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3.16.16 Week: 11 \ Day: 76
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 62° \ L 25° Average
Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts: 8mph
Record High: 72°[2007] Record Low: -1°[1969]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Freedom
of Information Day
Brain Injury Awareness Day Link
Black Press Day
Curlew Day
Kick
Butts Day Link
Lips Appreciation Day
No Selfies Day
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Observances This Week
11-17
Turkey
Vultures Return to the Living Sign
13-19
Campfire
USA Birthday Week
Consider Christianity Week
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week
14-20
International
Brain Awareness Week
14-18
Stand
Up! LGBT Awareness Week Link (Against homophobic bullying)
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1621 Native American chief Samoset visits
colony of Plymouth Mass
1802 Law signed to establish US Military
Academy (West Point, NY)
1802 US Army Corps of Engineers
established (2nd time)
1827 1st US black newspaper,
"Freedom's Journal" (NYC), begins publishing
1833 Susan Hayhurst becomes 1st US woman
grad of a pharmacy college
1850 Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The
Scarlet Letter" published by Ticknor, Reed and Fields in Boston
1861 Arizona Territory votes to leave the
Union (US Civil War)
1867 1st publication of an article by
Joseph Lister outlining the discovery of antiseptic surgery, in The Lancet.
1871 1st fertilizer law enacted
1881 Barnum & Bailey Circus debuts
1882 US Senate ratifies treaty
establishing the Red Cross
1912 Mrs William Howard Taft plants 1st
cherry tree in Washington, D.C.
1915 Federal Trade Commission organizes
1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st
liquid fuel rocket, goes 184' (56 meters) 1934 Congress passes
Migratory Bird Conservation Act
1941 National Gallery of Art opens in Wash
DC
1945 Allies secure Iwo Jima
1950 1st annual National Book Awards
1955 President Eisenhower upheld
the use of atomic weapons in case of war1964 LBJ asks Congress
to pass Economic Opportunity Act as part of his War on Poverty
1968 My Lai massacre occurs (Vietnam War);
450 die
1968 Robert F. Kennedy announces
presidential campaign1971 Muddy Waters wins his first Grammy
Award, Hollywood1974 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at
Opryland in Nashville
1985 Associated Press correspondent Terry
Anderson taken hostage in Beirut
1991 Members of Irish Gay & Lesbian
Organization march in NYC parade
1994 Tonya Harding pleads guilty to felony
attack on Nancy Kerrigan
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1190 York Program: Jews living in York,
England, besieged in Clifford's Tower and massacred or commit suicide rather
than submit to baptism
1690 French King Louis XIV sends
troops to Ireland
1818 Second Battle of Cancha Rayada -
Spanish forces defeat Chileans under José de San Martín.
1830 London's re-organised police force
(Scotland Yard)
1900 Sir Arthur Evans rediscovers the
bronze age city of Knossos in Crete, home of the legendary Minotaur
1935 Adolf Hitler orders German
rearmament in violation of The Treaty of Versailles
1978 Red Brigade kidnaps former premier Aldo
Moro in Italy, 5 killed
1998 Pope John Paul II asks God
for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during
the Holocaust.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy day, but no precipitation. We can sure
use some
So it’s Super Tuesday #3…really…what a mess,
late opening of some polls, misprinted ballots. All these primaries are simply,
in most cases, for members of the given party. It is their way of selecting
their candidate. I guess this is better than waiting until the convention and
meeting in smoke filled rooms. Too bad many don’t get that it is the Party
election. Some states allow you to switch party affiliation at the polling
place. Other states allow independents to vote in the party they choose. Some
of this is just crazy for me. If I join a club of Nissan owners, I don’t want
Kia or Toyota owners voting on our clubs rules or picking our club leader. Let
each party, including the minor parties, pay for the election, set the rules,
and make them consistent at every polling place in the US. Everybody else
should remain quiet.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
CHoCoLaTe
Trick brain teasers
appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.
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Difficulty:
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What 5 chemical elements make
chocolate?
