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Almanac: Week: 12 \ Day: 079
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 57°\L 37° Average Sky
Cover: 75%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 51° Record High: 72°
(2004) Ave. Low: 23° Record Low:
-1° (1935)
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Observances
Today:
Alien
Abduction Day
Atheist
Pride Day
Bed-in
For Peace Day: (Beatles - John and Yoko)
Festival
Of Extraterrestrial Abductions Day
French
Language Day
Great
American Meat Out Day
International
Astrology Day
International
Day of Happiness
International
Earth Day
Kiss
Your Fiancée Day
National
Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Proposal
Day
Snowman
Burning Day
Spring
(Vernal Equinox)
Won't
You Be My Neighbor Day
World
Day of Theatre for Children and Young People
World
Storytelling Day
Observances This
Week:
…Act Happy Week
…American Chocolate Week
…Campfire USA Birthday Week
…Flood Safety Awareness Week
…Health Information Professionals Week
…International Brain Awareness Week
…National Animal Poison Prevention Week
…National Button Week
…National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week
…National YoYo and Skills Toys Days
…Termite Awareness Week
…Shakespeare Week
…Wellderly Week
…Wildlife Week
…World Folktales & Fables Week
20-22
…International Tree Climbing Days
…Sherlock Holmes Weekend
Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1760 - Great Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
1816 - US Supreme Court affirms its right to review
state court decisions
1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" published (Boston)
1864 - 800 Navajo, mostly women, children and old
men, begin the 300 mile march to Fort Sumner and the Bosque Redondo Reservation
1885 - Yiddish theater opens in NY with Golldfaden
operetta
1886 - 1st AC power plant in US begins commercial
operation, Mass
1889 - Atlantic &
Pacific train was held up at Canyon Diablo, 26 miles west of Winslow.
1897 - 1st known intercollegiate basketball game,
Yale beats Penn 32-10
1914 - 1st international figure-skating tournament
held in US, New Haven
1934 - Female Babe Didrickson pitches hitless
inning for Phila A's in exhibition game against Brooklyn Dodgers
1942 - Gen MacArthur vows, "I shall
return"
1954 - "King & I" closes at St James
Theater NYC after 1246 performances
1954 - 1st newspaper vending machine used (Columbia
Pennsylvania)
1963 - 1st "Pop Art" exhibition (NYC)
1967 - The Supremes release "The Happening"
1969 - US president Nixon proclaims he will end
Vietnam war in 1970
1987 - FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)
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Today’s World
Events through History
1345 - Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction:
thought "cause of plague epidemic"
1525 - Paris' parliament begins pursuit of
Protestants
1616 - Walter Raleigh released from Tower of
London to seek gold in Guyana
1800 - Alessandro Volta reports his discovery
of the electric battery
1933 - Dachau, 1st Nazi concentration camp,
completed
1944 - Mount Vesuvius, Italy, explodes
1972 - Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional
Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in
Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148
people were wounded
1996 - UK admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow
Disease)
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy again with a promise of rain that never happened. Hmmm.
Had a great lunch at new place with our retirement group…Naples
Italy cuisine. Interesting.
Mary is glad to be back in Flag after almost 2 weeks in Phx. She
had lots of relatives visiting so she was busy. They were all from Oregon and
this was their first visit to AZ. She said they compared everything to Oregon…and
it got boring after a while.
Cheryl had a quiet week in Williams.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
On
the sixth day, God made me.
Adam then was ordered to name me.
Then after quite some time, a very strong man
With God's help, tore me apart with his own hands.
Then a most unfortunate young man of the dead king
Was put in a hole filled with some brothers and me.
However, an angel of God came down into the hole,
And then our mouths were shut, and we couldn't eat the poor soul.
My next big moment was beside God's throne,
Where I stand guard with six wings of my own.
You'll most often see me in zoos and parks.
Be careful though, 'cause I could tear you apart.
What am I?
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Average
Facts…
-- Babies crawl an average of 200m a day.
--On average a woman has 4 sexual partners in her lifetime.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
--The Grand Canyon Steam Train adventure
tours began a week early due to early demand. There are already 20,000 train
buffs signed up for the first month. The 1908 Williams Depot is the largest and
oldest poured concrete building in Arizona. The train departs at 10 a.m. daily
for the 2 hours and 45 minute run to the Old Grand Canyon Depot. Travelers then
have several hours at the Grand Canyon to enjoy a meal at the El Tovar and
revel in the awesome scenery before their journey back to Williams.
--Thirty local drivers have joined the
Greyhound strike over their pay cuts over the past nine years. Norbert
Langbecker, Local Union Shop Steward.
--Lowell Observatory is to be open for
public viewing on Friday evening. Friday evenings the 3rd and the 16th from
7:30 pm until 10 p.m., weather conditions permitting.
Funny
Facts…
-- In the mid-70s, the actor who portrays Mike from “Breaking Bad”
began his acting career in an education film on menstruation and puberty.
--There's a Hello Kitty-themed hospital in Taiwan.
