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Almanac: Week: 11 \ Day: 070
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 58°\L 23° Average Sky
Cover: 0%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 25mph
Ave. High: 49° Record High: 69°
(1900) Ave. Low: 23° Record Low:
-5° (1948)
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Observances
Today:
Johnny Appleseed Day
Registered Dietitian Day
World Plumbing Day
Worship of Tools Day
Observances This
Week:
8-14
…Universal Women's
Week
…National Agriculture Week
…Teen Tech Week
…Girl Scout Week
…Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week
11-17
…Turkey Vultures
Return to the Living Sign-they return to trees in Canisteo, NY.
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1779 - US army
Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1791 - Samuel
Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
1823 - 1st
normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt
1824 - US War Dept
creates the Bureau of Indian Affair
1850 - Woman's
Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1892 - 1st
public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
1918 - Save the Redwoods League founded
1918 – 1st confirmed
cases of the Spanish Flu in US reported at Fort Riley, Kansas
1927 - 1st golden gloves tournament
1941
- FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1948 - 1st
black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)
1953 - 1st
woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1954 - US Army
charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1959 - "Raisin
in the Sun", 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
1966 - Civil rights
demonstrators in Tucson protested the visit of Selma, Alabama, Sheriff James
Clark whose talk was sponsored by a new group named the Tucson Committee to
Support Your Local Police.
1995 - Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives
in US
Today’s World
Events through History
1669 - Volcano
Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1702 - 1st English daily
newspaper "Daily Courant" publishes
1872 - Construction
of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins
1936 - British
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pardons five convicted Irish militants who
promise to join growing conflict with Germany
1974 - Mount
Etna in Sicily erupted
1977 - Muslims
hold 130 hostages in Wash DC
1982 - Menachem
Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Washington DC
1986 - 1
million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC
1997 - Beatle
McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II
2006 - Michelle
Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile
2009 - Winnenden
school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany
2011 - Earthquake
measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan,
triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people; also triggered the 2nd
largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified
as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.
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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 day here in Flag-weather-wise. Keep this spring weather
around.
When I was growing up we learned about ‘fallout’ as it related to
nuclear attack. IN today’s world it has taken on a different meaning.
First: ‘The Letter’ sent by Republican US Senators is, thankfully,
backfiring. 1st time it was done in our history; Iran responds with
a lesson on International relations; these political leaders have certainly
allowed the world to see the US’s dirty laundry.
Second: Hillary’s email. I was a government employee for a long
time. I was required each year to box up all my memos and have them sent to a
salt mine somewhere where they would be catalogued and saved for ever. When electronic
stuff entered the BIA, the box got bigger as all government related emails had
to be boxed up too. As was true of all government employees, it was my responsibility
to do this…not my boss…not my secretary…to do this. They also had to do it for
their own communications. It was a crazy system but that’s what we did. Only
those trying to discredit Hilary would make this ‘news’.
Third: The Univ of OK mess. A black cook at the fraternity has
lost his job…fallout. The expelled students may have a friend in the ACLU who
believe this is ‘free speech’ issue and students cannot be expelled from a federally
funded University for exercising ‘free speech’. Fallout for sure. This one is
far from over.
Fourth: Rant is now ended.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What common, English word has the letters "WSP", in that order,
without any letters between?
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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America
Facts…
--The Canadian province of New Brunswick (which was part of the UK
at the time) had a bloodless war with the US state of Maine in 1839
--The Procrastinators' Club of America newsletter is called Last
Month's Newsletter.
Ant
Facts…
--Ants have tiny magnetic compasses in their antennae which help
them navigate.
--Ants tend to survive in a microwave because they find the
coolest spot and wait!
Car
Facts…
--Putting your car alarm remote under your chin or beside your
head increases its range.
--Mackinac Island, Michigan, has banned cars since 1898!
Charity
Facts…
--In 2010, George Lucas said "I am dedicating the majority of
my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human
race." Two years later, Lucas sold Lucasfilm Ltd. to Disney for 4.05
billion dollars and is donating the majority of the proceeds to a charity that
focuses on education.
