TODAY’s HOLY MACKEREL: 1887 Michigan appoints 1st salaried game & fish warden in US(William Alden Smith)
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MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
What a disaster. I heard on NPR today the there are food shortages in Tokyo, not because they were hit by the quake or tsunami, but because the infrastructure of moving goods is gone. Later in the day, I learned that all of Japan was having 8 hour rolling blackouts due to the lack of electricity being produced as so many power plants are shut down. The culture is not showing panic. No looting. Extreme patience. We can learn so much.
Of course the idiots on the right wing news are saying we should be mad at Japan for not being prepared and for putting the world in danger. No need for that. All the news organizations are giving their watchers and listeners Nuclear Power Plant 101 courses. The information from these courses is very educational and very frightening.
I helped out the Billy family today. One of the aunties needed gas money to get to the funeral tomorrow and also needed to buy some salad for the dinner. She barely makes ends meet as it is. I was glad to help. I am planning on heading to Tuba tomorrow morning. DST in Tuba makes the drive a little earlier.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT…
Add one cup of water to the bottom portion of the broiling pan before putting it in the oven. The water will absorb the smoke and grease and make the food more tender.
Another really quick and easy way to clean a porcelain sink is with liquid dishwashing detergent. It bleaches out the stains without rubbing.
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION… Social Security Part II
In 1938 a sample Social Security card with the number 078-05-1120 was inserted into new wallets manufactured by the E.H. Ferree company in Lockport, N.Y. Unfortunately, that number belonged to Hilda Schrader Whitcher, the secretary of an E.H. Ferree vice president who decided to use her official number on the sample cards. Whitcher was eventually issued a new number, but not before being questioned by the FBI. They wanted to know why so many people had her number.
Even though numbers aren't reused, the Social Security Administration says the current numbering system is capable of providing enough new numbers for "several generations into the future." That means Social Security numbers will still be available well past 2030.
Based upon the original assignment criterion, one would naturally expect a Maine resident to have the lowest Social Security number ever issued. However, New Hampshire was ultimately given the 001 area number so that Social Security number 001-01-0001 could be assigned to Social Security board chairman John G. Winant, who was a three-time governor of the state. Winant eventually declined the honor of having the lowest Social Security number. As a result, it eventually found its way to Grace D. Owen of Concord, N.H.
PUZZLE: Trivia Quiz […answers at bottom…]
1. What film star was born in Sakhalin, Siberia?
2. Betty Joan Perske is better known as which famous actress?
3. What actor once had a job as a coffin polisher?
4. Clark Gable had what job before acting?
5. Who was Dan Dare's greatest enemy in the Eagle?
6. Who played the role of the pawnbroker in the film 'Pawnbroker'?
7. Who other than Peter Sellers played Inspector Clouseau in 1968?
8. Mr. Cat Poop was the Chinese translation of which Jack Nicholson film?
9. What was Clint Eastwood's first film as a director?
10. Who is the most filmed comic strip character?
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM:
MONROE, Ga. - A 114-year-old Georgia woman has been named the world's oldest living person by Guinness World Records during a ceremony at her nursing home. Besse Cooper, who is 114 years and 6 months old, officially received the title Thursday at her Monroe nursing home following the death of previous record holder Eunice Sanborn of Texas last month, The Daily Telegraph reported Friday. Cooper's son, Sid, 75, attributed his mother's longevity to good genetics and an active childhood in Tennessee. He said his mother lived alone in her home until the age of 105.
Cooper, who has four children and several grandchildren and great-grandchildren, has recently experienced problems with her vision and hearing, Sid Cooper said. "I mind my business and I don't eat junk food," Cooper told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution on her 113th birthday.
A LITTLE LAUGH:
My grandmother told me how she ended up marrying Grandpa. She was in her 20s, and the man she was dating left for war.
"We were in love," she recalled, "and wrote to each other every week. It was during that time that I discovered how wonderful your grandfather was."
"Did you marry Grandpa when he came home from the war?" I asked.
"Oh, I didn't marry the man who wrote the letters. Your grandfather was the mailman."
Top 10 In The World: Returns tomorrow
CLOSEUP PICTURE: Can you identify this close up picture?
FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’: For Wildlife Week check out David Attenborough
♫ ‘Hair Bands’ ♫
Click on Song Title to see and hear it.
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DAYBOOK INFORMATION
►THIS WEEK◄
13-19► Campfire USA Birthday Week ♣ Wildlife Week ♣ International Brain Awareness Week ♣ National Money Week ♣
►TODAY IS◄
Brutus Day
Buzzard's Day
Everything You Think Is Wrong Day
Ides of March
International Day Against Police Brutality
Napping Day
True Confessions Day
World Consumer Rights Day
World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film
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Belarus: Constitution Day
Hungary: National holiday, celebrating the Hungarian Revolution of 1848
US: Maine: Admission Day (1820 23rd state)
■…AUTHORS/COMPOSERS/ARTISTS
1838 Alice Cunningham Fletcher ethnologist/author/Indian music (Stranger in Her Native Land)
1852 Lady Augusta Gregory Irish playwright/poet/Yates mistress
■…ATHLETES
1946 Bobby (Lee) Bonds baseball: Giants Yankees, Angels, White Sox, Rangers, Indians, Cardinals, Cubs; father of baseball’s Barry Bonds
1926 Norm Van Brocklin Pro Football Hall of Famer: quarterback: Rams, Eagles
■…BUSINESS & EDUCATION
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■…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS)
Fabio, 50, model, born Fabio Lanzoni
Judd Hirsch, 76, actor (Emmy for “Taxi”; “Numb3rs,” Ordinary People)
1916 Harry James trumpeter (married to Betty Grable)
Eva Longoria, 36, actress (“Desperate Housewives,” “The Young and the Restless”)
Mike Love, 70, singer, musician (The Beach Boys)
Bret Michaels, 48, musician, television personality
Park Overall, 54, actress (“Empty Nest,” Mississippi Burning)
1905 Joe E Ross comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show)
Sly Stone, 67, singer, musician (Sly & the Family Stone)
■…POLITICIANS
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 78, Associate Justice of the US
0076 Hadrian Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)
1767 Andrew Jackson, General/7th President (1829-37)
■…SCIENCE & RELIGION
Alan Bean, 79, former astronaut
Today’s Obits:
0044 -BC- Julius Cæsar assassinated in Roman Senate in the Portico of the Theater of Pompey @ 55
1997 Gail Davis, actress ( Annie Oakley), @ 72
1975 Aristotle S Onassis Greek shipping magnate, myasthenia gravis @ 69
Today’s Events:
■…ARTS
1948 Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
■…ATHLETICS
1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1968 LIFE magazine calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1956 The musical, My Fair Lady, opened on Broadway.
■…BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1827 Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
18i67 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1906 Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
■…INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1858 After fighting the Americans for almost 25 years, today one of the last of the Seminole leaders, Billy Bowlegs, will be surrender with 163 of his followers.
1869 Col.George Custer, and his troops will discover 2 Cheyenne villages, of over 250 lodges, on Sweetwater Creek near the Texas-Oklahoma boundary. The Cheyenne had been order to report to their reservation. Custer captures 4 Chiefs. He threatens to hang the Chief unless the Cheyenne surrender. Both of the villages decide to give up.
■…POLITICS (International)
1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain Cook
1957 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
■…POLITICS (US)
1812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
1892 New York State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
■…SCIENCE & RELIGION
1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (New York NY)
1937 1st blood bank is established (Chicago IL)
1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
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ANSWERS:
Quiz
1. What film star was born in Sakhalin, Siberia? Yul Bryner
2. Betty Joan Perske is better known as which famous actress? Lauren Bacall
3. What actor once had a job as a coffin polisher? Sean Connery
4. Clark Gable had what job before acting? Telephone repairman
5. Who was Dan Dare's greatest enemy in the Eagle? Mekon
6. Who played the role of the pawnbroker in the film 'Pawnbroker'? Rod Steiger
7. Who other than Peter Sellers played Inspector Clouseau in 1968? Alan Arkin
8. Mr. Cat Poop was the Chinese translation of which Jack Nicholson film? As Good as it Gets
9. What was Clint Eastwood's first film as a director? Play Misty for Me
10. Who is the most filmed comic strip character? Zorro
Close Up Picture
Road Sign
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