Mar 13

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Mar 13, 2018 Week: 11\ Day: 72

86004 Today: H 52° \ L 35° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  8mph Visibility: 6 mi

Nearest Lightning:  1718 miles away

Record High: 70°[2007]   Record Low: -9°[1962]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)

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Today’s Quote

Peace has a great deal to do with warm-heartedness and respect for the lives of others, avoiding doing them harm and regarding their lives as being as precious as our own. If, on that basis, we can also be of help to others, so much the better.

 Dali Lama

Harper’s Index

3-Number of questions readers of a Norwegian news site must answer correctly about an article before commenting

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Observances This Week

2-16
National Days of Action Link

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

11-17

National Catholic Sisters Week Link 
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Girl Scout Week Link 
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week

12-18

International Brain Awareness Week18
Shakespeare Week (Link)

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Observances for Today

Donald Duck Day
Ear Muff Day
Good Samaritan Involvement Day
Itra-Uterine Growth Awareness Restriction (IUGAR) Day
Jewel Day

K-9 Veterans Day  Link
Ken (Doll) Day 
L. Ron Hubbard Day
National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day
Organize Your Home Office Day
Smart & Sexy Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                          

1639 Cambridge College, Massachusetts, renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard

1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam

1700’s                                          

1781 William Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but is actually the discovery of the planet Uranus

1800’s                                          

1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the New York Lantern weekly

1865 Confederate President Jefferson Davis signs bill authorizing use of slaves as soldiers (US Civil War)

1868 Senate begins US President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial

1877 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs

1884 US adopts Standard Time

1897 San Diego State University is founded.

1900’s                                          

1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substitutes a grapefruit

1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms

≈1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China

1925 Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution

1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory, Flagstaff, AZ

1942 Julia Flikke of the Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army

1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress

≈1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created

1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill

≈1996 At Dunblane Primary School, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by Thomas Hamilton who then commits suicide. Results in handguns being banned in the UK.

1997 Phoenix lights seen at night over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. Now a hotly debated controversy.

2000’s                                          

2004 Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera's "Tosca"

≈2012 Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopedia

≈2013 Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis

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My Rambling Thoughts

A cloudy and somewhat rainy day here at 7000’. Decided to do a little housecleaning until the sun returns.

I am so happy that I was educated in the Jeffco district back in the day. We were taught to listen, investigate, and decide for ourselves. This skill is so important as 45 and his cronies make statements that are blatantly untrue and seem to believe that because they said them the statements suddenly become truth.  The Sec. of Education gave a very frightening interview last night on 60 minutes. Today, the administration is fine with what she said. The education system determines the groundwork for the next generation of leadership. Without a good education foundation our country will be led by uneducated or undereducated leaders.

Draining the swamp seems to mean filling it with…  

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@95- Ralph J Roberts,

American businessman and

founder of Comcast,

born in NYC

(d. 2015)

80’s

@82- Paul Fix,

American actor (Rifleman),

born in Dobbs Ferry, NY

(d. 1983)

70’s

79- Neil Sedaka,

American singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do),

born in Brooklyn

77- Charlo

      (María del Rosario Mercedes Pilar Martínez Molina Baeza),

flamingo guitarist, comedian

@74- L. Ron Hubbard,

American sci-fi writer (Death Quest) and

founder of the Scientology cult,

born in Tilden, Nebraska stroke

(d. 1986)

@74- William J. Casey,

American head of the CIA during the Iran-contra scandal

born in NYC

brain tumor (d. 1987)

60’s

68- William H Macy,

actor (Homicide, Water Engine),

born in Miami

62- Jamie Dimon,

American business executive and CEO of JPMorgan Chase

 born in NYC

@61- Percival "Percy" Lowell,

American astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

(d. 1916)

50’s

58- Rachel Renee Russell,

children’s author (Dork  Diaries)

58-Adam Clayton,

English-Irish musician and rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)

born in Chinnor, England

@52- Fred Berry,

actor (Rerun-What's Happening),

born in St Louis

stroke (d. 2003)

40’s

45- Common (Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr),

rapper

42- Danny Masterson,

American actor (That '70s Show),

born in Long Island

30’s

33- Emile Hirsch,

American actor (Into the Wild, Speed Racer),

born in Topanga, California

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@86-1990 Bruno Bettelhelm, A

ustrian/US psychoanalyst,

commits suicide

@86-1906 Susan B. Anthony,

American social reformer and

women's suffrage movement leader

@80-2006 Maureen Stapleton,

American actress

@80-1938 Clarence S Darrow,

Scopes Monkey Trial attorney

60’s

@67-1901 Benjamin Harrison,

23rd President of the United States (Republican: 1889-93)

            pneumonia 

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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.

