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57°/34° Wind 10 mph Gusts - mph
Active
Fire: 495 miles away Risk of fire: High Nearest Lightning: 561 miles away
Air
Quality: Moderate Sunshine
Mar.
Averages: Temps: 54°\24°
Moisture: 12 days
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Weekly Observations
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8-14 Campfire USA Birthday Week |
10-20 Native
American Awareness Week Link |
Daily Observations
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International
Bagpipe Day |
National
Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day |
Today’s Quote
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Today’s Meme
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Today’s Thoughts
Another nice winter day. No complaints.
I’m doing a couple of loads of laundry, not my favorite task, but
necessary to have clean clothes to wear.
It took a few days, but social media is finally commenting on Trump at
the latest dignified return of American soldiers killed overseas. It was obvious
when Trump saluted the caskets with a baseball hat on. It was so unbelievably
ignorant. Why didn’t any of the other officials remind him? It is embarrassing.
Common Saying’s Origin
Open a can of worms
To "open a can of worms" means to cause a multitude of
problems in the process of trying to solve one. It dates to the 1950s when
fishermen would buy sealed metal cans of earthworms for bait, and opening the
can to get one worm could mean many would crawl out.
Long in the tooth
Referring to being old, the term "long in the tooth" can first be found in a South
Dakota newspaper in 1889, when a prospective buyer was trying to judge the age
of a horse. Horses' teeth keep growing through their lives—although
they are ground down as the horses eat—and so are used to determine their age.
Upper hand
The phrase "upper hand" comes from determining which team bats first in playground baseball games. Opposing team captains would grasp a bat, starting at the bottom, and alternate their hands until reaching the top. The player holding the bat at the top had the upper hand.
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Birthdays
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1936 Swiss
sports administrator (President FIFA 1998-2015; later banned for corruption),
born in Visp, Switzerland φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ 1940 American
martial arts actor (Missing
in Action), born in Ryan, Oklahoma φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Canada's 1st
female Prime Minister and 19th overall (1993), born in Port Alberni, British
Columbia φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ 1958 American actress (Basic
Instinct, Sliver, Casino), born in Meadville, Pennsylvania φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Jasmine Guy (64 years old), American
actress (A Different World - "Whitley"), born in Boston,
Massachusetts φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ 1964 British
prince and Duke of Edinburgh, youngest son of Elizabeth II, born in
Buckingham Palace, London φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ American actor (Mad Men - Don
Draper), born in St. Louis, Missouri φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Carrie Underwood (43
years old) American Grammy
Award-winning country
singer-songwriter ("Cowboy Casanova", "Good Girl"),
born in Muskogee, Oklahoma φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ American actress and filmmaker (House,
Booksmart), born in New York City φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ American actress (Hannah
Montana) and singer (Spy Kids), born in Los Angeles, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Puerto Rican rapper and
singer-songwriter (YHLQMDLG), born in Almirante Sur, Puerto Rico φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
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Kate Sheppard (1847-1934; @86) New Zealand suffragette and
the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, born in
Liverpool, England φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Pauline
Johnson (1861-1913; @51, breast cancer) Canadian poet, writer and performer
(The White Wampum), born on The Native Reserve, Upper Canada φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Lillian Wald (1867-1940;
@73, stroke) American pioneering nurse and social
activist who started American community nursing with the Henry Street
Settlement in NYC, born in Cincinnati, Ohio φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Barry Fitzgerald,
Irish actor (Academy Award, Going My Way), born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1961;
@72, heart attack) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Sam Jaffe,
American actor (The Asphalt Jungle; Gunga Din; Dr Zorba), born in New York
City (d. 1984; @93) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ (Kenneth)
"Jethro" Burns, American country singer, and mandolin player (Homer
& Jethro -"The Battle of Kookamonga"), born in Conasauga,
Tennessee (d. 1989; @68, cancer) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ James Earl
Ray (1928-1998; @70, hep-C) American assassin of
Martin Luther King Jr., born in Alton, Illinois φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Osama bin
Laden (1957-2011; @54, US attack) Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda, born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Laurel Clark, American naval officer and NASA astronaut (died in
Columbia space shuttle disaster), born in Ames, Iowa (d. 2003; @41, on Space
shuttle Columbia disaster) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
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