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Mar 12, 2019 Week: 11 \ Day: 70
86004 Today: H 48°
\ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind: 6mph\Gusts:
8mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 72°[1900] Record Low: -1°[1917]
Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
One who deceives
will always find those
who allow
themselves to be deceived.
Niccolo
Machiavelli
Random Tidbits
Catholics believe that the pope, who is based in
Rome, is the successor to Saint Peter, which Christ appointed as the first head
of His church.
Catholics rely more on ritual and ceremony than
do most other Christian religions. The intent of the rituals is to create an
experience in which faith is felt and religion literally comes to life, with
God's presence in the here-and-now world.
Observances This Week
Lent: 6-20
National Catholic Sisters Week:
8-14
World Rattlesnake Roundup: 8-10
American Council on Education: 9-12
Campfire USA Birthday Week: 10-16
Girl Scout Week: 10-16
Termite Awareness Week: 10-16
National Agriculture Week: 10-16
International Brain Awareness Week:
11-17
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living
Sign: 11-17
Observances for Today
Organize Your Home
Office Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday
was just a lazy day. Enjoyed every minute of it.
Up
early this morning to get out and about. Got what I needed and headed home. Got
home just as the clouds filled the sky. Weather guy sez and inch or two tomorrow.
Last prediction was a bust, but I had my Medicare annual appointment tomorrow
at 8:15, so I expect it to be at least 2”.
Hats
off to the Poarch Band of the Creek the tribe for stepping up and stepping out
to pay the entire funeral expenses of victims of the Alabama tornado. None of
the 23 Megachurches in Alabama stepped up, but did offer prayers.
So
sad to hear of the Ethiopian plane crash. Focus flew that airline a few years back
on our adventure in Ethiopia. It has shown to be a great airline for all of Africa.
I hope they find out the cause fast.
Dear
45: I am a democrat and I don’t hate anyone.
Today’s Significant Historical
Events
1300’s
1365 University of Vienna founded
1400’s
1455 First record of Johannes
Gutenberg's Bible, letter dated this
day
by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a year
before
1600’s
1664 1st naturalization act in
American colonies
1700’s
1755 1st steam engine in America
installed, to pump water from a mine
1800’s
1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US
state college for women
1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for
the first time in a candy store in
Vicksburg,
Mississippi
1900’s
1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes
Carnegie Hero Fund
1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms
in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
1917 A German submarine sinks an
unarmed US merchant ship, the
'Algonquin'
on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson
gives
executive order to arm US merchant ships
1933 FDR conducts his 1st
"fireside chat"
1947 US President Harry Truman
introduces Truman-doctrine to fight
communism
1951 Comic strip "Dennis the
Menace," 1st appears in the British comic
magazine
The Beano'
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
pledges to regain Arab territory
from
Israel
1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the
Czech Republic, Hungary and
Poland
join NATO.
2000’s
2003 Elizabeth Smart found after
having been missing for 9 months.
2011 A reactor at the Fukushima
Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and
explodes
and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day
after
Japan's earthquake.
2018 British Prime Minister Theresa
May says Russia was "highly likely"
to have poisoned a Russian spy and his
daughter on March 4
with
nerve agent
2018 Research shows Chinese cites have
decreased pollution by 32
percent
on average in just four years
Birthdays Today
1862
Jane Delano,
American nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
(d. 1919-@57)
1921
Gordon MacRae,
American singer and actor (Oklahoma!, Carousel),
born in East Orange, New Jersey
(d. 1986-@64-mouth cancer)
1922
Jack Kerouac,
American Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues),
born in Lowell, Massachusetts
(d. 1969-@47- abdominal hemorrhage)
1923
Walter M Schirra Jr,
Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7),
born in Hackensack, New York
(d. 2007-@84)
1928
Edward Albee,
American playwright (Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?),
born in Virginia
(d. 2016-@88)
1940
Al Jarreau,
American jazz singer (Moonlighting),
born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (
d. 2017-@76-repiratory failure)
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87-
Andrew Young,
US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
86-
Barbara Feldon,
American actress (Agent 99-Get Smart),
born in Pittsburgh
72-
Liza Minnelli,
American singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret),
born in Hollywood, California
72-
Mitt Romney,
70th Republican Governor of Massachusetts and
presidential candidate,
born in Detroit, Michigan
71-
James Taylor,
vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof),
born in Boston, Massachusetts
69-
Jon Provost,
actor (Timmy-Lassie)
Historical Obits Today
@80-2015 Michael Graves,
American postmodernist architect and
designer
@68±-1563 John Bull,
English composer, musician and organ
builder, credited with
composing Britain's national anthem
"God Save The King/Queen"
(debated)
@67-1914 George Westinghouse,
American entrepreneur, engineer
(Westinghouse Electric) and
pioneer of the electrical industry
@65-2012 Michael Hossack,
American drummer (The Doobie
Brothers),
dies of cancer
@58-1925 Sun Yat-sen,
Chinese revolutionary and father of
modern China,
dies of liver cancer
@54-2003 Cherlynne Theresa "Lynne" Thigpen,
American actress (Carmen Sandiego,
Lean on Me),
dies from stroke
@37±1883 Murrumgunarriman,
[Twopenny],
cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868),
dies of dropsy
@15-1945 Anne Frank,
Dutch diarist and Jewish victim of the
Nazi Holocaust
(Diary of Anne Frank),
dies of typhus in the Belsen
concentration camp
