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March
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Today: H 47°\L 9° Average Sky
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ave: 6mph\Gusts: 15mph
Ave. High: 48° Record High: 68°
(1910) Ave. Low: 21° Record Low:
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Observances
Today:
Independence Day-Ghana (Gold Coast)-1957-from UK
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Day of The Dude
Dentist's Day
Employee Appreciation Day
Middle Name Pride Day
National Frozen Food Day
National Salesperson Day
Oreo Cookie Day
Sofia Kovalevskaya Math Day—1st major Russian female
mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential
equations and mechanics
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
5-8
…Crufts (Worlds Largest Dog Show)
…National Money Show
…Festival of Owls Week
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1646 - Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine
patent
1775 - 1st Negro Mason in north America initiated,
Boston
1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in
order to found a convict settlement
1808 - 1st college orchestra in US founded, at
Harvard
1810 - Illinois passes 1st state vaccination
legislation in US
1831 - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point
military academy
1836 - Battle of the Alamo: after 13 days of
fighting during Texas Revolution between 1,500 and 3,000 Mexicans overwhelmed
the Texans at the Alamo. Between 182 and 257 Texans died, including William
Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.
1857 - Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court
rules Africans cannot be US citizens
1881 - Building of a
Methodist church was begun in Tucson under the auspices of Rev. G.H. Adams.
1886 - 1st US alternating current power plant
starts, Great Barrington, MA
1886 - 1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale,
1st appears, NYC
1896 - 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides
his "Horseless Carriage"
1899 - "Asprin" (acetylsalicylic acid) patented
by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer
1902 - US Census Bureau forms
1918 - US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears
in Bermuda Triangle
1944 - USAAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
1950 - Silly Putty invented
1959 - Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV,
400,000 miles)
1964 - Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and
its leader Elijah Muhammad renames him Muhammad Ali
1966 - Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green
Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1972 - Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's
all-time money winner
1978 - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot
& crippled by a sniper in Georgia
1981 - Walter Cronkite signs off as anchorman
of "CBS Evening News"
1985 - Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th
performance of "King & I"
1991 - Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian
Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is
defeated. The war is over"
Today’s World
Events through History
1521 - Magellan discovers Guam
1834 - Toronto incorporated with William Lyon
Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La
Traviata" premieres in Venice
1961 - 1st London minicabs introduced
1970 - A Catholic man is shot dead by British
soldiers in Belfast, North Ireland
1988 - 3 IRA suspects shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS
officers
1997 - Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen
from a London gallery, recovered a week later.
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Had lunch with Cheryl today as Mary was in Phoenix with her
brother. We went to our favorite Mexican place. Nice. Her son is coming over
from CA during their spring break with at least some of the grandkids.
After 2 long and expensive trials, the Jody Arias case is turned
over, by law, for the sentencing. Quite a spectacle here in AZ. She was found
guilty of murdering her boyfriend back in 2008 by stabbing him 27 times, then
shooting him. She’s guilty, neither could decide sentencing, the death penalty
was on the table. Now the judge will decide in April if it is life in prison
without parole or life in prison with possibility of parole in 25 years. AZ has
some crazy laws and cost tax payers mucho dinero.
Then the House in AZ passed a law and sent it to the AZ Senate
that would allow guns and rifles allowed inside government buildings that don’t
have metal detectors. The yes voting Reps must have investments in the metal
detector business. Who buys the thousands of detectors needed? The tax payers
of course. Damn, I feel safer already. NOT. If the law passes, I say the
legislative salaries of those voting YES pay for the detectors that will be
needed.
Ringling Bros Circus will no longer have elephants in their shows
after 2015. A huge win for animal rights activists who have been asking for
this for decades. Next battle will be the big cats. Certainly a good thing for all
the animals. Times change. I have been lucky enough to see most of the circus
animals of my youth in their natural habitat in Africa as well as many more
animals. Not all kids are as fortunate as me. I still haven’t seen any wild
tigers, but there is still time…if I do it soon. Of course I expected to see
tigers in Africa since they lived and worked together in the circus…but I was
also watching out for Tarzan, Jane, and Boy.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Diophantus
was a Greek mathematician who lived in the third century. He was one of the
first mathematicians to use algebraic symbols.
Most of what is known about Diophantus's life comes from an algebraic riddle
from around the early sixth century. The riddle states:
Diophantus's youth lasted one sixth of his life. He grew a beard after one
twelfth more. After one seventh more of his life, he married. 5 years later, he
and his wife had a son. The son lived exactly one half as long as his father,
and Diophantus died four years after his son.
How many years did Diophantus live?
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Car
Facts…
╪ In Norway, owners
of electric cars enjoy free public parking, free ferry trips, and the right to
drive in bus lanes.
╪ China's Building
an Ultra-Modern Car-Free City from Scratch
Chocolate
Facts…
╪ There is a fruit by the name of Black
Sapote or “chocolate pudding fruit” which tastes like chocolate pudding and is
actually low fat and has about “4 times as much vitamin C as an orange”.
╪ The Aztecs were the first to serve
chocolate as a drink. They also mixed it with hot chili pepper to make it
really 'hot'.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
1915- 100 YEARS AGO
A blaze in the home of the Flagstaff City Marshal originated in
back of the kitchen range and burned through to the studding, causing
considerable smoke and some damage before being extinguished. It was put out
before the fire carts arrived. Damage about $25.
