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March 19, 2017
Week: 11 \ Day: 78
86004 Today: H 69° \
L 29° Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 15mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 71°[1907] Record Low: 1°[1963]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
C. S. Lewis
Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every
virtue at the testing point.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
BYO Cup Day (7-11) Link
Client's Day Link
Goddess of Fertility Day
National Certified Nurses Day Link
National Chocolate Caramel Day Link
National Poultry Day Link
Operation Iraqi Freedom Day
Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano
Day
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
13-19
International Brain Awareness Week
17-19
Sherlock Holmes Weekend (also Nov. 3-5)
19-25
American Chocolate Week Link
National Button Week Link (3rd Full Week)
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week Link
World Folktales & Fables Week
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
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►1279 A
Mongolian victory at the naval Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
►1524 Giovanni
de Varrazano, a Florentine explorer in the service of King Francis I of France,
lands around area of Carolinas
1628 Massachusetts
Bay Colony granted land by England
►1644 200
members of Peking imperial family/court commit suicide in loyalty to the
Emperor
1687 Explorer
Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River,
is murdered by his own men.
1748 Naturalization
Act passes granting Jews right to colonize north American colonies
1822 Boston,
Mass, incorporated as a city
1831 1st
US bank robbery (City Bank, NY/$245,000)
►1882 1st
stone laid for the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
1883 Jan
Matzeliger invents first machine to manufacture entire shoes
1895 Los
Angeles Railway established to provide streetcar service
►1911 1st
International Women's Day sees over 1 million men and women attend rallies in
Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland. Issues discussed included women's
right to vote and to hold public office, the right to work, to vocational
training and an end to discrimination on the job.
1917 US
Supreme Court upheld 8-hr work day for railroad employees
1918 US
Congress authorizes time zones & approves daylight saving time
1920 US
Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles for 2nd time refusing to ratify League of
Nations' covenant (maintaining isolation policy)
1937 Astronomer
Fritz Zwicky publishes his research on stellar explosion in which he coins the
term "supernova" and hypothesizes that they were the origin of cosmic
rays
1942 FDR orders
men between 45 & 64 to register for non-military duty
1943 Frank
Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago
Central Railyard.
►1945 Adolf
Hitler issues "Nero Decree" to destroy all German factories
1951 Herman
Wouk's "Caine Mutiny" published
►1958 Britain's
first planetarium opens at Madame Tussaud's, London
►1965 Indonesia
nationalizes all foreign oil companies
1979 US
House of Representatives begins live TV broadcasts via C-SPAN
1984 Mobil
oil tanker spills 200,000 gallons into Columbia River
1987 Bonnie
Blair skates ladies' world record 500 m (39.43 sec)
1991 NFL owners strip
Phoenix of 1993 Super Bowl game due to Arizona Not recognizing Martin
Luther King Day
1994 Largest
omelette (1,383sq ft) made with 160,000 eggs in Yokohama, Japan
2012 Wendy's
overtakes Burger King to become the second best selling hamburger chain
►2016 Batman
v Superman: Dawn of Justice, directed by Zack Synder and starring Ben
Affleckand Henry Cavill, first premieres in Mexico City
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Another
great weather day…windows and doors open, fresh spring breeze sweeps through
the house.
I’m
looking forward to tonight’s discussion. After reading about 9 articles about
the subject, I feel confident is discussing it. I never had a hankerin’ for
Economics. I took one course in college and learned about ‘guns and butter’
economics. That was enough for me, but I was glad that others found it worth
their time. The fact that politician’s rhetoric is driving our economic policy
is scary. I learned that international trade is actually good for the US. Also
that ‘Made in …’ really doesn’t mean much in today’s international scene. Those
‘Made in China’ clothes use US cotton. Vehicles that are finally assembled in
Mexico or Canada are actually using many US made parts. When the US puts a tariff
on such stuff, it hurts the US more than anyone else. It hurts those who are
producing the raw material, it hurts the shippers, transporters, small business’
that sell the product and lots more. While the government must stop bad
practices, it must let the economists be the leaders in our trade policy. If
our government builds ‘the wall’, and charges 35% tariff on goods made by a company
that leaves the US, the ones that will suffer the most will be the American
people as the prices of goods will take hard earned dollars and those producing
the raw materials will not have the businesses to sell to. A very bleak picture,
but letters to Congress will help.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
When
was Jackie Robinson born?
April
15, 1947
May
20, 1939
January
31, 1919
June
7, 1927
42% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
8/16/2016→Date on which the Justice Dept.
announced that the 13 privately run federal prisons would be closing
89→Number of state prisons that are at least partially run
by private companies
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
A
man walks into a posh restaurant and orders his meal. While he takes the first
bite and is looking around, a monkey swings down and steals his plate from him
before he is able to stop it.
