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Almanac: Week: 12 \ Day: 080
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 58°\L 28° Average Sky
Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 9mph\Gusts: 24mph
Ave. High: 51° Record High: 70°
(2004) Ave. Low: 23° Record Low:
5° (1948)
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Observances
Today:
Corn
Dog Day
Fairy
Fun Day
Honors
a series of books about Fairies and rights of spring
Fragrance
Day
International
Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
International
Day of Forests and The Tree
International
Day of Nowruz
This ancient New Year
tradition coincides with the arrival of spring, giving rise to a rich array of
customs, rituals and festivities, from communities in Western, Central and
Southern Asia, to the Caucasus, Balkans and other regions. Nowruz is inscribed
on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity
International
Sports Car Racing Day
Memory
Day
National
Common Courtesy Day
National
Day of Action On Syringe Exchange
National
Quilting Day
National
Renewable Energy Day
National
Single Parent Day
Poetry
Day Spring
WE
Day
An Annual Celebration of the Power of Youth to Create A
Better World
World
Down Syndrome Day
Observances This
Week:
14-22
…Act
Happy Week
…American
Chocolate Week
…Campfire
USA Birthday Week
…Flood
Safety Awareness Week
…Health
Information Professionals Week
…International
Brain Awareness Week
…National
Animal Poison Prevention Week
…National
Button Week
…National
Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week
…National
YoYo and Skills Toys Days
…Termite
Awareness Week
…Shakespeare
Week
…Wellderly
Week
…Wildlife
Week
…World
Folktales & Fables Week
20-22
…International
Tree Climbing Days
…Sherlock
Holmes Weekend
Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1788 - Fire
destroys 856 buildings in New Orleans Louisiana
1859 - Zoological Society of Philadelphia, 1st in
US, incorporated
1865 - Battle
of Bentonville ends, last Confederate effort to stop Sherman
1866 - US
Congress authorizes national soldiers' homes
1868 - 1st US
professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC
1883 - CHIRICAHUA APACHE are raiding American
locations then returning
to Mexico. Chato,
Bonito and Chihuahua raid a mining town near Tombstone. This is just the
pretext General George Crook needs to mount a raid into Mexico to find
the APACHE
1901 - Gov. Nathan Murphy
authorizes establishment of the Arizona Rangers.
One company of
rangers was to be raised, consisting of a captain, a sergeant and not more than
twelve privates.
1917 - Loretta
Walsh becomes US Navy's 1st female Petty Officer
1924 - 1st
foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
1947
- Pres Harry Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all
federal
employees to have
allegiance to the United States
1951 - 2,900,000
US soldiers in Korea
1952 - Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball
at old Cleveland
Arena, 25,000 attend
1st rock & roll concert ever
1946 - UN set up temporary HQ at Hunter (now
Lehman) College (Bronx)
1963 - Alcatraz
federal penitentiary in SF Bay closed
1982 - Nancy
Lopez wins LPGA J&B Scotch Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1984 - Part of Central Park is named Strawberry
Fields honoring John Lennon
1985 - Arthur
Ashe is named to Intl Tennis Hall of Fame
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Today’s World
Events through History
630 - Byzantine
emperor Heraclius restores the True Cross to Jerusalem
1857 - Earthquake
hits Tokyo; about 107,000 die
1859 - Scottish
National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1925 - Edinburgh's
Murreyfield Stadium officially opens
1935 - Persia officially renamed Iran
1960 - Sharpeville
Massacre: Police kill 72 in South Africa & outlaws ANC
1975 - Ethiopia
ends monarchy after 3000 years
1990 - Namibia becomes independent of South Africa
1998 - Good
Friday Agreement signed in Northern Ireland
2006 - Immigrant
workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United
Arab Emirates and a
new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M
in damage
2013 - The European Space Agency reveals new data
that indicates that
the universe is 13.82
billion years old
2014 - Russia
formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
First day of Spring…wonderful…great weather…cleaned of the deck
and got out or uncovered all of the summer stuff…I’m ready! I will finish the setup
of the fountain tomorrow. All the warm days we had through February and much of
March has really gotten me pumped for nice weather. I know there is still a
chance for snow, but I’m not going on any trips for a while, so I can enjoy it
and cover everything for a short snowfall. Spring flowers are coming along—no flowers
yet, but lots of green stems.
Congress still playing its playground games with our foreign
policy and the running of our government. Time for a time-out.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Only
a small space and a single mark turns a deadly situation into a funny one.
What can that be?
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Average
Facts…
--The average woman uses her height in lipstick every 5 years.
--Dutch, on average are the tallest people.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
Earl Slipher has returned from Columbus, Ohio. He met there with
the American Astronomical Society where he aroused international comment with
his observations of Mars at the Lamont Hussey Observatory at Bloem Fonten in
South Africa, where he took over 8,000 photographs. Mr. Slipher told the
astronomers that no doubt remains in his mind about the canals of Mars
existence and cannot be said to be artificial or unnatural.
Funny
Facts…
-- In Lucerne, Switzerland, you can hire an evil clown to stalk your
child for a week before their birthday, and on that day, he will smash a cake
into your child’s face.
--Viagra dissolved in water can make cut flowers stand up straight
for up to a week beyond their natural lifespan.
Harper’s
Index…
13
Percentage of electricity consumed in the US that is generated
from renewable sources
24
Of electricity in Germany
Skin
Facts…
-- There is a family with a genetic condition that makes their skin
blue, who have been isolated in rural Kentucky for generations.
