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March 20,
2017 Week: 11 \ Day: 79
86004 Today: H 69° \
L 34° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts: 18mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 72°[2004] Record Low: -1°[1935]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
John Locke
Fortitude is the guard
and support of the other virtues.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Alien Abduction Day (Started in
2008 at Toronto Alien Festival)
Atheist Pride Day Link (There
is another one on June 6)
Bed-in For Peace Day (Beatles - John and Yoko)
French Language Day Link
Great American Meat Out Day Link
International Astrology Day (Spring Equinox)
Kiss Your Fiancée Day
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
Naw-Ruz
Snowman Burning Day
Spring (Vernal Equinox) 6:29 am EDT
Well-Elderly or Wellderly Day
World Storytelling Day Link (Always Spring Equinox)
Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People Link
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
19-25
American Chocolate Week
National Button Week Link (3rd
Full Week)
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week Link
World Folktales & Fables Week
20-26
Act Happy Week
National Fix A Leak Week Link
Shakespeare Week
Wellderly Week
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
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►1345 Saturn/Jupiter/Mars-conjunction:
thought "cause of plague epidemic"
1760 Great
Fire of Boston destroys 349 buildings
►1800 Alessandro
Volta reports his discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph
Banks, president of the Royal Society of London
1816 US
Supreme Court affirms its right to review state court decisions
1852 Harriet
Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" published (Boston)
►1920 1st
flight from London to South Africa lands (took 1½ months)
►1942 Gen MacArthur vows,
"I shall return"
1954 1st
newspaper vending machine used (Columbia Pennsylvania)
1963 1st
"Pop Art" exhibition (NYC)
►1964 ESRO
established, European Space Research Organization
1982 Joan
Jett & Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n' Roll"
goes #1 for 7 wks
1984 Senate
rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
1986 New
York City passes its first lesbian and gay rights legislation
1987 FDA
approves sale of AZT (AIDS treatment)
►1988 Eritrean
War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's
Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle
of Afabet.
►1996 UK
admits humans can catch CJD (Mad Cow Disease)
►2005 A
magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100
years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.
2016 Barack
Obama becomes the first US President to visit Cuba since 1928, arriving
for a 2 day tour
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
We
had a very good discussion last night. Everyone had ideas about the topic and
while we got off topic a couple of times, it was a very productive time. Glad I
was able to lead the discussion.
Tomorrow
is my ‘annual checkup’ with my PCP. It’s the time when the Dr. looks at me and
talks about changes in my body in the last 12 months. Not expecting anything
new. He will tell me I am getting older, and from my point of view, that is a good
thing.
Our
spring weather continues. I know it can’t last forever, but this past 10 or so
days have been amazing. Warm temps, little wind, and lots of sunshine. I will
continue to enjoy it, as long as it lasts.
Well,
duh…One of our President’s minions was explaining the budget cut that effects
the viability of the weather satellites…”We will do just fine, after all, we
have the weather channel.”
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
When
was the Hollywood Walk of Fame completed?
1972
1914
1954
1961
28% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
14→Factor by which the number of women held in local US jails
has increased since 1970
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
Johnny:
Teacher, can I go to the bathroom?
Teacher: Johnny, MAY I go to the bathroom?
Little Johnny: Okay, but I asked first!
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*-------------
Tidal Wave of Beer -------------*
A Nevada Highway Patrol dashboard camera was recording when a trooper was
drenched by a load of beer that fell from a truck. The highway patrol said
Trooper Travis Smaka had pulled a driver over for speeding. "You guys have
anything to drink tonight?" Trooper Travis Smaka asks the vehicle's
occupants in the dashboard camera footage. The driver says he has not been
drinking, and moments later the sound of a truck losing its load of beer can be
heard. The video shows a wave of beer from shattered bottles go straight toward
the trooper. "Well, over 1,000 pounds of beer shattering and a tidal wave
of beer coming at me," Smaka said. Troopers said the semi is believed to
have lost its load due to slamming on its brakes when cut off by another
vehicle. A similar crash on a Florida highway last year didn't drench any
troopers, but it did take the highway happy hour to the next logical level by
also involving a truckload of potato chips that ended up in the roadway along
with the load of Busch beer.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
The
phrase, "Drowning The Shamrock" is from the custom of floating the
shamrock on the top of whiskey before drinking it. The Irish believe that if
you keep the custom, then you will have a prosperous year.
***
Legend says that each leaf of the clover means something: the first is for
hope, the second for faith, the third for love and the fourth for luck.
***
The name "leprechaun" has several origins. It could be from the Irish
Gaelic word "leipreachan," which means "a kind of aqueous
sprite." Or, it could be from "leath bhrogan," which means
"shoemaker."
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Indiana
The
state's name means "Indian Land" or "Land of the Indians,"
named so for the Indian tribes that lived there when white settlers arrived.
