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Almanac: Week: 10 \ Day: 062
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 39°\L 29° Average Sky
Cover: 98%
Wind
ave: 0mph\Gusts: 29mph
Ave. High: 48° Record High: 66°
(1910) Ave. Low: 21° Record Low:
-9° (1915)
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Observances
Today:
US: Florida: Statehood Day-1845-27th
I Want You To Be Happy Day
International Ear Care Day
National Anthem Day
National Pancake Day
Peace Corps Day
Peach Blossom Day
Princess Day
Unique Names Day
What If Pets Had Opposable Thumbs? Day
World Wildlife Day
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
…Telecommuter Appreciation
Week (Always Week that has Alexander Graham Bell's Birthday 3/2)
…Women in Construction Week
2-6
…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
1819
- US starts its Indian
"civilization" program
1863 - Idaho Territory forms
1869 - University of South Carolina opens to all
races
1871 - US Congress changes Indian tribes status
from independent to dependent
1871 - US Congress establishes the civil service
system
1873 - U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law,
making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books
through the mail
1885 - 1st US state (California) establishes a
permanent forest commission
1885 - American Telephone & Telegraph
(AT&T) incorporates
1885 - Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act
(Indians wards of fed government)
1887 - Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old
blind-deaf Helen Keller
1899 - George Dewey becomes 1st in US to hold the
rank of Admiral of the Navy
1900 - US Steel Corporation organizes
1901 - Congress creates National Bureau of
Standards, in Dept of Commerce
1903 - North Carolina becomes 1st state requiring
registration of nurses
1905 - US Forest Service forms
1911 - 1st US federal cemetery with Union & Confederate
graves opens, Missouri
1915 - US National Advisory Committee for
Aeronautics (NACA) created, the predecessor of NASA
1917 - US Congress passes 1st excess profits tax on
corporations
1923 - Time magazine publishes 1st issue featuring
Speaker of US House
1931 - "Star Spangled Banner" officially
becomes US national anthem
1933 - Saguaro Cactus Forest
outside of Tucson was set aside as a national monument by President Herbert
Hoover
1959 - SF Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick
Park
1985 - Willie Shoemaker becomes 1st jockey to win
$100 million
1991 - LA Police severely beat motorist Rodney
King, captured on amateur video
2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to
fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refueling - a
journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes
2013 - 2 year old US
girl becomes the first child born with HIV to be cured
Today’s World
Events through History
78 - Origin of Saka Era (India)
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Inverness
Castle
1939 - In Mumbai (Bombay), Mohandas Gandhi begins
to fast in protest against autocratic rule in India
1966 - Rock group Buffalo Springfield forms
1971 - Winnie Mandela sentenced to 1 year in jail
in South Africa
1992 - The nation of Bosnia was established
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Weather wins…cabin fever has officially set in. Lots of snow
today, and it is now piling up…must be about 6” out there. At times I can’t
even see the trees that across the parking lot. Schools all over have closed,
and lots of young parents with kids out today, playing the snow. Guess I’m not
the only one suffering from cabin fever. I even went outside to clear the snow
off the vehicle and throughout the day others have done the same, but few have
driven anywhere. Just nice to be outside. Thankfully it is not too cold. Maintenance
has been good about keeping the sidewalks fairly clear. Snow might stop
tomorrow or Wed. for sure.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
common phrase does this rebus represent?
SKIN B-U-T SKIN SKIN SKIN
FLESH FLESH FLESH FLESH
MUSCLE MUSCLE MUSCLE
BONE BONE BONE BONE
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Color
Facts…
╪ Redlove Era Apple
is red all the way to its core.
╪ Carrots were
originally purple. The dutch monarch planted carrot seeds together until the
carrots grew orange to match their royal color - The House of Orange. Orange
carrots were a symbol of prestige.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 years ago
Skiing is terrific at the Snow Bowl with 18 fresh inches. Bill
Williams Mt. is in good shape too with 4 new inches according to Dist. Forest
Ranger Ed Engstrom. He also says that the back roads are essentially impassible
what with new snow and melt and mud.
Harper’s
Index…
6
Years of hard labor to which North Korea sentenced a 24-year-old
California man in September for ripping up his visa
Prison
Facts…
╪ During WW2,
captured German officers were sent to Britain as POWs and lived in luxury in
Trent Park. This was done to make them feel relaxed. However, they were being
listened to by 100 ‘listeners’. They revealed secrets about the holocaust,
events in Berlin, Hitler's madness and V2 rocket bases.
╪ It has been
reported that rich people in China can hire "body doubles" to serve
their prison time.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
While Antarctica is very cold, it's not all ice and snow. About
1,200 square miles of the continent are made up of "dry valleys"
where mountains and ridges keep out any precipitation.
