March 1

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1790 - 1st US census authorized

1831 - According to a Georgia law, today is the deadline for all whites to be out of CHEROKEE lands deadline.

1854 - SS City of Glasgow leaves Liverpool harbor & is never seen again

1869 - Postage stamps showing scenes are issued for 1st time

1872 - Yellowstone becomes world's 1st national park

1873 - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.

1936 - The Hoover Dam is completed

1937 - 1st permanent automobile license plates issued (Ct)

1942 - Baseball decides that players in military can't play when on furlough

1949 - Joe Louis retires as heavyweight boxing champ

1978 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin was stolen from a Swiss cemetery

1981 - Bobby Sands, IRA member, begins 65-day hunger strike (he dies)

1982 - Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data

2006 - English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station

♪Happy Birthday To: ♪                     

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

Had a great lunch today…and with presents too. Very nice. Got a ticket to the big bagpipe concert, a crazy sucker with a scorpion inside—for our great Governor’s Book, and a bottle of single malt scotch from Islay—Laphroaig—Leapfrog, for those us who can’t say it. It is my favorite scotch and is very Peat-y. Whee.

Running errands was easy this afternoon. Nice weather, not a lot of shoppers, and I was able to pick up everything I was looking for. That doesn’t happen very often in our small town. Some non-essentials usually take several trips to several stores.

I am so confused by the current banking system…the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing with my money. The check that got stuck in the machine posted on my account today. That is great. The branch manager and the help line told me two different stories yesterday. Manager said I’d get a Legal Photostat of the check in 8-10 days that I could then deposit at the inside bank. The help line said the check would come in 5-6 days. Both said that since it didn’t post on the day it happened, there was NO WAY it would be posted. I actually got on line today, to see if my CSRP posted on the 29^th. It didn’t, but the missing AT&T check did post…and I could see a picture of it…a little torn up but posted none the less. What a mess. Machines win over Humans….again. Scary that the people in the bank don’t know what the machines can do.

Remember a few months ago when the grandfather forced his grandkids to hike out of the Grand Canyon. It was Nationwide news. Today he was found guilty of 3 of the 6 Child Abuse charges and faces up to a year in prison. AZ can do some things right.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

Every answer is a familiar phrase in the form of ____ and ____. Each clue is a sentence with two blanks. Fill in the blanks with two words that complete the phrase. But here's the twist: The words that complete the sentence are homophones of the words in the answer phrase.

For example: When the vegetable store received a fresh supply of ____, excited customers lined up in ____. The answer would be "peas" and "queues," as in "a fresh supply of peas; the customers lined up in queues," with "P's and Q's" being a familiar phrase.

1.      It has been difficult to involve the ___ in Northern Iraq but we must find the ___:

2.      The warship had a ___ of 20,000 tons as it was put out to ___:

3.      In London’s ___Park we saw a religious discussion between a Muslim and a ___:

4.      The sharp jolt in the jousting contest left one of the ___ in a ___:

5.      In ancient Mongolia tales in poetry and ___ entertained the royal ___:

6.      At the seafood restaurant composer Lawrence ___ ordered filet of ___: 

7.      If your land line telephone isn’t working, you can still contact me ___ ___.

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

Planet Earth—Mayan

Found on You Tube         

 Water-Drawing Festival

Harper’s Index         

Number of the 100 highest paid American CEO’s who earned more that their employers paid in taxes last year: 28

Joke-of-the-dayThe photographer for a national magazine was assigned to get photos of an enormous forest fire. Smoke at the scene was too thick to get any good shots, so he frantically called his home office to hire a plane.
"It will be waiting for you at the airport!" he was assured by his editor.
As soon as he got to the small, rural airport, sure enough, a plane was warming up near the runway. He jumped in with his equipment and yelled, "Let's go! Let's go!" The pilot swung the plane into the wind and soon they were in the air.
"Fly over the north side of the fire," said the photographer, "and make three or four low level passes."
"Why?" asked the pilot.
"Because I'm going to take pictures! I'm a photographer, and photographers take pictures!" said the photographer with great exasperation and impatience.
After a long pause the pilot said, "You mean you're not the instructor?"

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

If a headhunter mentions the names of other people he's placing, drop him immediately. The next time it could be your name he drops in a conversation - perhaps to your boss.

Somewhat Useless Information    

Bacteria are remarkably adaptable to diverse environmental conditions: they are found in the bodies of all living organisms and on all parts of the earth; in land terrains and ocean depths, in arctic ice and glaciers, in hot springs, and even in the stratosphere.In one linear centimeter of your lower colon lives and works more bacteria than the number of people who have been born in the history of the world.

Yeah, It Really Happened                 

OSHKOSH, Wis. - Authorities in Wisconsin said participants in an annual ice fishing contest were left searching for rides home when 36 parked vehicles fell through the ice. Organizers of the Battle on the Bago, an annual ice fishing competition on Lake Winnebago, said participants were warned against parking on the ice, but some did it anyway because they could not find anywhere else to leave their vehicles Saturday, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Monday.
"We had some cars that got wet," a Winnebago County sheriff's department dispatcher said. "We had cars parked on the ice like it was a parking lot. Usually they do park out on the ice; that's not unusual. It's just that they parked too close together. It was too much for the ice conditions this year."
The dispatcher said the water was shallow where the cars fell through and they were removed with two trucks. The sheriff's department said four vehicles were submerged more than half way while 18 went partially under the water and 14 others only sank to the tops of their wheels.

