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March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 40°\L 31° Average Sky
Cover: 95%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 12mph
Ave. High: 48° Record High: 65°
(1910) Ave. Low: 21° Record Low:
-1° (1971)
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Observances
Today:
Casimir Pulaski Day—‘Father of American Calvary”
Dr. Seuss Day
Fun Facts About Names Day
NEA's Read Across America Day
Observances This
Week:
1-7
…Celebrate Your Name Week
…National
Cheerleading Week
…National Consumer
Protection Week
…National Pet Sitters
Week
…National Procrastination Week
…National
Ghostwriters Week
…National Maple Syrup
Days
…National Schools
Social Work Week
…National Severe Storm
Preparedness Week
…National Sleep Awareness Week
…National Words Matter Week
…Professional Pet Sitters Week
…Read an E-Book Week
…Return The Borrowed Books
Week
…Save Your Vision Week
…Telecommuter Appreciation
Week (Always Week that has Alexander Graham Bell's Birthday 3/2)
…Women in Construction Week
2-6
…National Write A
Letter of Appreciation Week
…Universal Human
Beings Week
...Will Eisner Week
…Newspaper in
Education Week
…National School Breakfast
Week
…Share A Story - Shape A Future Week
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1819 - Territory of Arkansas organized
1819 - US passed its 1st immigration law
1824 - Interstate commerce comes under federal
control
1825 - 1st grand opera in US sung in English, NYC
1829 - New England Asylum for the Blind, 1st in US,
incorporated, Boston
1836 - Republic of Texas declares
independence from Mexico in Columbia
1853 - Territory of Washington organized after
separating from Oregon Territory
1861 - Government Printing Office purchases 1st
printing plant, Washington
1861 - US creates Dakota & Nevada Territories
out of the Nebraska & Utah territory
1867 - 1st Reconstruction act passed by US Congress
1867 - US Congress abolishes peonage in New Mexico
1867 - US Congress created the Department of
Education
1868 - University of Illinois opens
1877 - Rutherford B. Hayes (R) declared
president despite Samuel J Tilden (D) winning the popular vote, but is 1 electoral
vote shy of victory
1893 - 1st federal railroad legislation passed;
required safety features
1899 - Pres McKinley signs bill creating Mt Rainier
Natl Park (5th in US)
1901 - The United States Congress passes the Platt
amendment, limiting the autonomy of Cuba as a condition for the withdrawal of
American troops
1903 - Martha Washington Hotel, catering to
women only, opens in NYC
1917 - Jones Act: Puerto Rico territory created, US
citizenship granted
1925 - Nationwide road numbering system & US shield
marker adopted
1930 - Tucson businessmen
staged a milk price war; the public got its milk for 14 cents a quart.
1939 - Massachusetts Legislature votes to ratify
the US Bill of Rights - 147 years late
1949 - 1st automatic
street light (New Milford, Ct)
1953 - The Academy Awards are first broadcast on
television by NBC
1962 - Wilt Chamberlain scores incredible 100
points in an NBA game
1965 - "The Sound Of Music" opens
1966 - 215,000 US soldiers in Vietnam
1970 - Supreme Court ruled draft evaders can not be
penalized after 5 years
1977 - Bette Davis-1st woman to receive American
Film Institute's Life Achievement Award
1983 - Compact Disc recordings developed by
Phillips & Sony introduced
1989 - The Navajo Code Talker Monument is
erected
1994 - Branch Davidian cult leader David Koresh
promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it is, but he doesn't
1998 - Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft
indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick crust of
ice
Today’s World
Events through History
1717 - The Loves of Mars and Venus becomes the
first ballet performed in England
1808 - The inaugural meeting of the Wernerian
Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, was held in
Edinburgh
1937 - Mexico nationalizes oil
1946 - Ho Chi Minh elected president of North
Vietnam
1970 - Rhodesia becomes independent republic
1978 - 1st broadcast of "Dallas" on CBS TV
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Snowy day in our little mountain town. I have at least 8” on the
ground. Snows, then stops, then snows again. Very wet and very heavy.
