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Almanac: Week: 10 \ Day: 066
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 50°\L 19° Average Sky
Cover: 0%
Wind
ave: 11mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave. High: 48° Record High: 66°
(1972) Ave. Low: 22° Record Low:
-1° (1945)
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Observances
Today:
Day of Prayer
Dress in Blue Day-Colon Cancer
National Crown Roast of Pork Day
National Day of Unplugging World
Observances This
Week:
1-7
…Celebrate Your Name
Week
…National
Cheerleading Week
…National Consumer
Protection Week
…National Pet Sitters
Week
…National Procrastination Week
…National
Ghostwriters Week
…National Maple Syrup
Days
…National Schools
Social Work Week
…National Severe Storm
Preparedness Week
…National Sleep Awareness Week
…National Words Matter Week
…Professional Pet Sitters Week
…Read an E-Book Week
…Return The Borrowed Books
Week
…Save Your Vision Week
…Telecommuter Appreciation
Week
…Women in Construction Week
5-8
…Crufts (World’s Largest Dog Show)
…National Money Show
…Festival of Owls Week
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1644 - Massachusetts establishes 1st two-chamber
legislature in colonies
1778 - Capt James Cook 1st sights Oregon
coast, at Yaquina Bay
1801 - Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter
registration law
1843 - 1st Catholic governor in US, Edward Kavanagh
of Maine, takes office
1847 - US General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1850 - Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of
1850
1854 - Charles Miller patents 1st US sewing machine
to stitch buttonholes
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1887 - North Carolina State University is
founded
1908 - Cincinnati Mayor Mark Breith stood before
city council & announces that, "women are not physically fit to
operate automobiles"
1911 - US sent 20,000 troops to Mexican border
1917 - 1st jazz record released on a 78 by Original
Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company ("Dixie Jazz
Band One Step," one side "Livery Stable Blues" other)
1922 - Tucson city
firemen would be outfitted in new uniforms of olive drab with black ties and
brass buttons bearing the letter F. Except for their badges, the firemen would
pay for the uniforms themselves
1926 - 1st transatlantic telephone call (London-NY)
1933 - Game of "Monopoly" invented
1939 - Glamour magazine begins publishing
1942 - 1st cadets graduated from flying school at
Tuskegee
1955 - Mary Martin as "Peter Pan"
televised
1965 - Alabama state troopers & 600 black protestors
clash in Selma
1981 - 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is
stabbed to death
1983 - TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable
TV
1985 - IBM-PC DOS Version 3.1 (update) released
1995 - NY becomes 38th state to have the death
penalty
1996 - 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by
Hubble Space Telescope)
Today’s World
Events through History
1524 - Giovanni da
Verrazano, sailing for France, anchors near Wilmington, North Carolina, in the
"Dauphine"
1530 - King Henry VIII's divorce request is
denied by the Pope. Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head
of England's church
1799 - The Royal Institution of Great Britain
founded; dedicated to scientific research and education
1876 - Battle at Gura: Ethiopian emperor Yohannes
beats Egyptians
1906 - Finnish Senate accepts universal suffrage,
except for poor
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the
South Pole
1939 - Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st
record "Auld Lang Syne"
1941 - 50,000 British soldiers land in Greece
1941 - British troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1959 - 1st aviator to fly a million miles (1.61 M
km) in a jet (MC Garlow)
1974 - 1st general strike in Ethiopia
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Beautiful Friday. Can’t complain. Great weather here in our little
mountain town.
Had to run some errands and get some ice melt. The beautiful
Colorado Blue Spruce was really weighed down during the last storm. While the
guys were good about clearing the sidewalks, after a day of nice weather the
snow fell off the tree and onto my sidewalk. Being lazy I didn’t clear it right
away and it froze solid into ice. It is in the shade so it would have been
weeks before it melted naturally. The ice melt did the job and the sidewalk is
clear again.
I also did 4 loads of laundry. Everything folded and back where it
belongs. If anything exciting happens this weekend, I’ll have clean clothes and
be ready to go. While I was busy folding laundry, the kids go out of school and
about 8 of them had a nice little snowball fight in the parking lot. Cool.
I am really enjoying ‘Finding Jesus’ on CNN. Well put together
with good explanations.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I come
and I go, more than once in a day.
Yet I've always been here; for eons my stay.
A bearer of life, I bring fear and great dread;
A destroyer of old, millions by me are fed.
Artists and poets my presence inspires,
My moods, they are varied, my journey ne'er tires.
Once I was greater, but my time comes again.
Can you yet name me, my riddling friend?
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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***NEW***America
Facts…
╪ In 1700s, the
deer skin was a common medium of exchange between the trading settlers and the
native Red Indians in America. This is how a buck became a slang for a dollar.
╪ There are six
times as many people of Irish descent living in America than in Ireland.
Car
Facts…
╪ China is building an ultra-modern car-free
city that'll house 80,000 people in "high-rise core housing". It's
entirely walkable and surrounded by green space. It's designed to use less
water, create less waste, and generate less carbon dioxide than a normal city.
