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Almanac: Week: 12 \ Day: 076
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 63°\L 32° Average Sky
Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 17mph
Ave. High: 51° Record High: 68°
(2004) Ave. Low: 23° Record Low:
-1° (1954)
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Observances
Today:
Awkward
Moments Day
Brain
Injury Awareness Day
Forgive
Mom and Dad Day
Goddess of Fertility Day- Aphrodite
Kick
Butts Day
National
Agriculture Day
National
Biodiesel Day
Supreme Sacrifice Day-recognizes the ultimate
sacrifice made by some for the good of others
Observances This
Week:
…National
YoYo and Skills Toys Days
…American Chocolate Week
…Campfire USA Birthday Week
…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
…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
1818 - Congress approves 1st pensions for
government service
1850 - Henry Wells & William Fargo forms
American Express in Buffalo
1870 - 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt
in Oakland California)
1881 - Barnum & Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth
opens (Madison Square Garden)
1901 - Arizona Territorial Legislature adopted the saguaro cactus
blossom as the official state flower
1902 - Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known
performer to make a record
1910 - 1st opera by an US composer (Converse)
performed at the Met, NYC
1911 - North Dakota enacts a hail insurance law
1919 - Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
1922 – 1st
public celebration of Bat mitzvah, held in New York City
1931 - 1st electric shavers go on sale in US
(Schick)
1944 - 2,500 women trample guards &
floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago
Illinois dept store
1948 - Philips begin experimental TV broadcasting
1952 - 1st plastic lens for cataract patients
fitted (Phila)
1961 - Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
1977 - US restricts citizens from visiting Cuba,
Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia
1982 - Singer Teddy Pendergrass' spinal cord
severed in a car accident
1990 - Largest ever art robbery at Isabella Stewart
Gardner Museum, Boston. 13 works valued over $500 million are stolen
2014- US
closes the Syrian embassy in Washington & expels all Syrian diplomats
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Today’s World
Events through History
1190 - Crusaders kill 57 Jews in Bury St Edmonds,
England
1314 - Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last
Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake
1325 – Legend:
Tenochtitlan is founded; depicted on the Mexican coat of arms.
1541 - de Soto observes 1st recorded flood in
America (Mississippi River)
1834 - 6 farm laborers from Dorset, England sentenced
to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
1847 - 1st Dutch public telegram
1847 - 1st Dutch public telegram
1913 - King George I of Greece is assassinated
1922 - British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma
Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience
1965 - USSR launches Voshkod 2; Alexei Leonov makes
1st spacewalk (20 mins)
1989 - In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found in
the Pyramid of Cheops
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy day but alas, no moisture. Decided it was a good day to do
laundry. All washed, dried, and put away. NICE!
RANT: From my seat in AZ, Congress seems to remain very dysfunctional.
It has been since Obama was elected and now that the Republicans have both
majorities on the hill, it remains dysfunctional. So how does it get fixed? Get
big secret money out of the elections of all politicians, limit the time one
can campaign, draw congressional lines based on nothing but population and stop
all this gerrymandering, term limits for Congress, get all eligible voters to
vote in Federal elections to start and then to all elections. I live in a
fairly liberal community in AZ, but have very few elected officials who are center
or liberal. Why? Gerrymandering and lack of voters. We have ended up with a
state rep who believes that the 2nd amendment is God-Given, another
rep who believes that we have to cut education funds because it would be a bad
idea to raise corporate taxes. We have a senior Senator who is one of the 47,
then backslid and said he didn’t know what he had signed. Our governor ran on a
platform to improve education then cut millions for Community Colleges and
millions more for the University system, again saying he was against raising corporate
taxes. One of AZ’s big business things was to get Intel to come to AZ with lots
of good jobs. The head of Intel said the recent cuts to Universities was a very
bad idea and that he wants well educated workers and is not sure AZ was the
right choice. END OF RANT
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you unscramble the movies in Part 1 and match them with who the star was in
Part 2? And your answer is?
