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March 28,
2017 Week: 12 \ Day: 87
86004 Today: H 59° \
L 30° Average Sky Cover: 30%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts: 25mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 68°[1971] Record Low: -7°[1975]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
George Washington
Happiness and moral
duty are inseparably connected.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
American Diabetes Association Alert
Day Link
Barnum & Bailey Day
Be Mad Day
Virtual Advocacy Day Link
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❆❆Observances
This 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
►845 Paris
is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge
ransom in exchange for leaving.
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►1794 Louvre
opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1797 Nathaniel
Briggs of NH patents a washing machine
1799 NY
State abolished slavery
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1804 Ohio
passed law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804
1866 1st
ambulance goes into service
1881 "Greatest
Show On Earth" was formed by PT Barnum & James A Bailey
1885 US
Salvation Army officially organized
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1922 1st
microfilm device introduced
►1930 Turkish
cities Constantinople & Angora change their names to Istanbul & Ankara
►1946 Cold
War: The United States State Department releases the Acheson-Lilienthal Report,
outlining a plan for the international control of nuclear power.
►1960 Scotch
whisky factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters (Glasgow, Scotland)
1990 US
President George H. W. Bush awards Jesse Owen the Congressional Gold
Medal
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►2006 At
least 1 million union members, students and unemployed take to the streets in
France in protest at the government's proposed First Employment Contract law.
►2013 Pope Francis becomes
the first Pope to wash the feet of women in the Maundy Thursday service
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Decent
spring day...sunny and a bit breezy.
I’ve
been reading/hearing a lot about the ‘Freedom Caucus’ in the House. I knew it
was the far right wing members. I did not know that they are only 30 of 435
members…that about 7% of the House. They sure talk like the savior’s of America
for being such a small group of legislators. Also, they do not publish a list
of their members…hmmm…wonder why? In a democracy, since when does that small a
group control anything. They can propose anything they want, but it ain’t gonna
go anywhere if they don’t have others on their side.
I
also encourage everyone to read news from journalists and question anything
said by commentators. The line has
become blurred for many years, but now the President is tweeting about ‘commentator’s
opinions’ as if it was news from journalists. It is not and never will be. We
need a lot more journalists on the ‘news’ channels and about 1/10 of
commentators who talk as if they were a journalist. There was a very good story
on 60 minutes about ‘fake news’ last night, including an interview with a man
who makes his money by distributing ‘fake news’ and he sees nothing wrong with
it, because he is making money. Back in the 1880’s a guy named P. T. Barnum had
something to say about that.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
When
did Yellowstone become a national park?
1872
1912
1863
1900
28%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
39→Number of states in which voters can be declared ineligible
if they have a mental disability
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
A
boy was bagging groceries at a supermarket. One day the store installed a
machine for squeezing fresh orange juice.
Intrigued, the young man asked if he could be allowed to work the machine, but
his request was denied.
Said the store manager, "Sorry, kid, but baggers can't be juicers."
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*---
He Was Hoping to Make a 'Clean' Getaway ---*
Authorities in Oregon said a man who stole a street sweeper led police on a
10-mile chase that reached speeds of up to 65 mph. Hillsboro police and the
Washington County Sheriff's Office said a private contractor was using the
street sweeper to clean a Winco parking lot about 3:45 a.m. Sunday and got out
of the vehicle to use a handheld leaf blower. Investigators said a suspect,
later identified as Tyler Haugewood, 33, jumped into the street sweeper, which
still had its engine running, and sped away. Hillsboro police pursued the
street sweeper in a 10-mile chase that reached speeds of 65 mph before the
vehicle was stopped by spike strips laid out by sheriff's deputies. Haugewood
was arrested and charged with vehicle theft, reckless driving, attempting to elude,
unlawful entry of a vehicle, unauthorized use of a vehicle, and a parole
violation.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
There
are around 2.2 million farms in the United States.
In 1940, the average farmer grew enough food for 19 other people. In 2006, the
average American farmer grew enough food for 144 other people.
Farmers today produce 262 percent more food with 2 percent fewer inputs (such
as seeds, labor, and fertilizers) than they did in 1950.
Livestock
farming feeds billions of people and employs 1.3 billion people. That means
about 1 in 5 people on Earth work in some aspect of the livestock farming.
For every $1 spent on food, farmers get less than 12 cents for the raw product.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Michigan
The
state takes its name from Lake Michigan. Michigan is a French
derivative of the Ojibwa word misshikama (mish-ih-GAH-muh),
which translates to "big lake," "large lake" or "large
water."
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
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@90- August Anheuser Busch, Jr., brewing magnate and American baseball executive
(d. 1989)
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@81- Edmund Muskie, American politician (Sen-D-Me) and US Secretary
of State (1980-81), born in Rumford, Maine (d. 1996)
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74- Conchata Ferrell, Charleston WV,
actress (Two & Half Men, Susan-LA Law)
73- Rick Barry, Basketball forward (NY Nets, Golden State
Warriors), born in Elizabeth, New Jersey
@71- Ken Howard, American actor (Ken - The White Shadow), born in
El Centro California (d. 2016)
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@68- Maxim Gorky [Alexei
Maximovich Peshkov], Russian playwright and author (Mother and The Lower
Depths), born in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia (d. 1936)
62- Reba McEntire, McAlester Ok,
country singer (Can't Even Get the Blues)
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51- Cheryl "Salt" James,
singer (Salt-N-Pepa), born in Brooklyn, New York
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47- Vince Vaughn, American actor (Swingers, Wedding Crashers), born
in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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36- Julia Stiles, American
actress (Bourne series, Save the Last Dance), born in New York City
31- Lady Gaga [Stefani Germanotta], American
singer/songwriter (Bad Romance), born in New York City
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@96-2016 Peggy Fortnum, British
Illustrator (first to draw Paddington Bear)
@94-2016 James Noble, American actor
(Gov. Gatling in "Benson")
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@88-2006 Caspar Weinberger, United States
Secretary of Defense
@84-1958 W. C. Handy, American
composer and musician known as the "Father of the Blues" (Memphis
Blues, St Louis Blues)
@82-2004 Peter Ustinov, British actor
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@78-1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th US
President (R, 1953-61) and WWII general, congestive heart failure
@74-2004 Art James, American
game show host
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@65-1953 Jim Thorpe, versatile
American athlete (Olympic gold-1912), heart failure
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@59-1941 Virginia Woolf-Stephen
[Adeline], British writer (To Lighthouse), suicide
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
1872
If
you enjoy visiting national parks, you can thank Yellowstone. Congress set
aside this tract of land in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho in 1872, and it is widely
considered to be the world's first national park. Home to the famous Old
Faithful geyser, the park is also known for its wildlife and forestry. The land
was initially managed by the U.S. War Department and Department of the Interior
until the creation of the National Park Service in 1916. 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.
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