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March 2, 2017 Week: 09 \ Day: 61
86004 Today: H 37° \
L 7° Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts: 23mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 65°[1910] Record Low: -1°[1971]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
George Carlin
What does it mean
to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Dr. Seuss Day
NEA's Read Across America Day
World Book Day Link
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
1-7
National Cheerleading Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Pet Sitters Week Link
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
Universal Human Beings Week Link
Will Eisner Week
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
► 1498 Vasco
da Gama's fleet visits Mozambique Island
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► 1717 The Loves of Mars and
Venus becomes the first ballet performed in England.
1776
Americans begin shelling British troops in Boston
► 1791 Long-distance
communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
1799 Congress standardizes US
weights & measures
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1807 US Congress bans the slave
trade within the US, effective January 1, 1808
1817 1st Evangelical church
building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn
1819 US passed its 1st
immigration law
1824 Interstate commerce comes
under federal control
1829 New England Asylum for the
Blind, 1st in US, incorporated, Boston
1831 John Frazee becomes 1st US
sculptor to receive a federal commission
1853 Territory of Washington
organized after separating from Oregon Ter
1861 Government Printing Office
purchases 1st printing plant, Washington
1866 1st US company to make
sewing needles by machine incorporated, Conn
1867 US Congress abolishes
peonage in New Mexico
1867 US Congress creates the
Department of Education
1868 University of Illinois
opens
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1903 Martha Washington Hotel,
catering to women only, opens in NYC
1917 Jones Act: Puerto Rico
territory created, US citizenship granted
► 1925 Japan's House of
Representatives recognizes male suffrage
1927 Babe Ruth becomes highest paid
baseball player ($70,000 per year)
1929 Congress creates Court of
Customs & Patent Appeals
1939 Massachusetts Legislature
votes to ratify the US Bill of Rights - 147 years late
1946 Ho Chi Minh elected
President of North Vietnam
1949 1st automatic street
light (New Milford, Ct)
► 1956 Morocco tears up the
Treaty of Fez, declares independence from France
1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores
incredible 100 points in an NBA game
1965 One of the most
popular musical films of all time, "The Sound of Music", starring Julie
Andrews and Christopher Plummer, is released (Best Picture 1966)
1966 215,000 US soldiers in
Vietnam
► 1969 1st test flight of the
supersonic Concorde
1970 Supreme Court ruled draft
evaders cannot be penalized after 5 years
1976 Walt Disney World logs its
50 millionth guest
1977 Bette Davis is
1st woman to receive American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award
1983 Compact Disc recordings
developed by Phillips & Sony introduced
► 1989 12 European nations agree
to ban chlorofluorocarbon production by 2000
1989 Tanker Exxon Houston runs
aground in Hawaii, spills 117,000 gallons of oil
1994 Miami
begins a Latin walk of fame, 1st star for Gloria Estefan
1994 Branch Davidian cult
leader David Koresh promises to surrender if taped statement is broadcasted, it
is, but he doesn't
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► 2000 Former Chilean dictator
General Augusto Pinochet heads home after being told the UK would not extradite
him on torture charges
► 2016 Longest non-stop scheduled
commercial flight by distance, Emirates A380 flies 14,200km (8,824 miles) Dubai
to Auckland in 17 hours, 15 minutes
2016 US astronauts Scott
Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko return to earth after nearly
a year (340 days), setting an ISS record
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
One
of the best things about international travel is the people. Our Focus Travel
Club has lots of people from different backgrounds. Most of us have ties to
education and the belief that learning is a lifelong process. The tour guides
we meet love their city/country and are very willing to share great experiences
with us. The locals or ship staff are more than willing to share things about
themselves. On this trip I met the drummer of the ship’s band. He joined us on
two excursions. He was from Ukraine and was very willing to share his thoughts
on his country after we broke the ice. He was recently married to an American,
who now danced in the Lido in Paris. Thankfully I asked to see a picture of her
on our second excursion. He reached for his phone, but it wasn’t there. He
spent a good 10 minutes searching around in the bus. He knew he had it at our
last stop because he had taken pictures. He emptied his day pack twice. Finally
he stood up and started reaching between the seats. There is was, just waiting
to be found. He reminded me that if I hadn’t asked to see his wife’s picture,
he would have left the bus and the phone would have been lost forever. His wife
is beautiful and we let him know it. And there was the monk I talked about a
few days ago. And my roommate, whose wife had been my brother’s teacher. He was
a math geek and worked with NASA in the early Titan missiles, and knows the
Queen drummer because of their mutual interest in historical stereographic
photography (think Viewmaster’s early forerunner) and has visited his home.. Amazing
people are always around found on our adventures.
I
watched the President’s speech last night. Comments: Your actions speak louder
than your words and You sounded Presidential, now act that way. While I don’t
agree with many of his policies, he must show me that he understands his role.
Can’t believe I have to say that.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
Which
four players have run the most rushing yards in NFL history?
O.J.
