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3.8.16
Week: 10 \ Day: 68
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 51° \ L 21° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
16mph
Record High:
66°[1972] Record Low: -1°[1945]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
The
Bikini Bottom Free (Crabcakes) Day Link (SpongeBob
Squarepants)
Check Your Batteries Day
Day for Women's Rights &
International Peace
Girls Write Now Day
International Women's Day Link
National Proofreading Day
National Peanut Cluster Day Link
Organize Your Home Office Day
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Observances This 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
8-14
No
More Week Link
Universal Women's Week
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1782 Gnadenhutten Massacre - Ohio militia
kills 90 indians
1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1855 1st train crosses 1st US railway
suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
1884 Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S.
House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution
granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came 16 years after
legislators had first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
1894 The state of New York enacts the
nation's first dog-licensing law.
1896 Volunteers of America forms (NYC)
1913 Internal Revenue Service begins to levy
& collect income taxes
1916 US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to
end corrupt Menocal regime
1927 Pan American Airlines incorporates
1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many
galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1936 The first stock car race is held in
Daytona Beach, Florida.
1946 1st helicopter licensed for coml use
(NYC)
1948 US Supreme Court rules in McCollum v.
Board of Education that relgious instruction in public schools is
unconstitutional
1951 Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt
(for refusing to play Israel)
1958 William Faulkner says US school
degenerated to become babysitters
1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day -
Military coup in Syria
1964 Malcolm X resigns from the Nation
of Islam
1965 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam
(3,500 Marines)
1973 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's
highest/US longest, opens in CO
1981 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona
Copper Golf Classic
1983 President Reagan 1st known use of
term "Evil Empire" (about the USSR) in speech in Florida
1999 The Supreme Court of the United States
upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City
bombing.
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1702 England: Queen Anne ascends throne upon
death of King William III
1898 Richard Straus' "Don Quixote"
premieres in Keulen
1911 International Women's Day is launched in
Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the
Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1918 The first case of Spanish flu occurs,
the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1945 International Women's Day is 1st
observed
1971 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's
"Star Spangled Banner"
1978 The first-ever radio episode of The
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC
Radio 4.
1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis
player to earn $10 million
2012 Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over
safety concerns
2013 North Korea terminates all peace pacts
with South Korea
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239
people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort
in history
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My Rambling Thoughts
Yesterday’s wind really increased after sunset
and blew in rain, frozen rain, and finally a dusting of snow. Still a little
cool and cloudy, but thankfully the wind has decreased.
Did some running around today to get some
necessary staples…milk, rolls, soap, etc. Gonna be a good week.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
3/7 Chicken
Trick brain teasers
appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
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Difficulty:
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What is 3/7 chicken, 2/3 cat and 1/2
goat?
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…Harper’s Index…
16-Estimated perentage of students in Harvard’s
class of 219 who do not have a parent who went to college
17-Who had at least one parent who went to
Harvard
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…Politicians on the Chicken Crossing
The Road…
AL GORE: I invented the chicken.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @stevemccurryofficial //
Stepwells have existed in India for hundreds of years, and help to provide
water storage during the dry seasons. Stepwells also provide a place for people
to socialize out of the searing heat of the hot months. The practical use is
enhanced by the beauty of the architecture of many of the ancient wells, which
are mainly in the states of Gujarat and Rajasthan.
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2 jokes for the day
A grandmother was pushing her little
grandchild around Walmart in a buggy. Each time she put something in the basket
she would say, "And here's something for you, Diploma," or "This
will make a cute little outfit for you, Diploma," and so on.
Eventually a bewildered shopper who had heard all this finally asked, "Why
do you keep calling your grandchild Diploma?"
The grandmother replied, "I sent my daughter to Virginia Tech and this is
what she came home with!"
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The passenger tapped the cab driver
on the shoulder to ask him something. The driver screamed, lost control of the
car, nearly hit a bus, went up on the sidewalk, and stopped inches from a shop
window.
For a second everything went quiet in the cab, then the driver said, "Look
mister, don't ever do that again. You scared the daylights out of me!"
The passenger apologized and said he didn't realize that a little tap could
scare him so much.
The driver replied, "You're right. I'm sorry, it's not really your fault.
Today is my first day as a cab driver. I've been driving a hearse for the last
25 years".
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Yep, It Really Happened
New York Post- In February, New York's highest
court finally said "enough" to the seemingly endless delays on a
multimillion-dollar judgment for negligence that occurred 23 years ago. Linda
Nash had sued, among others, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey for
injuries she suffered when trapped in an underground parking garage during the
World Trade Center terrorist act. (No, not the one in 2001, but the bombing
eight years before that, which killed six and wounded more than 1,000). Nash
was 49 that day and 72 now, and after winning a $5.4 million jury verdict in
2005, endured 10 more years of appeals. In its final, unsuccessful motion in
the case, the Port Authority said it had spotted a technicality and that Nash
should start over.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The first Oreo cookie was made in
1912 at the original Nabisco bakery in New York City. The factory is now
located in Chelsea Market.
Two flavors originally debuted in 1912 - original and lemon meringue.
The origin of the name Oreo is unknown, but the leading theory is the name was
derived from the French word "or", meaning gold. The early packaging
was a gold tin.
According to Nabisco, it takes 59 minutes to make a single Oreo.
Oreos were sold by weight when they first came out, about 30 cents a pound. Now
they retail for about $3.50 for a package of 24-30 cookies.
The traditional Oreo's cookie-to-cream ratio is 71 percent cookie, 29 percent
cream, according to Time magazine. Oreos also come in Double Stuf and Mega Stuf
varieties.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(92) Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr,
Boston,
59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32) (d.1935)
(92) Ralph
Baer,
Creator
of the first video game console (d.2014)
(86) Cyd
Charisse, [Tula Finklea],
Amarillo
Tx, dancer/actress (Singing in the Rain) (d.2008)
(82?) Anne
Bonny,
Irish
pirate (date of birth is approximate), born in Kinsale, Ireland (d. 1782)
71- Micky
Dolenz,
Los
Angeles, actor (Circus Boy)/singer (Monkees)
(68) Alan
Hale [MacKahan] Jr,
Los
Angeles, actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island) (d.1990)
68- Little
Peggy March, [Margaret Battavio],
vocalist
(I Will Follow Him)
(67) Lynn
Redgrave,
London,
actress (Georgie Girl)/Weight-Watcher (d,2010)
46- Jason
Elam,
NFL
kicker (Denver Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
40- Freddie
Prinze Jr,
actor
(I Know What You Did Last Summer)
39- James
Van Der Beek,
Cheshire,
Connecticut American actor (Dawson's Creek)
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Historical Obits Today
@841999 Joe
DiMaggio,
American
baseball player
@78-1917 Ferdinand
von Zeppelin,
Dutch
count/air pioneer
@77-1971 Harold
Lloyd,
US
comic/actor (Why Worry), cancer
@74-1999 Peggy
Cass,
American
actress and comedian, heart failure
@74-1874 Millard
Fillmore,
13th
president (1850-53)
@72-1930 William
Howard Taft,
27th
US pres (1909-13)/Chief Justice
@49-2004 Robert
Pastorelli,
American
actor (Murphy Brown), OD
@33-1855 William
Poole,
Infamous
member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang, gunshot wound
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Brain Teasers Answers
Chicago.
3/7 chicken= CHI
2/3 cat = CA
1/2 goat= GOChicago.
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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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