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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1668 - England
takes control of Bombay India
1790 - Congress
passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1812 - Earthquake
destroys 90% of Caracas Venezuela; about 20,000 die
1830 - The
Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York
1878 - Sabi Game
Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens
1916 - Birdman
of Alcatraz receives solitary
1973 - A
Native American mass held in New York City at Saint John the Divine Cathedral.
Almost 4,000 people attend.
1982 - Ground-breaking
in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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Free Rambling Thoughts
A little cloudy, a little windy, but a good Sunday overall. Ready to have my taxes done this week. Such a pain to gather all the stuff. And Mad Men returns to TV…DVR is set.
I took a nice neighbor walk, with a light jacket. I am really getting ready for spring to begin. I was able to open my office window today, so now the office is all fresh and nice.
I read an interesting article today about how the military compensates civilians in Afghanistan for death and injuries caused by American troops. Under most circumstances they give the family $2000 for a death and $1000 for a serious injury. In the case of the slaughter recently, those families got $50,000 for a death in their family. While I realize that is a fortune for the average Afghanistan citizen, it still seems like a pittance for an avoidable death.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every
answer is the name of a famous person whose first and last names start with the
same letter and end in the same letter. For example, given "the poet who
wrote poems about imaginary gardens with real toads in them" and the
letters M and E, the answer would be "Marianne Moore."
("Marianne" and "Moore" both start with M and end in E.)
1.
P; o; a Spanish cubist:
2.
R; n; White House boy of the 1980’s:
3.
S; n; actress and political activist:
4.
A; n: actor who won Oscar for “Little Miss
Sunshine’:
5.
H; y; Leona’s husband in hotel management:
6.
A; e; Fred’s sister and partner is dance:
7.
M; y: Michael J. Fox’s character in ‘Back to
the Future’:
8.
B; n; Title character in Oscar Nominee ‘The
Curious Case of’:
Wuzzles What concept or phrase do these suggest?
Lifestyle Substance
Planet Earth—
Found on You Tube
Harper’s Index
Female scientists who say they had fewer children than they wanted because of their careers: 45
Joke-of-the-day
60 above - Floridians wear coats, gloves, and wooly hats. Chicago people sunbathe.
50 above - New Yorkers try to turn on the heat. Chicago people plant gardens
40 above - Italian cars won't start. Chicago people drive with the windows down.
32 above - Distilled water freezes. Lake Michigan's water gets thicker.
20 above - Californians shiver uncontrollably. Chicago people have the last cookout before it gets cold.
15 above - New York landlords finally turn up the heat. Chicago people throw on a sweatshirt.
0 degrees - Californians fly away to Mexico. Chicago people lick the flagpole and throw on a light jacket over the sweatshirt.
20 below - People in Miami cease to exist. Chicago people get out their winter coats.
40 below - Hollywood disintegrates. Chicago's Girl Scouts begin selling cookies door to door.
60 below - Polar bears begin to evacuate Antarctica. Chicago's Boy Scouts postpone "Winter Survival" classes until it gets cold enough.
80 below - Mount St. Helen's freezes. Chicago people rent some videos.
100 below - Santa Claus abandons the North Pole. Chicago people get frustrated when they can't thaw the keg.
297 below - Microbial life survives on dairy products. Illinois cows complain of farmers with cold hands.
460 below - ALL atomic motion stops. Chicago people start saying. . ."Cold 'nuff for ya??"
500 below - Hell freezes over. The Chicago Cubs win the World Series.
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
Texture and sheen look bigger; smooth and dull look smaller. This is why most of us should never appear in public in tight pink satin jeans.
Somewhat Useless
Information
In 1903, Mary Harris Jones organized the famous "March of the Mill Children" to demand an end of child labor. Mother Jones (as she came to be called) and several dozen children, some of them crippled by machinery in the textile mills, marched from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt's summer home on Long Island.
During the Russo-Japanese War, U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt offered to serve as mediator. He summoned representatives of the warring countries to Portsmouth, New Hampshire in the summer of 1905 to discuss their differences, and the war came to a close shortly thereafter. A year later, in recognition of his role as a peacemaker, Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the first American to receive the prestigious award.
In 1928, Herbert Hoover ran for President of the United States with the campaign slogan "A chicken in every pot and a car in every garage".
Calvin Coolidge refused to use the telephone while he was President. A man of few words, he once said, "If you don't say anything, you won't be called on to repeat it."
Yeah, It Really
Happened
WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. - A Florida man serving a 60-day jail sentence for misuse of 911 called the emergency line because his wife would not leave him alone to check his Facebook.
