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Almanac: Week: 11 \ Day: 072
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 52°\L 38° Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 19mph
Ave. High: 49° Record
High: 70° (2007) Ave. Low: 22° Record Low: -9° (1962)
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Observances
Today:
Independence Day: Mongolia-1921 from China
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Digital Learning Day
Donald Duck Day
Ear Muff Day-patented in 1877
Good Samaritan Involvement Day
Jewel Day-Get your bling on
K-9 Veterans Day
Ken Day (the doll)
L. Ron Hubbard Day
National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day
Smart & Sexy Day
World Sleep 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
…National Agriculture Week
…Teen Tech Week
…Girl Scout Week
…Stand Up! LGBT Awareness Week
11-17
…Turkey Vultures
Return to the Living Sign
13-15
13-15
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1677 - Massachusetts
gains title to Maine for $6,000
1852 - Uncle
Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly
1864 -1st
group of Navajo finish the
"Long Walk" to Fort Sumner; 13 of the 1,430 who started the trip will
be kidnapped by Mexicans or will die
1865 - Jefferson
Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers
1868 - Senate
begins US President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial
1869 - Arkansas
legislature passes anti-Ku Klux Klan law
1884 - US adopts Standard Time
1897 - San
Diego State University is founded
1913 - Kansas
legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
1922 –Tucson, AZ woke up
to a 7-inch blanket of snow
1930 - Clyde Tombaugh
announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
1961 - JFK sets
up the Alliance for Progress
1980 - Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3
women in a fiery Pinto
1986 - Microsoft has its Initial public offering
1991 - Exxon pays
$1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1997 - The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix,
Arizona by hundreds of people
Today’s World
Events through History
1781 - William
Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet"-actually Uranus
1878 - Oxford
University defeats Cambridge University in their 1st golf match
1900 – French length
of the workday for women\children limited to 11 hours
1918 - Trotsky gains
control of the Red Army
1996 - Dunblane massacre: in Dunblane, Scotland, 16
children and 1 teacher are shot dead by spree killer Thomas Hamilton who then
commits suicide
2012 - Encyclopaedia Britannica announces that it
will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopaedia
2013 - Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected as
the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Nice lunch with Cheryl today, since Mary is still in Phoenix with
more visitors enjoying the warm temps. Olive Garden has changed its menu and
has added side dishes to its Endless Soup/Salad/Breadsticks. Great idea.
It was overcast again today but this time we got some gentle afternoon
rain. NICE!
Found out that ‘Resolve’ does work in taking out carpet stains.
And it was easy to use. I had a couple of unknown spots on the carpet so I
sprayed, waited 5 min and blotted. Stains gone. Happy about that.
A few weeks ago I saw some birdseed on sale—40# for $10. Figured
it would be cheap seed for the squirrels I can’t get rid of. Turns out it must
have been mismarked as it is really nice birdseed. Probably should have bought
two. The birds are enjoying it, as are the damn squirrels.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
is so incredible about the sentence below?
A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed, houghed, and hiccoughed.
A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed, houghed, and hiccoughed.
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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America
Facts…
--50% of pizzas in America are pepperoni.
--Although African-Americans make up only 13% of the U.S.
population, they accounted for one half of the estimated new HIV/AIDS diagnoses
in 2004.
Ant
Facts…
-- The ant, when intoxicated, will always fall over to its right
side.
--The Slave-Maker Ant (Polyergus Rufescens) raids the nests of
other ants and steals their pupae. When these new ants hatch, they work as
slaves within the colony.
Car
Facts…
-- According to a U.K. study, women are better at parking a car than
men.
--Drivers kill more deer than hunters do.
Charity
Facts…
-- In 2006, the CEO of Whole Foods reduced his salary to $1 a year,
donated his entire portfolio to charity, and set up a $100,000 fund for staff
facing personal problems.
--WWOOF is an international program that allows you to travel the
world, with food/accommodations covered, in exchange for volunteer work.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
--The Montana Hotel burned to the ground
at 3 am Monday morning. Guests and employees were compelled to flee for their
lives in their nightclothes, leaving all their effects behind.
--The Town Council has approved a motion
to consider the matter of paving downtown Flagstaff, east from San Francisco
Street to Leroux Street and north from Railroad to Dale avenues.
--Passenger service on the Santa Fe is
being heavily taxed by the rush of passengers west to attend the
Panama-California Exposition in San Diego. Beginning on Feb. 26, 22 sections of
The Limited were necessary to accommodate passengers, with each section sold
out 10 to 20 days before departure.
Harper’s
Index…
2,000,000
Number of Americans employed in the beer industry
0
Number of the top ten beers sold in that US that are owned by US
firms
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Though it's rarely used, the word referring to half a
computer byte is a "nibble."
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2 jokes
for the day
What did the Pacific Ocean say to the Atlantic
Ocean?
Nothing; It just waved.
Nothing; It just waved.
