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Almanac: Week: 12 \ Day: 076
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 66°\L 30° Average Sky
Cover: 2%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 15mph
Ave. High: 50° Record High: 73°
(2007) Ave. Low: 23° Record Low:
3° (1991)
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Observances Today:
Campfire Girls Day
National Irish Coffee Day
St. Patrick's Day
Submarine Day—the one in the ocean, not the sandwich
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
1756 - St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC at
Crown & Thistle Tavern
1762
- 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1776 - British forces evacuate Boston to Nova
Scotia during Revolutionary War
1836 - Texas abolishes slavery
1854 - 1st park land purchased by a US city,
Worcester, Mass
1898 - 1st practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC
(for 1 hour 40 minutes)
1899 - Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92
die
1904 - Arizona Daily Star
reported the discovery of a large body of onyx in the Santa Rita Mountains.
1917 - 1st exclusively women's bowling tournament
begins in St Louis
1927 - US government doesn't sign league of Nations
disarmament treaty
1950 - Element 98 (Californium) announced
1960 - Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile army
under the CIA
1973 - St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins
commemorating Bloody Sunday
1991 - Irish Lesbians & Gays march in St
Patrick Day parade
1995 - Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White
House
2008 - New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer
resigns after a scandal
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Today’s World
Events through History
432 - St Patrick aged 16 is carried off to Ireland
as a slave (traditional date)
1190 - Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York
England
1521 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reaches
the Philippines
1753 - 1st official St Patrick's Day
1845 - Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents
self-raising flour
1845 - Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of
London
1901 - Showing of 71 van Gogh paintings in
Paris creates a sensation
1959 - Dalai Lama flees Tibet for India
1973 - Queen Elizabeth II opens new
London Bridge
2014 - The
Republic of Crimea is declared
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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 in our little mountain town. Made a quick trip
to Safeway for tomorrow’s St. Patrick’s Day meal…cabbage, corned beef, soda
bread. Traditional at my place for decades. While visiting Ireland, we ate lots
of potatoes and root veggies, but never had corned beef and cabbage. The tour
guide said that was usually a ‘family, Sunday meal’ and not one you have at restaurants.
Hmmm.
Didn’t do a whole lot today, but after all, it’s Monday.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Complete
the words below using three consecutive letters in alphabetical order.
Example:
_ _ A _ U S; add A B and C it would
become ABACUS.
1. C O _ _ E _,
2. _ _ _ O R M,
3. S O _ E _ _,
4. _ U _ G _ L,
5. S _ O _ _ Y,
6. _ O B U _ _.
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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America
Facts…
-- The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28%. The percentage
of North America that is wilderness: 38%.
-- Approximately 4 to 5% of the U.S. population has one or more
clinically significant phobias in a given year. Specific phobias occur in
people of all ages. The average age of onset for social phobia is between 15
and 20 years of age, although it can often begin in childhood.
Average
Facts…
-- It would take about 1,200,000 mosquitoes to fully drain the
average human body of blood.
--The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated
20,160 minutes kissing!
Charity
Facts…
-- Hockey player Jarome Iginla donates $2,000 to the children’s
charity Kidsport for every goal he scores. Since 2000 it has added up to more
than $700,000.
-- Between 2007 and 2012, Bill Gates gave away $28 billion; saving
6 million lives.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
--Free packages of Western Wild Flowers
are available at all Richfield Stations and at our bulk plant on East Santa Fe.
An attractive informative booklet is included. Les Headlee, Local Distributor.
--The Williams school is closed due to a
flu epidemic.
--A new STOP sign has been placed
southbound at Aspen and Humphreys. Parking in front of the Post Office is now
limited to 5 minutes. All parking on downtown streets is limited to 45 minutes
and absolutely No parking except authorized vehicles will be permitted in
loading zones.
--There’s a new industry 3 miles east of
town. Its Bill’s Big Chief Potato Chips on Highway 66 at Harmon’s Log Cabin
Court. It’s in the same building as the store and cafe operated by Ken Harmon
that Bill Edwards of Salt Lake City is establishing a potato chip factory. He
plans bi-weekly delivery service to all northern Arizona towns. He uses only
pure vegetable oil in a new method that does not become rancid, as it does not
soak up the oils He is experimenting with local potatoes to discover which
variety will “chip” the best.
--The City Board of Beautification is
asking for donations for plants to improve our parks, streets, parkways
playgrounds and tennis courts. Cost per each is only 10 cents.
