Feb 27

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1801 - Washington DC placed under Congressional jurisdiction

1827 - 1st Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans

1908 - Sacrifice fly adopted (repealed in 1931, reinstated 1954)

1951 - 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms

1970 - NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance

1984 - Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 m)

1992 - Tiger Woods, 16, becomes youngest PGA golfer in 35 years

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

A good Sunday. A walk in the morning. Caught up on some DVR shows this afternoon. A little laundry done. Relaxing Sunday, for sure The world has been holding its breath to find out who our infamous governor was going to endorse. NOT! She did it today, on Meet the Press…it’s Mitt. Her squeaky voice, her crazy giggle when excited may or may not help Mitt. She was invited to the White House while in DC for a Governor’s Conference. In true Jan style, she refused, saying she was there for business, and an event at the White House is not for business. Wheee…soon the song  ‘They’re coming to take me away, hee hee haa haa’ will be her campaign song…
 Our discussion group was amazing last night. We all had a lot to say about the mess in Mexico. It was agreed that the current drug situation needs to be slowed, so the people of Mexico can feel safer.  People agreed with Tony’s scenario of the bee hive I heard in Merida. We had a new participant, who was vacationing in Ensenada in the mid ‘90’s. He was a software designer and under a lot of business pressure. His cab driver said he couldn’t understand the Northerners who are totally stressed and come to Mexico to unwind for a week or so, just to go back and get totally stressed again. It hit home for him and he sold his software firm, for a tidy profit, and began relaxing. Now he, at 50+, is pursuing a degree in astro-physics at NAU. He sure had some good discussion points. A good evening for sure. Next discussion is on Cybersecurity in a couple of weeks. I’ll be the moderator and sure hope he make that meeting.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

Every answer is a familiar two-word phrase that includes the letters N-E-T consecutively. Specifically, the letters N-E will end the first word, and T will start the second. For example, if the clue is "cause of a breakdown on the road," the answer would be "engine trouble."

1.      A person with a crystal ball:

2.      What M stands for in roman numerals:

3.      Plant with cones:

4.      Kind of party that might be held in Napa:

5.      A purchase from American or Delta:

6.      It’s located between and incisor and a pre-molar:

7.      Company with slogan ‘where the rubber meets the road’:

8.      What’s filled up in a ‘fill-up’:

9.      When you call someone and miss them, they call back and miss you, and on and on:

10.   What the 10 Commandments were written on:

11.   Steel cutting tool that has a flame: acetylene torch

12.   Activity of the NWS on the Atlantic and Gulf coast:

13.   Last day before the summer solstice:

14.   What Sacagawea was a member of:

15.   Tiny adjustments to make something perfect:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

Planet Earth—Mayans

Found on You Tube         

Halley's Comet

Harper’s Index         

Number of the 48 wrestlers who participated in 1991’s WrestleMania who are now dead: 13

Joke-of-the-day

A kindergarten teacher handed out a coloring page to her class. On it was a picture of a duck holding an umbrella. The teacher told her class to color the duck in yellow and the umbrella green, however, Bobby, the class rebel, colored the duck in a bright fire truck red. After seeing this, the teacher asked him: "Bobby, how many times have you see a red duck?"
Young Bobby replied with "The same number of times I've seen a duck holding an umbrella."Rules of Thumb  
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guessThe more arctic an animal's habitat, the greater the danger in eating its liver.

Somewhat Useless Information    

Pablo Picasso was born Pablo Ruiz on October 25, 1881, the son of Don José Ruiz Blasco. In his early years, he signed his name Ruiz Blasco after his father, but later decided to take his mother's maiden name, Picasso, because he liked the unusual sound of it.

Picasso once said, "Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don’t start measuring her limbs."

Picasso's earliest and most famous "period" is known as the Blue Period and, aside from the obvious color reference, features works with moving depictions of acrobats, harlequins, prostitutes, beggars and artists.

After the Second World War, Picasso joined the French Communist party. His political beliefs, which evolved from his early experiences growing up in near poverty, opened him to sharp criticism, but he didn't budge in his commitment to the ideal of communism.

 Yeah, It Really Happened                 

SAN DIEGO - A California woman accused of stealing about 2,000 items from various libraries and selling them online pleaded guilty to felony burglary. San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Marnie McGee said Maria Nater, 45, pleaded guilty Tuesday and will likely receive a probation sentence at an April 25 hearing, KSWB-TV, San Diego, reported Thursday.
Authorities said an investigation was opened when workers at a Carlsbad library noticed significant book loss and a search of Nater's Vista home turned up thousands of missing library books and DVDs, worth an estimated $5,400, with some packaged to be shipped. Nater, who was arrested in September, admitted taking the books from libraries in Carlsbad, Oceanside and San Diego. She said she was selling the pilfered items on Amazon.com.

