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March 12,
2017 Week: 11 \ Day: 71
86004 Today: H 60° \
L 37° Average Sky Cover: 1%
Wind ave: 11mph\Gusts: 20mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 72°[1900] Record Low: -1°[1917]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Eleanor Roosevelt
It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do
yourself.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Check Your Batteries Day
Daylight Savings Time Begins
Girl Scout Birthday Day Link
Purim
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
3-15
National Days of Action Link
6-12
Women in Construction Week Link
National School Breakfast
Week
Women of Aviation Worldwide
Week
7-13
No More Week Link
8-14
National Catholic Sisters Week Link
10-12
World Rattlesnake Roundup
11-17
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
12-18
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Girl Scout Week Link
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
► 1365 University of Vienna
founded
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► 1455 First record of Johann
Gutenberg's Bible, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to
the bible printed a year before
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1664 1st
naturalization act in American colonies
1664 New
Jersey becomes an English colony
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1755 1st
steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 Jeanne
Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
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► 1849 1st gold seekers arrive
in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1850 1st
US $20 gold piece issued
1860 Congress
accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1868 US
Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1884 Mississippi
establishes 1st US state college for women
1894 Coca-Cola
is sold in bottles for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi
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1912 Girl
Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low
► 1917 A German submarine
sinks an unamred US merchant ship, the 'Algonquin' on the same day that US
President Woodrow Wilson gives executive order to arm US merchant
ships
1933 FDR conducts
his 1st "fireside chat"
1945 NY
is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
1947 US
President Harry Truman introduces Truman-doctrine to fight communism
► 1958 British Empire Day is
renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1959 US
House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1986 Susan
Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1987 "Les
Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ performances
1990 LA
Raiders announce their return to Oakland
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► 2011 A reactor at the
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant melts and explodes and releases
radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
2014 8
people are killed, 70 injured, & 2 buildings are leveled by a gas explosion
in East Harlem, New York
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
A
great weather Saturday. Able to take a nice walk around 10a.
I
got an email yesterday that my credit card for auto-pay was expiring. So I went
on line and changed the number. This morning I got 2 emails, 1 minute apart.
The first thanked me for updating my information. The second notified me I was
no longer on auto-pay. So I called and was greeted with a voice that said “Hi
Charlie, your data minutes have expired”. I went to the website to discover
that I had plenty of minutes, that my next bill would be $10 more than the last
one, even though the guy told me a couple of weeks ago it would go up $5 with
the new data plan. Then I find there are no numbers listed to talk to a human.
I did their stupid mechanical chat and asked for a number to talk to a human.
The machine gave me a number. The human had no idea why my auto-pay changed but
we did it together on-line, just like I did the day before, and it appears
fixed. She had no idea why a machine told me I had no data. But told me to
trust the website, not the voice when I call. And about the bill increase…first
she said it might be taxes/fees. I told her that was impossible, then she said
the ‘next bill’ on the website is only a guess-ta-mit of the new bill. Since my
bill remains exactly the same every month, I couldn’t believe it was just a
high guess. She said that she promises to call me on my cell when the new bill
comes out, to explain any unexpected charges. Wow, cool that she will call, not
cool that one guy tells me one thing and now she will explain any unexpected
charges. I guess the explanation will be ‘You must have misunderstood the other
agent’, rather than ‘the other agent lied.’
So
happy I live in a state without DST. My clocks and sleeping patterns do not
have to change twice a year. Must admit that phone calls and TV shows on cable
channels is a pain in the butt. Now we are the same time as CA and an hour
different than CO, NM, UT. And most of our cable channels are west coast feeds
so they are now an hour different. We adapt, but know that our time is the
correct time.
Every
President replaces political appointees when they come to office. It is never a big deal. The appointees are expecting
it and have always transitioned the new incoming person. Then they leave. What happened
yesterday was brand new. The attorneys were told that Friday was their last
day. AND there are no replacements in the wing. AND Trump had told several that
they would remain in their post, and they all assumed, until a replacement was
found. So, it appears that all of their cases will simply sit on an empty desk
until a replacement is appointed. So
these high paid lawyers had not idea they should be looking for new jobs. THIS
IS NOT NORMAL.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
In
which New York City borough was Donald Trump born?
Queens
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Bronx
46.9% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
27→Rank of the US among countries with the tallest male
population today
3→In 1914
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
A
woman was having a medical problem - her husband snoring. She called the doctor
one morning, and asked him if there was anything he could do to relieve her
"suffering".
"Well, there is one operation I can perform that will cure your husband,
but it is really rather expensive. It will cost $1000 down, and then payments
of $450 for 24 months, plus payments for extras."
"Wow!" the woman exclaimed, "sounds like leasing a new sports
car!"
"Hmmm," the doctor murmured, "too obvious, huh?"