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…Harper’s Index…
1/6-Portion of likely NC Republican primary voters
who believe that a Muslim should be allowed to be president
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…Why the Chicken Crossed The Road…
MARTHA STEWART: No one called me to warn me which
way the chicken was going. I had a standing order at the Farmer's Market
to sell my eggs when the price dropped to a certain level. No little bird
gave me any insider information.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @stevemccurryofficial //
Dozens of shikaras
filled with fruits and vegetables jostle for space on Dal Lake, Kashmir, as
farmers transact the early morning business of Srinagar's wholesale produce
market. Some farmers tend floating gardens: They weave stalks of water plants
into a living offshore raft, cover it with soil, and then plant crops.
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2 jokes for the day
Wife: Dear God, I wish you could make my husband pay more attention to me,
protect me, take me out, sleep close to me at night. I wish he would be more
caring, even if I got the smallest of scratches.
God turned her into a smartphone.
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A couple drove down a country road for several miles, not saying a word. An
earlier discussion had led to an argument and neither of them wanted to concede
their position. As they passed a barnyard of mules, goats and cows, the husband
asked sarcastically, "Relatives of yours?"
"Yep," the wife replied, "in-laws!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle's
ambitious Office of Arts & Culture has allocated $10,000 this year to pay a
poet or writer to create a work while present on the city's Fremont Bridge
drawbridge. The office's deputy director told the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in
January that the city wants to encourage "public art" and that the
grant will oblige the recipient to create a work of prose or poetry from the
bridge's northwest tower, to help the people of Seattle understand the function
of art in the city. (The artist will not be "in residence," for the
tower has no running water.)
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Somewhat Useless Information
The letter p is the first letter of
the Greek word 'periphery' and 'perimeter.' The symbol p in mathematics
represents the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. In other
words, p is the number of times a circle's diameter will fit around its
circumference.
We can never truly measure the circumference or the area of a circle because we
can never truly know the value of pi. Pi is an irrational number, meaning its
digits go on forever in a seemingly random sequence.
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The Bible alludes to pi in 1 Kings
7:23 where it describes the altar inside Solomon's temple: "And he made a
molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim... and a line of thirty cubits did
compass it round about." These measurements procure the following
equation: 333/106 = 3.141509.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(98) Mike
Mansfield,
(Sen-D-Mont)
majority whip (d.2001)
(97) Caroline
Lucretia Herchel,
Hanover,
Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer
(91) Henny
Youngman,
London,
comedian (Take my wife please) (d.1998)
90- Jerry
Lewis [Joseph Levitch],
Newark,
NJ, American comedian and host of the annual Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon
(85) James
Madison,
Port
Conway, VA, 4th US President (d. 1836)
84- Ruth
Bader Ginsburg,
Brooklyn,
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
(81) Patricia
Nixon, [Thelma Catherine],
Ely
Nevada, 1st lady (d.1993)
(72) Anna
Atkins, Tonbridge,
England,
English botanist, photographer and the 1st person to publish a book illustrated
with photographic images, (d. 1871)
67- Erik
Estrada,
NYC,
actor (CHiPs, Cross & Switchblade, Lightblast)
(65) Georg
Simon Ohm,
Erlangen,
Brandenburg-Bayreuth, German physicist (discovered Ohm's Law) (d.1854)
57- Flavor
Flav,
Roosevelt,
New York American rapper and reality TV star
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Historical Obits Today
@81-1940 Selma
Lagerlöf,
Swedish
writer and Nobel Prize laureate
@79-1983 Arthur
Godfrey,
TV
host (Arthur Godrey Show), Emphysema
@68-1971 Thomas
E. Dewey,
president
candidate (R 1944, 48), heart attack
@64-1975 T-Bone
Walker,
blues
guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), pneumonia
@24-1970 Tammi
Terrell,
soul
singer (You're All I Need), brain tumor
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Brain Teasers Answers
Carbon (C)
Holmium (Ho)
Cobalt (Co)
Lanthanum (La)
Tellurium (Te)
Together they make chocolate (C Ho Co La
Te)
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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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