Mar 15

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1855 - Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine

1867 - Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university

1869 - Col.George Custer, and his troops will discover 2 Cheyenne villages, of over 250 lodges, on Sweetwater Creek near the Texas-Oklahoma boundary. The Cheyenne had been order to report to their reservation. Custer captures 4 Chiefs. He threatens to hang the Chiefs unless the Cheyenne surrender. Both of the villages decide to give up.

1887 - 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)

1916 - Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos

1937 - 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL)

1937 - 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)

1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)

1960 - National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated

♪Happy Birthday To: ♪                     

 

Free Rambling Thoughts   

A nice day for a walk. I took full advantage. I stayed around the house and complex area today. No need to go anywhere else.

Surprise, the price of gold is very high. Our states and measures department just announced that 18 out of 45 scales were not working properly.  Surprise, all 18 were under weighing the gold. Yeah, those conservatives in the legislature know that government needs to be smaller. Right.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

Start with two sentences. Each sentence has two blanks. Put a word in the first blank. Add a long 'A' sound to the end of it to get a new word, phonetically, that will go in the second blank to complete the sentence.

Example: A designer bag costing you more ____ will probably give you more ____. The answers are 'cash' and 'cache.'

1.      Yesterday my sister ____ all day at the beach, then cooled off by eating an ice cream____:

2.      When getting up from the table, my partner accidently kicked me in the ____ at the sidewalk  ____:

3.      The old geezer dislikes lawn games so much he’s rather ____ than play ____:  

4.      For the kitchen cabinets, either maple or ____ would be ____:

5.      On a European vacation last year we had wonderful lobster ____ in a restaurant by the Bay of ____:

6.      A pricey apartment along New York’s pricey ____ Avenue is likely to beautiful ____ floor: By searching underwater on a coral reef you’ll be ____ likely to see a ____ eel.

7.      Near the end of the show the host ____ up the lessons which ____ will prove valuable:

8.      After slaving over a computer for a full work week my brain is completely ____ by ____:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

Planet Earth—Ireland 

Found on You Tube         

Topo Gigio on The Ed Sullivan Show

Harper’s Index         

Percentage of all oxycodone sold to doctors in the US last year that went to Florida: 89

Joke-of-the-day

During a terrible storm, all the highway signs were covered with snow. The following spring, the state decided to raise all the signs twelve inches at a cost of six million dollars.
“That’s an outrageous price!” said a local farmer, “but I guess we’re lucky the state handled it instead of the federal government.” “Why’s that?” “Because knowing the federal government, they’d decided to lower the highways.”

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guessIf your tank is on empty and you're trying to make it to the next gas station, cut your speed to 35 miles per hour.

Somewhat Useless Information    

The name Madison was virtually unheard of as a first name for girls until Daryl Hannah's character used it in the 1984 movie Splash. In the film, she adopted the name after seeing a sign for Madison Avenue in New York.According to Social Security Administration records, 1,022 girls born in America between 2000 and 2005 were given the not-so-unique name of Unique.Because boxer George Foreman never knew his father, he made the decision to name all five of his sons George Edward Foreman. The heavyweight champ wanted them to always remember the patriarch of their family.After it was announced that Gwyneth Paltrow had named her daughter Apple, Peaches Geldof (daughter of Sir Bob) wrote an open letter to London's Daily Telegraph pleading with celebrities to stop giving their offspring "ridiculous" names. Peaches, who has sisters Fifi, Heavenly, and Pixie, revealed that her "weird" name has always haunted her.Four children in the United States are named Espn after the cable sports channel. In at least three of those cases, the mother admitted she'd let the father choose the name.On a 2000 episode of MTV's Cribs, Sonny Sandoval revealed that his daughter's name was Nevaeh ("heaven" spelled backwards). After word spread across the Internet, the name began to gain popularity, and by 2003, it was number 150 on the list of most popular names for newborn girls in the United States.

