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3.18.16 Week: 11 \ Day: 78
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 65° \ L 19° Average
Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 0mph\Gusts: 20mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 68°[2004] Record Low: -1°[1954]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Awkward
Moments Day:
Forgive Mom and Dad Day
National
Biodiesel Day
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Observances This Week
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)
18-20
Sherlock
Holmes Weekend
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1541 Hernando de Soto observes 1st
recorded flood in America (Mississippi River)
1673 Lord Berkley sells his half of New
Jersey to the Quakers
1810 "Converse", 1st US opera, premieres
in NY
1818 Congress approves 1st pensions for
government service
1870 1st US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake
Meritt in Oakland California)
1881 Barnum & Bailey's "Greatest
Show on Earth" opens (Madison Square Garden)
1902 Enrico Caruso becomes 1st well-known
performer to make a record
1919 Order of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
1931 1st electric shavers go on sale in US
(Schick)
1944 2,500 women trample guards &
floorwalkers to purchase 1,500 alarm clocks announced for sale in a Chicago Illinois
dept store
1945 1,250 US bombers attacks Berlin
1949 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Org)
ratified
1952 1st plastic lens for cataract patients
fitted (Phila)
1961 Poppin' Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy
introduced
1977 US restricts citizens from visiting
Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia
1990 Largest ever art robbery at Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston. 13 works valued over $500 million are stolen
1992 Donna Summer gets a star on
Hollywood's Walk of Fame
2014 US closes the Syrian embassy in
Washington & expels all Syrian diplomats
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1241 Kraków is ravaged by Mongols.
1314 Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last
Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
1325 According to legend, Tenochtitlan is
founded on this date. The event is depicted on the Mexican coat of arms.
1922 British magistrates in India sentence Mahatma
Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment for disobedience
1965 Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his
spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
1989 In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is
found in the Pyramid of Cheops.
2003 British Sign Language is recognised as
an official British language.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great lunch at SmashBurger with our retirement
group.
Debated about going to see Bernie at Twin
Arrows Casino about 15 minutes from Flag. Must be getting old…the doors open at
5p with a first come, first served policy. The Town Hall starts 2 hours later.
Just don’t want to sit in a room for that long for something to happen. Figure
the highlights will be on TV. Wish him luck at the meeting.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Spirit Search
Logic puzzles require
you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
You are an expert on paranormal
activity and have been hired to locate a spirit haunting an old resort hotel.
Strong signs indicate that the spirit lies behind one of four doors. The
inscriptions on each door read as follows:
Door A: It's behind B or C
Door B: It's behind A or D
Door C: It's in here
Door D: It's not in here
Your psychic powers have told you three of the inscriptions are false, and one
is true. Behind which door will you find the spirit?
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…Harper’s Index…
1-Rank of domestic work among the fastest-growing
US occupations
$17,000-Average annual income among US
domestic workers
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…Why the Chicken Crossed The Road…
ERNEST HEMINGWAY: To die in the rain, alone.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeotravel@JayDickmanPhoto Namibia is one of my
favorite places on the continent of Africa. Formerly German South-West Africa,
then South West Africa (officially changing the name to Namibia in 1968)
Namibia officially became independent on March 21, 1990.
Home to the Namib Desert, the Skeleton Coast, the Etosha Pan, Damaraland, the
Palmwag Concession, and Dr. Laurie Marker’s Cheetah Conservation Fund, Namibia
provides an amazing blend of cultural, landscape and wildlife opportunities for
the photographer.
I photographed this Masai giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis tippelskirchi) near
Rhino Camp in the Palmwag Concession.
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2 jokes for the day
I wonder, do birds always plan things, or do they sometimes just wing it?
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At about 3AM, I was drunk as a skunk. I came home just in time to hear the
cuckoo clock cuckoo three times. Quickly coming up with a plan, I cuckooed nine
more times, hoping my wife would think it was midnight. I was very proud of
myself.
The next day, my wife asked what time I got home, and I replied,
"Midnight, just like I said."
She said that was good, and for some reason she said we needed a new cuckoo
clock. When I asked why, she answered, "Last night when it cuckooed
midnight, it cuckooed three times, said 'Shit!', cuckooed four more times,
farted, cuckooed three times, cleared its throat, cuckooed two more times and
then started giggling."
