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3.6.16
Week: 10 \ Day: 66
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 65° \ L 29° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
16mph
Record High:
68°[1910] Record Low: -2°[1935]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Daughters'
and Sons' Day (First Sunday in
March)
Day
of The Dude Link
Girl
Scout Sunday Link (The Sunday in Girl
Scout Week, or closest to March 12)
Mothering
Sunday Link
Namesake
Day (First Sunday)
National
Maple Syrup Days Link
Oreo
Cookie Day Link
Sofia
Kovalevskaya Math Day Link
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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
6-12
Girl
Scout Week Link
Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week Link
National Sleep Awareness Week
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Read an E-Book Week Link
Return The Borrowed Books
Week
Save Your Vision Week
Teen Tech Week
Women in Construction Week Link
Festival of Owls Week
National School Breakfast
Week
Women of Aviation Worldwide
Week
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1775 1st Negro Mason in north America
initiated, Boston
1808 1st college orchestra in US founded, at
Harvard
1810 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination
legislation in US
1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point
military academy
1836 Battle of the Alamo: after 13 days of
fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexicans overwhelm the Texans at the Alamo, killing
182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett
1886 1st US alternating current power plant
starts, Great Barrington, MA
1900 After a meeting in Indianapolis, USA, a
group forms the Social Democratic Party and nominates Eugene Debs as its
candidate for President in the forthcoming election (becomes the Socialist
Party in 1901)
1921 Police in Sunbury, Penn, issue an edict
requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1930 Clarence Birdseye develops a method for
quick freezing food
1940 1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC
1950 Silly Putty invented
1951 The trial of Julius
Rosenberg and his wife Ethel Rosenberg begins
1964 Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam
and its leader Elijah Muhammad renames him Muhammad Ali
1966 Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets"
becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1978 Hustler publisher Larry
Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia
1980 Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton
Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC
1981 Walter Cronkite signs off as
anchorman of "CBS Evening News"
1982 NBA highest scoring game: San Antonio
beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)
1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th
performance of "The King & I"
2015 US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese
and a Canadian citizen with cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses
for spam
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1853 Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La
Traviata" premieres in Venice1857 Dred Scott Decision: US
Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens
1899 "Aspirin" (acetylsalicylic
acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer
1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood
within Indo-Chinese federation
1957 Ghana (formerly Gold Coast) declares
independence from UK
1961 1st London minicabs introduced
1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the
Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that
"aggression is defeated. The war is over"
1992 The Michelangelo computer virus begins
to affect computers.
1997 Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is
stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Still nice weather, but the weather guy says
snow in headed this way very soon. I’ll see.
Tracked down my Tonalea boss. He’s 77 and he
and his wife live in Payson at a retirement community. Nice to talk to Ray, but
sad to hear of all his health problems and the fact that his wife lives in a separate
building due to her medical issues. Thankfully his son and daughter-in-law
moved to Payson from Flag to be around to help out. Ray was a great boss and
one of the most caring and kind people I ever met. Glad I could talk to him.
Rough weather may be on the way, but I cleaned
off the deck and even planted some bulbs I got for my birthday. A little snow ain’t gonna get rid of my
spring fever.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Question 1
Trick brain teasers
appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
How can you drop a raw egg onto a
concrete floor without cracking it?
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…Harper’s Index…
-10-Percentage change since last year in
annual revenue from US e-book sales
+13-from US paperback sales
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…Politicians on the Chicken Crossing
The Road…
COLIN POWELL: Now to the left of the screen, you
can clearly see the satellite image of the chicken crossing the road.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
earthporm Annecy,
France
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2 jokes for the day
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An old penny pincher had no friends.
Just before he died he asked his doctor, lawyer, and pastor to gather around
him at bedside.
“I have always heard that you can’t take it with you. But I want to disprove
that theory,” he said. “I have $90,000 under my mattress, and when I die, just
before they throw the dirt on me at my burial, I want you each to toss in an
envelope with $30,000 within.”
The three attended the funeral and each threw his envelope in the grave. On the
way back from the cemetery, the pastor said, “I must confess. I needed $10,000
for my new church, so I only threw in $20,000.”
The doctor then said, “I must confess too. I needed $20,000 for a new hospital
I was opening up, so I only threw in $10,000.”
