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Almanac: Week: 11 \ Day: 071
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 62°\L 26° Average Sky
Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 17mph
Ave. High: 49° Record High: 72°
(1900) Ave. Low: 22° Record Low:
-1° (1917)
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Observances
Today:
Alfred Hitchcock Day
Girl Scout Birthday Day 1912
Plant a Flower Day
World Kidney Day
Observances This
Week:
8-14
…Universal Women's
Week
…National Agriculture Week
…Teen Tech Week
…Girl Scout Week
…Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week
11-17
…Turkey Vultures
Return to the Living Sign
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1664 - 1st naturalization
act in American colonies
1664 - New Jersey becomes a British colony
1755 - 1st
steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1850 - 1st US
$20 gold piece issued
1860 - Congress
accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1868 - US Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1884 - Mississippi
establishes 1st US state college for women
1894 - Pittsburgh
issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
1894 - Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first
time in Vicksburg, Mississippi
1904 - Andrew
Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1933 - FDR conducts
his 1st "fireside chat"
1936 - Building of Sabino
Canyon Dam near Tucson begins
1945 - NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race
& creed in employment
1947
- Pres Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight
communism
1959 - US House
joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1970 - US
lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1987 - "Les
Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ perfs
2003 - Elizabeth Smart, was found after having been
missing for 9 months
Today’s World
Events through History
1365 - University
of Vienna founded
1496 - Jews are
expelled from Syria
1609 - Bermuda
becomes an English colony
1619 - Dutch
settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1867 - Last
French troops leave Mexico
1868 - Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate
Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh
1904 - 1st main
line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1926 - Denmark
begins unilateral disarmament
1930 - Mohandas Gandhi begins
200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax
1938 - Nazi
Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1971 - Thousands of Belfast shipyard workers march
demanding the introduction of Internment for members of the Irish Republican
Army
1994 - Church
of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
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
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Overcast but no moisture most of the day.
While I was out and about I washed my vehicle as it was pretty
dirty after our last snowstorm.
Another FB oddity, another former student found me. So strange,
but also nice.
Our local TV station, part of the local university, did an
interview last night with a police spokeswoman about the latest stats for our
PD. Our cops are in line percentage wise for whites, blacks, and Latinos and
are ahead of the country in female officers. All well and good, but she did not
mention the Native population or the number of Native cops…odd. Nor did she
mention the Asian population.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
does this mean?
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and
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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America
Facts…
--A Native American tribe in South Dakota collects bottle caps
left by campers, using them as currency. Several banks in the area now
recognize the caps as legal tender.
--According to some estimates, Americans are sitting on $30
billion worth of unredeemed gift cards.
Ant
Facts…
-- Queen ants have one of the longest life-spans of any known insect
- typically up to 30 years. Western harvester ant queens can live up to 40
years!
--Ants have graveyards.
Car
Facts…
-- Most people turn their music down in the car when finding a street
sign to "see better".
--American car horns beep in the tone of F.
Charity
Facts…
-- Shakira has been making music for more than 23 years, can play the
guitar, drums, percussion, and harmonica, speaks 7 different languages, is the
founder of a charity called Pies Descalzos, and is a goodwill ambassador for
UNICEF.
--Keanu Reeves has a private cancer foundation to help children’s
hospitals and cancer research, but he does not attach his name to it. He also
has spent over 5 million dollars to help his sister in her fight against
leukemia.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO--1990
--On Monday a Greyhound bus bearing 30
passengers driven by a regular driver on an unfamiliar route mistook the
snow-packed dirt road to A-1 Mountain for the road to Flagstaff. He had
traveled 4 or 5 miles looking for a place to turn around before he high-centered
and could not move further. He and two passengers walked back to Route 40, and
called the Department of Public Safety, which called for a tow truck.
Mike Risen of Continental Towing came to
the scene and with some difficulty extracted the bus from its situation. The
passengers resumed their journey, arriving in Flagstaff a few hours later than
planned.
--Having made a routine traffic stop for
an improperly secured load on I-40 near Williams, DPS Officer Bernadette Korair
was shot three times by the suspect. Fortunately she was protected by her
bulletproof vest. She returned fire, shooting through his driver-side window.
The bleeding suspect, who had been recently released from a California prison,
fled. His camper fell off. He turned onto the Navajo Reservation about 22 miles
north of Winslow, where his pickup overturned into ditch. He was apprehended by
a DPS SWAT team in a nearby ravine, where he was trying to hide.
Harper’s
Index…
68
Percentage of women worldwide, who believe that energy conservation
is a ‘vital issue’
47
Of men
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The song “Always” was written by Irving Berlin for Ellin Mackay, a
Western Union heiress. Berlin was Jewish, Mackay was Catholic, and her father
was just plain furious. Mr. Mackay attempted to distract Ellin’s affections
with a yearlong trip to Europe; when that failed, he disinherited her. Berlin
responded by marrying Ellin and giving his new wife an unusual wedding gift—the
royalty rights to “Always.”