Harper’s
Index…
7
Minimum number of people Queen Elizabeth employs to send 100th
birthday cards to British centenarians
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
A shampoo containing real beer was marketed in the 1970s under the
brand name Body On Tap.
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2 jokes
for the day
I used to be a taxi driver but I had to
quit...
I couldn't stand people talking behind my back.
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When NASA was preparing for the Apollo
Project, it took the astronauts to a Navajo reservation in Arizona for
training. One day, a Navajo elder and his son came across the space crew, who
were walking among the rocks.
The elder, who spoke only Navajo, asked a question. His son translated for the
NASA people:
"What are these guys in the big suits doing?"
One of the astronauts said they were practicing for a trip to the moon. When
his son relayed this comment, the Navajo elder got all excited and asked if it
would be possible to give the astronauts a message to deliver to the moon.
Recognizing a promotional opportunity when he saw one, a NASA official
accompanying the astronauts said, "Why certainly!" and told an
underling to get a tape recorder. The Navajo elder's comments into the
microphone were brief. The NASA official asked the son if he would translate
what his father had said. The son listened to the recording and laughed
uproariously. But he refused to translate.
So the NASA people took the tape to a nearby Navajo village and played it for
other members of the tribe. They too laughed long and loudly but also refused
to translate the elder's message to the moon.
Finally, an official government translator was summoned. After he finally
stopped laughing, the translator relayed the message:
"Watch out for these guys! They've come to steal your land."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
The next great leap forward in medical
science has been made; the world's first successful penile transplant.
A team of pioneering surgeons from Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg
Hospital in South Africa performed the nine-hour operation in December 2014.
Prof. Jimmy Volmink, Dean of SU's Faculty of Medicine, said, "This
procedure is another excellent example of how medical research, technical
know-how and patient-centered care can be combined in the quest to relieve
human suffering."
The patient, whose identity is being protected for ethical reasons, has made a
full recovery and has regained all function in the newly transplanted organ.
"Our goal was that he would be fully functional at two years, and we are
very surprised by his rapid recovery," said lead surgeon Andre van der
Merwe.
Van der Merwe explained, "There is a greater need in South Africa for this
type of procedure than elsewhere in the world, as many young men lose their
penises every year due to complications from traditional circumcision."
As the procedure becomes more common, doctors plan on offering options in
large, medium and caucasian.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
word coffee comes from Kaffa, a region in Ethiopia where coffee beans may have
been discovered.
As early as the ninth century, people in the Ethiopian highlands were making a
stout drink from ground coffee beans boiled in water.
Scandinavia boasts the highest per-capita coffee consumption in the world. On
average, people in Finland drink more than four cups of coffee a day.
Coffee is the most popular beverage in the world, with more than 400 billion
cups consumed each year. More than 450 million cups of coffee are consumed in
the United States every day.
Coffee contains caffeine, the stimulant that gives you that "lift."
Caffeine is the most popular drug in the world, and 90 percent of people in the
United States consume it in some form every day.
Despite what you may believe, dark roast coffee has less caffeine than coffee
that's been lightly roasted.
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Birthday’s
Today
74 - Paul Kantner, rock singer/guitarist
(Jefferson Airplane)
66 - Patrick Duffy, Townsend Mont, actor
(Bobby-Dallas)
64 - Kurt Russell, actor (Thing),
51 - Rob Lowe, actor (St Elmo's Fire)
42 - Mia Hamm, Selma Alabama, soccer forward
(Olympics-96)
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Remembered
for being born today
1804-1881@77 - James Bridger, scout/fur
trader/mountain man s
1919-1965@45 - Nat "King" Cole,
Montgomery Ala, singer (Unforgettable)
1938-1993@54 - Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet
dancer/choreographer (Kirov)
1942-1994@52 - John Wayne Gacy, serial killer (32
boys)
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Historical
Obits Today
Oleg
Cassini, American fashion designer-2006@92
Helen
Hayes, actress (Airport)-1993@92
Pope
Shenouda III, Pope Egypt Coptic Orthodox Church 2012@88
Fred
Allen, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show), heart attack-1956@61
Christian
Doppler, Austrian physicist (Effect)), repertory disease-1853@49
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Corset,
2. Deform,
3. Solemn, Sorest
4. Cudgel,
5. Snoopy,
6. Robust.
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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…§