While its meaning might be simple enough, the way it got the name is a little
more interesting. At the end of the French and Indian War, the French were
forced out of the Ohio Valley, so a Philadelphia trading company moved in to
monopolize trade with the Indians in the area. At the time, the tribes of the
Iroquois had already formed a confederacy and conquered territory beyond their
home lands, subjugating other tribes and treating them as tributaries. In the
fall of 1763, members of the Shawnee and other tribes who were tributary to the
Iroquois Confederacy conducted raids on traders from the Philadelphia company
and stole their goods. The company complained to the chiefs of the Iroquois
Confederacy and demanded restitution. The chiefs accepted responsibility for
the behavior of their tributaries, but did not have the money to pay off the
debt. Instead, when making a boundary treaty with the English five years later,
the chiefs gave a 5,000-square-mile tract of land to the Philadelphia company,
which accepted the land as payment.
The
land's new owners, in the search for a name, noted a trend in the way states
and countries in both the Old World and New World were named. Bulgaria was the
land of the Bulgars, Pennsylvania was the woodland of Penn, etc. They decided
to honor the people to whom the land originally belonged and from whom it had
been obtained and named it Indiana, land of the Indians. The year the colonies
declared their independence from Britain, the Indiana land was transferred to a
new company, who wanted to sell it. Some of the land, though, was within the
boundaries of Virginia, which claimed that it had jurisdiction over the land's
settlers and forbade the company from selling it. In 1779, the company asked
Congress to settle the matter. It made an attempt, but, still operating under
Articles of Confederation, had no power to compel Virginia to do anything. The
argument eventually went to the United States Supreme Court, but Virginia's
government officials, strong believers in states' rights, refused to become
involved with a federal court and ignored the summons to appear. In the
meantime, Virginia's politicians worked to secure the Eleventh Amendment, which
protected the states' sovereign immunity from being sued in federal court by
someone of another state or country (and was proposed in response to a Supreme
Court case dealing with Georgia's refusal to appear to hear a suit against
itself, in which the Supreme Court decided against Georgia).
After
the amendment was passed and ratified, the company's suit was dismissed and it
lost its claim to the land, which was absorbed by Virginia. The name would come
back in 1800, when Congress carved the state of Ohio out of the Northwest
Territory and gave the name "Indiana" to the remaining
territorial land and, 16 years later, a new state.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
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95- Carl Reiner, comedian (2000
Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show), born in The Bronx, New York
@86- B[urrhus] F[rederic] Skinner, Pa, Behaviorism pioneer (Skinner box) (D1990)
86- Hal Linden, [Harold
Lipshitz], actor (Barney Miller, Blacke's Magic)
72- Pat Riley, Schenectady NY,
NBA coach (Lakers, Knicks, Heat)
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@69- Ozzie Nelson, American actor (The
Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet), born in Jersey City, NJ, (D1975)
69- Bobby Orr, Canadian hall
of fame NHL defenseman (Boston Bruins), born in Parry Sound, Ontario
@68- Vaughn Meader, American comedian (d. 2004)
67- William Hurt, actor (Big
Chill, Children of a Lesser God), born in Washington, D.C.
@61- Ted Bessell, Flushing NY, actor (Don-That Girl, Frankie-Gomer
Pyle)(D 1996)
60- Spike Lee [Shelton Jackson
Lee], American film director (Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X), born
in Atlanta, Georgia
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@59ish- Ovid [Publius Ovidius Naso], Roman poet (Metamorphoses)(d. 17)
@59- Frederick Winslow Taylor, American
mechanical engineer and the father of scientific management, born in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1915)
59- Holly Hunter, American
actress (Broadcast News, The Piano), born in Conyers, Georgia
54- David Thewlis, English actor
(Remus Lupin-Harry Potter series), born in Blackpool, Lancashire
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@94-2004 Queen Juliana of the
Netherlands
@90-2010 Stewart Udall, American
politician, environmentalist
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@89-2010 Liz Carpenter, American
feminist writer
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@62-1974 Chet Huntley, newscaster (NBC
Huntley-Brinkley Report), lung cancer
@61-1932 Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, Russian
Biologist (artificial insemination of animals), stroke
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@49-1899 Martha M Place, of Bkln,
becomes 1st woman to be executed in an electric chair.
@41-1964 Brendan Behan, Irish
writer/poet, alcohol/diabetes
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
1961
How
do you know you've made it in Hollywood? When you see your name among the stars
- that is, the stars making up the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Devised in 1953 by
E.M. Stuart, then volunteer president of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce, it
wasn't completed until 1961. Among the first eight stars was one dedicated to
actress Joanne Woodward, who won an Academy Award for The Three Faces of Eve in
1957. An average of two stars are added to the Walk of Fame each month. Source:
walkoffame.com
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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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