Mar 12


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Mar 12, 2019 Week: 11 \ Day: 70
86004 Today: H 48° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 
Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  8mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 72°[1900]   Record Low: -1°[1917]
Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)

Today’s Quote
One who deceives will always find those
who allow themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo Machiavelli


Random Tidbits
Catholics believe that the pope, who is based in Rome, is the successor to Saint Peter, which Christ appointed as the first head of His church.

Catholics rely more on ritual and ceremony than do most other Christian religions. The intent of the rituals is to create an experience in which faith is felt and religion literally comes to life, with God's presence in the here-and-now world.


Observances This Week
Lent: 6-20
National Catholic Sisters Week: 8-14 
World Rattlesnake Roundup: 8-10
American Council on Education: 9-12
Campfire USA Birthday Week: 10-16
Girl Scout Week: 10-16 
Termite Awareness Week: 10-16
National Agriculture Week: 10-16
International Brain Awareness Week: 11-17 
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign: 11-17


Observances for Today
Girl Scout Birthday Day Link
IHOP National Pancake Day  Link 
National Milky Way Day
Organize Your Home Office Day



My Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday was just a lazy day. Enjoyed every minute of it.

Up early this morning to get out and about. Got what I needed and headed home. Got home just as the clouds filled the sky. Weather guy sez and inch or two tomorrow. Last prediction was a bust, but I had my Medicare annual appointment tomorrow at 8:15, so I expect it to be at least 2”.

Hats off to the Poarch Band of the Creek the tribe for stepping up and stepping out to pay the entire funeral expenses of victims of the Alabama tornado. None of the 23 Megachurches in Alabama stepped up, but did offer prayers.

So sad to hear of the Ethiopian plane crash. Focus flew that airline a few years back on our adventure in Ethiopia. It has shown to be a great airline for all of Africa. I hope they find out the cause fast.

Dear 45: I am a democrat and I don’t hate anyone.


Today’s Significant Historical Events

1300’s
1365 University of Vienna founded

1400’s
1455 First record of Johannes Gutenberg's Bible, letter dated this
            day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year
            before

1600’s
1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies

1700’s
1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine

1800’s
1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued

1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women

1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in
            Vicksburg, Mississippi

1900’s
1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund

1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low

1917 A German submarine sinks an unarmed US merchant ship, the
            'Algonquin' on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson
            gives executive order to arm US merchant ships

1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"

1947 US President Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight
            communism

1951 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears in the British comic
            magazine The Beano'

1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory
            from Israel

1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and
            Poland join NATO.

2000’s
2003 Elizabeth Smart found after having been missing for 9 months.

2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and
            explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day
            after Japan's earthquake.

2018 British Prime Minister Theresa May says Russia was "highly likely"
             to have poisoned a Russian spy and his daughter on March 4
            with nerve agent

2018 Research shows Chinese cites have decreased pollution by 32
            percent on average in just four years


Birthdays Today

1862 Jane Delano,
American nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
(d. 1919-@57)

1921 Gordon MacRae,
American singer and actor (Oklahoma!, Carousel),
born in East Orange, New Jersey
(d. 1986-@64-mouth cancer)

1922 Jack Kerouac,
American Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues),
born in Lowell, Massachusetts
(d. 1969-@47- abdominal hemorrhage)

1923 Walter M Schirra Jr,
Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7),
born in Hackensack, New York
(d. 2007-@84)

1928 Edward Albee,
American playwright (Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?),
born in Virginia
(d. 2016-@88)

1940 Al Jarreau,
American jazz singer (Moonlighting),
born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (
d. 2017-@76-repiratory failure)
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87- Andrew Young,
US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)

86- Barbara Feldon,
American actress (Agent 99-Get Smart),
born in Pittsburgh

72- Liza Minnelli,
American singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret),
born in Hollywood, California

72- Mitt Romney,
70th Republican Governor of Massachusetts and
presidential candidate,
born in Detroit, Michigan

71- James Taylor,
vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof),
born in Boston, Massachusetts

69- Jon Provost,
actor (Timmy-Lassie)


Historical Obits Today
@80-2015 Michael Graves,
American postmodernist architect and designer

@68±-1563 John Bull,
English composer, musician and organ builder, credited with
composing Britain's national anthem "God Save The King/Queen"
 (debated)

@67-1914 George Westinghouse,
American entrepreneur, engineer (Westinghouse Electric) and
pioneer of the electrical industry

@65-2012 Michael Hossack,
American drummer (The Doobie Brothers),
dies of cancer

@58-1925 Sun Yat-sen,
Chinese revolutionary and father of modern China,
dies of liver cancer

@54-2003 Cherlynne Theresa "Lynne" Thigpen,  
American actress (Carmen Sandiego, Lean on Me),
dies from stroke

@37±1883 Murrumgunarriman,
[Twopenny],
cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868),
dies of dropsy

@15-1945 Anne Frank,
Dutch diarist and Jewish victim of the Nazi Holocaust
(Diary of Anne Frank),
dies of typhus in the Belsen concentration camp



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