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Almanac: Week: 13 \ Day: 082
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 63°\L 30° Average Sky
Cover: 60%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 23mph
Ave. High: 52° Record High: 67°
(1990) Ave. Low: 24° Record Low:
-1° (1963)
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Observances
Today:
National Organize Your
Home Office
National Chip and Dip Day
National
Puppy Day
Near
Miss Day
OK
Day
World
Meteorological Day
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Observances This
Week:
22-28
…Week of Solidarity with People's
Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
…Consider Christianity Week
…International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
…Meat Free Week
…National Cleaning Week
…National LGBT Health
Awareness Week
…National Youth Violence Prevention
Week
…Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week
…Root Canal Awareness Week
...Tsunami Awareness Week
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1836 - Coin Press invented by Franklin Beale
for US coins
1839 - 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll
korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1840 - Draper takes 1st successful photo of the
Moon (daguerrotype)
1857 - Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed (488
Broadway, NYC)
1858 - Streetcar patented (E A Gardner of Phila)
1868 - University of California founded (Oakland
California)
1880 - Flour rolling mill patented (John Stevens of
Wisc)
1889 - Pres Harrison opens Oklahoma for white
colonization
1896 - The Raines Law is passed by the New York
State Legislature,
restricting Sunday
sale of alcohol to hotels.
1910 - 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st US
auto speedway)
1912 - Dixie Cup invented
1922 - 1st airplane lands at the US Capitol in
Washington, DC
1923 - Frank Silver & Irving Conn release
"Yes, We Have No Bananas"
1925 - Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw
teaching theory of evolution
1929 - 1st telephone installed in White House
1942 - US move native-born of Japanese ancestry
into detention centers
1952 - The smell of
orange blossoms wafted across cities in Arizona as
one of Arizona's Five
Cs - citrus - was a cornerstone of the state's economy
1965 - Gemini 3 launched, 1st US 2-man space flight
(Grissom & Young)
1972 - Evel Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully
clearing 35 cars
1973 - Yoko Ono is granted permanent residence
in US
1981 - Supreme Court upholds law making statutory
rape a crime only for men
1983 - US President Ronald
Reagan introduces "Star Wars"-plan (SDI)
1987 - Soap "Bold & Beautiful"
premieres
1997 - Betsy King wins LPGA Standard Register
PING
2013 - The US Senate
approves its first budget in four years by a margin of 50–49
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Today’s World
Events through History
1708 - English pretender to the throne James III
lands at Firth of Forth
1743 - George Frideric Handel's oratorio
"Messiah" premieres in London
1950 - UN World Meteorological Org established
1956 - Sudan becomes independent
1966 - 1st official meeting after 400 years of
Catholic & Anglican Church
1976 - International Bill of Rights goes into
effect (35 nations ratifying)
2001 - The Russian Mir space station is disposed
of, breaking up in the
atmosphere before
falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Lazy Sunday with nice weather.
Watched several episodes of ‘House of Cards’ on Netflix. Great
storyline. Also caught up with Sunday News shows. Nothing spectacular.
Our little local paper announced that we can now get the digital
edition on line without paying each month. Tried to sign up, but it didn’t
work. Looking to see the real cost as the story stated that subscriptions would
be changed. Tried to call but the offices back east are closed. Oh well.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In
this teaser you have two tasks. First, you need to fill in the correct blank
letter of each word. Second, when you have done this, each letter then needs to
be transferred to the numbered blanks in order to discover the keyword.
1. _ AINT
2. TIME _
3. B _ AST
4. MI _ ER
5. ST _ LL
6. BRI _ E
7. PLAN _
8. _ IFTY
9. RE _ AP
10. DIAR _
1. _ 2. _ 3. _ 4. _ 5. _ 6. _ 7. _ 8._ 9. _ 10. _
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Average
Facts…
-- The average person's skin weighs twice as much as their brain.
--On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
…Education
Facts…
-- In Iceland, more books are published and sold per person every
year than anywhere else in the world. Ten percent of Icelanders become a
published author in their lifetime.
--Harvard earns enough money from interest on its endowment that
it could offer free tuition to every student and still profit.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 years ago-1940
--At Babbitt’s Thriftway this week. Mission Coffee 20 cents a
pound, Ground beef 18 cents or Steak 23 cents a pound , Bacon whole or slab 25
cents and Arizona Grapefruit 23 cents a dozen.
--1940 Studebaker Champion, 29.9 MPG, Commander 24.7 MPG,
President 23.4 MPG. Our classic model finished first in economy class again.
