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3.9.16 Week: 10 \ Day: 69
March
Averages: 50°\23°
86004
Today: H 49° \ L 20° Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 27mph
Record
High: 70°[1989] Record Low: -4°[1969]
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Quote
of the Day
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Observances
Today
Barbie
Day
Discover What Your Name Means Day Link
Get Over It Day Link
Joe Franklin Day
Registered Dietitian Day Link
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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
1776 Publication of the influential economics
book "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
1822 Charles Graham of NY granted first US
patent for artificial teeth
1864 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed
commander of Union Army
1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law
in US
1907 1st involuntary sterilization law
enacted, Indiana
1914 US Sen albert fall (Teapot
Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
1916 Mexican General Francisco
"Pancho" Villa invades US (18 killed)
1933 Congress is called into special session
by FDR, beginning its "100 days"
1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
1935 Officers of tribes are now considered
U.S. Officers
1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo
with 120,000 fire bombs
1951 Edward Teller and Stanislaw Ulam
submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab, in which they proposed their
revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a practical megaton-range
hydrogen bomb
1954 Edward R Murrow criticizes
Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now) 1959 Barbie, the popular girls' doll,
debuted, over 800 million sold
1964 1st Ford Mustang produced
2006 Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus,
the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
2007 The US Justice Department releases an
internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted
illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal
information about US citizens.
2015 US President Barack
Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security
threat to the US
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1497 Nicolaus Copernicus' 1st recorded
astronomical observation
1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples
(punishable by death)
1765 After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire,
judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas
had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually
committed suicide.
1839 Prussian government limits work week for
children to 51 hours
1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the
Communist Party
1961 1st animal returned from space, dog
named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
1971 Three off-duty Scottish soldiers are
killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army; 4000 shipyard workers take to
the streets to demand internment in response
1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla
operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nicer day…not quite a spring day but close.
A little upset with Best Buy. I bought a sound
bar and the coverage three weeks ago. This morning it didn’t work. Called the
local Best Buy, punched the required buttons, and the phone just rang for 10
minutes. Then some guy, not the Geek Squad, answered and sent me to Geek Squad.
Lots more rings and the guy says “Geek Squad, please hold’. 10 minutes later he
answers. Turns out my coverage is only for equipment and not house calls. The
house call is $99 which has to be paid in advance. After several more holds,
the guy comes back on, gets my CC# and says they will be there tomorrow between
12N and 4p. I ask to speak to the store manager. I get the Geek Squad manager.
He says that the home visitors are part of Best Buy but have nothing to do with
the store, so that is the reason for the $99. Then he says too many customers
refused to pay when they couldn’t fix the problem. He tells me the Store
Manager will be in at noon. Fine, have him call me between 12 and 2. He can’t
promise that, but will give the manager the message. Losers! Oh and if the guy
can’t fix it and they have to swap out the unit I have to take the old unit in,
get the new unit, and hook it up myself or pay them $150 to hook it up. Losers!
The manager just called me back. May get the $99 back if the problem is with
the unit. Tomorrow will tell the answer.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Anagram
Triplets - II
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
There are two groups of
four-letter words used in the sentences below. The first missing words of each
sentence are anagrams of each other, and the second missing words are also
anagrams of each other. Can you find them?
1. The hunters set a ____ for the hare. How else were they to enjoy its
succulent _____ ?
2. They all listened in ____ attention as their leader spoke and motivated them
to work as a ____.
3. There will always be a small ____ of wildness in a cat, though it is
considered to be a ____ animal today.
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…Harper’s
Index…
20-number of members of US Congress with a
parent who also served in Congress
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…Politicians
on the Chicken Crossing The Road…
JOHN
KERRY:
Although I voted to let the chicken cross the road, I am now against it!
It was the wrong road to cross, and I was misled about the chicken's
intentions. I am not for it now, and will remain against it.
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by Jodi Cobb @jodicobbphoto. To honor International Women’s Day, a
reminder that women are often the most vulnerable to human trafficking. Brick
kiln workers in India are held in debt bondage for generations. Owners lend the
workers money for an emergency like a medical problem or a funeral, then charge
outrageous interest rates so the debts can never be repaid and are passed on to
their children. Human trafficking remains one of the world's most intractable
and horrific problems—even more so today than when I took on a year-long
project on the issue in 2003. To illuminate the plight of an estimated 27
million people held in slavery worldwide, I went to 12 countries where I
witnessed unspeakable horrors. The story got the biggest response in the
history of National Geographic until then, but not much has changed. The
stoicism on this woman’s face humbles me.
