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Almanac: Week: 14 \ Day: 089
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 70°\L 32° Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave:
5mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave. High: 54° Record High: 70° (1971)
Ave. Low: 23° Record
Low: 1° (1998)
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Observances Today:
Doctors
Day
Grass
Is Always Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day
I Am In Control Day
Pencil
Day
Take a Walk in the Park Day
Torrents
Day
World
Bi-polar Day
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Observances This Week:
28-4/5
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1802 - The Indian Trade and Intercourse Act takes
effect
1822 - Congress combined East & West Florida into
Florida Territory
1842 - Ether used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr
Crawford Long (Ga)
1858 - Pencil with attached eraser patented (Hyman L
Lipman of Phila)
1867 - US buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2
cents an acre - Seward's Folly)
1870 - 15th Amendment to the US constitution is
adopted, guarantees
right to vote regardless of race
1870 - Texas becomes
last confederate state readmitted to Union
1890 - Fire destroyed an entire business block in Flagstaff
1893 - Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in
Great Britain
1945 - World War II:
a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt
Me 262A-1 to Americans
1950 - Phototransistor invention announced, Murray
Hill, NJ
1980 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 - Pres Reagan shot & wounded by John W
Hinckley III
2012 - Mastercard
and Visa announce a massive breach in security with
over ten million compromised credit card numbers
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Today’s World Events through History
1282 - The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin
king Charles I, in what
becomes known as the
Sicilian Vespers
1778 - Playwright Voltaire crowned with
laurel wreath
1796 - Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician,
discovers the
construction of the heptadecagon-17 sided polygon
1856 - Russia signs Peace of Paris, ending the Crimean
War
1972 - Northern
Ireland's Government and Parliament dissolved by
the British Government and 'direct rule' from Westminster is
introduced
1987 - Vincent van
Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds
($39.7 million)
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many
can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s
Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Able to
read the morning paper out on the deck. NICE! Strangely, one of my plaster
little gnomes has taken off for parts unknown. It was on the back deck, which
has a fence. All its friends are still there…he is the only one gone. There is
no traffic of people back there so I hope he finds his way back home.
Also
watched my Sunday news programs so I remain as confused as ever regarding the State
of the World. Note to self: Ted Cruz is wrong when he says the ‘world is on
fire’, most of the problems have been around for centuries and aren’t going
away anytime soon. One of the news items is the plane that crashed. Whenever
something happens involving a plane, everybody and every country jumps to find
a band aid to prevent the problem. One idiot years ago got on a plane with a ‘shoe-bomb’
and we are still taking off our shoes. One co-pilot crashes and plane and
overnight there has to be 2 people in the cockpit at all times during a flight.
Unarmed Black teens are killed by cops and months later, no changes. Crazy
people with guns massacre people at schools or shopping malls and years later,
no changes. What is that makes airplanes so important?
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
If to you I'm given
you should thankfully receive,
Then look me over carefully, just don't look at my teeth.
Show me to a cool stream and I'll follow willingly,
Though I might not do what you want, although parched I may be,
But if you're really hungry and are looking for a bite,
I don't think you could eat me even though you say you might.
Decipher all these clues and then together they should tie
To help you solve the question which, of course, is "what am I?
Then look me over carefully, just don't look at my teeth.
Show me to a cool stream and I'll follow willingly,
Though I might not do what you want, although parched I may be,
But if you're really hungry and are looking for a bite,
I don't think you could eat me even though you say you might.
Decipher all these clues and then together they should tie
To help you solve the question which, of course, is "what am I?
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Education Facts…
~ In the
U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school
year is 251 days.
~ An
Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to
students in elementary and junior high schools.
…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 years
ago-1940
291
persons enjoyed, the snow, the skiing, and the sun at the Snow Bowl this
weekend The skiing is on 10 inches of old snow and 6 inches of new --
A.R. Kallaus, Manager. Chains are required on the Snow Bowl Road and the tow
will be operating on both Saturday and Sunday.
…Harper’s Index…
49,000: Estimated number of US citizens
targeted for surveillance by the US Postal Office in the past year
…Memory Facts…
~ Our
brains have a negativity bias and will remember bad memories more than good
ones.
~ You can
only remember 4 things at a time.
…Strange State Laws…
~ In St.
Louis, it's illegal to sit on the curb of any city street and drink beer from a
bucket.
~ In Detroit, couples are banned from making love in an automobile unless the act takes place while the vehicle is parked on the couple's own property.
~ In Detroit, couples are banned from making love in an automobile unless the act takes place while the vehicle is parked on the couple's own property.
…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Cheerleading
was initially an all-male sport. Females were only added to the equation when
smaller, lighter bodies were needed for "flying."
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2 jokes for the day
Q:
Why did the guy get fired from the orange juice factory?
A: He couldn't concentrate.
A: He couldn't concentrate.
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A
woman was rushed into the hospital in an ambulance as she was just about to
give birth to twins.
At the hospital the lady was in such pain she had to be sedated.
A couple of hours after the babies had been delivered, she woke up and asked to see her children.
"Doctor, could you bring my babies to me so I can name them?"
The doctor replied, "You don't need to worry about names, your brother has already named them."
"Why did you let him name them, he has no sense! What did he call the little girl then?"
"Denise." replied the doctor.