Harper’s
Index…
33
Percentage increase since 2008 in the number of annual incidents
of violence against health-care workers in China
40
Percentage of Chinese doctors who report having considered leaving
the profession because of the threat of violence
Prison
Facts…
╪ In 1986 federal prisoner Ronald J.
McIntosh escaped during a prisoner transfer. A week later he returned in a
stolen helicopter and broke out his girlfriend.
╪ In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce
their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and
write a report on.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The Iron Man edition of Mr. Potato Head is named Tony Starch.
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2 jokes
for the day
Two men are drinking in a bar. One turns to
the other and says, "I bet you $100 that I can bite my eye."
The second fellow thinks to himself, I guess he's had about enough, so he
replies, "OK, you're on."
The first man takes out his glass eye and bites it. So the second man has to
pay.
Awhile later the first man says, "I bet you $100 I can bite my other
eye."
The second man thinks, well, he can't have TWO glass eyes; he obviously can
see. So he says, "All right, you're on."
The second man promptly takes out his false teeth and bites his other eye.
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I have a fear of speedbumps...
But I'm slowly getting over it.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
SOCHI, Russia (UPI)
A pair of Russian bears purported to have become alcoholics from
living outside a Sochi restaurant for 20 years are being offered rehab in
Romania. The Big Hearts Foundation said the two male bears, which a February
court ruling ordered to be seized from the owner of the Georgian restaurant in
Sochi on March 3, have been offered a new home at a bear sanctuary outside
Brasov, Romania, where officials said the animals would be treated for alcohol
addiction. "The people there have worked with dancing bears who had similar
problems," Anna Kogan, head of the Big Hearts Foundation, told the BBC.
"It can be done." The Big Hearts Foundation, based in Britain, is
working with charities, including France's Brigitte Bardot Foundation, to
secure transport for the animals. Kogan said the charities are seeking help
with the logistics of the bears' move. "It's a very expensive process to
move them abroad," Kogan said. Sergei Zenkov of the Russian Nature
Ministry said the agency would support moving the Sochi bears to the Romanian
sanctuary, but the animal rights charities would be responsible for taking care
of the necessary paperwork. The Big Hearts Foundation said the bears
"drowned in beer" at the restaurant for 20 years, as patrons would
frequently pass drinks to the animals. The owner of the restaurant said
"beer is good for the bears because of the Sochi climate."
"There are drunken people who come to the restaurant, park their cars in
front of the bears and throw things to the animals so that they get drunk and
behave funnily. They are held in cages -- and have been blinded by the car
lights," Kogan told The Independent.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
While
a lot of people have access to the internet, most people don’t.
Only
a minority of people globally have internet access, to be more exact.
According
to the report, only 37.9 percent of the world’s population accesses the
internet at least once a year, but the percentage is far higher in developed
nations, especially the West.
North
America is the region with the highest percentage of internet users, where 84.4
percent of the total population has at least some access to the internet.
On
the other hand, South Asia has the lowest percentage of internet users with just
13.7 percent.
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Birthday’s
Today
89 - Alan Greenspan, economist/presidential
advisor (FRB)
71 - Mary Wilson, vocalist (Supremes-Where
Did Our Love Go)
68 - Richard "Dick" Fosbury, Portland
Oregon, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1968)
68 - Rob Reiner, Bronx, actor/director (All
in the Family, Stand By Me)
56 - Tom Arnold, [Mr Roseanne Barr Arnold],
actor (True Lies)
52 - D.L. Hughley, American comedian and actor
43 - Shaquille O'Neal, NBA center (Magic,
Lakers, Oly-gold-96)
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Remembered
for being born today
1475-1564@88 - Michelangelo, Italian painter\sculptor\...
1619-1655@36 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French playwright,
known for his large nose
1806-1861@55 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (Sonnets
from the Portuguese)
1884-1959@75 - Molla Mallory, Norway, Tennis (eight-time
U.S. Open champ)
1893-1981@80 - [Walter]
Furry Lewis, father of the blues
1906-1975@70 - Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie, Tornado
in the Saddle)
1906-1959@52 - Lou Costello, comedian/actor (Abbott
& Costello)
1913-1993@80 - Stewart Granger, actor (Saraband for
Dead Lovers)
1923-2009@86 - Ed McMahon, TV host (Johnny Carson
Show, Star Search)
1927-2014@87 - Gabriel
García Márquez, Colombian novelist, (1982 Nobel Prize)
1929-2013@84 - Tom
Foley, politician (congress, speaker of the house)
1936-2014@78 - Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Wash DC), drug
indictment
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Historical
Obits Today
Georgia
O'Keefe, US painter (Flowers), 1986@ 98
Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr, American jurist, 1935@93
Ayn Rand,
author-philosopher (Atlas Shrugged), heart failure, 1982@77
John
Philip Sousa, US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), 1932, @77
Nelson
Eddy, US baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), stroke, 1967@65
William
Hopper, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason), stroke, 1970@55
Louisa
May Alcott, American author (Little Women), stroke, 1888@55
Davy
Crockett, US pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle, 1836@49
Jim Bowie,
American pioneer and soldier, at Alamo, 1836@40
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Brain Teasers Answers
The riddle, the "facts" of which may or may not be true,
results in the following equation:
x/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + x/2 + 4 = x
where x is Diophantus's age at the time of his death.
Therefore, Diophantus lived exactly 84 years.
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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…§
