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March 16, 2017 Week: 11 \ Day: 75
86004 Today: H 69° \ L 30°
Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts:
-mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16 (1966)
Record High: 72°[2007]
Record Low: -1°[1969]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Margaret Fuller
Men for the sake of getting a living forget to live.
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
Black Press Day
Campfire Girls Day
Companies That Care Day Link
Curlew Day
Lips Appreciation Day
No Selfies Day
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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆
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
13-19
International Brain Awareness Week
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
► 1190 York Program: Jews living in York,
England, besieged in Clifford's Tower and massacred or commit suicide rather
than submit to baptism
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► 1322 The Battle of Boroughbridge takes
place in the First War of Scottish Independence.
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1621 Native
American chief visits colony of Plymouth Mass
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1802 Law
signed to establish US Military Academy (West Point, NY)
1802 US
Army Corps of Engineers established (2nd time)
1850 Nathaniel
Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" published by Ticknor, Reed and
Fields in Boston
1861 Arizona
Territory votes to leave the Union (US Civil War)
1861 Edward
Clark became Governor of Texas, replacing Sam Houston, who was evicted
from the office for refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy (US
Civil War)
1867 First
publication of an article by Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of
antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
1876 Nelly
Saunders & Rose Harland fight 1st female boxing match (NY)
1881 Barnum
& Bailey Circus debuts
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1912 Mrs
William Howard Taft plants 1st cherry tree in Washington, D.C.
1915 Federal
Trade Commission organizes
1916 US
& Canada sign migratory bird treaty
1934 Congress
passes Migratory Bird Conservation Act
► 1945 Allies
secure Iwo Jima
1950 1st
annual National Book Awards
1964 LBJ asks
Congress to pass Economic Opportunity Act as part of his War on Poverty
► 1968 My
Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War); 450 die
1968 General
Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
1969 Peter
Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776" premieres at 46th St Theater NYC
for 1217 performances
1991 Members
of Irish Gay & Lesbian Organization march in NYC parade
►1991-7
members of Reba McIntire’s band killed in a plane crash
1995 Mississippi
House of Representatives formally abolishes slavery & ratifies 13th
Amendment
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► 2006 The United Nations General Assembly
votes overwhelmingly to establish the UN Human Rights Council.
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Another great spring day…I could live with this weather for quite a
while. Doors and windows open, wearing shorts and Tevas…my kinda day.
Did my weekly Sam’s and Fry’s shopping today. Now I’m ready for St.
Patrick’s Day…corned beef and cabbage and homemade soda bread.
We are back on schedule for our weekly retirement group luncheon. So we
will celebrate by b-day a couple of weeks late. It’s OK…always like to keep the
celebration going. Mary is having major problems with her CPAP. The facemask
doesn’t fit right and makes a loud hissing sound whenever air escapes…a sound
so loud the dogs are awakened and start barking. She has the 3rd worst
case of sleep apnea in Flagstaff and not only does the machine force air in, it
also hits her face with a puff of air every few minutes so she won’t stop
breathing. She hasn’t had a good night’s sleep in over a month, due to the
hissing noise. Hopefully they will find a solution at her appointment before we
have lunch on Thursday.
Anyone following the news knows that our President still has hundreds of
political appoints to make. Theories have abounded about why is so slow: doesn’t
know enough people, never really understood how many political appointments he
was expected to make, and on and on. Well, I like the latest one: He is not
filling them because he plans to eliminate them in his full budget. That all
sounds good to the uninformed, but somebody has to do the work they have been
doing. What that means is more OT for many…in the Fed. System, OT is time and a
half or compensatory time (time one can use later for days off). Most offices
let the employee decide what they want. Let’s say a political appointee is
asked to work and chooses comp time because the employee knows his job time is
limited and he can take leave after he is let go and look for a new job while
getting paid. If that option is stopped by the employer (Trump), then they get
time and a half for that time, even if they are fired. This is a very expensive
proposition. Thanks so very much for putting a non-politician in the Office of
the President.
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
What is the name of the restaurant chain owned by actor Mark Wahlberg
and his brothers?
Wahlburgers
WhaliWorld
Bergers and Fries
BergerWorld
81.0% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
3→Factor by which the
number of Robocalls in the US has increased of the past year
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❆❆ Joke For The Day❆❆
A Texan was taking a taxi tour of London and was in a hurry. As they
went by the Tower of London the cab driver explained what it was and that
construction of it started in 1346 and was completed in 1412.
The Texan replied, "Shoot, a little ol' tower like that? In Houston we'd
have that thing up in two weeks!"
