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March 23,
2017 Week: 11 \ Day: 82
86004 Today: H 65° \
L 43° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts: 21mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 67°[1990] Record Low: -1°[1973]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate
us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
National Tamale Day
OK Day Link
World Meteorological Day
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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
►1490 1st
dated edition of Maimonides "Mishneh Torah", a code of Jewish
religious law is published
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1593 English
Separatist Puritans John Greenwood and Henry Barrowe tried and sentenced to
death on the charge of devising and circulating seditious books
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►1743 George
Frideric Handel's oratorio "Messiah" premieres in London
1775 Patrick
Henry proclaims "Give me liberty or give me death" in speech in
favour of Virginian troops joining US Revolutionary war
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1836 Coin
Press invented by Franklin Beale
1839 1st
recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
►1848 The
ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish
settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
1857 Elisha
Otis installs his 1st elevator at 488 Broadway in New York City
1868 University
of California founded (Oakland California)
1880 Flour
rolling mill patented (John Stevens of Wisc)
1889 Pres
Harrison opens Oklahoma for white colonization
1896 The
Raines Law is passed by the New York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale
of alcohol to hotels.
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►1901 Dame
Nellie Melba, reveals secret of her now famous toast
►1919 8th
Congress of the Russian Communist Party re-establishes a five-member Politburo
which becomes the center of political power in the Soviet Union. Original
members Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Stalin, Lev Kamenev
and Nikolai Krestinsky
1922 1st
airplane lands at the US Capitol in Washington, D.C.
1925 Tennessee
becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1936 Physician Joseph
G. Hamilton injects a leukemia patient with a sodium radioisotope, the
first intravenous injection of a human with a radioisotope
1940 1st
radio broadcast of "Truth or Consequences" on CBS
►1950 UN
World Meteorological Org established
1972 Evel
Knievel breaks 93 bones after successfully clearing 35 cars
►1976 International
Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
1981 US
Supreme Court upholds law making statutory rape a crime only for men
1981 US
Supreme Court rules states could require, with some exceptions, parental
notification when teen-age girls sought abortions
1983 US
President Ronald Reagan introduces Strategic Defense Initiative
("Star Wars")
1990 Former
Exxon Valdez Captain Joseph Hazelwood ordered to help clean up Prince William
Sound & pay $50,000 in restitution for 1989 oil spill
1999 "Livin'
la Vida Loca" sung by Ricky Martin released - goes on to sell
over 8 million copies
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►2012 African
Union suspends Mali's membership following a coup
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Went
in for blood draw for annual tests. All went well, but I hate ‘fasting’ draws.
Just hard to only drink water until they open.
A ‘cold’
front is headed our way. Lots of wind and clouds. The forecast said 1-3” of
snow here, then less than an inch, now flurries. Guess I just have to wait
until tomorrow to find out what is going to happen. We need the moisture and
the forecast is that we will be getting some rain. Yeah!
Watching
all these hearings, I have come to the conclusion that there does need to be
term limits for all in Congress. Previously I had believed that having people
with lots of experience was good for the country…especially in the Senate. No
more. The Congress will never pass a law for term limits, as that is their
bread and butter. So, let’s get a Constitutional amendment in the works.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
How
large is Gettysburg National Park?
16,086
acres
3,965
acres
200
acres
34,700
acres
48%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
16→Length in years of Irom Chanu Sharmila’s hunger strike
against the Indian Government
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
My
wife and her friend Karen were talking about their labor-saving devices as they
pulled into our driveway. Karen said, “I love my new garage-door opener.”
“I love mine too,” my wife replied, and honked the horn three times. That was
the signal for me to come out and open the garage.
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
Lesson:
Drugs Are OK If You Have Upper Body Strength
A teenage boy got a break from a police officer who allowed him to do push-ups
instead of going to jail, according to police in Texas. Arlington police
Officer Eric Ball, gave a choice to the 17-year-old boy who was caught smoking
pot, to do push-ups or go to jail for possession of marijuana. The boy choice
to do push-ups. The boy was allowed to walk free after doing 200 push-ups. A
passerby recorded the boy doing the push-ups, and the video was uploaded to
Facebook, where it went viral. The mother of the boy, who was not identified,
praised the officer for giving her teen the choice of push-ups instead of going
to jail. She added that she would force her teen to do even more push-ups in
order for him to learn his lesson about smoking pot in public. He should keep
that shit at home like a responsible pothead.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
Mt.