It’s the pick of the nation’s motor cars. $660. Low down pay - easy credit
terms at Joseph J. Waldhaus. 202 E. Santa Fe. Ave. Phone 55
…Game
Facts…
-- Playing video games like Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed can
boost your ability to learn motor skills.
--Grand Theft Auto was originally a racing game called
Race’n’Chase. However, a glitch made the police cars go crazy, ramming the
player. This glitch was so popular with testers that they rebuilt the game
around it, creating GTA.
…Harper’s
Index…
$0.01
Amount of a tax on each ounce of soda sold in Berkeley, CA,
passed last year by ballot initiative
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
An infant human has about 300 bones, some of which fuse together
as the youngster grows up. An adult human's body typically contains 206 bones.
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2 jokes
for the day
Did you hear the rumor about butter?
Never mind, I better not spread it.
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A man asked his wife what she'd like for her
birthday.
"I'd like to be eight again..." she replied.
On the morning of her birthday, he arose early, made her a nice big bowl of
Coco Pops, and then took her off to the local theme park.
What a day! He put her on every ride in the park: the Death Slide, the Wall of
Fear, the Screaming Monster Roller Coaster, every thing there was.
Five hours later she staggered out of the theme park. Her head was reeling and
her stomach felt upside down.
Right away, they journeyed to a McDonald's where her loving husband ordered her
a Happy Meal with extra fries and a refreshing chocolate shake.
Then it was off to the movies with popcorn, all the Coke she could drink, and
her favorite M&M's. What a fabulous adventure!
Finally she wobbled home with her husband and collapsed into bed exhausted.
He leaned over his precious wife with a big smile and lovingly asked,
"Well, Dear, what was it like being eight again?"
Her eyes slowly opened and her expression suddenly changed. "I meant my
dress size!!!!!!!"
The moral of the story: Even when a man is listening, he's gonna get it wrong.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
CHICAGO
(UPI)
More than 150 Chicago firefighters were called to fight flames at
a building housing one of the department's closest allies -- a fire
extinguisher factory. Chicago Fire Department officials said the building in
the Archer Heights neighborhood on the southwest side of the city ignited
Thursday night and the fire worsened to three alarms about 9:30 p.m., leading
to a total 156 firefighters responding with 26 pieces of equipment. A portion
of the building, which firefighters said housed a fire extinguisher
manufacturing business, collapsed as a result of the intense fire, the
department said. First Deputy Fire Commissioner Charles Stewart III said the
nature of the blaze made it difficult to reach the flames with water. "We
had one engine feed another engine to another engine until we got water on the
fire," he told WMAQ-TV. Firefighters said no injuries were reported and
the cause of the fire remained under investigation Friday.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
common thing between classical and heavy metal music
Professor
Adrian North has conducted a study demonstrating the links between musical
tastes and personality type.
The
outcomes show that classical and heavy metal music attract listeners with similar
personalities but dissimilar ages.
“Younger
members of the personality group apparently go for heavy metal, while their
older counterparts prefer classical. However, both have the same basic
motivation: to hear something dramatic and theatrical, a shared ‘love of the
grandiose,’ he said.
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Birthday’s
Today
86 - Roger Bannister, England, 1st to run a
4 minute mile (May 6, 1954)
65 - Patricia Richardson, Bethesda MD,
actress (Jill-Home Improvement)
62 - Chaka Khan, [Stevens], Great Lakes Il,
rocker
60 - Moses Malone, NBA center (Atlanta
Hawks, Milw Bucks, Phila '76ers)
50 - Richard Grieco, Waterton NY, actor (21
Jump Street, Booker)
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Remembered
for being born today
1769-1839@70 - William Smith, geologist (Strata
Identified by Organized Fossils)
1823-1885@61 - Schuyler Colfax, 17th VP
1857-1915@57 - Fannie Farmer, American culinary figure
1902-1982@80 - Philip Ober, actor (Gen Stone-I Dream
of Jeannie)
1905-1977@73 - Joan Crawford, [Lucille Le Sueur],
Texas, actress
1912-1977@65 - Werner von Braun, Wirsitz Germany,
rocket expert
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Historical
Obits Today
Elizabeth
Taylor, English-American actress, heart failure-2011@79
William
Maclure, Scottish-American Geologist (first geological map)- 1840@76
Barney
Clark, 1st artifical heart recipient, after 112 days-1983@62
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
p AINT
2. TIME r
3. B e AST
4. MI s ER
5. ST i LL
6. BRI d E
7. PLAN e
8. n IFTY
9. RE c AP
10. DIAR y
Keyword:
PRESIDENCY
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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
