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March 21,
2017 Week: 11 \ Day: 80
86004 Today: H 70° \
L 36° Average Sky Cover: 35%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 21mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 70°[2004] Record Low: 5°[1948]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Herman Melville
We cannot live only
for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Afghanistan Day Link
International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
International Day of Forests and The Tree Link
International Day of Nowruz Link
Memory Day
National Agriculture Day Link
National Common Courtesy Day
National Day of Action On Syringe Exchange Link
National Renewable Energy Day
Noruz (Iranian New Year)
National Single Parent
Day Link
Poetry Day Link
Spring Fairy Fun Day Link
Twitter Day (Social Media
Application)
World Down Syndrome Day Link
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
19-25
American Chocolate Week Link
National Button Week Link
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
21-27
Week of Solidarity with People's
Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
►1804 Civil
Code of Napoleon adopted in France
►1824 Fire
at Cairo ammunitions dump kills 4,000 horses
►1859 Scottish
National Gallery opens in Edinburgh
1859 Zoological
Society of Philadelphia, 1st in US, incorporated
1868 1st
US professional women's club, Sorosis, forms in NYC
►1871 Journalist Henry
Morton Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
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1924 1st
foreign language course broadcast on US radio (WJZ, NYC)
►1935 Persia
is officially renamed Iran
1947 US President Harry
Truman signs Executive Order 9835 requiring all federal employees to have
allegiance to the United States
►1951 2,900,000
US soldiers in Korea
1951 Julius
& Ethel Rosenberg convicted of espionage
1963 Alcatraz
prison in San Francisco Bay closed
1966 US
Supreme Court reverses Mass ruling that "Fanny Hill" is obscene
►1970 Vinko
Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes
that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ABC's
Wide World of Sports.
1970 1st
San Diego Comic-Con International opens at U.S. Grant Hotel
1972 US
Supreme Court rules states can't require 1-yr residency to vote
►1975 Ethiopia
abolishes its monarchy after 3,000 years
1978 San
Francisco passes its-and U.S.'-most comprehensive homosexual rights bill
1984 NFL
owners passed the infamous anti-celebrating rule
1984 Part
of Central Park is named Strawberry
Fields honoring John Lennon
►1991 UN
Security Council panel decided to lift the food embargo on Iraq
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►2002 In
Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged
with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl.
►2006 Immigrant
workers constructing the Burj Dubayy in Dubai, The United Arab Emirates and a
new terminal of Dubai International Airport join together and riot, causing $1M
in damage.
►2013 The
European Space Agency reveals new data that indicates that the universe is
13.82 billion years old
►2014 Russia
formally annexes Crimea amid international condemnation
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Interesting
annual check-up. I have had an itch on my arm since I got my shingles shot back
in November. Then about 2 months ago I got an itch on my shoulder blade. Benadryl
gel has worked, but I had him check it. Turns out both are ‘ingrown hair’. His
comment, ‘not unusual for someone as hairy as you are’. Hmmm. Never had them
before. Joys of old-er age. Got a cream that should ‘fix’ it. Actually it will fix the itch only. Since I
don’t shave either area, I guess I will just have to live with those pesky
ingrown hairs.
I always get the earliest appointment possible
for any Dr. visits. Today I was there at 8:00 and out by 8:50 with no wait time
at the office. Nice!
I
watched some of the committee on the Russian intrusion on CNN. Still don’t know
that much, but glad to hear that there is no evidence that Obama tapped a
phone. The FBI director and the Admiral certainly know how to answer the
questions exactly, or just say ‘I won’t comment on that…’ Reminds me of so many
spy shows…’need to know’.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
When
did Ellis Island open?
1901
1892
1907
1873
28%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
180,000→Minimum number of traffic tickets that
have been successfully challenged by an online chatbot names DoNotPay
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
At
a church in Mississippi, the pastor announced that their prison choir would be
singing the following evening. I wasn't aware there was a prison in the
vicinity, so I looked forward to hearing them.
The next evening, I was puzzled when members of the church approached the
stage. Then the pastor introduced them.
"This is our prison choir," he said, "they're behind a few bars
and always looking for the key."
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
An
ex-employee who was angry about being fired, used his car to run over his boss,
according to police in Florida.
Police said that they have arrested 52-year-old Irelio Reyes Osorio, after
being accused of running his boss over with his car several times in an attempt
to kill him. According to the criminal complaint, Osorio wanted to collected
money for two days of work.
Osorio sent his boss numerous text messages, in which he threatened to use a
weapon, a machete or a knife to kill him. At some point, the boss and Osorio
agreed to meet at a coffee shop.
That was a mistake.
When they arrived, Osorio attacked his boss with a knife and began to chase him
through a parking lot before cutting him in the chest and left arm.
The victim then threw a rock at Osorio, and took the knife out of his hands.
