3-9-15

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Almanac: Week: 11 \ Day: 068 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 57°\L 24° Average Sky Cover: 0% 
Wind ave:   1mph\Gusts:  13mph
Ave. High: 49° Record High:  70° (1989) Ave. Low: 22° Record Low:  0° (1964)
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Observances Today:
Barbie Day
Fill Our Staplers Day
Get Over It Day
Joe Franklin Day-NYC radio/TV personality
Napping Day
Panic Day

Observances This 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
 1745 - Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
1776 - Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
1822 - Charles Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth
1841 - US Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad are free
1862 - USS Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1889 - Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
1907 - 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
1914 - US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
1916 - Mexican General Francisco "Pancho" Villa invades US (18 killed)
1935 - Officers of tribes are now considered U.S. Officers
1942 - Construction of the Alaska Highway began
1945 - 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs
1954 - 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC (Castro Decorators)
1954 - Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)
1955 - Davis Monthan Air Base,AZ weather station equipment operators can be seen providing round-the-clock weather reports for the flying personnel at the base
1959 - Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted, over 800 million sold
1964 - 1st Ford Mustang produced
1976 - 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1979 - Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
1986 - NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
2006 - Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn
2007 - The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens

Today’s World Events through History
1497 - Nicolaus Copernicus' 1st recorded astronomical observation
1562 - Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
1820 - Philippines chases out foreigners; about 125 die
1834 - French Foreign Legion is founded
1839 - Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1893 - Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
1959 - 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
1961 - 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
1971 - Three off-duty Scottish soldiers are killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; 4000 shipyard workers take to the streets to demand internment in response
1972 - Four members of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) die in a premature explosion at a house in Clonard Street, Lower Falls, Belfast
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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 Sunday…no clock changes necessary for me, but all the cable channels are on different times. Some of our feeds come from EST but most are from PST. Both of these time zones did change time, making all their feeds 1 hour earlier. We are now the same time as California. When I was working, this was a hard time as while the Navajo Nation changed time, the Hopi didn’t. Since Tuba was right next to Hopi, some of the businesses changed time, others didn’t. The Boarding School changed time but the Public school didn’t. Glad those days are behind me. As the old joke goes: Only the White man would think that if he cuts a strip off the top of the blanket and sews it to the bottom of the blanket he expects to have a longer blanket.
Took some time today, with the beautiful weather to clean off the deck, and put all the planters out for more sunshine. All my early spring bulbs are popping up all green and ready. Sure hope we don’t have any more frigid weather. I tried something new this year. I planted bulbs for late spring deeper in the pots than the ones that were marked early spring. I’ll see if that makes any difference. Fun activity.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
She's always ready to lend an ear
With hair so light
Too bad you she won't hear
The devil inside her 
Is ready to burst
But lucky for you, 
Of imps he's not the worst.


What is she?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
• Chris LeDoux-This Cowboy's Hat            
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America Facts…
  The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by American workers instead of Chinese.
  The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150 times.

Car Facts…
  The most expensive license plate is the number '1', bought by an Abu Dhabi businessman - costing a staggering $14.3 million!
  The world's longest traffic jam took place in Beijing, China. It was over 60 miles long and lasted 11 days.

Chocolate Facts…
  Quality dark chocolate contains flavonoids which help reduced the risk of heart disease.
  The largest box of chocolates contained 90,090 Frango mint chocolates and weighed 3,3226 lbs! It was made by Marshall Field's of Chicago on November 14, 2002.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
…Mountain lions are killing stock at a high rate. Given the severity of the winter, the wild beasts are desperate.
…Shearing pens are being constructed at Drake. It is expected that 100,000 sheep will be sheared there during the month of March.
…The surveyors are on the job for the new bridge to be built at the Needles crossing of the Colorado River. Demand has grown vastly since Arizona went "dry.”
…It’s too late for us, but a recent study has shown that a ration of beer greatly improves the egg-laying of hens.
…Present indications indicate that street paving has gone a glimmering as the Council has deferred action until more information becomes available. In the meantime, with the fast-melting snow, the streets overflow and mud prevails.

