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March 8,
2017 Week: 10 \ Day: 67
86004 Today: H 52° \
L 17° Average Sky Cover: %
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 67°[1989] Record Low: -1°[1945]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Lao Tzu
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Day for Women's Rights &
International Peace
Discover What Your Name Means Day Link
Girls Write Now Day
International Women's Day Link
National Proofreading Day
National Peanut Cluster Day Link
Registered Dietitian Day Link
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❆❆Observances
This 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
8-10
American Nurses Association Week
8-14
National Catholic Sisters Week Link
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1782 Gnadenhutten
Massacre - Ohio militia kills 90 Indians
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► 1801 British
drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1817 The
New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1854 US
Commodore Matthew C. Perry's second trip to Japan
1855 1st
train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
► 1867 British
North America Act is passed in the House of Commons, serves as Canada's
constitution for more than 100 years
1884 Susan
B. Anthony addresses U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an
amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, 16 years
after legislators 1st introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
1887 Everett
Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
1894 The
state of New York enacts the nation's first dog-licensing law.
1896 Volunteers
of America forms (NYC)
► 1898 Richard
Straus' "Don Quixote" premieres in Keulen
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► 1911 International
Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the
Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1913 Internal
Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes
1924 Coal
mine explosion kills 171 at Castle Gate Utah
1927 Pan
American Airlines incorporates
1934 Edwin
Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1942 Japanese
forces capture Rangoon, Burma
► 1943 Limited
gambling legalized in Mexico
1945 International
Women's Day is 1st observed
1946 1st
helicopter licensed for commercial use (NYC)
1948 US
Supreme Court rules in McCollum v. Board of Education that religious
instruction in public schools is unconstitutional
1953 Census
indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years
► 1957 Israeli
troops leave Egypt; Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
1958 William
Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
1964 Malcolm
X resigns from the Nation of Islam
1965 1st
US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
1971 Joe
Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15, retains heavyweight boxing
title at Madison Sq Garden
1973 Eisenhower Tunnel,
world's highest/US longest, opens in Colorado
1983 President
Reagan 1st known use of term "Evil Empire" (about the USSR) in
speech in Florida
1991 Planeloads
of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign
journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured
1999 The
Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy
McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
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► 2014 Malaysia
Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the
most expensive search effort in history
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
A
friend from my discussion group called. Seems he fell and broke his arm a few
weeks ago and needed a ride to the ortho center and to help him put on a clean
shirt. I had planned to wait for him, but he insisted I had done enough and he
would gladly take a taxi home. He doesn’t drive and is very used to taxis. My
insisting was just a waste of time. He’ll do fine.
I
also stopped at the Med Place to get a new facemask for my CPAP. They are only
good for 3 months or so. Could have fooled me, the one I have works just fine.
Oh well, better safe than sorry.
So
I’m watching the new Secretary of HHS show off the new Trump program. He has a
stack of paper on the table representing the Obamacare law and a much smaller
stack representing the new plan. After a lot of babbling, he states that this
is Phase I of the new Health Care and that Phases II and III will come later.
Does he think we are all idiots? I get that using visual aids usually enhances
a presentation. However, the aids should be truthful. If you only have Phase I
of a 3 Phase project, don’t’ compare it to the current law. Geez!
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
What
is a "Harvest Moon"?
The
First New Moon of Fall
The
Second Friday in October
An
Ancient Celebration of Cheese Wheels
The
Full Moon Closest to the Autumnal Equinox
70.3% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
28→Percentage of American renters who spend more
than half their salary on housing
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
A
daughter asks her mother, “What are character qualities that I should look for
in a marriage partner? You know, for someone that I will be spending eternity
with."
The mother replied, ”Go ask your father, he did better than I did.”
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
A
man is happy that his furry friend protected his home from a thief.
Adam Pearl of Idaho, said that he came home to find footprints in the snow,
leading to the back of his home.
He said that this was strange as nobody goes to the back of his home. However,
when he went into his home, he found that things were out of place and that
doors have been left open.
He then checked his gun safe and found that it had been tampered with, but the
safe was still locked and the guns were inside.
