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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1617 -
King James I, of England, decides the Indians of Virginia must be educated. He
directs the Anglican church to collect funds to build churches and schools.
1837 - Canada
gives blacks the right to vote
1868 - Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co forms
1882 - German
scientist Robert Koch discovers bacillus cause of TB
1898 - 1st
automobile sold
1906 - "Census
of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world
1930 - 1st
religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
1930 - Planet Pluto
named
1955 - 1st
seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1960 - US
appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene
1972 - Great
Britain imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland
1989 - Worst US oil
spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
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Rambling Thoughts
I went to a very good home show and lunch today. Saw some great hot tubs…ah…that would be nice. Picked up a few freebies. A good turnout for the first day, but not too crowded. I also got some ideas for my spring color in my front area. A good day. I also like to watch the ‘hustlers’ at these shows…traveling the US trying to get their product bought. Today on two different aisles I saw ‘the world’s best pillow’ being sold by two different vendors and made of different materials. Really?!? They will say anything.
Finally…Facebook has spoken up about employers who ask potential employees for their passwords. We all agree to that long list of policy, conditions, and service, etc…usually without reading it carefully. Well, surprise, Facebook does read its policy and it requires all Facebook users to not give out their passwords. Therefore, when a potential employer asks, the account holder must decide…give it up and break the terms of sevice or close down their account. Hmmm. I really believe that the HR people who are asking for the passwords really don’t understand social networking or the internet for that matter. It is definitely a generation gap. A password in a key that opens something even if you aren’t present. I wonder if the person asking for the password would give the applicant the key to their car or house or mailbox? It seems like a fair trade.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain
Game
NPR
Sunday Puzzle
Change
one letter in each of two words of a sentence to name birds. For example:
"Is actor Dennis Quaid afraid of the dark?" The answer: Quail and
Lark (Change the "d" in "Quaid" to make "quail"
and change the "d" in "dark" to make "lark.").
It's always the same letter of the alphabet that changes — twice for each
sentence, and the letter it changes to is also the same.
1.
Huron, turn left:
2.
Israel’s Yitzhak Rabin exhibited great candor:
3.
Tell me when you have had enough chow:
4.
The printer’s cartridge ran out of ink before
I could print Bugs Bunny’s carrot:
5.
The water is lapping at the river’s shore
under the bridge span:
6.
This bill for malt bitters is busting the
budget:
7.
A demand for higher wages was the thrust of
the labor strike:
8.
Canoeists know not to shift their weight in
shallow water:
9.
The restaurant manager gave the couple a free
meal:
10.
Kate Winslet files her nails with sandpaper:
Wuzzles What concept or phrase do these suggest?
Lifestyle Substance
Planet
Earth—
Found
on You Tube
National Gallery of Art Light Tunnel
Harper’s
Index
Estimated amount that discrimination against the ugly cost America each year: $20,000,000,000
Joke-of-the-day
17th Century captain was sailing along with his crew when a pirate ship came over the horizon. The captain says, "Cabin boy, get me my red shirt."
So, he gets his red shirt and they victoriously battle the pirates. Several days later, they spot another pirate ship off the port bow. "Cabin boy," says the captain "get me my red shirt."
They again battle the pirates and are victorious. Later when things had settled down, the cabin boy asks, "Captain, why do you always want your red shirt just prior to battle?"
The captain responds, "Well, in case I am inflicted with a wound, I don't want the crew to see my injury and lose spirit."
"I see," says the cabin boy. A few days later, they sight 20 pirates in the distance the captain yells out, "Cabin boy, get me my brown pants."
Rules
of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
The effectiveness of a team decreases as the size of the team increases beyond 7 members.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Yul Brynner was already losing his hair when he decided to shave it all off for his role as the king in the Broadway production of The King and I. He kept the bald look for the rest of his life, but wore wigs for his subsequent film appearances that required hair.Persis Khambatta was given the choice of either shaving her head or wearing a bald cap for her role as Ilia in Star Trek: The Motion Picture. She decided to go the razor route rather than endure the daily application of the gum and glue necessary to keep the bald cap in place.Comedian Rip Taylor pulled off his wig on a 1987 episode of Super Password. He stated that it was the first time he'd ever revealed his bald head on network television.The directors of V for Vendetta only had one chance to get Natalie Portman's head-shaving scene in the can. As a precaution, several members of the crew volunteered to have their own heads shaved so that the lighting and camera angles could be properly adjusted before Portman went under the shears.Telly Savalas was already quite bald by the time he landed the role of Kojak and shaved what hair remained for the hit TV series. He made sure, however, that his publicists "leaked" to the press that he regularly pruned his pate; otherwise, a full head of hair would quickly sprout up.When Burt Reynolds filed for bankruptcy in 1996, it was reported that about $7,600 of his estimated $10 million in debts was owed to hair-replacement studios.
