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3.22.16 Week: 12 \ Day: 82
March Averages:
50°\23°
86004 Today:
H 65° \ L 32° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 12mph\Gusts: 22mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 68°[2004] Record
Low: 5°[1948]
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Quote
of the Day
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Observances
Today
American
Diabetes Association Alert Day Link
As Young As You Feel Day
Education and Sharing Day
International Day of The Seal
Tuskegee Airmen Day
World Day for Water (aka World Water Day) Link
World Day of Metta
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Observances
This Week
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
21-25
Act
Happy Week
21-27
Wellderly
Week
Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination
22-28
Tsunami
Awareness Week Link
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1622 1st American Indian (Powhattan) massacre
of whites Jamestown Virginia, 347 slain
1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting
gambling enacted (Boston)
1638 Religious dissident Anne Hutchinson
expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony
1765 Stamp Act passed; 1st direct British tax
on colonists
1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st US
Secretary of State under President Washington
1794 Congress bans US vessels from supplying
slaves to other countries
1841 Cornstarch patented (Orlando Jones)
1861 1st US nursing school chartered
1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require
sexual equality in employment
1903 Niagera Falls runs out of water because
of a drought
1917 The USA is the first nation to recognize
the new government of Russia
1933 FDR makes wine & beer with up
to 3.2% alcohol legal
1941 Grand Coulee Dam in Washington goes into
operation
1941 Jimmy Stewart is inducted into the
Army, becoming the first major American movie star to wear a military uniform
in World War II
1944 American movie star Jimmy Stewart flies his
12th combat mission, leading the 2nd Bomb Wing in an attack on Berlin
1954 1st shopping mall opened in Southfield,
Mich
1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to
Arthur Schawlow & Charles Townes
1965 US confirms its troops used chemical
warfare against the Vietcong
1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment
(never ratified)
1978 Robert Frost Plaza, at California,
Drumm & Market, SF, dedicated
1978 Karl Wallenda of the The Flying
Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope between two hotels in San Juan,
Puerto Rico.
1984 Teachers at the McMartin preschool in
Manhattan Beach, California are charged with Satanic ritual abuse of the
children in the school. The charges are later dropped as completely unfounded.
1988 Congress overrides Reagan's veto of
sweeping civil rights bill 1990 Anchorage jury finds Capt
Hazelwood innocent of Valdez oil spill
1997 "Sunset Boulevard" closes at
Minskoff NYC after 977 performances
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1784 The Emerald Buddha is moved with great
ceremony to its current place in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
1979 The Provisional Irish Republican Army
assassinate Richard Sykes, the British ambassador to the Netherlands, in Den
Haag
1979 The Provisional Irish Republican Army
explode 24 bombs in various locations across Northern Ireland
1982 Iran offensive against Iraq
2004 Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of
the Palestinian Sunni Islamist militant group Hamas, and bodyguards are killed
in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force AH-64 Apache fired Hellfire
missiles.
2012 Massive fire devours thousands of
hectares of ancient forests and threatens wildlife on Mount Kenya
2014 Guinea confirms Ebola outbreak has
already killed 59 people
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Had an early morning visit with my new PCP.
Amazing man with lots of knowledge. Reviewed my recent sonograms and in giving
me a blood pressure medicine to lower it…haven’t taken any for over a year, but
now it has started climbing again. Oh well, just one more pill. He will see me
again in a month to see if it is working. How cool.
Time to start thinking about taxes…one of my
least favorite times of year. Gathering the stuff is always a pain, paying
H&R to do them is a pain. Usually owning money is the biggest pain of all.
When I was working I always go money back, now I always owe more than was
deducted. Crazy!
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Brain
Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Decapitation
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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Decapitate
me and all becomes equal. Then truncate me and I become second. Cut me front
and back and I become two less than I started.
What am I?
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…Harper’s
Index…
30-number of cadets injured this year in a
West Point pillow people
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…Why
the Chicken Crossed The Road…
ARISTOTLE: It is the nature of
chickens to cross the road.
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeocreative Photo by @irablockphoto: #Vendors at the
Damnoen Saduak Floating Market in #Thailand.
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2
jokes for the day
If you were a spider, you could learn everything on the web.
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Interviewer:
"How well do you work with Powerpoint?"
Applicant: "I Excel at it."
Interviewer: "Was that a computer joke?"
Applicant: "Word."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Glaciers and Gender
New York Post-- University of Oregon professor
Mark Carey produced a 10,300-word journal article in January proposing a new
sensitivity to Earth's melting icecaps: a "feminist glaciology
framework" to "generate robust analysis of gender, power and epistemologies"
with a goal of more "just and equitable" "human-ice
interactions." The jargonized, densely worded tract suggests that melting
icecaps can be properly understood only with more input from female scientists
since, somehow, research so far disproportionately emphasizes climate change's
impact on males. (The New York Post reported that the paper was funded by a
National Science Foundation grant of $412,930.) [Progress in Human Geography,
1-8-2016]]
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Pickles
have been around since ancient times, although there is some disagreement as to
when exactly in history people started eating them. Some believe the first
pickle was created in Mesopotamia in 2400 B.C.E. Others believe it was as early
as 2030 B.C.E.
Cleopatra ate pickles because she believed they were one of the things that
helped her stay beautiful.
Explorers like Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci used pickles to help
prevent scurvy amongst the crews of their ships.
H.J. Heinz used pins shaped like pickles to draw customers to his booth at the
1893 World's Fair in Chicago.
The U.S. government commandeered 40% of all pickles made in the U.S. during
WWII so that they could be used in rations for the soldiers.
Several famous people throughout history are reported to have been or to be
pickle fans including Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Bill
Cosby, Fran Drescher, and Ed Koch.
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Birthdays
Today
“()”
indicates age at death
(97) Karl Malden,
Chicago, actor (Mike-Streets of SF, American Express) (d.2007)
86- Pat Robertson,
televangelist (700 club, Pres candidate-R-1989)
86- Stephen Sondheim,
NYC, lyricist (West Side Story, Company)
(85) Robert A. Millikan,
Morrison, IL American physicist (photoelectric effect;
Nobel 1923) (d. 1953)
85- William Shatner,
Montreal, Quebec, actor (Star Trek, T J Hooker)
(84) Marcel Marceau,
Strasbourg France, mime (Barbarella, Silent Movie) (d.2007)
(80) Louis D L'Amour,
Jamestown ND, author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett) (d.1988)
75- Jeremy Clyde,
Newburgh, NY, England, rocker (Chad & Jeremy-Yesterday's
Gone)
(74) Chico Marx, [Leonard Martin],
NYC, comedian (Marx Brothers), (d.1961)
69- James Patterson,
American author (Alex Cross, Witch and Wizard)
68- Andrew Lloyd Webber,
London, composer (Phantom of the Opera, Cats)
68- Wolf Blitzer,
American television journalist
(61) Ross Martin, Grodek
Poland, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West) (1981)
57- Matthew Modine,
Loma Linda Cal, actor (Full Metal Jacket)
(42) Anthony Van Dyck,
Flemish painter (Charles I of England)(d.1641)
40- Reese Witherspoon,
New Orleans, American actress (Pleasantville, Legally
Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama)
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Historical
Obits Today
@90-2001 William Hanna,
American animator and studio founder
@73-1978 Karl Wallenda,
Tight Rope walker, fall
@48-1958 Mike Todd,
US film and theatre producer and 3rd husband of
Elizabeth Taylor, plane crash
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Brain
Teasers Answers
The word Seven.
seven
even (equal)
eve (2nd person, according to the Bible)
v (Roman numeral five; two less than seven)
Now you get it :D
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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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