Next they passed the House of Parliament - started in 1544 and completed in
1618.
"Well boy, we put up a bigger one than that in Dallas and it only took a
year!"
As they passed Westminster Abbey the cab driver was silent.
"Whoah! What's that over there?" asked the Texan.
The driver replied, "I don't know, it wasn't there yesterday."
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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆
*-- The Exotic Mississippi Tree-Climbing Dogs --*
Ok, if there is one thing dogs to NOT do, it is climb trees. That is why it
seems odd that this Mississippi man would climb a tree to look for his lost
dog. Odder still is the fact that he did it naked, but then again who knows
what is normal in Mississippi. The Union County Sheriff's Office said that
Shane Treadaway was looking for his lost dog when he climbed on top of a tree.
At some point, Treadaway fell and ended up hanging upside down from the tree.
Police do not know how Treadaway lost all his clothes. After four hours of
hanging from the tree, Treadaway's girlfriend began looking for her lost
boyfriend. She was shocked to find him hanging upside down from the tree.
Treadaway was taken to the Tupelo hospital. Police are still investigating the
incident.
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❆❆Somewhat Useless Information❆❆
Each U.S. state and territory is free to ignore daylight savings time,
so residents of Arizona (except those on the Navajo Nation), Hawaii, Puerto
Rico, the Virgin Islands, and other territories didn't move their clocks this
past weekend.
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Germany and its allies in World War I were the first countries to adopt
daylight saving time as a way to conserve energy for the war effort. Britain,
other countries in Europe, Canada and the US followed suit.
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Farmers were among the biggest opposition groups to daylight saving time
when it was first proposed in the British Parliament in 1908. They often set
their day to the sun, so everyone else moving their schedules forward gave them
less time to peddle their wares.
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❆❆How our states were named❆❆
Georgia
In the early 18th century,
the British Parliament assigned a committee to investigate the conditions of
the country's debtor prisons and didn't like what they found. A group of
philanthropists concerned with the plight of debtors proposed the creation of a
colony in North America where the “worthy poor” could get back on their feet
and be productive citizens again. Their plan ultimately didn't pan out as the
colony wasn't settled by debtors, but the trustees of the colony still wanted
to thank King George II for granting their charter, so they named the place
after him.
(Bonus: The
nation of Georgia is supposedly called so because its inhabitants revere St.
George and feature his cross on their flag, though Georgians refer to
themselves as Kartvelebi and their country as Sakartvelo.)
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
@ 98- Mike Mansfield,
(Sen-D-Mont) majority whip (D 2001)
@ 91- Henny Youngman,
American comedian and violinist (Take my wife ... please), born in London,
England (d. 1998)
91-Jerry Lewis (Joseph Levitch), comedian, actor
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@ 85- James Madison,
4th US President (1809-17), born in Port Conway, Virginia (d. 1836)
85- Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, born in Brooklyn,
New York
@ 81- Patricia Nixon,
[Thelma Catherine], Ely Nevada, 1st lady (D 1993)
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@ 76- Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, US ambassador to UN/(Sen-D-NY), (D 2003)
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68-
Victor Garber, Canadian actor
68- Erik Estrada,
actor (CHiPs), born in NYC, New York
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59- Jorge Ramos,
Mexican TV anchor, born in Mexico City
57- Flavor Flav,
American rapper and reality TV star, born in Roosevelt, New York
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@ 46- Kate Worley,
American comic book writer (d. 2004)
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@83-1995 Lord Lovat,
Clan Fraser of Lovat, soldier, Landowner
@81-1940 Selma Lagerlöf,
Swedish writer and Nobel Prize laureate
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@79-1983 Arthur Godfrey,
TV host (Arthur Godrey Show), Emphysema
@77ish-1903 Roy Bean, American
jurist, alcohol
@72-2016 Frank Sinatra Jr,
American singer/bandleader, heart attack
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@68-1971 Thomas E. Dewey,
Governor of NY and Republican presidential candidate (1944, 1948), heart attack
@64-1975 Aaron
Thibeaux ‘T-Bone’ Walker, blues guitarist (Funky
Town, Well Done), stroke
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❆❆Trivia Hive
Answers❆❆
Wahlburgers
Mark Wahlberg is a star Hollywood actor who played in the award-winning
movie "The Departed" alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and is now a
recurring character in the "Transformers" franchise. But did you know
he's also a restaurant owner? Mark, along with his brothers, opened the first
Wahlburgers in Hingham, Massachusetts, and since then, they've continued to
grow the business. In 2016, they set a goal to open over 100 restaurants in the
next several years. Source: Fox Affiliate WGHP
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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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That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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