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3.19.16 Week: 11 \ Day: 79
March Averages:
50°\23°
86004 Today:
H 65° \ L 19° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind
ave: 12mph\Gusts: 20mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 72°[2004] Record
Low: -1°[1954]
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Quote
of the Day
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Observances
Today
Client's
Day Link
Corn Dog Day Link
Earth Hour Link
(Not to be confused with Earth Day. This pertains to turning off
lights.)
Endometriosis March Day Link
International Sports Car Racing
Day Link
Goddess of Fertility
Day Link (Day before the Spring Equinox)
National Chocolate Caramel Day Link
National Poultry Day Link
Operation Iraqi Freedom Day
Swallows
Return to San Juan Capistrano 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
1628 Massachusetts Bay Colony granted land by
England
1687 Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle,
searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
1822 Boston, Mass, incorporated as a city
1831 1st US bank robbery (City Bank,
NY/$245,000)
1883 Jan Matzeliger invents first machine to
manufacture entire shoes
1915 Pluto photographed for 1st time
(although unknown at the time)
1918 US Congress authorizes time zones &
approves daylight saving time
1920 US Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles
for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of Nations' covenant (maintaining
isolation policy)
1928 "Amos & Andy" debuts on
radio (NBC Blue Network-WMAQ Chicago)
1931 Nevada legalizes gambling
1942 FDR orders men between 45 & 64
to register for non-military duty
1943 Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss
after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
1949 1st museum devoted exclusively to atomic
energy, Oak Ridge, Tn
1951 Herman Wouk's "Caine Mutiny"
published
1954 1st rocket-driven sled on rails tested
in Alamogordo, NM
1964 Sean Connery's 1st day of shooting on
"Goldfinger"
1968 Howard University students seize
administration building
1969 Chicago 8 indicted in aftermath of Chicago
Democratic convention
1975 Penn is 1st state to allow girls to
compete with boys in HS sports
1979 US House of Representatives begins live
TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
1985 "Spin Magazine" begins
publishing
1991 NFL owners strip Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl
game due to Arizona Not recognizing Martin Luther King Day
1995 Arizona outside of Phoenix begins using
new telephone area code 520
2012 Wendy's overtakes Burger King to become
the second best selling hamburger chain
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1644 200 members of Peking imperial
family/court commit suicide in loyalty to the Emperor
1932 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
1945 Adolf Hitler issues "Nero Decree"
to destroy all German factories
1947 Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek conquers
Jenan
1988 2 British soldiers lynched in Belfast,
North Ireland
1990 1st world ice hockey tournament for
women held (Ottawa)
1994 Largest omelette (1,383sq ft) made with
160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan
2014 Russia captures the Ukrainian naval base
in Sevastopol
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice spring day. A little breezy, but still
nice to be outside.
Laundry Day…enuf said
The first time I got to watch March Madness
games during the day was while I was attending a conference in Chicago back in
the early 80’s. Now it is common place to keep up with some of the games. In
the first round, both UofA wildcats and CU buffalos fell…so I have no favorites
to watch, but I’m sure there will be some good games to watch.
I didn’t go to see Bernie last night, but
thankfully, the internet machine had the event live on YouTube. Glad I didn’t
go. 2800 showed up, 1500 got in, the rest just got to gamble or leave. And the
event didn’t start until 7:30, advertised at 7:00. Thanks You Tube. So nice to
have a national candidate show up on the Navajo Reservation and talk about
Native issues.
Tomorrow I’ll be updating the Focus site. Need
to make some tech changes and I have to plan out what I’m going to do to the
whole site. It has to do with what happens when one clicks
on a link…does a new page open up or does it just open in the same tab. Gotta think about the ramifications of either
choice.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Figure it out #2
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
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Difficulty:
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Each
sentence below contains a word that can be anagrammed to answer or describe the
sentence.