The lawyer looked at them both and shook his head. He then said, “Gentlemen,
I’m surprised, shocked, and ashamed of you. I don’t see how you could dare to
go against that man’s final wish. I mean, I threw in my personal check for the
full amount.”
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Yep, It Really Happened
*------------- Space Makes you Grow -------------*
If you think the weight of the world is
bringing you down, you're right. Astronaut Scott Kelly recently arrived in
Houston after a year in space. One of the more unusual side effects of his
record-breaking mission is that the 25-year-old astronaut actually grew. Kelly
has a twin brother and before the space mission the two were the exact same
height -- but not anymore. Kelly grew 2 inches during his time aboard the
International Space Station. NASA spokesman Jeff Williams said,
"Astronauts get taller in space as the spine elongates, but they return to
preflight height after a short time back on Earth."
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Somewhat Useless Information
Because it receives liquids from the
prey it eats, the polar bear does not have to drink water.
A polar bear's blubber helps it float in water and also acts as a nutritional
reserve, allowing the bear to go months without eating.
The polar bear is the largest land carnivore and the most carnivorous member of
the bear family since its diet heavily relies on seals.
The polar bear has the richest milk of any bear species; it contains 35 percent
fat.
Ursus maritimus is the scientific name for polar bear. It means sea bear.
Commander C.J. Phipps, an office in the British navy and author of A Voyage
towards the North Pole used it for the first time in 1774.
Polar bears' fur consists of a dense, insulating underfur topped by guard hairs
of various lengths. It is not actually white - it just looks that way. Each
hair shaft is pigment-free and transparent with a hollow core that scatters and
reflects visible light,
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
90 Alan
Greenspan,
New
York City, American economist, presidential advisor and Chairman of the
Federal Reserve of the United States (1987-2006)
(88) Michelangelo,
Caprese,
Tuscany, Italian painter (David) (d. 1564)
(86) Ed
McMahon,
Detroit,
American TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search) (d.2009)
(84) Tom
Foley,
Spokane,
American politician (Rep-D, 1965-1995) and speaker of the house (1989-95), (d.
2013)
79- Valentina
Tereshkova,
Maslennikovo,
Russia, Soviet cosmonaut and 1st woman in space (Vostok 6)
(78) Marion
S Barry,
(Mayor-D-Wash
DC, 1979-90, 95- ), drug indictment (d.2014)
(75) Molla
Mallory, Mosvik,
Norway
Norwegian tennis player (eight-time U.S. Open champion) (d. 1959)
72- Mary
Wilson,
Detroit,
vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go)
(70) Bob
Wills,
TX,
actor (Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle)(d.1975)
70- Martin
Kove,
Brooklyn,
American actor (Victor-Cagney & Lacey)
69- Richard
"Dick" Fosbury,
Portland
Oregon, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1968)
68- Rob
Reiner,
Bronx,
NY, actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me)
57- Tom
Arnold,
Iowa,
[Mr Roseanne Barr Arnold], actor (Tom, True Lies)
(55) Elizabeth
Barrett Browning,
Kelloe,
Durham, English poet ("Sonnets from the Portuguese") (d. 1861)
53- D.L.
Hughley,
American
comedian and actor
(52) Lou
Costello,
Paterson,
NJ, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello) (d.1959)
44- Shaquille
O'Neal,
Newark,
NJ, NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Oly-gold-96)
(36) Cyrano
de Bergerac,
French
playwright (Voyage to the Moon), known for his large nose (d.1655)
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Historical Obits Today
@98-1986 Georgia
O'Keeffe,
American
sculptor/painter (Flowers)
@93-1935 Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr,
American
jurist
@80-1973 Pearl
S[ydenstricker] Buck,
American
author (Good Earth - Nobel Prize 1938)
@77-1982 Ayn
Rand,
Russian-born
American author-philosopher (Atlas Shrugged), heart failure
@77-1932 John
Philip Sousa,
US
composer (Stars & Stripes Forever)
@55-1970 William
Hopper,
actor
(Paul Drake-Perry Mason), stroke
@55-1888 Louisa
May Alcott,
American
author (Little Women), stroke
@49-1836 Davy
Crockett,
US
pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle
@40-1836 Jim
Bowie,
American
pioneer and soldier, killed in battle
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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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