroyer of old, millions by me are fed.
Artists and poets my presence inspires,
My moods, they are varied, my journey ne'er tires.
Once I was greater, but my time comes again.
Can you yet name me, my riddling friend?

« » « »
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
« » « »
***NEW***America Facts…
╪ In 1700s, the deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
╪ There are six times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.

Car Facts…
╪ China is building an ultra-modern car-free city that'll house 80,000 people in "high-rise core housing". It's entirely walkable and surrounded by green space. It's designed to use less water, create less waste, and generate less carbon dioxide than a normal city.
╪ You can immediately cool down a car that has been sitting under the sun by rolling down the window on one side and opening-closing the door on the other side 5-6 times.

***NEW***Chocolate Facts…
The first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of the most popular Easter candies today.
╪ Chocolate is lower in caffeine than tea, coffee and coca cola. A one ounce bar of chocolate contains about 6mg of caffeine, whereas a five ounce cup of regular coffee contains over 40mg.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO
Taxes become delinquent today. For the accommodation of city taxpayers, the city office will be open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. to receive moneys. George A. Fleming, City Clerk.

Harper’s Index…
5,000
Number of dogs in Baoshan, China killed last fall to prevent the spread of rabies

Unusual Fact of the Day…
he largest living organism ever found has been discovered in an ancient American forest in eastern Oregon. Officially known as Armillaria solidipes, or the honey mushroom, the fungus is 3.5 miles square miles and takes up 1,665 football fields.
« » « »
2 jokes for the day
The solar panel says, "So what do you think about this whole renewable energy thing?" 
The turbine replies, "I'm a big fan."

« »
An angry wife was complaining about her husband spending all his free time in a bar, so one night he took her along with him. 
"What'll you have?" he asked. 
"Oh, I don't know. The same as you I suppose," she replied. 
So, the husband ordered a couple of Jack Daniel's and threw his down in one shot. His wife watched him, then took a sip from her glass and immediately spat it out. 
"Yuck, that's TERRIBLE!" she spluttered. "I don't know how you can drink this stuff!" 
"Well, there you go," cried the husband. "And you think I'm out enjoying myself every night!"           

« »
Yep, It Really Happened
Falmouth, Mass
Police say Lisa Degerolamo and Daniel McLaughlin, both 29, went to a Wal-Mart in Falmouth, Massachusetts and stole a 60-inch flat screen TV, but as they were loading it into their SUV, a man and his wife noticed them.
They also saw a young boy in a car seat in the back.
Now, the story gets a little fuzzy about how the couple managed to stroll out of a Wal-Mart carrying a stolen 60-inch TV between them, but the witness did detail how the flat screen would not fit in the back seat and Mr. McLaughlin's attempt to wedge the door shut by wrapping a towel around it. 
An attempt that failed, because the witness said that as soon as they took off and sped around a corner, the door popped open and the boy "flew out of the car and hit his head off the concrete." 
That didn't even slow down the driver, Lisa Degerolamo, who sped away. 
The witness and his wife rushed to comfort the 5-year-old, and while they were sitting in the street Degerolamo swung back around to pick up the boy, who she probably assumed had stopped bouncing by that time. 
It didn't take long for police to find the couple and arrest them at their home. The child is now in the custody of the Department of Children and Families and Degerolamo and McLaughlin were each ordered held on $2,500 bail, which is not much more than a 60-inch flat screen would have cost if they were to have bought one.     

« »
Somewhat Useless Information
When do you think that the eraser was invented? Your first answer might be, if not simultaneously, then -certainly- soon after the invention of the pencil.
But, if that’s what you thought, you are wrong!
That eraser was invented 200 years after pencil was!
And the most interesting question that comes from this is how they erased theirs faults in writing without an eraser in the meantime?
« »« »
Birthday’s Today
85 - Lord Snowdon, [Anthony Armstrong-Jones], photographer
75 - Daniel J Travanti, actor (Frank Furillo-Hill St Blues)
63 - Lynn Swann, NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)/sportscaster
59 - Bryan Cranston, actor (Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle)
55 - Ivan Lendl, Ostrava Czechoslovakia, tennis champion (US Open 1985-87)
51 - Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
45 - Rachel Weisz, English actress (The Mummy, The Constant Gardener)
44 - Peter Sarsgaard, actor (Dead Man Walking)
« »
Remembered for being born today
1816-1734@63 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero
1816-1880@64 - James Donnelly, Irish-Canadian patriarch of the Donnelly family
1942-2007@65 - Tammy Faye Bakker, gospel singer/wife of Jim Baker (PTL)
« » « »
Historical Obits Today
 Jacob K Javits, (Sen-NY), 1986@81
Stanley Kubrick, film director (2001-Space Odyssey), heart attack, 1999@70
Paul Winfield, American actor, heart attack, 2004@64
Aristotle, Greek philosopher 322BC@62ish
Emily Pauline Johnson, Mohawk Canadian poet, breast cancer, 1913@51
Thomas Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, 1274@48
« » « »

Brain Teasers Answers
The Sea is my name, or Ocean some say,
My tides wax and wane twice each short-lived day.
Many a life my waters have seized,
But I give back aplenty with food for your need.
My reach was broader many years ago;
Melting ice ensures that again I will grow.
If you have enjoyed this riddling task,
Rate this puzzle highly, I fervently ask.

« » « »

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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§



No comments:

Post a Comment

Followers

Total Pageviews

Blog Archive

About Me

My photo
Flagstaff, Arizona, United States
I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.