Yeah, It Really Happened                 

DUNWOODY, Ga. - Emergency responders in Georgia said they rescued a woman who fell down her apartment's garbage chute while trying to retrieve her dropped cellphone. Dunwoody police said rescue crews responded to the Gables Metropolitan apartments Sunday when the woman fell while trying to reach down the chute for her phone and ended up stuck between the first and second floors of the building, WSB-TV, Atlanta, reported Monday. DeKalb County Fire Department rescuers said they moved the building's trash compacter, which was blocking the woman from falling the rest of the way down the chute, and retrieved her before she hit the ground. The woman was taken to a local hospital for treatment.

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

3-18

Iditarod Race

11-17

Girl Scout Week

Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign

National Agriculture Week

12-18

International Brain Awareness Week

Wildlife Week

13-19

Campfire USA Birthday Week

Today Is                                                                      

Absolutely Incredible Kid Day

Brutus Day

Buzzards Day

Companies That Care Day

Everything You Think Is Wrong Day

Ides of March

44 BC - Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March

True Confessions Day

World Consumer Rights Day

Belarus: Constitution Day (1994)

US: Maine: Admission Day (1820; 23^rd state)

Today’s Other Events                                                             

1400’s

1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after 1st new world voyage

1500’s

1580 - Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange

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1800’s

1812 - 1st Russian settlement in California

1858 - After fighting the Americans for almost 25 years, today one of the last of the Seminole leaders, Billy Bowlegs, will be surrender with 163 of his followers. They will be shipped west.

1875 - 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested

1892 - 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC) 1892 - NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)

1897 - 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden

1900’s

1906 - Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd

1907 - Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote

1912 - Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins

1934 - US Information Service opens

1945 - Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain NY

1954 - "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar

1957 - 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)

1961 - South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth

1962 - Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season

1964 - LBJ asks for a War on Poverty

1965 - T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC

1968 - LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"

1971 - CBS TV announces it is dropping "Ed Sullivan Show"

1972 - Assassination attempt on Governor George Wallace of Alabama

1977 - "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV

1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).

1989 - Dept of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position

1999 - Pluto again becomes outermost planet

2000’s

2003 - Hu Jintao takes over presidency for the People's Republic of China

2004 - Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna , the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 90’s

E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine is 92

In their 80’s

Alan Lavern Bean, Capt USN/astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3) is 80

In their 70’s

Judd Hirsch, actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People) is 77

Robert Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man) is 73

Jimmy Lee Swaggart, evangelist is 77

In their 60’s

Sly Stone, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People ) is 68

In their 50’s

Jimmy Baio, actor (Billy Tate-Soap, Brass, Playing for Keeps) is 50

Fabio Lanzoni, Italian romance novels model is 53

In their 40’s

Bret Michaels, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me) is 49

In their 30’s

Eva Longoria, actor, Desperate Housewives will be 37

Will.i.am, American musician, Black-eyed Peas is 37

Remembered for being born on this day

Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding) in 1858

George Brent, Dublin Ireland, actor (42nd St, Jezebel) in 1904

MacDonald Carey, actor (Days of Our Lives, Dream Girl) in 1913

Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land) in 1838

Hadrian, Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall) in 76

Andrew Jackson, General/(D) 7th pres (1829-37) in 1767

Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show) in 1914

Today’s Obits                                                           

Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist dies at 85 in 1898

Julius Caesar (murdered at 64 in 44BC

Gail Davis, actor, (Annie Oakley), dies at 72 in 1997

Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn), dies of pneumonia at 40 in 1993

Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball dies at 81 in 2007

Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist dies at 75 in 1849

Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels), dies at 93 in 1991

Ann Sothern, American actress dies at 92 in 2001

Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer dies at 95 in 1998

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

Numbers 4 and 5 are identical

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.      Yesterday my sister ____ all day at the beach, then cooled off by eating an ice cream____:

a.      sunned, sundae

2.      When getting up from the table, my partner accidently kicked me in the ____ at the sidewalk  ____:

a.      calf, café

3.      The old geezer dislikes lawn games so much he’s rather ____ than play ____:  

a.      croak; croquet

4.      For the kitchen cabinets, either maple or ____ would be ____:

a.      oak, OK

5.      On a European vacation last year we had wonderful lobster ____ in a restaurant by the Bay of ____:

a.      bisque, Biscay

6.      A pricey apartment along New York’s pricey ____ Avenue is likely to beautiful ____ floor:

a.      Park, Parquet

7.      By searching underwater on a coral reef you’ll be ____ likely to see a ____ eel.

a.      More, moray

8.      Near the end of the show the host ____ up the lessons which ____ will prove valuable:

a.      summed, someday

9.      After slaving over a computer for a full work week my brain is completely ____ by ____:

a.      fried, Friday

Wuzzle

• Half brother
• The last roundup
• Good intentions 

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 14

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1493 - Columbus writes a letter today describing the generous nature of the Indians he has encountered. He will describe them as "men of great deference and kindness."

