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Almanac: Week: 13 \ Day: 084
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 63°\L 27° Average Sky
Cover: 60%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave. High: 52° Record High: 72°
(1988) Ave. Low: 24° Record Low:
1° (1913)
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Observances
Today:
International Day of Remembrance of The
Victims of Slavery
International Day of Solidarity with
Detained and Missing Staff Members
Manatee Appreciation Day
National Day of Celebration of Greek &
American Democracy
National Medal of Honor Day
Old New Year's Day
Pecan
Day
Tolkien Reading Day
Vaffeldagen (Waffle Day)
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Observances This
Week:
22-28
…Week of Solidarity with People's
Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
…Consider Christianity Week
…International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
…Meat Free Week
…National Cleaning Week
…National LGBT Health
Awareness Week
…National Youth Violence Prevention
Week
…Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week
…Root Canal Awareness Week
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1668 - 1st horse race in America takes place
1813 - 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific,
frigate Essex
1851 - Yosemite Valley discovered in California
1881 - Water appeared in
the rich silver mines of Tombstone.
1882 - 1st demonstration of pancake making (Dept
store in NYC)
1900 - US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
1913 - Great Dayton Flood
1916 - Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
1919 - Woodrow Wilson's dream of a League of
Nations becomes a reality
after the League
Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference
1931 - Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white
woman) arrested in Alabama
1937 - It is revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe
Ruth $25,000 per year for ads
1939 - Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly
(country) music chart
1954 - RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12½"
screen at $1,000)
1955 – US Customs
seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene
1960 - DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's
Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)
1967 - Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the
K's Easter Show
1972 - UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national
basketball title
1982 - 1st broadcast of "Cagney &
Lacey" on CBS-TV
1b996 - US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill
2013 - Golfer Tiger
Woods returns to his world number one ranking
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Today’s World
Events through History
421 - City of Venice founded
1199 - Richard I, Lion Heart, King o f England, is
wounded by a crossbow
bolt while fighting
France which leads to his death on April 6.
1306 - Robert the Bruce crowned Robert I, King of
Scots, having killed his
rival John Comyn,
Lord of Badenoch
1609 - Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration
for Dutch East India Co
1634 - Under charter granted to Lord Baltimore and
led by his brother
Leonard Calvert first
settlers found Catholic colony of Maryland
1655 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan (Saturn's
largest satellite)
1669 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying
Nicolosi, killing 20,000
1811 - Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the
University of Oxford
for his publication
of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1821 - Greece gains independence from Turkey
(National Day)
1876 - Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0)
1895 - Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1896 - Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece
1902 - In Russia, 567 students are tried for
rioting and 'political disaffection'
are found guilty; 95
are banished to Siberia
1964 - Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)
1968 - Members of the Derry Housing Action
Committee (DHAC) disrupt a meeting of Londonderry Corporation to protest at the
lack of housing provision in the city, Northern Ireland
1970 - Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight
(700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Decided that today was the day to gather up paperwork for my taxes
and get them to my accountant. That took most of the morning. I don’t know why
I hate doing this, but I always have. As stuff comes in the mail, I have a special
envelope for the stuff, but somehow it never all makes it into the envelope.
Anyway, I’ll drop all the papers off tomorrow and await the final decision. I
also had to go through a year’s worth of bank statements and credit card bills
to find all the medical expenses…much less thanks to Medicare...no more copay. Also,
thanks to Walgreens for giving me a printout of my scripts with totals. My meds
cost me less than $500 this year, but would have cost about $6000 if I didn’t
have good insurance. That’s nice too. Such a shame that my travel is not tax
deductible…LOL.
I don’t mind paying my fair share of taxes. What I hate is having
to gather up all the receipts to determine the deductions. I’m one who believes
in a flat tax system where we simply pay a fair percentage of our income for
the privilege of living here.
As a single, I pay way more than others—percentage wise—just because
I choose to be single. That doesn’t seem fair.
Our local paper seldom prints news from the Rez. Today headlines
talked about a principal from a Rez school who has been fired, but refuses to
leave. It is a school I had been sent to 3 different times when other
principals left in the middle of the year. Smiling as I read the article..names
change but facts and misfacts continue. So happy to be retired… or I’d be
heading out there again.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you figure out which well-known oxymorons these words are?
Ex) Initial facsimile = original copy
1) discovered lost
2) bigger part
3) sugary sour
4) sad humor
5) solitary in company
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Average
Facts…
-- The average cat sleeps about 2/3 of the day.
--On average, there's 300 billion neurons in the octopus brain.
…Education
Facts…
-- American school children rank 25th in math and 21st in science out
of the top 30 developed countries, but ranked 1st in confidence that they
outperformed everyone else.
--In 2014, a college in upstate New York started offering classes
on the sociology of Miley Cyrus.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO
--The price of gasoline has risen from $ 1.13 due to the extreme
cold and the rise in use of heating oil.
--We hear that all the Yellow Front stores are to close.
