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Mar 2, 2019 Week: 09 \ Day: 60
86004 Today: H 51°
\ L 29° \ Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind: 9 mph\Gusts:
20mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 66°[2009]
Record
Low: -1°[1971]
Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
Everything's got
a moral,
if only you can
find it.
Lewis Carroll
Random Tidbits
Hops, the
bittering agent in beer, belong to the family Cannabaceae, making them
marijuana's close cousins and lending a little perspective to the term
"hopped up."
In Europe
during the Middle Ages, beer, often of very low strength, was an everyday drink
for all classes and ages of people. A document from that time mentions nuns
having an allowance of six pints of ale each day.
Observances This Month
Action & Skill Toys Month
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month
Alport Syndrome Awareness Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month
Asset Management Awareness Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Child Life Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Credit Education Month
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month
Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15)
Employee Spirit Month
Endometriosis Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science & Engineering Month
Observances This Week
Festival of Owls Week: 1-3
National Cheerleading Week: 1-7
National Ghostwriters Week: 1-7
National Pet Sitters Week: 1-7
National Write A Letter of
Appreciation Week: 1-7
Universal Human Beings Week: 1-7
Will Eisner Week: 1-7
Observances for Today
Dr. Seuss Day
Iditarod
National Banana Cream Pie Day
Iditarod
National Banana Cream Pie Day
My Rambling Thoughts
I
had a great birthday yesterday. Great lunch with the Retirement group, then
dinner with some of the Discussion Group. Thanks to all who commented on social
media, and the several Jacquie Lawson cards. I enjoyed everything.
Our
snow is melting nicely with these high temps and the predicted rain this
weekend should finish the job. Not to worry, I know there is more snow on the
horizon this month.
In the Navajo language, March is Wóózhch'į́į́d,
regarding the eaglet that hatched during the last moon cycle, The Crescent Moon
of the Voice of Eaglets. During this moon phase, the eaglets from the last
crescent moon become lively. The first voice that comes from the eaglets is
symbolic to the good change that will take place. Sometimes, this process of
voice development is associated with a boy’s voice deepening during their own
process of change. A new beginning is in store. The eaglet’s cry precedes the
first thunder.
I
am curious as to what caused the breakdown in the talks with N. Korea. Was it as
45 said Kim wouldn’t give in, or was it a lack of prep by 45, or was it the
Cohen remarks? Whatever it was, only time will tell how much damage it did. After
the first summit, 45 did stop the overt testing, just not the covert testing.
Keeping
open eyes on Pakistan and India. The both have nukes, and they are both mad at
each other of some land.
The
most frustrating thing that 45 does is his ability to believe despots over US
intelligence. Putin didn’t interfere in the elections, the Crown Prince had
nothing to do with the murder, and now, Kim had no knowledge of the torture of
an American citizen. Which Americans is the American President trying to impress?
I’m sure that if any former President had made statements like these, there
would have been an uproar from Congress, media, and the American people.
Today’s Significant Historical
Events
1700’s
1791 Long-distance communication
speeds up with the unveiling
of
a semaphore machine in Paris
1799 Congress standardizes US weights
& measures
1800’s
1808 The inaugural meeting of the
Wernerian Natural History Society,
a
former Scottish learned society, was held in Edinburgh.
1819 Territory of Arkansas organized
1819 US passed its 1st immigration law
1824 Interstate commerce comes under
federal control
1861 Government Printing Office
purchases 1st printing plant
1861 US creates Dakota & Nevada
Territories out of the Nebraska &
Utah
territories
1867 US Congress abolishes peonage in
New Mexico
1867 US Congress creates the
Department of Education
1868 University of Illinois opens
1877 US Electoral Commission declares
Rutherford B. Hayes (R) winner
of
the presidential election with an electoral vote of 185-184
against
Samuel J. Tilden (D)
1882 Queen Victoria narrowly escapes
assassination when Roderick
Maclean
shoots at her while boarding a train in Windsor
1887 American Trotting Association
organized in Detroit
1899 President McKinley signs bill
creating Mt Rainier National Park
(5th
in US)
1900’s
1901 United States Congress passes the
Platt amendment, limiting the
autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the
withdrawal of American
troops
1903 Martha Washington Hotel, catering
to women only, opens in NYC
1946 Ho Chi Minh elected President of
North Vietnam
1949 1st automatic street light (New
Milford, Ct)
1962 JFK announces US will resume
above ground nuclear testing
1968 19-year-old American Peggy
Fleming wins her 3rd consecutive
World
Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Geneva,
Switzerland;
announces her retirement, turns professional and
eventually
goes into broadcasting
1970 Supreme Court ruled draft evaders
cannot be penalized
after
5 years
1981 Discovery of minor planet 5020
Asimov, named after sci-fi writer
Isaac
Asimov
1983 Compact Disc recordings developed
by Phillips & Sony introduced
1994 Branch Davidian cult leader David
Koresh promises to surrender
if
taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't
1997 Saudi Arab billionaire Prince
al-Waleed bin Talal acquires
5%
of Apple
2000’s
2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: US
conventional forces first deployed
as
part of Operation Anaconda
2003 The first International Symposium
on Taiwan Sign Language
Linguistics
is held at Chung Cheng University.