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Yep, It Really Happened
*---- Seattle Police Seek Ninja Masturbator ----*
Seattle police are seeking the public's help
in identifying a suspected serial masturbator who publicly pleasures himself
while disguising his identity with a ninja outfit. Cops first learned of the
masked pervert in January, after a woman called 911 to report that a man was
"masturbating outside the front door of her home." Cops responding to
the scene were unable to locate the suspect. Last month, a night vision camera
outside the woman's residence recorded the suspect again pleasuring himself
next to the front door. The surveillance images show him dressed head-to-toe in
dark clothing. Residents are University of Washington students who say that
they have "heard suspicious sounds outside their house on several
occasions," according to cops.
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Somewhat Useless Information
To celebrate St. Patrick's Day, 110
million people will celebrate the day by wearing green, making an
Irish-inspired meal, or going out to celebrate.
There are 33.7 million U.S. residents who are of Irish ancestry. That number is
almost nine times the population of Ireland itself.
St. Patrick is a hero in Ireland. And there are about 60 churches and
cathedrals named for him in Ireland alone. One of the most famous cathedrals is
St. Patrick's Cathedral in Dublin. These grounds bear the mark of the place
where St. Patrick baptized his converts.
The very first St. Patrick's Day parade was not in Ireland. It was in Boston in
1737.
The largest parade in the United States, held since 1762, is in New York City,
and draws more than one million spectators each year.
Over 100 US cities hold a parade every year. Some of the other biggest St.
Patrick's Day parades are in Chicago, Illinois and Savannah, Georgia.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(88) Lillian
Vernon,
Leipzig,
Germany founder and CEO of the Lillian Vernon Corporation (first company listed
on US stock exchange started by a woman), (d. 2015)
(84) Edward
Everett Horton,
Brooklyn,
American actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show) (d.1970)
78- Charley
Pride,
Sledge
Miss, country singer (Sweet Country)
(76) George
Plimpton,
NYC,
sports writer (Paper Lion) (d.2003)
73- Kevin
Dobson,
Jackson
Hgts NY, actor (Kojak, Knots Landing, Shannon)
(71) Grover
Cleveland,
Caldwell,
NJ, 22nd and 24th US President (1885-89, 1893-97) (d. 1908)
(71) [Arthur] Neville
Chamberlain,
Birmingham,
England British Prime Minister (C, 1937-40) (d.1940)
71- Michael
Reagan,
talk
show host, and son of Ronald and Nancy Reagan
(68) John
C. Calhoun,
Abbeville,
SC Andrew Jackson's Vice President (1825-32), (d. 1850)
(67) Edgar
Cayce,
American
psychic (d. 1945)
(64) Wilson
Pickett,
Prattville,
Alabama, American R&B singer (Funky Broadway) (d. 2006)
(55) Rudolph
C K Diesel,
German
engineer (Diesel motor) (d.1913)
53- Vanessa
L Williams,
Millwood
NY, Actress, singer and 1st African American Miss America (1983)
52- Bonnie
Blair,
Champaign
Ill, speed skater (Oly-5 gold/brz-88, 92, 94)
46- Queen
Latifah (Dana Elaine Owens),
Newark,
American rapper and actress (Khadijah James-Living Single)
44- Dane
Cook,
American
comedian and actor
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Historical Obits Today
@85-2010 Fess
Parker,
American
actor
@85-1947 William
C. Durant,
American
automobile pioneer
@79-1980 Erich
Fromm,
German/US
psychoanalyst, dies at 79
@71-1314 Jacques
de Molay,
the
last grand master of The Knights Templar, burned at the stake
@70-1845 John
Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed],
American
pioneer agronomist
@53-1584 Ivan
IV [Ivan the Terrible],
Russian
tsar (1547-84), stroke
@45-2009 Natasha
Richardson,
English
actress, ski accident
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Brain Teasers Answers
The spirit lies behind Door D.
If the spirit is behind Door A, then both B and D are true.
If the spirit is behind Door B, then both A and D are true.
If the spirit is behind Door C, then A, C, and D are all true.
If the spirit is behind Door D, then the statements on all the doors are false,
except for that on Door B. This matches the rules, and therefore, the resort
hotel spirit lurks behind Door D.
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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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