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Through the pitch-black night, the captain
sees a light dead ahead on a collision course with his ship. He sends a signal:
"Change your course 10 degree east."
The light signals back: "Change yours, 10 degrees west."
Angry, the captain sends: "I'm a navy captain! Change your course, sir!"
"I'm a seaman, second class," comes the reply. "Change your course, sir."
Now the captain is furious. "I'm a battleship! I'm not changing course!"
There is one last reply. "I'm a lighthouse. Your call."
The light signals back: "Change yours, 10 degrees west."
Angry, the captain sends: "I'm a navy captain! Change your course, sir!"
"I'm a seaman, second class," comes the reply. "Change your course, sir."
Now the captain is furious. "I'm a battleship! I'm not changing course!"
There is one last reply. "I'm a lighthouse. Your call."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
PORTUGALETE,
Spain
A candidate for local office in Spain's Basque region is
campaigning by baring her body on a poster reading, "Politicians have left
us stark naked." Yolanda Couceiro Morin, a town hall candidate in the town
of Portugalete, released a campaign poster featuring her nude body covered only
by her own hands and the slogan, "Politicians have left us stark
naked." Morin, a member of the right-wing Partido por la Libertad - Manos
Limpias, or "Party for Freedom - Clean Hands," told Spanish daily 20
minutos she hopes the "eye catching" ad will convince Portugalete
voters to "focus on the problems of their neighbors." Morin's poster
appears to take inspiration from a 2006 poster for centrist party Ciudadanos,
which depicted party founder Albert Rivera striking a similar pose in the buff.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
*--
FAMOUS LAST WORDS --*
*
I'll get a world record for this..
* It's fireproof.
* He's probably just hibernating.
* What does this button do?
* It's probably just a rash.
* Are you sure the power is off?
* Yeah, I made the deciding vote on the jury, so what of it?
* The odds of that happening have to be a million to one!
* Pull the pin and count to what?
* Which wire was I supposed to cut?
* I wonder where the mother bear is.
* I've seen this done on TV.
* These are the good kind of mushrooms.
* I'll hold it and you light the fuse.
* Let it down slowly.
* Rat poison only kills rats.
* It's strong enough for both of us.
* This doesn't taste right.
* I can make this light before it changes.
* Nice doggie.
* I can do that with my eyes closed.
* I've done this before.
* Well, we've made it this far.
* That's odd.
* You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses on, would you?
* Don't be so superstitious.
* Now watch this.
* It's fireproof.
* He's probably just hibernating.
* What does this button do?
* It's probably just a rash.
* Are you sure the power is off?
* Yeah, I made the deciding vote on the jury, so what of it?
* The odds of that happening have to be a million to one!
* Pull the pin and count to what?
* Which wire was I supposed to cut?
* I wonder where the mother bear is.
* I've seen this done on TV.
* These are the good kind of mushrooms.
* I'll hold it and you light the fuse.
* Let it down slowly.
* Rat poison only kills rats.
* It's strong enough for both of us.
* This doesn't taste right.
* I can make this light before it changes.
* Nice doggie.
* I can do that with my eyes closed.
* I've done this before.
* Well, we've made it this far.
* That's odd.
* You wouldn't hit a guy with glasses on, would you?
* Don't be so superstitious.
* Now watch this.
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Birthday’s
Today
76 - Neil Sedaka,
Brooklyn singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
65 - William H Macy, actor (Homicide, Water
Engine)
59 - Dana Delany,
actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach, Exit to Eden)
30 - Emile Hirsch,
actor (Into the Wild, Speed Racer)
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Remembered
for being born today
1720-1793@73 - Charles
Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer
1855-1916@61 - Percival Lowell,
astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto)
1899-1980@81 - John Van Vleck, Physicist, quantum theory
of magnetism
1901-1983@82 - Paul
Fix, actor (Rifleman)
1910-1987@77 - Sammy
Kaye, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
1911-1986@74 - LaFayette Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer/scientologist (Dianetics)
1913-1987@74 - William
J Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87)
1927-2005@78 - Robert Denning, American interior
designer
1929-2012@82 - Peter Breck, actor (Big Valley, Benji)
1951-2003@52 - Fred
Berry, actor (Rerun-What's Happening)
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Historical
Obits Today
Susan Brownell Anthony, American suffragist-1906@86
Clarence
S Darrow, Scopes Monkey Trial attorney-1938@80
Nicolas
Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic-1711@74
Benjamin
Harrison, 23rd President, influenza-1901@67
Adolf
Anderssen, German world champ chess-1879@60
Elizabeth
Madox Roberts, poet and novelist, Hodgkin's disease-1941@59
Louison
Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55), cancer-1983@58
Stephen
Vincent Benét, American author, heart attack-1943@44
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Brain Teasers Answers
There are 10 occurrences of the letters 'ough' all with a different
pronunciation (though I agree it may depend on where you are from).
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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…§
