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Almanac: Week: 13 \ Day: 083
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 61°\L 35° Average Sky
Cover: 95%
Wind
ave: 11mph\Gusts: 29mph
Ave. High: 52° Record High: 70°
(1956) Ave. Low: 24° Record Low:
0° (1904)
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Observances
Today:
National
Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
American Diabetes Association Alert Day
International Day for the Right to the
Truth Concerning Gross
Human Rights Violations and for Dignity of
Victims
World Tuberculosis Day
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Observances This
Week:
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
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1617 - King James I,
of England, decides the Indians of Virginia must be
educated-- directs
the Anglican church to collect funds to build churches and schools
1629 - 1st game law passed in American colonies, by
Virginia
1664 - Roger Williams is granted a charter to
colonize Rhode Island
1765 - Britain enacts Quartering Act, required
colonists to provide temporary
housing to British
soldiers
1792 - Benjamin West (US) becomes president of
Royal Academy of London
1828 - Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st
state owned) authorized
1832 - Mormon Joseph Smith beaten, tarred
& feathered in Ohio
1855 - Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas
1868 - Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
1877 - University boat race between Oxford &
Cambridge ends in a dead heat
1883 - 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago
1898 - 1st automobile sold
1900 - New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck
breaks ground
for a new underground
"Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn
1913 - Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway NYC
1926 - The
Clifton-Springerville highway through Apache National Forest
opened, paving the
way for growth in Arizona's lumber industry.
1930 - 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS
NYC)
1930 - Planet Pluto named
1935 - Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes
national on NBC Radio Network
1937 - National Gallery of Art established by
Congress
1947 - Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the
presidency
1947 - John D. Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East
River site to the UN
1980 - ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program
renamed "Nightline"
1989 - Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills
11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
1998 - Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon
teachers and students at
Westside Middle
School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; 5 dead\10wounded
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Today’s World
Events through History
1603 - Scottish
King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I
of England in
succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns
1837 - Canada gives black citizens the right to vote
1882 - German scientist Robert Koch discovers
bacillus cause of TB
1906 - "Census of the British Empire"
shows Britain rules 1/5 of the world
1924 - Greece becomes a republic
1927 - Cuban chess champion Jose Capablanca wins
33-day Grand Chess Tourney
2012 - African Union deploys 5,000 strong force
with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony
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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 Monday…for a Monday.
Lots of wind today, woke me several times last night. Ran a few
errands.
So Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz is running for President. Hoping his super conservative ideas will
unite the Far Right and then when he doesn’t get the nomination that the Far
Right of the Republican Party will quietly fade into history. It will be
interesting to hear how the Far Right handles his Canadian birth to an American
mom and the idea that he withdrew his dual citizenship in 2014.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you figure out the logic I used to decide the order of the following words:
gun, shoe, spree, door, hive, kicks, heaven, gate, line, den
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Average
Facts…
-- On average there are 180 sesame seeds on a bun of a BigMac.
--The average person eats almost 1500 pounds of food a year.
…Education
Facts…
--There’s a Swedish power metal band called “Sabaton” who teach
history through their music, including an album devoted to teaching about World
War Two.
--In 1987, an 18 year old freshmen named Mike Hayes funded his
education by asking 2.8 million people for one penny.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
--The National Park Service has awarded a contract to construct an
8-inch waterline across the heart of the Grand Canyon to the Ellling Halvorsen
Construction Co. of Seattle at $2,277,557. The line will stretch for over 10
miles from Roaring Springs on the North Rim down Bright Angel Canyon, across
the Colorado River then up to Indian Gardens, where it will tie into the
existing line to the South Rim.
--The roads in the Mountainaire subdivision were not originally
built up to standard and have become essentially impassable. The school buses
are unable to get in to pick up the children. The subdivision, which opened in
1960, has been plagued with many problems. The waterline leaks have not been
repaired since last summer and the booster tank has run dry on many occasions.
Further, the construction of substandard shacks and the placement of
substandard trailers has been going on as well as improperly located septic
tanks and outhouses.
--The low bid for repair of the city garage that was damaged by
fire earlier was offered by a Flagstaff firm and includes a skylight that will
improve the light in the garage.
…Game
Facts…
-- In the wake of Goat Simulator's popularity, 'Rock Simulator 2014'
was developed and released. Gameplay simulates life as a rock.
--As of 2011, gamers have collectively spent over 6 million years
playing World of Warcraft. That's almost as long as the existence of the human
species!
…Harper’s
Index…
$238
Amount the beverage industry spent lobby against the CA soda tax for
every vote cast against the initiative
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The first rhinoplasty was performed in India around the 5th
century CE. It involved a creeper vine leaf, a hunk of flesh sliced off of the
patient’s cheek, and two small pipes to serve as nostrils. The procedure was
wildly popular—albeit involuntary. At the time, Hindu law decreed that the
schnozzes be sliced off all adulterers and—human nature being what it is—that
turned out to include an awful lot of people.
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2 jokes
for the day
"I’m getting a divorce," said Jack
to his mate, Bill. "The wife hasn't spoken with me for six months."
Bill thought for a moment and then replied, "Just make sure you know what
you’re doing, Jack. Wives like that are hard to find."
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A little silver-haired lady calls her neighbor
and says:
"Please come over here and help me. I have a killer jigsaw puzzle, and I
can't figure out how to get started."
Her neighbor asks, "What is it supposed to be when it's finished?"
The little silver haired lady says, "According to the picture on the box,
it's a rooster."
Her neighbor decides to go over and help with the puzzle.
She lets him in and shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the
table.
He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her
and says:
"First of all, no matter what we do, we're not going to be able to
assemble these pieces into anything resembling a rooster."
