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3.5.16
Week: 09 \ Day: 65
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 65° \ L 29° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
16mph
Record High:
68°[1910] Record Low: -5°[1948]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Iditarod
Begins
National Frozen Food Day Link (First Saturday)
Sock Monkey Day (First Saturday)
National
Absinthe Day Link
National Maple Syrup Days Link
Saint Piran's Day
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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
1623 1st American temperance law enacted,
Virginia
1750 1st American Shakespearean
production-"altered" Richard III, NYC
1770 Boston Massacre (or the Incident on King
Street ), British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd throwing snowballs, stones,
and sticks at them. African American Crispus Attucks 1st to die;
later held up as early black martyr. Galvanised anti-British feelings
1774 John Hancock delivers the fourth annual
Massacre Day oration, a commemoration of the Boston Massacre, and denounces the
presence of British troops in Boston, enhancing Hancock's stature as a leading
Patriot
1836 Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol,
34-caliber "Texas" model1856 Georgia becomes 1st state to
regulate railroads
1831
Supreme Court decided the case of the
CHEROKEE Nation v. Georgia. The court decided that the CHEROKEEs
are not a "foreign state", and therefore the court has no
jurisdiction in the dispute. However, the court does decide that the CHEROKEEs
are a distinct political society capable of governing itself, and managing its
own affairs.
1872 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple
air brake for trains
1891
Phoenix,
AZ offers $200 bounty for dead Indians
1907 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition
aired
1923 Montana & Nevada become 1st states to
enact old age pension laws
1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes
IBM
1927 1,000 US marines land in China to protect
American property
1933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
1934 Mother-in-law's
day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Tx)
1945 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands
1945 US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
1956 "King Kong" 1st televised
1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US
Army1964 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest
1984 US accuse Iraq of using poison gas
2015 Harrison Ford crash-lands his 1942 Ryan
Aeronautical ST3KR aeroplane in California
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1496 English King Henry VII hands John Cabot (Giovanni
Caboto) a commission to explore for new lands
1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by
Francisco Fernandes
1616 Astronomical work 'de Revolutionibus' by Nicolaus
Copernicus placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's
4th Symphony in B
1904 Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and
Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation.
1908 1st ascent of Mt Erebus, Antarctica
1921 The Durban Land Alienation Ordinance passes,
enabling the Durban City Council to exclude Indians from ownership or
occupation of property in white areas, South Africa
1946 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain"
speech (Fulton Missouri) popularizes the term and draws attention to division
of Europe
1971 "Stairway to Heaven" by Led
Zeppelin is first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast by Robert Plant, Jimmy
Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones.
1994 Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of
chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)
2015 8th Islamic State militants ransack and
destroy ancient cities of Nimrud, Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful day…got some new stuff for the
website, so all is now posted.
I didn’t watch the debates last night, but the
highlights are enough so suggest that the country is in a lot of trouble. Grown
men who want to be the leader of our country discussing the size of one’s genitals
is very creepy. Just when I decide that the GOP can’t go any lower I find that
lower depths are possible.
A few weeks ago our local paper went font-crazy. Headlines on pages were all in different fonts. One of the things I learned early was just because you have a big choice of fonts doesn't mean that you have to use them. Another thing I learned was to make fonts consistent throughout a document..Same font for all headings, same font for all sub-headings, same font for all text. Each can be a different font as long as you are consistent. Well that is all out the window. While I was visiting Denver, I picked up a copy of the Denver Post. Surprise...they use different headline fonts throughout the paper with no apparent reasoning. I am still in the process of getting used to our local paper fonts...but I am not letting it bother me anymore.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Flip It #2
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
The following clues lead to two
words or phrases that are the phonetic reverse of each other. When you answer
the first clue and flip the syllables, you get the second answer. (Phonetic
only, not letters.)Using the clues below, please find the words/phrases in
question.
Example: Impertinent * Teetertotter
Answer: Saucy/Seesaw
1. A clock or watch * Period between wars (2 words)
2. Fabulous * Chase after
3. Have faith in * Not disturb (2 words)
4. European weight, informally * Understated (Hyphenated)
5. Student, say, with a summer office job * Go to bed (2 words)
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…Harper’s Index…
$40,000,000,000-Amount spent last year on US
broadcast advertising
$49,000,0000,000-On US Internet advertising
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…Politicians on the Chicken Crossing
The Road…
DICK CHENEY: Where's my gun?
