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3.4.16
Week: 09 \ Day: 64
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 65° \ L 27° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts:
18mph
Record High:
68°[1910] Record Low: -16°[1966]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Benjamin
Harrison Day
Courageous Follower Day
Dress in Blue Day (Always
First Friday)
Employee
Appreciation Day (Always First Friday) Link
International
Scrapbooking Industry Day
March
Forth-Do Something Day
National Grammar Day
Old
Inauguration Day
Shabbat Across America/Canada
Toy
Soldier Day Link
World
Day of Prayer ╕╕╕╕
Observances This Week
1-7
National
Cheerleading Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Pet Sitters Week Link
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
Universal Human Beings Week Link
Will Eisner Week
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1628 England's
King Charles I grants a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
1681 English
Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him
sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1774 First
sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
1789 1st
US Congress meets and declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
1791 1st
Jewish member of US Congress, Israel Jacobs (PA), takes office
1791 Vermont
admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
1801 1st
US President inaugurated in Washington, D.C. (Thomas Jefferson)
1809 Madison
becomes 1st president inaugurated in American-made clothes
1829 President
Jackson gives his "just policy for Indians" speech today.
1841 Longest
US presidential inauguration speech (8,443 words), William Henry Harrison
1849 US
had no president, Polks term ends on a Sunday, Taylor couldn't be sworn-in, Sen
David Atchison (pres pro tem) term ended Mar 3rd
1861 Confederate
States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag (US Civil War)
1881 California
becomes 1st state to pass plant quarantine legislation
1902 American
Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
1913 US
Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments
1922 1st
vampire film Nosferatu released in Germany, an adaptation of Bram Stoker's
Dracula
1924 "Happy
Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1929
Charles Curtis (R-Kansas) becomes 1st native American VP1930 Coolidge Dam
in Arizona dedicated
1964 Jimmy
Hoffa convicted of jury tampering
1997 US President
Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
1998 Gay
rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United
States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply
when both parties are the same sex.
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1492 King
James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England.
1936 1st
flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1945 In
the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later Queen Elizabeth II, joins
the British Auxiliary Transport Service as a driver.
1966 John
Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
2012 Vladimir
Putin wins Russian presidential election amid allegations of voter fraud
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great late bday lunch with our retirement
group. Nice time.
New Doc wanted a couple of ultrasounds on this
old body…one of the heart, and one of the abdomen. No problems from my end,
just being thorough. Took all of 30 minutes and I have a noisy pumping heart
and my abdomen also makes sounds. No baby either. Get the results later this
month.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A Problem With Pearls
Probability puzzles require you to
weigh all the possibilities and pick the most likely outcome.
"I'm a very rich man, so I've
decided to give you some of my fortune. Do you see this bag? I have 5001 pearls
inside it. 2501 of them are white, and 2500 of them are black. No, I am not
racist. I'll let you take out any number of pearls from the bag without
looking. If you take out the same number of black and white pearls, I will
reward you with a number of gold bars equivalent to the number of pearls you
took."
How many pearls should you take out to give yourself a good number of gold bars
while still retaining a good chance of actually getting them?
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…Harper’s Index…
$2,000,000-Annual revenue earned on ‘Happy
Birthday’ before judge ruled that Warner Music never owned the right to the
song
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…Politicians on the Chicken Crossing
The Road…
HILLARY CLINTON: What difference at this point does
it make why the chicken crossed the road?
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeocreativeA
young captive mandril sees himself in the camera lens reflection for the very
first time in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea
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2 jokes for the day
Wife: Honey I lost 5 pounds!
Husband: AT LAST... you washed off your makeup!
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One day a green grape was walking
down the road when he saw a purple grape, the green grape then started
hollering, "Breathe dude Breathe!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
Active Balloon Popper Alert at Canadian School
Ottawa - The sound of popping balloons had
dozens of police officers descending on Carleton University Sunday evening,
following erroneous reports of a shooter on campus. Several students took to
social media to report a possible emergency situation, with the campus placed
on lockdown while campus security and Ottawa police investigated. The false
alarm was traced to the Tory building, near the center of the campus, where
students were reportedly popping about 80 balloons, sending some students into
a panic and triggering the emergency call. Students at the library, across the
courtyard from the Tory building, were told to stay inside until the situation
was cleared. Emergency responders quickly determined the source of the false
alarm, and the lockdown was lifted within 20 minutes.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The ancient Chinese and Greeks grew
fruit trees, vegetables and herbs in gardens for food and for medicines.
In the 1500s there were five famous botanical gardens in Europe designed to
study and grow herbs for medicine.
Carolus Clusius set up a famous flower garden in Leiden in Holland in the late
1500s. Here the first tulips from China were grown and the Dutch bulb industry
began.
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew near London were made famous by Sir Joseph
Banks in the late 1700s for their extensive collection of plants from around
the world.
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-83) was a famous English landscape gardener.
He got his nickname by telling clients that their gardens had excellent
'capabilities'.
The earliest flowerbeds were the borders of flower tufts Ancient Persians grew
along pathways.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
78- Paula
Prentiss, [Ragusa] San Ant Tx, actress (Parallax View, He & She)
66- Rick
Perry, Paint Creek, Texas, American politican, Governor of Texas (R)
(2000-2015)
58- Patricia
Heaton, Cleveland, Ohio, actress (Debra-Everybody Loves Raymond)
55- Steven
Weber, Queens, actor (Brian Hackett-Wings)
47- Chaz
Bono [Chastity Sun Bono], Los Angeles, American actress (Sonny & Cher Show)
(43) Knute
Rockne, Norwegian/US football player/coach (Notre Dame) (d.1931)
(22) Bobbi
Kristina Brown, daughter of Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown, (d.2015)
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Historical Obits Today
@84-1996 Minnie
Pearl, country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry)
@72-1986 Elizabeth
Smart, Canadian author (By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept), heart
attack
@71-1883 Alexander
H. Stephens, Vice President Confederate States,
@68-1978 Wesley
Bolin, former Governor of Arizona
@55-1193 Saladin,
1st Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, fever
@51-1950 Adam
Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf
and a giant
@43-1994 John
Candy, actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), heart attack
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Brain Teasers Answers
Take out 5000 pearls. If the remaining pearl
is white, then you've won 5000 gold bars!
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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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