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March 26,
2017 Week: 12 \ Day: 85
86004 Today: H 57° \
L 30° Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 21mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 73°[1988] Record Low: -8°[1902]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Ann Landers
Opportunities are
usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Legal Assistants Day
Mothering Sunday Link
Purple Day Link
US Snow Shoe Days Link
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❆❆Observances
This 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
26-4/1
NanoDays Link
Health Information Professionals Week Link
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
►1484 William
Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
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►1636 University
of Utrecht opening ceremony
►1668 England
takes control of Bombay, India
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►1780 1st
British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1790 US
Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
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1804 Congress
orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 Territory
of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
►1812 Earthquake
destroys 90% of Caracas, Venezuela; about 20,000 die
1830 The
Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1872 Thomas
J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1885 Eastman
Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
►1895 King
Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
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1910 US
forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
1913 Dayton,
Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood
stage simultaneously
1926 The
1st lip-reading tournament held in America
►1931 New
Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
►1945 Iwo
Jima occupied, after 18,000 Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed
1953 Dr Jonas
Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio
1955 "Ballad of Davy
Crockett" becomes the #1 record in US
1956 Medic
Alert Foundation forms
1958 30th
Academy Awards-"The
Bridge on the River Kwai" best film, Joanne Woodward & Alec
Guinness best actress/actor
1964 "Funny
Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
►1971 Bangladesh
(East Pakistan) declares its independence
1973 TV
Soap "The Young & the Restless" premieres on CBS
►1976 Queen Elizabeth
II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar
Establishment.
1977 Focus
on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson
►1979 Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat sign
the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.
►1979 OPEC
makes full 14.5% oil price increase for 1979 effective on April 1
►1982 Paul
McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory"
in the UK ►1985 Pope John
Paul II proclaims first ever World Youth Day
►1989 1st
free elections in USSR; 190 million votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1994 Bonnie
Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)
►1997 Thirty-nine
bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
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►2001
Kazakhstan's Prime Minister opens an oil pipeline from the giant Tengiz Field
to the Russian port of Novorossiysk on Monday, giving the Central Asian
producer its first direct link to international markets
►2005 The
Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in
opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around
200,000 to 300,000 attend the walk.
►2012 Canadian
filmmaker James Cameron becomes the first person to visit Challenger
Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over 50 years
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Spring
has returned to our mountain town. Nice!
Some
politicians believe that have more supporters when they try and put the fear of
God in them. Others just use plain old fear. One group can’t get enough votes
in the House to end the ASA, even using fear to get votes. Then they realize it
ain’t going to happen, so they pull their bill. And our President says ‘Fine,
we’ll just wait until the entire health care system fails.’ What happened to
being President for All the People? Seems to me if they couldn’t get a good
bill in 7 years, waiting is not the answer. How about fixing the current
system, like our country has done since its inception. Stop all the fear
tactics and do the job you were elected to do. And I haven’t heard anyone, on
either side cheering that the bill failed. Oh, and it seems to me the Freedom
Caucus does not have the power they claim to have. They don’t want anything to
be passed except their far right conservative agenda. This is a good lesson for
all far right or far left agendas. The power of the people is somewhere in the
middle.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
What
year did the Cleveland Browns relocate to Baltimore?
2001
1977
1986
1996
46%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
6→Number of states that require aborted fetuses to be either
interred or cremated
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
Two
gas company servicemen, a senior training supervisor and a young trainee, were
out checking meters in a suburban neighborhood. They parked their truck at the
end of the alley and worked their way to the other end.
At the last house a woman looking out her kitchen window watched the two men as
they checked her gas meter. Finishing the meter check, the senior supervisor
challenged his younger coworker to a foot race down the alley back to the truck
to prove that an older guy could outrun a younger one.
As they came running up to the truck, they realized the lady from that last
house was huffing and puffing right behind them. They stopped and asked her
what was wrong.
Gasping for breath, she replied, "When I see two gas men running as hard
as you two were, I figured I'd better run too!"
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
Stephen
Parker of Sugar City, Idaho, was working on his Toyota Prius, when the car jack
slipped and the 6,000 pound car fell on top of him. Only his 8-year-old son
J.T. was outside to witness the accident.
Stephen managed to tell his son to lift the car jack before he passed out.
