Mar 4

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1837 - Chicago becomes incorporated as a city

1861 - Confederate States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag

1924 - "Happy Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny

1944 - 1st US bombing of Berlin

1985 - Virtual ban on leaded gas ordered by EPA

♪Happy Birthday To: ♪                     

 

Free Rambling Thoughts   

A good Saturday…good day for a walk. Gotta love Flag. Amazing, NFL team members playing a lottery to see who can hurt the opposing team members. Really?!? One team, two teams, the list is growing. The coach who started this lottery has apologized for the mistake, acknowledging that they knew it was wrong when they did it. And, while he has moved to another team, he still has his job. Really?!? Hey, Rush…too little too late. Too bad he doesn’t understand how birth control works. He apologized the grad student, but still believes the use of birth control is to allow recreational sex. Time for him to stop being a shock jock, and getting his life together, away from the public view.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

This week's puzzle involves the letters P-S-U as in Portland State University, where Will spoke on Saturday. Each answer is a familiar two-word phrase in which the first word starts with "P" and the second word starts with "SU." So if the clue is "What a lawyer conducts to see if an invention has been made before," the answer would be "patent survey."

1.      Luxury accommodations at the top of a building:

2.      NBA team in AZ:

3.      Medical procedure to improve one’s appearance:

4.      Buddy Holly hit with lyrics ‘I love you, yes I do’:

5.      Women’s business attire that is not a dress:

6.      A wood court for basketball or a grass field for football:

7.      Shrub that can give you a rash:

8.      Former football star who was spokesman for True Value:

9.      Chemical compound K₂SO₄:

10.   Community event where everyone brings a dish for everyone to share:

11.   One week before Easter:

12.   Like a weather forecast with some clouds:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

Planet Earth—Ireland

Found on You Tube         

Orion nebula M42 live through telescope

Harper’s Index         

Percentage of Americans who disapprove of a deficit-reduction with no tax increases: 60

Joke-of-the-day

Two man playing golf were held up by two women playing in front of them.
One man said: "I'll walk up to them and tell them to hurry up."
When he returned he said: "I have a problem, one of the women is my wife and the other one is my mistress."
The second man said: "I'll walk up to them and hurry them up."
He came back and said: " We both have the same problem.”

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

If a taxi driver talks a lot, let him; if he doesn't talk, don't ask him to; and if he laughs all the time, never ask him why.

Somewhat Useless Information    

Poet and novelist Jack Kerouac coined the term "Beat" in the late 1940s, but was not until the 1950s that it would become a slang term symbolizing a literary movement by writers such as Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs. The "Beat" movement rejected the social constraints of the 1950s and reflected a growing disillusionment with the "establishment" and traditional American values.

Ben Jonson was named the first poet laureate of England in 1616. The title, however, did not become an official royal office until 1668, when John Dryden assumed the honored post.

T.S. Eliot wrote "The Waste Land", arguably his most famous poem, which documents the journey of the human soul in its search for redemption.

Yeah, It Really Happened                 

CHANGSHA, China - Doctors in China said they are trying to figure out how they will remove a thermometer that has been inside a woman's lung for 44 years. The Hunan province doctors said they found the 2-inch-long medical thermometer in the lungs of a patient identified only as Liu and she told them she accidentally swallowed the object when she was 12-years-old and her family couldn't afford medical care, MSNBC.com reported Thursday. Doctors said the woman only recently began to feel discomfort from the thermometer and they are concerned about the damage the mercury could do to the woman's body if the glass breaks.

