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Almanac: Week: 11 \ Day: 067 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 52°\L 21° Average Sky Cover: 0% 
Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  18mph
Ave. High: 48° Record High:  67° (1989) Ave. Low: 22° Record Low:  -4° (1969)
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Observances Today:
Be Nasty Day
Check Your Batteries Day
Daylight Savings Time Begins
Girl Scout Sunday
Girls Write Now Day
International Working Women's Day-since 1911-in Copenhagen  
National Peanut Cluster Day
National Proofreading Day

Observances This Week:
       5-8
…Crufts (World’s Largest Dog Show)  

…National Money Show
Festival of Owls Week
      8-14

…Universal Women's Week

…National Agriculture Week
…Teen Tech Week
…Girl Scout Week
…Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
 1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded
1855 - 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
1862 - Confederate ironclad "Merrimack" launched
1884 - Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came 16 years after legislators had first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment
1887 - Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
1894 - The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog-licensing law
1896 - Volunteers of America forms (NYC)
1902- Construction began-Territorial Reform School in Benson,AZ
1913 - Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes
1916 - US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
1927 - Pan American Airlines incorporates
1934 - Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1946 - 1st helicopter licensed for coml use (NYC)
1948 - US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious instruction in public schools is unconstitutional
1958 - William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
1961 - US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from SC in a record under seas journey of 66 days 22 hrs
1964 - Malcolm X resigns from the Nation of Islam
1965 - 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
1971 - Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title at Madison Sq Garden
1972 - 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
1973 - Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens in CO
1983 - President Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire"

Today’s World Events through History
1702 - England: Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III
1801 - British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1867 - The British North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, served as a constitution for Canada for the next 100 years
1898 - Richard Straus' "Don Quixote" premieres in Keulen
1918 – 1st case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic
1957 - Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
1959 - KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
1966 - An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin
1971 - Gun battle between Official Irish Republican Army and Provisional IRA leave 1 man was killed; the feud between the two wings of the IRA had been developing since the split in 1970
1973 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army undertakes its first operation in Great Britain, planting four car bombs in London; 10 members of PIRA are arrested at Heathrow Airport while trying to leave the country
1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France
1976 - 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
1980 - The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union
1986 - Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
2012 - Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns
2014 - Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


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My Rambling Thoughts
Great weather day…could even open the windows for a little while…maybe spring is just around the corner…not expecting that to happen, still expect to see some snow.
I had lunch with a former teacher from TC and her husband, my former boss. She, as always, has some great stories about her work as a teacher in the Checkerboard Area of the Rez.  Reminded me so much of the Tonalea Days with Bennett Freeze/JUA. Checkerboard area is east of Gallup where sections of land are the rez and the section next to it is privately (non-Indian) owned. She is at an isolated small school with no cell service, no cable service, no mail service within 10 miles. An interesting job for sure.
I really respect her husband’s Navajo knowledge. We had a discussion about the proposed Gondola to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and the Confluence of the Colorado and Little Colorado rivers. Traditional Navajo say the land is sacred while others see jobs to build and jobs to run all the things of a tourist attraction. Our discussion led to why non-Navajo don’t respect the land seen as ‘sacred’. Regarding the Confluence, his answer was ‘things happened there’ and it is sacred. When pushed for more he said ‘talk to a medicine man to learn the stories and remember he will charge you for the story. ‘I get that and have heard similar answers before. Then he added, ‘shouldn’t others just accept that when a medicine man says a place is sacred that it is sacred and if the person wants more, they pay the medicine man for his knowledge?’ I sure understand that too, but we both realize that most non-Indians won’t accept ‘sacred land’ that easily. Sad for everyone.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Put 2 of Group B into Group A:
A:
Coelus
Aphrodite
Cronus
Poseidon
Hades
Zeus


B:
Hermes
Persephone
Hercules
Ares
Cupid
Ulysses

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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America Facts…
╪ Ice cream cones were popularized in America during the 1904 World’s Fair in St Louis when an ice cream vendor ran out of cups and asked a nearby waffle vendor to roll up his waffles to hold the ice cream.
╪ Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.

Car Facts…
The Google driverless car has only encountered two accidents. The first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was behind the wheel.
For his time as James Bond, Daniel Craig has the privilege of taking any Aston Martin from the factory for the rest of his life.

Chocolate Facts…
Research has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produced brain and heart rate activity that was simliar to - and even stronger than - that produced with passionate kissing.
Chocolate is associated with the release of serotonin, the hormone that makes you feel relaxed, calm, and happy.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO 1915
Automobile for sale -- 35 horsepower passenger Torpedo Overland. Run about 7,000 miles -- in excellent condition -- oversize tires -- new shock absorbers -- presto tank. Reasonable terms. Selling because want to purchase a new 1915 model.

