Mar 12

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Mar 12, 2019 Week: 11 \ Day: 70

86004 Today: H 48° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  8mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 72°[1900]   Record Low: -1°[1917]

Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

One who deceives will always find those

who allow themselves to be deceived.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Random Tidbits

Catholics believe that the pope, who is based in Rome, is the successor to Saint Peter, which Christ appointed as the first head of His church.

Catholics rely more on ritual and ceremony than do most other Christian religions. The intent of the rituals is to create an experience in which faith is felt and religion literally comes to life, with God's presence in the here-and-now world.

Observances This Week

Lent: 6-20

National Catholic Sisters Week: 8-14 

World Rattlesnake Roundup: 8-10

American Council on Education: 9-12

Campfire USA Birthday Week: 10-16

Girl Scout Week: 10-16 

Termite Awareness Week: 10-16

National Agriculture Week: 10-16

International Brain Awareness Week: 11-17 

Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign: 11-17

Observances for Today

Alfred Hitchcock Day

Girl Scout Birthday Day Link
IHOP National Pancake Day  Link 
National Milky Way Day

Organize Your Home Office Day

Plant a Flower Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Yesterday was just a lazy day. Enjoyed every minute of it.

Up early this morning to get out and about. Got what I needed and headed home. Got home just as the clouds filled the sky. Weather guy sez and inch or two tomorrow. Last prediction was a bust, but I had my Medicare annual appointment tomorrow at 8:15, so I expect it to be at least 2”.

Hats off to the Poarch Band of the Creek the tribe for stepping up and stepping out to pay the entire funeral expenses of victims of the Alabama tornado. None of the 23 Megachurches in Alabama stepped up, but did offer prayers.

So sad to hear of the Ethiopian plane crash. Focus flew that airline a few years back on our adventure in Ethiopia. It has shown to be a great airline for all of Africa. I hope they find out the cause fast.

Dear 45: I am a democrat and I don’t hate anyone.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1300’s

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

1600’s

1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies

1700’s

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

1800’s

1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued

1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women

1894 Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time in a candy store in

            Vicksburg, Mississippi

1900’s

1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund

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

1917 A German submarine sinks an unarmed US merchant ship, the

            'Algonquin' on the same day that US President Woodrow Wilson

            gives executive order to arm US merchant ships

1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside chat"

1947 US President Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight

            communism

1951 Comic strip "Dennis the Menace," 1st appears in the British comic

            magazine The Beano'

1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory

            from Israel

1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and

            Poland join NATO.

2000’s

2003 Elizabeth Smart found after having been missing for 9 months.

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.

2018 British Prime Minister Theresa May says Russia was "highly likely"

             to have poisoned a Russian spy and his daughter on March 4

            with nerve agent

2018 Research shows Chinese cites have decreased pollution by 32

            percent on average in just four years

Birthdays Today

1862 Jane Delano,

American nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)

(d. 1919-@57)

1921 Gordon MacRae,

American singer and actor (Oklahoma!, Carousel),

born in East Orange, New Jersey

(d. 1986-@64-mouth cancer)

1922 Jack Kerouac,

American Beat writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues),

born in Lowell, Massachusetts

(d. 1969-@47- abdominal hemorrhage)

1923 Walter M Schirra Jr,

Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7),

born in Hackensack, New York

(d. 2007-@84)

1928 Edward Albee,

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

born in Virginia

(d. 2016-@88)

1940 Al Jarreau,

American jazz singer (Moonlighting),

born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (

d. 2017-@76-repiratory failure)

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87- Andrew Young,

US ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)

86- Barbara Feldon,

American actress (Agent 99-Get Smart),

born in Pittsburgh

72- Liza Minnelli,

American singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret),

born in Hollywood, California

72- Mitt Romney,

70th Republican Governor of Massachusetts and

presidential candidate,

born in Detroit, Michigan

71- James Taylor,

vocalist/guitarist (Up on the Roof),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

69- Jon Provost,

actor (Timmy-Lassie)

Historical Obits Today

@80-2015 Michael Graves,

American postmodernist architect and designer

@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) and

pioneer of the electrical industry

@65-2012 Michael Hossack,

American drummer (The Doobie Brothers),

dies of cancer

@58-1925 Sun Yat-sen,

Chinese revolutionary and father of modern China,

dies of liver cancer

@54-2003 Cherlynne Theresa "Lynne" Thigpen,  

American actress (Carmen Sandiego, Lean on Me),

dies from stroke

@37±1883 Murrumgunarriman,

[Twopenny],

cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868),

dies of dropsy

@15-1945 Anne Frank,

Dutch diarist and Jewish victim of the Nazi Holocaust

(Diary of Anne Frank),

dies of typhus in the Belsen concentration camp

Mar 10

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Mar 10, 2019 Week: 11 \ Day: 69

86004 Today: H 42° \ L 18° \ Average Sky Cover: 10% 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  7mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1989]   Record Low: -9°[1958]

Mar Averages: 51°\23° (6 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Respect is what we owe;

love, what we give.

Philip James Bailey

Random Tidbits

The Catholic Church is the oldest institution in the Western world. It traces its history back almost 2,000 years.

The word "Catholic" was first used by Ignatius of Antioch around the year A.D. 110. It is from the Greek word katholikos, which means "toward the whole." Ignatius was suggesting that the Church is a gift offered by Christ to all people.

