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3.14.16 Week: 11 \ Day: 74
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 56° \ L 24° Average
Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: 21mph
Record High: 69°[2007] Record Low: -9°[1962]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Fill
Our Staplers Day
International
Ask A Question Day
International Day of Action for Rivers Link
MOTH-ER
Day
Napping Day (Monday after daylight savings times) Link
National
Pi Day (as in the math pie = 3.14159265 etc.) Link
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Observances This Week
8-14
No
More Week Link
Universal Women's Week
11-17
Turkey
Vultures Return to the Living Sign
13-19
Campfire
USA Birthday Week
Consider Christianity Week
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week
14-20
International
Brain Awareness Week
14-18
Stand
Up! LGBT Awareness Week Link (Against homophobic bullying)
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US Historical Highlights for Today
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."
1644 England grants patent for Providence
Plantations (now Rhode Island)
1743 1st American town meeting (Boston's
Faneuil Hall)
1794 Eli Whitney patents the cotton
gin machine revolutionizing cotton industry in the southern US states
1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to
finance War of 1812
1888 2nd largest snowfall in NYC history
(21")
1903 1st national bird reservation established
in Sebastian, FL
1904 In a landmark case, Northern
Securities Company v United States, the Supreme Court finds that the company
has violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; this is the first case that T.
Roosevelt has undertaken in his 'trust-busting' campaign
1913 John D. Rockefeller gives $100
million to Rockefeller Foundation
1923 US President Warren G.
Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes
1931 1st theater built for rear movie porjection (NYC)
1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the
US government, publishes 1st issue
1958 Recording Industry Association of
American created
1964 Dallas, Texas; Jack
Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder
1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his
7,000th race
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1689 Scotland dismisses William III &
Mary Stuart as king & queen
1885 Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera
"Mikado" premieres in London at the Savoy Theatre
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
1984 Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is
seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in Belfast.
1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait
City, after the Iraqis leave
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda"
suspends publication
1995 1st time 13 people in space
2013 Xi Jinping is named as the new
President of the People's Republic of China
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My Rambling Thoughts
Quiet Sunday with nice weather. While much of
the US is now on DST, we in AZ believe that moving the clock does nothing but
mess people up. While the local networks still have programing at the same
time, the cable channels do not. So it is time to reconfigure my brain to
figure out when the programs are on. For ½ the year, Fareed is on at 7a on
Sunday. The other ½ it is on at 8a. For now I can watch both Fareed and George
S. on Sunday without having to DVR either one. I still recall the many years on
the Navajo Rez when the Rez went on Daylight (Navajo time) and the Hopi, just
across the road did not. So many households had to have two clocks labeled to
know what time it was where they were going. Not to mention the 75 mile drive
to Flag. By the clock it took about 25 minutes to get to Flag and 2hrs and 25
minutes to get back to Tuba. Lots of ‘Back to the Future’ jokes about that.
I listened to a little of Trump last night.
This man is frightening. The way he kept repeating ‘Arrest them’ was eerie. He
only wants likeminded people in his room. Today I saw a couple of interviews by
various journalists on my Sunday morning binge News watch. He is asked sensible
questions and he turns them around, never gives an answer, and accuses the
journalists of being biased. I can only hope his 15 minutes ends very soon and
he goes back to his reality TV.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Ping Pong in a Tube
Science brain teasers
require understanding of the physical or biological world and the laws that
govern it.
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Difficulty:
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You are in a room that is an 8x8x8
perfect cube. There are no windows, or doors (don't ask me how you got in
there!) In the center of the floor there is a 12 inch pipe that is sticking 6
inches out of the floor. In the bottom of the pipe is a ping pong ball with a
diameter that is one millimeter smaller than the inner diameter of the pipe.
You have a 12 inch piece of string, a match, a magnifying glass, a 6"
ruler and a paper clip. How do you get the ping pong ball out of the hole?