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Month:

Education Observations

Credit Education Month

Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science & Engineering Month

Honor Society Awareness Month

Humorists Are Artists Month

International Expect Success Month

International Ideas Month

International Listening Awareness Month

Music In Our Schools Month 

National Cheerleading Safety Month

National Ethics Awareness Month

National March Into Literacy Month

National Social Work Month

National Women's History Month

Play The Recorder Month

Sing With Your Child Month

Small Press Month  

Women's History Month

Youth Art Month

Food Observations

Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month 
Berries and Cherries Month 

Exotic Winter Fruit & Leeks and Green Onions Month

National Caffeine Awareness Month

National Frozen Food Month National Peanut Month

National Nutrition Month

Health & Wellness Observations

American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month  

Child Life Month Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month

Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month 
Deaf History Month Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month

National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month

National Eye Donor Month
National Kidney Month

Poison Prevention Awareness Month

Save Your Vision Month

Spiritual Wellness Month

Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month

Miscellaneous Observations

Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month 
Employee Spirit Month
International Mirth Month
International Women's Month
Irish-American Heritage Month
National Athletic Training Month
National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month
National Color Therapy Month
National Craft Month 
National Kite Month 
National On-Hold Month
National Umbrella Month
Optimism Month
Supply Management Month 

…Happening This Week:

1-7

National Cheerleading Week

National Ghostwriters Week

National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week

Universal Human Beings Week

2-4

Festival of Owls Week

3-18

Iditarod Race

4-10

 Celebrate Your Name Week

National Consumer Protection Week

National Procrastination Week

National Schools Social Work Week

National Words Matter Week

Professional Pet Sitters Week

Save Your Vision Week

Read an E-Book Week

Return The Borrowed Books Week

Teen Tech Week

Women in Construction Week

Today Is                                                                      

Courageous Follower Day

Daughters' and Sons' Day

Iditarod

International Scrapbooking Industry Day

Holy Experiment Day:

a day to try something religious-- Pray for someone to get better; Pray for snow; Pray for your team to win the super bowl; Pray someone will ask you on a date; Try saying grace at dinner and see if others join you; Try to get a person to attend religious services; Plan to convert someone to your religion

March Forth-Do Something Day

National Day of Unplugging

National Grammar Day

Old Inauguration Day

1793 - Washington's 2nd inauguration, shortest speech (133 words)

1797 - John Adams inaugurated as 2nd president of US

1801 - 1st president inaugurated in Washington DC (Thomas Jefferson)

1809 - Madison becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes

1825 - John Quincy Adams inaugurated as 6th president

1829 - Andrew Jackson inaugurated as 7th president

1837 - Martin Van Buren inaugurated as 8th president

1845 - James K Polk inaugurated at 11th president

1849 - US had no president, Polk’s term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd

1861 - Lincoln's inaugurated as 16th pres; 1st time US has 5 former pres

1869 - Ulysses Grant inaugurated as 18th president

1881 - James A Garfield inaugurated as 20th president

1885 - Grover Cleveland inaugurated as 1st Democratic pres since Civil War

1889 - Benjamin Harrison inaugurated as 23rd president

1893 - Grover Cleveland (D) inaugurated as 24th US president (2nd term)

1897 - William McKinley inaugurated as 25th president of US

1901 - President William McKinley inaugurated for 2nd term as president

1909 - President Taft inaugurated at 27th president during 10" snowstorm

1913 - Woodrow Wilson inaugurated as 28th president

1925 - Pres Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations

1929 - Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP Herbert Hoover inaugurated as 31st president

1933 - FDR inaugurated as 32nd pres

Toy Soldier Day

World Day of Prayer

US: Vermont: Admission Day (1791 as 14^th state)

Today’s Other Events                                                             

Before 1000CE

51 - Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth)

1400’s

1492 - King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England

1600’s

1681 - King Charles II grants William Penn royal charter for Penn

1700’s

1774 - 1st sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)

1791 - Pres Washington calls the US Senate into its 1st special session

1800’s

1804 - The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony's only significant convict uprising

1841 - Longest inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison

1863 - Territory of Idaho established

1881 - California becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation

1900’s

1902 - American Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago

1909 - US prohibits interstate transportation of game birds

1921 - Hot Springs National Park created in Arkansas

1930 - Coolidge Dam in Arizona dedicated

1957 - The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90

1966 - John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"