Observances This Week

Women of Aviation Worldwide Week: 4-10 

Lent: 6-20

National Catholic Sisters Week: 8-14 

World Rattlesnake Roundup: 8-10

American Council on Education: 9-12

Campfire USA Birthday Week: 10-16

Girl Scout Week: 10-16 

Termite Awareness Week: 10-16

National Agriculture Week: 10-16

Observances for Today

US Snow Shoe Days Link
Check Your Batteries Day 
Daylight Savings Time Begins
Girl Scout Sunday Link 
International Bagpipe Day
International Day of Awesomeness Link
International Find a Pay Phone Booth Day

Land Line Telephone Day
Mario Day
National Ranch Dressing Day

Salvation Army Day
US Paper Money Day
Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Very nice and cool Saturday. A good day for Netflix. Our snow fizzled. Not to worry, another one is brewing to be here Sunday night.

After talking to Ellie, I added a picture and an update about Bob on the Focus Travel site. Thanks to fellow traveler, Ann, for sending me that great picture.

Good luck to all of you changing time. AZ, at least the part I live in doesn’t do DST. I did have a career on the Navajo Rez, where they do change time. Every freakin’ trip into Flagstaff meant changing time. Thank goodness for dual time digital watches. For much of my career I lived in Tuba City. The Hopi Rez was right across the highway. Hopi went with AZ and didn’t change time. So in Tuba, some businesses changed time and others didn’t change time. The Public School in Tuba didn’t change time, but Tuba Boarding did change time. Most families with children had two clocks in the house…one on Navajo Time, one on Hopi time. Every event had to announce if the event was on Navajo Time or Hopi Time. As I heard many times, ‘Only the White Man would cut off the top of the blanket and sew it to the bottom of the blanket to make it longer.’

Sure glad I’m not in Venezuela. With all their problems with inflation, lack of food, now they have lost power. So disturbing.

Not sure who will finally win the Democratic nomination, but all the candidates are out politicking today. Most are calling for unity to beat 45.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s

1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent (only US President to do so)

            for a device to lift a boat over shoals and obstructions

1874 Purdue University (Indiana) admits its 1st student

1876 First telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says "Mr. Watson,

            come here, I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson

1891 Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the

            strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of

            telephone circuit switching

1893 New Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony;

            its only graduand Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night

            before

1900’s

1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions

1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics

1945 Tokyo in fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000

            people die, mostly civilians.

1959 Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" premieres in NYC

1964 Simon and Garfunkel record the first version of "The Sound of

            Silence" at Columbia Studios in New York City

1971 US Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18

1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show

1982 The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports

            because of their support of terrorist groups.

1987 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo

            transfer

1997 The PalmPilot, as developed by Jeffrey Hawkins, is released

2000’s

2006 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

2010 Carlos Slim becomes the first Mexican and person from an

            emerging economy to top Forbes Richest Person list, with net

            worth of US$53.5 billion

2013 Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National

            League for Democracy

2014 German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns Russia's Vladimir Putin

            that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of

            Ukraine's constitution

2017 South Korean judges uphold parliaments' decision to impeach

            President Park Geun-hye

Birthdays Today

1847 Kate Sheppard,

New Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of

New Zealand's women's suffrage movement,

born in Liverpool, England

(d. 1934-@86)

1891 Sam Jaffe,

American actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba),

born in NYC,

(d. 1984-@93)

1945 Elizabeth Brumfiel,

[Elizabeth Stern],

American feminist archaeologist, former president of

the American Anthropological Association

(d. 2012-@67)

1957 Osama bin Laden,

Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda,

born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

(d. 2011-@54-killed by US Seal Team)

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79- Chuck Norris

[Carlos Ray],

American martial arts actor (Missing in Action),

born in Ryan, Oklahoma

72- [Avril] Kim Campbell,

Canada's 1st female Prime Minister and 19th overall (1993),

born in Port Alberni, British Columbia

61- Sharon Stone,

American actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver, Casino),

born in Meadville, Pennsylvania

57- Jasmine Guy,

actress (Whitley-Different World),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

55- Prince Edward

[Edward Anthony Richard Louis],

Prince of Britain and son of Elizabeth II,

born in Buckingham Palace, London

48- Jon Hamm,

American actor (Mad Men - Don Draper),

born in St. Louis, Missouri

36- Carrie Underwood,

American country singer,

born in Muskogee, Oklahoma

Historical Obits Today

@±91-1913 Harriet Tubman

[Araminta Ross],

American abolitionist, former slave and humanitarian

(Underground Railroad)

@91-2018 Hubert de Givenchy,

French fashion designer (Audrey Hepburn's LBD) and

founder of Givenchy (1952)

@91-2016 Gogi Grant

[Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg],

American singer (The Wayward Wind)

@85-1998 Lloyd Bridges,

American comedic actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane!)

@81-1986 Ray Milland,

Welsh actor (The Lost Weekend-Academy Award 1945)

@73-1985 Konstantin Chernenko,

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

(1984-85),

dies of Emphysema

@69±-1996 Ross Hunter,

American film producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk)

@30-1988 Andy Gibb,

British singer-songwriter, performer and teen idol (Bee Gees-I

Just Want to Be Your Everything),

dies of myocarditis