Part 1 Part 2
1. IILLONM LLOARD BBYA 1. Dustin Hoffman
2. A AUITEBUFL NMDI 2. Jon Voight
3. AAIRCNEM YBTUEA 3. Kevin Spacey
4. RRFTSOE MGPU 4. Clint Eastwood
5. NRIA NMA 5. Paul Newman
6. ETH NSITG 6. Tom Hanks
7. IIMDGNTH OOCYBW 7. Russell Crowe
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Part 1 Part 2
1. IILLONM LLOARD BBYA 1. Dustin Hoffman
2. A AUITEBUFL NMDI 2. Jon Voight
3. AAIRCNEM YBTUEA 3. Kevin Spacey
4. RRFTSOE MGPU 4. Clint Eastwood
5. NRIA NMA 5. Paul Newman
6. ETH NSITG 6. Tom Hanks
7. IIMDGNTH OOCYBW 7. Russell Crowe
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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America
Facts…
-- Saint Augustine, Florida, is the oldest European settlement in North America.
--16 percent of Americans will receive one speeding ticket this
year and it will cost them on average $150 per ticket.
Average
Facts…
-- An average person’s yearly fast food intake will contain 12 pubic
hairs.
--In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined)
to bring a half gallon of water to boil.
Charity
Facts…
-- As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated $36,854,000,000 in his
lifetime! That's more than half of his total net worth!
--J.K. Rowling lost her billionaire status because she donated so
much of her money to charity.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
--Last Saturday, only passenger trains
were moving as the Locomotive, Firemen and Engineers Union strike struck
the Santa Fe line to the Coast. The wildcat strike is alleged to be due to a
failure to hire enough men to cover the jobs.
--An out-of-fuel plane landed on U.S. 66
near Peach Springs, barely missing a house. The plane coming from Las Vegas had
missed the Kingman Airport in heavy overcast and lacked the height needed to
land at Peach Springs. Highway Patrolman Roger Bowmen having shut down the
traffic about a mile apart, no autos were involved.
--An Immune Clinic for diphtheria,
whooping cough, tetanus, and smallpox was held on Thursday, 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Phyllis E. Plant, Public Health Nurse.
--Curb Service at 504 E. Santa Fe.
A&W Root Beer. Fish and Chips 75 Cents. Paw Burgers 59 Cents, Maw Burgers
39 Cents Junior Burgers 24 Cents.
--On Tuesday a spectacular, sudden snow
storm dropped 5 inches of wet heavy snow on the town, 10 inches at Mormon Lake
and an even foot at the Snow Bowl.
Harper’s
Index…
1/3
Portion of the hundred best paid US CEOs who earn more annually
than their companies pay in federal taxes
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Scientists believe heavy UV radiation has turned all the American
flags on the moon white.
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2 jokes
for the day
Q: What’s the best part about living in
Switzerland?
A: Not sure, but the flag is a big plus.
A: Not sure, but the flag is a big plus.
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A Spanish teacher was explaining to her class
that in Spanish, unlike English, nouns are designated as either masculine or
feminine.
"House" for instance, is feminine: "la casa."
"Pencil," however, is masculine: "el lapiz."
A student asked, "What gender is 'computer'?"
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.
The men's group decided that "computer" should definitely be of the feminine gender ("la computadora") because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine ("el computador") because:
1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on.
2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves.
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time, they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.
The women won.
"House" for instance, is feminine: "la casa."
"Pencil," however, is masculine: "el lapiz."
A student asked, "What gender is 'computer'?"
Instead of giving the answer, the teacher split the class into two groups, male and female, and asked them to decide for themselves whether "computer" should be a masculine or a feminine noun. Each group was asked to give four reasons for its recommendation.
The men's group decided that "computer" should definitely be of the feminine gender ("la computadora") because:
1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic.
2. The native language they use to communicate with other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else.
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory for possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.
The women's group, however, concluded that computers should be masculine ("el computador") because:
1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on.
2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves.
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the time, they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.
The women won.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Edmonton
Journal
"This will be upsetting," cautioned Justice Robert
Graesser, addressing jurors in February in the Edmonton, Alberta, murder trial
of Brad Barton. At issue was the cause of the victim's having bled to death
from her genitals, and the judge, ruling that jurors would benefit by
inspecting the actual wound, admitted the vagina itself (not a photograph) into
evidence. The organ had been removed for autopsy and preserved, and the chief
medical examiner donned rubber gloves and pointed out to jurors how
"clean" the wound was (suggesting a sharp object), rather than the
rougher, "scraping" wound that would have been created in other ways,
such as by impalement. (At press time, the trial was still in progress.)
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Somewhat
Useless Information
10
Hilarious Sayings To Celebrate St. Patrick's Day --*
1.