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

26-3/3

National Eating Disorders Awareness Week

National Secondhand Wardrobe Week

Telecommuter Appreciation Week

Peace Corps Week

Today Is                                                                      

International Polar Bear Day

Orthodox Green Monday--Orthodox Lent Begins

Dominican Republic: Independence Day 1844 from Haiti

Today’s Other Events                                                             

Before 1000CE

837 - 15th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1500’s

1557 - 1st Russian Embassy arrives in London

1600’s

1699 - Fearing an English take over of the Mississippi Valley, Frenchman Pierre le Moyne, Sieur d'Iberville is granted permission to establish a series of forts along the lower Mississippi River. He begins his voyage up the Mississippi.

1800’s

1813 - 1st federal vaccination legislation enacted

1854 - Composer Robert Schumann saved from suicide attempt in Rhine

1864 - Near Andersonville GA, rebels open a new POW camp "Camp Sumpter"

1883 - Oscar Hammerstein patents 1st cigar-rolling machine

1900’s

1906 - France & Britain agree to joint control of New Hebrides

1922 - Supreme Court unanimously upheld 19th amend woman's right to vote

1927 - For 2nd Sunday in a row golfers in SC arrested for violating Sabbath

1950 - General Chiang Kai-shek elected president of Nationalist China

1956 - Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"

1956 - Female suffrage in Egypt 1957 - Premiere of only prime-time network TV show beginning with an "X":  "Xavier Cugat Show" on NBC (until  X-Files)

1964 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over

1973 - American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota. It lasts until May 8, 1973

1974 - "People" magazine begins sales

1988 - Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating

1990 - Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)

1994 - 17th Winter Olympic games closes in Lillehammer, Norway

2000’s

2003 - Former Bosnian Serb leader Biljana Plavsic is sentenced by the U.N. tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, to 11 years in prison

2003 - Rowan Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury in the Anglican church

2004 - A bombing of a Superferry by Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines worst terrorist attack kills 116

2010 - Central Chile is hit with an 8.8 magnitude earthquake

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 80’s

Joanne Woodward, actress (3 Faces of Eve, Rachel) is 82

In their 70’s

Howard Hesseman, actor (Dr Johnny Fever -WKRP, Head of Class) is 72

[Navarre] Scott Momaday, US author (House Made of Dawn, Pulitzer 1969) is 78

Ralph Nader, consumer advocate (Unsafe at Any Speed) is 78

Van Williams, actor (Green Hornet, Tycoon) is 78

In their 50’s

Adam Baldwin, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard) is 50

In their 30’s

Chelsea Clinton, daughter of President Clinton is 32

Josh Groban, American singer is 31

Remembered for being born on this day

Walter Briggs, Sr., American entrepreneur and sports team owner in 1877

John Connally, (Gov-D/R-Texas), shot in Kennedy motorcade in 1917

William Demarest, actor (Uncle Charlie-My 3 Sons) in 1892

Hiram Bond Everest, American cofounder of The Vacuum Oil Company in 1831

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet (Hiawatha) in 1807

John Steinbeck, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962) in 1902

Elizabeth Taylor, London, actress (Cleopatra) violet eyes in 1932

Today’s Obits                                                           

Marius Barbeau, French Canadian folklorist dies at 86 in 1969

Pat Brady, American actor and singer (Roy Rodgers Show) dies at 57 in 1972

William F. Buckley, Jr., American conservative author and commentator dies at 83 in 2008

Lillian Gish, US actress (Birth of a Nation), dies at 96 in 1993

S I Hayakawa, (Sen-California, 1977-83), dies at 85 in 1992

Henry Cabot Lodge, (Sen-R)/diplomat, dies at 82 in 1985

Pat J O'Malley, actor (My Favorite Martian, Maude), dies at 83 in 1985

Ivan P Pavlov, Russian physiologist (reflexes, Nobel 1904), dies at 86 in 1936

Fred Rogers, American children's television actor dies at 75 in 2003

Louis Vuitton, French luggage maker dies at 71 in 1892

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.      A person with a crystal ball:

a.      fortune teller

2.      What M stands for in roman numerals:

a.      one thousand

3.      Plant with cones:

a.      pine tree

4.      Kind of party that might be held in Napa:

a.      wine tasting

5.      A purchase from American or Delta:

a.      airline ticket

6.      It’s located between and incisor and a pre-molar:

a.      canine tooth

7.      Company with slogan ‘where the rubber meets the road’:

a.      Firestone tires

8.      What’s filled up in a ‘fill-up’:

a.      gasoline tank

9.      When you call someone and miss them, they call back and miss you, and on and on:

a.      telephone tag

10.   What the 10 Commandments were written on:

a.      stone tablets

11.   Steel cutting tool that has a flame:

a.      acetylene torch

12.   Activity of the NWS on the Atlantic and Gulf coast:

a.      Hurricane tracking

13.   Last day before the summer solstice:

a.      June twentieth

14.   What Sacagawea was a member of:

a.      Shoshone Tribe

15.   Tiny adjustments to make something perfect:

a.      fine tuning

Wuzzle

• Jumbo jet
• Two under par
• Cut in two pieces

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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