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

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National Cheerleading Week

National Ghostwriters Week

National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week

Universal Human Beings Week

Today Is                                                                      

National Pig Day

Peanut Butter Lover's Day

Asiatic Fleet Memorial Day

National Horse Protection Day

Peace Corps Day--1961

Plan a Solo Vacation Day

Refired, Not Retired Day

Witch Hysteria Day

World Book Day World

Compliment Day

Bosnia/Herzegovina:  Independence Day (1992 from SFR Yugoslavia)
Iceland: Beer Day (since full end to prohibition—1908-1965)

Japan: Omizutori ( Water-Drawing Festival)

US

Nebraska: Admission Day (37^th state in 1837)

Ohio: Admission Day (17^th state in 1083)

Vermont: Town Meeting Day ()

Wales: St. David's Day (Dydd Gŵyl Dewi): Patron Saint of Wales

Today’s Other Events                                                             

Before 1000CE

743 - Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited

1600’s

1628 - Writs are issued in February by Charles I of England mandating that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date

1700’s

1780 - Pennsylvania is 1st American state to abolish slavery (for new-borns only)

1781 - Continental Congress adopts Articles of Confederation

1800’s

1815 - Sunday observance in Netherlands regulated by law

1845 - President Tyler signs a resolution annexing the Republic of Texas

1851 - Governor McDougal, of California, will write to the President stating there are over 100,000 hostile Indians in California. He will inform the President that an uprising is going on. This information is false, and the Governor never specifies who's revolting or where the uprising are located. He requests permission to call out the militia as U.S. troops.

1864 - Rebecca Lee (US) becomes 1st black woman to receive a medical degree

1890 - 1st US edition of Sherlock Holmes (Study in Scarlet) published

1900’s

1913 - 1st state law requiring bonding of officers & state employees, ND

1913 - Federal income tax takes effect (16th amendment)

1917 - 1st federal land bank chartered

1921 - Rwanda ceded to England

1932 - Charles Lindbergh Jr (20 months), kidnapped in NJ; found dead May 12

1933 - Bank holidays declared in 6 states, to prevent run on banks

1940 - Richard Wright's novel "Native Son" is published

1941 - "Captain America" appears in a comic book

1941 - 1st US commercial FM radio station goes on the air, Nashville, TN

1943 - Jewish old age home for disabled in Amsterdam raided

1945 - FDR announces success of Yalta Conference

1946 - British government takes control of Bank of England, after 252 years

1953 - Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses. He dies four days later

1962 - K-Mart opens 1969 - After 88 weeks Sgt Pepper drops off the charts

1970 - White government of Rhodesia declares independence from Britain

1972 - Wilt Chamberlain is 1st NBA player to score 30,000 points

1980 - Snow falls in Florida

2000’s

2004 - Terry Nichols is convicted of state murder charges and being an accomplice to Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.

2007 - Tornadoes swarm across the southern United States, killing at least 20; eight of the deaths were at a high school in Enterprise, Alabama

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 90’s

Richard Wilbur, 2nd US Poet Laureate (Ceremony, Walking to Sleep) is 91

In their 80’s

Harry Belafonte, Harlem NYC, calypso singer (Buck & the Preacher) is 85

Robert Clary, Paris France, actor (LeBeau-Hogan's Heroes ) is 86

Sonny James, singer (Young Love, Running Bear ) is 83

In their 70’s

Robert Conrad, [Conrad R Falk], Chicago, actor (Wild Wild West) is 77

In their 60’s

Dirk Benedict, Helena Mont, actor (A-Team, Battlestar Galactica) is 68

Roger Daltrey, English rocker/actor/producer  (The Who-Tommy) is 68

Alan Thicke, Ontario, actor/host (Thicke of the Night, Growing Pains) is 65

In their 50’s

Catherine Bach, actor is 58

Timothy Daly, actor is  56

Ron Howard, actor, director is 58

In their 40’s

George Eads, actor is  45

Under 30 years old

Justin Bieber, singer is  18

Remembered for being born on this day

Harry Caray, baseball announcer (Chicago Cubs) in 1920

Frederic Chopin, Poland, composer/pianist (Concert in F Minor) in 1810

William Cushing, 2nd Chief Justice of the United States in 1732

Paul Hartman, SF California, actor (Bert-Petticoat Junction) in 1904

David Niven, London UK, actor (Casino Royale, The Pink Panther) in 1910

John Pell, English mathematician in 1610

Dinah Shore, singer ( See the USA in a Chevrolet) in 1917

Today’s Obits                                                           

Jackie Coogan, actor (Uncle Fester-Addams Family), dies of cardiac arrest at 69 in 1984

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.      It has been difficult to involve the ___ in Northern Iraq but we must find the ___:

a.      curds and whey

2.      The warship had a ___ of 20,000 tons as it was put out to ___:

a.      wait and see

3.      In London’s ___Park we saw a religious discussion between a Muslim and a ___:

a.      Hide and Seek

4.      The sharp jolt in the jousting contest left one of the ___ in a ___:

a.      nights and days

5.      In ancient Mongolia tales in poetry and ___ entertained the royal ___:

a.      pros and cons

6.      At the seafood restaurant composer Lawrence ___ ordered filet of ___:  

a.      Heart and Soul

7.      If your land line telephone isn’t working, you can still contact me ___ ___.

a.      Buy and sell

Wuzzle

• Season ticket
• Five degrees below zero
• Head over heels in love

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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