Harper’s Index…
43.5
Number of socks found in the stomach of a Great Dane in Oregon last winter

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Many artificial color additives are prohibited by law, so farmers add marigold petals to their chicken feed as a natural color enhancer to give their egg yolks that sunny, yellow hue.
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2 jokes for the day
RIP boiling water. 

You will be mist.

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A man with a piece of paper in his hand comes into an office where another man is sitting next to a shredding machine. 

"Do you know how to operate this thing?" he asks. "I have an important paper here and I want to make sure this is done right." 
"Sure," the other man answers. "Just put the paper in here and press this button." 
The first man does so, saying, "Great. And where do the copies come out?"          

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Yep, It Really Happened
Chesapeake, Va.
Dylan Fell arranged to meet a woman he was dating in a McDonald's parking lot.

Moments later, a Portsmouth police officer arrived.
"She got in. About two minutes into it, a blue car pulled in behind me to block me in, and I looked in the rear view mirror, and I said, 'Who is that?' And she said, 'Oh, that's my husband,'" says Fell.
Unfortunately, Mr. Fell did not have a wingman to kiss on the mouth at the time. 
He says he thought his date was separated from her husband, and surely didn't know the husband was an officer. But what happened led to charges and a complaint against police Sergeant Robert Huntington.
Fell says the sergeant tried to yank him out of his truck and arrest him for no reason.
"By that time, he reached through the window with both hands and grabs my shirt, and tries to pull me out this window. When he had grip of me, he took his left hand and hit me in my crotch, reaches for what I thought was a gun and I'm scared for my life and I take off," says Fell.
Hours later, Dylan filed an assault report with Chesapeake police and then went to Portsmouth police to file an internal affairs complaint.
Sergeant Huntington is now facing assault charges, but is still working for the department.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Do you know in which continent there’s the youngest average population in the world?
And the answer is: in Africa.
To be more specific the 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger, according to wikipedia!
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Birthday’s Today
79 - Marty Ingels, Brooklyn, American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
79 - Mickey Gilley, Ferriday La, country singer (Urban Cowboy)
73 - Mark Lindsay, rock vocalist/sax (Paul Revers & Raiders)
72 - Charlie Gibson, American television journalist
56 - Kato [Brian] Kaelin, actor (Beach Fever)/OJ roommate/witness
54 - Camryn Manheim, actress (The Practice
44 - Emmanuel Lewis, Brooklyn, actor (Webster)
28 - Bow Wow, American rapper and actor
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Remembered for being born today
1454-1512@57 - Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America)
1791-1863@71 - George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
1833-1899@66 - Frederick A. Schroeder, tobacco industrialist\mayor of Brooklyn
1839-1908@69 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
1900-1973@73 - Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
1902-1978@76 - Will Geer, actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons)
1918-2006@88 - Mickey Spillane, [Frank], Brooklyn, mystery writer (I the Jury)
1920-1978@56 - Carl Betz, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show)
1934-1968@34 - Yuri Gagarin, Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space
1940-1994@54 - Raul Julia, PR, actor (Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1943-2008@64 - Bobby Fischer, US, world chess champion (1972-75)
1954-1981@27 - Bobby Sands, Irish IRA member and leader of the hunger strike
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Historical Obits Today
George Burns, actor and singer-1996@100
John Profumo, British cabinet minister-2006@91
Lawrence E Spivak, journalist (Meet the Press)-1994@93
Menachem Begin, PM Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979)-1992@85
Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (French Connection), cancer-1994@76
Jack Beattie, Northern Irish politician-1960@74 
Chris LeDoux, American country singer, cancer-2005@56
Richard Crane, actor (Rocky Jones, Space Ranger), heart attack-1969@50
Mary Anning, British paleontologist, breast cancer-1847@47
Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer, AIDS-1989@42
The Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher Wallace], rapper, shot-1997@24
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Brain Teasers Answers
Corn!
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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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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.