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3.26.16 Week: 12 \ Day: 86
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 59° \ L 26° Average
Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave: 18mph\Gusts: 25 Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 72°[1988] Record Low: -8°[1902]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
International
Sister Cities Day-28 Link
Legal Assistants Day
Purple
Day Link
Spinach Day Link
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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
26-4/3
Nano
Days Link
National Cleaning Week
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week
Root Canal Awareness Week Link
National Protocol Officer's Week
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1682 On the Mississippi River, la Salle first
meets the Natchez. This is the first recorrded meeting of Europeans and the Natchez.
1790 US Congress passes Naturalization
Act, requires 2-year residency
1830 The Book of Mormon is published in
Palmyra, New York.
1845 Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a
corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated
plaster, precusor of bandaid
1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st
commercial motion picture film
1910 US forbid immigration to criminals,
anarchists, paupers & the sick
1926 The 1st lip-reading tournament held
in America
1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx,
erect statue of Popeye
1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces
vaccine to prevent polio
1955 "Ballad of Davy Crockett"
becomes the #1 record in US
1962 US Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote
apportionment of seats in state legistature
1973 A Native American mass will be held
in New York City at Saint John the Divine Cathedral. Almost 4,000 people will
attend.
1982 Paul McCartney & Stevie
Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1987 Natl Fed of High School adopts
college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1999 The "Melissa worm" infects
Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
1999 A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack
Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection
to a terminally ill man.
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1636 University of Utrecht opening
ceremony
1668 England takes control of Bombay,
India
1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears
(British Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1886 1st cremation in England
1931 New Delhi replaces Calcutta as
capital of British-Indies
1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 18,000
Japanese & 6,000 Americans killed
1970 The Police (Northern Ireland) Act
becomes law; the act provides for the disarmament of the Royal Ulster
Constabulary (RUC) and the establishment of an RUC reserve force
1976 Queen Elizabeth II sent out
the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment.
1985 Pope John Paul II proclaims
first ever World Youth Day
2006 In Scotland the prohibition of smoking
in all substantially enclosed public places comes into force.
2012 Canadian filmmaker James Cameron becomes
the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the deepest point on Earth in over
50 years
2015 Richard III of England (1452-1485) is
reburied at Leicester Cathedral in England, after being discovered under a
carpark in Leicester in 2012
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice spring day here. Did some running around
and found everything I needed, and some things I didn’t know I needed.
I’ve been reading in the paper for years about
the traffic problems in Old Flagstaff. I haven’t needed to go over there for
decades, and couldn’t understand all the fuss. Well today I had to go to a
store in Old Town. Things have really changed. The traffic in and out is
horrible, but I must say the locals are very nice and stop to let people into
the traffic flow or to cut across the flow to get to a store. The next time I
hear these people complaining, I will certainly listen better.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
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Difficulty:
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Force
Rebus brain teasers use words or
letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
A man wanted to encrypt his password
but he needed to do it in a way so that he could remember it. His password is 7
characters long. The password consists of letters and numbers only (no symbols
like ! or <). In order to remember it he wrote down "You force heaven
to be empty." Can you guess what his password is?
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…Harper’s Index…
2/5-portion of Americans who would support
building a wall along the border with Canada
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…Why the Chicken Crossed The Road…
COLONEL SANDERS: Did I miss one??????
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeocreativePhoto
by @coryrichards:
Buddhist #prayerflags hang
from the Bodhnath Stupa in #Nepal.
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2 jokes for the day
My wife told me that I did not love
any of her relatives...
I told her that is not true. I said, "I love your mother-in-law and
father-in-law much more than I love mine."
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Yesterday at a job interview I filled my glass of water until it overflowed a
little.
"Nervous?" asked the interviewer.
I replied, "No, I always give 110%."
