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Almanac: Week: 11 \ Day: 068
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 57°\L 24° Average Sky
Cover: 0%
Wind
ave: 1mph\Gusts: 13mph
Ave. High: 49° Record High: 70°
(1989) Ave. Low: 22° Record Low:
0° (1964)
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Observances
Today:
Barbie Day
Fill Our Staplers Day
Get Over It Day
Joe Franklin Day-NYC radio/TV personality
Napping Day
Panic Day
Observances This
Week:
8-14
…Universal Women's
Week
…National Agriculture Week
…Teen Tech Week
…Girl Scout Week
…Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1745 - Bells
for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
1776 - Publication
of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
1822 - Charles
Graham of NY granted first US patent for artificial teeth
1841 - US
Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad
are free
1862 - USS
Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads
1864 - Ulysses
S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1889 - Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
1907 - 1st involuntary
sterilization law enacted, Indiana
1914 - US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands
"Cubanisation of Mexico"
1916 - Mexican
General Francisco "Pancho" Villa invades US (18 killed)
1935 - Officers of
tribes are now considered U.S. Officers
1942 - Construction
of the Alaska Highway began
1945 - 334 US
B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs
1954 - 1st
local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC (Castro Decorators)
1954 - Edward R
Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)
1955 - Davis Monthan Air
Base,AZ weather station equipment operators can be seen providing
round-the-clock weather reports for the flying personnel at the base
1959 - Barbie, the popular girls' doll, debuted,
over 800 million sold
1964 - 1st Ford
Mustang produced
1976 - 1st
female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1979 - Bowie
Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
1986 - NASA announces searchers found remains of
Challenger astronauts
2006 - Liquid
water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn
2007 - The US
Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal
Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act
to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens
Today’s World
Events through History
1497 - Nicolaus
Copernicus' 1st recorded astronomical observation
1562 - Kissing
in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
1820 - Philippines
chases out foreigners; about 125 die
1834 - French
Foreign Legion is founded
1839 - Prussian
government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1893 - Congo
cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
1959 - 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
1961 - 1st
animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
1971 - Three off-duty Scottish soldiers are killed
by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; 4000 shipyard workers take to the
streets to demand internment in response
1972 - Four members of the Irish Republican Army
(IRA) die in a premature explosion at a house in Clonard Street, Lower Falls,
Belfast
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Great Sunday…no clock changes necessary for me, but all the cable
channels are on different times. Some of our feeds come from EST but most are
from PST. Both of these time zones did change time, making all their feeds 1
hour earlier. We are now the same time as California. When I was working, this
was a hard time as while the Navajo Nation changed time, the Hopi didn’t. Since
Tuba was right next to Hopi, some of the businesses changed time, others didn’t.
The Boarding School changed time but the Public school didn’t. Glad those days
are behind me. As the old joke goes: Only the White man would think that if he cuts
a strip off the top of the blanket and sews it to the bottom of the blanket he
expects to have a longer blanket.
Took some time today, with the beautiful weather to clean off the
deck, and put all the planters out for more sunshine. All my early spring bulbs
are popping up all green and ready. Sure hope we don’t have any more frigid
weather. I tried something new this year. I planted bulbs for late spring
deeper in the pots than the ones that were marked early spring. I’ll see if
that makes any difference. Fun activity.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
She's
always ready to lend an ear
With hair so light
Too bad you she won't hear
The devil inside her
Is ready to burst
But lucky for you,
Of imps he's not the worst.
What is she?
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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America
Facts…
╪
The retail price for the iPad would be $1,140 if it were built by
American workers instead of Chinese.
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The United States has paved enough roads to circle the Earth over 150
times.
Car
Facts…
╪
The most expensive license plate is the number '1', bought by an Abu
Dhabi businessman - costing a staggering $14.3 million!
╪
The world's longest traffic jam took place in Beijing, China. It was
over 60 miles long and lasted 11 days.
Chocolate
Facts…
╪
Quality dark chocolate contains flavonoids which help reduced the risk
of heart disease.
╪
The largest box of chocolates contained 90,090 Frango mint chocolates
and weighed 3,3226 lbs! It was made by Marshall Field's of Chicago on November
14, 2002.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
…Mountain lions are killing stock at a
high rate. Given the severity of the winter, the wild beasts are desperate.
…Shearing pens are being constructed at
Drake. It is expected that 100,000 sheep will be sheared there during the month
of March.
…The surveyors are on the job for the
new bridge to be built at the Needles crossing of the Colorado River. Demand
has grown vastly since Arizona went "dry.”
