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Almanac: Week: 11 \ Day: 069
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 56°\L 26° Average Sky
Cover: 3%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 13mph
Ave. High: 49° Record High: 70°
(1989) Ave. Low: 22° Record Low:
-9° (1952)
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Observances
Today:
Festival Of Life In The Cracks Day- to
be grateful for all of our Blessings no matter what our walk in life may be. As
in cracks in a sidewalk where the first signs of Spring grass starts to sprout
through...March 10th is a day in some communities to get out, enjoy your
neighbors and give thanks even though you may not live in a more affluent place
where they do not have "cracks" in the sidewalk where the grass peaks
through........ a sign to appreciate what we have and our daily blessings.
International Bagpipe Day
International Day of Awesomeness
Land Line Telephone Day
Mario Day
Middle Name Pride Day
Organize Your Home Office Day
Salvation Army Day-1880
US Paper Money Day-1862
Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Observances This
Week:
8-14
…Universal Women's
Week
…National Agriculture Week
…Teen Tech Week
…Girl Scout Week
…Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1789 - Franklin
College founded in Indiana
1791 - John
Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver
1847 - 1st
money minted in Hawaii
1849 - Abraham
Lincoln applies for a patent (only US president to do so) for a device to lift
a boat over shoals and obstructions
1862 - US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20,
$50, $100, $500 & $1000)
1874 - Purdue
University (Indiana) admits its 1st student
1876 - 1st
telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
1880 - Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare
& religious activity
1893 - New Mexico State University cancels its 1st
graduation ceremony; its only graduate was robbed & killed the night before
1896 - Bronx
acquires O'Brien Square
1922 - KLZ-AM
in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1934 - Arizona Gov.
Benjamin Moeur sent two detachments of National Guardsmen up the Colorado River
to patrol the Arizona shore where California wanted to build Parker Dam
1959 - Tennessee
Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" premieres in NYC
1969 - James
Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr
1982 - President
Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
2006 - The Mars
Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars
Today’s World
Events through History
418 - Jews
are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
1801 - First
census in Great Britain
1893 - Ivory
Coast becomes a French colony
1910 - China
ends slavery
1920 - Home Rule Act is passed by the British
Parliament, dividing Ireland into two parts; it is rejected by southern
counties, where the Ango-Irish war continues for a year
1945 - Tokyo in fire after night time B-29
bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly civilians.
1975 - Dog spectacles patented in England
2013 - Aung San
Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy
2014 - German
Chancellor Merkel warns Russia's Putin that making Crimea part of
Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Another great day in Flag weather-wise. Sure ready for Spring.
Sad news that a friend who I met years ago in Flag is in Hospice
in Michigan. He moved back a couple a years ago to be near family, but didn’t
expect cancer. Sad.
For all the Republicans in elected office, before you start
screaming about the US constitution, how about reading it and understanding it.
All this grandstanding is only going to hurt the people of the United States.
Let the negotiations with Iran continue and let the process work itself out, as
we have done in all negotiations since 1783. If the Congress, as a whole, does
not want the treaty, they will vote and more negotiations will take place. To
tell Iran that the Congress won’t approve a deal, without even seeing it, and
that it could easily end at the end of the Obama presidency with the stoke of a
pen is not right. I am tired to the far right Republicans working hard to make
Obama and our country fail at every turn.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A
man killed his mother, was born before his father, and married his sister.
How did the man do all three things legally?
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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America
Facts…
╪ The United States
does not have an official language.
╪ In the US,
there's quite a few cities called Gaylord.
***New***Ant
Facts…
╪ Army ants are used as “natural
sutures”. Their jaws are so powerful, Natives staple wounds by forcing ants to
bite them and break off the body.
╪ If an ant is drunk, a fellow comrade
will carry him back to the nest to sleep off the alcohol.
***NEW***Car
Facts…
╪ A Swiss man replaced his car's broken
heater with a fully functional wood burning stove.
╪ License plates in the Canadian
Northwest Territories are shaped like polar bears.
***NEW***Charity
Facts…
╪ (Former) Billionaire Chuck Feeney gave away
over 99% of his multi-billion dollar fortune to philanthropic endeavors, such
as helping underprivileged kids go to college. He is now worth a few million
dollars.
╪ Ecosia is a search engine that helps
to save the environment by donating 80% of its income to planting trees in
Brazil.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1938
--The Iron Lung is now assured -- there
are only a few more dollars to reach the $1,535 purchase price. It will be a
full-sized Emerson Lung Machine. Dr. S.W. Sechrist plans a new wing on the
north end the hospital building to accommodate it. Construction to begin as
soon as weather permits. W. E. Jolly.
--A bas-relief representing Arizona
logging was installed in the Post Office last week. It was designed and
executed by D. C. Kittredge of Oak Creek to show the old logging methods. It
pictures the driver and two loaders taking the team over the logs preparing to
load them.
--Have you lost your shoe appeal? There
is nothing quite so damaging to your smart appearance as a pair of rundown
shoes. Bring them to Savage Shoe Repair, 18 N. Leroux St., for a quick, neat inexpensive
repair.
--A new movie about the Northwest
Mounted Police is to be made near Flagstaff by Paramount. A crew of 175
regulars, plus 100 Indians and other "extras" are expected to be
needed in this Cecil B. De Mille film.
Harper’s
Index…
$5,000,000
Estimated amount Olive Garden loses annually from breadsticks that
are served and not eaten
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Dimples may be cute, but they are an inherited genetic flaw. They
are caused by a fibrous band of tissue that connects the skin to an underlying
bone.
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2 jokes
for the day
Did you hear about the calendar thief?
He got 12 months; they say his days are numbered!
