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March 5,
2017 Week: 10 \ Day: 64
86004 Today: H 55° \
L 23° Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts: 25mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 68°[1910] Record Low: -5°[1948]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
H. L. Mencken
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Daughters' and Sons' Day
Namesake Day
National Absinthe Day Link
Saint Piran's Day
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
1-7
National Cheerleading Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Pet Sitters Week Link
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
Universal Human Beings Week Link
Will Eisner Week
3-5
Festival of Owls Week
3-15
National Days of Action Link
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
► 1496 English
King Henry VII hands John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) a commission to
explore for new lands
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► 1558 Smoking
tobacco introduced into Europe by Spaniard Francisco Fernandes
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1623 1st
American temperance law enacted, Virginia
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► 1746 Jacobite
troops leave Aberdeen
1770 Boston
Massacre (Incident on King Street): British soldiers kill 5 men in a crowd
throwing snowballs, stones and sticks at them. African American Crispus
Attucks 1st to die; later held up as early black martyr. The massacre
galvanized anti-British feelings.
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1836 Samuel
Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model
1841 1st
continuous filibuster in US Senate began, lasting until March 11
► 1842 Over
500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San
Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
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► 1904 Nikola
Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball
lightning formation.
► 1921 The
Durban Land Alienation Ordinance passes, enabling the Durban City Council to
exclude Indians from ownership or occupation of property in white areas, South
Africa
1923 Montana
& Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws
1933 FDR proclaims
10-day bank holiday
1934 Mother-in-law's
day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Tx)
► 1946 Winston
Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech in Fulton, Missouri, popularizes
the term and draws attention to the division of Europe
1956 "King
Kong" 1st televised
► 1971 "Stairway
to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin is first played live at Ulster Hall, Belfast by Robert
Plant, Jimmy Page, John Bonham and John Paul Jones.
► 1979 Iran
resumes petroleum exports
1984 Supreme
Court (5-4): city may use public money for Nativity scene
► 1985 Mexican
authorities find the body of US drug agent Enrique "Kike" Camarena
Salaazar
► 1994 Largest
milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)
► 1995 Graves
of Tsar Nicholas II and family found in St Petersburg
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2013 The
Dow Jones surpasses its 2007 pre-financial crisis levels for the first time
► 2013
Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro assumes the presidency after the death
of Hugo Chávez
2015 Harrison
Ford crash-lands his 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR airplane in California
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
A
warm and fairly windy Saturday here at 7000’.
Started
the day by cleaning the 3 bathrooms with a deep cleaning. I had picked up a few
new cleaning tools to help. Easy to clean and now sparkling.
I
am ready to wake up from this political nightmare. With no collaborating
evidence, the US President claims that the previous administration had wire
tapped his headquarters. And every reliable news source points out that there
is no evidence. Really, WTF is going on? Yet, many supporters are believing
this hogwash, and now claiming that only fake news is calling the news
statements not substantiated. Yet they don’t have any evidence either, except
that the President said so. Of course this outrageous tweet does do one thing,
news sources are spending hours trying to figure out why he would say this,
while not spending as much time on the Russian connection he and his staff
have. Here’s an idea…Hire some special correspondents who sole job is to follow
up on Trump’s tweets and outrageous statements while the regular correspondents
do their regular news gathering jobs. The special correspondents get 5
minutes/hour to follow-up on the tweets/lies; the others get the rest of the
time. Then we aren’t constantly trying to get out of the rabbit hole.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
When
was the original Super Mario Bros. game released for Nintendo in the U.S.?
1975
1990
1985
Unknown
10.2%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
3→Minimum number of countries that have issued travel
advisories for the US this year (Bahrain, Bahamas, The United Arab Emirates)
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
Two
brothers were past asleep when the eldest heard a thud sound
Eldest: What's that sound?
Youngest: Oh, it's just my t-shirt falling off my bed.
Eldest: T-shirt? Why was it so loud?
Youngest: Because I was still in it.
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
In
January two women arrived from Mongolia at Dulles and Customs and Border
Protection officers sent them for a routine agriculture examination. What they
found was 42 pounds of horse meat concealed inside juice boxes.
And if you've ever seen the size of a juice box, you'd know that 42 pounds
would take up a LOT of juice boxes.
The genitals was the big eye opener. 13 pounds of it. But when you think about
it; 13 pounds is like, 2 genitals for a horse.
One of the women claimed that the horse genitals was for medicinal purposes
(don't they all), but unfortunately for her horse meat is prohibited from
entering the country unless the traveler has an official government horse meat
certification from the country of origination. The concern is bringing foot and
mouth disease into the United States and introducing it to livestock here.
"Customs and Border Protection takes no pleasure in seizing and destroying
travelers' food products," said Wayne Biondi, CBP Port Director for
Washington Dulles. "We're in the business of protecting America's
agriculture industries, like the livestock industry, from the potential
introduction of animal diseases posed by these unpermitted food products."