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2 jokes
for the day
Q: Why do bakers start working so early in the
morning?
A: Because they knead dough
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Juan comes up to the Mexican border on his
bicycle. He's got two large bags over his shoulders. The guard stops him and
says, "What's in the bags?"
"Sand," answered Juan.
The guard says, "We'll just see about that. Get off the bike." The
guard detains Juan overnight and has the sand analyzed, only to discover that
there is nothing but pure sand in the bags. He releases Juan and lets him cross
the border.
A week later, the same thing happens. The guard asks, "What's in the
bags?"
"Sand," says Juan.
The guard does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags contain
nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to Juan, and Juan crosses the border
on his bicycle.
This sequence of events is repeated every week for three years.
Finally, Juan doesn't show up one day and the guard meets him in a Cantina in
Mexico.
"Hey Buddy," says the guard, "I know you are smuggling something.
It's driving me crazy. It's all I think about...Just between you and me, what
are you smuggling?"
Juan sips his beer and says, "Bicycles."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
MEGYER,
Hungary (UPI)
A Hungarian village listed for rent will allow customers to name
themselves deputy mayor for a weekend and give their own temporary names to
streets. The village of Megyer, which boasts a population of only 26, is being
listed for rent on website jofogas.hu for the price of about $780 per day. The
rental package includes seven guest houses sleeping a total 39 people, six
horses, two cows, three sheep and a chicken yard. The town, which is looking to
boost tourism revenue, also boasts four streets, a bus stop and 10 acres of
farmland. Mayor Kristof Pajer said renters will be temporarily dubbed deputy
mayor and will have the ability to assign their own temporary street names.
Pajer said the guest houses are maintained by a a social cooperative run by the
municipal authority, and the properties belong to private residents who
transferred maintenance rights to the cooperative.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
╪ There's No Such Thing
as a Free Lunch: In the 1840s, bars in the United States offered anyone buying
a drink a "free lunch." It was really just a bunch of salty snacks
that made customers so thirsty, they kept buying drinks.
╪ Bring Home the Bacon:
The Dunmow Flitch Trials, an English tradition that started in 1104, challenged
married couples to go one year without arguing. The winners took home a
"flitch" (a side) of bacon.
╪ Spill the Beans: In
ancient Greece, the system for voting new members into a private club involved
secretly placing colored beans into opaque jars. Prospective members never knew
who voted for or against them - unless the beans were spilled.
╪ With a Grain of Salt:
Salt was once believed to have healing properties, and to eat or drink something
with a grain of salt was to practice preventive medicine against potential
poisoning or illness.
╪ Happy as a Clam: The
original phrase was "happy as a clam at high tide." Because clam
diggers are able to gather clams only at low tide, the clams are much safer
(and happier) when the tide is high and the water is too deep to wade into.
╪ Take the Cake: The
phrase originated at cakewalk contests, where individuals would parade and
prance in a circle to the audience's delight. The person with the most imaginative
swagger would take home first prize, which was always a cake.
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Birthday’s
Today
82 - Lee Radziwell Ross, princess (Jackie
O's sister)
65 - Ed Marinaro, actor (Hill Street Blues)
53 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee, heptathele
(Olympic-gold-88, 92)
42 - Matthew Marsden, English actor and
singer
41 - David Faustino, actor (Bud-Married With
Children)
32 - Jessica Biel, actress (Mary Camden in
7th Heaven)
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Remembered
for being born today
1831-1897@66 - George M Pullman, inventor (railway
sleeping car)
1847-1922@75 - Alexander Graham Bell, Edinburgh,
inventor (telephone)
1911-1937@26 - Jean Harlow, [Harlean Carpentier], 30s'
sex goddess (Dinner at 8)
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Historical
Obits Today
Arthur
Murray, dance instructor, 1991@95
William
Frawley, American actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), 1966@89
Carlos
Montoya, flamenco guitarist, 1993@89
Albert
Sabin, physician (oral polio vaccine), 1993@86
Fred
Friendly, American broadcast executive 1998@82
Danny
Kaye, comedian (Danny Kaye Show), hepatitis, 1987@74
Robert
Hooke, scientific genius, 1703@67
Robert
Adam, Scottish architect (Syon House, Middlesex), ulcer, 1792@63
Lou
Costello, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello), heart attack, 1959@52
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Brain Teasers Answers
Beauty is only skin deep. When spoken quickly the letters B-U-T
sound like the word "beauty," and "B-U-T" is only as deep
as the word "SKIN" is.
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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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
