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Almanac: Week: 12 \ Day: 074
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 59°\L 30° Average Sky
Cover: 40%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 50° Record High: 72°
(2007) Ave. Low: 23° Record Low:
-3° (1962)
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Observances
Today:
Statehood Day: Maine: 1820-23rd state
Brutus Day
Buzzard's Day
Dumbstruck Day
Everything You Think Is Wrong Day
Ides of March
IGUR Awareness Day
Incredible Kid Day
International Day of Action Against Canadian Seal Slaughter
Mothering Sunday
True Confessions Day
World Consumer Rights Day
Observances This
Week:
11-17
…Turkey Vultures
Return to the Living Sign
13-15
13-15
…National YoYo and
Skills Toys Days
…American Chocolate Week
…Campfire USA Birthday Week
…American Chocolate Week
…Campfire USA Birthday Week
…Health Information
Professionals Week
…National Animal Poison Prevention Week
…National Button Week
…National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week
…Termite Awareness Week
…International Brain Awareness Week
…Shakespeare Week
…Flood Safety Awareness Week
…Act Happy Week
…Wellderly Week
…Wildlife Week
…World Folktales & Fables Week
…National Animal Poison Prevention Week
…National Button Week
…National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week
…Termite Awareness Week
…International Brain Awareness Week
…Shakespeare Week
…Flood Safety Awareness Week
…Act Happy Week
…Wellderly Week
…Wildlife Week
…World Folktales & Fables Week
Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1493 - Christopher
Columbus returns to Spain after his 1st New World voyage
1783 - In an
emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his
officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the
threatened coup d'etat never takes place.
1827 - Freedom's
Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
1855 - Louisiana
establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine 1867 - Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to
support a university
1887 - 1st
salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
1892 - 1st escalator
patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
1892 - NY State unveils automatic ballot booth
(voting machine)
1912 - Pitcher Cy
Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1913 - 1st US
presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1913 - Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1934 - US
Information Service opens-propaganda distributed
1955 - US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1960- National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1960- National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1964 - LBJ asks
for a War on Poverty
1965 - Civil rights
marchers protested in Tucson
1966 - Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of
Los Angeles
1968 - LIFE mag
calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the
world"
1972 - "The
Godfather", starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, NYC
1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered
(symbolics.com).
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Today’s World
Events through History
44 BC - Julius
Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius
Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman
senators on the Ides of March
1545 - First
meeting of the Council of Trent
1580 - Spanish
king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange
1778 - Nootka
Sound, Vancouver Island discovered by Captain Cook
1827 - University of Toronto is chartered
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Our discussion group meets tonight to discuss Human Trafficking. Readings
were very interesting. This is a world-wide problem and the UN is working hard
to get laws passed in member states to stop it. Learned a lot. Looking forward
to a lively discussion.
Weather was great today…sure feels like spring.
I found so thin cut steak the other day and decided it was time
for some homemade beef jerky. Haven’t done that for years, but it turned out
good…soy sauce, teriyaki sauce and hot sauce marinade then into the dehydrator.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I
have given you five (5) pairs of words. Fill in the blank below with a single
letter to turn these pairs of words into synonyms.
EX: _TUMBLE and _RIP Answer: STUMBLE and TRIP
1) _COLD and _HIDE
2) _AMBLE and _AGER
3) _EARNING and _RAVING
4) _ALLY and _CORE
5) _AVER and _ALTER
EX: _TUMBLE and _RIP Answer: STUMBLE and TRIP
1) _COLD and _HIDE
2) _AMBLE and _AGER
3) _EARNING and _RAVING
4) _ALLY and _CORE
5) _AVER and _ALTER
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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America
Facts…
-- The average American spends a third of their overall time online
playing games and using social networks.
--Forty percent of American adults cannot fill out a bank deposit
slip correctly.
Ant
Facts…
-- If a man could run as fast for his size as an ant can, he could
run as fast as a racehorse.
--The average life expectancy of an ant is 45-60 days.
***NEW***Average
Facts…
-- On average, men's noses are 10% larger than women's.
--The average person will go on a date at least 100 times before
they finally marry.
Charity
Facts…
-- Carlos Vasquez, a dry cleaner in New York, has a sign outside his
shop that reads: If you are unemployed and need an outfit clean for an
interview, we will clean it for free.
--After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from
Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and
within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds
so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy
again".
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO--1965
--A little twister ripped the roof off
the home of Mr. & Mrs. Quinten Biggens, at 3713 Paradise Road in East
Flagstaff. The Planning and Zoning Commission was surveying in the area and
witnessed the 9:45 a.m. event. Estimated damage $2,500 to $3,000.
--The skiing is great at both the Snow
Bowl with a 24-30 inches packed base and at Bill Williams with 6-8 inches. All
facilities are open.
--The vehicle inspection law has been
repealed.
--Stop just driving and start ZIPPING
with a Datsun Sportscar. HIT the 4 stick -- feel the DUAL CARBS -- TAKE OFF --
complete at only $2,600.
--The Bureau of Reclamation forecasts
that the snow runoff to the Colorado River will be down to about 600 million
acre-feet this spring.
