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Almanac: Week: 13 \ Day: 085
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 61°\L 35° Average Sky
Cover: 8%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 19mph
Ave. High: 53° Record High: 73°
(1988) Ave. Low: 25° Record Low:
-8° (1902)
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Observances
Today:
International Sister Cities Day
Legal Assistants Day
Make
Up Your Own Holiday Day
Purple Day
Supporting
Epilepsy Research worldwide
Spinach
Festival Day
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Observances This
Week:
22-28
…Week of Solidarity with People's
Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
…Consider Christianity Week
…International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
…Meat Free Week
…National Cleaning Week
…National LGBT Health
Awareness Week
…National Youth Violence Prevention
Week
…Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week
…Root Canal Awareness Week
...Tsunami Awareness Week
26-28
…American Crossword Puzzle Days
…International Listening Weekend
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1790 - US Congress passes Naturalization Act,
requires 2-year residency
1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of
Mississippi to Louisiana
1830 - The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra,
New York
1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated
plaster, precursor of bandaid
1682 - la Salle first
meets the NATCHEZ Indians—1st
recorded meeting
of Europeans with the
NATCHEZ
1885 - Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial
motion picture film
1910 - US forbid immigration to criminals,
anarchists, paupers & the sick
1913 - Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto,
Miami, & Muskingum
Rivers reach flood
stage simultaneously
1926 - 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1930 - Congress appropriates $50,000 for
Inter-American highway
1936 - 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning
Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech
1937 - Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect
statue of Popeye
1939 - Tucson Mayor
bought the 1st four boxes of cookies from Tucson Girl
Scouts who were
starting a citywide sales project
1945 - Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near
Kerama Retto
1945 - Iwo Jima occupied, after 18,000 Japanese
& 6,000 Americans killed
1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to
prevent polio
1955 - "Ballad of Davy Crockett" becomes
the #1 record in US
1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city
landmark
1982 - Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1994 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m
ladies (38.99 sec)
1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft
word processing and e-mail
systems around the
world
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Today’s World
Events through History
1636 - University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1668 - England takes control of Bombay, India
1780 - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit
Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1812 - Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas,
Venezuela; about 20,000 die
1859 - 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to
orbit inside Mercury
1872 - Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1878 - Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official
designated game reserve, opens
1886 - 1st cremation in England
1931 - New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of
British-Indies
1934 - Driving tests introduced in Britain
1970 - The Police (Northern Ireland) Act becomes
law; the act provides for
the disarmament of
the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve
force
1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the
first royal email
1979 - OPEC makes full 14.5% oil price increase effective
on April 1
1985 - Pope John Paul II proclaims first ever World
Youth Day
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
While out running errands I delivered my tax stuff to my
accountant…now the wait begins.
Another nice spring day here. Spent some time on the deck…nice.
Otherwise a quiet day.
Our little mountain town has been described as ‘poverty with a
view’ for decades now. High property prices, low wages, high cost of
essentials. Today our local paper said that Flagstaff has the lowest wages in
the US…not news for people around here, just conformation.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Five
of the six listed words share a common characteristic. Which word does not
belong?
1. fantasy
2. smother
3. smidge
4. stick
5. bunker
6. smite
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Average
Facts…
-- On average, there's 100 billion neurons in the human brain.
--The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
…Education
Facts…
-- Taking a nap after learning something can help your retention of
it.
--Eminem repeated the 9th grade three times.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 years ago--1990
--The Snow Bowl really needed this storm. All lifts are now
running with 39 inches at the base and 32 inches at Hart Prairie. The slopes
are being groomed every night and, contrary to a rumor, will be staying open
throughout the entire week.
--The snowmobilers are enjoying the fresh snow out at Mormon Lake.
Since the water is low, there is a great area open for this sport.
…Harper’s
Index…
$29,420
Average annual salary predicted by white Americans for a worker
who is described as ‘black’
$37,040
Who is described as ‘African-American’
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Twinkies originally had banana-flavored filling, but switched to
vanilla when WWII brought the banana trade to a halt.
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2 jokes
for the day
Father: "Son, when Abraham Lincoln was
your age, he walked 12 miles to school."
Son: "Dad, when Abraham Lincoln was your age, he was President."
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A married couple rushed to the hospital
because the woman was in labor the doctor asked the couple, "I have
invented a new machine that you might want to try, it takes some of the labor
pains away from the mother and gives it to the father."
So the married couple decided that they would try this. The doctor hooked the
machine up and put it on 10% of pain switched from the mother to the father and
the husband said "I feel okay turn it up a lot more."
So the doctor turned it up to 50% and the husband said "Why don't you just
put it all on me cause I'm not feeling a thing."
The doctor warned them, "This much could kill you if you’re not
prepared," and the husband replied "I'm ready."
So the doctor turned the machine up to 100% but the husband didn't fell a thing
so they went home happy with a pain free labor.
When they got home the mailman was dead on the front porch!
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Yep, It
Really Happened
SUNDERLAND,
England
Security camera footage from a British restaurant recorded the
moment a man set his pet rat on the ground in an attempt to scam a free meal.
