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March 22,
2017 Week: 11 \ Day: 81
86004 Today: H 65° \
L 34° Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave: 11mph\Gusts: 23mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 68°[2004] Record Low: -1°[1952]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Marcus Aurelius
Reject your sense of
injury and the injury itself disappears.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
As Young As You Feel Day
Education and Sharing Day
International Day of The Seal
Tuskegee Airmen Day
World Day of Metta
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
19-25
American Chocolate Week Link
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
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
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1622 First
American Indian (Powhattan) massacre of Europeans in Jamestown Virginia, 347
killed
1630 1st
colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
►1784 The
Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra
Kaew, Thailand.
1790 Thomas
Jefferson becomes the 1st US Secretary of State under President Washington
1822 NY
Horticultural Society founded
1841 Cornstarch
patented (Orlando Jones)
1861 1st
US nursing school chartered
1872 Illinois
becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1882 Edmunds
Act adopted by the US to suppress polygamy, 1300 men later imprisoned under the
act
1917 The
USA is the first nation to recognize the new government of Russia
1933 FDR makes
wine & beer with up to 3.2% alcohol legal
1946 1st
US rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1954 First
shopping mall opened in Southfield, Michigan
1960 1st
patent for lasers granted to Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
►1965 US
confirms its troops used chemical warfare against the Vietcong
►1978 Karl
Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between
two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
1984 Teachers at the
McMartin preschool in Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic
ritual abuse of the children in the school. The charges are later dropped as
completely unfounded.
1988 US
Congress overrides President Reagan's veto of sweeping civil rights bill
►2012 Massive
fire devours thousands of hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on
Mount Kenya
►2016 Suicide
bombings at Brussel's Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station, leave around
28 victims dead and 260 injured, ISIS claim responsibility
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Sad
day. My boss at Red Lake passed away at 78 after a long illness. He helped me
internalize my belief that Children are important and have to be protected and
any education decisions must take the child into account. He was a Vietnam vet,
a counselor, and a great principal and educational leader. I would not have
been the education administrator I was without his guidance. It was the first
time I had worked directly for a Navajo and would not change one minute of the
13 years we led Red Lake Day School. He will be missed by many.
The
job of the Senate is to insure that the Supreme Court nominee is QUALIFIED. That does not mean that a Senator has
to agree with everything or even anything. After watching much of the hearings,
he is qualified, even though I disagree with some of his decisions. Confirm and
move on. And he is from Colorado and was a law clerk for Byron ‘Whizzer’ White!
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
What
actor from the sitcom "Community" goes by the hip-hop stage name
Childish Gambino?
Joel
McHale
Donald
Glover
Danny
Pudi
Jim
Rash
38%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
160,000,000→Minimum number of Indian
public employees who participated in a recent strike
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
A
motivational speaker, while addressing his audience, talked about the various
achievements man has made today.
He said, "Today, man has built a ship to cross an ocean, fastest trains to
travel across cities, and built planes to fly high in the skies like a
bird..."
A gentleman from the audience interrupted, "Any yet, a man still cannot
sit on a barbed wire like a bird does!"
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*-----
Lesson: Don't Nap on Railroad Tracks -----*
A Georgia teenager decided to take a rest after a leisurely afternoon walk by
draping his legs over some railroad tracks, putting on his headphones and
closing his eyes. The results were just as bad as you expect. He was struck by
a train and lost both of his legs. Officer Andy Blimline who was the first on
the scene, said that he found 17-year-old Jacob Ohl conscious despite his
severe injuries. Blimline said that he soon realized that the teen's legs are
no longer attached to his body. Ohl was rushed to a hospital, but doctors were
unable to reattach his legs. The teenager told police that he did not intend to
hurt himself when he sat down on the tracks. Ohl is a senior in high school and
plays for the school orchestra jazz band. His instrument: stand-up bass.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
A
blizzard occurs when you can't see for 1/4 mile. The winds are always 35 miles
an hour or more. The storm must last at least 3 hours to be classed as a
blizzard. If any of these conditions are less, it is only a snowstorm.