Harper’s
Index…
1 in 4
Chance that a witness called to testify before a congressional committee
is female
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Each year, about 450 men die of breast cancer in America.
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2 jokes
for the day
Do you believe in love at first sight or do I
have to walk by you again?
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Hoping for good news he goes to meet with a
fortune teller.
The fortune teller closes her eyes, makes some strange sounds, and finally says, "You will meet a beautiful young girl that will want to know everything about you"
The frog gets excited and says, "Wow! When will I meet her? At a party?"
"No," replied the fortune teller, "in her biology class."
The fortune teller closes her eyes, makes some strange sounds, and finally says, "You will meet a beautiful young girl that will want to know everything about you"
The frog gets excited and says, "Wow! When will I meet her? At a party?"
"No," replied the fortune teller, "in her biology class."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
JOHANNESBURG,
South Africa
A South African TV journalist was mugged on camera seconds before
he was due to deliver a live report outside a hospital. The SABC News camera
recorded the two men approaching contributing editor Vuyo Mvoko outside
Johannesburg's Milpark Hospital Tuesday night while he was preparing to deliver
a report on Zambia's president arriving at the facility for some tests.
"It was like seconds to air and then the commotion started... I couldn't
understand why they'd walk right in front of the camera because the light is on
and they could see that -- and our car is branded, so they could see that this
is a live broadcast," Mvoko told the BBC. Mvoko said the robbers demanded
he hand over his phone. "Because I wasn't giving him the phone, he then called
the other one who had a gun, and said: 'Dubula le nja [Shoot this dog],'"
Mvoko told SABC after the incident. Mvoko said the men fled after he handed
over his phone. The robbers also took another phone and a laptop computer from
the news crew. "Hopefully someone will be able to identify them and get
them arrested," Mvoko said. The South African National Editors' Forum
issued a statement following the incident. "Every South African lives with
the reality of crime, but to see thugs brazenly ignoring television cameras and
robbing media workers in the course of their work yet again brings home the
level of criminality in our society," a spokesman said.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
In
1839 the editor of the Boston Post was inspired to invent the phrase
"o.k.," which he defined as "all correct." It was supposed
to be a joke, perhaps on the literary competency of the Post's readership, but
whether or not readers found it funny the phrase was picked up by another
newspaper, the Evening Transcript, and o.k. was on the road to immortality.
Bonus
Fact:
Outside of New England o.k. really didn't become famous until the presidential candidacy of Martin Van Buren in 1840 and the invention of the telegraph. The first was important because Van Buren acquired the nickname "Old Kinderhook" after his home town in Upstate New York: "OK now could have a double meaning: Old Kinderhook was all correct."
Then, the invention of the telegraph made the use of OK as shorthand for "all right" commonplace.
Outside of New England o.k. really didn't become famous until the presidential candidacy of Martin Van Buren in 1840 and the invention of the telegraph. The first was important because Van Buren acquired the nickname "Old Kinderhook" after his home town in Upstate New York: "OK now could have a double meaning: Old Kinderhook was all correct."
Then, the invention of the telegraph made the use of OK as shorthand for "all right" commonplace.
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Birthday’s
Today
83 - Alan
Lavern Bean, Capt USN/astronaut (Ap
12, Skylab 3)
80 - Jimmy
Lee Swaggart, evangelist
80 - Judd Hirsch, Bronx, actor (Alex-Taxi)
74 - Mike Love, rock saxophonist/vocalist
(Beachboys-In My Room)
72 - Sly Stone, rocker (Sly & the Family
Stone-Everyday People)
58 - Park Overall,
American actress (Empty Nest)
52 - Bret
Michaels, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
47 - Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar
Ray)
40 - Eva Longoria,
American actress (Gabrielle Solis-Desperate Housewives)
40 - Will.i.am (William Adams), rapper, songwriter, entrepreneur, actor
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Remembered
for being born today
270-343@73 - Saint Nicholas [Nikolaos of Myra], Greek Bishop (Santa Claus)
1767-1845@78 - Andrew
Jackson, General/(D) 7th US President (1829-37)
1899-1979@80 - George
Brent, actor (42nd St, Jezebel), born in Dublin, Ireland
1905-1982@68 - Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car
54)
1916-1983@67 - Harry James, trumpeter (married to
Betty Grable)
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Historical
Obits Today
Benjamin
Spock, American pediatrician and writer-1998@94
Ann
Sothern, American actress-2001@92
Henry
Bessemer, English metallurgist-1898@85
Bowie
Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball-2007@80
Gail
Davis, (Annie Oakley), cancer-1997@72
Aristotle
S Onassis, Greek shipping magnate, Myasthenia gravis-1975@69
Julius Caesar, Roman military and political figure, stabbed
to death, 44BC@55
Melville
Reuben Bissell, US inventor of carpet sweeper, pneumonia-1889@45
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) Scold and Chide
2) Gamble and Wager
3) Yearning and Craving
4) Tally and Score
5) Waver and Falter
2) Gamble and Wager
3) Yearning and Craving
4) Tally and Score
5) Waver and Falter
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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…§