The Pasco County Sheriff's Office said Doyle Hardwick, who began serving his sentence Tuesday, called 911 on Sept. 24 and told the dispatcher his wife refused to stop sitting next to him and go to bed, the Tampa Bay Times, St. Petersburg, Fla., reported Thursday. Hardwick, 57, told the operator his wife told him she would go to bed if he let her drink some beers, but she refused to leave the seat next to him upon finishing her beverages. He said he was upset his wife would not let him "look at Facebook peacefully," the 911 transcript states. Deputies said both Hardwick and his wife smelled of alcohol when they arrived at their home. Hardwick pleaded no contest to misuse of 911 in February and an arrest warrant was issued when he failed to show up to serve his sentence. He turned himself in Tuesday and began serving his 60 days.
Calendar Information
…Happening This Week:
21-27
Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism
& Discrimination
25-31
Consider Christianity Week:
Passiontide (3/25-4/7)
National Conference on Family Literacy
Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week
Root Canal Awareness Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
National Cleaning Week
Today Is
Legal Assistants Day
Make Up Your Own Holiday Day
National Cherry Blossom Festival
Bangladesh: Independence Day: স্বাধীনতা দিবস Shwadhinata Dibôsh (1971 from
Pakistan)
Today’s Other Events
1100’s
1147 - Jewish
community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
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1400’s
1484 - William
Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables
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1600’s
1682:
Today, on the Mississippi River, la Salle first meets the Natchez. This will be
the first recorded meeting of Europeans with the Natchez. Fellow explorer Henri
de Tonti will be the first to meet them.
1700’s
1780 - 1st
British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1800’s
1804 - Congress
orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1845 - Patent
awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precursor of band aid
1872 - Thomas J
Martin patents fire extinguisher
1885 - Eastman
Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1886 - 1st
cremation in England 1895 - King Alfonso plants pine sapling in
Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
1900’s
1926 - The 1st
lip-reading tournament held in America
1934 - Driving
tests introduced in Britain
1945 - Kamikaze
attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1951 - USAF flag
approved
1953 - Dr
Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio[myelitis]
1955 - "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes
the #1 record in US
1958 - 30th
Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," is best picture
1977 - Focus on the
Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson
1997 - Thirty-nine
bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides in order to reach an alien
space craft which they believed was following the Comet Hale-Bopp,.
1999 - The
"Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems
around the world.
2000’s
2005 - The
Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in
opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around
200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
2006 - In
Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public
places comes into force.
2006 - The military
junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division,
as the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital.
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Leonard
Nimoy, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible) is 81
Sandra Day
O'Connor, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice is 82
In their 70’s
James
Caan, actor (Misery, Godfather) is 73
Barry
Newman, actor is 74
Nancy
Pelosi, (Rep-D-California) is 72
In their 60’s
Johnny
Crawford, actor (Mark-The Rifleman) is 66
Vicki
Lawrence, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's Family) is 63
Diana
Ross, [Earle], Detroit, (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany) is 68
Martin
Short, comedian is 62
Steven
Tyler, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun) is 64
Bob
Woodward, American journalist(Watergate, CIA crimes) is 69
In their 50’s
Marcus
Allen, NFL running back (LA Raiders, KC Chiefs, Heisman 1981) is 52
Leeza
Gibbons, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza) is 55
In their 40’s
Kenny
Chesney, American singer is 44
In their 30’s
Keira
Knightley, actor is 27
Remembered for being
born on this day
Nathaniel
Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant) in 1773
Duncan
Hines, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens) in 1880
Prince
Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1871
Betty
MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I) in 1908
Teddy
Pendergrass, singer (Turn Off the Lights) in 1950
George
Smith, London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script)) in 1840
William
Westmoreland, army general (Vietnam era) in 1914
Tennessee
Williams, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) in 1911
Today’s Obits
Paul
Baran, internet pioneer who helped create the technical underpinnings of
Arpanet, dies at 84 in 2011
Sarah
Bernhardt, [Henriette], actress (Qn Elizabeth), dies at 77 in 1923
Ludwig van
Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies of liver damage of alcohol at 56
in 1827
Geraldine
Ferraro, Congresswoman and VP nominee dies of cancer at 75 in 2011
Daniel
Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator dies at 76 in 2003
John
Winthrop, Puritan & 1st Governor (Mass), dies at about 61 in 1649
Answers
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
P; o; a Spanish cubist:
a.
Pablo Picasso
2.
R; n; White House boy of the 1980’s:
a.
Ron Reagan
3.
S; n; actress and political activist:
a.
Susan Sarandon
4.
A; n: actor who won Oscar for “Little Miss
Sunshine’:
a.
Alan Arkin
5.
H; y; Leona’s husband in hotel management:
a.
Harry Helmsley
6.
A; e; Fred’s sister and partner is dance:
a.
Adele Astaire
7.
M; y: Michael J. Fox’s character in ‘Back to
the Future’:
a.
Marty McFly
8.
B; n; Title character in Oscar Nominee ‘The
Curious Case of’:
a.
Benjamin Button
Wuzzle
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- Star Spangled Banner
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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