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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:
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
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.
+++
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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
