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3.10.16
Week: 10 \ Day: 70
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 56° \ L 16° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 1mph\Gusts:
29mph
Record High:
70°[1989] Record Low: -9°[1958]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
International
Bagpipe Day
International Day of Awesomeness Link
Land Line Telephone Day
Mario Day
Nametag
Day Link
Salvation
Army Day
US Paper Money Day
Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
World Kidney Day
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Observances This Week
6-12
Girl
Scout Week Link
Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week Link
National Sleep Awareness Week
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Read an E-Book Week Link
Return The Borrowed Books
Week
Save Your Vision Week
Teen Tech Week
Women in Construction Week Link
Festival of Owls Week
National School Breakfast
Week
Women of Aviation Worldwide
Week
8-14
No
More Week Link
Universal Women's Week
10-13
Crufts (World’s Largest Dog Show Link
International Listening Weekend
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1791 John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a
pile driver
1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a
patent (only US president to do so) for a device to lift a boat over shoals and
obstructions
1862 US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20,
$50, $100, $500 & $1000)
1865 The PONCA sign a treaty
regarding 30,000 acres of land (14 stat.675).
1874 Purdue University (Indiana) admits its
1st student
1876 1st telephone call made (Alexander
Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
1893 New Mexico State University cancels its
1st graduation ceremony; its only graduate, Sam Steele, was robbed & killed
the night before
1902 A United States court of appeals rules
that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio
transmissions
1951 FBI director J. Edgar
Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1959 Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of
Youth" premieres in NYC
1962 Due to its no black policy, Phillies
leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel & move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside
Clearwater, Florida
1969 James Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder
of Martin Luther King Jr
1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during
occulation of SAO
1982 President Reagan proclaims economic
sanctions against Libya
1982 United States places an embargo on
Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
2006 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives
at Mars.
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1661 French King Louis XIV ends office
of premier
1697 Tsar Peter the Great begins a tour of
Western Europe
1801 First census in Great Britain
1910 China ends slavery
1952 Military coup led by General Fulgencio
Batista in Cuba
1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
1987 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube
fertilization & embryo transfer
2006 Mass unrest by the PCC started in São
Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152
people.
2013 Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected
leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy
2014 German Chancellor Merkel warns Russia's Putin that
making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's
constitution
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My Rambling Thoughts
Boo, Yeah, Boo. So the Geek Squad showed up
right on time…they even called twice, once last night to confirm, and once an
hour before they arrived. It turns out the remote control has a button called
input. When one sets up the sound bar it automatically knows what you did. But,
and this is a big but, if you push the Input button it changes the input. The
two guys who showed up say that it is manufacturer goof, since the input button
and the power button look the same. Anyway, after about 3 minutes the sound bar
was working fine. Happy that it works. It would seem to me that the local Geek
Squad should have been aware of this issue and talked me through it over the
phone. So Boo to the phone guy for not helping me. Yeah, that it works now. Boo
that is cost me $100 to learn this when one minute on the phone could have
fixed it.
Tomorrow our retirement group is heading to
Cameron for our mutton and fry bread fix. Haven’t been there in quite a while.
Thus, no post tomorrow.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Attorney Client Privilege
Trick brain teasers appear difficult
at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
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Difficulty:
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Sam is talking to his lawyer in
jail. They are very upset because the judge has refused to grant bail. At the
end of the conversation Sam is allowed to leave the jail. Why?
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…Harper’s Index…
87-Percentage of state legislative bodies that
have become more Republican since Obama became president
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…Politicians on the Chicken Crossing
The Road…
AL SHARPTON: Why are all the chickens white?
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
Photography by @
(Jim Richardson). These stones were put up by the local folk sometime around
2900 BC. That's before Stonehenge! Without doubt there were spiritual
structures here before the stones. Before that, this place had been sacred for
a very long time.
The stones themselves are older still. The imagination boggles when trying to
comprehend 3.5 billion years. But you can see time wrapped into their many
folds, as the rock was thrust deep into the earth again and again, wrapping
over itself in pleats of antiquity. The stone is called Lewesian gneiss and it
is pretty much the oldest stone on the face of planet.
