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3.24.16 Week: 12 \ Day: 84
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 57° \ L 17° Average
Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 72°[1988] Record Low: 1°[1903]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Good Friday (Christian)
International
Day of Remembrance of The Victims of Slavery and The Transatlantic
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and Missing Staff Members Link
National Day of Celebration of Greek & American Democracy
National Medal of Honor Day
Old New Year's Day
Tolkien Reading Day
Vaffeldagen (Waffle Day) Link
World
Marbles 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
21-27
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
1916: Ishi ("the last of his
tribe")dies.
1851 Yosemite Valley
discovered in California
1919 Woodrow Wilson's dream of a League of
Nations becomes a reality after the League Covenant is adopted at the Paris
Peace Conference
1939 Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly
(country) music chart
1955 United States Customs seizes copies
of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.
1971 Tom Jones' "She's a Lady" goes gold
1986 Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban
wearing of yarmulkes
1996 US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
31 1st
Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
421 Friday
at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
1199 Richard I, Lion Heart, King o f England,
is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death
1306 Robert the Bruce crowned Robert I, King
of Scots, having killed his rival John Comyn, Lord of Badenoch
1669 Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying
Nicolosi, killing 20,000
1807 First fare-paying, passenger railway
service in the world established on the Oystermouth Railway in Swansea, Wales.
1811 Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from
the University of Oxford for his publication of the pamphlet The Necessity of
Atheism.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Good lunch with Cheryl. Mary is in Phx for
Easter.
Enjoying our spring-ish weather, a little
cooler than I like, but still quite pleasant.
Have to say, this rather dirty campaign can’t
end soon enough. Don’t understand how people can vote for some candidates who
are so juvenile.
Apologies regarding my uninformed opinion on
AZ’s presidential primary. I wrongly thought that these were party selections
and that the parties paid for the election, based on the number of their voters
who voted. If the Dems had 50% of the total voters, they paid half, etc. I also
believed that was why the independents couldn’t vote in these preference
elections. I found out, thanks to the Maricopa (Phx) debacle that all taxpayers
pay for these elections. So I am now for letting independents voting in these
elections. Live and learn I always say.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Behead O
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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When you behead a word, you remove
the first letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the
two words, longer word first.
Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic
Answer: The words are Start and Tart.
1. To be required to pay -> Married
2. Allowing access -> Enclosure; writing implement
3. Organ that produces eggs -> Change with time
4. Fruit; colour -> Scope; the extent of something
5. Fruit; colour -> Exist; reside; seeing in real time
6. Colourless gas; a form of oxygen -> Area or region
7. Leaving something out -> Special assignment
8. Public speaking -> Daily food allowance
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…Harper’s Index…
1-Rank of NASA amongh the 37 large federal
agencies in an Oct. survy of employment satisfaction
17-Rank of the Dept of Homeland Secuirty
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…Why the Chicken Crossed The Road…
ALBERT EINSTEIN: Did the chicken really cross
the road, or did the road move beneath the chicken?
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2 jokes for the day
There was a sticker on a loaf of bread that said, 'baked fresh for over 50
years.'
So THAT'S how long it takes to bake fresh bread...
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Patient: Doctor help me please, every time I drink a cup of coffee I get this
intense stinging in my eye.
Doctor: I suggest you remove the spoon before drinking.
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Yep, It Really Happened
*------ What Passes for Fun in Minnesota ------*
DODGE CENTER, Minn. -
Authorities in Minnesota said an 11-year-old boy took a cement mixer truck on a
joyride and led police in a chase at speeds of up to 71 mph. The Dodge County
Sheriff's Office, the Minnesota State Patrol, Kasson police and Dodge Center
police said the incident began about 3 p.m. when the boy stole the cement truck
in Kasson and started driving it around town. Police attempted to stop the
truck for speeding, but the boy sped off and led authorities on an hour-long
chase reaching speeds of 71 mph. The boy collided with a Minnesota State Patrol
car and a Kasson police car during the pursuit, which also saw one of the
truck's tires popped with a spike strip. The young driver continued to flee on
the rim of the deflated tire, causing damage to roads and lawns, police said.
The truck was stopped in Dodge Center and the boy was taken into custody when
he attempted to flee on foot, investigators said. Authorities said no injuries
were reported and investigators were still working to determine the extent of
the damage caused by the boy. The boy was taken to the Juvenile Detention
Center in Rochester and is expected to be formally charged.
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Somewhat Useless Information
*-- Top Ten Signs You're Paranoid --*
10. You run away upon seeing a mall directory that says, "You are
here."
9. Thirty five locks on your sock drawer just aren't enough.
8. You hire a private eye to keep an eye out on your house, but then fire him
because he's part of the conspiracy.
7. Before you take the garbage cans back from the street, you check them for
really short Mafia hit men.
6. You are learning six foreign languages because you just know those people
you don't understand are talking about YOU.
5. You even wonder if the guard dog you hired is secretly plotting against you.
4. You have a funny feeling the voices in your head are plotting behind your
back.
3. It takes you three hours each evening to program the household alarms and video
surveillance system before you can go to bed.
2. You're checking off each number on this list as you read.
1. The Witness Relocation Program has told you to stop showing up unless you
have an actual reason to.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(92) Eileen
Ford,
American
modelling agency executive and co-founder (Ford Modelling Agency), born in
Manhattan, New York, (d. 2014)
(83) David
Lean,
Croydon,
England, English director (Doctor Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter), (d.1991)
82- Gloria
Steinem,
Toledo,
Ohio, American feminist and publisher (Ms Magazine)
(81) Howard
Pyle,
(Gov-R-Az,
1951-55) (d.1987)
76- Anita
Bryant,
Barnsdall
Oklahoma, singer (George Gobel Show) and anti-homosexuality campaigner
74- Aretha
Franklin,
Memphis,
Soul Sister #1/singer (Respect)
73- Paul
Michael Glaser, Cambridge
Massachusetts,
actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch)
69- Elton
John [Reginald Kenneth Dwight],
Pinner,
Middlesex, English singer (Rocketman)
(64) Béla
Bartok,
Hungary,
composer/pianist (d.1945)
63- Mary
Gross,
Chicago,
actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds)
(61) Hoyt
Axton,
Duncan,
Ok, actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters), (d.1999)
(56) Jack
Ruby,
Chicago,
killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d.1967)
51- Sarah
Jessica Parker,
American
actress (Square Pegs, Sex and the City), born in Nelsonville, Ohio
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Historical Obits Today
@89-2006 Richard
Fleischer,
American
film director
@81-2012 Larry
Stevenson [Richard],
American
skateboard innovator,
@76-2006 Buck
Owens,
American
singer and television personality (heart attack)
@69-1992 Nancy
Walker,
American
actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), cancer
@55-1918 Claude
Debussy,
French
composer (Iberia/La Mer), cancer
@54-1937 John
Drinkwater,
English
poet/playwright (Bird in Hand)
@50ish-1916: Ishi
("the
last of Yani tribe-CA), TB
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Owed -> Wed
2. Open -> Pen
3. Ovary -> Vary
4. Orange -> Range
5. Olive -> Live
6. Ozone -> Zone
7. Omission -> Mission
8. Oration -> Ration
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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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