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Almanac: Week: 13 \ Day: 081
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 65°\L 28° Average Sky
Cover: 50%
Wind
ave: 12mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave. High: 51° Record High: 68°
(2004) Ave. Low: 24° Record Low:
-1° (1952)
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Observances
Today:
As
Young As You Feel Day
Black
Marriage Day
Education
and Sharing Day
International
Day of the Seal
International
Goof-off Day
National
Goof-off Day
Tuskegee
Airmen Day
World
Day for Water (aka World Water Day)
World
Day of Metta
to create a change in global
consciousness so that the basic needs of ALL beings may be met.
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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
22-28
…Week of Solidarity with People's
Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
…Consider Christianity Week
…International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
…Meat Free Week
…National Cleaning Week
…National LGBT Health
Awareness Week
…National Youth Violence Prevention
Week
…Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week
…Root Canal Awareness Week
...Tsunami Awareness Week
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1622 - 1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of
whites
Jamestown Virginia,
347 slain
1630 - 1st colonial legislation prohibiting
gambling enacted (Boston)
1638 - Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson expelled
from Massachusetts
Bay Colony
1765 - Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax on
colonists
1790 - Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US
Secretary of State
1794 - Congress bans US vessels from supplying
slaves to other countries
1822 - NY Horticultural Society founded
1841 - Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1861 - 1st US nursing school chartered
1871 - William Holden of NC becomes 1st governor
removed by impeachment
1872 - Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual
equality in employment
1873 - Slavery is abolished in Puerto Rico
1907 - Territorial
Legislature moved the Territorial Prison from Yuma to Florence
1933 - FDR makes wine & beer with up to 3.2%
alcohol legal
1941 - Jimmy Stewart is inducted into the
Army, becoming the first major
American movie star
to wear a military uniform in World War II
1946 - 1st US rocket to leave the Earth's
atmosphere (50 miles up)
1954 - 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield, Mich
1960 - 1st patent for lasers, granted to
Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
1965 - US confirms its troops used chemical warfare
against the Vietcong
1978 - Karl Wallenda of the The Flying Wallendas
dies after falling off
a tight-rope between
two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico
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Today’s World
Events through History
1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great
ceremony to its
current place in Wat
Phra Kaew, Thailand
1903 - Niagera Falls runs out of water because of a
drought
1971 - Brian Faulkner becomes the Prime Minister of
Northern Ireland
1997 - Comet Hale-Bopp Closest Approach to Earth
(1.315 AU)
2014 - Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has already
killed 59 people
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
A quiet, but nice spring day. Went to Sprouts for some ‘real’
food, unpacked and hooked up small fountain for deck, enjoyed some quiet time
on the deck. Really nice day to just enjoy our local beauty and our
neighborhood quiet.
Sadly a Navajo Nation Police Officer was killed by a crazy near
Shiprock. I didn’t know him, but I did know one of the other officers that was
wounded. This killing or wounding of law enforcement officers is such a tragedy.
Happening way to often across the US.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
U.S. state does the following mean?
HLIBNMT
Hint:
becomes a
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Average
Facts…
-- On average, a human being will have sex more than 3,000 times and
spend two weeks kissing in their lifetime.
--As many as one third Americans flush the toilet while they are
still on it.
***NEW***…Education
Facts…
--In Finland, you are given a top hat and a sword when you get a
PhD diploma.
--People with poor mathematical skills aren't necessarily bad at
math because they are 'ungifted'. There is a phenomena called 'Math Anxiety'
that makes people perform worse, sometimes leading to math avoidance, which
leads to lesser knowledge and consequently more math anxiety.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 years ago-1940
--The Saturday night’s annual bonfire was put off until this week
due to last week’s inclement weather and is rescheduled for this Friday.
--The Flagstaff Fire Department reports that there were 39 fires in
1939 caused by hot ashes, chimneys, stoves and fireplaces. 19 residential
fires, 5 business buildings, 5 automobile fires and 4 misc. fires
…Funny
Facts…
-- In 2013, a man bought a house next to his ex-wife just to install
a giant middle finger statue for her to see every day.
--A couple invited the Queen to their wedding as a joke, and she
turned up.
***NEW***…Game
Facts…
-- There's a video game called "Lose/Lose" that deletes a
random file on your computer every time you kill an enemy.
--In 2011, Mortal Kombat was banned in Australia.
…Harper’s
Index…
$160,000
Amount by which a watercolor painting by Adolf Hitler was bought
at auction in Germany November 2014
…Skin Facts…
-- Smokers get ten times more wrinkles than non-smokers.
