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3.20.16 Week: 12 \ Day: 80
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 60° \ L 24° Average
Sky Cover: 8%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts: 10mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 72°[2004] Record Low: -1°[1935]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Atheist
Pride Day Link
Bed-in For Peace Day (Beatles - John and Yoko)
Extraterrestrial
Abductions Day (Started in 2008 at Toronto Alien Festival)
Great
American Meat Out Day Link
International Astrology Day (Spring Equinox)
French
Language Day Link
Kiss Your Fiancée Day
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
Naw-Ruz (Bahá'í and Iranian new year)
Ostara (Spring Equinox)
Snowman Burning Day
Spring (Vernal Equinox) 12:30 am EDT
World Storytelling Day Link (Always Spring Equinox)
Won't You Be My Neighbor Day
World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People Link
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Observances This Week
18-20
Sherlock Holmes Weekend
20-26
American Chocolate Week Link
Health Information Professionals Week Link
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
National Animal Poison Prevention Week
National Button Week Link
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week Link
World Folktales & Fables Week Naw-Ruz
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1760 Great Fire of Boston destroys 349
buildings
1816 US Supreme Court affirms its right to
review state court decisions
1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle
Tom's Cabin" published (Boston) 1864 800 NAVAJOs, mostly women, children and old men,
begin the 300 mile march to Fort Sumner and the Bosque Redondo Reservation, in
east-central New Mexico. The group would pick up 146 additional NAVAJOs
during the march. A powerful snow storm strikes the ill-equipped marchers
during the trip. By the time they reach the new reservation, 110 NAVAJOs will
have perished.
1886 1st AC power plant in US begins
commercial operation, Mass
1890 General Federation of Womans' Clubs
founded
1897 1st US orthodox Jewish Rabbinical
seminary (RIETS) incorporates in NY
1900 US Secretary of State John Hay announces
that all nations to whom he sent notes calling for an 'open door' policy in
China have essentially accepted his stand.
1942 Gen MacArthur vows, "I
shall return"
1954 "King & I" closes at St
James Theater NYC after 1246 performances
1954 1st newspaper vending machine used
(Columbia Pennsylvania)
1965 Civil and Women's Rights
Activist Dorothy Height has her first column published in the weekly
African-American newspaper called the "New York Amsterdam News"
1969 US president Nixon proclaims he will end
Vietnam war in 1970
1980 US appeals to International Court on
hostages in Iran
1982 Joan Jett & Blackhearts' "I
Love Rock 'n' Roll" goes #1 for 7 wks 1984 Senate
rejects amendment to permit spoken prayer in public schools
1987 FDA approves sale of AZT (AIDS
treatment)
1991 Court awards Peggy Lee $3 million in
suit against Disney
1991 Michael Jackson signs $65M 6 album
deal with Sony records
1996 Erik & Lyle Menendez found guilty of
killing their parents
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1616 Walter Raleigh released from Tower
of London to seek gold in Guyana
1800 Alessandro Volta reports his
discovery of the electric battery in a letter to Joseph Banks, president
of the Royal Society of London 1815 Napoleon enters
Paris after escape from Elba, begins 100-day rule
1944 Mount Vesuvius, Italy, explodes
1971 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James
Chichester-Clark resigns in protest at what he views as a limited security
response by the British government
1972 Donegall Street bombing: the Provisional
Irish Republican Army detonate its first car bomb on Donegall Street in
Belfast; four civilians, two RUC officers and a UDR soldier killed while 148
people were wounded
2000 Pope John Paul II visits Holy
Land - Jordan, Israel, Palestine 2005 A
magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100
years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated.
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My Rambling Thoughts
It’s been like Spring since mid-January, but
now the calendar sez that it is the vernal equinox…great…still expecting more
snow before June.
Sat down this morning to work on the Focus
travel site. Fixed a font that was hard to read in text areas, set up links to
all the trips that are in the future. It took about 2 hours to get it just
right, I hope. It is always difficult to make changes and proofread at the same
time…so I published it and will check on it tomorrow for any errors that I
missed today.
I am far from being a Trump supporter, and I
do believe in the 1st amendment. Trump was having a rally in a
suburb of Phoenix. We all knew it was going to be televised, yet some anti-Trump
protestors blocked the main road to the event. I don’t get that. It is fine to
protest and have your view heard, but to block people from attending goes over
my line. It also dawned on me how much money is being spent of all these
various rallies around the country. Plane tickets to get there, motel rooms, restaurants,
and all those locals who set up the venue with lights, mics, fences, and other paraphernalia
needed. None of these people are doing it for free. Then there are the sign
makers and bumper sticker makers, pin makers, and the list goes on and on. Now
if those candidates could just speak the truth.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Grandmas and Trolls
Math brain teasers require
computations to solve.
