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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1746 - Bonnie
Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness
1819 - The
United States starts its Indian "civilization" program.
1842 - 1st
US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)
1845 - 1st
time, US Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto
1863 - 1st
US wartime military conscription bill enacted
1863 - Idaho
Territory forms
1885 - 1st US state
(California) establishes a permanent forest commission
1887 - Anne Sullivan
begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
1901 - Congress
creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce
1905 - US Forest
Service forms
1931 - "Star
Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem
1933 - Mount
Rushmore dedicated
1971 - South African
Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles
1972 - Sculpted
figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed
at Stone Mountain Georgia
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Birthday To: ♪
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Rambling Thoughts
A chilly windy day. Ran a few errands, but headed home as quickly as possible. I hate wind; and cold-er wind is no fun. The weatherman says that there will be lots of cold nights for a few days. It will warm up a little during the day. Sure hope so. Sure glad I’m not living in tornado alley. What devastation.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
The
answer to each clue is a four-letter word which can be found in consecutive
letters inside the clue. For example, if I said "a sail boat's part",
you would say "spar", because a sail boat's part is a spar, and it's
concealed in consecutive letters inside "sail boat's" parts.
1.
Create a rip:
2.
Emotions that enemies may harbor:
3.
Close a letter with wax:
4.
Top level of the barn:
5.
Edgar Alan Poe, to name one:
6.
Utensil for kitchen use:
7.
State between Ohio Washington:
8.
Having lots of tufts:
9.
They espy things:
10.
Where a Siamese came from:
11.
Insane Roman Emperor:
Wuzzles
What concept or phrase do these suggest?
Lifestyle Substance
Planet Earth—Mayan
Found on You Tube
1931 Gandhi Speech
Harper’s Index
Percentage of USPS expenses that go to labor costs: 89Of FedEx and UPS expenses: 41, 48
Joke-of-the-day
A brilliant young boy was applying for a job with the railways. The interviewer asked him: "Do you know how to use the equipment?"
"Yes", the boy replied.
"Then what would you do if you realized that 2 trains, one from this station and one from the next were going to crash because they were on the same track?"
The young applicant thought and replied "I'd press the button to change the points without hesitation."
"What if the button was frozen and wouldn't work?"
"I'd run outside and pull the lever to change the points manually"
"And if the lever was broken?"
"I'd get on the phone to the next station and tell them to change the points," he replied.
"And if the phone was broken and needed an electrician to fix it?"
The boy thought about that one. "I'd run into town and get my uncle"
"Is your uncle an electrician?"
"No, but he's never seen a train crash before!"
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
Cook fish ten minutes per inch of thickness.
Somewhat Useless Information
The design of the corkscrew may have derived from the gun worm, a 17th century device that was used to remove unspent charges from a musket's barrel in a similar fashion.German Carl Wienke invented a single lever waiter's type corkscrew, which is still in common use today. The corkscrew was nicknamed the "Waiter's Friend" or "Butler's Friend," because it could easily remove and easily replace a cork.The virtual corkscrew museum at www.corkscrewmuseum.com boasts 33 "rooms" with 3,601 pages and 416 photos in the museum.On April 2000, Abraham Russel's January 21, 1862 American Patent No. 34,216 corkscrew sold on eBay for $13,550.
In August 2006, the University of California, Berkeley displayed a 1,500-item corkscrew collection at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Kroeber Hall, on the UC campus.In the movie True Romance, Christian Slater opens a bottle of wine with a Swiss Army knife corkscrew. It gets left on the floor and is later used as a weapon by Patricia Arquette.
Yeah, It Really Happened
NANTES, France — A Frenchman took Google to court Thursday over a photo published online by its Street View application showing him urinating in his front yard which he believes has made him the laughing stock of his village in rural northwest France.The man, who is aged around 50 and lives in a village of some 3,000 people in the Maine-et-Loire region, is demanding the removal of the photo, in which locals have recognized him despite his face being blurred out.He also wants about $13,300 in damages."Everyone has the right to a degree of secrecy," his lawyer, Jean-Noel Bouillard, told Reuters. "In this particular case, it's more amusing than serious. But if he'd been caught kissing a woman other than his wife, he would have had the same issue."Google's Street View, covering some 30 countries and available in France since 2008, enables users of Google Maps to also view photos of streets taken by its camera cars, which have cameras hoisted on frames on their roofs.The man thought he was hidden from view by his closed gate as he relieved himself in November 2010. But Google's lens caught him from above his gate as it passed by. Bouillard did not explain why the man chose to urinate outside.Google's lawyer in the case, named by local daily Ouest France as Christophe Bigot, was not immediately reachable, but the newspaper said he was pleading that the case should be declared null and void.The court, in the nearby city of Angers, is due to give its verdict on March 15.