"There are only two kinds of people in the world. The Irish and those who
wish they were." - Irish Saying
2. "Here's to a long life and many more. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girls and an honest one. A cold beer - and another one!" - St. Patrick's Day Toast
3. "Irish diplomacy is the ability to tell a man to go to hell so that he looks forward to making the trip." - Irish saying
4. "If you’re lucky enough to be Irish, you're lucky enough!" - Irish Saying
5. "In Heaven there is no beer that's why we drink it here." - Irish Saying
6. "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the Bible says love thy enemy."
7. "I come from an Irish family. St. Patrick's Day was our big holiday. The night before we'd hang up our stockings and in the morning they'd be full of beer." - Sean Morey
8. "There are many good reasons for drinking, one has just entered my head. If a man doesn't drink when he's living, how in the hell can he drink when he's dead?" - Irish Saying
9. "If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks." - Brendan Behan
10. "As an American of Irish descent, I am sick of these Irish stereotypes. As soon as I finish my drink, I'm going to punch someone." - Irish American
2. "Here's to a long life and many more. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girls and an honest one. A cold beer - and another one!" - St. Patrick's Day Toast
3. "Irish diplomacy is the ability to tell a man to go to hell so that he looks forward to making the trip." - Irish saying
4. "If you’re lucky enough to be Irish, you're lucky enough!" - Irish Saying
5. "In Heaven there is no beer that's why we drink it here." - Irish Saying
6. "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the Bible says love thy enemy."
7. "I come from an Irish family. St. Patrick's Day was our big holiday. The night before we'd hang up our stockings and in the morning they'd be full of beer." - Sean Morey
8. "There are many good reasons for drinking, one has just entered my head. If a man doesn't drink when he's living, how in the hell can he drink when he's dead?" - Irish Saying
9. "If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks." - Brendan Behan
10. "As an American of Irish descent, I am sick of these Irish stereotypes. As soon as I finish my drink, I'm going to punch someone." - Irish American
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Birthday’s
Today
78 - F[rederik] W[illem] de Klerk,
president South Africa (1989-94)
77 - Charley Pride, country singer
72 - Kevin Dobson, actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon)
70 - Michael Reagan, talk show host, and son
of Ronald and Nancy Reagan
64 - Ben Cohen, American co-founder of Ben
& Jerry's ice cream
51 - Vanessa L Williams, Actress, singer-1st
African American Miss America
51 - Bonnie Blair, speed skater (Oly-5
gold/brz-88, 92, 94)
45 - Queen Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens), rap
singer/actress/talk show host
35 - Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)
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Remembered
for being born today
1782-1850@68 - John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson's VP
1837-1908@71 - Grover Cleveland, [Stephen], NJ,
22nd/24th Pres
1869-1940@71 - [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British Prime
Minister
1879-1966@86 - Cluny MacPherson, Canadian doctor
(inventor of the gas mask)
1886-1970@84 - Edward Everett Horton, Brooklyn,
narrator (Bulwinkle Show)
1911-1967@55 - Smiley Burnette, cowboy
(Charlie-Petticoat Junction)
1925-2010@83 - Peter Graves [Aurness], actor (James
Phelps-Mission Impossible)
1927-2003@76 - George Plimpton, sports writer (Paper
Lion)
1932-2009@76 - John Updike, poet/novelist (Rabbit Run)
1941-2006@64 - Wilson Pickett, R&B singer (Funky
Broadway)
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Historical
Obits Today
William
C. Durant, American automobile pioneer, 1947@85
Fess
Parker, American actor-2010@85
Jacques
de Molay, burned at the stake-1314@71
John Chapman, [Johnny
Appleseed], pioneer agronomist-1845@70ish
George I, king of
Greece (1861-1913), assassinated-1913@67
John
Phillips, musician (The Mamas and the Papas), heart failure-2001@65
Natasha
Richardson, English actress-2009@45
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Million Dollar Baby: Clint Eastwood.
2. A Beautiful Mind: Russell Crowe.
3. American Beauty: Kevin Spacey.
4. Forrest Gump: Tom Hanks.
5. Rain Man: Dustin Hoffman.
6. The Sting: Paul Newman.
7. Midnight Cowboy: Jon Voight.
2. A Beautiful Mind: Russell Crowe.
3. American Beauty: Kevin Spacey.
4. Forrest Gump: Tom Hanks.
5. Rain Man: Dustin Hoffman.
6. The Sting: Paul Newman.
7. Midnight Cowboy: Jon Voight.
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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…§