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
Returns tomorrow
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2 jokes for the day
I spotted several pairs of men’s
Levi’s at a garage sale. They were sizes 30, 31, and 32, but I was looking for
size 33.
So I asked the owner if he had a pair.
He shook his head. “I’m still wearing the 33s,” he said. “Come back next year.”
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Sardar was given the job of painting
the white lines down the middle of a highway.
On his first day he painted six miles; the next day three miles; the following
day less than a mile.
Then the foreman asked Sardar why he kept painting less each day?
He replied, “I just can’t do any better. Each day I keep getting farther away
from the paint can.”
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Yep, It Really Happened
*------- You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat
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WHANGAREI, New Zealand - A group of fishermen
off the coast of New Zealand captured video of a hungry great white shark
repeatedly trying to bite different parts of their boat. The video shows the
shark swimming around the boat and putting its mouth on different parks of the
vessel while the astonished humans look on and film it with their phones.
"It then hit its nose on the boat which made its attitude become more
aggressive," the filmer wrote online. "Eventually it left." The
video involved the same boat and crew seen in an earlier released video showing
one of the passengers reaching down to pet a passing shark on the same day.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Did anyone tell you when you were a
kid that too many carrot sticks would turn your skin orange? It's true! (Sort
of). Hypercarotenemia, or carotenosis, is a yellowy orange discoloration of the
skin caused by high levels of carotene in the blood, the result of eating a LOT
of vitamin A.
'Pink' once meant 'yellow.' We know, it's confusing. See, Dutch 'pink' was a
yellow pigment; but because 'pink' also means a frilled edge, it became closely
associated with the dianthus flower, which has notched petals. And what's the
most common color for dianthus flowers? You guessed it: pink.
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For thousands of years, green was a
tricky pigment to nail down, but the 19th century saw the rise of two stable
and incredibly popular green dyes. There was just one problem: Both were laced
with arsenic. At the time, the health risks of arsenic exposure were unknown,
but before long, doctors and newspapers began attributing illnesses to
green-wallpapered rooms. (There is even a theory that arsenic-laced wallpaper
helped do in Napoleon.)
Isn't indigo basically blue? Why is it even in Roy G. Biv? We have Isaac Newton
to thank for this one: He wanted the number of colors in the spectrum to match
Rene Descartes' seven-tone musical scale, and indigo brought the color count to
seven.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(96) Momofuku
Ando,
Taiwanese-Japanese
inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles, born in Wu Baifu, Chiayi County,
Taiwan (d. 2007)
(82) Sir
Rex Harrison,
Huyton
England, actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle) (d.1990)
80- Dean
Stockwell,
California,
actor (Werewolf of Washington, Blue Velvet)
(77) Zhou
Enlai,
Premier
of the People's Republic of China, born in Huai'an, China (d. 1976)
(73) Emmett
J Culligan,
founder
of water treatment organization (d.1970)
(71) James
Merritt Ives,
lithographer
(Currier & Ives) (d.1895)
62- Marsha
Warfield,
comedian/actress
(Roz-Night Court)
(49) Jack
Cassidy,
Richmond
Hill VA, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She)(d.1976)
42- Eva
Mendes,
American
actress (Training Day, 2 Fast 2 Furious), born in Miami, Florida
(30) Andy
Gibb,
singer/TV
host (Solid Gold), born in Manchester, England (d.1988)
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Historical Obits Today
@82-1827 Alessandro
Volta,
Italian
physicist and inventor of the 1st battery, dies at 82
@76-1999 Richard
Kiley,
American actor, bone marrow disease
@73-1953 Joseph
Stalin,
Premier
of the Soviet Union (1941-53), stroke
@73
@61-1953 Sergei Prokofiev,
Russian
composer (Peter and the Wolf)
@67-1980 Jay
Silverheels,
Canadian
actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), stroke
@67-1974 Billy
De Wolfe,
American
actor, lung cancer
@60-1995 Ed
Flanders,
actor
(Dr Westphal-St Elsewhere), suicide
@58-2013 Hugo
Chávez,
President
of Venezuela, dies from respiratory failure
@47-1770 Crispus
Attucks,
possible
slave, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre at beginning of the American
Revolution
@33-1982 John
Belushi,
comedian
(Sat Night Live), od
@30-1963 Patsy
Cline,
country
singer (Crazy), plane crash
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Timepiece / Peace Time
2. Super / Pursue
3. Believe / Leave be
4. Kilo / Low-key
5. Intern / Turn in
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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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