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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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