1647 - Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm

1889 - German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"

1900 - US currency goes on gold standard

1923 - Pres Warren G Harding becomes 1st pres to pay taxes

1936 - Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue

1958 - South Africa government disallows ANC

1967 - JFK's body moved from temporary grave to a permanent memorial

1968 - CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA

1984 - Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.

1995 - 1st time 13 people in space

1997 - The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality

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Free Rambling Thoughts  
Today is Flag’s Primary Day for mayor. It is a mail in ballot, but I didn’t mail it, so headed downtown this morning to drop it off. Learned a lesson…even though it is a city election, the ballots are turned in at the county building. Makes sense, since the county has a recorder and the city doesn’t.  Two ladies were sitting in the county parking lot, soaking in the sunshine and taking ballots so you didn’t even have to get out of the car.  It’s spring break, so the local TV news isn’t on, so I guess I’ll check some websites tonight to see who made the May ballot.

 There has to be more to the story about the big theft of Tide detergent across the US. I’m not buying the street value being used to buy drugs. I mean really? That bright orange bottle can’t be that easy to steal. But just saw a story that CVS pharmacy is putting those theft locks on Tide. What a strange world we live in. I’m waiting for the cartoons that are sure to appear in papers, on Facebook, and on the internet.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

Every answer is a familiar proverb or saying. Given a two-word phrase, one of the words is in that proverb or saying, and the other is an anagram of a word in it. The anagram can be either word in the phrase. Example: MORE ROADS. The answer would be: "All ROADS lead to ROME."

1.      Rolling notes: Rolling Stone gathers no moss

2.      Gold ton: all that glitters is not gold

3.      Two hubs: a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

4.      Raw love: make love not war/ all is fair in love and war

5.      Bed layer: early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise

6.      Diet time: time and tide wait for no man

7.      Fiction granters: truth is stranger than fiction

8.      Nights end: all good things come to an end

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

Planet Earth—Mayan

Found on You Tube         

Billy Crystal (Opening Skit Monologue Intro) - The 84th Annual Academy Awards 2012

Harper’s Index         

Chances that a US corporation is considering ending health benefits when federal insurance exchanges begin: 3 in 10

Joke-of-the-day

Jay went to a psychiatrist. “Doc, he said, “I’ve got trouble. Every time I get into bed I think there is somebody under it.  I get under the bed; I think there’s somebody on top of it. Top, under, under top. I’m going crazy!”“Just put yourself in my hands for two years,” said the shrink.  “Come to me three times a week and I’ll cure you.” “How much do you charge?” “A hundred dollars per visit.” “I’ll think about it.” Jay never went back. Sometime later he met the doctor on the street.  “Why didn’t you ever come to see me again? Asked the psychiatrist. “For a hundred buck a visit? A bartender cured me for 10 dollars.” “Is that so! How?” “He told me to cut the legs off the bed.”

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

When they're unhappy at a restaurant, the French call the headwaiter and abuse him in front of everyone. The English call the manager and abuse him quietly and with dignity. The Americans don't say a thing. They just never come back, nor do their friends.

Somewhat Useless Information    

A 2001 Swedish study revealed that males whose mothers had additional scans later in pregnancy had a 30 percent chance of being left-handed, compared to overall odds of 11 percent.

Babies are born with what is called a "stepping reflex." An infant held upright with his or her feet on a flat surface will automatically place one foot in front of the other as if trying to walk. This reflex disappears by about four months of age.

