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3.12.16
Week: 10 \ Day: 72
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 64° \ L 25° Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts:
21mph
Record High:
72°[1900] Record Low: -1°[1917]
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Quote of the Day
Returns tomorrow
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Observances Today
Genealogy
Day Link
Girl
Scouts Day Link 1912
International Fanny Pack Day Link
National Urban Ballroom Dancing
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 (Worlds Largest Dog Show Link
International Listening Weekend
11-17
Turkey
Vultures Return to the Living Sign
11-13
World
Rattlesnake Roundup
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1664 New Jersey becomes an English colony
1755 1st steam engine in America installed,
to pump water from a mine
1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found
settlement now known as Chicago
1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1868
US Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes
Carnegie Hero Fund1912 Girl Guides (Girl Scouts) forms in Savannah,
by Juliette Gordon Low
1933 FDR conducts his 1st "fireside
chat"
1945 NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by
race & creed in employment
1947 Pres Harry Truman introduces
Truman-doctrine to fight communism
1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1980 Jury finds John Wayne
Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill &
Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1365 University
of Vienna founded
1455 First record of Johann Gutenberg's Bible,
letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini refers to the bible printed a
year before
1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa
Croce in Florence, Italy
1867 Last French troops leave Mexico
1930 Mohandas Gandhi begins 200m
(300km) march protesting British salt tax
1994 Church of England ordains 1st 33 women
priests
1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech
Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
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My Rambling Thoughts
We had a great lunch up in Cameron yesterday.
Nothing like Stew and Fry Bread. Also nice to talk to people who remembered us
from our TC days. Nice to share memories. Mary drove in her Honda Fit. Quite a
comfortable ride…amazed at the room in the back seat.
My trip to the dentist before the lunch for a
cleaning was less than pleasant. The ‘good’ hygienist had returned for my last
appointment, and I made of point of scheduling with her. When I arrived another
stranger came out. I know my teeth, I know my issues. She didn’t. It was the
most painful cleaning of my life. And it didn’t need to be. As I was leaving I
asked what happened to my favorite one. The lady says she changed her days. I
responded…and I was notified of this when? She put a note in her magic computer
so hopefully next time, I get the lady I want. If not, I have decided, I will
walk out before the cleaning and find a new dentist.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Potato's Key Tool
Riddles are little poems or phrases
that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this
is not a requirement.
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Difficulty:
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A potato's key tool, I have all the
power.
I am generally used on the half or full hour.
If my cells were deceased or lost or the such,
My partner would only respond to your touch.
What am I?
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…Harper’s Index…
$4,600,000-Amount Congress has spent on
investigating the attack on the US consulate in Benghazi
$86,607-On investigating the preparation for
and response to Hurricane Katrina
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…on the Chicken Crossing The Road…
DR. PHIL: The problem we have here is
that this chicken won't realize that he must first deal with the problem on
this side of the road before it goes after the problem on the other side of the
road. What we need to do is help him realize how stupid he is acting by
not taking on his current problems before adding any new problems.
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2 jokes for the day
Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off?
He's all right now.
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What's the difference between a jeweler, a vendor, and a bottle of glue?
A jeweler sells watches.
A vendor watches what he sells.
As for the bottle of glue, I thought you might have got stuck with that one.
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Yep, It Really Happened
*------ Scuba diver Gets Sucked Into Pipe
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PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. -
It sounds like the start of a bad joke, but a scuba diver in Florida is suing a
utility company after he was sucked into a quarter-mile-long pipe that took him
inside a nuclear power plant. Christopher Le Cun said he was scuba diving off
the coast of Hutchinson Island with friend Robert Blake when the pair went down
to investigate three large shadows underneath a yellow buoy. Their first
mistake. "I swam right up to this big structure and it looks like a
building underwater. I felt a little bit of current. All of a sudden it got a
little quicker and I said, 'this ain't right, this ain't right,'" Le Cun
said. Blake said Le Cun got "sucked in like a wet noodle." The diver
said he was in the tube for about five minutes before he saw the light of the
surface he would soon reach. "All of a sudden it looks like a match, out
in the distance. When it gets a little bigger, then a little bigger. Then all
of a sudden just, poof, daylight. Fish everywhere, crystal-clear water the sun
is shining and I'm like, 'is this heaven?'" Le Cun said. Le Cun said he
shouted for help and was assisted by a confused employee who asked how he got
into the plant. Le Cun is now suing plant operator Florida Power and Light,
alleging negligence for inadequate safety precautions for the mysterious black,
underwater building with giant pipes sticking out of it that he swam to
investigate.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Any month that starts on a Sunday
will have a Friday the 13th in it.
The world's first speed limit regulation was in England in 1903. It was 20 mph.
The metal instrument used in shoe stores to measure feet is called the Brannock
device.
The linen bandages that were used to wrap Egyptian mummies averaged 1,000 yards
in length.
The base of the Great Pyramid of Egypt is large enough to cover 10 football
fields.
"Fortnight" is a contraction of "fourteen nights." In the
US "two weeks" is more commonly used.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
88- Edward
Albee,
,
D.C. playwright (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story)
(84) Walter
M Schirra Jr,
Hackensack
NJ, Capt USN/ast (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7) (d.2007)
84- Andrew
Young,
US
ambassador to UN (1977-79)/(Mayor-D-Atlanta)
83- Barbara
Feldon,
Pittsburgh,
actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
76- Al
Jarreau,
Milwaukee,
jazz singer (Moonlighting)
(70) Clement
Studebaker,
automobile
pioneer (Studebaker) (d.1901)
70- Liza
Minnelli,
American
singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret), born in Hollywood, California
69- Mitt
Romney,
70th
Republican Governor of Massachusetts and presidential candidate, born in
Detroit, Michigan
66- Jon
Provost,
actor
(Timmy-Lassie)
(64) Gordon
MacRae,
East
Orange, NJ, singer/actor (Oklahoma, Carousel) (d.1986)
(61) Vaslav
Nijinsky,
Ukrainian/US
ballet dancer (Petroesjka) (d.1950)
54- Darryl
Strawberry,
Los
Angeles, baseball right fielder (Mets, Dodgers, Yankees)
(49) William
"Buckwheat" Thomas, actor (Little Rascals) (d.1980)
(47) Jack
Kerouac,
Beat
writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues), born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d. 1969)
47- Jake
Tapper,
American
journalist
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Historical Obits Today
@87-1989 Maurice
Evans,
actor
(Bewitched, MacBeth)
@68-2001 Morton
Downey, Jr.,
American
television talk show host, cancer
@67-1914 George
Westinghouse,
US
engineer (Westinghouse Electric) @58-1925 Sun Yat-sen,
Chinese
revolutionary leader, liver cancer
@34-1955 Charlie
"Bird" Parker,
US
jazz saxophonist, pneumonia
@15-1945 Anne
Frank,
diarist
(Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp
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Brain Teasers Answers
A television remote control.
Often used by a "couch potato".
Channels are most often changed between programs, which end on the hour or
half-hour.
If you lose the batteries, the only way to control the TV is by hand.
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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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