The man asks the waiter, "Excuse me sir, who owns the monkey?"
The waiter replies, "It belongs to the piano player."
The man walks over to the piano player and says, "Do you know your monkey
stole my food?"
The pianist responds, "No, but if you hum it, I'll play it."
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*-----------------
Killer Porn -----------------*
A lonely Japanese man who amassed more than six tons of porn died when a huge
pile of magazines fell on top of him. And even more tragically, the man's body
was only discovered six months later when the landlord entered the flat to find
out why the rent had not been paid. The man's lowly death was revealed by a
member of the cleaning team, who said his company had been hired to remove the
magazines discreetly in a way that would not be noticed by neighbors and the
man's family to save them from the shame. It was unclear if he had suffered a
heart attack and fallen into the stacks of magazines which had then fallen on
top of him, or whether he had been crushed by the mass of paper. Every space in
the flat was filled with piles of magazines, which also stacked on tables and
on shelves. At the time of his death the collection weighed in at six metric
tons (13,228 pounds).
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
St.
Patrick's Day is observed on March 17 because that is the feast day of St.
Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It is believed that he died on March 17
in the year 461 AD.
***
The actual color of St. Patrick is blue. Green became associated with St. Patrick's
Day during the 19th century. Green, in Irish legends, was worn by fairies and
immortals, and also by people to encourage their crops to grow.
***
The very first St. Patrick's Day parade was not in Ireland. It was in Boston in
1737.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Illinois
"Illinois"
is the modern spelling of the early French explorers' name for the people they
found living in the area, which they spelled in endless variations in their
records. The Europeans' first meeting with the Illinois was in 1674. Father
Jacques Marquette, a Jesuit missionary and explorer, followed a path to a
village and asked the people there who they were. According to Marquette's
writings, "They replied that they were Ilinois...when one speaks the
word...it is as if one said, in their language, 'the men'." The
explorers thought the tribal name to signify a grown man in his prime, separate
from, and superior to, the men of other tribes.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
84- Phyllis Newman,
actress (Coming of Age, TW3), born in Jersey City, New Jersey
@83- Earl Warren, Governor of
California/14th supreme court chief justice (1953-69), born in Los Angeles, (D 1974)
81- Ursula Andress,
Berne Switzerland, actress (She, Sensuous Nurse)
@81- Jackie "Moms" Mabley,
Brevard SC, comedienne (Merv Griffin Show) (D 1975)
@80- Wyatt Earp, American
sheriff (OK Corral), born in Monmouth, Illinois (d. 1929)
@80- Patrick McGoohan, Astoria NY, actor
(#6-Prisoner, Secret Agent) (D 2009)
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@77- Jiang Qing [Madame Mao],
Chinese communist and wife of Mao Zedong, born in Zhucheng, Shandong, China (d.
1991) @86- Tige Andrews,
Bkln, actor (Capt Adam Greer-Mod Squad) (D 2007)
73- Sirhan Sirhan,
Palestinian-born assassin
70- Glenn Close,
Greenwich Ct, actress (The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction)
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@69- Richard Burton, English
explorer and translator (Arabian Nights), born in Torquay, Devon (d. 1890)
@65- William Jennings Bryan, American orator
and statesman known as "The Great Commoner", born in Salem, Illinois
(d. 1925)
62- Bruce Willis, American actor
(Moonlighting, Die Hard), born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany
@60- David Livingstone, Scottish
explorer (found by Stanley in Africa), born in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire,
Scotland (d. 1873)
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31-
Casey Anthony, unfit mother
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@90-2008 Arthur C. Clarke, English science
fiction author (2001: A Space Odyssey, Childhood's End)
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@86-2008 Paul Scofield, English actor
(A Man for All Seasons and Quiz Show)
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@74-1950 Edgar Rice
Burroughs, sci-fi author (Tarzan of the Apes), wrote 80+ novels, heart attack
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@58-1974 Edward Platt,
actor (Chief-Get Smart), heart attack
@57-1943 Frank Nitti,
American gangster, suicide
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@33-1644 Chongzhen, last Ming
Emperor of China, suicide
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
January
31, 1919
Jackie
Robison, who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball, was born January
31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. Called up by the Brooklyn Dodgers on April 15,
1947, Robinson became the face of the movement to desegregate the sport. In his
first year on the Dodgers, he helped the team win the National League Pennant
and took home Rookie of the Year honors. The baseball legend passed away in
1972. Source: Biography.
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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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