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Almanac: Week: 12 \ Day: 075
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 61°\L 29° Average Sky
Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 12mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave. High: 50° Record High: 72°
(2007) Ave. Low: 23° Record Low:
-1° (1969)
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Observances
Today:
Curlew Day
Everything You Do Is Right Day
Freedom of Information Day
Goddard Day
Lips Appreciation Day
No Selfies Day Well-Elderly or Wellderly Day
Observances This
Week:
11-17
…Turkey Vultures
Return to the Living Sign
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
Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1621 - Native American chief Samoset visits
colony of Plymouth Mass
1802 - Law signed to establish US Milt Academy
(West Point, NY)
1802 - US Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd
time)
1829 - Ohio authorizes high school night classes
1833 - Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman grad of
a pharmacy college
1850 - Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Scarlet
Letter" published
1861 - Arizona Territory votes to leave the Union
(US Civil War)
1871 - 1st fertilizer law enacted
1881 - Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts
1882 - US Senate ratifies treaty establishing the
Red Cross
1890 - Tucson received
$25,000 from Andrew Carnegie to build a library
1912 - Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry
tree in Wash DC
1915 - Federal Trade Commission organizes
1916 - US & Canada sign migratory bird treaty
1934 - Congress passes Migratory Bird Conservation
Act
1941 - National Gallery of Art opens in Wash DC
1945 - Allies secure Iwo Jima
1948 - Billie Holiday is released from prison
early because of good behavior
1950 - 1st annual National Book Awards
1968 - My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
1974 - 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House
at Opryland in Nashville
1977 - US president Carter pleads for Palestinian
homeland
1985 - Associated Press correspondent Terry
Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
1991 - Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian
Organization march in NYC parade
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Today’s World
Events through History
1830 - London's re-organized police force (Scotland
Yard)
1867 – 1st
publication of Lister’s outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery
1970 - New English Bible published
1988 - North Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic
funeral, 3 killed
1998 - Pope John Paul II asks God for
forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the
Holocaust
2006 - The United Nations General Assembly votes
overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful day and lazy Sunday.
Last night’s discussion was very good. I was odd man out believing
that lots is currently being done to stop both trafficking and smuggling of
humans around the world and therefore the information was positive. Others in
the group believed it was very depressing when one studies the possible numbers
of people being trafficked or smuggled every year. I agreed but since these
types of activities have been going on for centuries, today is still improving
on these horrific acts against humanity. We also drifted a little to discuss
illegals in the US who got here by smuggling. Two of our regulars are Canadian
citizens here on VISAs who worked at various universities during their work careers.
While they do agree that ‘dreamers’ should be a ‘special circumstance’ group
they also believe that any who came into this country without paperwork need to
be sent back and get in line. It was a good night of banter.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you decipher this:
PBLUESAISNUERSES
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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America
Facts…
-- Each year, around 24,000 Americans are bitten by rats!
--The first semi-permanent settlements appeared in Florida around
5000 B.C.
Average
Facts…
-- There are about 255 babies born worldwide every minute.
--95% of people feel uncomfortable when the TV volume is an odd
number.
Charity
Facts…
-- Boxer Wladimir Klitshko auctioned his Olympic gold medal to raise
money for underprivileged Ukrainian children. He raised $1,000,000. The buyer
immediately returned the medal to Wladimir as he wanted it to remain in the
Klitschko family.
--Newman’s Own foods donates 100% of its post-tax profits to
charity. As of June 2012 these donations have exceeded 330 million dollars.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
--J. H. Bradley has leased the Poynter
Food Emporium on South San Francisco Street across from the Findley Building.
He will dispense eatings to the hungries.
--Power Conway, Warren Bros. paving man,
was in Flagstaff on Monday to look at paving possibilities and met with the
Council. He has been in charge of paving for Phoenix and is an expert in the
business.
--O. B. Raudebaugh Stationery and News
Stand on Railroad Avenue provides fine cigars, both domestic and Havana, as
well as fresh fruits and confectionery and has just received a full line of
Jevenes fine cigars.
--Winter winds are very hard on your
skin but you will have no trouble if you use Rex-all Theatrical Cream, sold
only at Will Marker’s Pharmacy. Ph. 24 . Free delivery.
Harper’s
Index…
1/10
Portion of Americans betweenthe ages of 25 and 34 in 1960 who had never
been married
1/2
Number today
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
On the week of April 4th, 1964, The Beatles held each
of the top five spots on the Billboard pop singles chart.
