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March 7,
2017 Week: 10 \ Day: 66
86004 Today: H 42° \
L 27° Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts: 7mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 66°[1972] Record Low: -1°[1945]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Jack Dempsey
A champion is someone who gets up when he can't.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Cereal Day Link
National Be Heard Day
National Cereal Day Link
Peace Corps Day Link
( Historical 3/1/1961 by Pres.
Kennedy. But observed on First Tuesday)
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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
3-15
National Days of Action Link
5-11
Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week Link
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week Link
National Sleep Awareness Week
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Return The Borrowed Books Week
Save Your Vision Week
Teen Tech Week
6-12
Women in Construction Week Link
National School Breakfast
Week
Women of Aviation Worldwide
Week
7-13
No More Week Link
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
► 321 Roman Emperor Constantine I
decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
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► 1530 King Henry VIII's
divorce request is denied by the Pope. Henry then declares that he, not the
Pope, is supreme head of England's church
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1644 Massachusetts
establishes 1st two-chamber legislature in colonies
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► 1778 Captain James Cook 1st
sights Oregon coast, at Yaquina Bay
► 1785 James Hutton,
geologist, presents his full theory of uniformitarianism at a meeting of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
► 1799 The Royal Institution
of Great Britain founded; dedicated to scientific research and education.
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1801 Massachusetts
enacts 1st state voter registration law
1847 US
General Scott occupies Vera Cruz Mexico
1854 Charles
Miller patents 1st US sewing machine to stitch buttonholes
1876 Alexander
Graham Bell patents telephone
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1911 Willis
Farnsworth, Petaluma, CA, patents coin-operated locker
► 1912 Roald Amundsen announces
discovery of the South Pole
1917 1st
jazz record released on a 78 by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor
Talking Machine Company ("Dixie Jazz Band One Step," one side
"Livery Stable Blues" other)
► 1926 1st transatlantic
telephone call (London-NY)
1933 Game
of "Monopoly" invented
1939 Glamour
magazine begins publishing
► 1939 Guy Lombardo &
Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
1955 Mary
Martin as "Peter Pan" televised
► 1971 Egypt refuses to renew
the Suez cease fire
1974 "Monitor"
(US Civil War Ship) restored at Cape Hatteras NC
1975 US
Senate revises filibuster rule, allows 60 senators to limit debate
1981 1st
homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1983 TNN
(The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
► 1989 Iran drops diplomatic
relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses"
► 1994 ANC chief Nelson
Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in
South Africa
1994 The
United States Supreme Court rules in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. that
parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
1995 NY
becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
1996 1st
surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
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2016 Peyton
Manning announces his retirement from the Denver Broncos and the NFL
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Nine
years ago today I ended my radiation treatment for prostate cancer. Back then I
chose wisely to have radiation rather than removal of the prostate…which could
have led to incontinence. I go in every year for a PSA checkup. Since the radiation
ended, I have always had a good count. My PCP said he could do them, but I
still have the oncology Dr. do it, as it is nice for him to see that his great
work does have some happy endings.
I
got a nice note from a former colleague about this blog. He is turning 80
today. So glad he enjoys this. He headed me in the right direction for my
Master’s degree. He was a linguist, and helped me have the opportunity to assist
in teaching BIA teachers the importance of understanding English, which is so
much different than simply speaking English. He went on to work with his church
in teaching ESL to local teachers in lots of countries around the world...and
publishing books on learning English for children and adults. I continued to teach teachers at my various
schools and through a couple of Universities. None of that would had happened
had he not convinced the higher ups in the BIA the importance of our ESL work.
Thanks Wes.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
What
is the name of Star Wars villain Darth Vader's mother?
Padme
Shmi
Reu
Leia
29.9%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
4/5→Portion of Americans who would choose to
live in the US if given the option of any country in the world
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
While
attending a marriage seminar dealing with communication, Tom and his wife Grace
listened to the instructor, "It is essential that husbands and wives know
the things that are important to each other."
He addressed the men, "Can you describe your wife's favorite flower?"
Tom, smiling but looking a little nervous, leaned over, touched his wife's arm
gently and whispered, "It's self-rising flour, right?"
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*--
'Spider Boy' Sets Contortion World Record --*
A 13-year-old boy from Palestine set a world record for his superior skills as
a contortionist. Mohammed Alsheikh, known as "Spider Boy," ran his
legs around his own body 38 times to claim the Guinness World Record for
"Most full body revolutions maintaining a chest stand in one minute."
Alsheikh said, "I'm very excited that I have achieved a Guinness World
Records title and I managed to exceed the previous record holder who was a lot
older than me." He was born with an exceptionally-flexible spine and has
competed as an athlete for five years and used his skill to reach the final
three in Arab's Got Talent in 2015. "I have a wish and I hope to be a
world champion in my sport," Alsheikh said. "My dream for the future
is to be famous and well known throughout the world."
