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Mar 2, 2019 Week: 09 \ Day: 60
86004 Today: H 51° \ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 60% 
Wind:  9 mph\Gusts:  20mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 66°[2009]   Record Low: -1°[1971]
Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)

Today’s Quote
Everything's got a moral,
if only you can find it.
Lewis Carroll


Random Tidbits
Hops, the bittering agent in beer, belong to the family Cannabaceae, making them marijuana's close cousins and lending a little perspective to the term "hopped up."

In Europe during the Middle Ages, beer, often of very low strength, was an everyday drink for all classes and ages of people. A document from that time mentions nuns having an allowance of six pints of ale each day.


Observances This Month
Action & Skill Toys Month
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month
Alport Syndrome Awareness Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month  
Asset Management Awareness Month 
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Child Life Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Credit Education Month
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month
Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15)
Employee Spirit Month
Endometriosis Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science & Engineering Month

Observances This Week
Festival of Owls Week: 1-3
National Cheerleading Week: 1-7
National Ghostwriters Week: 1-7
National Pet Sitters Week: 1-7 
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week: 1-7
Universal Human Beings Week: 1-7
Will Eisner Week: 1-7 


Observances for Today
Dr. Seuss Day
Iditarod  

National Banana Cream Pie Day
National Frozen Food Day Link
Old Stuff Day
Pasty Day Link
Sock Monkey Day
 


My Rambling Thoughts
I had a great birthday yesterday. Great lunch with the Retirement group, then dinner with some of the Discussion Group. Thanks to all who commented on social media, and the several Jacquie Lawson cards. I enjoyed everything.

Our snow is melting nicely with these high temps and the predicted rain this weekend should finish the job. Not to worry, I know there is more snow on the horizon this month.

In the Navajo language, March is Wóózhch'į́į́d, regarding the eaglet that hatched during the last moon cycle, The Crescent Moon of the Voice of Eaglets. During this moon phase, the eaglets from the last crescent moon become lively. The first voice that comes from the eaglets is symbolic to the good change that will take place. Sometimes, this process of voice development is associated with a boy’s voice deepening during their own process of change. A new beginning is in store. The eaglet’s cry precedes the first thunder.

I am curious as to what caused the breakdown in the talks with N. Korea. Was it as 45 said Kim wouldn’t give in, or was it a lack of prep by 45, or was it the Cohen remarks? Whatever it was, only time will tell how much damage it did. After the first summit, 45 did stop the overt testing, just not the covert testing.

Keeping open eyes on Pakistan and India. The both have nukes, and they are both mad at each other of some land.

The most frustrating thing that 45 does is his ability to believe despots over US intelligence. Putin didn’t interfere in the elections, the Crown Prince had nothing to do with the murder, and now, Kim had no knowledge of the torture of an American citizen. Which Americans is the American President trying to impress? I’m sure that if any former President had made statements like these, there would have been an uproar from Congress, media, and the American people.


Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s
1791 Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling
            of a semaphore machine in Paris

1799 Congress standardizes US weights & measures

1800’s
1808 The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian Natural History Society,
            a former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh.

1819 Territory of Arkansas organized

1819 US passed its 1st immigration law

1824 Interstate commerce comes under federal control

1861 Government Printing Office purchases 1st printing plant

1861 US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories out of the Nebraska &
            Utah territories

1867 US Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico

1867 US Congress creates the Department of Education

1868 University of Illinois opens

1877 US Electoral Commission declares Rutherford B. Hayes (R) winner
            of the presidential election with an electoral vote of 185-184
            against Samuel J. Tilden (D)

1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes assassination when Roderick
            Maclean shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor

1887 American Trotting Association organized in Detroit

1899 President McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier National Park
            (5th in US)

1900’s
1901 United States Congress passes the Platt amendment, limiting the
             autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of American
            troops

1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering to women only, opens in NYC

