Mar 25

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Mar 25, 2019 Week: 13 \ Day: 84

86004 Today: H 55° \ L 25° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  15mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 72°[1988]   Record Low: 1°[1913]

Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Idealism increases in direct proportion

to one's distance from the problem.

John Galsworthy

Random Tidbits

For every $1 spent on food, farmers get less than 12 cents for the raw product.

The world population will jump from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050. Farmers will need to double food production by then to keep pace.

Observances This Week

Lent: 6-4/20

National Cherry Blossom Festival: 20-4/14  

International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination: 21-27

Health Information Professionals Week: 24-30

International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week: 24-30 

National Cleaning Week: 24-30

National Protocol Officer's Week: 24-30

Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week: 24-30

National Physicians Week: 24-30 

Observances for Today

Feast of the Annunciation

International Day of Remembrance of The Victims of Slavery and The Transatlantic
International Day of The Unborn Child  Link
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members Link
National Day of Celebration of Greek & American Democracy
National Medal of Honor Day
Old New Year's Day
Pecan Day
Tolkien Reading Day
Vaffeldagen (Waffle Day) Link

My Rambling Thoughts

I watched the Sunday shows, but Fareed wasn’t on. Lots of speculation on the Mueller report. Then around noon the ‘letter’ was released. Now the long American Nightmare continues with…drumroll…more speculation.

Looks like we just live with his strange personality, strange morals, and very strange political stands. I wonder if this will allow someone to prevent any hacking in the 2020 campaign. I am just waiting now for the pardons of 45’s associates who committed crimes. Strange times we are living in.

It’s a beautiful day outside, and I’m going for a long walk with my iPod to clear out all this mess from my brain.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1100’s

1199 Richard I, Lion Heart, King of England, is wounded by a crossbow

            bolt while fighting France, leads to his death on April 6

1300’s

1306 Robert the Bruce crowned Robert I, King of Scots, having killed his

            rival John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch

1600’s

1634 Under charter granted to Lord Baltimore and led by his brother

            Leonard Calvert first settlers found Catholic colony of Maryland

1800’s

1807 First fare-paying, passenger railway service in the world

            established on the Oystermouth Railway in Swansea, Wales

1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for

            his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism

1851 Yosemite Valley discovered in California by non-Indigenous people

1900’s

1919 Woodrow Wilson's dream of a League of Nations becomes a reality

            after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace

            Conference

1937 Washington Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed

            advertising page

1955 United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem

            "Howl" as obscene.

1960 DH Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)

1961 Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered

1965 Martin Luther King Jr. leds 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery,

            Alabama

2000’s

2018 First scheduled non-stop flight between Australia and the UK,

            leaves Perth for Heathrow airport in London, arrives after 17

            hours

2018 North Korean leader Kim Jong un begins surprise trip to Beijing by

            train to meet Chinese President Xi Jinping

Birthdays Today

1867 Arturo Toscanini,

conductor (NBC) born in Parma Italy

(d. 1957:@89)

1881 Béla Bartok,

Hungarian composer and pianist (Concerto for Orchestra),

born in Nagyszentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary

(d. 1945:@64)

1906 A.J.P Taylor

[Alan John Percival],

English historian (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918,

Origins of the Second World War),

born in Southport, England

(d. 1990:@84)

1906 Howard Pyle,

(Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)

(d. 1911:@58-kidney infection)

1908 David Lean,

English director (Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter),

born in Croydon, England

(d.1991:@83)

1921 Simone Signoret,

French actress (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top),

born in Wiesbaden, Germany

(d. 1985@@64-pancreatic cancer)

1922 Eileen Ford,

American modelling agency executive and

co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency),

born in Manhattan, New York,

(d. 2014:@92)

1938 Hoyt Axton,

actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters), singer

born in Duncan, Oklahoma

(d. 1999:@61-heart attacks)

1942 Aretha Franklin,

American singer-songwriter known as "The Queen of Soul"

(Respect) and first female performer inducted into Rock and Roll

Hall of Fame (1987),

born in Memphis, Tennessee

(d. 2018:@86-pancreas issues)

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85: Gloria Steinem,

American feminist and publisher (Ms Magazine),

born in Toledo, Ohio

72- Elton John

[Reginald Kenneth Dwight],

English singer (Rocketman),

born in Pinner, Middlesex

66- Mary Gross,

actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds),

born in Chicago, Illinois

54- Sarah Jessica Parker,

American actress (Square Pegs, Sex and the City),

born in Nelsonville, Ohio

Historical Obits Today

@76-2006 Buck Owens,

American singer and television personality

dies from heart attack

@69-1992 Nancy Walker,

American actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife),

dies of cancer

@68-1975 Faisal,

King of Saudi Arabia (1964-75),

shot by nephew

@55-1918 Claude Debussy,

French composer (Nocturnes, La Mer),

dies in Paris of cancer