Caught up with my Sunday news shows. Interesting as the FCC makes
new rules to protect net neutrality, causing seizures on the right, a new study
was released this last week that places the US in 27th place for broadband
speed. Bulgaria is 28th. WOW. The US is also paying some of the
highest prices for access to the internet. No surprise there.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I
am a queen, beautiful and
Covered with a sweet fragrance,
Guarded by five guardsmen,
Two of them clean-shaven,
Two of them unshaven,
And the last one half-shaven.
What am I?
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Book
Facts…
╪ Ernest
Vincent Wright wrote a 50,000 word book titled 'Gadsby' which did not use the
letter "e".
╪ Amazon
sells more e-books than printed books.
╪ The Main
Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was
built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that
would occupy the building.
Color
Facts…
╪There’s a rare
breed of chicken called Ayam Cemani that’s completely black. They have black
plumage, legs, nails, beak, and even black meat, bones, and a black tongue!
╪ There is a family
with a genetic condition that makes their skin blue, who have been isolated in
rural Kentucky for generations.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 years ago-1965
On Sunday, Southwest Forest Industries honored 150 longtime
employees who have had 40 to 45 years work with a “Service Pin” and lunch at
the Flagstaff Armory. Don Herring, Senior Employee with 50 years in the plant
security department was also honored. Lunch was service by the LDS Relief
Society.
50 years ago-1965
A. J. Bayless is offering double stamps on Wednesday. T-bones @89
cents, Ice Cream @69 cents for a half gallon and Arizona Oranges 10 cents a
pound.
Harper’s
Index…
12
Minimum number of abducted Japanese citizens who have lived in N.
Korea for at least 30 years
Prison
Facts…
╪Before escaping
prison, Winston Churchill left a letter of apology on his bed. The letter
began: "I have the honour to inform you that as I do not consider that
your Government have any right to detain me as a military prisoner, I have
decided to escape from your custody."
╪ In 2013, a
homeless man from Oregon robbed a bank for $1, then casually sat down and
waited for police to arrest him so he could receive healthcare in prison.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
John Quincy Adams was elected the 6th President of the United
States despite losing both the popular and electoral vote. No one won the
majority, so the election went to the House of Representatives, where Adams had
more friends than his competition.
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2 jokes
for the day
Q: Which spice is the worst at keeping
secrets?
A: Only thyme will tell.
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A priest, a lawyer, and an accountant were all
at the bedside of a very ill man. The man said to them, "Gentlemen, I'm
dying. Before I go, however, I want to ask you one final favor: My family is
rotten and I don't want to give any of them an inheritance. I would like to be
buried with the remainder of my money." He then hands the priest, the
lawyer, and the accountant three envelopes that contain $100,000 each.
"While my coffin is being lowered into the earth, please throw each of the
envelopes in. Don't tell anyone what's inside the envelopes."
So the three men leave. Sure enough, one week later, the man dies. During the
funeral, the three men toss the envelopes into the grave whilst the coffin was
being lowered. After the funeral, the three men go to a cafe to discuss the
life of the old man.
The priest says, "I have a confession: I
took $10,000 from my envelope. But I used it to fix up the children's home. The
old man was always very generous and loved the children. I'm sure he wouldn't
mind seeing where his money went."
The lawyer pipes in, "Well, I also have a confession: I took $30,000 as
payment of a personal loan he borrowed from me years ago."
The accountant, looking rather shocked, says,
"I cannot believe you two! I wrote a personal check that covered the whole
thing!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
WOOD
STREET VILLAGE, England (UPI)
Pranksters in an English town installed a toilet, sink and toilet
paper holder at an outdoor bus stop, local officials said. Worplesdon Parish
Council Clerk Gaynor White said pranksters have repeatedly targeted Worplesdon
bus stops with acts of destructive vandalism, but the latest act, discovered
Monday in Wood Street Village, is in its own league. "I received a phone call
just before midday and the groundsman said 'you will never guess what I have
found,'" she told Get Surrey. "I have been the parish clerk for 15
and a half years, and I have never seen anything like it -- it is hysterical
really." "The key question is -- should this be considered a bus
shelter improvement or simply money down the drain?" White quipped.