1977 - 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM

1978 - Chicago Daily News, founded in 1875, publishes last issue

1997 - President Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research

2000’s

2001 - 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA

2002 - Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions

2005 - United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 60’s

Rick Perry, Governor of Texas is 62

In their 50’s

Patricia Heaton, actor (Debra-Everybody Loves Raymond ) is 54

Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini, boxer is 51

Steven Weber, actor (Brian Hackett-Wings) is 51

In their 40’s

Chaz Bono [Chastity Sun Bono], actor is 43

Remembered for being born on this day

Chief Tahachee (Jeff Davis Tahchee Cypert), Old Settler Cherokee Indian stage and film actor and author in 1904

Harry B Helmsley, billionaire builder (Empire State Building) in 1909

Henry the Navigator, Prince/sponsors Portuguese voyages of discovery in 1394

Miriam Makeba, Johannesburg South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965) ( Click Song) in 1932

Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter in 1756

 Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (Freight Train) in 1935

Today’s Obits                                                           

Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court dies at 91 in 1999

Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail dies of food poisoning eating rancid bear meat at  62 in 1868

Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II dies at 27 in 1238

Minnie Pearl, country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry), dies at 84 in 1996

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.      Luxury accommodations at the top of a building:

a.      penthouse suite

2.      NBA team in AZ:

a.      Phoenix Suns

3.      Medical procedure to improve one’s appearance:

a.      plastic surgery

4.      Buddy Holly hit with lyrics ‘I love you, yes I do’:

a.      Peggy Sue

5.      Women’s business attire that is not a dress:

a.      Pants Suit

6.      A wood court for basketball or a grass field for football:

a.       playing surface

7.      Shrub that can give you a rash:

a.      poison sumac

8.      Former football star who was spokesman for True Value:

a.      Pat Summerall

9.      Chemical compound K₂SO₄:

a.      Potassium Sulfate

10.   Community event where everyone brings a dish for everyone to share:

a.      Potluck supper

11.   One week before Easter:

a.      Palm Sunday

12.   Like a weather forecast with some clouds:

a.      Partly Sunny

Wuzzle

• Operating above board
• Partially
• Working around the clock

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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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.

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Mar 3

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Castle of Inverness

1819 - The United States starts its Indian "civilization" program.

1842 - 1st US child labor law regulating working hours passed (Mass)

1845 - 1st time, US Senate overrides presidential (Tyler) veto

1863 - 1st US wartime military conscription bill enacted

1863 - Idaho Territory forms

1885 - 1st US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission

1887 - Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller

1901 - Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce

1905 - US Forest Service forms

1931 - "Star Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem

1933 - Mount Rushmore dedicated

1971 - South African Broadcasting Corp lifts its ban on the Beatles

1972 - Sculpted figures of Jefferson Davis, Robert E Lee, & Stonewall Jackson are completed at Stone Mountain Georgia

♪Happy Birthday To: ♪                     

 

Free Rambling Thoughts   

A chilly windy day. Ran a few errands, but headed home as quickly as possible. I hate wind; and cold-er wind is no fun. The weatherman says that there will be lots of cold nights for a few days. It will warm up a little during the day. Sure hope so. Sure glad I’m not living in tornado alley. What devastation.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

The answer to each clue is a four-letter word which can be found in consecutive letters inside the clue. For example, if I said "a sail boat's part", you would say "spar", because a sail boat's part is a spar, and it's concealed in consecutive letters inside "sail boat's" parts.

1.      Create a rip:

2.      Emotions that enemies may harbor:

3.      Close a letter with wax:

4.      Top level of the barn:

5.      Edgar Alan Poe, to name one:

6.      Utensil for kitchen use:

7.      State between Ohio Washington:

8.      Having lots of tufts:

9.      They espy things:

10.   Where a Siamese came from:

11.   Insane Roman Emperor:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

Planet Earth—Mayan

Found on You Tube         

 1931 Gandhi Speech

Harper’s Index         

Percentage of USPS expenses that go to labor costs: 89Of FedEx and UPS expenses: 41, 48