Yeah,
It Really Happened
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. - Authorities in Michigan said a man being sought for 10 indecent exposure incidents was seen wearing nothing but sheer pantyhose on his lower body. The Oakland County Sheriff's Office said the man has been seen wearing nothing over his genitals but the sheer pantyhose 10 times in the Detroit area, most recently last week at Salon Bliss in Rochester Hills, the Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday.
Workers at the salon said the man asked about getting a Brazilian wax. "The man walked to both sides of the counter, apparently so that everyone could clearly see him," the sheriff's office said in a news release. Deputies said the man, who also wore a button-up shirt, a baseball hat and slippers during last week's incident, is also believed to be behind similar indecent exposure incidents in Canton, Auburn Hills, Bloomfield Township, Chesterfield Township and West Bloomfield. The suspect was described as in his 50s or 60s and about 6 feet tall with a pot belly.
Calendar Information
…Happening
This Week:
18-24
National Animal Poison Prevention Week
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week
19-25
Act Happy Week
American Chocolate Week
Wellderly Week
21-25
YoYo and Skill Toys Week
21-27
Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism
& Discrimination
Today Is
Houdini Day
National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
World Tuberculosis Day
Today’s
Other Events
1600’s
1603 - Scottish
king James VI becomes King James I of England
1664 - Roger
Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
1700’s
1721 - Johann
Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts
1765 - Britain
enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to
British soldiers
1800’s
1801 - Aleksandr
P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
1832 - Mormon
Joseph Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio
1855 - Manhattan
Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas
1880 Three
Dozen Sioux make off with 30 horses belonging to Crow Indian scouts, at Fort
Custer, in south-central Montana. Captain John Mix, and 44 soldiers from Troop
C, Second Cavalry, cover 65 miles in 11 hours to catch the Sioux. During a
skirmish, 16 of the stolen horses are recovered.
1883 - 1st
telephone call between NY & Chicago
1900’s
1920 - 1st
US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1937 - National Gallery
of Art established by Congress
1947 - Congress
proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency
1947 - John D
Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN
1958 - Elvis
Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
1962 - Mick Jagger
& Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
1964 - Kennedy
half-dollar issued 1966 - Selective Service announces college
deferments based on performance
1976 - Argentine
Pres Isabel Peron deposed by country's military
1998 - Jonesboro
massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at
Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are
wounded.
2000’s
2003 - The
Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and
unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
2006 - Pope Benedict
XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals
2008 - Bhutan
officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election
Today’s
Birthdays
In their 70’s
Bob
Mackie, designer (Streisand, Cher) is 72
In their 60’s
Tommy
Hilfiger, clothing designer is 61
In their 50’s
Star
Jones, attorney/TV hostess (NBC, Inside Edition) is 50
>
In their 30’s
Peyton
Manning, American football player is 36
Remembered for being
born on this day
Roscoe
"Fatty" Arbuckle, actor
(Keystone comedies) in 1887
Clyde
Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame) in 1909
Richard
Conte, Jersey City NJ, actor (4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel) in 1910
Peter
Debye, Holland, physical chemist (Nobel 1936) in 1884
Thomas E
Dewey, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R) in 1902
Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, author (Coney Island of the Mind) in 1919
Andrew W
Mellon, founder (Mellon Bank)/US Sec of Treasury in 1855
Edward
Weston, American photographer in 1886
Today’s
Obits
Robert
Culp, American actor dies at 80 in 2010
Elizabeth
I Tudor, [Maiden Queen], Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603), dies with "settled
and unremovable melancholy" at 69 in 1603
Jules
Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77 in 1905
Richard
Widmark, American actor (b. 1914) in 2008
Answers
Brain
Game
Care
Carve
Carpet
Cardiac
Carousel
Cartwheel
Carbonated
Carnivorous
Carbohydrate
Bonus:
Streetcar
NPR
Sunday Puzzle
1.
A Lake Huron, turn left:
a.
heron, tern
2.
Israel’s Yitzhak Rabin exhibited great candor:
a.
robin, condor
3.
Tell me when you have had enough chow:
a.
wren, crow
4.
The printer’s cartridge ran out of ink before
I could print Bugs Bunny’s carrot:
a.
partridge, parrot
5.
The water is lapping at the river’s shore
under the bridge span:
a.
lapwing; swan
6.
This bill for malt bitters is busting the
budget:
a.
bittern; bunting
7.
A demand for higher wages was the thrust of
the labor strike:
a.
thrush, shrike
8.
Canoeists know not to shift their weight in
shallow water:
a.
swift; swallow
9.
The restaurant manager gave the couple a free
meal:
a.
tanager; teal
10.
Kate Winslet files her nails with sandpaper:
a.
kite, sandpiper
Wuzzle
- Mayonnaise
- Wedding ring
- Star quarterback
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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