All of the meat was incinerated.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
Although
Yellowstone was the first national park (designated on March 1, 1872), it
wasn't the first area set aside as a park. That honor is shared by the National
Capital Parks, the White House, and the National Mall, all designated on July
16, 1790.
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National
park status doesn't last forever. A couple dozen sites have been turned over to
the states, or to other federal departments. For example, the Park Service
transferred New Echota Marker National Memorial (a Cherokee heritage memorial)
to the state of Georgia in 1950.
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The
northernmost point in a national park is Inupiat Heritage Center at Barrow,
Alaska, while the southernmost point is the National Park of American Samoa,
below the equator.
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The
farthest national park from Washington, D.C., is War in the Pacific National
Historical Park in Guam. It's far closer to the Philippines than to Hawaii, let
alone the continental United States.
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Devil's
Tower in Wyoming began its history buried - a tall pillar of magma that leaked
or burned through the other rock in the area, then cooled underground. Millions
of years of erosion laid bare the 1,267-foot tower.
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Death
Valley National Park also has a mountain. Telescope Peak, which tops out at
11,049 feet above sea level. From the top of this mountain to Badwater Basin
it's twice the vertical drop of the Grand Canyon.
The
first human to journey into outer space was Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut
Yuri Gagarin. His Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April
1961.
***
Humans
can survive 15-30 seconds in outer space as long as they breathe out before the
exposure. Breathing out prevents the lungs from bursting and sending air into
the bloodstream. After roughly 15 seconds, a person will become unconscious due
to lack of oxygen, which leads to death by asphyxiation. The worst problem
would be lack of oxygen, not lack of pressure, in the vacuum of outer space.
***
Astronauts
can grow up to 3 percent taller during the six months they spend on the
International Space Station. Without gravity, their spines are free to expand.
It takes a couple of months of being back on Earth for them to return to their
preflight height.
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After
returning to Earth, many astronauts have a difficult time adjusting to gravity
and often forget that things fall if you drop them.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@→ indicates
age at death
@→105 Soong Mei-ling [Madame Chiang
Kai-shek], Chinese political figure and First Lady of the Republic of China
(1948-75), born in Shanghai (d. 2003)
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@→96- Momofuku Ando,
Taiwanese-Japanese inventor of instant noodles and cup noodles, born in Wu
Baifu, Chiayi County, Taiwan (d. 2007)
@→94- James Noble, actor (Gov. Gatling in
"Benson"), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2016)
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83- James B Sikking,
CA, actor (Hill St Blues, Star Trek 3, Doogie Howser)
83- Daniel
Kahneman, Israeli economist and Nobel laureate, born in Tel Aviv, Israel
@→82- Rex Harrison, English actor
(My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle), born in Huyton, England (d. 1990) @→72- Hugh Scully, British TV presenter
(The Antiques
Roadshow),
born in Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire (d. 2015)
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@→77- Zhou Enlai, Premier of the
People's Republic of China, born in Huai'an, China (d. 1976)
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63- Marsha Warfield,
comedian/actress (Roz-Night Court)
62- Penn Jillette, magician…the talking one
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54- Joel Osteen, Millionaire Religious
Televangelist
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43- Eva Mendes, American
actress (Training Day, 2 Fast 2 Furious), born in Miami, Florida
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@→30- Andy Gibb, singer/TV host
(Solid Gold), born in Manchester, England (D 1988)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@85-2008 Joseph
Weizenbaum, German-American professor of computer science (father of AI)
@83-2014 Geoff Edwards,
American game show host
@82-1827 Alessandro Volta, Italian
physicist and inventor of the 1st battery
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@74-2016 Ray Tomlinson,
American computer programmer (invented email and the @ sign), heart attack
@74-1929 David Dunbar
Buick, Scottish-born American automobile pioneer
@73-1953 Joseph Stalin, Dictator and
leader of the Soviet Union (1922-53), stroke
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@67-1980 Jay Silverheels, First
Nations actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger), stroke
@67-1974 Billy De Wolfe,
American character actor, lung cancer
@60-1995 Ed Flanders,
actor (Dr Westphal-St Elsewhere), suicide
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@58-2013 Hugo Chávez, President of
Venezuela, respiratory failure
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@47-1770 Crispus Attucks, possible slave,
is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre at beginning of the American
Revolution
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@33-1982 John Belushi,
comedian (Sat Night Live), drug overdose
@30-1963 Patsy Cline, country singer
(Crazy), plane crash
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
Unknown
It's
difficult to pinpoint exactly when Nintendo released Super Mario Bros. in the
United States. In 2014, the company celebrated the 30th anniversary of its
release date in Japan, which means it would have had to be released in the U.S.
sometime around 1985. Some speculate that the company released it alongside the
launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System on October 18, 1985, but no one is
certain! Source: The Verge, Gamasutra
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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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