…Game
Facts…
-- In response to the moral panic surrounding violent video games,
Penn & Teller released “Desert Bus,” for the Sega Cd. In the game you drive
a bus from Tuscon to Las Vegas in a straight line for 8 hours.
--The chocobo in Final Fantasy was based on a real creature called
a “Gastornis” that existed 45 million years ago.
…Harper’s
Index…
1
Number of homelsspeople in Tokyo for every 10,000 residents
67
In NYC
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The city of Austin, Texas, was originally named
"Waterloo."
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2 jokes
for the day
Did you hear about the red ship and the blue
ship that collided?
The survivors were marooned.
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A man and a woman who have never met before
find themselves in the same sleeping carriage of a train.
After the initial embarrassment, they both manage to get to sleep; the woman on
the top bunk, the man on the lower.
In the middle of the night the woman leans over and says, "I'm sorry to
bother you, but I'm awfully cold and I was wondering if you could possibly pass
me another blanket."
The man leans out and with a glint in his eye said "I've got a better idea
... let's pretend we're married."
"Why not," giggles the woman.
"Good," he replies. "Get your own blanket."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
CAMBRIDGE,
England
A new study finds that consciously trying to remember something
forces another memory to weaken.
Researchers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Birmingham
in the United Kingdom had 24 participants intentionally associate certain words
and images while in a brain scanner. By taking count of which associations they
were able to recall over several stages of testing, they were able to
demonstrate how certain memories remained and others weakened. They found
trying to remember certain associations made other associations more difficult
to recall.
"People are used to thinking of forgetting as something passive,"
said Dr. Michael Anderson from the University of Cambridge. "Our research
reveals that people are more engaged than they realize in shaping what they
remember of their lives. The idea that the very act of remembering can cause
forgetting is surprising, and could tell us more about selective memory and
even self-deception."
"Forgetting is often viewed as a negative thing, but of course, it can be
incredibly useful when trying to overcome a negative memory from our
past," said Dr. Maria Wimber from the University of Birmingham. "So
there are opportunities for this to be applied in areas to really help
people."
The study is published in Nature Neuroscience.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
How
many hours of formal music education did Hans Zimmer have?
Hans
Florian Zimmer is a successful German film composer and music producer, who has
composed music for over 150 films, including award-winning film scores for The
Lion King (1994), Crimson Tide (1995), The Thin Red Line (1998), Gladiator
(2000), The Last Samurai (2003), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), and
12 Years a Slave (2013).
However,
although he is a music genius having composed more than 150 film soundtracks,
he had only two weeks of formal music education, having piano lessons as a
child, as he disliked the discipline of formal lessons.
“My
father died when I was just a child, and I escaped somehow into the music and
music has been my best friend”, he said in an interview with the German
television station ZDF in 2006.
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Birthday’s
Today
87 - James A Lovell Jr, astronaut (Gemini 7,
12, Apollo 8, 13)
81 - Gloria Steinem, Toledo Ohio, US
feminist/publisher (Ms Magazine)
75 - Anita Bryant, singer (George Gobel
Show)\anti-homosexuality campaigner
73 - Aretha Franklin, Soul Sister #1/singer
(Respect)
72 - Paul Michael Glaser, actor
(Starsky-Starsky & Hutch)
68 – Sir Elton John,
[Reginald Kenneth Dwight], singer (Rocketman)
62 - Mary Gross, actress/comedian (SNL, Club
Paradise, Feds)
55 - Haywood Nelson, actor (Haywood-Grady,
Dwayne-What's Happening)
50 - Sarah Jessica Parker, actress (Square
Pegs, Sex and the City)
41 - Lark Voorhies, actress (Saved by
the Bell)
33 - Danica Patrick, American race car driver
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Remembered
for being born today
- Eileen
Ford, co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency) 1922-2014@92
- Bella
Spewack, Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate) 1899-1990@91
- Arturo
Toscanini, Parma Italy, temperamental conductor (NBC)
1867-1957@89
- Howard
Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football) 1918-1995@77
- Béla
Bartok, Hungary, composer/pianist 1881-1945@64
- John
Winebrenner, US, clergyman, founded Church of God 1797-1860@63
- Hoyt
Axton, actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters) 1938-1999@61
- William
Keith Brooks, US marine zoologist (marine animals) 1848-1908@59
- Howard
Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55) 1906-1911@58
- Jack
Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald1911-1967@55
- Flannery
O'Connor, GA, novelist (A Good Man is Hard to Find) 1925-1964@39
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Historical
Obits Today
Anthony
Lewis, journalist (Pulitzer Prize 1957,1963) -2013@85
Larry
Stevenson [Richard], American skateboard innovator-2012@81
Buck
Owens, singer and television personality, heart attack-2006@76
Nancy
Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), cancer-1992@69
Claude
Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La Mer), cancer, 1918@55
Ishi
("the last of his tribe"-Yahi), TB-1916@54
John
Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand)-1937@54
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) found missing
2) larger half
3) sweet tart
4) tragic comedy
5) alone together
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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…§
