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Almanac: Week: 11 \ Day: 072
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 60°\L 40° Average Sky
Cover: 45%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 7mph
Ave. High: 50° Record High: 69°
(2007) Ave. Low: 22° Record Low:
-9° (1962)
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Observances
Today:
International Ask A Question Day
International Day of Action for Rivers
International Fanny Pack Day
Learn about Butterflies Day
National Potato Chip Day
National Urban Ballroom Dancing Day
Pi Day (as in the math pie = 3.14159265 etc.)
Observances This
Week:
8-14
…Universal Women's
Week
…National Agriculture Week
…Teen Tech Week
…Girl Scout Week
…Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week
11-17
…Turkey Vultures
Return to the Living Sign
13-15
…National Rattlesnake
Roundup
…American Council on Education
14-22
…National YoYo and
Skills Toys Days
…American Chocolate Week
…Campfire USA Birthday Week
…Health Information
Professionals Week
…National Animal Poison Prevention Week
…National Button Week
…National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week
…Termite Awareness Week
…International Brain Awareness Week
…Shakespeare Week
…Flood Safety Awareness Week
…Act Happy Week
…Wellderly Week
…Wildlife Week
…World Folktales & Fables Week
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1493 - Columbus writes
a letter today describing the generous nature of the Indians he has
encountered. He will describe them as "men of great deference and
kindness."
1743 - 1st
American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
1794 - Eli
Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing cotton industry in
the southern US states
1812 - Congress
authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
1870 - California
legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
1833 - Secretary of War has
the Indian Department issue orders, again, to U.S. Marshals to remove whites
from Creek lands.
1888 - 2nd
largest snowfall in NYC history (21")
1900 - US currency goes on gold standard after
Congress passes the Currency Act
1903 - 1st
national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL
1913 - John D.
Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1923 - Pres Warren G Harding becomes 1st president
to pay taxes
1930 - Phoenix Planning and
Zoning Commission laid out city to accommodate a population of 226,000
inhabitants
1931 - 1st theater
built for rear movie projection (NYC)
1933 - Civilian
Conservation Corp begins tree conservation
1936 - Federal
Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
1950 - FBI's
"10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
1951 - During
Korean War, US/UN forces recapture Seoul
1956 - Satchel
Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
1958 - Recording Industry Association of American
created
1964 - Jack
Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder
1967 - JFK's body
moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial
1993 - 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
Today’s World
Events through History
1689 - Scotland
dismisses William III & Mary Stuart as king & queen
1826 - General
Congress of South American States assembles at Panama
1869 - Defeat
of Maori leader Titokowaru in New Zealand
1885 - Gilbert
& Sullivan's comic opera "Mikado" premieres in London
1913 - South African Supreme Court declares that
marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by
the Registrar of Marriages, are invalid; all Muslim and Hindu marriages are
therefore declared invalid
1958 - South Africa government prohibits the
African National Congress
1972 - Two IRA members shot dead by British
soldiers in the Bogside area of Derry
1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously
wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast
1992 - Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends
publication
1995 - 1st time
13 people in space
2013 - Xi Jinping is
named as the new President of the People's Republic of China
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Saturday is Pi day…an annual celebration of π. Big day for trivia
buffs and nerds:
3-14-15@9:26:53:59. This only happens once a century…so enjoy…
A lot of big puffy clouds moved across the sky in our little
mountain town, but still a very nice day.
Did some cleaning and straightening around the house…just in case I
have weekend visitors. Not expecting any, but if I didn’t, some would arrive
for sure.
The AZ house, led by a state rep that represents the area I live
in has really gone bonkers…again. As I was reading about the bill, I learned,
much to my dismay, that the 2nd amendment—guns—is a “God-given”
right. Thanks to that bill, if it passes the Senate and gets signed by the
Governor, anyone with a conceal permit will be able to carry inside most public
buildings—except schools and universities—if the building does not have a metal
detector and each and every public access entrance. Prior to this bill, a sign
stating ‘No Firearms allowed’ was enough…but no more. As my Rep made a rambling
statement that criminals don’t read signs and she will feel safer knowing that
those with conceal permits will be there to protect her. My only comment to
this craziness is ‘What Would Jesus Do?’
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you decipher this:
L NCH
L NCH
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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America
Facts…
-- One million Americans, about 3,000 each day, take up smoking each
year. Most of them are children.
--Americans throw out 4.5 pounds of trash a day - twice that of 40
years ago.
Ant
Facts…
-- The abdomen of the ant contains two stomachs. One stomach holds
the food for itself and second stomach is for food to be shared with other
ants.
--An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has
10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain
as a human.
Car
Facts…
-- Outside of the bedroom, the most common place for adults in the
U.S. to have sex is the car.
--It would take more than 150 years to drive a car to the sun.
Charity
Facts…
-- When the 2013 government shutdown threatened the closing down of a
national program giving medical attention and meals to children, John D. Arnold
donated $10 million of his own money to keep it afloat.
--The United Arab Emirates donated a laptop to every high school
student in Joplin, Missouri, after the city had been devastated by a tornado.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO--1940
--Glen Curtis Davis, who was arrested by
State Highway Patrolman S. Hinton, pleaded guilty in Justice of Peace Max W.
Miller's Court on Wednesday to the misdemeanor of operating a motor vehicle on
the left side of the highway. Offered the choice of two days in jail or a $2.50
fine, he paid and was released.