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2
jokes for the day
Two
satellites decided to get married.
The wedding wasn't much, but the reception was incredible!
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After
25 years of marriage, I took a look at my wife one day and said, "Honey,
25 years ago, we had a cheap apartment, a cheap car, slept on a sofa bed and
watched a 10-inch black and white TV, but I got to sleep every night with a hot
25-year-old sexy chick. Now, we have a nice house, nice car, big bed and plasma
screen TV, but I'm sleeping with a 50 year old woman. It seems to me that you
are not holding up your side of things."
My wife is a very reasonable woman. She told me to go out and find a hot 25
year old sexy chick and she would make sure that I would once again be living
in a cheap apartment, driving a cheap car, and sleeping on a sofa bed.
Aren't older women great? They really know to how solve your mid-life crisis.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
-- Evangelicals Applaud Sexual Predator: The
Jacksonville (Florida) City Council was addressing a proposed amendment to its
Human Rights Ordinance (one that would specifically protect gays, lesbians,
bisexuals and transgenders) in January when Roy Bay, 56, stood during the
comment period and insisted that those kinds of lifestyle protections are what
led him on a 20-year history of molesting one little boy after another. Gasps
in the audience turned into cheers, however, when he reported that he had
abandoned his bad self after becoming a "born-again child of God,"
and realizing that it was not "acceptable" to assault kids even
though he was raised in such an environment himself. (Conveniently, the crimes
are not prosecutable because of the statute of limitations. Fact-checkers,
including FloridaPolitics.com, are still investigating Bay's claims.) [Folio
Weekly (Jacksonville)
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Each
year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, storm water, and industrial
waste are dumped into U.S. waters.
Approximately 46 percent of the lakes in America are too polluted for fishing,
aquatic life, or swimming.
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Today,
there are between 300 and 500 chemicals in the average person's body that were
not found in anyone's body before 1920. Each year there are thousands of new
chemicals sold or used in new products. There are more than 75,000 synthetic chemicals
on the market today.
One of the more common and dangerous pollutants in the environment is cadmium,
which kills human fetal sex organ cells. Its widespread presence means it is in
almost everything we eat and drink.
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Birthdays
Today
“()”
indicates age at death
(88) Mickey Spillane, [Frank],
Brooklyn, mystery writer (I the Jury), (d.2006)
80- Mickey Gilley,
Ferriday La, country singer (Urban Cowboy)
(79) Marty Ingels,
Brooklyn, American comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster), (d.
2015)
(75) Will Geer,
Frankfort Indiana, American actor (Grandpa Walton-The
Waltons)(d.1978)
74- Mark Lindsay,
Eugene Or, rock vocalist/sax (Paul Revers & Raiders)
73- Charles Gibson,
American television journalist
64- Bobby Fischer,
Chicago, American world chess champion (1972-75), (d.
2008)
(57) Amerigo Vespucci,
Florence, Italian explorer (America), (d.1512)
(56) Carl Betz,
Pittsburg, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show) (d.1978)
45- Emmanuel Lewis,
Brooklyn, American actor (Webster)
(34) Yuri Gagarin,
Russian cosmonaut and 1st man into space (aboard Vostok
1), born in Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (d. 1968)
(27) Bobby
Sands,
Irish IRA member and leader of the hunger strike at Maze
Prison (d.1981)
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Historical
Obits Today
@100-1996 George Burns, American actor and singer
@85-1992 Menachem Begin, PM Israel (1977-80, 81-83,
Nobel 1979)
@76-1994 Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (The French
Connection),cancer
@57-2005 Chris LeDoux, American country singer,
cancer
@50-1969 Richard Crane, actor (Surfside 6), heart
attack
@42-1989 Robert Mapplethorpe, US photographer, AIDS
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. The hunters set a TRAP for the hare. How
else were they to enjoy its succulent MEAT ?
2. They all listened in RAPT attention as their leader spoke and motivated them
to work as a TEAM.
3. There will always be a small PART of wildness in a cat, though it is
considered to be a TAME animal today.
Group I - TRAP, RAPT, PART
Group II - MEAT, TEAM, TAME
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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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