Christopher Baker, 28, pleaded guilty in Sunderland Magistrates' Court to a
charge of fraud by false representation after he released his pet rat at the
Borneo Bistro in Sunderland, England, on Valentine's Day and demanded a refund
for his meal. Kevin Smith, the restaurant's owner, said he reviewed security
footage after noticing the black and white rat seemed suspiciously clean and
tame. "Mr. Smith perhaps smelled a rat at this particular point and he
retrieved the rat from the floor. It was a black and white rat, very calm. It
did not appear to be wild at all. Acorn Pest Control attended and they said it
appeared to be a pet," prosecutor Lee Poppett said. "Mr. Smith viewed
the CCTV and saw the defendant fiddling in his pocket. He waited until a family
moved from the table next to him and retrieved what appeared to be a rat from his
pocket and dropped it on the floor. He then jumped out of his seat." The
court heard Baker later told police the rat was a gift for his daughter and had
bitten his finger and escaped his pocket accidentally. Smith had harsh words
for Baker after the trial. "He is just the scum of the earth," Smith
told the Sunderland Echo. "He could have destroyed the reputation I have
built up over seven years. I was devastated. I thought 'that's it my business
is gone.' I didn't sleep that night." "People like him deserve the
death penalty. As far as I'm concerned, he shouldn't be in our society,"
Smith said. "He is no use to anybody and he's caused nothing but grief. I
find it unbelievable that someone could be willing to go to those lengths for a
free meal."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
It
used to take 27 hours to make a Peep. That was in 1953, when Sam Born acquired
the Rodda Candy Company and its line of marshmallow chicks. Back then, each
chick was handmade with a pastry tube. Just Born quickly set about automating
the process, so that it now takes just six minutes to make a Peep.
The recipe has remained pretty much the same. The recipe begins with a boiling
batch of granulated sugar, liquid sugar and corn syrup, to which gelatin and
vanilla extract are later added.
Since Just Born turned Peeps-making into an automated process, their chicks
have been carefully formed by a top-secret machine known as The Depositor.
Created by Sam Born's son, Bob, The Depositor could manufacture six rows of
five Peeps apiece at a fraction of the time it took workers to form them by
hand.
The final flourish for all of these squishy balls of sweetness is adding the
eyes, which are made of carnauba - a non-toxic edible wax.
All over the country, Peeps have become the preferred media for a number of highly
anticipated annual art contests, including The Washington Post's Peeps Diorama
Contest, which is now in its ninth year.
Peeps used to have wings. They were clipped in 1955, two years after the first
marshmallow chicks hatched, to give the candy a sleeker, more
"modern" look.
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Birthday’s
Today
85 - Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman
Supreme Court Justice
80 - Alan Arkin, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws,
Simon, Wait Until Dark)
75 - James Caan, Bronx NY, American actor
(Misery, Godfather)
75 - Nancy Pelosi, (Rep-D-California)
72 - Robert "Bob" Woodward, Washington
Post investigative reporter
69 - Johnny Crawford, actor (Mark-The
Rifleman)
67 - Steven Tyler, rock vocalist
(Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun)
66 - Vicki Lawrence, Inglewood Ca, actress
(Carol Burnette, Mama's Family)
65 - Martin Short, Hamilton Ontario,
comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
58 - Leeza Gibbons, SC, TV host
(Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)
55 - Marcus Allen, NFL running back (LA Raiders, KC
Chiefs, Heisman 1981)
47 - Kenny Chesney, American singer
42 - Larry Page, co-founder of Google
30 - Keira Knightley, English actress (Pirates
of the Caribbean)
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Remembered
for being born today
- Nathaniel
Bowditch, math/astronomy (Marine Sextant) 1773-1838@64
- Fuad
I, king of Egypt (1922-36) 1868-1936@68
- Robert
Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken) 1874-1963@88
- Duncan
Hines, restaurant guide writer 1880-1959@78
- Betty
MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I) 1908-1958@57
- Hilde
Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis star (French 1935) 1908-1981@72
- Tennessee
Williams, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) 1911-1983@71
- William
Westmoreland, Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era) 1914-2005@91
- Strother
Martin, Kokomo Ind, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot) 1919-1980@61
- Leonard
Nimoy, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible) 1931-2015@83
- Teddy
Pendergrass, Phila, singer (Turn Off the Lights) 1950-2010@59
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Historical
Obits Today
Edmund S
Muskie, VP candidate/(Gov-D-Maine)-1996@81
Sarah
Bernhardt, [Henriette], actress (Queen Elizabeth), uremia-1923@77
Geraldine
Ferraro, Congresswoman and VP nominee, cancer, 2011@75
Daniel Patrick Moynihan,
U.S. Senator, infection-2003@76
Noel
Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), heart failure-1973@73
Walt
Whitman, American poet, pneumonia-1892@72
Jacob van
Eyck, Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur-1657@69
Jan Berry,
American musician (Jan and Dean), seizure-2004@62
John
Winthrop, 1st Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony-1649@61
Ludwig
van Beethoven, German composer, liver failure-1827@56
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Brain Teasers Answers
Answer: Number five (5) bunker does not belong.
The common words hidden inside each original word are insects.
1. ant
2. moth
3. midge
4. tick
6. mite
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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…§