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Mar 13

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Mar 12, 2018 Week: 11\ Day: 71

86004 Today: H 53° \ L 33° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Wind ave.:   12mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest Lightning:  1414 miles away

Record High: 72°[190]   Record Low: -1°[1917]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

Mar Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16° (1966)

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Today’s Quote

One who deceives will always find those

who allow themselves to be deceived.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

Harper’s Index

4:11-Ratio of the number of statures of African Americans to those of Confederates in the US Capitol

3-Factor by which a children’s book is more likely to be about African Americans than written by an African American

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Observances This Week

2-16
National Days of Action Link

9-18

XII Paralympic Winter Games

10-12

World Rattlesnake Roundup

11-17

National Catholic Sisters Week Link 
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Girl Scout Week Link 
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week

12-18

International Brain Awareness Week18
Shakespeare Week (Link)

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Observances for Today

Fill Our Staplers Day 
Girl Scout Birthday Day Link
Napping Day  

Plant a Flower Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1300’s                                          

≈1350 Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples

≈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

1700’s                                          

1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine

1800’s                                          

≈1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to California

1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued

1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists

1868 US Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax

1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women

1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi

1900’s                                          

1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund

1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low

1921 Cairo Conference begins, British meeting to determine Middle Eastern policies, Gertrude Bell and T. E. Lawrence attend

≈1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m (300km) march protesting British salt tax

1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"

≈1940 Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty in Moscow, surrendering to Russia and ceding 11% of their pre-WWII territory, ending the "Winter War"

1947 US President Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism

≈1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul

≈1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"

1965 "Wooly Bully" single released by Sam and the Sham and the Pharaohs

≈1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)

1969 11th Grammy Awards: "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Glen Campbell wins best record

≈1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.

2000’s                                          

≈2003 Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.

≈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.

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My Rambling Thoughts

For those of you who are looking for that lost hour of sleep, come to most of AZ where we don’t change time. (Only the Navajo Nation changes time, so people on the Rez have to deal with the time change every time they come to town.)

The rain started yesterday about 3p and it is still raining. It is a nice female rain that is soaking in very nicely. Much needed and much appreciated.

Last night’s discussion was very good. One of our members has been an AIDS volunteer since the outbreak and had some good, yet still sobering statistics. Our Nursing Prof had some very intriguing stories about how Liberia dealt with the Ebola outbreak. I had never considered ‘world health’ a National Security Issue, but that was because of a lack of knowledge. A person who knowingly or unknowingly has a communicable disease and gets on an airplane can infect all on the plane, and everyone that he/she comes in contact with at the destination. That should be at least as concerning as a terrorist trying to sneak a bomb or weapon into this country. Good discussion.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@88- Edward Albee,

American playwright (Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?),

born in Virginia

(d. 2016)

86- Andrew Young,

US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/

(Mayor-D-Atlanta)

@84- Walter M Schirra Jr,

 Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7),

born in Hackensack, NY

(d. 2007)

70’s

@76- Al Jarreau,

American jazz singer (Moonlighting),

born in Milwaukee

respiratory failure (d. 2017)

73- Sammy "The Bull" Gravano,

American mobster who testified against John Gotti,

born in Brooklyn

72- Liza Minnelli,

American singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret),

born in Hollywood

71- Mitt Romney,

70th Republican Governor of Massachusetts and

presidential candidate,

born in Detroit

70- James Taylor,

vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof),

born in Boston

60’s

68- Jon Provost,

actor (Timmy-Lassie)

@64- Gordon MacRae,

American singer and actor (Oklahoma!, Carousel),

born in East Orange, NJ

jaw cancer (d. 1986)

50’s

@57- Jane Delano,

American nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)

(d. 1919)

56- Darryl Strawberry,

baseball right fielder (Mets, Dodgers, Yankees),

born in Los Angeles

53- Mike Geier,

comedian (Puddles Pity Party)

40’s

@47- Jack Kerouac,

Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues),

born in Lowell, Mass

abdominal hemorrhage (d. 1969)

30’s

34- Jaimie Alexander,

American Actress (Blindspot),

born in Greenville, SC

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@87-1989 Maurice Evans,

British actor (Planet of the Apes, Bewitched)

@80-2015 Michael Graves,

American postmodernist architect and designer

70’s

@76-1888 Henry Bergh,

Founder of American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty

to Animals (ASPCA)

60’s

@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)

pioneer of the electrical industry

50’s

@58-1925 Sun Yat-sen,

Chinese revolutionary and father of modern China

liver cancer 

@51-1889 Yohannes IV, [፬ኛ ዮሓንስ ],

Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89)

in battle

teen’s

@15-1945 Anne Frank,

Dutch diarist and Jewish victim of the Nazi Holocaust

(Diary of Anne Frank),

typhus in the Belsen concentration camp

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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.

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