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3.23.16 Week: 12 \ Day: 83
March Averages:
50°\23°
86004 Today:
H 60° \ L 42° Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind
ave: 12mph\Gusts: 38mph Visibility: 10 mi
Wind
Advisory; Red Flag warning
Record High: 67°[1990] Record
Low: -1°[1952]
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Quote
of the Day
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Observances
Today
National
Puppy Day Link
National Tamale Day
Ta'Anit Esther
OK Day Link
World Meteorological Day
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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
1775 Patrick Henry proclaims "Give me
liberty or give me death" in speech in favour of Virginian troops joining
US Revolutionary war
1794 Josiah Pierson patents a
"cold-header" (rivet) machine
1839 1st recorded use of "OK"
[oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of
the Moon (daguerrotype)
1857 Elisha Otis' 1st elevator installed
(488 Broadway, NYC)
1868 University of California founded
(Oakland California)
1880 Flour rolling mill patented (John
Stevens of Wisc)
1889 President Harrison says part of
Oklahoma will be opened to the public.
1896 The Raines Law is passed by the New
York State Legislature, restricting Sunday sale of alcohol to hotels.
1903 Wright brothers obtain airplane
patent
1912 Dixie Cup invented
1929 1st telephone installed in White
House
1936 Physician Joseph
Hamilton injects a leukemia patient with a sodium radioisotope, the first
intravenous injection of a human with a radioisotope
1945 Largest operation in Pacific War
(WWII), 1,500 US Navy ships bomb Japanese island of Okinawa
1972 Evel Knievel breaks 93 bones
after successfully clearing 35 cars
1981 US Supreme Court upholds law making
statutory rape a crime only for men
1981 US Supreme Court rules states could
require, with some exceptions, parental notification when teen-age girls sought
abortions
1983 US President Ronald
Reagan introduces Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")
1999 "Livin' la Vida Loca" sung
by Ricky Martin released - goes on to sell over 8 million copies
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1593 English Separatist Puritans John
Greenwood and Henry Barrowe tried and sentenced to death on the charge of
devising and circulating seditious books
1657 France & England form alliance
against Spain; England gets Dunkirk
1708 Pretender to the English throne James
III lands at Firth of Forth
1743 George Friderick Handel's oratorio "Messia" prmiers in London
1901 Dame Nellie Melba, reveals secret of
her now famous toast
1956 Sudan becomes independent
1966 1st official meeting after 400 years
of Catholic & Anglican Church
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Back in the day, I was the first one at the
polling place…mainly because I did it on the way to work and didn’t want to
have to stand in long lines. But as time passes, I no longer make it when the
polls open. So today I made it to the AZ Primary poll at 10:30. No line, no
people voting, just me. Sadly I was the 8th person to do a ballot
today. Maybe it will get busier after the work day.
Amazing, Bernie made it back to Flagstaff last
night. His first visit last week brought 2800 supporters. Last night he had
over 3000. And it was live on the internet machine. Very cool!
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Brain
Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Figure
it out
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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Each
sentence below contains a word that can be anagrammed to answer or describe the
sentence. Excerpted from an old Reader's Digest
Example: Craft that might tip in the ocean. Answer: Canoe (Anagram of ocean)
1. Bit of brush
2. Opposite of unite
3. Writings of a steno
4. They affix without paste
5. Having less reason for fears
6. Animal that may need a shoer
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…Harper’s
Index…
43-percentage of likely Republican voters who
say they could imagine supporting a military coup in the US
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…Why
the Chicken Crossed The Road…
JOHN
LENNON:
Imagine all the chickens in the world crossing roads together, in peace.
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
earthpix A
breathtaking sunset over Moreton Bay in Sandgate, Queensland
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2
jokes for the day
What did one computer say to the other?
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I told a girl on the flight that she was pretty. She replied, "Tell me
something I don't know."
So I asked if she remembered the quadratic formula.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
Chutzpah!
PoliticsCentral.org Trying to put (as a critic charged)
"lipstick on a pig," Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder boasted in March that
the lead-in-the-water crisis plaguing the city of Flint for months now had
actually spurred job growth. Though Snyder has been heavily criticized for
tight-fisted budgeting that enabled the crisis, 81 temporary workers have been
recently hired -- to hand out bottled water so that residents would not have to
hydrate themselves with poisoned municipal water.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
fall and spring equinoxes are the only two times during the year when the sun
rises due east and sets due west.
On the first day of spring, a person at the North Pole would see the sun
skimming across the horizon, beginning six months of uninterrupted daylight. A
person at the South Pole would see the sun skimming across the horizon,
signaling the start of six months of darkness.
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The
myth that it is possible to balance an egg on its end on the spring equinox is
just that: a myth. Trying to balance an oval-shaped object on its end is no
easier on the spring equinox than on any other day.
Easter always falls on the first Sunday after the first full moon after the
spring equinox.
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Birthdays
Today
“()”
indicates age at death
(79) Erich Fromm,
Frankfurt Germany, psychologist (d.1980)
(73) Joan Crawford, [Lucille Le Sueur],
Texas, actress (Mildred Pierce)(d.1977)
(72) James Brown,
Desdemona Tx, actor (Lt Rip Masters-Rin Tin Tin)(d.1992)
(65) Werner von Braun,
Wyrzysk, Poland ,German rocket scientist (I Aim at the
Stars), (d. 1977)
61- Moses Malone,
Petersburg, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks, Milw Bucks, Phila
'76ers), (d. 2015)
(56) William Kidd,
Scottish pirate legend, born in Greenock, Scotland (d.
1701)
(57) Fannie Farmer,
American culinary figure, born in Boston,(d.1915)
51- Richard Grieco,
Waterton NY, actor (21 Jump Street, Booker)
43- Jason Kidd,
NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks)
38- Perez Hilton,
Miami, FL, American television personality and blogger
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Historical
Obits Today
@91-2015 Lee Kuan Yew,
Founding father of modern Singapore and 1st Prime
Minister of Singapore
@79-2011 Elizabeth Taylor,
English-American actress (Cleopatra, Who's Afraid of
Virginia Woolf?) congestive heart failure
@76-1840 William Maclure,
Scottish-American Geologist (first geological map)
@62-1983 Barney Clark,
1st artificial heart recipient, after 112 days
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Shrub
2. Untie
3. Notes
4. Tapes
5. Safer
6. Horse
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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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