Mar 8

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1855 - 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls

1887 - Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes

1896 - Volunteers of America forms (NYC)

1918 - The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic

1943 - Limited gambling legalized in Mexico

1964 - Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement

1973 - Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens in Colorado

1983 - Pres Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire"

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

The snow we expected never arrived. Cold wind continued, even if at a lesser rate than yesterday. Peyton Manning is no longer a Colt. Fourteen years of excellence would be enough for many, but even with all his neck injuries, he is looking for a new team. Many want him on their team. Time will tell. 

Solar flares are not unusual.  When I had satellite TV, I had a few weeks each year that my signal was interrupted to varying degrees. Tomorrow, a huge solar flare will reach our planet. We are being told to expect interruptions of cell phones, internet, cable and satellite TV, power grids, airline flights and GPS instruments. A couple of my cable channels were basically unwatchable this afternoon…could have been the flare, or could have been the high winds. No way for a consumer to know.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word starts "pi" and the second word ends in an "e." So, the "pi-e" is divided. For example, if the clue is "power source for most automobiles," the answer would be "piston engine."

1.      You come here much or haven’t I seen you here before:

2.      It surrounds the yard of a traditional 50’s home:

3.      It surrounds a painting:

4.      Dole drink that comes in a can:

5.      French scientist who won a Nobel Prize with his wife Marie:

6.      Something that ‘tilts’:

7.      Comment made before the comment “Am I dreaming?”:

8.      It has needles and cones:

9.      Place to sit and eat an outdoor meal:

10.   Cause of sciatic pain:

11.   Player at PNC park:

12.   Piece of paper needed to fly a plane:

13.   Colorful bubbly beverage on New Year’s Eve:

14.   String material for a baby grand:

15.   In story, it grew when it’s owner told a lie:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

Planet Earth—Mayan

Found on You Tube         

"The Pan Am Story"

Harper’s Index         

Respective rank of obesity, drug and alcohol problems, and low ‘aptitude’ among the most common reasons for ineligibility: 1, 2, 3

Joke-of-the-day

Dieters know this: A waist is a terrible thing to mind!

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

In the typical suburban shopping center, with a parking lot in front, the smart business man will avoid the area at the inside corner of an L shaped building. It may have a lot of floor area, but it typically has little frontage or exposure to the public view.

Somewhat Useless Information    

Oreos over the years:1950: "Oh! Oh! Oreo!" --1980: "For the Kid in All of Us."--1982: "America's Best Loved Cookie."--1982: "The One and Only."--1986: "Who's the Kid with the Oreo Cookie?"--1990: "Oreo, the Original Twister."--2004: "Milk's Favorite Cookie."

The first Oreo cookie was embossed with a thin wreath on the outer edge, with the Oreo name on the plain surface in the middle.

Oreo is the world's favorite cookie and the best-selling cookie brand of the 21st century, with $1.5 billion in global annual revenues.

Oreo has a street named after it - Oreo Way - formerly known as West 15th Street between 9th and 10th Avenues in New York City, where the first Oreo cookie was made at the original Nabisco bakery.

Kraft Foods is the proud custodian of Oreo, and Oreo is one of the company's 12 "billion-dollar" brands.

Oreo cookies are most popular (in order) in the United States, China, Venezuela, Canada, Indonesia, Mexico, Spain, Central America and the Caribbean, UK and Argentina.

The Oreo cookie was "born" in 1912, the same year the South Pole was discovered and the Titanic sank. The first Oreo cookie was sold in Hoboken, NJ, where Oreo was originally packaged in bulk tins and sold by weight.

Yeah, It Really Happened                 

CLEVELAND - An Ohio judge ordered a public defender to hold up his client's pants so he could be sworn in to plead guilty. Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Brendan Sheehan ordered Jeffrey Dodson, 51, who had spent 72 days in jail awaiting trial and was not allowed a belt for his court appearance, to raise his right hand to be sworn in and the handcuffs he was wearing forced him to lift both hands, allowing his pants to fall to the floor, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported Monday. Sheehan ordered the public defender to hold up his client's plants and Dodson pleaded guilty to pandering charges. Dodson is scheduled to be sentenced this week.