--John F. Kennedy Gave His $100k/Yr Salary to Charity
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
--The City Council voted to lease 4
acres of its land on the eastern slope of McMillan Mesa to Flagstaff School
Board as a property for the location of the new East Flagstaff High School. The
60-year lease is conditional to the passage of the $3.8 million school bond
issue for its construction. Our schools are overflowing -- vote for the school
bond issue coming up next Tuesday.
--The Council tabled the requests for
sewer and water service outside the city limits by the Ponderosa Paper Co. and
Ralph Bilby.
--The Elks have broken ground for their
new lodge at the north end of North San Francisco, where their pool is already
located.
--The skiing is just fine at both ski
areas, with new powder on the lower Snow
Bowl slopes. Chains or 4-wheel drive are required on the road.
--On Wednesday, the City woke to 6
inches of fresh, wet snow holding 0.55 inches of moisture.
Harper’s
Index…
$55,000,000
Amount the US mint lost last year making pennies.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The first person to successfully go over Niagara Falls in a barrel
was 63 year old Annie Taylor, a former school teacher who needed money. She
died destitute about 20 years later.
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2 jokes
for the day
What was the shy rock's wish?
To be a little boulder!
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A young waiter 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!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
New York
Times
Felons, and those convicted of domestic assault, and those with a
history of mental illness, cannot by federal law buy firearms or explosive
devices, but Americans on the National Counterterrorism Center's consolidated
watch list can -- and may possess an unlimited quantity. (In 2013 and 2014, 455
of 486 prospective purchasers on the list passed the background check, and
going back to 2004, 2,043 of 2,233, according to a recent Government
Accountability Office report.) Legislation to add watch listees as a banned
category was introduced again this year, but has failed several times in the
past.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
--Curious
whether the child you are going to bring to life will be a boy or a girl?
It
seems that the father’s family has the answer for baby gender prediction,
according to Newcastle University researchers.
After looking
at 927 family trees, with details on 556,387 people from North America and
Europe, going back to 1600, they found that there is a link between
father’s sibling sex and offspring sex.
To
be more specific, the research showed that men were more likely to have sons if
they had more brothers and vice versa if they had more sisters.
--We
all, certainly, have played, with Lego bricks as kids. We have built lots of
constructions with them and enjoyed our time playing.
But
have you ever wondered after how many times of using them this way, they will
lose their clutch power?
Their
clutch power is their ability to connect with each other properly.
LEGO
bricks are made from ABS plastic and they will wear off by use, of course, in
time.
But
how many times can you assemble and dis-assemble two pieces of them before they
no longer can stay together?
And
the answer is 37,112 times, according to a man that tested this theory, in a
specifically, for this reason, built machine.
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Birthday’s
Today
84 - Rupert Murdoch,
Australia, publisher (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV)
81 - Sam Donaldson, ABC White House
correspondent (Prime Time)
65 - Jerry Zucker, director (Airplane, Naked
Gun)
61 - Gale Norton,
48th United States Secretary of the Interior
44 - Johnny Knoxville, American television
personality
33 - Thora Birch,
American actress (American Beauty)
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Remembered
for being born today
1549-1612@63 - Henric/Hendrik
Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance writer
and poet
1725-1807@82 - Henry
Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain
1879-1958@79 - Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph tests)
1903-1992@89 - Lawrence Welk, orchestra leader
(Lawrence Welk Show)
1916-1995@79 - [James] Harold Wilson, (L) British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
1916-1983@67 - Ezra Jack Keats, children's literature
author
1926-1990@64 - Ralph Abernathy, leader-Southern
Christian Leadership
1952-2001@49 - Douglas
Adams, England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
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Historical
Obits Today
Oscar
Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer-1955@95
Erle
Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason)-1970-80
Alexander
Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), heart attack-1955@73
Merlin
Olsen, American football player/Actor, mesothelioma-2010@69
Richard E
Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica), heart disease-1957@68
Vince
Edwards, actor (Ben Casey), cancer-1996@67
Charles
Sumner, a white civil rights leader, heart attack-1874@63
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Brain Teasers Answers
neWSPaper
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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…§
