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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1738 - English
parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
1796 - Bethel
African Methodist Church of Phila is 1st US-African church
1845 - Mexico
drops diplomatic relations with US
1920 - Actor
Douglas Fairbanks marries actress Mary Pickford
1939 - Spanish Civil
War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
1960 - Pope
John XXIII raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African & 1st Filipino cardinal
1972 - Wilt
Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game1990 - Michael
Jordan scores 69 points, 4th time he scores 60 pts in a game
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Free Rambling Thoughts
Lots
of errands today…and everything accomplished. Good Day. Tomorrow is my allergist appointment and my
tax appointment…hope it all goes as well as today.
There
are a group of computer geeks at Coconino High who are members of the CocoNuts.
They have been around for quite a few years. Now they are getting statewide and
national attention. Very cool.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every
answer is a familiar phrase in the form "_____ in _____," in which
the first and last words given as clues are rhymes. For example, given
"hide in spots," the answer would be "tied in knots."
1.
Plum in brandy:
2.
Met in Goshen:
3.
Sung in Greek:
4.
Pray in Dutch:
5.
Guest in Greece:
6.
Spend in seed:
7.
Stay in port:
8.
Booth in vending:
9.
Britain in zone:
10.
Den in back:
11.
Rare in kind:
12.
Cunning in space:
13.
Grady in skating:
14.
Written in main light: 3 rhyming words
Wuzzles What concept or phrase do these suggest?
Lifestyle Substance
Planet Earth—
Found on You Tube
Dalai Lama Documentary 'The Teachings'
Harper’s Index
Date on which Joe Walsh (R-IL) said Washington can’t put ‘one more dollare of debt upon the backs of my kids: 7/13/2011Amount that Walsh currently owes in back child support: $98,422
Joke-of-the-day
John
received a free ticket to the Super Bowl. Unfortunately. John's seat was in the
last row in the corner of the stadium. He was closer to the Goodyear Blimp than
the stadium. He noticed an empty seat 10 rows up from the 50-yard line. He
decides to make his way to the empty seat. As he sits down he asks the man next
to him if anyone is sitting there. The man told him no, it was empty. John is
very excited to have a seat like this at a Super Bowl and asks why in the world
no one is using it? The man replied that it was his wife's seat but she passed
away. He said this was the first Super Bowl that they have not attended
together since they were married in 1968. John said that it was really sad and
asked if he couldn't find someone, a relative or a close friend to take the
seat?
"No" replied the man, "They're
at her funeral!"
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
As a rule, clients will recognize the obvious much sooner than professionals.
Somewhat Useless
Information
The Velvet Underground featuring Nico was produced by Andy Warhol, who also designed the famous "banana" album cover. The original cover actually featured a removable banana sticker, along with the instructions, "Peel slowly and see." (Curious viewers would see a flesh-colored banana, it turned out.)
The Banana Splits were originally going to be called The Banana Bunch. The last-minute title change for the Hanna-Barbera program meant that Kellogg, the show's sponsor, had to scrap several thousand boxes of cereal with the wrong name.Charles Nelson Reilly was a highly respected acting teacher and director. He also spent much of the 1970s dressed as a giant banana in a series of commercials for the Bic Banana "ink crayon."
The most common banana eaten in the United States is the Cavendish variety. A bunch of bananas is properly called a "hand," and each individual fruit is a "finger."The Chiquita Banana jingle was composed by the BBDO advertising agency in 1944. When the tune was being recorded, there were no maracas handy in the studio, so a box of paperclips was shaken in rhythm instead.
The Berkeley Barb caused some hubbub in March 1967 when it made a joking reference to smoking banana peels as a way to get high. The wire services picked up the story; soon the mainstream press was reporting this new legal high, and hippies were flocking to fruit markets in search of "mellow yellow."
Yeah, It Really
Happened
Cleveland
, OH-Talk about illuminating the past. In preparation for the 100th anniversary
of an industrial park in the Cleveland area next year, GE Lighting dug up a
time capsule at one of Nela Park's original buildings. The capsule itself
contained some artifacts like a local paper and photographs, according to
Cleveland.com. But the real find was buried in sand above the capsule: Five
incandescent light bulbs, at least one of which still worked when plugged
in.
GE spokesman David Schuellerman said via email the
company thought the bulbs were buried inside the capsule, making the fact that
any of them survived even more remarkable. One bulb was full of water and the
other had condensation on the inside, but the other three "appeared in working
order," he said. One bulb plugged in at the site of the time capsule
ceremony did, in fact, work. Schuellerman said a repeat test was done later in
a lab on that bulb and it worked a second time.
"We believe the bulb that we successfully tested was a 40-watt
tungsten filament incandescent bulb," he said. Both tungsten and carbon
filament bulbs were buried with the time capsule. Schuellerman said the company
might test the other two bulbs once it determined what kind they were.