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
The
Catholic Church is the oldest institution in the Western world. It traces its
history back almost 2,000 years.
The word "Catholic" was first used by Ignatius of Antioch around the
year A.D. 110. It is from the Greek word katholikos, which means "toward
the whole." Ignatius was suggesting that the Church is a gift offered by
Christ to all people.
Catholics believe that the pope, who is based in Rome, is the successor to
Saint Peter, which Christ appointed as the first head of His church.
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NEW!!❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Alabama
Before Europeans landed on American shores, the
upper stretches of the Alabama River in present-day Alabama used to be the home
lands of a Native American tribe called – drum roll, please – the Alabama (Albaamaha in
their own tribal language). The river and the state both take their names from
the tribe, that's clear enough, but the meaning of the name was another matter.
Despite a wealth of recorded encounters with the tribe – Hernando de Soto was
the first to make contact with them, followed by other Spanish, French and
British explorers and settlers (who referred to the tribe, variously, as the
Albama, Alebamon, Alibama, Alibamou, Alibamon, Alabamu, Allibamou, Alibamo and
Alibamu) – there are no explanations of the name's meaning in the accounts of
early explorers, so if the Europeans asked, they don't appear to have gotten an
answer. An un-bylined article in the July 27, 1842 edition of the Jacksonville
Republican put forth the idea that the word meant “here we rest.”
Alexander Beaufort Meek, who served as the Attorney General of Alabama,
Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury and the President of the First
American Chess Congress, popularized this theory in his writings throughout the
next decade.
The rub, of course, is that experts in the Alabama
language have never been able to find any evidence to support that translation.
What they did find are two words in the Choctaw language (both tribes'
languages are in the Muskogean language family), alba (“plants”
or “weeds”) and amo (“to cut” or “to gather”), that together
make Albaamo, or “plant gatherers.” We also know that the Alabama
referred to a member of their tribe as an Albaamo, cleared land and
practiced agriculture largely without tools and by hand and had contact with
the neighboring Choctaws. Today, the prevailing theory is that the phrase was
used by the Choctaws to describe their neighbors and the Alabama eventually
adopted it as their own.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@→ indicates
age at death
@→ 89- Antoine César Becquerel, French
physicist who pioneered the study of electric and luminescent phenomena, born
in Châtillon-Coligny, France (d. 1878)
@→ 86- Yvonne Chouteau, Native American
dancer (one of the "five Moons" of Oklahoma), born in Fort Worth,
Texas (d. 2016)
@→ 86- Anthony
Armstrong-Jones [Lord Snowdon], British photographer and husband of Princess
Margaret, born in London, England (d. 2017)
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@→ 77- Luther Burbank, American
horticulturist who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants,
born in Lancaster, Massachusetts (d. 1926)
77- Daniel J Travanti, actor (Frank
Furillo-Hill St Blues), born in Kenosha, Wisconsin
@→ 73- William Rockhill Nelson, founder of The
Kansas City Star and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915)
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@→ 65- Tammy Faye Bakker, gospel
singer/wife of Jim Baker (PTL) (D 2007)
65- Lynn Swann, NFL receiver
(Pittsburgh Steelers)/sportscaster
@→ 63ish Robert “Rob” Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
@→ 63- James Donnelly, Irish-Canadian
patriarch of the Donnelly family (Black Donnelly massacre), born in Ireland (d.
1880)
61- Bryan Cranston, American actor
(Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle), born in Canoga Park, California
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57- Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis
champion (US Open 1985-87), born in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia
53- Wanda Sykes, American
actress and comedienne
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47- Rachel Weisz, English actress
(The Mummy, The Constant Gardener) and fashion model, born in London, England
46- Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
(Dead Man Walking)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@80-2016 Michael White, British
theater/film producer (The Rocky Horror Show)
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@70-1999 Stanley Kubrick, American film
director (2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange) heart attack
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@68ish-1274 Thomas Aquinas, Italian
thelogian/saint, dies at 48
@62-322 BC Aristotle, Greek
philosopher (b. 384 BC)
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
Shmi
Darth
Vader's mother was Shmi Skywalker Lars. She named her son Anakin. Eventually,
Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, also known as Darth Sidious, changed Anakin's
name to Darth Vader after Anakin turned to the Dark Side. Just prior to the
Clone Wars, Tusken Raiders captured Shmi. Anakin eventually found her, but she
died in his arms. Shmi was Luke Skywalker's grandmother and the maternal
great-grandmother of Leia's son Ben, who would later be known as Kylo Ren.
Source: Looper.com.
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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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