Joke-of-the-day

A brilliant young boy was applying for a job with the railways. The interviewer asked him: "Do you know how to use the equipment?"
"Yes", the boy replied.
"Then what would you do if you realized that 2 trains, one from this station and one from the next were going to crash because they were on the same track?"
The young applicant thought and replied "I'd press the button to change the points without hesitation."
"What if the button was frozen and wouldn't work?"
"I'd run outside and pull the lever to change the points manually"
"And if the lever was broken?"
"I'd get on the phone to the next station and tell them to change the points," he replied.
"And if the phone was broken and needed an electrician to fix it?"
The boy thought about that one. "I'd run into town and get my uncle"
"Is your uncle an electrician?"
"No, but he's never seen a train crash before!"

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

Cook fish ten minutes per inch of thickness.

Somewhat Useless Information    

The design of the corkscrew may have derived from the gun worm, a 17th century device that was used to remove unspent charges from a musket's barrel in a similar fashion.German Carl Wienke invented a single lever waiter's type corkscrew, which is still in common use today. The corkscrew was nicknamed the "Waiter's Friend" or "Butler's Friend," because it could easily remove and easily replace a cork.The virtual corkscrew museum at www.corkscrewmuseum.com boasts 33 "rooms" with 3,601 pages and 416 photos in the museum.On April 2000, Abraham Russel's January 21, 1862 American Patent No. 34,216 corkscrew sold on eBay for $13,550.
In August 2006, the University of California, Berkeley displayed a 1,500-item corkscrew collection at the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology in Kroeber Hall, on the UC campus.In the movie True Romance, Christian Slater opens a bottle of wine with a Swiss Army knife corkscrew. It gets left on the floor and is later used as a weapon by Patricia Arquette.

Yeah, It Really Happened                 

NANTES, France — A Frenchman took Google to court Thursday over a photo published online by its Street View application showing him urinating in his front yard which he believes has made him the laughing stock of his village in rural northwest France.The man, who is aged around 50 and lives in a village of some 3,000 people in the Maine-et-Loire region, is demanding the removal of the photo, in which locals have recognized him despite his face being blurred out.He also wants about $13,300 in damages."Everyone has the right to a degree of secrecy," his lawyer, Jean-Noel Bouillard, told Reuters. "In this particular case, it's more amusing than serious. But if he'd been caught kissing a woman other than his wife, he would have had the same issue."Google's Street View, covering some 30 countries and available in France since 2008, enables users of Google Maps to also view photos of streets taken by its camera cars, which have cameras hoisted on frames on their roofs.The man thought he was hidden from view by his closed gate as he relieved himself in November 2010. But Google's lens caught him from above his gate as it passed by. Bouillard did not explain why the man chose to urinate outside.Google's lawyer in the case, named by local daily Ouest France as Christophe Bigot, was not immediately reachable, but the newspaper said he was pleading that the case should be declared null and void.The court, in the nearby city of Angers, is due to give its verdict on March 15.

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

1-7

National Cheerleading Week

National Ghostwriters Week

National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week

Universal Human Beings Week

2-4

Festival of Owls Week

3-18

Iditarod Race

Today Is                                                                      

International Sister Cities Day

I Want You To Be Happy Day

National Anthem Day

Peach Blossom Day

What If Cats and Dogs Had Opposable Thumbs? Day

Bulgaria: Liberation Day (from Ottoman Rule)

Japan: Hinamatsuri (Japanese Doll Festival)
Malawi:  Martyrs Day
UK and Ireland: World Book Day

US: Florida: Admission Day (27^th state in 1845)

Today’s Other Events                                                             

1600’s

1634 - 1st tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)

1700’s

1776 - US commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau Bahamas

1791 - 1st internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)

1791 - Congress establishes US Mint 1794 - Richard Allen founded AME Church

1800’s

1812 - US passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake victims)