Example: Craft that might tip in the ocean. Answer: Canoe (Anagram of ocean)
1. You cover a mattress with one of these
2. Dangerous thing for an alcoholic to begin
3. Feature on which a tire might be rated
4. Feeling about a poisonous adder
5. Weapon that a cavalryman bears
6. It doesn't necessarily bring rain, but it could
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…Harper’s
Index…
-8-Percentage change since 1973 in
inflation-adjusted median wages of US men
+31-for US women
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…Why
the Chicken Crossed The Road…
JERRY
FALWELL:
Because the chicken was gay! Can't you people see the plain truth?
That's why they call it the 'other side.' Yes, my friends, that chicken
was gay. If you eat that chicken, you will become gay too. I say we
boycott all chickens until we sort out this abomination that the Liberal media
whitewashes with seemingly harmless phrases like 'the other side.' That
chicken should not be crossing the road. It's as plain and as simple as
that.
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoFrom the green fields Inisheer in the Aran Islands of
Ireland
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2
jokes for the day
How do you measure the intelligence of a vegetable?
With an IQ-cumber!
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I
read the expression 'revenge is a dish best served cold'.
Then I read 'revenge is sweet'.
I came to the conclusion that revenge is ice cream.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- The
online-pornography colossus Pornhub's charity fundraising promotion during
February benefited the Moclips Cetological Society ("Save the
Whales") in honor of World Whale Day on Feb. 13. Its news release
celebrated whales' sexuality -- that they, like humans, do not limit their
horniness to procreation. The company said it would, from Feb. 8 to Feb. 29,
donate a penny for every 2,000 videos played on its ubiquitous free websites.
(That offer might appear modest, but a Seattle Post-Intelligencer reporter
noted, over the first two days, the world's porn consumers had played 532
million videos -- earning the charity $2,660.)
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
day before London banned drinking on public transportation, thousands of people
went on the Circle Line to ride in a circle while drinking.
More lasting relationships have come out of The Biggest Loser than The Bachelor
or Bachelorette.
After ancient Persians debated ideas, they liked to get drunk and debate them
again. Just to make sure they were right.
An Olympic rower named Henry Pearce once won a race even though he stopped to
let some ducks pass by.
Japanese trains are so punctual that a delay over five minutes usually gets an
apology and a "delay certificate" for passengers heading to work.
Delays over an hour might even make the news.
When Michael Foot was put in charge of a Nuclear disarmament committee, The
Times' headline read: Foot Heads Arms Body.
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Birthdays
Today
“()”
indicates age at death
(86) Tige Andrews,
Bkln, actor (Capt Adam Greer-Mod Squad) (d.2007)
(83) Earl Warren,
LA, CA Governor of California/14th supreme court chief
justice (d.1975)
(81) Jackie "Moms" Mabley,
Brevard SC, comedienne (Merv Griffin Show) (d.1975)
(80) Wyatt Earp,
Monmouth, IL American sheriff (OK Corral), (d. 1929)
80- Ursula Andress,
Berne Switzerland, actress (She, Sensuous Nurse)
72- Sirhan Sirhan,
Palestinian-born assassin-RFK
(69) Richard Burton,
Torquay, Devon English explorer and translator (Arabian
Nights), (d. 1890)
69- Glenn Close,
Greenwich Ct, actress (The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction)
(65) William Allingham,
Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Irish poet (The Fairies,
Laurence Bloomfield in Ireland) (d.1889)
(65) William Jennings Bryan,
Salem, IL American orator and statesman known as
"The Great Commoner", (d. 1925)
61- Bruce Willis, Idar-Oberstein,
West Germany, American actor (Moonlighting, Die
Hard)
(60) David Livingstone,
Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland Scottish explorer
(found by Stanley in Africa), brn in (d. 1873)
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Historical
Obits Today
@90-2008 Sir Arthur C. Clarke,
English science fiction author and inventor
@74-1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs,
sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), heart attack
@73-1406 Ibn Khaldūn,
North African Islamic scholar, philosopher and historian
(Muqaddimah)
@50-1974 Anne Klien,
fashion designer, breast cancer
@44-1286 King Alexander III of Scotland
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Sheet
2. Binge
3. Tread
4. Dread
5. Sabre or Saber
6. Cloud
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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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