Mar 14

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Mar 14, 2018 Week: 11\ Day: 73

86004 Today: H 63° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 70% 

Wind ave.:   8mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 8 mi

Nearest Lightning:  1868 miles away

Record High: 69°[2007]   Record Low: -4°[1990]

Mar Averages: 46°\19°

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

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Today’s Quote

My religion is very simple.

My religion is kindness.

  Dalai Lama

Harper’s Index

255-Number of apartments the president of Azerbaijan gave to journalists on National Press Day

10-Of Azerbaijani journalists who were imprisoned for their work

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Observances This Week

-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

International Ask A Question Day
International Day of Action for Rivers Link
Learn about Butterflies Day

MOTH-ER Day
National Potato Chip Day Link
National Pi Day (as in the math pie = 3.14159265 etc.) Link
Registered Dietitian Day  esday)
Save a Spider Day Link
Write Your Story Day  Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                          

≈1489 The last Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro is forced to abdicate by Venice

1500’s                                          

1592 "Ultimate Pi day": on this day at 6.53am is the largest correspondence between calendar dates and significant digits of pi, since the introduction of the Julian calendar (3.141592653)

1700’s                                          

1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry in the southern US states

1800’s                                          

≈1885 Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera "Mikado" premieres in London at the Savoy Theatre

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

1900’s                                          

1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, Florida

1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere

1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation

≈1913 South African Supreme Court declares that marriages not celebrated according to Christian rites and/or not registered by the Registrar of Marriages, are invalid; all Muslim and Hindu marriages are therefore declared invalid

1923 US President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes

1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)

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

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

1964 Dallas, Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder

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

1973 Future US senator John McCain is released after spending over five years in a North Vietnamese prisoner of war camp

1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race

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

≈1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication

1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"

≈1994 Mexican banker and billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped

2000’s                                          

≈2013 Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China

≈2016 President Putin orders Russian troops out of Syria

2016 NASA releases data showing February 2016 warmest month ever recorded globally - 1.35C above the long-term average

≈2017 World's oldest golf club Muirfield in Scotland, votes to admit women as members for 1st time in 273 years

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My Rambling Thoughts

Still cloudy, but no precipitation. Nice day.

When one is the owner of non-traded company they answer only to him/herself. If you don’t like someone, you can basically fire them. If you disagree with someone, you can fire them. When one is a dictator, the same is true. Those who are not 100% in step with everything 45 says, they are fired.

In our history, the government had many with varying opinions. Lots of ideas were discussed, argued, and debated. This is no longer true. This is not to say that people were not terminated from their job. But it happened only occasionally. If only those that are 100% in step with the President remain, we are no longer a democracy.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

90- Frank Borman,

American astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8) and

CEO of Eastern Air Lines (1975-86),

born in Gary, Ind

80’s

85- Michael Caine [Maurice J Micklewhite],

English actor (Alfie),

born in London

85- Quincy Jones Jr,

American composer and singer (We Are The World),

born in Chicago

@81- Hank Ketcham,

cartoonist (Dennis the Menace)

(d. 2001)

70’s

@77-1833 Lucy Hobbs Taylor,

1st US woman dentist,

born in Constable, New York

(d. 1910)

@76- Albert Einstein,

German-born theoretical physicist and

Nobel laureate (theory of relativity),

born in Ulm, German Empire

internal bleeding (d. 1955)

70- Billy Crystal,

American actor, writer, producer (Soap, City Slickers)

60’s

@69-1919 Max Shulman,

novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap)

bone cancer (d. 1988)

66- Martin Dempsey,

American General, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

born in Jersey City, NJ

@61-1854 Paul Ehrlich,

German bacteriologist and physician

(Chemotherapy, Nobel Prize 1908),

Born in Strehlen, Lower Silesia, German Kingdom of Prussia

heart attack (d. 1915)

30’s

@37-1864 Casey [John] Jones,

American railroad engineer

dies trying to save a train (Ballad of Casey Jones) (d. 1900)

30- Stephen Curry,

American basketball player and NBA star

(Golden State Warriors),

born in Akron

20’s

21- Simone Biles,

American gymnast (4 gold medals 2016),

born in Columbus, Ohio

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Historical Obits Today

80’s

@83-2010 Peter Graves [Aurness],

American actor (Mission Impossible, Airplane!, Stalag 17)

70’s

@77-1932 George Eastman,          

American inventor

(Kodak camera and founder of the Eastman Kodak Company),

suicide

@72-1973 Murat B "Chic" Young,

US comic strip artist (Blondie)

60’s

@65-1925 Walter Camp,

father of American football

@64-1883 Karl Marx,

German philosopher (Communist Manifesto),

pleurisy

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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 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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