╪ You can immediately cool down a car that has
been sitting under the sun by rolling down the window on one side and
opening-closing the door on the other side 5-6 times.
***NEW***Chocolate
Facts…
╪ The
first chocolate eggs were made in Germany in the 19th century and remain one of
the most popular Easter candies today.
╪ Chocolate is lower in caffeine than tea,
coffee and coca cola. A one ounce bar of chocolate contains about 6mg of
caffeine, whereas a five ounce cup of regular coffee contains over 40mg.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
╪ 100
YEARS AGO
Taxes become delinquent today. For the
accommodation of city taxpayers, the city office will be open from 9 a.m. to 6
p.m. to receive moneys. George A. Fleming, City Clerk.
Harper’s
Index…
5,000
Number of dogs in Baoshan, China killed last fall to prevent the
spread of rabies
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
he largest living organism ever found has been discovered in an
ancient American forest in eastern Oregon. Officially known as Armillaria solidipes,
or the honey mushroom, the fungus is 3.5 miles square miles and takes up 1,665
football fields.
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2 jokes
for the day
The solar panel says, "So what do you
think about this whole renewable energy thing?"
The turbine replies, "I'm a big fan."
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An angry wife was complaining about her
husband spending all his free time in a bar, so one night he took her along
with him.
"What'll you have?" he asked.
"Oh, I don't know. The same as you I suppose," she replied.
So, the husband ordered a couple of Jack Daniel's and threw his down in one
shot. His wife watched him, then took a sip from her glass and immediately spat
it out.
"Yuck, that's TERRIBLE!" she spluttered. "I don't know how you
can drink this stuff!"
"Well, there you go," cried the husband. "And you think I'm out
enjoying myself every night!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Falmouth,
Mass
Police say Lisa Degerolamo and Daniel McLaughlin, both 29, went to
a Wal-Mart in Falmouth, Massachusetts and stole a 60-inch flat screen TV, but
as they were loading it into their SUV, a man and his wife noticed them.
They also saw a young boy in a car seat in the back.
Now, the story gets a little fuzzy about how the couple managed to stroll out
of a Wal-Mart carrying a stolen 60-inch TV between them, but the witness did
detail how the flat screen would not fit in the back seat and Mr. McLaughlin's
attempt to wedge the door shut by wrapping a towel around it.
An attempt that failed, because the witness said that as soon as they took off
and sped around a corner, the door popped open and the boy "flew out of
the car and hit his head off the concrete."
That didn't even slow down the driver, Lisa Degerolamo, who sped away.
The witness and his wife rushed to comfort the 5-year-old, and while they were
sitting in the street Degerolamo swung back around to pick up the boy, who she
probably assumed had stopped bouncing by that time.
It didn't take long for police to find the couple and arrest them at their
home. The child is now in the custody of the Department of Children and
Families and Degerolamo and McLaughlin were each ordered held on $2,500 bail,
which is not much more than a 60-inch flat screen would have cost if they were
to have bought one.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
When
do you think that the eraser was invented? Your first answer might be, if not
simultaneously, then -certainly- soon after the invention of the pencil.
But,
if that’s what you thought, you are wrong!
That
eraser was invented 200 years after pencil was!
And
the most interesting question that comes from this is how they erased theirs
faults in writing without an eraser in the meantime?
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Birthday’s
Today
85 - Lord Snowdon, [Anthony
Armstrong-Jones], photographer
75 - Daniel J Travanti, actor (Frank
Furillo-Hill St Blues)
63 - Lynn Swann, NFL receiver (Pittsburgh
Steelers)/sportscaster
59 - Bryan Cranston, actor (Breaking Bad,
Malcolm in the Middle)
55 - Ivan Lendl, Ostrava Czechoslovakia,
tennis champion (US Open 1985-87)
51 - Wanda Sykes, American actress and
comedienne
45 - Rachel Weisz, English actress (The
Mummy, The Constant Gardener)
44 - Peter Sarsgaard,
actor (Dead Man Walking)
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Remembered
for being born today
1816-1734@63 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk
hero
1816-1880@64 - James Donnelly, Irish-Canadian
patriarch of the Donnelly family
1942-2007@65 - Tammy Faye Bakker, gospel singer/wife
of Jim Baker (PTL)
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Historical
Obits Today
Jacob K Javits,
(Sen-NY), 1986@81
Stanley
Kubrick, film director (2001-Space Odyssey), heart attack, 1999@70
Paul
Winfield, American actor, heart attack, 2004@64
Aristotle, Greek
philosopher 322BC@62ish
Emily Pauline Johnson,
Mohawk Canadian poet, breast cancer, 1913@51
Thomas
Aquinas, Italian thelogian/saint, 1274@48
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Brain Teasers Answers
The Sea is my name, or Ocean some say,
My tides wax and wane twice each short-lived day.
Many a life my waters have seized,
But I give back aplenty with food for your need.
My reach was broader many years ago;
Melting ice ensures that again I will grow.
If you have enjoyed this riddling task,
Rate this puzzle highly, I fervently ask.
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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