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

3-18

Iditarod Race

4-10

 Celebrate Your Name Week

National Consumer Protection Week

National Procrastination Week

National Schools Social Work Week

National Words Matter Week

Professional Pet Sitters Week

Save Your Vision Week

Read an E-Book Week

Return The Borrowed Books Week

Teen Tech Week

Women in Construction Week

5-8

American Council on Education

5-9

Newspaper in Education Week

National School Breakfast Week

Share A Story - Shape A Future Week

5-11

National Sleep Awareness Week

8-11

World Rattlesnake Round-up

8-14

Universal Women's Week

Today Is                                                                      

Be Nasty Day

Day for Women's Rights

Girls Write Now Day

International Peace Day

International Working Women's Day

International Women's Day since 1911

Nametag Day

National Proof Reading Day

Organize Your Home Office Day

Purim: a Jewish holiday that commemorates the deliverance of the Jewish people in the ancient Persian Empire from destruction in the wake of a plot by Haman, a story recorded in the Biblical Book of Esther  

World Kidney Day

Today’s Other Events                                                             

1700’s

1722 - Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia

1800’s

1801 - British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt

1817 - The New York Stock Exchange is founded

1865 - The Winnebago sign a treaty regarding the Omaha reservation

1880 - Company K, 5th Mounted Infantry, from Fort Keogh, in east-central Montana, has been pursuing a band of Indians with stolen horses for 60 miles. They manage to cut the Indians off, and capture 13 horses, and 16 mules, north of the Yellowstone River.

1884 - Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote.

1894 - The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog-licensing law

1900’s

1916 - US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime

1927 - Pan American Airlines incorporates

1934 - Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars

1946 - 1st helicopter licensed for coml use (NYC)

1957 - Israeli troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships

1958 - William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters

1961 - US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from SC in a record undersea journey of 66 days 22 hrs

1965 - 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)

1966 - An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin

1971 - Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing title

1972 - 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp

1974 - Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France

1980 - The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union

1986 - Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million

1999 - The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing

2000’s

2004 - A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 60’s

Micky Dolenz, actor (Circus Boy)/singer (Monkees) is 67

In their 40’s

Jason Elam, NFL kicker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32) is 42

Kathy Ireland, model is 49

In their 30’s

Freddie Prinze Jr, actor (I Know What You Did Last Summer) is 36

James Van Der Beek, actor (Dawson's Creek) is 35

Remembered for being born on this day

Anne Bonny Irish-American pirate in 1700

Cyd Charisse, [Tula Finklea], Amarillo Tx, dancer/actress (Singing in the Rain) in 1921

Alan Hale [MacKahan] Jr, LA California, actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island) in 1921

Oliver Wendell Holmes, 59th Supreme Court justice in 1841

Eric Linklater, Scotland, novelist/poet (Blue Swallows) in 1899

Abu 'l-Kasim Mahmud ibn Omar al-Zamachshari, Arab theologist in 1075

Lynn Redgrave, London, actress (Georgie Girl)/Weight-Watcher in 1943

Hannah Hoes Van Buren, wife of pres Martin in 1783

Today’s Obits                                                           

Albumasar, [Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi], Arabic astronomer, dies at 99 in 883

Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian dies at 75 in 1999

Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player dies at 85 in 1999

Millard Fillmore, 13th president (1850-53), dies of at 74 in 1874

Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo), dies at 69 in 1994

William Howard Taft, 27th US pres (1909-13)/Chief Justice, dies at 72 in 1930

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.      You come here much or haven’t I seen you here before:

a.      pick-up line

2.      It surrounds the yard of a traditional 50’s home:

a.      picket fence

3.      It surrounds a painting:

a.      picture frame

4.      Dole drink that comes in a can:

a.      pineapple juice

5.      French scientist who won a Nobel Prize with his wife Marie:

a.      Pierre Currie

6.      Something that ‘tilts’:

a.      pinball machine

7.      Comment made before the comment “Am I dreaming?”:

a.      pinch me

8.      It has needles and cones:

a.      pine tree

9.      Place to sit and eat an outdoor meal:

a.      picnic table

10.   Cause of sciatic pain:

a.      pinched nerve

11.   Player at PNC park:

a.      Pittsburg Pirate

12.   Piece of paper needed to fly a plane:

a.      pilot’s license

13.   Colorful bubbly beverage on New Year’s Eve:

a.      pink champagne

14.   String material for a baby grand:

a.      piano wire

15.   In story, it grew when it’s owner told a lie:

a.      Pinocchio’s nose

Wuzzle

• Syrup
• Lickety split
• Right between the eyes

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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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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