The little boy, who weighs just 50 pounds, repeatedly jumped up and down on the
handle of to lift it.
After 15 minutes, he managed to lift the car enough for his father to be freed.
He then ran to find his older brother who called for help while attending to
his father.
Stephen was airlifted to the hospital. He survived despite suffering 13 broken
ribs.
The day after the incident, his family asked J.T. to lift the car jack again,
but as hard as he tried, he was unable to do so. Now, J.T. was honored by the
Red Cross for his heroic act that saved his father's life.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
Spring
almost always arrives on March 20 or 21, but sometimes on the 19th. The reason
the equinoxes and solstices don't always come on the same day is that Earth
doesn't circle the sun in exactly 365 days.
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The fall and spring equinoxes are the only two times during the year when the
sun rises due east and sets due west.
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The
early Egyptians built the Great Sphinx so that it points directly toward the
rising sun on the spring equinox.
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According
to Greek myth, the return of spring coincides with the return of Persephone,
the daughter of Demeter, who is the goddess of plants and fertility.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Maryland
The
English colony of Maryland was named for Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of
King Charles I, who granted Maryland's charter. Mariana was also proposed as a
name, but Maryland's founder, Sir Lord Baltimore, believed in the
divine right of kings and turned the name down because it reminded him of the
Spanish Jesuit and historian Juan de Mariana, who taught that the will of the
people was higher than the law of tyrants.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
@91- William Westmoreland, US general during the Vietnam War,
born in Saxon, South Carolina (d. 2005)
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@88- Robert Frost, American poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken), born in
San Francisco, California (d. 1963)
87- Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice
@83- Leonard Nimoy, American actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission
Impossible), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2015)
83- Alan Arkin, American actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait
Until Dark), born in NYC, New York
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77- James Caan, American actor (Misery, The Godfather), born in
The Bronx, New York
77- Nancy Pelosi,
(Rep-D-California)
74- Robert "Bob" Woodward, Geneva Illinois, Washington
Post investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
73- Diana Ross, [Earle], (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany),
born in Detroit, Michigan
@71-Guccio Gucci, fashion designer, (D1953)
@71- Tennessee Williams, American playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), born
in Columbus, Mississippi (d. 1983)
71- Johnny Crawford, actor (Mark-The Rifleman), born in Los Angeles,
California
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68- Vicki Lawrence, Inglewood Ca, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's
Family)
67- Martin Short, Canadian comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos), born in
Hamilton, Ontario
@61- Strother Martin, American actor (Prison Capt.-Cool Hand
Luke, Slapshot), born in Kokomo, Indiana (d. 1980)
60- Leeza Gibbons, SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)
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57- Marcus Allen, NFL running back (LA Raiders, KC Chiefs, Heisman
1981)
55- John Stockton, NBA guard (Utah Jazz, Olympics-gold-96), born in
Spokane, Washington
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@49- Betty MacDonald, [Anne E
Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I)(D 1958)
49- Kenny Chesney, American singer
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32- Keira Knightley, English actress (Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of
the Caribbean), born in London, England
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@81-1996 Edmund Muskie, American politician (Sen-D-Me) and US Secretary
of State (1980-81)
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@78-2016 Jim Harrison, American poet and novelist (Legends of the Fall),
heart attack
@77-1981 Cyril Dean Darlington, English biologist and geneticist who discovered
the mechanics of chromosomal crossover and its role in inheritance and
evolution
@77-1923 Sarah Bernhardt, [Henriette], actress (Queen Elizabeth), uremia
@76-2003 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator, infection after surgery
@75-2011 Geraldine Ferraro, Congresswoman and VP nominee, pneumonia
@73-1973 Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), heart
failure
@72-1892 Walt Whitman, American poet, pleurisy
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@61-1649 John Winthrop, Puritan & 1st Governor of Massachusetts Bay
Colony, natural causes
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@56-1827 Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), liver
disease
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
1996
Art
Modell, the then-owner of the Cleveland Browns, moved the team to Baltimore in
1996. The sports team filled the void left by the Colts, which had relocated to
Indianapolis in 1984. The Browns name was dropped as fans opted for
"Ravens" over other choices, such as "Marauders" and
"Mustangs," after a public vote. The Browns would eventually return
to Cleveland in 1999 as an expansion team with new ownership. Source: ESPN
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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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