"Oh that’s not too bad, I thought u were going to tell me he'd named her something awful! So what did he call the little boy?"
"De-nephew, of course!"
At the hospital the lady was in such pain she had to be sedated.
A couple of hours after the babies had been delivered, she woke up and asked to see her children.
"Doctor, could you bring my babies to me so I can name them?"
The doctor replied, "You don't need to worry about names, your brother has already named them."
"Why did you let him name them, he has no sense! What did he call the little girl then?"
"Denise." replied the doctor.
"Oh that’s not too bad, I thought u were going to tell me he'd named her something awful! So what did he call the little boy?"
"De-nephew, of course!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
MELBOURNE (UPI)
Activists
are criticizing the National Disability Summit in Australia after a speaker had
to be carried on stage because the venue wasn't wheelchair accessible. Jarrod
Marrinon, who attended the conference organized by Informa Australia in
Melbourne last week, tweeted a picture showing Deborah Haygarth, a speaker at
the event, being carried off the stage because the venue was not wheelchair
accessible. "This is a disabled speaker carried off stage. No ramps.
#shame," he tweeted. Marrinon took another photo showing the disabled
restroom at the conference was out of use because it was being used to store
extra chairs. Jax Jacki Brown, a disabled rights activist who also attended the
conference, said only seven disabled people and their five carers were invited
to participate in the conference, which had a total 133 attendees. "I feel
like I was actively excluded when they realized I was a person with a
disability wanting to attend, and I also feel rather annoyed that they said
that they were going to give the remaining tickets to people with disabilities
so that more than 12 people with disabilities could attend," Brown told
9News. "But that never eventuated." "They positioned us at
special little tables away from where everyone else was sitting ... way off to
the right and the left further up the back of the room," Brown said.
"It really created this feeling that people with disabilities weren't part
of the bigger conference and the bigger discussion." Brown said in a blog
post that there were other accessibility issues at the event. "The food
provided was up on really tall tables... wheelchair users could not access
it," she said. Susan Ryan, disability discrimination commissioner at the
Australian Human Rights Commission, said on Twitter the organizers of the event
have been contacted "regarding the accessibility issues."
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Somewhat Useless Information
The most prolific
mother ever gave birth to 69 children-wife of a Russian farmer?
She gave birth to 69
children, 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets and 4 sets of quadruplets.
The case was reported
to Moscow by the Monastery of Nikolsk on 27 Feb 1782 and when the woman died
her husband remarried and had another 18 kids!
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Birthday’s Today
89 - Peter
Marshall, Huntington WV, TV game show host (Hollywood Squares)
86 - Richard Dysart, Brighton Mass, actor
(Leland MacKenzie-LA Law)
78 - Warren
Beatty, Richmond Va, actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Shampoo, Dick Tracy)
70 - Eric Clapton, Ripley England,
singer/guitarist (Tears in Heaven)
65 - Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor (Harry
Potter films-Rubeus Hagrid)
58 - Paul
Reiser, actor (My 2 Dads, Diner, Aliens, Mad About You)
53 - M C Hammer, [Stanley Kirk Burrell],
rapper (Hammer Time)
51 - Ian
Ziering, American actor ("Beverly Hills 90210")
50 - Piers
Morgan, editor (Daily Mirror)\TV host (CNN)
47 - Celine Dion, Quebec Canada, singer (I'm
Your Lady)
36 - Norah Jones, American singer and
pianist
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Remembered for being born today
- Brooke Astor, American philanthropist 1902-2007@105
- Frankie Laine, actor (Frankie Laine
Show, Rawhide) 1913-2007@93
- Richard
Helms, CIA head (1966-73) 1913-2002@89
- Sean O'Casey, Ireland, playwright
(Playboy of the Western World)
1880-1964@84
- Francisco Jose de Goya, Fuendetodos
Spain, painter/etcher 1746-1828@82
- Franz Oppenheimer, German
sociologist/politician 1864-1943@79
- McGeorge Bundy, national security
adviser (JFK) 1919-1996@77
- John Hawkins, England, wrote 1st
history of music 1719-1789@70
- Vincent van Gogh, artist, painter and
pioneer of Expressionism 1853-1890@37
- Secretariat,
American racehorse and 1973 triple crown winner 1970-1989@19
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Historical Obits Today
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother of
the United Kingdom-2002@101
Alistair Cooke,
English-born journalist-2004@95
James Cagney, actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy)-1986@86
Jaime Escalante,
Bolivian-born American high school teacher
(Stand & Deliver), cancer, 2010@79
Manolis Andronicos, Greek
archaeologist discovered ancient royal
Macedonian tombs in northern Greece-1992@ 72
George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, syphilis-1840@61
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Brain Teasers Answers
If you
answered "horse" then you're quite clever, very shrewd,
For to look a gift horse in the mouth is very, very rude!
Though I may (or not) be thirsty it's a well-known thing, I think,
That you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink,
And though you might be famished, I don't think you mean a word
In saying, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse," it's quite absurd!
For to look a gift horse in the mouth is very, very rude!
Though I may (or not) be thirsty it's a well-known thing, I think,
That you can lead a horse to water but you cannot make it drink,
And though you might be famished, I don't think you mean a word
In saying, "I'm so hungry I could eat a horse," it's quite absurd!
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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…§