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2 jokes
for the day
A horse walks into a bar...
...the trainer says, "next time, jump
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Two rather old retired racehorses are in a bar
getting totally drunk. After about two hours the first racehorse says "You
know.... when I was a young racehorse...from one hundred starts, I won (hic) 90
races, got 5 seconds and 5 thirds.... I am without doubt the greatest racehorse
that ever lived....blah blah blah..."
In response to this and approximately a half an hour later the second racehorse
responded, "Oh yeah...when I was a young racehorse...from one hundred
starts, I won (hic) 95 races, got 2 seconds and 3 thirds.... I am the greatest
racehorse that ever lived.... blah blah blah..."
Now it was about this time that the bartender (a greyhound) decided that they
were drunk enough so he said, "I am sick of you two telling one another
how great you are, you are both drunk and I am throwing you out of the bar, but
before I do I want to let you know that when I was a young greyhound, from one
hundred starts, I won 100 races, no seconds and no thirds."
The two racehorses were shocked and for 5 minutes sat with their mouths open
until the first racehorse finally said, "Isn't that amazing (hic)...a
talking greyhound!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
HAMBURG,
Germany (UPI)
Leaders in the "party district" of St. Pauli in Hamburg,
Germany, are discouraging public urination by covering walls in paint that
"pees back." The St. Pauli Interest Community released a YouTube video
explaining the most frequently-soiled walls in the district are being covered
in a super-hydrophobic paint that causes sprayed liquid to bounce back in the
opposite direction -- causing public urinators to make a mess of their own
pants and shoes. The walls treated with the paint are labeled with signs
reading, "Don't pee here! We'll pee back!" "It was a real
annoyance that was growing and growing," St Pauli Interest Community board
member Uwe Christiansen, who owns several local bars, told The Local. "We
wanted to bring people to reason." He said the move is being hailed by
locals who were similarly tired of dealing with "Wildpinkler."
"I've seen in Facebook and the local newspapers that the reactions were
very positive. People were just tired of the peeing on walls, home entrances
and playgrounds," Christiansen said. "Watch out! From now on, it's
Peeback time," group member Julia Staron said in the video.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
--It's
no secret that The Sound of Music was based on a true story, but there were
plenty of differences between Maria Kutschera's 1949 memoir The Story of the
Trapp Family Singers and the film. For one thing, Maria was brought to the von
Trapp home to care for one child who had scarlet fever and was too ill to walk
to school, not all seven children.
--The Sound of Music was the eighth and final musical written by Rodgers and
Hammerstein, but Hammerstein never saw the movie. He died of stomach cancer
nine months after the Broadway premiere.
--The original cast recording of The Sound of Music was nearly as popular as
the show itself. Recorded just a week after the show's Broadway premiere and
released by Columbia Records, the album was number one on the Billboard charts
for 16 weeks.
--When it came to the movie, Julie Andrews wasn't the first choice for Maria!
Producers wanted Grace Kelly or Doris Day to replace her. Mary Poppins (for
which Andrews would win an Oscar) hadn't hit screens yet and they didn't know
if she had the star power to carry the feature film. (Day ruled herself out as
"too American.")
--While filming the iconic opening scene, twirling in the hills of Austria,
Andrews kept getting knocked down in the mud by the gusts from the helicopter
carrying the camera.
--One of Maria von Trapp's biggest beefs with the film was with the geography.
Not only does Salzburg not border on Switzerland, but taking that route out of
Austria would have sent them straight towards Berchtesgaden, Hitler's summer
retreat.
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Birthday’s
Today
86 - Edward Albee,
playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story)
83 - Andrew Young,
US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
82 - Barbara
Feldon, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
75 - Al Jarreau,
jazz singer (Moonlighting)
69 - Liza
Minnelli, singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret)
68 - Mitt Romney,
70th Governor of Massachusetts
53 - Darryl
Strawberry, baseball right fielder (Mets, Dodgers, Yankees)
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Remembered
for being born today
1672-1729@57 - Richard
Steele, Irish writer and politician
1831-1901@70 - Clement
Studebaker, automobile pioneer (Studebaker)
1862-1919@57 - Jane
Delano, US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
1890-1950@61 - Vaslav Nijinsky, Ukrainian/US ballet
dancer (Petroesjka)
1921-1986@64 - Gordon MacRae, singer/actor (Oklahoma,
Carousel)
1922-1969@47 - Jack
Kerouac, Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues)
1931-1980@49 - William
"Buckwheat" Thomas, actor
(Little Rascals)
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Historical
Obits Today
George
Westinghouse, engineer (Westinghouse Electric), heart failure-1914@67
Sun
Yat-Sen, Chinese revolutionary president, liver cancer, 1925@58
Anne
Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), Belsen Camp-1945@15
Charlie
"Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist, cirrhosis-1955@34
Maurice
Evans, actor (Bewitched, MacBeth)-1989@87
Lynne
Thigpen, American actress (Chief-Carmen Sandiego), stroke-2003@54
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Brain Teasers Answers
Search high and low
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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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