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Difficulty:
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You are on your way to visit your
Grandma, who lives at the end of the valley. It's her birthday, and you want to
give her the cakes you've made.
Between your house and her house, you have to cross 7 bridges, and as it goes
in the land of make believe, there is a troll under every bridge! Each troll,
quite rightly, insists that you pay a troll toll. Before you can cross their
bridge, you have to give them half of the cakes you are carrying, but as they
are kind trolls, they each give you back a single cake.
How many cakes do you have to leave home with to make sure that you arrive at
Grandma's with exactly 2 cakes?
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…Harper’s Index…
16-Number of countries that bar a married
woman from getting a job without her husband’s approval
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…Why the Chicken Crossed The Road…
GRANDPA: In my day we didn't ask why the
chicken crossed the road. Somebody told us the chicken crossed the road,
and that was good enough for us
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeotravelPhot
by @michaelclarkphoto //
A Gaucho herding his horses near El Chalten, Argentina. #Argentina #gaucho #elchalten
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2 jokes for the day
Once you've seen a shopping center, you've seen a mall.
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A man was looking for someone to
paint his porch. So he hired a young lady and told her what to do. After about
30 minutes, the lady came to the door and said, “I’m done.”
The man asked, “How did you get done so fast?”
The lady said, “It was hard at first, but it got easier towards the end. And by
the way, it’s a Ferrari, not a Porsche.”
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Yep, It Really Happened
*----------- A Horse of a Different Color -----------*
Research has consistently reported childhood
cruelty to animals as the first warning sign of later delinquency, violence,
and criminal behavior. So we can only speculate on the severe psychological and
emotional problems of the perpetrator or perpetrators who tortured a horse in
New Holland, Pa. Maybe this is what passes for entertainment in Pa, but an
abandoned horse was found riddled with more than 100 paintball remnants at New
Holland Sales Stables after sales ended for the day. Kelly Smith, who found the
horse, said, "It's incomprehensible to me that someone could, in good
conscience, do this to a living creature who can't defend themselves." The
horse is being nursed back to health at the University of Pennsylvania's School
of Veterinary Medicine.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
94- Carl
Reiner,
The
Bronx, comedian (2000 Year Old Man, Dick Van Dyke Show)
(86) Susan
B. Anthony,
Adams,
Mass, reformer and women's suffrage movement leader, born in (d. 1906)
(86) B[urrhus]
F[rederic]
Skinner,
Pa, Behaviorism pioneer (Skinner box) (d.1990)
85- Hal
Linden, [Harold Lipshitz],
actor
(Barney Miller, Blacke's Magic)
(80) Werner
Klemperer, Cologne Germany, actor (Col Klink-Hogan's Heroes) (d.2000)
(77) Michael
Redgrave,
Bristol
England, actor (Browning Version, Lady Vanishes) (d.1985)
(76) Edgar
Buchanan,
Humansville
Mo, actor (Uncle Joe-Petticoat Junction) (d.1979)
(74) Fred
Rogers,
Latrobe,
PA, American children's TV host (Mr Rogers' Neighborhood), (d. 2003)
(69) Ozzie
Nelson,
Jersey
City, NJ, American actor (The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet) (d.1975)
(68) Vaughn
Meader,
American
comedian (d. 2004)
68- Bobby
Orr,
Parry
Sound, Ontario, Canadian hall of fame NHL defenseman (Boston Bruins)
59(ish)- Ovid,
Roman
poet (d. 17)
(59) Frederick
Winslow Taylor,
Philadelphia,
American mechanical engineer and the father of scientific management, (d. 1915)
59- Spike
Lee [Shelton Jackson Lee],
Atlanta,
Georgia, American film director (Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm
X)
52- David
Thewlis,
Blackpool,
Lancashire, English actor (Remus Lupin-Harry Potter series)
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Historical Obits Today
@89-2010 Liz
Carpenter,
American
feminist writer (b. 1920)
@62-1974 Chet
Huntley,
newscaster
(NBC Huntley-Brinkley Report), lung cancer
@41-1964 Brendan
Behan,
Irish
writer/poet, Diabetic complications
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Brain Teasers Answers
2: At each bridge you are required to give
half of your cakes, and you receive one back. Which leaves you with 2 cakes
after every bridge.
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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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