He takes her hand and says, "Secondly, I want you to relax. Let's have a
nice cup of tea, and then," he said with a deep sigh ...
"Let's put all the Corn Flakes back in the box."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
South
Dakota
Remember the scare film from 1939; Reefer Madness? It was
propaganda designed to show parents that if they let their kids smoke
'Mary-Jane' they would turn into sex-addicted, violent sociopaths. Even back
then the movie was laughable to all but the most naive audiences, and now we
are able to look back on it as the ignorant paranoia that it is... except that
it totally isn't! A recent incident in South Dakota makes the mayhem depicted
in Reefer Madness look like mischievous hijinks.
The story starts with a teenager smoking pot with two friends in the basement
of his father's house. Mistake no. 1; don't smoke pot indoors if there is a
risk of being detected. That smell is impossible to hide.
So the father discovered them and ordered the two friends to leave, but when
his son wanted to leave with his friends his father refused to let him go.
That's when a scuffle broke out.
Dad was able to hold both of them while he called the police, but no arrests or
report was made because he just wanted his son's friends to leave.
You would think that narrowly avoiding arrest for possession and consumption of
marijuana would be enough adventure for a couple of teens for one night, but
these two, cranked up on the sticky-icky, immediately went to round up 20 of
their watery-eyed friends and laid in wait for the dad.
When he went outside to move a car parked in his driveway, the mob surrounded
the car and started beating on it and smashing the windows.
Finding himself in a scene out of a horror movie, the victim threw that hooptie
in gear and took off across the lawn.
One neighbor said, "All of a sudden, I saw a car going 30 to 40 mph hit
the curb. All you could see is headlights and kids running all over, then I saw
a kid get hit while he was coming off the curb. That's when they switched to
start chasing each other in their cars."
The neighbor called police to report the incident. He tried to get the plates
of the vehicles the teens were in but was unsuccessful.
"Then it was just constant cars flying down these roads. They were hitting
and swerving at each other. You don't even see this stuff on TV."
Eventually, the mob dispersed. The victim was able to identify a few of the
teens but didn't know most of them.
One witness said he thinks both the teens and the victim should be arrested. He
said the victim was trying to run the teens over and could have handled the
situation better.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
--Although
human nature suggests that the first kiss would have been shared much earlier,
anthropologists have traced the first recorded kiss to India in approximately
1500 B.C. Early Vedic documents report people "sniffing" with their
mouths and describe how lovers join "mouth to mouth."
--The tradition that inspired the phrase "You may kiss the bride"
probably originated in ancient Rome. To seal their marriage contract, couples
kissed in front of a large group of people. The Romans had three different
categories of kisses: osculum, a kiss on the cheek; basium, a kiss on the lips;
and savolium, a deep kiss.
--The strange but sweet butterfly kiss is named for its similarity to a
butterfly's fluttering wings. Simply put your eye a whisper away from your
partner's eye or cheek, and bat your leashes repeatedly.
--The adrenaline rush you get when you jump out of a plane or run a marathon is
essentially the same rush you get from kissing. The neurotransmitters that fire
when you're kissing cause the heart to beat faster and the breath to become
deeper.
--Sideshows at the Olympic games of ancient Greece included kissing
competitions. How one would have judged such a thing is hard to know, but
similar competitions still crop up from time to time, usually for fund-raising
purposes or simply for spectacle's sake.
--The first on-film kiss occurred between John C. Rice and May Irwin in the
movie The Kiss (1896).
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Birthday’s
Today
75 - Bob Mackie, designer (Streisand, Cher)
64 - Pat Bradley, LPGA golfer (1981 US
Women's Open)
53 - Star Jones, attorney/TV hostess (NBC,
Inside Edition)
42 - Jim Parsons,
actor, The Big Bang Theory
39 - Peyton Manning,
American football player
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Remembered
for being born today
1733-1804@71 - Joseph Priestley, clergyman/scientist
(discovered oxygen)
1814-1910@95 - Galen Clark, US, naturalist/discovered
Mariposa Grove, Yosemite
1834-1902@68 - John Wesley Powell, US,
geologist/explorer/ethnologist
1855-1937@82 - Andrew W. Mellon, banker (Mellon Bank),
Secretary of Treasury
1874-1926@52 - Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest,
magician/escape artist
1887-1933@46 - Roscoe
"Fatty" Arbuckle, actor
(Keystone comedies)
189- 2006@107- Dorothy Stratton, organizer
(SPARS-women's US Coast Guard)
1902-1971@68 - Thomas E. Dewey, Governor\Republican
presidential candidate
1907-1986@88 - Lucia Chase, US ballerina/co-founder
(American Ballet Theater)
1910-1934@23 - Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie
& Clyde fame)
1915-1963@48 - Gorgeous George (George Wagner), professional
wrestler
1924-1998@74 - Norman Fell, actor (Mr Roper-3's
Company)
1930-1980@50 - Steve McQueen, actor (The Magnificent
Seven)
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Historical
Obits Today
Sam Jaffe, actor
(Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)-1984@93
Richard
Widmark, American actor-2008@93
Mary,
[Victoria Mary] of Teck, Queen of GB and consort of George V-1953@85
Robert
Culp, American actor (I Spy), heart attack-2010@79
Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), peritonitis-1882@75
Elizabeth
I Tudor, [Virgin Queen], of England and Ireland,depression-1603@69
Peter
Lorre, Hungarian/US actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), stroke-1964@59
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Brain Teasers Answers
Each word rhymes with its numeric position in the list. (e.g.
"gun" rhymes with "one", etc.)
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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…§