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
The
Devil (or a sh*tload of drugs) Made Me Do It
A Stamford, Connecticut chapel was the site of a bizarre crime this week, when
police said a naked woman broke through a window and started smashing down
doors and walls. "Yesterday was my first anniversary here!" said the
Rev. Carlos Rodrigues, "What a gift, right?" The naked woman was seen
wildly swinging a fire extinguisher in the basement chapel of the Rectory of
the church of St. Clement. "She was like a human tornado - just ripped
through the place very fast!" Rodrigues said. Stamford police said Celina
Kelly, 32, was high on drugs when she broke a window to gain access to the
chapel. Marks were left on the door, which police said she broke down with the
fire extinguisher. Kelly went on to kick and punch holes in the drywall of the
boiler room behind the chapel, police said. Rodrigues said the suspect was
apparently looking for something. "A bomb - she kept saying: 'Where the F
is the bomb? The bomb, the bomb!'" he said. As luck would have it, a
Stamford police officer drove through the church parking lot on routine
targeted patrol just as it all unfolded. Police said Kelly has no fixed
address. She is charged with burglary and criminal mischief.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
Killing
a dolphin in ancient Greece was considered sacrilegious and was punishable by
death.
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Dolphins
have been venerated since ancient Greece where they were called hieros ichthys
"sacred fish," and the Greeks believed the sun god, Apollo, assumed
the form of a dolphin when he founded his oracle at Delphi at Mount Parnassus.
***
In
Rome, dolphins were thought to carry souls to the "Islands of the
Blest," and images of dolphins have been found in the hands of Roman
mummies, presumably to ensure their safe passage to the afterlife.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Colorado
Colorado is
a Spanish adjective that means “red.” The early Spanish explorers in the Rocky
Mountain region named a river they found the Rio Colorado for
the reddish silt that the water carried down from the mountains. When Colorado
became a territory in 1861, the Spanish word was used as a name because it was
commonly thought that the Rio Colorado originated in the
territory. This was not the case, however. Prior to 1921, the Colorado River
began where the Green River of Utah and the Grand River of Colorado converged
outside of Moab, Utah, and the United States Geological Survey identified Green
River of Wyoming as the Colorado's actual headwaters. The Rio Colorado did
not actually flow through Colorado until 1921, when House Joint Resolution 460
of the 66th United States Congress changed the name of the Grand River.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
@ 88- Edward Albee, American
playwright (Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf?), born in Virginia (d. 2016)
85- Andrew Young, US ambassador
to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
@ 84- Walter M Schirra Jr, Capt USN/ast (Mer
8, Gem 6, Ap 7), born in Hackensack, New York (D 2007)
84- Barbara Feldon, actress (Agent
99-Get Smart), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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71- Frank Welker, American voice
actor (Scooby-Doo, Curious George), born in Denver, Colorado
@ 70- Clement Studebaker, automobile
pioneer (Studebaker) (D 1901)
70- Mitt Romney, 70th Republican
Governor of Massachusetts and presidential candidate, born in Detroit, Michigan
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@ 69- Tony "Two-Ton"
Galento, boxer/actor (On the Waterfront), born in Orange, New Jersey (D 1979)
67- Jon Provost, actor
(Timmy-Lassie)
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@ 57- Jane Means Appleton Pierce, 1st lady (D
1863)
@ 57- Jane Delano, US,
nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross) (D 1919)
55- Darryl Strawberry, baseball right
fielder (Mets, Dodgers, Yankees), born in Los Angeles, California
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@ 47- Jack Kerouac, Beat writer (On
the Road, Mexico Blues), born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d. 1969)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@80-2015 Michael Graves, American
postmodernist architect and designer
<§><§> @69-1974 George D. Sax, Drive-in bank
and instant loan innovator. Owner of the Saxony Hotel.
@67-1914 George Westinghouse, US engineer
(Westinghouse Electric)
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@58-1925 Sun Yat-sen, Chinese
revolutionary and father of modern China, liver cancer
@54-2003 Lynne Thigpen, American
actress (Carmen Sandiego), stroke
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@34-1955 Charlie "Bird"
Parker,
US jazz saxophonist, pneumonia, cirrhosis
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@15-1945 Anne Frank, Dutch diarist
and Jewish victim of the Nazi Holocaust (Diary of Anne Frank), typhus in the
Belsen concentration camp
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
Queens
On
June 14, 1946, Donald J. Trump was born at Jamaica Hospital in the Queens
borough of New York City to Frederick Trump and Mary McLeod. The six-bedroom,
two-story mock Tudor home he grew up in is located on Wareham Place in Jamaica
Estates and was built by his father in 1940. The fourth of five children,
Donald attended The Kew-Forest School in Queens until he was 13, when he was
then sent to the New York Military Academy. Source: Fox News, New York Times,
Washington Post
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And
That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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