"Perhaps we should ask parishioners to share a penny for their thoughts on
this one?" White said she does not believe the pranksters behind the
toilet installation were responsible for previous incidents that led to costly
repairs. "This time is different," White said. "It was creative.
The others incidents were actually destructive." White said the toilet and
sink were bolted into place, but weren't connected to any water source.
However, she said someone apparently put the toilet to use. "Although
trialed by someone, the new facility has now been removed by the vice-chairman
of the parish council and myself," she told the Guildford Dragon. "I
took the bathroom fittings to the dump at lunchtime today." "The fun
police have been to take the fun away, you could say," White told Get
Surrey.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
╪ In 2001, Dean Kamen,
a self-taught physicist and established inventor, developed the Segway,
claiming he could make walking "obsolete." Kamen had previously
developed a phonebook-sized portable dialysis machine, a non-polluting engine,
and more than 150 other patented contraptions.
╪ Segway PTs (personal
transporters) have electric motors that drive the apparatus at speeds up to
12.5 miles per hour.
The Segway is designed with "redundant technology." This means the
device features duplicates of its important pieces of hardware. If one function
fails, an internal computer uses the duplicate function to keep the machine
stable enough for the rider to hop off safely.
Most Segways can travel about 12 miles before they need to be recharged.
On newer Segways, the control shaft sways in sync with the rider if he or she
wants to turn.
It is illegal to use a Segway on streets, roads, or highways. They are allowed
on sidewalks and bike lanes.
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Birthday’s
Today
83 - Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of
the Communist Party
60 - Ken Salazar, politician-Sec. of
Interior
59 - John Cowsill, rock drummer (Cowsills-We
Can Fly)
53 - Jon Bon Jovi, rocker (Bon Jovi-Give
Love a Bad Name)
47 - Daniel Craig, English actor
(007)
38 - Chris Martin,
English musician (Coldplay)
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Remembered
for being born today
1793-1863@70 - Sam[uel] Houston, 1st president of Texas
1862-1933@71 - John Jay Chapman, US advocate/poet
(Learning & Other Essays)
1876-1958@82 - Pius XII, [Euhenio MGG Pacelli], 260th
Pope (1939-58)
1904-1991@87- Dr. Seuss,[Theodor Geisel], author(Horton
Hears a Who!)
1917-1986@69 - Desi Arnaz, Santiago Cuba, actor (I
Love Lucy)
1950-1983@32 - Karen Carpenter, vocalist/drummer (We
Only Just Begun)
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Historical
Obits Today
José
MartÃnez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer, 1967@93
Randolph
Scott, actor (Fort Worth, Gung Ho, Jesse James), 1987@89
John
Wesley, English co-founder of Methodism, 1791@87
Horace
[Horatio] Walpole, British horror
writer, 1797@79
Howard
Carter, Brit archaeologist/Egyptologist (King Tut), lymphoma, 1939@64
Dusty
Springfield, English singer, cancer, 1999@59
David Herbert(DH) Lawrence, writer (Lady
Chatterley's Lover), TB, 1930@44
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Brain Teasers Answers
A Rose.
When you look at a rose, the colored petals forming the rose represent the
queen.
The five green leaf-like flaps below the petals, called sepals, represent the
five guardsmen.
At closer inspection, you will see these five leaves have very distinct
characteristics.
Two of them are clean-shaven, meaning smooth edges on both sides.
Two of them are unshaven, meaning on both sides of the leaf there are small
little tentacles, sometimes very fine, sometimes larger.
And the last one is half-shaven, meaning one smooth edge and one 'tentacle'
edge.
Another interesting thing is that you'll always find a smooth edge and a
'tentacle' edge next to each other.
Go and have a look! All true roses have these characteristics!
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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…§