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Yep, It Really Happened
New York Post -- Homeless
people frequently store their few possessions in commandeered shopping carts,
but New Yorker Sonia Gonzalez, 60, became a legend recently on Manhattan's West
Side by maneuvering a stunning, block-long assemblage of more than 20 carts'
worth of possessions along the sidewalks. Among the contents: an air
conditioner, a laundry hamper, shower curtain rods, a wire shelving unit,
wooden pallets, suit cases and, of course, bottles and cans. She moved along by
pushing carts two or three at a time, a few feet at a time, blocking entrances
to stores in the process. (The day after a New York Post story on Gonzalez's
caravan, Mayor DiBlasio ordered city workers to junk everything not essential,
leaving her with about one cart's worth.)
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Somewhat Useless Information
It used to take 27 hours to make a
Peep. That was in 1953, when Sam Born acquired the Rodda Candy Company and its
line of marshmallow chicks. Back then, each chick was handmade with a pastry
tube. Just Born quickly set about automating the process, so that it now takes
just six minutes to make a Peep.
Yellow chicks are the original Peep, and still the favorite. Yellow bunnies are
the second most popular color/shape combination. Pink is the second
best-selling color.
The Peep recipe begins with a boiling batch of granulated sugar, liquid sugar,
and corn syrup, to which gelatin and vanilla extract are later added.
Since Just Born turned Peeps-making into an automated process, the chicks have
been carefully formed by a top-secret machine known as The Depositor. Created
by Sam Born's son, Bob, The Depositor could manufacture six rows of five Peeps
apiece in a fraction of the time it took workers to form them by hand.
Peeps used to have wings. They were clipped in 1955, two years after the first
marshmallow chicks hatched, to give the candy a sleeker, more
"modern" look.
The final flourish for all of these squishy balls of sweetness is adding the
eyes, which are made of carnauba-a non-toxic edible wax (that is also found in
some shoe polishes and car waxes, plus many other candies).
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(91) William
Westmoreland,
Saxon
SC, army general (Vietnam era) (d.2005)
(88) Robert
Frost,
San
Francisco, American poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken), (d. 1963)
86- Sandra
Day O'Connor,
Texas,
1st woman Supreme Court Justice
(83) Leonard
Nimoy,
Boston,
American actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible), (d. 2015)
76- James
Caan, Bronx,
American
actor (Misery, The Godfather)
76- Nancy
Pelosi,
(Rep-D-California)
73- Robert
"Bob" Woodward,
Geneva
Illinois, Washington Post investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
72- Diana
Ross, [Earle],
Detroit,
(Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany)
(71) Tennessee
Williams,
Columbus,
Miss American playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), (d. 1983)
70- Johnny
Crawford, LA, actor (Mark-The Rifleman)
68- Steven
Tyler,
NYC,
rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun) 67- Vicki Lawrence,
Inglewood
Ca, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's Family)
66- Martin
Short,
Hamilton,
Ontario Canadian comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
(61) Strother
Martin,
Kokomo,
In American actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot), (d. 1980)
(59) Teddy
Pendergrass,
Phila,
singer (Turn Off the Lights) (d.2010)
(49) Betty
MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard],
US
writer (Egg & I)(d.1958)
48- Kenny
Chesney,
American
singer
31- Keira
Knightley,
London,
English actress (Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean)
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Historical Obits Today
@81-1996 Edmund
S Muskie,
vice
pres candidate/(Gov-D-Maine)
@77-1923 Sarah
Bernhardt, [Henriette],
actress
(Queen Elizabeth), uremia
@76-2003 Daniel
Patrick Moynihan,
U.S.
Senator, infection
@75-2011 Geraldine
Ferraro,
Congresswoman
and VP nominee, cancer
@73-1973 Noel
Coward,
English
playwright (Private Letters), heart failure
@72-1892 Walt
Whitman,
American
poet, pleurisy
@69-1657 Jacob
van Eyck,
Dutch
blind flautist/carillonneur
@62-2004 Jan
Berry,
American
musician (Jan and Dean), seizure
@61-1649 John
Winthrop,
Puritan
& 1st Governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony
@56-1827 Ludwig
van Beethoven,
German
composer (Appassionata)
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Brain Teasers Answers
U472BMT
Try prounouncing the answer "U Four Seven Two B M T".
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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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