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…Harper’s Index…
453,912-Number of migrants who have entered
Greece so far this year
8,519-Number who applie for asylum there
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…Why the Chicken Crossed The Road…
ANDERSON COOPER: We have reason to believe there is
a chicken, but we have not yet been allowed to have access to the other side of
the road.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
discovery.hd.
Quiver tree,
Windhoek, Namibia.Photography by @ (Andrew Levin). Looking like something
borrowed from another planet, this Quiver Tree was one of a cluster that I
stumbled upon while hiking through a botanical garden in Windhoek, Namibia.
Though rather short, it had the ancient persona of a baobab tree, solid and
powerful in its sparseness.
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2 jokes for the day
A man and his wife are talking:
Man - "What would happen if I were to win the lottery?"
Woman - "I would take half and leave you in a heartbeat!"
Man - "I won twelve dollars, here's six now get out!"
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Recently a large seminar was held
for ministers in training. Among the guests were many well-known motivational
speakers.
One of these speakers boldly approached the pulpit and, gathering the entire
crowd’s attention, said, “The best years of my life were spent in the arms of a
woman that wasn’t my wife!” The crowd was shocked! He followed up by saying,
“And that woman was my mother!” The crowd burst into laughter and he gave his
speech, which went over well.
About a week later one of the ministers who had attended the seminar decided to
use that joke in his sermon. As he shyly approached the pulpit one sunny
Sunday, he tried to rehearse the joke in his head. It seemed a bit foggy to him
this morning.
Getting to the microphone he said loudly, “The greatest years of my life were
spent in the arms of another woman that was not my wife!” His congregation sat
shocked. After standing there for almost 10 seconds trying to recall the second
half of the joke, the pastor finally blurted out, “…and I can’t remember who
she was!”
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Yep, It Really Happened
*--------- Addiction is a Hell of a Thing ---------*
A man broke into a store to get a pack of
cigarettes, but he did not steal it. Instead, he left the money on the counter.
New Mexico police arrested the man who was accused of entering the convenience
store and leaving behind $6 for the pack of cigarettes. 24-year-old Ellis C.
Battista was charged with a felony breaking and entering. Battista went to the
24-hour convenience store about 3:30 a.m. To his disappointed, the store
employee was not there and the door was locked. Battista broke the door and
took his favorite pack of cigarettes. He then took out $6 to pay for the item.
Battista raised the money to the surveillance camera to prove that he paid, and
left the store. Police said that the surveillance camera also showed Battista
knocking on the front door several times in an apparent attempt to get someone
to open it. When nobody responded, he kicked the door in and broke it. A
witness called 911.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
87- Frank
Borman,
Gary,
Indiana, astronaut (Gem 7, Ap 8)/CEO (Eastern Airline)
83- Michael
Caine, [Maurice J Micklewhite],
London,
actor (Alfie)
83- Quincy
Jones Jr,
Chicago,
composer/singer (We Are The World)
(81) Hank
Ketcham,
cartoonist
(Dennis the Menace) (d.2001)
(76) Albert
Einstein,
German-born
theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity), born in Ulm,
German Empire (d. 1955)
(71) Thomas
Riley Marshall,
(D)
28th VP (1913-21) (d.1925)
68- Billy
Crystal,
Long
Beach, New York, American actor, writer, producer (Soap, City Slickers)
(37) [John]
Casey Jones,
RR
engineer (Ballad of Casey Jones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJKCWaiYUP4
) (d.1900)
28-Stephen
Curry
BASKETBALL
PLAYER
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Historical Obits Today
@83-2010 Peter
Graves [Aurness],
actor
(Fury, Mission Impossible)
@77-1932 George
Eastman,
US
industrialist (Kodak-camera), shoots himself
@72-1973 Murat
B "Chic" Young,
US
comic strip artist (Blondie)
@67-1992 Ralph
James,
actor
(Orson-Mork & Mindy)
@65-1925 Walter
Camp,
father
of American football
@64-1883 Karl
Marx,
German
philosopher (Communist Manifesto), pleurisy
@62-1989 Edward
Abbey
(environmental
author), after surgery
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Brain Teasers Answers
Pee in the hole.
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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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