He called the Meridian Police, and he filed a report. While the officer wrote
up the report, Pearl said that he was startled by a noise in the home.
Pearl told the female officer that the noise came from his pet squirrel named
Joey.
The officer asked if the squirrel bites people and Pearl responded that he does
not.
Later, Pearl got a call from the officer who informed him that they had the
suspect in custody.
The officer said that the suspect had scratch marks and when she asked if he
get that from the squirrel, the suspect replied: "Yes, that thing kept
attacking me and wouldn't stop until I left," according to Pearl.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
Each
year 1.2 trillion gallons of untreated sewage, storm water, and industrial
waste are dumped into U.S. waters.
Approximately 46 percent of the lakes in America are too polluted for fishing,
aquatic life, or swimming.
Today,
there are between 300 and 500 chemicals in the average person's body that were
not found in anyone's body before 1920. Each year there are thousands of new
chemicals sold or used in new products. There are more than 75,000 synthetic
chemicals on the market today.
One of the more common and dangerous pollutants in the environment is cadmium,
which kills human fetal sex organ cells. Its widespread presence means it is in
almost everything we eat and drink.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Alaska
Like Alabama (and, as
we'll see, plenty of other state names), the name Alaska comes from the
language of the area's indigenous people. The Aleuts (a name given to them by
Russian fur traders in the mid 18th century; they used to, and
sometimes still do, call themselves the Unangan), natives of the Aleutian
Islands, referred to the Alaskan Peninsula and the mainland as alaxsxaq (ah-lock-shock), literally, “the object
toward which the action of the sea is directed.”
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@→ indicates
age at death
@→ 93-- Oliver
Wendell Holmes Jr, 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32), born in Boston, (D 1935)
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@→ 88? Anne Bonny, Irish pirate
(date of birth is approximate), born in Kinsale, Ireland (d. 1782)
@→ 86- Cyd Charisse,
[Tula Finklea], Amarillo Tx, dancer/actress (Singing in the Rain) (D 2006)
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72- Micky Dolenz,
actor (Circus Boy)/singer (Monkees), born in Los Angeles, California
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69- Little Peggy
March, [Margaret Battavio], vocalist (I Will Follow Him)
68- Alan Hale, Jr.,
American actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island), born in Los Angeles, California (d.
1990)
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58- Lester Holt, news anchor
@→ 57- Lynn Redgrave, British American
actress (Gregory Girl), born in London, England (d. 2010)
54- Kathy Ireland,
model/actress (Alien From LA, Side Out)
@→ 53- Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon
who helped create modern plastic surgery, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1840)
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49- Ellen Forney,
American cartoonist [I was Seven in '75 , I Love Led Zepellin, and Marbles.]
41- Freddie Prinze
Jr, actor (I Know What You Did Last Summer)
40- James Van Der Beek, American actor
(Dawson's Creek), born in Cheshire, Connecticut
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@→ 35- Hannah Hoes Van Buren, NY, wife of
pres Martin (1837-41), (d. 1819)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@84-1999 "Joltin" Joe DiMaggio [Yankee Clipper],
MLB center fielder who had a 56 game hitting streak
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@78-1917 Ferdinand von
Zeppelin, Dutch count/air pioneer
@74-1999 Peggy Cass,
American actress and comedian, heart failure
@74-1874 Millard
Fillmore, 13th US President (Whig: 1850-53), stroke
@72-1930 William
Howard Taft, 27th US President (1909-13) and Chief Justice, long illness
@71-2015 Lew Soloff,
American jazz trumpeter (Blood, Sweat and Tears), heart attack
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@33-1855 William Poole, Infamous member
of New York City's Bowery Boys gang, gunshot wound
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
The
Full Moon Closest to the Autumnal Equinox
Every
full moon has a special name: the Wolf Moon, the Worm Moon, the Sprouting Grass
Moon, the Thunder Moon and yes, the Harvest Moon just to name a few. The
Harvest Moon is the full Moon that falls closest to the Autumnal equinox. The
name was given to the Moon by farmers because they could still harvest from the
light of the Harvest Moon. For several nights in a row, the Moon rises at
sunset, which gives it the illusion of being larger and more orange in color.
It's the great pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Source: Space.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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