--Helmar Magee was arrested on Sunday by
Highway Patrolman Li Stor for exceeding the speed limit in a 20 mph zone.
Justice Miller found him guilty, waived his time spent and fined him $1.
--There were nearly 1,000 participants
in the second annual Snow Carnival at the Snow Bowl held this past weekend,
with 800 skiers and spectators on the final day of the event.
--A total of $1,215 has now been
contributed to the Iron Lung Fund.
--Babbitt’s Lumber Co. is offering a
4-room, carefree home plan that may be expanded to 5 rooms by using the attic.
You will like the plan and it’s easy to own. Stop in and check it out.
Harper’s
Index…
1
Riank of the Super Bowl amoung TV programs viewed by US women
90
Number of times NFL players have been arrested for domestic
violence since 2000
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Because it's growing about half an inch a year, a person climbing
Mount Everest today would have to go 27 inches further to reach the peak than
Sir Edmund Hillary did in 1953.
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2 jokes
for the day
Q: Why couldn't the pony speak?
A: Because, he was a little horse.
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A man goes to the police station wanting to
speak to the burglar who broke into his house the night before.
"You'll get your chance in court" says the desk sergeant.
"No, no, no!" Says the man. "I want to know how he got into the
house without waking my wife. I've been trying to do that for years!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
A water bottle filled with liquid silicone, red plastic cups,
needles and syringes, and Krazy Glue to close the wound; These were to tools of
the trade of the self-proclaimed 'Michelangelo of Buttocks Injections'.
You might also know her as Padge-Victoria Windslowe. She made the news in 2012
when she was arrested for the death a 20-year-old London dancer and college
student who was the victim of a botched injection.
The trial just concluded.
45-year-old Windslowe has had quite a colorful career. She described herself as
a serial entrepreneur who once ran a transgender escort service and a Gothic
hip-hop performer who called herself the Black Madam.
But it was as a "body sculptor" that, in her own mind, she really
excelled. "I was the best," Windslowe testified, "and I don't
mean that to be cocky."
Unfortunately her medical training consisted of tips she said she picked up
from overseas doctors who performed her sex change operation and a
physician-client of her escort service who became her lover.
This less-than-professional background is undoubtedly what led her to inject
nearly half a gallon of industrial-grade silicone into the buttocks of the
20-year-old student, which led to her heart stopping.
The jury took less than four hours to reject a lesser man-slaughter charge and
convict her of third-degree murder, which involves malice but not
premeditation.
Windslowe faces 20 to 40 years in prison.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
--Each
U.S. state and territory is free to ignore daylight savings time, so residents
of Arizona (except those on the Navajo Nation), Hawaii, Puerto Rico, the Virgin
Islands, and other territories didn't move their clocks this past weekend.
--Germany and its allies in World War I were the first countries to adopt
daylight saving time as a way to conserve energy for the war effort. Britain,
other countries in Europe, Canada and the US followed suit.
--Farmers were among the biggest opposition groups to daylight saving time when
it was first proposed in the British Parliament in 1908. They often set their
day to the sun, so everyone else moving their schedules forward gave them less
time to peddle their wares.
--The origin of daylight saving time is commonly attributed to Benjamin
Franklin, who wrote an essay in 1784 about how changing time could save energy.
--Studies show that Americans use the extra hour of daylight to go out and
enjoy themselves. Leisure facilities such as golf courses have reported
increased business, whereas Nielsen ratings for American TV show as much as a
10-15% drop in the number of viewers watching even the most popular shows.
--Cities once kept their own time and in 1965, there were 130 cities in the US
with populations of 100,000 or more and 59 of them did not observe daylight
saving time.
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Birthday’s
Today
87 - Frank Borman, astronaut (Gem 7, Ap
8)/CEO (Eastern Airline)
82 - Michael Caine, [Maurice J Micklewhite],
actor (Alfie)
82 - Quincy Jones Jr, composer/singer (We
Are The World)
70 - Michael Martin Murphey, country singer
(Wildfire)
67 - Billy Crystal, actor, writer, producer
(Soap, City Slickers)
67 - Tom Coburn, American politician, junior
senator from OK
31 - Jordan Taylor Hanson, singer
(Hansons-MMMMbop)
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Remembered
for being born today
1800-1874@74 - James Bogardus, US inventor/builder
(made cast-iron buildings)
1833-1910@77 - Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st US woman dentist
1864-1900@37 - [John]
Casey Jones, RR engineer (Ballad of
Casey Jones)
1879-1955@76 - Albert Einstein, theoretical physicist\Nobel
(theory of relativity)
1912-2001@89 - Les Brown, American bandleader (d. 2001)
1914-2000@86 - Lee Petty, American race car driver (d.
2000)
1916-2009@92 - Horton Foote, author, playwright and
screenwriter
1920-2001@81 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the
Menace)
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Historical
Obits Today
Peter
Graves [Aurness], American actor-2010@83
George
Eastman, Kodak-camera, suicide-1932@77
Murat B "Chic"
Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie), 1973@72
Karl Marx, German
philosopher (Communist Manifesto), pleurisy-1883@64
Edward
Abbey (environmental author), dies after surgery-1989@62
Susan
Hayward, actress (Young & Willing), brain cancer-1975@56
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Brain Teasers Answers
Take you out to lunch.
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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…§
