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March 23,
2017 Week: 11 \ Day: 83
86004 Today: H 46° \
L 31° Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 19mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 70°[1956] Record Low: 0°[1904]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
William James
The greatest use of a
life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
International Day for the Right to the
Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for Dignity of Victims Link
Red Nose Day Link
US Snow Shoe Days-26 Link
World Tuberculosis 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
24-26
American Crossword Puzzles Week
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
►1603 Scottish
King James VI son of Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of
England in succession to Elizabeth I, thus joining the English and Scottish
crowns.
1629 1st game law passed in American colonies by Virginia
1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
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►1765 Britain
enacts Quartering Act, required colonists to provide temporary housing to
British soldiers
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1832 Mormon Joseph
Smith beaten, tarred & feathered in Ohio
1868 Metropolitan
Life Insurance Co forms
►1882 German
scientist Robert Koch discovers and describes the tubercle bacillus
which causes tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis)
1883 1st
telephone call between NY & Chicago
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1900 New
York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground
"Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1937 National
Gallery of Art established by Congress
1947 John
D. Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN
►1952 Great
demonstrations against apartheid in South Africa
1955 1st
seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1958 Elvis
Presley joins the army (serial number 53310761)
1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued
1966 Selective
Service announces college deferments based on performance
1980 ABC's
nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
1989 Worst
US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
►1998 Jonesboro
massacre: Two students, ages 11 and 13, fire upon teachers and students at
Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are
wounded.
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►2012 African
Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord
Joseph Kony
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
I should know never to trust the weatherman.
Woke up this morning to 6” of slush covering everything. I has continued to
rain/snow all day. Most of the slush is gone. Forest is very happy. Me, not so
much.
Had
a great lunch with Mary, Cheryl didn’t come due to the slush and a sore
back. Mary is headed to Ireland next
Friday for a 2 week vacation with her brother and his wife. Her family emigrated
from there during the Potato thing. We talked about my trip to Ireland and
Scotland. She is going to have a great time.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
What
is Bob Dylan's legal name?
Marvin
Aday
James
Smith
Gordon
Summer
Robert
Zimmerman
80% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
1/5→Portion of the global population that has
no access to a health-care worker
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
After
my wife landed a coveted job offer from UPS, we went out of town to celebrate.
While on our trip, she was contacted by the company's Human Resources
department with an urgent request to complete and send back her tax forms.
"No problem," she said. "I'll FedEx them right over."
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*--------- Chris Columbus Can Suck It ---------*
South
African watersport pro Chris Bertish has just achieved a world first: he
crossed the Atlantic solo, unassisted and unsupported, on a stand-up paddle
board. The big-wave surfer and Guinness World Record holder crossed 4,500
nautical miles, setting off from Agadir, Morocco, on December 6 and arriving at
English Harbour, Antigua, on the morning of March 9. Bertish's stand-up
paddleboard is a custom-made, 1,360-pound, 20-foot-long vessel fitted with a
tiny cabin and solar panels. For 93 days Bertish has paddled the equivalent of
a marathon a day. Along the way he also set the record for the furthest
distance traveled solo, unsupported and unassisted over open ocean in a day
(71.96 miles).
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
The
word coffee comes from Kaffa, a region in Ethiopia where coffee beans may have
been discovered.
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As early as the ninth century, people in the Ethiopian highlands were making a
stout drink from ground coffee beans boiled in water.
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Scandinavia boasts the highest per-capita coffee consumption in the world. On
average, people in Finland drink more than four cups of coffee a day.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Louisiana
Louisiana
comes from the French La Louisiane, or "Land of Louis." It
was named for Louis XIV, the King of France from 1643 to 1715. Exciting, no?
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
@95- Joseph
Barbera, animator (Hanna-Barbera) (D2006)
@90- Dario
Fo, Italian playwright and performer (Nobel Prize Literature 1997), born in
Sangiano (d. 2016)
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@89- John
Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman (Timex) [D 1995]
@88- Lucia
Chase, US ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet Theater) (D 1986)
@82- Andrew Mellon,
American banker (Mellon Bank), industrialist and Secretary of the Treasury
(1921-32), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 1937)
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77- Bob
Mackie, Monterey Parks California, designer (Streisand, Cher)
@74- Norman
Fell, actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate), born in Philadelphia, (D
1998)
@71- Curtis
Hanson, American film director and screenwriter (LA Confidential, 8 Mile), born
in Reno, Nevada (d. 2016)
@70- Joseph
Priestley, England, Birstall England, clergyman/scientist (discovered oxygen)
(D 1904)
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@68- John
Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist (D 1902)
@68- Thomas E. Dewey,
Governor of NY and Republican presidential candidate (1944, 1948), born in
Owosso, Michigan (d. 1971)
66- Tommy
Hilfiger, Fashion Designer
64- Louie
Anderson, Comedian
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55- Star
Jones, attorney/TV hostess (NBC, Inside Edition)
@52- Harry Houdini [Erich
Weiss], Famous magician and escape artist, born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary
(d. 1926)
@50- Steve McQueen,
American actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape), born in Beech Grove,
Indiana (D 1980)
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@48- Gorgeous
George (George Raymond Wagner), American professional wrestler (d. 1963)
44- Jim
Parsons, actor (The Big Bang Theory), born in Houston, Texas
41- Peyton
Manning, American football player, born in New Orleans,
Louisiana
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@25- Clyde Barrow,
American bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame), born in Ellis County, Texas
(d. 1934)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@93-1984 Sam
Jaffe, actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey)
@92-2016 Earl
Hamner Jr, American creator and narrator of TV show "The Waltons"
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@79-2010 Robert
Culp, American actor, heart attack
@77-1905 Jules
Verne, French writer "Father of Science
Fiction" (Around the World in 80 Days), diabetes
@75-1882 Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), peritonitis
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@69-1603 Elizabeth
I Tudor, [Virgin Queen], of England and Ireland
(1558-1603), melancholy
@66-2016 Garry
Shandling, American comedian (It's Garry Shandling's Show, Larry Sanders Show),
blood clot
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@59-1964 Peter
Lorre (László Löwenstein), Hungarian/US actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), stroke
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
Robert
Zimmerman
Bob
Dylan was born Robert Zimmerman on May 24, 1941 in Duluth, Minnesota. The
musician kept his original name throughout his childhood and teenage years but
swapped it out for the Bob Dillon soon after enrolling at the University of
Minnesota in 1959. He later adjusted the spelling. Contrary to popular belief,
the Nobel Prize winner did not rename himself after poet Dylan Thomas. Source:
The Washington Post.
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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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