--The skin on your lips is 200 times more sensitive than your
fingertips.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The Spanish omelet was actually invented in Spain, but over there
it’s eaten as lunch or dinner and is often served cold.
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2 jokes
for the day
A limbo champion walks into a bar...
...and loses his title.
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These are from a book called Disorder in the
Court, and are things people actually said in court, word for word, taken down
and now published by court reporters - who had the torment of staying calm
while these exchanges were actually taking place.
Q: What is your date of birth?
A: July 15th.
Q: What year?
A: Every year.
Q: How old is your son, the one living with you?
A: Thirty-eight or thirty-five, I can't remember which.
Q: How long has he lived with you?
A: Forty-five years.
Q: What was the first thing your husband said to you when he woke up that
morning?
A: He said, "Where am I, Cathy?"
Q: And why did that upset you?
A: My name is Susan.
Q: How was your first marriage terminated?
A: By death.
Q: Is your appearance here this morning pursuant to a deposition notice which I
sent to your attorney?
A: No, this is how I dress when I go to work.
Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy, did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient was alive when you began the
autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been alive and practicing law.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
PATNA,
India (UPI)
Parents in India's Bihar state were caught on camera scaling
school walls to help 10th grade students cheat on their exams. Officials said
more than 600 students -- possibly up to 1,600 -- were expelled in Bihar after
being caught cheating on exams Wednesday and Thursday as 1.4 million 10th grade
students sat for the tests. Education officials said many students smuggled in
textbooks and notes, while pictures and video shot outside several of the
state's schools recorded parents and other family members scaling walls to pass
cheat sheets to students. Education minister PK Shahi said it would be
impossible to completely eradicate cheating without the cooperation of parents
in the state. "It is impossible to hold completely fair examination
without the cooperation of the parents. There are over 1.4 million examinees
and with each of them there are usually three-four people. Managing six to
seven million people is not a cup of tea for any administration. It requires
parental and societal support as well," Shahi told the Hindustan Times.
Prasad Sinha, who formerly served as chair of the Bihar School Examination
Board, said part of the problem is the low quality of instruction in schools.
"After all, unless they are taught in schools, how can they be expected to
answer? Just passing the test should not be the goal, but unfortunately that is
the mindset," Sinha said. Bihar, one of India's poorest states, has only a
64 percent literacy rate, compared to 74 percent for the country as a whole.
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SSomewhat
Useless Information
French people prefer sandwiches and France is the
only country where hamburger sales do not supersede that of other sandwiches.
The most popular sandwich in France is the ham and
butter sandwich “Parisien”, consisting of bread baguette, spread butter and
slices of ham.
The ham and
butter sandwich covers 64% of the total consumption of sandwiches in France, as
830 million sandwiches are bought annually.
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Birthday’s
Today
85 - Pat Robertson, televangelist (700 club)
85 - Stephen Sondheim, lyricist (West Side
Story, Company)
84 - William Shatner, Montreal Canada, actor
(Star Trek, T J Hooker)
81 - May Britt, Sweden, actress (Young
Lions)/wife of Sammy Davis Jr
79 - Roger Whittaker, Nairobi Kenya, country
singer (Durham Town)
74 - Jeremy Clyde, England, rocker (Chad
& Jeremy-Yesterday's Gone)
72 - George Benson, American jazz/blues
singer/guitarist (Greatest Love of All)
67 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer (Phantom
of the Opera, Cats)
67 - Wolf Blitzer, American television
journalist
56 - Matthew Modine, Loma Linda Cal, actor
(Full Metal Jacket)
39 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress
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Remembered
for being born today
1846-1886@39 - Randolph Caldecott, England,
illustrator (Caldecott Medal)
1887-1961@74 - Chico
Marx, [Leonard Martin], comedian (Marx Brothers)
1902-1988@85 - Ellin
Berlin, [MacKay], Mrs Irving Berlin, writer (Lace Curtain)
1908-1988@80 - Louis
D L'Amour, Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett)
1912-2009@97 - Karl
Malden, actor (Mike-Streets of SF, American Express)
1920-1981@61 - Ross Martin, Grodek Poland, actor (Mr
Lucky, Wild Wild West)
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Historical
Obits Today
Walter
Lantz, US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker)-1994@94
William
Hanna, American animator and studio founder-2001@90
James W.
Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor-2010@85
J W
Goethe, writer-1832@82
Karl
Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire-1978@73
Mike Todd, US film
and theatre producer, plane crash-1958@48
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Brain Teasers Answers
ALABAMA.
Hint: becomes a = Take the letters in HINT, and change it into the
letter A.
(H)L(I)B(N)M(T) = ALABAMA
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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…§
