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3.24.16 Week: 12 \ Day: 84
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 49° \ L 25° Average
Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 29mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1956] Record Low: 0°[1904]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
International
Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for
Dignity of Victims Link
Purim
World Tuberculosis 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
1617 King James I, of England, decides the
Indians of Virginia must be educated. Today he directs the Anglican church to
collect funds to build churches and schools.
1629 1st game law passed in American
colonies, by Virginia
1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter
to colonize Rhode Island
1765 Britain enacts Quartering Act, required
colonists to provide temporary housing to British soldiers
1815 Handel & Haydn Society of Boston
founded
1832 Mormon Joseph Smith beaten,
tarred & feathered in Ohio
1883 1st telephone call between NY &
Chicago
1898 1st automobile sold
1930 1st religious services telecast in US
(W2XBS NYC)
1937 National Gallery of Art established by
Congress
1947 John D. Rockefeller Jr donates NYC
East River site to the UN
1955 Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances
1958 Elvis Presley joins the army
(serial number 53310761)
1960 US appeals court rules novel "Lady
Chatterly's Lover" not obscene
1966 Selective Service announces college deferments
based on performance
1967 University of Michigan holds 1st
"Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam
1989 Worst US oil spill, Exxon's Valdez
spills 11.3 mil gallons off Alaska
1998 Jonesboro massacre: Two students, ages 11
and 13, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro,
Arkansas; five people are dead and ten are wounded.
2015 The Opportunity rover becomes the first
to complete a Martian marathon
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1603 Scottish King James VI son of
Mary Queen of Scots, becomes King James I of England in succession to Elizabeth
I, thus joining the English and Scottish crowns.
1837 Canada gives black citizens the right to
vote
1882 German scientist Robert Koch discovers
bacillus cause of TB
1955 British Army patrols withdraw from
Belfast after 20 years
1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
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My Rambling Thoughts
Not quite as windy today and a tad cooler, but
all is good.
Signed up for my Singapore cruise for Feb.
2017…now hopefully my roommate will be able to travel…he may need spinal surgery. He is a great guy and I know he will do
everything he can to have a great trip.
Our great state is in the national headlines,
again, and not for something good. People had to stand in 4+ hours to vote in
Maricopa County…that’s Phoenix….home of Sheriff Joe. Some are blaming it on too
many independents showing up and not being able to vote. Yeah, and that is the
spin.
Some of my friends were always concerned when
I traveled to ‘the Dark Continent’ of Africa. Concerned I would be eaten by
wildlife, boiled in a pot by locals, or any number of other concerns. Now that
I am traveling to Europe, some have asked if I will be safe. I get the concern
but I have full faith in Focus and Tumlare to make it a great trip and will
assure we are safe. I’m also a little fatalistic, if it my time, it is my time.
On a lighter note: TMZ has announced that Sara
Palin will be the ‘judge’ on a new show on TV. When producers of the new show asked
if it was a problem that she is not a judge and has no law degree, the answer
was she will ‘preside over the court of common sense.’ I have nothing to say.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Look Closer!
Rebus brain teasers use words or
letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
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Difficulty:
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What is this rebus?
PinnAcLeS
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…Harper’s Index…
$3,000,000-Minimum amount charged on Defense
Dept. credit cards last year at strip clubs and casinos
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…Why the Chicken Crossed The Road…
BILL GATES: I have just released e-Chicken
2015, which will not only cross roads, but will lay eggs, file your important
documents and balance your checkbook. Internet Explorer is an integral
part of e-Chicken 2015. This new platform is much more stable and will never
reboot.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
richardmillar Walking free Note: This photographer was our guide on the Focus Travel Club/HLO South
African safari. Great to see he is still photographing
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2 jokes for the day
Don’t get upset if I ask you where something is in Target when you choose to
wear a red shirt and khakis to shop.
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An MIT linguistics professor was lecturing his class the other day. "In
English," he said, "a double negative forms a positive. However, in
some languages, such as Russian, a double negative remains a negative. But
there isn't a single language, not one, in which a double positive can express
a negative."
A voice from the back of the room piped up, "Yeah, right."
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Yep, It Really Happened
*--- Gators, and Pythons and Sushi, Oh My! ---*
Last month is was an alligator in Florida.