For
now, the bulbs are in a Nela Park lab. "We’re cleaning and examining them,
using etchings on the glass and written records to determine 1912 performance
metrics such as light output," Schuellerman said. Eventually, the bulbs
will be put on display at the GE Lighting Institute at Nela Park.
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
Barnum & Bailey Day
Something On A Stick Day
Weed Appreciation Day
Czech Republic: Teachers' Day
Today’s Other Events
Before 1000CE
845 - Paris
is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge
ransom in exchange for leaving
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1700’s
1794 - Louvre
opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1797 - Nathaniel
Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
1800’s
1804 - Ohio
passed law restricting movement of Blacks,
1866 - 1st
ambulance goes into service
1885 - US
Salvation Army officially organized
1900’s
1910 - 1st
seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
1930 - Constantinople
& Angora changes names to Istanbul & Ankara
1935 - Goddard
uses gyroscopes to control a rocket
1944 - Astrid
Lindgren sprains ankle & begins writing Pippi Longstocking
1946 - Cold
War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report,
outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power
1959 - 11
days after Tibet uprising, China dissolves Tibet's government & installs Panchen Lama
1957 - A
court rules today that Montana State Courts "are without jurisdiction to
try an Indian for the crime of larceny committed somewhere within the external
boundaries of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, although conceivably the
offense could have been committed within the town of Browning, Montana located
on the reservation."
1979 - Major nuclear
accident at 3 Mile Island, Middletown, Pa (no deaths)
1990 - President
Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold Medal
2000’s
2003 - In
a "friendly fire" incident, two A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft
from the United States Idaho Air National Guard's 190th Fighter Squadron attack
British tanks participating in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, killing British
soldier Matty Hull.
2005 - The
2005 Sumatran earthquake rocks Indonesia, and at magnitude 8.7 is the second
strongest earthquake since 1960 2006 - At least 1 million union
members, students and unemployed take to the streets in France in protest at
the government's proposed First Employment Contract law
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Zbigniew
Brzezinski, Warsaw, national security advisor (Carter) is 84
In their 70’s
Charlie
McCoy, harmonica player (Hee Haw) is 71
In their 60’s
John
Evans, (Aka Evan) original rock drummer (Jethro Tull) is 64
Conchata
Ferrell, actress (Deadly Hero, Susan-LA Law, Two and a Half Men)
is 69
Rick
Barry, ABA/NBA forward (NY Nets, Golden State Warriors) is 68
Ken
Howard, American actor (Ken-White Shadow, Dynasty, 1776) is 68
In their 50’s
Reba
McEntire, country singer (Can't Even Get the Blues) is 57
In their 40’s
Salt
(Cheryl James), rocker (Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang) is 46
Vince
Vaughn, American actor (Swingers, Wedding Crashers) is 42
In their 30’s
Kate
Gosselin, TV reality shows is 37
Julia
Stiles, actress (Bourne series, Save the Last Dance) is 31
Remembered for being
born on this day
Fra
Bartolomeo, monk, Florentine Renaissance painter in 1472
Thomas
Clarkson, English abolitionist (Negro Emancipation) in 1760
Frank
Lovejoy, actor (Man Against Crime, Meet McGraw) in 1914
Edmund
Sixtus Muskie, (Sen-D-Me)/US Sec of State (1980) in 1914
Henry
Schoolcraft, American geographer and geologist in 1793
Raphael,
Urbino Italy, painter (School of Athens) om 1483
Today’s Obits
Dwight D
Eisenhower, 34th pres/gen (WW 2), dies in Washington at 78 in 1969
Edith
Fowke, folklorist, dies at 82 in 1996
Emmett
Kelly, circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80 in 1979
Sergei
Vasilievitch Rachmaninov, Russian composer/pianist, dies of melanoma at 69 in
1943
James
Francis Thorpe, Saux-Fox decathlete (Olympic-gold-12), dies of heart failure at
64 in 1953
Peter
Ustinov, British actor dies at 82 in 2004
Caspar
Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense dies at 89 in 2006
Answers
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Plum in brandy:
a.
come in handy
2.
Met in Goshen:
a.
set in motion
3.
Sung in Greek:
a.
tongue in cheek
4.
Pray in Dutch:
a.
stay in touch
5.
Guest in Greece:
a.
Rest in Peace
6.
Spend in seed:
a.
friend in need
7.
Stay in port:
a.
day in court
8.
Booth in vending:
a.
truth in lending
9.
Britain in zone:
a.
written in stone
10.
Den in back:
a.
Men in Black
11.
Rare in kind:
a.
bare in mind
12.
Cunning in space:
a.
running is place
13.
Grady in skating:
a.
lady in
waiting
14.
Written in main light:
a.
hidden in plain sight
Wuzzle
Outnumbers
Cottage by
the sea
Running around
in circles
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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