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March 25,
2017 Week: 11 \ Day: 84
86004 Today: H 58° \
L 31° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts: 9mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 72°[1988] Record Low: 1°[1913]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Socrates
Not life, but good
life, is to be chiefly valued.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Be Mad Day
Earth Hour Link
(Not to be confused with Earth Day.
This pertains to turning off lights.)
Endometriosis March Day Link
International Day of Remembrance of The Victims of Slavery and The
Transatlantic
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members Link
National Day of Celebration of Greek & American Democracy
National Medal of Honor Day
Old New Year's Day
Pecan Day
Tolkien Reading Day
US Snow Shoe Days-26 Link
Vaffeldagen (Waffle
Day) Link
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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
►31 1st
Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
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►421 Friday
at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
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►1199 Richard
I, Lion Heart, King of England, is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting
France which leads to his death on April 6.
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►1306 Robert
the Bruce crowned Robert I, King of Scots, having killed his rival John Comyn,
Lord of Badenoch
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►1609 Henry
Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co
1634 Under
charter granted to Lord Baltimore and led by his brother Leonard Calvert first
settlers found Catholic colony of Maryland
1668 1st
horse race in America takes place
►1669 Mount
Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000
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►1807 First
fare-paying, passenger railway service in the world established on the
Oystermouth Railway in Swansea, Wales.
►1807 British
Parliament abolishes slave trade throughout the British Empire; penalty of £120
per slave introduced for ship captains
►1811 Percy
Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of
the pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1851 Yosemite
Valley discovered in California
1882 1st
demonstration of pancake making (Dept store in NYC)
►1895 Italian
troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
►1896 Modern
Olympics began in Athens, Greece [NS=Apr 6]
1898 Intercollegiate
Trapshooting Association formed in NYC
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1916 Women
are allowed to attend a boxing match
1919 W. Wilson's dream of a League of Nations becomes realit after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris Peace Conference
1939 Billboard
Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart
1955 United
States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as
obscene.
1960 DH
Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)
1966 US
Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
►1967 The
Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1
►1969 Ian
Paisley and Ronald Bunting, loyalists in Northern Ireland are jailed for organizing
an illegal counter demonstration in Armagh on 30 November 1968
1971 Boston
Patriots become New England Patriots
1996 US
issues newly-redesigned $100 bill
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►2006 Protesters
demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential
election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is
among several protesters arrested.
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
My
former boss’ memorial service was very nice. Got to catch up with lots of
people I haven’t seen for years. While it was a sad time, the service would
have made Ray proud. The catered dinner after the service gave us all time to reminisce
about our time on the Rez and with Ray. Surprised that both his son and his grandson
recognized me by name and each gave me a big hug. Ray’s wife is suffering from dementia,
but said Thanks Charlie as we shook hands and hugged. I have such great
memories of my time on the Rez that came flooding back as the service was in
both English and Navajo. Couldn’t follow the Navajo as well as I did when I
lived there but still sort of followed it.
And
our political situation seems to be as messed up as ever. When will this
craziness ever end.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
How
many steps are in the Bunker Hill monument?
294
394
494
594
36%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
3/10→Estimated portion of US counties in which
only one insurer will be available on their health exchange in 2017
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
The
teacher was describing the dolphin and its habits.
"And, children, "she said impressively, "a single dolphin will
have two thousand offspring."
"Goodness!" gasped a little girl in the back row. "And how about
married ones?"
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*-----------------
Land Shark -----------------*
A
Walmart manager called police after finding a large shark in one of the store's
shopping carts, according to police in Florida. A St. Johns County Sheriff's
Office deputy said that he contacted them, after seeing the dead shark in the
parking of the Walmart store. While the manager was inspecting the store's
parking lot she came across the shopping cart and saw the dead shark inside.
The manager did not want to throw the dead shark in the garbage so she called
police. Police questioned a man who had parked an RV in the store's parking lot
near where the dead shark was found. He told police that when he woke up in the
morning, he noticed the dead shark on the hood of his vehicle. He did not know
who placed it there. Before leaving to work, the man placed the shark on the
ground.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
Coffee
is the most popular beverage in the world, with more than 400 billion cups
consumed each year. More than 450 million cups of coffee are consumed in the
United States every day.
***
Coffee contains caffeine, the stimulant that gives you that "lift."
Caffeine is the most popular drug in the world, and 90 percent of people in the
United States consume it in some form every day.
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Despite what you may believe, dark roast coffee has less caffeine than coffee
that's been lightly roasted.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Maine
Maine
is another case where no one is quite sure how the name came about. Ferdinando
Gorges and John Mason, who received a charter for land in Maine, were both
English Royal Navy veterans, and the name may have originated with the sailors differentiating
"the mainland" from the many islands off the state's
coast. Maine's state legislature, meanwhile, passed a resolution in 2001 that
established Franco-American Day and claimed that the state was named after the
French province of Maine.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
@92- Eileen Ford, American
modelling agency executive and co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency), born in
Manhattan, New York, (d. 2014)
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@89 Arturo Toscanini, Parma Italy,
temperamental conductor (NBC) (D1957)
@83- David Lean, English
director (Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter), born in Croydon, England (D
1991)
83- Gloria Steinem, American
feminist and publisher (Ms Magazine), born in Toledo, Ohio
@81- John Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az,)
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@77- Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday
Night Football), born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina (D 1995)
75- Aretha Franklin,
Soul Sister #1/singer (Respect), born in Memphis, Tennessee
74- Paul Michael
Glaser, actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch), born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
70- Elton John [Reginald Kenneth
Dwight], English singer (Rocketman), born in Pinner, Middlesex
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@64- Béla Bartok, Hungarian composer and
pianist (Concerto for Orchestra), born in Nagyszentmiklós, Kingdom of Hungary,
Austria-Hungary (d. 1945)
64- Mary Gross,
actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds), born in Chicago, Illinois
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@55- Jack Ruby, American
assassin who killed assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, born in Chicago, Illinois (d.
1967)
52- Sarah Jessica Parker, American
actress (Square Pegs, Sex and the City), born in Nelsonville, Ohio
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42- Lark Voorhies,
American actress (Saved by the bell)
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35- Danica Patrick,
American race car driver
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@86-1969 Max Eastman,
American critic/essayist (Love and Revolution)
@85-2013 Anthony Lewis,
American journalist (Pulitzer Prize 195,1963) & author
@81-2012 Larry Stevenson
[Richard], American skateboard innovator
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@76-2006 Buck Owens,
American singer and television personality (Tiger by the tail),
heart attack
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@68-1975 Faisal, King of Saudi
Arabia (1964-75), shot by nephew
@64-1860 James Braid,
Scottish surgeon (hypotism), heart failure
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@55-1918 Claude Debussy, French composer
(Iberia/La Mer), rectal cancer
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
294
Since
1843, visitors have been allowed to visit this famous landmark and burn some
major calories while doing so. You'll have to make the walk yourself, too,
because there's no elevator. But while you're here, you can learn about the
Revolutionary War, including the fact that Bunker Hill itself is not where most
of the fighting happened. That would be Breed's Hill, which is, in fact, where
the Bunker Hill monument is. Confused yet? Source: A View on Cities
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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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