Harper’s
Index…
69
Percentage of people living in the developing world who have a
favorable view of the oil and gas industries
47
Of people living in the developed world who do
Skin
Facts…
--‘Old people smell’ is actually caused by a chemical, 2-nonenal,
that old people secrete through their skin
--The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off its
leaves will burn your skin.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Hens don't actually "sit" on their eggs; they squat over
them, supporting their weight on their feet and on the edges of their nest.
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2 jokes
for the day
Q: Where does a cat go when he loses his tail?
A: Retail store!
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A lawyer opened the door of his BMW, when
suddenly a car came along and hit the door, ripping it off completely. When the
police arrived at the scene, the lawyer was complaining bitterly about the
damage to his precious BMW.
"Officer, look what they've done to my Beemer!" he whined.
"You lawyers are so materialistic, you make me sick!" retorted the
officer, "You're so worried about your stupid BMW, that you didn't even
notice that your left arm was ripped off!"
"Oh my god", replied the lawyer, finally noticing the bloody left
shoulder where his arm once was, "Where's my Rolex!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
TERESPOL,
Poland (UPI)
A Frenchman was detained by Polish border guards after a search of
his suitcase revealed shocking contents -- his Russian bride. Polish Border
Guard officers at the Terespol border crossing from Belarus said they searched
the luggage of a French train passenger in his 60s and discovered his large
suitcase was concealing his Russian wife, who is in her 30s. The guards said
the couple told them the woman was hiding in the suitcase because they feared
she would not be allowed to cross the border from Belarus to Poland due to her
lack of European Union citizenship. Dariusz Sienicki, spokesman for Polish
Border Guard, said the woman "was in good shape and wasn't in need of any
medical attention." Sienicki said the man was unaware that his wife would
have been allowed to cross the border because he possessed the proper
documentation showing their marital ties. "If she had traveled sitting
next to her husband, she would have gone through smoothly," Sienicki said.
The man and woman were detained on a charge of attempting to evade border
control. They could each face up to three years in prison if convicted.
"This was the first time I've seen someone travel like this. She very well
could have been a victim of human trafficking," Sienicki said.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
--The
fall and spring equinoxes are the only two times during the year when the sun
rises due east and sets due west.
--The early Egyptians built the Great Sphinx so that it points directly toward
the rising sun on the spring equinox.
--According
to Greek myth, the return of spring coincides with the return of Persephone,
the daughter of Demeter, who is the goddess of plants and fertility.
--At Chichen Itza, Mexico, the Mayan celebrate the first day of spring with
'The Return of the Sun Serpent.' On the evening on the spring equinox, the
setting sun creates a triangular shadow on the El Castillo pyramid that looks
like a descending snake, or the feather serpent god Kukulkan.
--Every year on the first day of spring, people in Poland gather to burn an
effigy and throw it in the river to bid winter farewell.
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Birthday’s
Today
93 - Carl Reiner, Bronx, comedian (2000 Year
Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show)
84 - Hal Linden, [Harold Lipshitz], actor
(Barney Miller, Blacke's Magic)
67 - Bobby Orr, NHL defenseman (Boston
Bruins)
58 - Spike Lee [Shelton Jackson Lee], film
director (Jungle Fever, Malcolm X)
57 - Holly Hunter, actress (Broadcast News,
The Piano)
52 - David Thewlis, English actor (Remus
Lupin-Harry Potter series)
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Remembered
for being born today
43 BC-17AD@59ish - Ovid, Roman poet (d. 17)
1856-1915@59 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, father of
scientific management
1902-1979@76 - Edgar Buchanan, actor (Uncle
Joe-Petticoat Junction)
1904-1990@86 - B[urrhus] F[rederic] Skinner, Behaviorism
pioneer (Skinner box)
1906-1975@69 - Ozzie Nelson, actor (The Adventures of
Ozzie and Harriet)
1908-1985@77 - Michael Redgrave, actor (Browning
Version, Lady Vanishes)
1920-2000@80 - Werner Klemperer, actor (Col
Klink-Hogan's Heroes)
1926-1996@61 - Ted Bessell, actor (Don-That Girl,
Frankie-Gomer Pyle)
1928-2003@74 - Fred Rogers, children's TV host (Mr
Rogers' Neighborhood)
1937-2008@71 - Jerry Reed, singer/actor (Bat 21,
Smokey & the Bandit)
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Historical
Obits Today
Queen
Juliana of the Netherlands-2004@94
Liz
Carpenter, American feminist writer-2010@89
Sir
Benjamin Truman - English brewer-1780@80ish
Chet
Huntley, newscaster (NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), cancer-1974@62
Giuseppe [Joe] Zangara, electrocuted for assassination
attempt on FDR-1933@32
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Brain Teasers Answers
A lion.
According to the Bible, God made the beasts of the earth on the sixth day, and
after which, Adam named them.
Samson met a lion in the wild, and when the lion attacked, the spirit of God
came into Samson, and Samson tore the lion apart.
Daniel interpreted the writing on the wall for Belshazzar, the dead king of the
time. He was placed in a den of lion's because he continued to worship God,
which was against the rule of the new king. Then, an angel came in and shut the
lions' mouths.
In Revelation, a lion stands beside God's throne and the lion has six wings.
The last stanza is self-explanatory.
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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…§
