Mar 21

 

Welcome first full day of spring!

Mar 21, 2021   Week: 13    Day: 80  Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 58°\ L 29°                                 Ave. Sky Cover: 5%                  

Wind:  11mph/ Gusts:  12mph        Nearest Lightning: 242mi.                                                     

Moderate Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  149mi

Record: 70°[2004]  Record:[1948]  

Mar. Averages: 53°/23° (6 days with moisture)            

Today’s Quote

Well, spring sprang. We've had our state of grace and our little gift of sanctioned madness, courtesy of Mother Nature. Thanks, Gaia. Much obliged. I guess it's time to get back to that daily routine of living we like to call normal.

David Assael, Northern Exposure, Spring Break, 1991

Random Tidbits

One study found that while most men believe they are "supposed" to pay for dates, and a fair number of women let them, nearly half of men say they would dump a woman who never offered to help pay.

A Little Something to Think About

If a dentist and a manicurist get married, will they fight tooth and nail?

If you board a nonstop flight, when will you ever get off?

If during deer season and duck season, you can shoot deer and ducks, what can you shoot during tourist season?

Weekly Observations

Lent [Christian]

Thru 4/3

Act Happy Week 
International Brain Awareness Week Link
International Teach Music Week
National Fix A Leak Week
Link
Shakespeare Week 
Link

 

15-21

American Council on Education

20-22

National Cherry Blossom Festival Link

20-4/10

Passiontide

21-4/3

American Chocolate Week Link
Consider Christianity Week
International Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
Passion Week
National Agriculture Week
National Animal Poison Prevention Week
 Link  Link
National Inhalant/Poisons Awareness Week 
Link   Link
National Poison Prevention Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
World Folktales & Fables Week

 

 

 

 

21-27

Wellderly Week

21-28

 

Today’s Observations

 Common Courtesy Day

Credit Card Reduction Day

Fragrance Day

French Bread Day

Gallo Wine Day
International Color Day  
Link
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
International Day of Forests and The Tree 
Link
International Sports Car Racing Day 
Link 
Memory Day
National Common Courtesy Day
National Crunchy Taco Day

National Day of Action On Syringe Exchange Link
National Fragrance Day 
Link 
National Healthy Fats Day
National Renewable Energy Day
National Single Parent Day 
Link 
Naw-Ruz; Noruz--
Baháʼí New Year Link
Teenager Day

Twitter Day (Social Media Application)
World Down Syndrome Day
Link
World Poetry Day Link   Link
World Puppetry Day
Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice change of season day…a tad windy. Warm and blue sky.

Congrats to the UofColorado Buffs on the Men’s win at the NCAA tourney. I enjoyed the blowout game. A sidenote: Patrick Ewing, the Georgetown coach, played in the 84 Olympics in LA. I took a break from the Olympics and went to Disneyland. While taking a quick restroom break, Patrick and a couple of other players had the same idea. After washing hands, we shook hands and wished them luck. At the same Olympic trip, we stopped at a Pizza Place on Santa Monica Pier and met Carl Lewis, the runner. Memorable trip.

The closest entrance to Grand Canyon Nat’l Park is the east gate…near Cameron on the Navajo Rez. It has been closed since last March. It will be reopening on May 21st, 2021. This is great news, especially for the many tourist stands along the road to the Grand Canyon. Things are slowly looking up.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

What is a one-word uncapitalized anagram of Monday?

Historical Events

1617 – Pocahontas (Rebecca Rolfe) died of either smallpox or pneumonia while in England with her husband, John Rolfe.

1788 – The Great New Orleans Fire destroyed 80% of the city.

1859 – The first Zoological Society was incorporated in Philadelphia. PA, today simply called ‘The Philadelphia Zoo.’

1925 – Butler Act became a state law in Tennessee that prohibited “The teaching of the Evolution Theory in all the Universities, Normal and all other public schools of Tennessee, which are supported in whole or in part by the public school funds of the State, and to provide penalties for the violations thereof that it shall be unlawful to teach any theory that denies the story of the Divine Creation of man as taught in the Bible, and to teach instead that man has descended from a lower order of animals.” It was repealed on May 17, 1967.

1942 – A report was submitted suggesting the name “plutonium” for artificial element 94 since it followed neptunium and uranium (elements 93 and 92).

1963 – Alcatraz Prison in San Francisco Bay closed and transferred its remaining prisoners.

1965 – Martin Luther King Jr., and 3200 civil rights demonstrators began a historic March from Selma, Alabama to the state capitol at Montgomery.

1980 – President Jimmy Carter announced that the United States would boycott the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer.

1986 – Debi Thomas became the first African American to win the World Figure Skating Championships.

1989 – Sports Illustrated reported allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.

2006 – Twitter was founded.

2018 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg admits they "made mistakes" after data on 50 million users is harvested by Cambridge Analytica.

2019 US President Donald Trump says US should recognize Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights on Twitter.

2019 Levi Strauss & Company is traded publicly for the second time in its history on the New York stock exchange.

Birthdays Today

@83 – Julio Gallo, businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery (d. 1993)

75 – Timothy Dalton, Welsh-English actor

@70 – Eddie Money, American singer-songwriter (d. 2019; cancer)

@65 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German Baroque composer, musician (d. 1750)

59 – Matthew Broderick, American actor

59 – Rosie O’Donnell, American actress and talk show host

 

Puzzle Answer

dynamo

 

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