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2 jokes
for the day
I submitted 10 puns to a contest to see which
one would win.
Sadly, no pun in ten did.
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A lady walks into the drugstore and asks the
pharmacist for some arsenic.
"Ma'am, what do you want with arsenic?" "To kill my
husband."
"I can't sell you arsenic to kill a person!"
The lady lays down a photo of a man and a woman in a compromising position.
The man is her husband and the woman is the pharmacist's wife.
He takes the photo, and nods. "I didn't realize you had a
prescription!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
CHICAGO (UPI)
A man who co-owns a wrestling-themed restaurant in Chicago with
his wife, a former WWE star, used his own moves to take down an armed man at
the business. Lee Varon, who co-owns The Squared Circle with wife Lisa Marie
Varon, who performed in the WWE as Victoria, said a server told him about 9:30
p.m. Saturday a young man in the eatery was behaving strangely. Varon said the
man walked into a women's bathroom before walking into the kitchen and telling
him he was being pursued by men with guns. "He said some guys with guns
were chasing him, and I thought, 'If guys with guns were really chasing you,
then you shouldn't be out front,'" Varon told ABC News. "I escorted
him back to the kitchen and he was immediately combative with me." Varon
said he took action when the man appeared to be reaching for a weapon in his
pants. Security camera footage from the restaurant shows Varon wrestle the
suspect into submission. Lee said one of his cooks was able to get the
suspect's gun. "My chef pulled the gun out of the kid's pants and said,
'where do I put it?' I said, 'On the table.' He said, 'Where?' I said. 'Next to
the sprinkles' and just hearing put the gun next to the sprinkles is not
something you say on a daily basis," Lee told CBS Chicago. Arnez Harper,
18, was arrested on charges of possession of a controlled substance, battery,
aggravated assault and unlawful use of a weapon.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
--Female
wolf spiders carry their egg sacs behind them, attached to their spinnerets.
After the spiders emerge, they crawl onto the mother's abdomen and hold on
while she actively runs and hunts. After about a week, the spiderlings molt to
a larger size and then take off to live on their own.
--Spiders eat more insects than birds and bats (combined) eat, so they should
be considered another of human's best friends. They play a big role in
controlling insect populations.
--Male spiders are almost always smaller than the females and are often much
more colorful. Some males are so small that they actually look like they're
newly hatched.
--Spiders cannot fly - but they can balloon. Young spiderlings pull out silk
until the breeze can lift them into the sky. Most don't travel high or far, but
some have been seen at altitudes of 10,000 feet and on ships more than 200
miles from land.
--The decoration in the web of some orb-weaving spiders serves a variety of
purposes. It can be a warning so birds don't fly into the web, an attractant so
insect-prey fly in on purpose, or an "umbrella" to shade the spider
from the hot sun.
--Some spiders live underwater all of their lives. They surface to collect a
bubble of air, which acts as an underwater lung. An underwater spider fills its
bell-shape web with air bubbles and derives oxygen from them.
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Birthday’s
Today
89 - Jerry Lewis, [Joseph Levitch], comedian/fund
raiser (MDA),
83 - Ruth Bader Ginsberg, justice (US
Supreme Court)
74 - Bernardo Bertolucci, director (Last
Tango in Paris)
74 - Chuck Woolery, TV game show host (Love
Connection)
73 - Jerry Jeff Walker, country singer (Mr
Bojangles)
66 - Erik Estrada, Puerto Rican actor
(CHiPS)
61 - Nancy Wilson, SF, rock guitarist
(Heart-Never, What about Love)
56 - Flavor Flav [William Jonathan Drayton
Jr.], American rapper\reality tv star
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Remembered
for being born today
1750-1848@97 - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, 1st modern
woman astronomer
1751-1836@85 - James Madison, 4th US president
1799-1871@72 - Anna Atkins, 1st to publish a book
illustrated with photographs
1903-2001@98 - Mike Mansfield, (Sen-D-Mont) majority
whip
1906-1998@91 - Henny Youngman, comedian (Take my wife
please)
1927-2003@76 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US ambassador
to UN/Sen-NY
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Historical
Obits Today
Lord
Lovat, Clan Fraser of Lovat [Shimi], Scottish landowner-1995@83
Arthur
Godfrey, TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), cancer-1983@79
Roy Bean,
American jurist, heavy drinking-1903@78ish
Tammi
Terrell, soul singer (You're All I Need), brain tumor-1970@24
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Brain Teasers Answers
Mixing business with pleasure.
PbLuEsAiSnUeRsEs
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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…§