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A mean lookin' cowboy was sitting by himself
in a Saloon. He was a pretty intimidating sight, so no one bothered him as he
downed a few whiskey and beers. After chugging his last drink he slammed some
coins on the tabletop and got up to leave. Right after he left though he came
storming back in and said,
"Listen up you mangey bastards" and everyone, terrified, immediately
fell silent.
"Someone done took my horse. Now here's what's gunna happen. I'm gunna
order me another drink, finish it, and when I walk back outside this time my
horse BETTER be there or else I'm gunna do what I did in Texas... and believe
me, I don't want to do what I did in Texas!"
Like he said, after he finished his drink he walked outside and sure enough,
someone had returned his horse. He was getting on it when one of the bar
patrons ran up to him and sheepishly asked,
"Sir I don't mean to bother you but I just have to know, what did you do
in Texas?"
The cowboy looked at him square in the eyes and replied,
"I walked home".
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Yep, It
Really Happened
The
Oregonian
Shooting "upskirt" photos of a 13-year-old girl is not
illegal in Oregon, declared Judge Eric Butterfield in February, thus acquitting
Patrick Buono, 61, of the crimes of invasion of privacy and "encouraging
child sexual abuse." Buono's behavior was "appalling," Judge
Butterfield noted, but since the girl was in a public place (a Target store)
and no nudity was involved (she wore underpants), the specifics of Oregon
statutes were not violated. Said Buono's lawyer, "It's incumbent on us as
citizens to cover up whatever we don't want filmed in public places."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
--In
the Middle Ages wearing spectacles signified knowledge and learning. Painters
of the time often included spectacles when portraying famous persons even when
depicting people who lived before the known invention of spectacles. On numerous
paintings the religious teacher Sofronius Eusebius Hieronymus (340 - 420 AD) is
portrayed with a lion, a skull and a pair of reading glasses. He is the patron
saint of spectacle makers.
--It actually is true that eating carrots can help you see better. Carrots
contain Vitamin A, which feeds the chemicals that the eye shafts and cones are
made of. The shafts capture black and white vision. The cones capture color
images.
--Healthy eyes are so sensitive to light that a candle burning in the dark can
be detected a mile away. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million
different colors. There currently is no machine that can achieve this
remarkable feat.
--Roman tragedian Seneca is said to have read "all the books in Rome"
by peering through a glass globe of water. A thousand years later, presbyopic
monks used segments of glass spheres that could be laid against reading
material to magnify the letters, basically a magnifying glass, called a
"reading stone." They based their invention on the theories of the
Arabic mathematician Alhazen (roughly 1000 AD). Yet, Greek philosopher
Aristophanes (c. 448 BC-380 BC) knew that glass could be used as a magnifying
glass. Nevertheless it was not until roughly 150 AD that Ptolemy discovered the
basic rules of light diffraction and wrote extensively on the subject.
--Venetian glass blowers, who had learned how to produce glass for reading
stones, later constructed lenses that could be held in a frame in front of the
eye instead of directly on the reading material. It was intended for use by one
eye; the idea to frame two ground glasses using wood or horn, making them into
a single unit was born in the 13th century.
--In 1268 Roger Bacon made the first known scientific commentary on lenses for
vision correction. Salvino D’Armate of Pisa and Alessandro Spina of Florence
are often credited with the invention of spectacles around 1284 but there is no
evidence to conclude this. The first mention of actual glasses is found in a
1289 manuscript when a member of the Popozo family wrote: "I am so
debilitated by age that without the glasses known as spectacles, I would no
longer be able to read or write." In 1306, a monk of Pisa mentioned in a
sermon: "It is not yet 20 years since the art of making spectacles, one of
the most useful arts on earth, was discovered." But nobody mentioned the
inventor.
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Birthday’s Today
75 - Chuck Norris,
[Carlos Ray], OK, martial arts actor (Missing in Action)
68 - [Avril] Kim
Campbell, Canada's 1st female and 19th Prime Minister
57 - Sharon Stone,
actress (Basic Instinct)
53 - Jasmine Guy,
actress (Whitley-Different World)
44 - Jon Hamm,
actor (Mad Men - Don Draper)
38 - Shannon
Miller, gymnast (Oly2 gold-2 silver/3 bronze-92, 96)
38 - Robin Thicke, American singer
32 - Carrie
Underwood, American country singer
31 - Olivia Wilde, actress (The Black
Donneleys)
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Remembered
for being born today
1810-1886@76 - Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet
1847-1934@87 - Kate
Sheppard, New Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of New
Zealand's women's suffrage movement
1888-1961@72 - Barry
Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Acad Award-Going My Way)
1908-2000@91 - Carl
Albert, US speaker of house (1971-77)
1920-1989@68 - Kenneth
"Jethro" Burns, US country singer (Homer & Jethro)
1928-1998@70 - James Earl Ray, assassin (Martin Luther
King Jr.)
1935-2015@80 - Gary
Owens, announcer (Laugh-in)
1945-2012@67 - Elizabeth Brumfiel, [Stern], American
feminist archaeologist
1957-2011@54 - Osama
bin Laden, Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda
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Historical
Obits Today
Harriet
Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR-1913@91ish
Lloyd
Bridges, actor (Sea Hunt)-1998@85
Ray
Milland, actor (Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945)-1986@81
Glenn
Cunningham, US world record miler-1988@78
Herman
Tarnower, doctor (Scarsdale Diet), shot-1980@69
Zelda
Fitzgerald, artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, fire in
hospital-1948@47
Corey
Haim, Canadian actor, OD-2010@38
Andy Gibb, singer,
heart infection-1988@30
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Brain Teasers Answers
He killed his mother in child birth, he was born in front of his
father, and he married his sister to another man as he was a priest.
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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…§
