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March 17,
2017 Week: 11 \ Day: 76
86004 Today: H 67° \
L 33° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 73°[2007] Record Low: 3°[1991]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
John Boyle O'Reilly
Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
National Day of Action Against
Bullying and Violence Link
National Irish Coffee Day Link (Also
observed on January 25)
Submarine
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
17-19
Sherlock Holmes Weekend (also Nov. 3-5)
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
► 432 Saint
Patrick, aged about 16 is captured by Irish pirates from his home in Great
Britain and taken as a slave to Ireland (traditional date)
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1755 Transylvania
Land Company buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
1756 St.
Patrick's Day is first celebrated in NYC at the Crown & Thistle Tavern
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► 1845 Bristol
man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour
► 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
1898 1st
practical submarine 1st submerges, NYC (for 1 hour 40 minutes)
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► 1901 At
a show in Paris 71 Vincent van Gogh paintings cause a sensation, 11
years after his death
1912 Camp
Fire Girls organization announced by Mrs Luther Halsey Gulick
► 1929 General
Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
► 1929 Spanish
dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
1950 Element 98 (Californium) announced
► 1960 Eisenhower forms
anti-Castro-exile army under the CIA
1963 Bob
Cousy plays his last NBA game
1973 St.
Patrick's Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
► 1995 Sinn-Fein
leader Gerry Adams visits White House
1997 CNN
begins Spanish broadcasts
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► 2001 OPEC
decides to cut output by 4% or 1 million barrels per day, effective April 1
► 2016 Archaeologists
announce discovery of iron age warrior king burial ground with 75 graves 2,500
years old in Pocklington, Northern England
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
I
had a great late birthday lunch with the retirement group. Discovered a
previously unknown desert…fresh pineapple rings, toasted coconut & orange
zest, deep fried along with homemade ice cream and whipped cream. Probably
thousands of calories, but it was really good. I got a great plant and some
cool zipper bags for my electronics when I travel. Now to find a trip to use
them.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
Actor
Nicolas Cage is the nephew of what famous movie director?
Francis
Ford Coppola
Oliver
Stone
George
Lucas
Werner
Hertzog
73.3% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
175,000,000,000→Estimated number of
postal codes into which a British startup has divided Mongolia
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
Why
did the rabbits go on strike?
They thought they deserved a better celery!
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*--------------
What In The Hell? --------------*
An Arizona woman who suspected her boyfriend was having an affair shot him
seven times while he slept at a Scottsdale home, according to a court document.
Miraculously, the man survived. The victim said he woke up believing he had
heard fireworks before feeling excruciating pain and realizing he had been
shot. He was rushed to the hospital with a gunshot wound to his penis, two
gunshot wounds to his scrotum and gunshot wounds to his neck, upper back and
left thigh. Della Flores, 53, was arrested and booked into jail on one count of
first-degree attempted murder and one count of aggravated assault. On the plus
side, he's now single again.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
The
origin of daylight saving time is commonly attributed to Benjamin Franklin, who
wrote an essay in 1784 about how changing time could save energy.
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Studies
show that Americans use the extra hour of daylight to go out and enjoy
themselves. Leisure facilities such as golf courses have reported increased
business, whereas Nielsen ratings for American TV show as much as a 10-15% drop
in the number of viewers watching even the most popular shows.
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Cities
once kept their own time and in 1965, there were 130 cities in the US with
populations of 100,000 or more and 59 of them did not observe daylight saving
time.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Hawaii
No
one is certain, so take your pick.
-The
name may come from the Proto-Polynesian Sawaiki or
"homeland" (some early explorers' accounts have the natives calling
the place Hawaiki, a compound of hawa,
"homeland," and ii, "small, active") or from Hawaii
Loa, the Polynesian who tradition says discovered the islands.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
@77 James Bridger, scout/fur trader/mountain man par excellance (D
1881)
74- Paul Kantner, rock
singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane), born in San Francisco, California (d.
2016)
73- John Sebastian, American singer
(Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter), born in NYC, New York
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@68- Alfred Newman, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing), born
in New Haven, Connecticut (D 1970)
68- Patrick Duffy, Townsend Mont,
actor (Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis)
66- Kurt Russell, actor (Thing,
Overboard, Mean Seasons), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
62- Gary Sinise, actor (Apollo
13, Forrest Gump)
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@55- Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding father
of Bangladesh and 1st and 4th President of Bangladesh (1971-72 and 1975-76),
born in Tungipara, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1975)
@54- Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov), born
on a train near Irkutsk, Soviet Union (d. 1993)
53- Rob Lowe, actor (St
Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, Class), born in Charlottesville, Virginia
50- Billy Corgan, American
musician (Smashing Pumpkins), born in Chicago, Illinois
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@45- Nat "King" Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa), born in
Montgomery, Alabama (d. 1965)
45- Mia Hamm, Selma Alabama,
soccer forward (Olympics-96)
@40- [Lee] Alexander McQueen,
English fashion designer, born in London (d. 2010)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@92-2006 Oleg Cassini, American
fashion designer
@92-1993 Helen Hayes, American
actress (Airport, Caesar & Cleopatra)
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@74ish-461 Saint Patrick, patron saint of
Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend),
@71-1997 Gail Davis, actress (Annie
Oakley), cancer
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@61-1956 Fred Allen, comedian (Fred
Allen Radio Show), heart attack
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@58-1956 Irene Joliot-Curie, French
physicist (Nobel laureate 1935) and daughter of Marie Curie, leukemia
@58-180 Antonius Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome, fever
@55-2007 Jim Cronin, Animal welfare
campaigner and founder of Monkey World in Dorset, England, liver cancer
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@49-1853 Christian Doppler, Austrian
physicist, (Doppler Effect). Pulmonary disease
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
Francis
Ford Coppola
Nicolas
Cage - born Nicolas Kim Coppola - isn't the only Hollywood celebrity who is
part of the filmmaking legacy of the Coppolas. In addition to Francis Ford
Coppola and his award-winning filmmaker daughter Sophia Coppola, Talia Rose
Shire ("Adrian" from the "Rocky" films) is also a member of
the Coppola family. Film producer Jack Schwartzman married into the family,
producing musician-actor sons Jason and Robert Coppola Schwartzman. Source: LA
Times
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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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