***
Snow is Not White. Snow is actually clear and colorless. Like ice. The complex
structure of snow crystals results in countless tiny surfaces from which
visible light is efficiently reflected. What little sunlight is absorbed by
snow is absorbed uniformly over the wavelengths of visible light thus giving
snow its white appearance.
***
Snow comes in many colors beyond the familiar white. Glacier snow can appear
blue. Algae growing on fallen snow can create hues of green or red, such as
what hikers call "watermelon snow." When orange snow fell in Siberia
in 2007, pollution was suspected, but officials said the likely cause was a
heavy sandstorm in neighboring Kazakhstan.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Kansas
Kansas
was named after the Kansas River, which was named after the Kansa tribe who
lived along its banks. Kansa, a Siouan word, is thought to be
pretty old. How old? Its full and original meaning was lost to the tribe before
they even met their first white settler. Today, we only know that the word has
some reference to the wind, possibly "people of the wind" or
"people of the south wind."
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
@97- Karl Malden, actor
(Mike-Streets of SF, American Express), born in Chicago, (D 2009)
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87- Pat Robertson, televangelist (700 club, Presidential
candidate-R-1989)
87- Stephen Sondheim, American lyricist (West Side Story, Company),
born in NYC, New York
86- William Shatner, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker), born in Montreal,
Quebec
@85- Robert A. Millikan, American physicist (photoelectric effect; Nobel
1923), born in Morrison, Illinois (d. 1953)
@84- Marcel Marceau, Strasbourg
France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie) (D 2007)
83- Orrin Hatch, politician (Sen-R-UT, 1977- ), born in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
@80- Louis D L'Amour, author (Hondo,
Jubal Sackett), born in Jamestown, North Dakota (D 1988)
@80- Werner Klemperer, actor (Col
Klink in Hogan's Heroes), born in Cologne, Germany (d. 2000)
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76- Jeremy Clyde, English musician (Chad & Jeremy) and
actor (The Iron Lady), born in Dorney, Buckinghamshire
@74- Chico Marx, [Leonard Marx],
American comedian (Marx Brothers), born in NYC, New York (d. 1961)
74- George Benson, American jazz/blues singer/guitarist (Greatest Love of All),
born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
70- James Patterson, American author (Alex Cross, Witch and Wizard),
born in Newburgh, New York
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69- Andrew Lloyd Webber, composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats), born in
London, England
69- Wolf Blitzer, American television journalist
65- Bob Costas, sportscaster/talk show host (Later), born in
Queens, New York
@61- Ross Martin, Grodek Poland,
actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West) (D 1981)
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58- Matthew Modine, Loma Linda Cal, actor (Full Metal Jacket)
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45-Keegan-Michael Key,
commedian
@42- Anthony Van Dyck, Flemish painter (Charles I of England), born in
Antwerp, Spanish Netherlands (d. 1641)
41- Reese Witherspoon, American
actress (Pleasantville, Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama), born in New
Orleans, Louisiana
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@39- Randolph Caldecott, England,
illustrator (Caldecott Medal namesake) (D 1886)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@93-1994 Walter Lantz, US cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker)
@90-2001 William Hanna, American animator and studio founder
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@78-1777 John Bartram, father of American botany
@73-1978 Karl Wallenda, falls to death walking high-wire
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@54-1758 Jonathan Edwards, American Christian preacher, philosopher, and
theologian (Original Sin), took smallpox vaccine to prove safety, but died from
injection
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@48-1958 Mike Todd, US film and theatre producer and 3rd husband of
Elizabeth Taylor, plane crash
@46-2016 Rob Ford, Canadian politician (Toronto mayor caught with
cocaine), bladder cancer
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
Donald
Glover
Glover
played Troy on the cult-favorite NBC show, but there are other ways you might
recognize him. He worked as a writer for the acclaimed comedy "30
Rock" and has since starred in films such as "Magic Mike XXL",
"The Martian" and "The Lazarus Effect." He'll also play the
swashbuckling space rogue Lando Calrissian in an upcoming "Star Wars"
film. But his music career hasn't been too shabby either. As Childish Gambino,
he gained VMA nods for two music videos as well as a pair of Grammy nominations
in 2015. Source: IMDB
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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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