1946 Ho Chi Minh elected President of North Vietnam

1949 1st automatic street light (New Milford, Ct)

1962 JFK announces US will resume above ground nuclear testing

1968 19-year-old American Peggy Fleming wins her 3rd consecutive
            World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva,
            Switzerland; announces her retirement, turns professional and
            eventually goes into broadcasting

1970 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders cannot be penalized
            after 5 years

1981 Discovery of minor planet 5020 Asimov, named after sci-fi writer
            Isaac Asimov

1983 Compact Disc recordings developed by Phillips & Sony introduced

1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh promises to surrender
            if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't

1997 Saudi Arab billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal acquires
            5% of Apple

2000’s
2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: US conventional forces first deployed
            as part of Operation Anaconda

2003 The first International Symposium on Taiwan Sign Language
            Linguistics is held at Chung Cheng University.

2014 President Vladimir Putin receives unanimous approval from
            Russia's parliament to send troops to the Ukraine

2016 Longest non-stop scheduled commercial flight by distance,
            Emirates A380 flies 14,200km (8,824 miles) Dubai to Auckland in
            17 hours, 15 minutes

2016 Oldest known land fossil (Tortotubus - 440 million years old) from
            Gotland, Sweden, revealed by British scientists

2016 US astronauts Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail
            Kornienko return to earth after nearly a year (340 days), setting
            an ISS record

2017 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from the
            investigation into Trump campaign contacts with Russia after
            revelations he met Russian ambassador


Birthdays Today

1793 Sam Houston,
American born 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-
44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent
 state, born in Rockbridge County, Virginia
(d. 1863-@70)

1824 Konstantin Ushinsky,
Russian educationalist, credited as the founder of scientific
 pedagogy in Russia
(d 1847-@46)

1904 Dr. Seuss
[Theodor Geisel],
American children's author (The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs
and Ham), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
(d. 1991-@87)

1907 Jheri [Robert] Redding,
American hairdresser and businessman
(created the Jheri curl and hair conditioner),
born in Rantoul, Illinois
(d. 1998-@91)

1917 Desi Arnaz,
Cuban-American actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy),
born in Santiago de Cuba
(d. 1986-@69-lung cancer)

1931 Tom Wolfe,
American journalist and author (The Right Stuff),
born in Richmond, Virginia
(d. 2018-@88)

1950 Karen Carpenter,
vocalist/drummer (We Only Just Begun),
born in New Haven, Connecticut
(d. 1983-@32-anorexia)
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88- Mikhail Gorbachev,
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union (1985-91), born in Stavropol, Russia

84- Porky Pig,
Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Friz Freleng
and Frank Tashlin (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
series), first debuts in "I Haven't Got a Hat"

57- Jon Bon Jovi,
rocker (Bon Jovi-Give Love a Bad Name)

56- Tuff Hedeman,
American retired bull rider
(ambassador of Championship Bull Riding),
born in El Paso, Texas

51- Daniel Craig,
English actor (James Bond films), born in Chester

42-  Chris Martin,
English musician (Coldplay), born in Exeter, England

39- Rebel Wilson,
Australian actress and producer (Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids),
born in Sydney, Australia



Historical Obits Today

@87-1791 John Wesley,
English co-founder of Methodism

@81-1977 Eugénie Brazier,
French chef who was the 1st woman to earn 3 Michelin stars
(1933), and the 1st person earn 3 Michelin stars for 2 restaurants

@65-1939 Howard Carter,
British archaeologist and Egyptologist
who found King Tutankhamun's tomb,
dies from Hodgkin’s Disease

@62-1999 David Ackles,
American singer and songwriter,
dies of lung cancer

@59-1999 Dusty Springfield,
English singer,
dies of breast cancer

@56-1879 John Eberhard Faber,
German-American pencil manufacturer and
built 1st large-scale pencil factory in US

@44-1930 (David Herbert) D. H. Lawrence,
English poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover),
dies of tuberculosis



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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.