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2 jokes for the day
An older gentleman had an
appointment to see the urologist who shared an office with several other
doctors. The waiting room was filled with patients. As he approached the
receptionist desk he noticed that the receptionist was a large unfriendly woman
who more resembled a Sumo wrestler. He gave her his name. In a very loud voice,
the receptionist said, "YES, I HAVE YOUR NAME HERE; YOU WANT TO SEE THE
DOCTOR ABOUT IMPOTENCE, RIGHT?"
All the patients in the waiting room snapped their heads around to look at the
very embarrassed man. He recovered quickly, and in an equally loud voice
replied, "NO, I'VE COME TO INQUIRE ABOUT A SEX CHANGE OPERATION, BUT I
DON'T WANT THE SAME DOCTOR THAT DID YOURS."
Moral of the story... DON'T MESS WITH OLD FOLKS!
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A teacher asks her students what
religious objects they have in their homes.
One boy answers, "We have a picture of a woman with a halo holding a baby
and every day my mother kneels in front of it."
The next little boy says, "We have a brass statue of a man seated with
crossed legs and a Chinese face, and every day my parents burn an incense stick
before it."
Then a third boy pipes up, "In the bathroom we have a flat, square box
with numbers on it. Every day my mother stands on it first thing in the morning
and screams, 'OH MY GOD!!!'"
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Yep, It Really Happened
*---- Hey Honey, Check Out How Cool I Am! ----*
A man fatally shot himself while taking
selfies with his girlfriend and a gun, police in Washington said. Concrete
police said that the 43-year-old man died on Sunday, after shooting himself in
the face in his own home. The gun went off and shot the man in the face while
he and his girlfriend were taking photos of themselves. The girlfriend, who was
not identified, told investigators that they loaded and unloaded the gun
several times during the day. The last time however, a bullet apparently
remained in the gun, and the man, who was not identified, shot himself in the
face. So far, no charges have been filed as police believe that the shooting
was an accident.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Over 2500 left handed people a year
are killed from using products made for right handed people.
Taphephobia is the fear of being buried alive.
Clinophobia is the fear of beds.
The sloth (a mammal) moves so slowly that green algae can grow undisturbed on its
fur.
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
Astronauts cannot cry. In space, there is no gravity, so the tears can't flow.
A company in Taiwan makes dinnerware out of wheat, so you can eat your plate.
In Tokyo, they sell toupees for dogs.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(93) Sam
Jaffe,
NYC,
actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey) (d.1984)
(87) Kate
Sheppard,
New
Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's
suffrage movement, born in Liverpool, England (d. 1934)
76- Chuck
Norris [Carlos Ray],
Ryan, Oklahoma, martial arts actor (Missing in Action)
(72) Barry
Fitzgerald,
Dublin,
Ireland, actor (Acad Award-Going My Way) (d.1961)
(70) James
Earl Ray,
assassin
(Martin Luther King Jr.) (d.1998)
69- [Avril] Kim
Campbell,
Port
Alberni, British Columbia
(68) Kenneth
"Jethro" Burns,
US
country singer (Homer & Jethro) (d.1989)
(54) Osama
bin Laden,
Riyadh,
Saudi Arabia Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda, (d. 2011)
54- Jasmine
Guy,
Boston,
actress (Whitley-Different World)
52- Prince
Edward [Edward Anthony Richard Louis],
Prince
of Britain and son of Elizabeth II
45- Jon
Hamm,
St.
Louis, American actor (Mad Men - Don Draper)
39- Robin
Thicke,
American
singer
33- Carrie
Underwood,
American
country singer, born in Muskogee, Oklahoma
24- Emily
Osment,
American
actress and singer
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Historical Obits Today
@93-1913 Harriet
Tubman,
abolitionist,
conductor on Underground RR
@85-1998 Lloyd
Bridges,
American
actor
@81-1986 Ray
Milland,
Welsh
actor (The Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945)
@79-1980 Herman
Tarnower,
doctor
(Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris
@78-1988 Glenn
Cunningham,
US
world record miler
@47-1948 Zelda
Fitzgerald,
American
artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. In fire
@38-2010 Corey
Haim, Canadian actor, Pneumonia
@30-1988 Andy
Gibb,
singer,
heart infection
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Brain Teasers Answers
Sam is visiting his lawyer, who had been
arrested and jailed.
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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.
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