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March 29,
2017 Week: 12 \ Day: 88
86004 Today: H 51° \
L 29° Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 70°[1934] Record Low: 10°[1944]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Lord Byron
Adversity is the first
path to truth.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Knights of Columbus Founders Day
Niagara Falls Runs Dry Day
Texas Loves The Children Day
Whole Grain Sampling Day
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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
►1549 The
city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
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1638 1st
permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
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►1795 Ludwig
van Beethoven (24) has his debut performance as pianist in Vienna
►1798 Republic
of Switzerland forms
1799 New
York passes a law aimed at gradually abolishing slavery in the state.
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1806 Construction
is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road,
becoming the first United States federal highway.
►1827 20,000
attend Ludwig von Beethoven’s burial in Vienna
►1848 Niagara
Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1852 Ohio
makes it illegal for children under 18 & women to work more than 10 hours a
day
1867 Congress
first approves building of Lincoln Memorial
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►1912 Capt Robert
Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary
"the end cannot be far"
1928 Yeshiva
College (now University) chartered (NYC)
1943 Meat(
784 gram/week, 2 kilogram for GI's), butter & cheese rationed in US during
WW II
1945 Movie
star Jimmy Stewart is promoted to full colonel, one of the few
Americans to rise from private to colonel in four years
1951 "King
& I" opens at St James Theater NYC for 1246 performances
1959 "Some
Like It Hot", starring Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, and Jack
Lemmon, is released
1961 23rd
Amendment to the US Constitution ratified, allowing Washington, D.C. residents
to vote in presidential elections
►1971 1st
Lt William L Calley Jr found guilty in My Lai (Vietnam) massacre
►1974 Chinese
farmers discover the Terracotta Army near Xi'an, 8,000 clay warrior statues
buried to guard tomb of China's 1st emperor Qin Shi Huang
►1989 I
M Pei's pyramidal entrance to the Louvre opens in Paris
►1994 Serbs
& Croats sign a cease-fire to end the war in Croatia
►1998 Vasco
da Gama Road bridge opens in Lisbon, Portugal as the longest bridge in Europe
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►2004 The
Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in
all work places, including bars and restaurants.
►2010 Two
female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning
rush hour, killing 40.
►2015 Nigerian
General Election - voting is extended to a 2nd day. death toll from Boko Haram
attacks at 43
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Mary
is leaving on Thursday for her trip to Ireland and Scotland. So we had our
weekly luncheon today. Great news: one of our favorite local restaurants is
opening a 2nd location. The problem with the current site is that
parking is horrific. Most times the lot is full before we arrive. The new
location will have plenty of parking and will be about twice the size of the
current place. Same owners and some staff are moving to the new location.
Excited to try the new place when it opens on the 14th of April.
Today
is smoke and mirrors day. Thought we were living with smoke and mirrors every day
since Jan. 20. So at least for today, it all makes sense.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
About
how much does Martha's Vineyard's population grow each summer?
75,000
3,000
100,000
50,000
41%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
9→Percentage of Americans who cast a vote for
either Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in 2016 primary elections
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
Toe:
A part of the foot used to find furniture in the dark.
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
A
couple is lucky to be alive after their truck plunged through a frozen lake
while trying to take a shortcut to the other side, according to police in
Canada.
Manitoba police said that they received a 911 call from Ko'ona Cochrane and her
fiance Ivon Saber, after their truck plunged through the ice of Lake Winnipeg.
Cochrane said that the incident unfolded while they were trying to visit a
family member on the other side of the lake. They decided to take a shortcut
and drive over the frozen lake in order to save themselves two hours of
driving.
Cochrane used her phone to record the journey over the frozen lake. Suddenly,
Saber noticed cracks in the ice and slowed down.
Moments later, the truck plunged throughout the ice of the lake. Saber can be
heard screaming "bail," as the phone recorded the truck quickly
sinking into the lake.
Luckily, the couple managed to get out of the truck through an open window
before the truck completely sank underwater. They climbed onto the ice and
began to walk to shore.
They also called 911 to report what happened. When the arrived to shore, police
and paramedics were waiting for them.
The couple was cold, but unharmed. Their truck was totally destroyed.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
According
to the UN, an exploding world population, intensive farming practices, and
changes in climate have provided a breeding ground for an unprecedented number
of emerging diseases. Poultry farming, for example, may account for the global
spread of bird flu. In fact, the majority of the 39 new diseases that have
emerged in just one generation have come from animals, including Ebola, SARS,
and the bird flu.
The world population will jump from 7 billion to 9 billion by 2050. Farmers
will need to double food production by then to keep pace.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Minnesota
Minnesota is
derived from the Dakota tribe's name for the Minnesota River, mnisota (mni "water"
+ sota "cloudy, muddy;" sometimes translated to the
more poetic "sky-tinted water"). The English language doesn't really
dig words beginning with mn (you'll find only one,
mnemonic), so early settlers in the region added some i's
and produced a mini sound that they wrote as "mine."
The city of Minneapolis combines mni with the Greek polis,
or "city."
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
@89- Eugene McCarthy, American
politician (Sen-D-Minn) and presidential candidate, born in Watkins, Minnesota
(d. 2005)
@89- John McLaughlin, TV commentator
(McLaughlin Group) and Nixon aide, born in Providence, Rhode Island (d. 2016)
@88- Cy Young [Denton True Young], American baseball pitcher
(most wins in MLB history), born in Gilmore, Ohio (d. 1955)
@80- Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/founder (American Hebrew Congregations) (D 1900)
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75-
Scott Wilson, actor (Walking Dead)
@74- Sam Walton, Founder and
CEO of Wal-Mart, born in Kingfisher, Oklahoma (d. 1992)
72- Walt "Clyde" Frazier, NBA guard (NY Knicks), born in
Atlanta, Georgia
@71- John Tyler, 10th US
President (1841-45), born in Charles City County, Virginia (d. 1862)
@70- Harold Spencer Jones, English
Astronomer and 10th astronomer royal of England whose work led to a more
accurate determination of the distance between the Earth and the Sun, born in
London, England (D 1960)
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61- Kurt Thomas, US, gymnast (Olympics), actor (Gymkata)
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53- Elle MacPherson, Australian supermodel and actress (Sirens), born
in Sydney, New South Wales
@51- Billy Carter, Plains
Georgia, brother of US President Jimmy Carter (D 1988)
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49- Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress (Xena: Warrior Princess) and
singer, born in Auckland, New Zealand
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@30- Man o' War, American
thoroughbred racehorse (winner of 20 out of 21 races & $249,465) (d. 1947)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@84-1992 Paul [G J von] Henreid, Austrian actor (Laszlo-Casablanca)
@84-1848 John Jacob Astor, charted American Fur Company
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@69-2016 Patty Duke, American actress (The Miracle Worker), ruptured
intestine
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@43-1912 Robert Falcon Scott, British pole explorer, froze in Antarctica
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@31-1891 Georges Seurat, French painter (Pointillism), ? Meningitis ?
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
100,000
Located
off the coast of Massachusetts, the island of Martha's Vineyard is a choice
vacation spot for people from all over - up to and including President Barack
Obama. Home to about 15,000 full-time residents, its population increases to
about 115,000 every summer. In addition, the majority of homes on the island
belong to seasonal residents. Source: Martha's Vineyard Chamber of Commerce.
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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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