Both men returned to their vehicles, but Osorio continued the attack against
his employer.
Surveillance video shows Osorio ramming into his employer's truck. Osorio then
drove away, dragging a fence behind his truck.
Osorio then turned around his vehicle and accelerated toward the victim. The
employer managed to jump out of the way at the last moment.
In another attempt, a fence blocked the suspect from completely running over
his boss. The employer was taken to a hospital, where he was treated and
released.
Osorio has been charged with one count of attempted first-degree murder.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
Outside
of New England o.k. really didn't become famous until the presidential
candidacy of Martin Van Buren in 1840 and the invention of the telegraph. The
first was important because Van Buren acquired the nickname "Old
Kinderhook" after his home town in Upstate New York: "OK now could
have a double meaning: Old Kinderhook was all correct."
Then, the invention of the telegraph made the use of OK as shorthand for
"all correct" commonplace.
In
1839 the editor of the Boston Post was inspired to invent the phrase
"o.k.," which he defined as "all correct." It was supposed
to be a joke, perhaps on the literary competency of the Post's readership, but
whether or not readers found it funny the phrase was picked up by another
newspaper, the Evening Transcript, and o.k. was on the road to immortality.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Iowa
Iowa's
name comes from the Native American tribe that once lived there, the Ioway.
What the word means depends on who you ask.
One
pioneer in the area wrote in 1868 that "some Indians in search of a new
home encamped on a high bluff of the Iowa River near its mouth...and being much
pleased with the location and the country around it, in their native dialect
exclaimed, 'Iowa, Iowa, Iowa' (beautiful, beautiful, beautiful), hence the name
Iowa to the river and to those Indians." A report from the 1879 General
Assembly of Iowa translated the word a little differently and claimed it meant
"the beautiful land." However, members of the Ioway Nation,
who today inhabit Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma, will tell you that Ioway is
the French spelling of Ayuhwa, a name meaning "sleepy
ones" given to the tribe in jest by the Dakota Sioux. (The Ioway
refer to themselves as Baxoje (bah-ko-jay) or "the gray/ashy heads,
a name that stems from an incident where tribe members were camping in the Iowa
River valley and a gust of wind blew sand and campfire ashes onto their heads.)
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
@84- Henry Ossian Flipper, American soldier, former slave and
first African American to graduate from the United States Military Academy at
West Point in 1877, born in Thomasville, Georgia (d. 1940)
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73- Timothy Dalton, North Wales, actor (James Bond films)
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@66- Benito Pablo Juarez, president of Mexico (1858-72), born in Oaxaca,
Mexico (D 1872)
@65- Florenz Ziegfeld, producer
(Ziegfield Follies) (D 1932)
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59- Sabrina Le Beauf, actress (Sondra-Crosby Show), born in New
Orleans, Louisiana
59- Gary Oldman, actor (Sid & Nancy, Criminal Law, State of
Grace)
@56- James Coco, actor (Man of
La Mancha, Murder by Death), born in The Bronx, New York (D 1987)
55- Matthew Broderick, American actor (WarGames, Biloxi Blues), born in
NYC, New York
55- Rosie O'Donnell, comedienne, actress and TV host (League of Their
Own, Flintstones, Rosie, born in Commack, New York
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39- Kevin Federline, American dancer/hip hop artist
37-
Ronaldinho, Brazilian soccer player
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@82-2013 Chinua Achebe, Nigerian poet and novelist-“ One of the truest tests of
integrity is its blunt refusal to be compromised.”
@80-2016 Peter Brown [Pierre Lind de Lappe], American actor (Lawman, Laredo, Bold &
Beautiful)
@81-2016 Robert McNeill Alexander, British zoologist (estimated speed
of dinosaurs)
@81-1994 Macdonald Carey, actor (Days of
Our Lives)
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@77-1985 Michael Redgrave, British actor
(Goodbye Mr Chips), Parkinson's
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@68-1843 Robert Southey, English writer
(The Story of the Three Bears), Poet Laureate (1813-43) and biographer
(Nelson),
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@58-1915 Frederick Winslow Taylor, American
mechanical engineer and the father of scientific management, influenza
@52-1994 Dack Rambo, actor (Jack Ewing-Dallas), AIDs
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@22-1617 Pocahontas, Native American princess (Tsenacommacah Tribe)
and daughter of Powhatan, illness while in Europe
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
1892
Ellis
Island opened on January 1, 1892 and became the first destination in America
for 12 million immigrants between then and 1954, the year it closed. The island
marked the first transition between states handling immigration on their own,
and the Federal government taking over sole responsibility. Annie Moore, from
County Cork, Ireland, became the first to be processed at the site. In 1965 a
Presidential Proclamation gave the National Parks Service control over Ellis
Island, and the organization opened it in 1990 as the country's foremost museum
on immigration. Source: National Parks Service.
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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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