Scientists have identified certain characteristics that contribute to "cuteness": large, bright, forward-facing eyes; a large round head; and chubby cheeks. Some anthropologists believe that human babies developed these "cute cues" as a survival mechanism, compelling mothers to hold and nurture them.

At three months old, a baby has usually learned to recognize facial features. The baby can identify parents by their eyes and nose and overall shape of their face.Modern research has shown that babies may smile earlier than six weeks as a response to physical comfort. The brain stem, which doesn't respond to external stimuli, triggers the reaction.

Part of the reason that infant car seats are designed to face backwards is that a baby's neck muscles aren't strong enough to support the head for about the first year of life. By facing away from the direction of travel, the baby's head is prevented from abruptly jerking forward in the event of a collision.

Yeah, It Really Happened                 

ROME (AP) — Since the start of the month it has been illegal to die in Falciano del Massico, a village of 3,700 people some 50 kilometers (30 miles) from Naples in southern Italy.Mayor Giulio Cesare Fava issued the tongue-in-cheek decree because the village has no cemetery and it is feuding with a nearby town that has one — creating a logistical problem about what to do with the deceased.The mayor told newspapers that villagers are content."The ordinance has brought happiness," he was quoted Tuesday as saying. "Unfortunately, two elderly citizens disobeyed."

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

3-18

Iditarod Race

8-14

Universal Women's Week

11-17

Girl Scout Week

Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign

National Agriculture Week

12-18

International Brain Awareness Week

Wildlife Week

13-19

Campfire USA Birthday Week

Today Is                                                                      

International Ask A Question Day

Potato Chip Day

Pi Day—3.14 

Registered Dietitian Day

UK: Commonwealth Day

Today’s Other Events                                                             

1400’s

1489 - The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice

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1600’s

1629 - England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony

1644 - England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)

1689 - Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen

1700’s

1794 - Eli Whitney patents cotton gin

1800’s

1812 - Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812

1833 - The Secretary of War has the Indian Department issue orders, again, to U.S. Marshals to remove whites from Creek lands

1870 - California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible

1885 - "Mikado" opera premieres in London

1900’s

1903 - 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL

1933 - Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation

1950 - FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins

1953 - Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as Secretary Communist Party

1964 - Dallas jury sentences Jack Ruby to death in Lee Harvey Oswald murder

1967 - 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Balt Colts pick Bubba Smith

1972 - NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to KC

1976 - Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race

1992 - Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication

1993 - 3,000th performance of  "Nunsense"

1997 - Pres Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery

2000’s

2003 - Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions

2005 - Cedar Revolution, where over one and a million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 90’s

S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A is 91

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In their 70’s

Michael Caine [Maurice J Micklewhite], actor (Alfie) is 79

Quincy Jones Jr, composer/singer (We Are The World ) is 79

In their 60’s

Billy Crystal, actor, comedian is 65

Remembered for being born on this day

Les Brown, orchestra leader (& his band of renown) in 1912

Charles Ammi Cutter, US librarian (Expansive classification) in 1837

Albert Einstein, German-born theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity) in 1879

Adolph Gottlieb, American painter in 1903

[John] Casey Jones, RR engineer (Ballad of Casey Jones) in 1864

Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) in 1920

Lee Petty, American race car driver in 1914

Today’s Obits                                                           

George Eastman, US industrialist (Kodak-camera), suicide at 77 in 1932

Peter Graves, American actor dies at 84 in 2010

Susan Hayward, actress (Young & Willing), dies of cancer at 56 in 1975

Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), dies of bronchitis and pleurisy at 64 in 1883

C V Wood Jr, theme park developer (Disneyland), dies of cancer at 71 in 1992

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.      Rolling notes:

a.      Rolling Stone gathers no moss

2.      Gold ton:

a.      all that glitters is not gold

3.      Two hubs:

a.      a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush

4.      Raw love:

a.      make love not war/ all is fair in love and war

5.      Bed layer:

a.      early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise

6.      Diet time:

a.      time and tide wait for no man

7.      Fiction granters:

a.      truth is stranger than fiction

8.      Nights end:

a.      all good things come to an end

Wuzzle

• Quit following me
• The seven seas
• Search high and low

 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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