Mar 11

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1669 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000

1812 - Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews

1823 - 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt

1824 - US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affair, Thomas McKenney is appointed its first head

1918 - Save the Redwoods League founded

1941 - FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)

1986 - 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC

2009 - Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

What a good day…got some copies made for tonight’s discussion…then off for snacks..all done in less than an hour…cool. Since I’m the moderator tonight, this blog will be a little shorter but don’t despair, anything missing will return tomorrow. Yeah, I know, Daylight time starts for most of America…but not for us in AZ, except for the Navajo Nation. Many in AZ believe that if God had wanted us on Daylight time, he would not have made Southern AZ so hot in the summer. I’m not one, but there are many down there who do believe that…kinda explains a lot.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

From two given four-letter words, rearrange the letters of one of them to get a synonym of the other. For example, given "each" and "pain," the answer is "ache," because "ache" is an anagram of "each," and it means "pain."

1.      Peal, grin:

2.      Bare, dune:

3.      Gear, fury:

4.      Burn, arch:

5.      Oven, link:

6.      Felt, gone:

7.      Info, sewn:

8.      Rove, atop:

9.      Rapt, role:

10.   Whip, golf:

11.   Thin, clue:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

Planet Earth—Mayan

Found on You Tube         

Gerry Adams Documentary

Harper’s Index         

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Joke-of-the-day

A young man just had his first customer, which turned out to be a BIG BURLY truck driver. The young man walked up to the table where the truck driver was sitting and asked; “Can I take your order sir?” The truck driver replied, “sure kid I want three flat tires and two headlights.”
The young man was very puzzled and said, “I beg your pardon? “The truck driver said again, “Look kid; I want three flat tires and two headlights.”
The young man was still puzzled, but replied; “Yes sir, whatever.”
The young man then took the request to his boss who was the head cook.He told him about the truck driver's order, and that he wanted three flat tires and two headlights, “I think he's in the wrong place.”
The head cook said, “I know what he wants, he wants three flap jacks and two eggs sunny side up; the truck driver is just trying to be smart, I know him.”
The cook said to the waiter here, “Take this bowl of beans, give it to him and say this.
The truck driver said, “Listen kid, I didn't order this; I said I wanted three flat tires and two headlights.” The waiter replied, “Well sir, the head cook said while you wait for your parts, you can gas up!”

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

When you are working in the vicinity of high voltage, keep 1 foot of distance between you and the power source for each 1,000 volts. For instance, stay 13 feet away from a 13,000 volt power source.

Somewhat Useless Information    

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Yeah, It Really Happened                 

BOURNEMOUTH, England - A British man who took his step-daughter to a public pool said he was barred from swimming because his swim trunks were too long. Andy Toms, 45, said he took his stepdaughter, Annie, 11, and one of her friends to the pool at the Littledown leisure center in Bournemouth, England, and a lifeguard told him he couldn't swim because his trunks were too long, The Sun reported Thursday.
Toms said the lifeguard told him the trunks posed a hygiene risk."I've used that pool for years and worn my three-quarter length trunks before," he said. "They offered a pair from lost property but if the problem's hygiene it's not very hygienic to wear somebody's lost trunks."
A spokesman for the leisure center said officials are concerned about bacteria. "These are not classed as swimwear and may have been used for other things like running in a field, which could mean bacteria going into the pool," the spokesman said.

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

3-18

Iditarod Race

5-11

National Sleep Awareness Week

8-11

World Rattlesnake Round-up

8-14

Universal Women's Week

11-17

Girl Scout Week

Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign

National Agriculture Week

Today Is                                                                      

Check Your Batteries Day

Daylight Saving Time Begins

Dream 2012 Day

Girl Scout Sunday

Johnny Appleseed Day

World Plumbing Day

Worship of Tools Day

US: Canisteo Valley, Canisteo, NY: Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign Traditionally turkey vultures return to their roosting sites in and around the world-famous living sign, as mentioned in “Ripley’s Believe It or Not.” The sign spells out “Canisteo” using 250 trees on a ridge above Greenwood Street

US: Texas: South by Southwest (SXSW): Annual Film Festival and more

Today’s Other Events                                                             

Before 1000CE

537 - Goths lay siege to Rome

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1300’s

1302 - Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare

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1600’s

1665 - NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights

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1800’s

1845 - The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi

1856: The Nez Perce join Col. Cornelius for a fight against the Yakima

1864 - The Great Sheffield Flood: The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield

1867 - The first performance of Don Carlos written by Verdi

1892 - 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)

1897 - A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported

1900’s

1917 - British troops occupy Baghdad 1918 - Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia

1918 - First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu are observed at Fort Riley, Kansas

1927 - 1st golden gloves tournament

1948 - Reginald Weit became the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open

1953 - 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)

1958 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"

1959 - "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens

1963 - Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain

1968 - Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay"

1991 - Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1

1995 - Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US

2000’s

2003 - The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague

2004 - Terrorists explode simultaneous bombs on Madrid's rail network ripping through a commuter train and rocking three stations, killing 190

2006 - Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile

2011 - An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. 

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 80’s

Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV) is 81

In their 70’s

Sam Donaldson, , ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time) is 78

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In their 40’s

Jesse Jackson, Jr., American politician is 47

Johnny Knoxville, TV personality is 41

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Remembered for being born on this day

Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership) in 1926

Malcolm Campbell, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min (8 km/min) in 1885

J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer in 1915

Ezra Jack Keats, children's literature author (The Snowy Day) in 1916

John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice in 1785

Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain in 1725

Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery) in 1819

Lawrence Welk, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show) in 1903

Today’s Obits                                                           

Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 67 in 1996

Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason), dies at 80 in 1970

[Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), dies at 74 in 1987

Betty Hutton, American actress and singer dies at 86 in 2007

Merlin Olsen, American football player / Actor of mesothelioma dies at 70 in 2010

Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz), dies at 84 in 1857

Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, dies of heart attack at 63 in 1874

Revd Benjamin Waugh, activist, National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children at 69 in 1908

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

First equation: 8 - 7 = 12 - 3 - 4 - 4Second equation: 8 - 35 - 2 = 6 - 1 - 34

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.      Peal, grin:

a.      ring

2.      Bare, dune:

a.      nude

3.      Gear, fury:

a.      rage

4.      Burn, arch:

a.      char

5.      Oven, link:

a.      kiln

6.      Felt, gone:

a.      left

7.      Info, sewn:

a.      news

8.      Rove, atop:

a.      over

9.      Rapt, role:

a.      part

10.   Whip, golf:

a.      flog

11.   Thin, clue:

a.      hint

Wuzzle

• Backfield in motion
• Parodies
• Crosswise

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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