Simpson, Eddie George, Jamal Lewis, Joe Perry
Fred
Taylor, Marcus Allen, Jim Brown, Eric Dickerson
Earl
Campbell, Roger Craig, Michael Turner, Charlie Garner
Emmitt
Smith, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin
69.0%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
1/4 →Portion of US ambulance services that are
privately operated
55→Percentage by which the average response time
of privately run ambulances exceeds that of publicly run ambulances
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
One
of the youth soccer coaches didn't care much for my refereeing and had no
problem letting me know it. Fed up, I politely threatened him with a send-off
if he didn't stop.
He calmed down, but an older woman took up where he'd left off. "You'd
better control your sideline," I warned the coach.
The coach turned to the woman and barked, "Knock it off, Mom!"
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
The
U.S. Transportation Security Administration said an 80-year-old woman had no
idea there was a sword inside her cane until she tried to take it on a plane.
TSA regional spokesman Mark Howell said during an event at South Carolina's
Myrtle Beach International Airport that an 80-year-old woman recently attempted
to bring her cane on a flight she was catching at the airport.
He said TSA agents put the cane through the X-ray machine and discovered that
twisting and tugging on the handle revealed a hidden sword inside the cane.
Howell said the cane had been a gift from the woman's son and she had carried
it for years without knowing about its hidden weaponry.
"She had no clue it was in there," he said at the event.
"It happens a lot, actually," Howell said of sword cane discoveries.
"People pick them up at a thrift store and the sword isn't found until we
X-ray it."
He said the woman surrendered her cane at the TSA checkpoint and caught her
flight.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
The
first Academy Awards were held in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood Roosevelt
Hotel on May 16, 1929.
***
The famous golden statuette is officially named the Academy Award of Merit.
According to the Oscars, the nickname's origins are unclear. The most widely
known story goes that Academy librarian Margaret Herrick, who had the gig in
the 1930s, saw the statue and said it looked like her Uncle Oscar. (The Academy
didn't adopt the nickname officially until 1939.)
***
The design of the Oscar statuette, by Cedric Gibbons, is a knight holding a
crusader's sword while standing on a film reel. There are five spokes on the
reel representing the five original branches of the Academy: writers,
technicians, producers, actors and directors.
***
The first televised Oscars show was on March 19, 1953. That year, Gary Cooper
won the Oscar for best actor for High Noon (and it was accepted by John Wayne).
Shirley Booth took home the best actress prize for Come Back, Little Sheba. The
first color broadcast was in 1966, when The Sound of Music won best picture.
***
The more-than-5,000 voting members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences are the ones who choose the winners. Among that group, more than 1,000
are actors.
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The Oscars had suffered two consecutive years of dramatic dips - losing almost
10 million viewers between 2014 and 2016. But the show remains a lucrative
flagship, which again reaped a reported $115 million in ad revenue from this
year's show.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@→ indicates
age at death
@→87- Dr. Seuss,
[Theodor Geisel], children's author (Horton Hears a Who!), born in Springfield,
Mass (D 1991)
86- Mikhail
Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the
Soviet Union (1985-91), born in Stavropol, Russia
86- Tom
Wolfe, journalist/author (Right Stuff), born in Richmond, Virginia
@→83- Frank
E. Petersen Jr, American soldier and 1st African American Marine aviator &
General, born in Topeka Kansas (d. 2015)
@→82- Pius
XII, [Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli], 260th Pope (D 1958)
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75- Kwang
Jo Choi, the founder of Choi Kwang- do and is one of the twelve original
Masters of Taekwon-Do.
@→70- Sam[uel]
Houston, 1st president of Texas (1836-38, 1841-44) (brought Texas into the
United States) (D 1863)
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@→69- Desi Arnaz,
Cuban-American actor (I Love Lucy), born in Santiago de Cuba (d. 1986)
62- Ken
Salazar, American politician (Sec. of Interior)
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55- Jon
Bon Jovi, Sayreville NJ, rocker (Bon Jovi-Give Love a Bad Name)
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49- Daniel
Craig, English actor (James Bond films), born in Chester
40- Chris
Martin, English musician (Coldplay), born in Exeter, Devon
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35- Ben Roethlisberger, Steeler’s QB
37-Rebel Wilson, Australian actress
@→32- Karen
Carpenter, vocalist/drummer (We Only Just Begun), born in New Haven,
Connecticut (D 1983)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@88-2014 Justin Kaplan,
American editor and biographer (Mr. Clemens and Mark Twain - Pulitzer Price
1967)
@87-1791 John Wesley, English
co-founder of Methodism
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@79-1797 Horace [Horatio]
Walpole, British horror writer
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@67-2015 Mal Peet, British
children's author, cancer
@64-1939 Howard Carter, British
archaeologist and Egyptologist who found King Tutankhamun's tomb, lymphoma
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@59-1999 Dusty
Springfield, English singer, breast cancer
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@44-1930 D. H. Lawrence, English poet
and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), TB
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
Emmitt
Smith, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin
These
four guys pack some heat with a total of 64,451 yards rushed between the four
of them! Whoa! Running Back Emmitt Smith leads the pack with a total of 18,355
yards rushed throughout his NFL career. Walter Payton had 16,726 rushing yards,
Barry Sanders had 15,269 rushing yards and Curtis Martin had 14,101 rushing
yards during his NFL career! Go long! Source: Pro Football Reference
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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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