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3.15.16 Week: 11 \ Day: 75
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 59° \ L 31° Average
Sky Cover: high clouds
Wind ave: 1mph\Gusts: 26mph
Record High: 72°[2007] Record Low: -4°[1990]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Brutus
Day
Buzzards Day Link
International Day of Action Against Canadian Seal Slaughter Link
National Agriculture Day Link
National Shoe The World Day
True Confessions Day
World Consumer Rights Day Link
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Observances This Week
11-17
Turkey
Vultures Return to the Living Sign
13-19
Campfire
USA Birthday Week
Consider Christianity Week
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week
14-20
International
Brain Awareness Week
14-18
Stand
Up! LGBT Awareness Week Link (Against homophobic bullying)
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st
American nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
1783 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New
York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh
Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes
place.
1820 Maine admitted as 23rd state of the Union
1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board
to regulate quarantine
1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax
property to support a university
1887 1st salaried fish & game warden
(William Alden Smith in Michigan)
1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse
W Reno (NYC)
1892 NY State unveils automatic ballot booth
(voting machine)
1913 1st US presidential press conference (Woodrow
Wilson)
1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims
court
1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on
segregation & discrimination
1937 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL)
1956 "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark
Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances
1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak,
Arizona dedicated
1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score
4,000 pts in an NBA season
1965 T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in
NYC
1968 Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record
(27'2-3/4")
1968 LIFE mag calls Jimi
Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1971 Chatrooms make their debut on the
Internet
1972 "The Godfather", based on the
book by Mario Puzo, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and
starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino, premieres in NYC (Best
Picture 1973)
1985 first Internet domain name is registered
(symbolics.com).
1991 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney
King
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
44
BC Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by
Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus
and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
1903 After years of fighting between the
British and the rebellious Africans, the British claim supremacy over 500,000
square miles, thus controlling all northern Nigeria
1907 Finland is 1st European country to give
women the right to vote
1919 American Legion forms (Paris)
1928 Benito Mussolini modifies Italy
electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1946 British Prime Minister Clement
Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
2013 16 people are killed by a fireworks
accident in Tlaxcala, Mexico
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My Rambling Thoughts
Woke up at my usual time…thank goodness there
isn’t DST here.
Turned on my computer this morning and after
signing in, and checking some news sites, a message pops up that the computer
will shut down in 5 minutes to install recent updates. Fine. So it shuts down,
does some stuff, shuts down again, does more stuff, shuts down again and does
some more stuff. I know it is doing ‘stuff’ because there is a circular circle
that is filling up with blue. I go do some more things. Who knows how many more
times it shuts down and does more stuff? One hour and 20 minutes after it first started
it business, I return to see that it is at 98% of completing this task. Sure
enough it shuts down again and when it restarts it says it is adding all that
stuff to my computer start up. Fifteen minutes later I can get back to checking
stuff on the internet. That last screen
promised lots of new stuff, but never told me what and nothing looks different.
So glad I am not a geek.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
An EZ One
Language brain teasers
are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and
manipulate words and letters.
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Difficulty:
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Using a combination of letters
and/or numbers to sound out the answers, can you solve the clues? (The first
one is free)
1. Not difficult - EZ (Easy)
2. Unoccupied
3. To do better than others
4. Defeated
5. A number (use only letters for this one)
6. A sport
7. Freezing
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…Harper’s Index…
99.5-Percentage of Syrian asylum seekers in
Germany who have been granted refugee status
37-Percentage of Afghan asylum seekers who
have
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…Why the Chicken Crossed The Road…
NANCY GRACE: That chicken crossed the road
because he's guilty! You can see it in his eyes and the way he walks.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
instagramPhotographer Diego Huerta (@diegohuertaphoto) has a gift: “I know
it may sound like a fantasy, but when I look at the people’s eyes, that’s when
I know they are the right person to photograph,” he says. Diego was born and
raised in Mexico and currently lives and works as a photographer in Austin,
Texas, but every year he travels to the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca.