Baker ski area in Washington State has the world record for snowfall at 1,140
inches (95 feet!) of snow in the 1998/1999 winter season. Mt. Baker ski area is
located near but not on the real 10,781-foot Mount Baker. You can just imagine
what the snow totals were on the real Mount Baker that year.
***
All snowflakes have 6 sides. The oxygen atom has a particularly strong
attraction to the electron clouds of the two hydrogen atoms and pulls them
closer. This leaves the two hydrogen ends more positively charged, and the
center of the 'V' more negatively charged. When other water molecules 'brush
up' against this growing snowflake, strong forces between the negatively
charged and positively charged parts of different particles cause them to join
together in a very specific three-dimensional pattern with a six-sided
symmetry.
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During World War I, when Italians and Austrians fought each other in the
mountainous Southern Tyrol region, one of their chief weapons was snow. They
purposely set off avalanches, leaving an estimated 60,000 soldiers on both
sides dead, including thousands on a single day.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Kentucky
There
is no consensus on where Kentucky's name comes from. Among the possibilities,
though, are various Indians words, all from the Iroquoian language group,
meaning "meadow," "prairie," "at the prairie,"
"at the field," "land of tomorrow," "river
bottom," and "the river of blood."
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
95-
Marty Allen, Pitts, comedian (Allen & Rossi),
"Hello Dere"
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88- Roger Bannister, England, 1st to run a 4 minute mile (May 6, 1954)
@80- K'inich Janaab'
Pakal [Sun Shield],
Ajaw of the Maya city-state of Palenque (d. 683)
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@79- Erich Fromm, Frankfurt
Germany, psychologist (Sane Society) (D 1980)
@70- William Smith, geologist
(Strata Identified by Organized Fossils) (D 1839)
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@69- Joan Crawford [Lucille Le Sueur], American actress (Mildred Pierce),
born in San Antonio, Texas (d. 1977)
@65- Werner von Braun, German rocket scientist (I Aim at the Stars),
born in Wirsitz, Germany (now Wyrzysk, Poland) (d. 1977)
65- Rex Tillerson, American businessman (ExxonMobil) and US
Secretary of State (2017-), born in Wichita Falls, Texas
64- Chaka Khan, [Stevens], Great Lakes Il, rocker (Rufus-I am
Every Woman)
@61- Schuyler Colfax, (R) 17th VP (D
1885)
@60- Moses Malone, NBA center
(Atlanta Hawks, Milw Bucks, Philadelphia '76ers), born in Petersburg, Virginia,
(d. 2015)
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@57- Fannie Farmer, American
culinary figure, born in Boston, Massachusetts (D 1915)
52- Richard Grieco, Waterton NY, actor (21 Jump Street, Booker)
@47- William Kidd, Scottish pirate legend, born in Greenock,
Scotland (d. 1701)
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44- Jason Kidd, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks)
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39- Perez Hilton, American television personality and blogger, born
in Miami, Florida
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25- Kyrie Irving, NBA, born in Melbourne Australia
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
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@91-2015 Lee Kuan Yew, Founding father of modern Singapore and 1st Prime
Minister of Singapore (1959-90)
@90-2016 Joe Garagiola, MLB catcher and sportscaster/host (Today Show)
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@79-2011 Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (Cleopatra, Who's Afraid
of Virginia Woolf?), heart failure
@76-1840 William Maclure, Scottish-American Geologist (first geological
map)
@71-2016 Ken Howard, American actor (The White Shadow)
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@62-1983 Barney Clark, 1st artifical heart recipient, dies after 112
days
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@59-1964 Peter Lorre, actor (Casino Royale), stroke
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@43-59 Agrippina the Younger, Roman Empress, (circumstances of
her death vary, but suggest she was murdered by her son, the Emperor Nero)
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@36ish1559 Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle)
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@23-1931 Bhagat Singh, Indian freedom fighter, hanged
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
3,965
acres
If
you plan to visit Gettysburg National Park, be prepared to stay a while. The
site of the U.S. Civil War's turning point encompasses nearly 4,000 acres and
is home to numerous monuments commemorating the war's bloodiest battle. The
park actually has more woodland today than it did in 1863, and the National
Park Service is working to restore the land to its historic condition so
visitors can experience the battlefield as soldiers did at the time. Source:
National Park 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
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