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55°/32° Wind 9 mph Gusts 9 mph
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Fire: 347 miles away Risk of fire: High Nearest Lightning: 856 miles away
Air
Quality: Fair
Sunshine
Mar.
Averages: Temps: 54°\24°
Moisture: 12 days
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Monthly Observations
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Nat’l Breast Implant Awareness
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Weekly Observations
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1-7 Hearing Awareness Week Link |
2-8 No More Week Link Women in Construction Week Link |
Daily Observations
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Benjamin Harrison Day Courageous Follower
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Marching Music Dayl Link |
Today’s Quote
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Today’s Meme
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Today’s Thoughts
No complaints, another nice winter day.
I did a quick blood draw this morning for an appointment on Thursday. It
went well.
Stocks dipped today over the War in Iran. They recovered a little. I’m
expecting lots of prices to rise because of the bombing of Iran. Travel
throughout the Middle East is getting more difficult. Flights are being
cancelled, airports have received some damage from both sides’ bombs. Staying safe
in the entire region is becoming more difficult with each passing hour.
This conflict is looking more and more like Vietnam in the late 60’s:
Then it was the vague ‘stop communism’ and this country really had no plan on
how to do it. Vietnam never had a ‘day-after’ plan and it appears that neither
does the Iran conflict. When will our leaders learn?
Common Saying’s Origin
Bootleg
A "bootleg" is an
illegal recording of music, movies, concerts, and other productions. The word
stems from bootleggers, the makers of illicit alcohol during the U.S
Prohibition era. Bootleg, in turn, had its origins in the practice of sneaking a
flask of alcohol into the top of a tall boot.
Get a wiggle on
To "get a wiggle on"
is a phrase heard in South Dakota. It means to hurry up.
At the drop of a hat
Meaning to do something on the
spot or with little forethought, the phrase "at the drop of a hat"
can be traced to the American West. The signal to start a duel or fight
frequently would be someone gesturing or dropping a hat to the ground.
Pan out
To "pan out" means to succeed, and it comes from gold mining, when miners panned for gold in stream beds. They would put the water and gravel in a shallow pan and swirl it around, making the heavier gold sink to the bottom.
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Historic Events
REBUS ANSWERS
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Birthdays
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Paula Prentiss [Ragusa] (88 years
old), American actress (Parallax View, He & She), born in San Antonio,
Texas φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ 1961 American boxer (WBA
lightweight title 1982-84), born in Youngstown, Ohio φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Steven Weber (65 years old), American actor (Wings - "Brian
Hackett"), born in Queens, New York φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ 1963 American
heavy-metal bassist (Metallica -
"Nothing Else Matters"), born in Battle Creek, Michigan φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Chaz Bono [Chastity Sun
Bono] (57 years old), American actor (Sonny & Cher Show), and LGBTQ
rights activist, born in Los Angeles, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ BrazilianAmerican entrepreneur and software engineer who
co-founded Instagram, born in São Paulo, Brazil φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ 1990 American basketball forward (NBA C'ship
2015, 17, 18, 22; 4 × NBA All-Star; NBA Defensive Player of the Year 2017; GS
Warriors; Olympic gold 2016, 20), born in Saginaw, Michigan φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
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Henry the Navigator, Portuguese Prince who sponsored Portuguese voyages
of discovery, born in Porto, Portugal (d. 1460; @66) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Antonio
Vivaldi (1678-1741; @63, infection) Baroque violin virtuoso and composer (The Four
Seasons), born in Venice, Republic of Venice φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Benjamin Waterhouse, American physician, co-founder of Harvard Medical
School, and smallpox vaccine pioneer, born in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1846;
@92) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Muhammad ʿAlī of Egypt, Albanian-born Pasha and viceroy of Egypt
(founder of modern Egypt), born in Kaval, Macedonia, Ottoman Empire (d. 1849;
@80) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Theodore
Judah (1826-1863; @37, yellow fever) American civil engineer (1st
transcontinental railroad), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Napier Shaw, English meteorologist who introduced the tephigram and was
the first to study smog, born in Birmingham (d. 1945; @91) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Knute Rockne, American College Football HOF coach, (National C'ships
1924, 29, 30 Notre Dame; record 105–12–5), born in Voss, Norway (d. 1931; @43, plane
crash) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Paul Mauriat, French easy listening orchestra leader, composer, and
arranger ("Love Is Blue"), born in Marseille, France (d. 2006; @81) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Richard DeVos (1926-2018;
@92) American businessman who co-founded Amway, born in Grand Rapids,
Michigan φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
φ φ φ φ φ Barbara McNair, American singer ("Till There Was You") and
actress (They Call Me MR. Tibbs), born in Racine, Wisconsin (d. 2007; @72, throat
cancer) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ
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