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3.17.16 Week: 11 \ Day: 77
March Averages:
50°\23°
86004 Today:
H 59° \ L 25° Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind
ave: 1mph\Gusts: 8mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 73°[2007] Record
Low: -1°[1969]
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Quote
of the Day
A leader is a dealer in Hope...Napoleon Bonaparte
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Observances
Today
Absolutely
Incredible Kid Day
Campfire Girls Day
National Irish Coffee Day Link
Submarine
Day - the hero sandwich or the boat??
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Observances
This Week
11-17
Turkey
Vultures Return to the Living Sign
13-19
Campfire
USA Birthday Week
Consider Christianity Week
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week
14-20
International
Brain Awareness Week
14-18
Stand
Up! LGBT Awareness Week Link (Against homophobic bullying)
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1755 Transylvania Land Company buys Kentucky
for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
1756 St Patrick's Day 1st celebrated in NYC
at Crown & Thistle Tavern
1762 1st St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1836 Texas abolishes slavery
modern
submarine off Staten Island
1912 Camp Fire Girls organization announced
by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
1917 1st exclusively women's bowling
tournament begins in St Louis
1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
1960 Eisenhower forms anti-Castro-exile
army under the CIA
1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of NY beatified
(canonized in 1975)
1973 St Patrick's Day marchers carry 14
coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand
marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits
White House
2008 New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns
after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. David Paterson becomes acting
New York State governor.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
45 BC In
his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus
Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
432 St Patrick aged 16 is carried off to
Ireland as a slave (traditional date)
1190 Crusades complete massacre of Jews of
York England
1753 1st official St Patrick's Day
1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of
London
1854 1st park land purchased by a US city,
Worcester, Mass
1868 Postage stamp canceling machine patent
issued
1876 Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes &
Oglala-Sioux indian camps
1898 John Philip Holland achieves
successful test runs of the first
1901 A showing of seventy-one Vincent
van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
1921 Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st
birth control clinic (London)
1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills
1,900 Balinese
1969 Golda Meir becomes Israel's 4th PM
1976 4 Catholic civilians (including 2
children) are killed and twelve wounded when the Ulster Volunteer Force explode
a car bomb at Hillcrest Bar, Dungannon
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice spring day…very little wind and warm
temps. Nice.
Here in AZ we have a primary vote next
Tuesday. Not sure who cares or if our results will mean anything, but I will be
there at the polls, voting for the candidate I want to see as President.
So Judge Garland has been nominated to the
Supreme Court. Now let’s have the hearings and a vote. All the right wing crap
about letting the people decide is so immature. The Founding Fathers did not
say ‘in case there is a vacancy in the last year of the President’s term, it
shall therefore be the duty of the anointed Senate to withhold any hearings or
voting on it until there is an election.’
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Brain
Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Behead
G
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
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Difficulty:
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When
you behead a word, you remove the first letter and still have a valid word. You
will be given clues for the two words, longer word first.
Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic
Answer: The words are Start and Tart.
1. Firm earth -> Circular
2. Tomb; serious -> Talk wildly or madly
3. Dead spirit -> Person who entertains guests
4. Spectacles -> Young maidens
5. Happy, joyous -> Youth; boy
6. Precious metal -> Advanced in years
7. Increase in size -> Move a boat with oars
8. Large boat with oars -> Narrow back street
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…Harper’s
Index…
41-Percentage of recently arrived adult
immigrants to the US who have a bachelor’s degree
30-Percentage of native-born US adults who do
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…Why
the Chicken Crossed The Road…
DR
SEUSS:
Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes,
the chicken crossed the road, but why it crossed I've not been told.
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2
jokes for the day
What do you call a cow that had a baby?
Decaffeinated!
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A preacher was completing a temperance sermon. With
great expression he said, "If I had all the beer in the world, I'd take it
and throw it into the river."
With even greater emphasis, he said, "And if I had all the wine in the
world, I'd take it and throw it into the river."
And then, finally, he said, "And if I had all the whiskey in the world,
I'd take it and throw it into the river." He sat down.
The song leader then stood very cautiously and announced with a pleasant smile,
"For our closing song, let us sing Hymn #365: 'Shall We Gather At the
River.'"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*----- Woman Steals Ambulance For Free Ride -----*
A woman was arrested on a charge of larceny
after allegedly stealing an ambulance because she wanted a free ride, police in
North Carolina said. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said that they have arrested
36-year-old Autumn Prieschl, after being accused of driving off with an
ambulance belonging to the Carolinas Medical Center. Investigators said that
the woman was not high, mentally unstable or ill. She said that all she wanted
was a free ride. When people noticed the woman stealing the ambulance, they
notified the police. All ambulances are equipped with GPS trackers, so the
police knew immediately where the ambulance was located.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
When
a camel uses the fat stored in its humps for energy, the humps start to get
smaller and deflate. The humps grow again when the camel rehydrates.
Camels make the most of a meal. They can rehydrate faster than any other mammal,
able to drink about 30 gallons (113 liters) of water in just 13 minutes.
Camels can run up to 40 mph for a short period of time. They can maintain 25
mph for longer making them about as fast as a horse.
Camels are known for spitting on people. In fact, the animals are throwing up
the contents of their stomach along with spit. This is a defense tactic when
the animals feel threatened.
The large beasts make a variety of moans, groans and deep, throaty bellows. One
of the camel's noises was even used to voice the character Chewbacca in the
Star Wars movies.
Camels have very thick lips allowing them to eat even very salty, bitter or
thorny plants. If hungry, camels can even eat leather shoes.
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Birthdays
Today
“()”
indicates age at death
(87 Roger Brooke Taney, Calvert Md, 5th Chief
Justice (Dred Scott dec) (d.1864)
(74) Paul
Kantner, San Francisco, rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane), (d. 2016)
72- x Sebastian, NYC, singer (Loving Spoonful,
Welcome Back Kotter)
(68) Alfred Newman, New Haven, Connecticut composer
(Love is a Many Splendored Thing) (d.1970)
67- Patrick Duffy, Townsend Mont, actor
(Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis)
65- Kurt Russell, Springfield, Massachusetts
actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons)
61- Gary Sinise, actor (Apollo 13, Forrest Gump)
(54) Rudolf Nureyev, Russia, ballet
dancer/choreographer (Kirov)(d.1993)
52- Rob Lowe, Charlottesville Va, actor (St Elmo's
Fire, Hotel NH, Class)
(45) Nat "King" Cole, Montgomery, Alabama
singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa) (d.1965)
44- Mia Hamm, Selma Alabama, soccer forward
(Olympics-96)
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Historical
Obits Today
@92-2006 Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer
@92-1993 Helen Hayes, actress (Airport)
@88-2012 Pope Shenouda III, Egyptian Pope of the
Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria, prostate cancer
@74-461 St Patrick, patron St of Ireland, (according
to legend)
@49-1853 Christian Doppler, Austrian physicist (Doppler
Effect), pulmonary disease
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Ground -> Round
2. Grave -> Rave
3. Ghost -> Host
4. Glasses -> Lasses
5. Glad -> Lad
6. Gold -> Old
7. Grow -> Row
8. Galley -> Alley
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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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