This month it is a python in California. What is it with people and dangerous,
exotic animals and restaurants? Authorities said a man had been dining while
holding a small snake at Iroha Sushi of Tokyo in Studio City. Witnesses said he
became angry and got into an argument after showing the small snake to several
customers. He later returned to the restaurant with a 13-foot python, allegedly
yelling obscenities, and tossing the python on the floor. "We asked him
like three or four times and he said, 'no.' He was like starting fights with
the customers so we had to call the police and fire department," waitress
Sissi Dashtort said. Police say the man was arrested and charged with criminal
threats.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The Gettysburg Address was 269
words. The Declaration of Independence is 1,337 words. Versions of the Bible
range from 750,000 to 775,000 words. According to Forbes.com, the U.S. Tax Code
is about four million words, "just under four times the number of words in
all of the Harry Potter books put together."
Roots of the personal income tax and the Internal Revenue Service go back to
the Civil War. President Abraham Lincoln and Congress in 1862 created the first
income tax to help pay for the war. It was repealed in 1872. Congress revived
the income tax in 1894, but the Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional in
1895.
The 16th Amendment authorizing the income tax was adopted Feb. 3, 1913, when
Delaware, Wyoming and New Mexico voted to ratify it, putting the amendment over
the required 36-state threshhold. Four states rejected the amendment. And two
other states never considered it, Florida was one of them.
The primary filing form has always been Form 1040. It comes from a four-digit
numbering system in 1913 when the first income tax forms were created; the
numbers started with 1,001. By the time this particular form was finished, 39
others had been completed already.
President Gerald Ford was the first modern-day president to publicly release a
summary of his income tax returns; every president since then has released
their personal returns. President and Mrs. Obama's return for 2012 showed an
adjusted gross income of $608,611, itemized deductions of $258,385 and a refund
of $16,815.
The filing deadline for 1913 taxes was March 1. In 1918, the deadline date was
changed to March 15. In 1955 Tax Day was changed to April 15.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(94) Fanny
Crosby,
American
hymnist (d. 1915)
(82) Andrew
W. Mellon,
Pittsburgh,
banker (Mellon Bank), US Secretary of the Treasury (1921-32) and
philanthropist, (d1937)
(52) Harry
Houdini [Erich Weiss],
Famous
magician and escape artist, born in Budapest, Austria-Hungary (d. 1926)
(95) Arthur
Murray,
dancer
(Arthur Murray's Dance Party) (d.1991)
(89) John
Cameron Swayze,
news
correspondent/spokesman (Timex) (d.1995)
76- Bob
Mackie,
Monterey
Parks California, designer (Streisand, Cher)
(74) Norman
Fell,
Philadelphia,
actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate) (d.1998)
(68) John
Wesley Powell,
US,
geologist/explorer/ethnologist (d.1902)
(68) Thomas
E. Dewey,
Owosso,
Mich, Governor and Republican presidential candidate (1944, 1948), born in (d.
1971)
54- Star
Jones,
attorney/TV
hostess (NBC, Inside Edition)
(50) Steve
McQueen,
Beech
Grove, In, American actor (The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape) (d.1980)
43- Jim
Parsons,
Houston,
actor (The Big Bang Theory),
40- Peyton
Manning,
New
Orleans, American football player
(35) Clyde
Barrow,
American
bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame), born in Ellis County, Texas (d. 1934)
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Historical Obits Today
@93-1984 Sam
Jaffe,
actor
(Dr Zorba-Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 93
@79-2010 Robert
Culp,
American
actor (I Spy), heart attack
@77-1905 Jules
Verne,
French
writer "Father of Science Fiction" (Around the World in 80 Days), diabetes
@75-1882 Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow,
US
poet (Song of Hiawatha)
@69-1603 Elizabeth
I Tudor,
[Virgin
Queen], of England and Ireland (1558-1603)
@59-1964 Peter
Lorre,
Hungarian/US
actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), stroke
@56-1990 Rene
Enriquez,
actor
(Hill St Blues), pancreatic cancer
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Brain Teasers Answers
Friends in high places. The word is
"pinnacles", which is another word for high places. The capitalized
letters spell "pals", another word for friends. The pals are in the
pinnacles!
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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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