--Fingers prune underwater not because of them absorbing the water
or washing away the oil, but because of an evolutionary trait caused by the
brain to enhance the grip of your fingers underwater.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
At 6000 degrees Kelvin, the surface of the Sun is actually one of
its coolest spots. Both the Sun's interior and its corona measure in the
millions of degrees Kelvin.
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2 jokes
for the day
Q: Why did Waldo only wear stripes?
A: Because he didn't want to be spotted!
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Joe, a college student, was taking a course in
ornithology, the study of birds. The night before the biggest test of the
semester, Joe spent all night studying. He had the textbook nearly memorized.
He knew his class notes backward and forward. Joe was ready.
The morning of the test, Joe entered the auditorium and took a seat in the
front row. On the table in the front was a row of ten stuffed birds. Each bird
had a sack covering its body, and only the legs were showing. When class
started, the professor announced that the students were to identify each bird
by looking at its legs and give its common name, species, habitat, mating
habits, etc.
Joe looked at each of the birds' legs. They all looked the same to him. He
started to get angry. He had stayed up all night studying for this test and now
he had to identify birds by their LEGS? The more he thought about the
situation, the angrier he got.
Finally he reached his boiling point. He stood up, marched up to the
professor's desk, crumpled up his exam paper and threw it on the desk.
"What a ridiculous test!" he told the prof. "How could anyone
tell the difference between these birds by looking at their legs? This exam is
the biggest rip-off I've ever seen!"
With that, Joe turned and stormed toward the exit. The professor was a bit
shocked, and it took him a moment to regain his composure. Then, just as Joe
was about to walk out the door, the prof shouted out, "Wait a minute,
young man, what's your name?"
Joe turned around, pulled up his pant legs and hollered, "You tell me,
prof! You tell me!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
32-year-old Christina Leos certainly wasn't expecting what she got
herself into. She met a 33-year-old lawyer named Ryan Hemphill online and
pretty soon they were role-playing and making kinky sex videos.
Some people like to dress up in bondage gear, or maybe like a policeman or a
fireman. Hemphill liked to dress up like a TSA agent and give Leos body cavity
searches (hey, still not as weird as furries), but during one 'date' he got a
little too rough and Leos got scared, so she decided to end the relationship.
When she went to his apartment to break up with him, Hemphill became so enraged
he choked her and held a Bowie knife to her throat, saying, "I'm going to
f-king slit your throat!" Leos testified. She thought was going to die, so
when Hemphill released her she fled and called the police.
And it looks like Leos got off easy with a little choking and a body cavity
search. Investigators found 20 homemade porn videos featuring Hemphill choking,
water-boarding and torturing women.
Prosecutor Sara Weiss said, "He is in multiple videos holding a sword to
the neck of blindfolded women, women he, on some occasions, urinates on, while
he makes them recite prayers."
Yeah, she got off easy with the body cavity search.
Hemphill has denied the charges.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Down
is the layer of soft feathers closest to a bird's skin, primarily on the
breast. These feathers keep ducks and geese warm during chilly flights.
Ancient down-filled quilts have been discovered through archeological digs in
Norway, leading scientists to attribute the first use of goose down to the
Vikings.
Because its properties enable people to regulate their natural body temperature
and maintain warmth, lightweight goose down is used to fill comforters,
pillows, and outerwear such as vests and coats.
The down in these items takes the form of clusters, similar to snowflakes. The
clusters have fine filaments radiating out in every direction; these filaments
expand and form air pockets that trap body heat, a process called
"lofting."
The more down an item contains, the warmer (and more expensive) the product
will be. The insulation down provides is rated by "fill power," which
reflects the size of down clusters and their related loft.
Fill power is measured as the number of cubic inches one ounce of down
occupies. A good down comforter will have a fill power of at least 575; more
warmth is provided by comforters with fill powers up to 800.
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Birthday’s
Today
71 - Timothy Dalton, North Wales, actor
(James Bond-Living Daylights)
66 - Eddie Money,
[Mahoney], Bkln, singer/guitarist (Take Me Home Tonight)
57 - Gary Oldman, actor (Sid & Nancy, Criminal Law,
State of Grace)
53 - Matthew
Broderick, actor (WarGames, Biloxi Blues)
53 - Rosie O'Donnell,
comedienne (League of Their Own, Flintstones, Rosie)
37 - Kevin Federline, American dancer/hip
hop artist
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Remembered
for being born today
1768-1832@60 - Jean-Baptiste-Joseph
Fourier, mathematician/Egyptologist
1806-1872@66 - Benito
Pablo Juarez, Oaxaca Mexico, president of Mexico
1869-1942@73 - Albert
Kahn, Prussia, American architect (architect of Detroit)
1904-1999@95 - Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker
(d. 1999)
1906-1972@72 - John
D. Rockefeller III, billionaire philanthropist (oil)
1906-1967@61 - Jim Thompson, American designer and
businessman
1930-1987@56 - James
Coco, Bronx, actor (Man of La Mancha, Murder by Death)
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Historical
Obits Today
Chinua
Achebe, Nigerian poet and novelist-2013@82
Macdonald
Carey, actor (Days of Our Lives)-1994@81
John
Ireland, actor (Rawhide), leukemia-1992@78
Michael
Redgrave, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips), Parkinson's-1985@77
Robert
Preston, actor (Harold Hill-Music Man), cancer-1987@68
Guadalupe
Victoria, first President of Mexico, epilepsy-1843@56
Dack
Rambo, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), AIDs-1994@52
Pocahontas, Native
American, epilepsy?\TB?-1617@21ish
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Brain Teasers Answers
With a small space and an apostrophe you can change a
"manslaughter" into a "man's laughter".
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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…§