1813 - Office of surgeon general of the US army forms

1817 - Mississippi Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi

1820 - Missouri Compromise passes, allowing slavery in Missouri

1837 - Congress increases Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9

1842 - 1st performance of Felix Mendelssohn's 3rd "Scottish" Symphony

1847 - Post Office Department authorized to issue postage stamps

1849 - Home Dept (Interior Dept), forms

1849 - Minnesota Territory is organizes
1851 - Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin (3 cent piece)

1863 - Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences

1863 - Free city delivery replaces zone postage; 449 letter carriers hired

1865 - Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established

1871 - Congress establishes the civil service system

1873 - Censorship: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail

1877 - Rutherford B Hayes is sworn in as the 19th president

1879 - US Geological Survey director authorized in Dept of the Interior

1885 - Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of fed government)

1891 - Congress creates US Courts of Appeal

1891 - Office of Superintendent of Immigration (Treasury Dept) created

1900’s

1900 - US Steel Corporation organizes

1910 - Rockefeller Foundation: J.D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he could devote full time to being a philanthropist

1915 - Natl Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NASA forerunner) created

1926 - International Greyhound Racing Association formed (Miami, Fla)

1939 - In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi begins to fast in protest of the autocratic rule in India

1945 - US & Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor

1955 - Elvis Presley made his 1st TV appearance

1959 - SF Giant's rename their stadium Candlestick Park

1966 - Buffalo Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)

1985 - "Moonlighting" with Cybill Shepard & Bruce Willis, premieres

1988 - The Alaska Native Claims Act is amended.

1992 - Pres Bush apologizes for raising taxes after pledging not to

2000’s

2005 - Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo without any stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes.

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 70’s

Lee Radziwell Ross, princess (Jackie O's sister) is 79

In their 60’s

Ed Marinaro, actor is 62

In their 50’s

Jackie Joyner-Kersee, heptathele (Olympic-gold-88, 92) is 50

Herschel Walker, WFL/NFL running back (NJ Generals, Dallas Cowboys) is 52

In their 40’s

Tyler Florence, chef, Food Network personality, & cookbook author is 41

In their 30’s

Jessica Biel, actor is 30

David Faustino, actor (Bud—Married with Children) will be 38

Remembered for being born on this day

Alexander Graham Bell, Scotland, inventor (telephone) in 1847

Georg Cantor, German mathematician (discover transfinite numbers) in 1845

Jonas Furrer, first President of the Swiss Confederation in 1805

Don Gibson, singer/writer (I can't Stop Loving You,  Oh Lonesome Me) in 1928

Jean Harlow, [Harlean Carpentier], KS, 30s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8) in 1911

Today’s Obits                                                           

Lou Costello, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies of heart attack at 52 in 1959

Sandy Dennis, actress (Up the Down Staircase), dies of cancer at 54 in 1992

Fred Friendly, American broadcast executive dies at 83 in 1998

Danny Kaye, comedian (Danny Kaye Show), dies at 74 in 1987

William Frawley, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy), dies at 89 in 1966

Carlos Montoya, flamenco guitarist, dies at 88 in 1993

Alice Pearce, comedienne (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched), dies of ovarian cancer at 52 in 1966

Albert Sabin, physician (oral polio vaccine), dies at 86 in 1993

Saladin [Salah ad-Din صلاح الدين يوسف بن أيوب]) Yusuf, sultan of Egypt/Syria, dies of fever at 52 in 1191

William P. Sprague, American politician from Ohio dies at 72 in 1899

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

answer tomorrow

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.      Create a rip:

a.      tear

2.      Emotions that enemies may harbor:

a.      hate

3.      Close a letter with wax:

a.      seal

4.      Top level of the barn:

a.      loft

5.      Edgar Alan Poe, to name one:

a.      poet

6.      Utensil for kitchen use: fork

7.      State between Ohio Washington:

a.      Iowa

8.      Having lots of tufts:

a.      soft

9.      They espy things:

a.      eyes

10.   Where a Siamese came from:

a.      Siam

11.   Insane Roman Emperor:

a.      Nero

Wuzzle

• Growing Pains
• Double Cross
• Three of Clubs

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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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.

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