Calendar
Information
…Happening This Week:
1-7
National Cheerleading Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
Universal Human Beings Week
2-4
Festival of Owls Week
3-18
Iditarod Race
Today Is
International Sister Cities Day
I Want You To Be Happy Day
National Anthem Day
Peach Blossom Day
What If Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs? Day
Bulgaria: Liberation Day (from Ottoman Rule)
Japan: Hinamatsuri (Japanese Doll Festival)
Malawi: Martyrs Day
UK and Ireland: World Book Day
Malawi: Martyrs Day
UK and Ireland: World Book Day
US: Florida: Admission Day (27th state in 1845)
Today’s Other Events
1600’s
1634 - 1st tavern in
Boston opens (Samuel Cole)
1700’s
1776 - US
commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas
1791 - 1st
internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1791 - Congress
establishes US Mint 1794 - Richard Allen founded AME Church
1800’s
1812 - US
passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake victims)
1813 - Office
of surgeon general of the US army forms
1817 - Mississippi
Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
1820 - Missouri
Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri
1837 - Congress
increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
1847 - Post
Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps
1849 - Home Dept
(Interior Dept), forms
1849 - Minnesota
Territory is organizes
1851 - Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)
1851 - Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)
1863 - Abraham
Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences
1863 - Free city
delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired
1865 - Bureau
of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established
1871 - Congress
establishes the civil service system
1873 - Censorship:
The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any
"obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail
1877 - Rutherford B
Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president
1879 - US Geological
Survey director authorized in Dept of the Interior
1885 - Congress
passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed government)
1891 - Congress
creates US Courts of Appeal
1891 - Office of
Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created
1900’s
1900 - US Steel
Corporation organizes
1910 - Rockefeller
Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his
businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist
1915 - Natl Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created
1926 - International
Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)
1939 - In Mumbai,
Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India
1945 - US &
Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
1955 - Elvis Presley
made his 1st TV appearance
1959 - SF Giant's
rename their stadium Candlestick Park
1966 - Buffalo
Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)
1988 - The
Alaska Native Claims Act is amended.
1992 - Pres Bush
apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to
2000’s
2005 - Steve Fossett
becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any
stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67
hours and 2 minutes.
Today’s Birthdays
In their 70’s
Lee Radziwell
Ross, princess (Jackie O's sister) is 79
In their 60’s
Ed
Marinaro, actor is 62
In their 50’s
Jackie
Joyner-Kersee, heptathele (Olympic-gold-88, 92) is 50
Herschel
Walker, WFL/NFL running back (NJ Generals, Dallas Cowboys) is 52
In their 40’s
Tyler
Florence, chef, Food Network personality, & cookbook author is 41
In their 30’s
Jessica
Biel, actor is 30
David
Faustino, actor (Bud—Married with Children) will be 38
Remembered for being
born on this day
Alexander
Graham Bell, Scotland, inventor (telephone) in 1847
Georg
Cantor, German mathematician (discover transfinite numbers) in 1845
Jonas
Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation in 1805
Don
Gibson, singer/writer (I can't Stop Loving You, Oh Lonesome Me) in
1928
Jean
Harlow, [Harlean Carpentier], KS, 30s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8) in 1911
Today’s Obits
Lou
Costello, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies of heart attack at 52 in 1959
Sandy
Dennis, actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54 in 1992
Fred
Friendly, American broadcast executive dies at 83 in 1998
Danny
Kaye, comedian (Danny Kaye Show), dies at 74 in 1987
William
Frawley, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at
89 in 1966
Carlos
Montoya, flamenco guitarist, dies at 88
in 1993
Alice
Pearce, comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies of
ovarian cancer at 52 in 1966
Albert
Sabin, physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86 in 1993
Saladin
[Salah ad-Din صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب]) Yusuf,
sultan of Egypt/Syria, dies of fever at 52 in 1191
William P.
Sprague, American politician from Ohio dies at 72 in 1899
Answers
Brain Game
answer tomorrow
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Create a rip:
a.
tear
2.
Emotions that enemies may harbor:
a.
hate
3.
Close a letter with wax:
a.
seal
4.
Top level of the barn:
a.
loft
5.
Edgar Alan Poe, to name one:
a.
poet
6.
Utensil for kitchen use: fork
7.
State between Ohio Washington:
a.
Iowa
8.
Having lots of tufts:
a.
soft
9.
They espy things:
a.
eyes
10.
Where a Siamese came from:
a.
Siam
11.
Insane Roman Emperor:
a.
Nero
Wuzzle
- Growing Pains
- Double Cross
- Three of Clubs
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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