There, he finds stories in the eyes of the Zapotec people, whose customs have
endured for centuries — like these proud feather dancers at Zaachila, an
archeological site where the old Zapotec Empire once stood. “One day, as I was
walking in the streets, I listened to the noise of drums. As I got closer, I
could feel the buzz of people gathering around a house. And then I found these
dancers in the patio,” he explains. “As a commercial photographer, that kind of
human connection makes me keep my feet on the ground,” Diego says.
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2 jokes for the day
Why didn't the man report his stolen credit card?
The thief was spending less than his wife.
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Husband takes the wife to a disco. There’s a guy on the dance floor break
dancing, moonwalking, back flips, the works.
The wife turns to her husband and
says, "See that guy? 25 years ago he proposed to me and I turned him
down."
Husband says, "Looks like he’s still celebrating!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-- Australian Family Baffled as it Rained Fish --*
WINTON, Australia - A family in
Australia were excited to see the end of a drought in the area, but got more
than they bargained for when fish began falling from the sky. Tahnee Oakhill
shared video of the phenomenon as her daughter excitedly placed the tiny fish
into a nearby puddle. The Oakhill's Winton property had received about three
inches of rain prior to the appearance of the fish. "It's pretty crazy,
getting that much rain was pretty shocking and then that happening after
that...it's been a weird week," Oakhill said. As for the fish, Ecologist
Dr. Peter Unmack said the spangled perch which are "pretty much
everywhere" in central Australia likely did not fall from the sky. He
explained that the tiny fish can quickly travel long distances in small amounts
of water, but added that this tendency did allow a small possibility for them
to get caught in rainclouds. "The other key point is if you did get
massive updrafts of water and fish that got carried up into the clouds,
everything up there is frozen because it's too cold," he said. "So it
is theoretically possible, but it's difficult to see many situations where fish
get picked up by strong winds and can survive."
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Somewhat Useless Information
PEZ candy was first introduced in 1927
in Vienna, Austria as a breath mint for adults.
The word PEZ was created using the first, middle and last letter in the German
word for peppermint PfeffErminZ.
The first PEZ dispensers were known as regulars and did not have character
heads on them. They were marketed to adults as an alternative to smoking.
Original dispensers have sold for more than $100 each.
When making a single piece of PEZ Candy it takes 3,000 pounds of pressure to
compress the sugar into the familiar brick shape of a PEZ Candy.
The first national gathering of PEZ collectors was held on Saturday June 15,
1991 in Mentor, Ohio. Since then collector conventions have popped up all over
the United States.
"Feet" is the common term used to refer to the small tabs on the
dispenser base to help it stand upright. They were first added to U.S.
dispensers in 1987.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
81- Jimmy
Lee Swaggart,
evangelist
81- Judd
Hirsch,
The
Bronx, actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People)
(78) Andrew
Jackson,
Waxhaws
in the border area between North and South Carolina General and 7th US
President (d. 1845)
75- Mike
Love,
California,
rock saxophonist/vocalist (Beach boys-In My Room)
(73) Saint
Nicholas [Nikolaos of Myra],
Patara,
Asia Minor Greek Bishop who became the model for Santa Claus, (d. 343)
73- Sly
Stone (Sylvester Stewart),
Dallas,
rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
(68) Joe
E Ross,
comedian
(Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show) (d.1982)
59- Park
Overall,
Nashville,
American actress (Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning)
53- Bret
Michaels,
Harrisburg
Pa, guitarist (Poison-Talk Dirty to Me)
41- Eva
Longoria,
Corpus
Christi, TX, American actress (Gabrielle Solis-Desperate Housewives)
41- Will.i.am,
(William Adams)
American
musician
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Historical Obits Today
@94-1998 Benjamin
Spock,
American
pediatrician and writer
@71-1997 Gail
Davis,
(Annie
Oakley-TV), cancer
@69-1975 Aristotle
S Onassis,
Greek
shipping magnate, myasthenia gravis
@62-2009 Ron
Silver,
American
actor, cancer
@55-44
BC Julius Caesar,
Roman
military and political figure, stabbed
@45-1889 Melville
Reuben Bissell,
American
inventor of the carpet sweeper, pneumonia
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Brain Teasers Answers
2. MT (Empty)
3. XL (Excel)
4. B10 (Beaten)
5. AT (Eighty)
6. 10S (Tennis)
7. IC (Icy)
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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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