Harper’s Index…
17
Percentage increase since 2000 in the number of Americans with potbellies-CDC

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Botanically, apples, peaches, grapes, and tomatoes are all fruits. But don’t try telling that to the U.S. Supreme Court. Per the 1893 case Nix v. Hedden, the court decided that tomatoes were veggies and therefore subject to the vegetable tariff. The Supreme Court’s reasoning? Tomatoes have to be vegetables because they’re usually served with dinner, not dessert.
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2 jokes for the day
Why did Peter Parker get fired? 

He spent all day on the web.

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At Penn State University , there were four sophomores taking chemistry and all of them had an 'A' so far. These four friends were so confident that the weekend before finals, they decided to visit some friends and have a big party. 

They had a great time but, after all the hearty partying, they slept all day Sunday and didn't make it back to Penn State until early Monday morning. 
Rather than taking the final then, they decided that after the final they would explain to their professor why they missed it. They said that they visited friends but on the way back they had a flat tire. As a result, they missed the final. 
The professor agreed they could make up the final the next day. The guys were excited and relieved. They studied that night for the exam. 
The next day the Professor placed them in separate rooms and gave them a test booklet. They quickly answered the first problem worth 5 points. 
Cool, they thought! Each one in separate rooms, thought this was going to be easy ... then they turned the page. On the second page was written... 
For 95 points: Which tire? _________         

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Yep, It Really Happened
WESTAMPTON, N.J. (UPI)
A New Jersey appeals court rejected a lawsuit from a man who alleged he suffered burns from his Applebee's fajita when he bowed his head to pray. Hiram Jimenez's lawsuit alleged he visited the Westampton restaurant in March 2010 with his brother, Rafael, and they decided to pray over their food. Jimenez said he bowed his face over his steak fajita, which was served on a skillet, and he soon heard a loud sizzling noise followed by a grease pop that led to a burning sensation on the left side of his face, including his eye. Jimenez, who alleged the waitress did not warn him the food was hot, said he knocked the plate over in a panic, causing the food to spill on his lap and incite further burns. None of the burns left any scarring, but Jimenez filed a lawsuit in state Superior Court, accusing the restaurant of negligently giving him hot food that led to serious injury. The Superior Court ruled against Jimenez, saying the danger caused by the sizzling fajita skillet was "open and obvious" when Jimenez chose to put his face near it. The two-judge appeals panel sided with the lower court. "Here, the danger posed by a plate of sizzling hot food was self-evident," the ruling stated.           
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Somewhat Useless Information
The first record of pantomime performed as entertainment comes from Ancient Greece, where mimes performed at religious festivals honoring Greek gods. As early as 581 B.C., Aristotle wrote of seeing mimes perform.

From religious festivals, Greek mime made its way to the stage: Actors performed pantomimic scenes as "overtures" to the tragedies that depicted the moral lesson of the play to follow.
Greek settlers brought mime to Italy, where it flourished during the Roman Empire and spread throughout Europe as the empire expanded.
Pantomime means "an imitator of nature" - derived from Pan, the Greek god of nature, and mimos, meaning "an imitator."
Today, "pantomime" and "mime" are used interchangeably to refer to a mute performer, but the Ancient Romans distinguished between the two: pantomines were tragic actors who performed in complete silence, while mimes were comedic and often used speech in their acts.
The first silent mime appeared on the English stage in 1702, in John Weaver's Tavern Bilkers at the Drury Lane Theatre. It was really more of a "silent ballet" than silent acting.

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Birthday’s Today
70 - Micky Dolenz, actor (Circus Boy)/singer (Monkees)
67 - Little Peggy March, [Margaret Battavio], vocalist (I Will Follow Him)
39 - Freddie Prinze Jr, actor (I Know What You Did Last Summer)
38 - James Van Der Beek, actor (Dawson's Creek)
32 - Kat Von D, Mexican-American tattoo artist
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Remembered for being born today
 1886-1972@86 - Edward Kendall, chemist, isolated cortisone (Nobel 1950)
1891-1984@93 - Sam Jaffe, actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)
1918-1990@68 - Alan Hale [MacKahan] Jr, actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island)
1921-2008@82 - Cyd Charisse, [Tula Finklea], dancer/actress (Singing in the Rain)
1922-2014@92 - Ralph Baer, Creator of the first video game console
1943-2010@67 - Lynn Redgrave, actress (Georgie Girl)/Weight-Watcher
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Historical Obits Today
Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player, 1999@84
Ferdinand von Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer, 1917@78
Harold Lloyd, US comic/actor (Why Worry), cancer, 1971@77
Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian, heart failure, 1999@74
William Howard Taft, 27th US pres (1909-13)/Chief Justice, heart disease, 1930@72
Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), stroke, 1874@74
Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar, TB, 1757@55
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Brain Teasers Answers
Hermes and Ares would both fit into Group A because they are both the opposite mythological name of a planet. 
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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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