2014 President Vladimir Putin receives
unanimous approval from
Russia's
parliament to send troops to the Ukraine
2016 Longest non-stop scheduled
commercial flight by distance,
Emirates
A380 flies 14,200km (8,824 miles) Dubai to Auckland in
17
hours, 15 minutes
2016 Oldest known land fossil
(Tortotubus - 440 million years old) from
Gotland,
Sweden, revealed by British scientists
2016 US astronauts Scott Kelly and
Russian cosmonaut Mikhail
Kornienko
return to earth after nearly a year (340 days), setting
an
ISS record
2017 US Attorney General Jeff Sessions
recuses himself from the
investigation
into Trump campaign contacts with Russia after
revelations
he met Russian ambassador
Birthdays Today
1793
Sam Houston,
American born 1st President of Republic of Texas (1836-38, 1841-
44) who helped bring Texas into the United States as a constituent
state, born in Rockbridge
County, Virginia
(d. 1863-@70)
1824
Konstantin Ushinsky,
Russian educationalist, credited as the founder of scientific
pedagogy in Russia
(d 1847-@46)
1904
Dr. Seuss
[Theodor Geisel],
American children's author (The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs
and Ham), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
(d. 1991-@87)
1907
Jheri [Robert] Redding,
American hairdresser and businessman
(created the Jheri curl and hair conditioner),
born in Rantoul, Illinois
(d. 1998-@91)
1917
Desi Arnaz,
Cuban-American actor (Ricky Ricardo-I Love Lucy),
born in Santiago de Cuba
(d. 1986-@69-lung cancer)
1931
Tom Wolfe,
American journalist and author (The Right Stuff),
born in Richmond, Virginia
(d. 2018-@88)
1950
Karen Carpenter,
vocalist/drummer (We Only Just Begun),
born in New Haven, Connecticut
(d. 1983-@32-anorexia)
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88-
Mikhail Gorbachev,
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet
Union (1985-91), born in Stavropol, Russia
84-
Porky Pig,
Warner Bros. cartoon character created by Friz Freleng
and Frank Tashlin (Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies
series), first debuts in "I Haven't Got a Hat"
57-
Jon Bon Jovi,
rocker (Bon Jovi-Give Love a Bad Name)
56-
Tuff Hedeman,
American retired bull rider
(ambassador of Championship Bull Riding),
born in El Paso, Texas
51-
Daniel Craig,
English actor (James Bond films), born in Chester
42-
Chris Martin,
English musician (Coldplay), born in Exeter, England
39-
Rebel Wilson,
Australian actress and producer (Pitch Perfect, Bridesmaids),
born in Sydney, Australia
Historical Obits Today
@87-1791 John Wesley,
English co-founder of Methodism
@81-1977 Eugénie Brazier,
French chef who was the 1st woman to
earn 3 Michelin stars
(1933), and the 1st person earn 3
Michelin stars for 2 restaurants
@65-1939 Howard Carter,
British archaeologist and Egyptologist
who found King Tutankhamun's tomb,
dies from Hodgkin’s Disease
@62-1999 David Ackles,
American singer and songwriter,
dies of lung cancer
@59-1999 Dusty Springfield,
English singer,
dies of breast cancer
@56-1879 John Eberhard Faber,
German-American pencil manufacturer
and
built 1st large-scale pencil factory
in US
@44-1930 (David Herbert) D. H. Lawrence,
English poet and writer (Lady
Chatterley's Lover),
dies of tuberculosis
