Mar 13

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Mar 13, 2018 Week: 11\ Day: 72

86004 Today: H 52° \ L 35° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  8mph Visibility: 6 mi

Nearest Lightning:  1718 miles away

Record High: 70°[2007]   Record Low: -9°[1962]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)

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Today’s Quote

Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartedness and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.

 Dali Lama

Harper’s Index

3-Number of questions readers of a Norwegian news site must answer correctly about an article before commenting

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Observances This Week

2-16
National Days of Action Link

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

11-17

National Catholic Sisters Week Link 
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Girl Scout Week Link 
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week

12-18

International Brain Awareness Week18
Shakespeare Week (Link)

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Observances for Today

Donald Duck Day
Ear Muff Day
Good Samaritan Involvement Day
Itra-Uterine Growth Awareness Restriction (IUGAR) Day
Jewel Day

K-9 Veterans Day  Link
Ken (Doll) Day 
L. Ron Hubbard Day
National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day
Organize Your Home Office Day
Smart & Sexy Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1639 Cambridge College, Massachusetts, renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard

1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam

1700’s                                          

1781 William Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus

1800’s                                          

1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly

1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers (US Civil War)

1868 Senate begins US President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial

1877 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs

1884 US adopts Standard Time

1897 San Diego State University is founded.

1900’s                                          

1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit

1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms

≈1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China

1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution

1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ

1942 Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army

1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress

≈1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created

1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill

≈1996 At Dunblane Primary School, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by Thomas Hamilton who then commits suicide. Results in handguns being banned in the UK.

1997 Phoenix lights seen at night over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. Now a hotly debated controversy.

2000’s                                          

2004 Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera's "Tosca"

≈2012 Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopedia

≈2013 Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis

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My Rambling Thoughts

A cloudy and somewhat rainy day here at 7000’. Decided to do a little housecleaning until the sun returns.

I am so happy that I was educated in the Jeffco district back in the day. We were taught to listen, investigate, and decide for ourselves. This skill is so important as 45 and his cronies make statements that are blatantly untrue and seem to believe that because they said them the statements suddenly become truth.  The Sec. of Education gave a very frightening interview last night on 60 minutes. Today, the administration is fine with what she said. The education system determines the groundwork for the next generation of leadership. Without a good education foundation our country will be led by uneducated or undereducated leaders.

Draining the swamp seems to mean filling it with…  

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@95- Ralph J Roberts,

American businessman and

founder of Comcast,

born in NYC

(d. 2015)

80’s

@82- Paul Fix,

American actor (Rifleman),

born in Dobbs Ferry, NY

(d. 1983)

70’s

79- Neil Sedaka,

American singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do),

born in Brooklyn

77- Charlo

      (María del Rosario Mercedes Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza),

flamingo guitarist, comedian

@74- L. Ron Hubbard,

American sci-fi writer (Death Quest) and

founder of the Scientology cult,

born in Tilden, Nebraska stroke

(d. 1986)

@74- William J. Casey,

American head of the CIA during the Iran-contra scandal

born in NYC

brain tumor (d. 1987)

60’s

68- William H Macy,

actor (Homicide, Water Engine),

born in Miami

62- Jamie Dimon,

American business executive and CEO of JPMorgan Chase

 born in NYC

@61- Percival "Percy" Lowell,

American astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

(d. 1916)

50’s

58- Rachel Renee Russell,

children’s author (Dork  Diaries)

58-Adam Clayton,

English-Irish musician and rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)

born in Chinnor, England

@52- Fred Berry,

actor (Rerun-What's Happening),

born in St Louis

stroke (d. 2003)

40’s

45- Common (Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr),

rapper

42- Danny Masterson,

American actor (That '70s Show),

born in Long Island

30’s

33- Emile Hirsch,

American actor (Into the Wild, Speed Racer),

born in Topanga, California

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@86-1990 Bruno Bettelhelm, A

ustrian/US psychoanalyst,

commits suicide

@86-1906 Susan B. Anthony,

American social reformer and

women's suffrage movement leader

@80-2006 Maureen Stapleton,

American actress

@80-1938 Clarence S Darrow,

Scopes Monkey Trial attorney

60’s

@67-1901 Benjamin Harrison,

23rd President of the United States (Republican: 1889-93)

            pneumonia 

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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.

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