…It’s too late for us, but a recent
study has shown that a ration of beer greatly improves the egg-laying of hens.
…Present indications indicate that
street paving has gone a glimmering as the Council has deferred action until
more information becomes available. In the meantime, with the fast-melting
snow, the streets overflow and mud prevails.
Harper’s
Index…
43.5
Number of socks found in the stomach of a Great Dane in Oregon
last winter
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Many artificial color additives are prohibited by law, so farmers
add marigold petals to their chicken feed as a natural color enhancer to give
their egg yolks that sunny, yellow hue.
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2 jokes
for the day
RIP boiling water.
You will be mist.
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A man with a piece of paper in his hand comes
into an office where another man is sitting next to a shredding machine.
"Do you know how to operate this thing?" he asks. "I have an
important paper here and I want to make sure this is done right."
"Sure," the other man answers. "Just put the paper in here and
press this button."
The first man does so, saying, "Great. And where do the copies come
out?"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Chesapeake,
Va.
Dylan Fell arranged to meet a woman he was dating in a McDonald's
parking lot.
Moments later, a Portsmouth police officer arrived.
"She got in. About two minutes into it, a blue car pulled in behind me to
block me in, and I looked in the rear view mirror, and I said, 'Who is that?'
And she said, 'Oh, that's my husband,'" says Fell.
Unfortunately, Mr. Fell did not have a wingman to kiss on the mouth at the
time.
He says he thought his date was separated from her husband, and surely didn't
know the husband was an officer. But what happened led to charges and a
complaint against police Sergeant Robert Huntington.
Fell says the sergeant tried to yank him out of his truck and arrest him for no
reason.
"By that time, he reached through the window with both hands and grabs my
shirt, and tries to pull me out this window. When he had grip of me, he took
his left hand and hit me in my crotch, reaches for what I thought was a gun and
I'm scared for my life and I take off," says Fell.
Hours later, Dylan filed an assault report with Chesapeake police and then went
to Portsmouth police to file an internal affairs complaint.
Sergeant Huntington is now facing assault charges, but is still working for the
department.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Do
you know in which continent there’s the youngest average population in the
world?
And
the answer is: in Africa.
To
be more specific the 50% of Africans are 19 years old or younger, according to
wikipedia!
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Birthday’s
Today
79 - Marty Ingels,
Brooklyn, American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
79 - Mickey Gilley, Ferriday La, country
singer (Urban Cowboy)
73 - Mark Lindsay, rock vocalist/sax (Paul
Revers & Raiders)
72 - Charlie Gibson, American television
journalist
56 - Kato [Brian] Kaelin, actor (Beach Fever)/OJ roommate/witness
54 - Camryn Manheim, actress (The
Practice
44 - Emmanuel Lewis, Brooklyn, actor
(Webster)
28 - Bow Wow,
American rapper and actor
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Remembered
for being born today
1454-1512@57 - Amerigo
Vespucci, Italian explorer (America)
1791-1863@71 - George
Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
1833-1899@66 - Frederick
A. Schroeder, tobacco industrialist\mayor of Brooklyn
1839-1908@69 - Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d.
1908)
1900-1973@73 - Howard Aiken, American computing
pioneer (d. 1973)
1902-1978@76 - Will Geer, actor (Grandpa Walton-The
Waltons)
1918-2006@88 - Mickey Spillane, [Frank], Brooklyn,
mystery writer (I the Jury)
1920-1978@56 - Carl
Betz, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show)
1934-1968@34 - Yuri
Gagarin, Russia, cosmonaut, 1st man into space
1940-1994@54 - Raul
Julia, PR, actor (Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman)
1943-2008@64 - Bobby
Fischer, US, world chess champion (1972-75)
1954-1981@27 - Bobby Sands, Irish IRA member and
leader of the hunger strike
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Historical
Obits Today
George
Burns, actor and singer-1996@100
John
Profumo, British cabinet minister-2006@91
Lawrence
E Spivak, journalist (Meet the Press)-1994@93
Menachem
Begin, PM Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979)-1992@85
Fernando
Rey, Spanish actor (French Connection), cancer-1994@76
Jack
Beattie, Northern Irish politician-1960@74
Chris
LeDoux, American country singer, cancer-2005@56
Richard
Crane, actor (Rocky Jones, Space Ranger), heart attack-1969@50
Mary
Anning, British paleontologist, breast cancer-1847@47
Robert
Mapplethorpe, US photographer, AIDS-1989@42
The
Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher Wallace], rapper, shot-1997@24
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Brain Teasers Answers
Corn!
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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…§
