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3.27.16 Week: 13 \ Day: 87
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 56° \ L 28° Average
Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 14mph\Gusts: 37mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 70°[1986] Record Low: -1°[1975]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Celebrate
Exchange Day Link
International
Sister Cities Day-28 Link
Plum
Pudding Day Link
Quirky Country Music Song Titles Day
Viagra Day
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Observances This 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
1513 Spaniard Juan Ponce de León and
his expedition first sight Florida
1794 The US Gov’t establishes a permanent
navy and authorizes the building of six frigates.
1814 Battle at Horseshoe Bend:
General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek
Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alaba
1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1860 M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet
screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
1863 American Confederate Pres. Jefferson Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting and prayer
1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1866 President Johnson vetoes civil rights
bill; it later becomes 14th amendment
1884 1st long-distance telephone call,
Boston-NY
1912 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees
planted in Washington, D.C.
1915 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is arrested and
returned to quarantine on North Brother Island, New York after spending five
years evading health authorities and causing several further outbreaks of
typhoid
1939 1st NCAA Men's Basketball
Championship: U of Oregon beats OH State 46-33
1940 "Rebecca" based on the book by Daphne du Marurier, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring Laurence Oliver, and Joan Fontaine premeieres in LA. (Best Picture 1941)
1952 Sun Records of Memphis begins
releasing records
1952 "Singin' in the Rain", a
musical comedy starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds, is
released
1955 Steve McQueen makes his network
TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
1958 CBS Labs announce new stereophonic
records
Havana Hilton opens
1964 Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on
Richter scale, 118 die
1966 Anti Vietnam war demonstrations in
US, Europe & Australia
1973 45th Academy Awards - "The
Godfather", Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando
turns down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
1979 US Supreme Court rules 8-1 that cops
can't randomly stop cars
1980 Mount St Helens becomes active after
123 years
1982 "Best Little Whorehouse..."
closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 performances
1990 The United States begins broadcasting
TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information blackout imposed by the
Castro regime.
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1790 The modern shoelace (string and shoe
holes) invented in England
1871 1st international rugby game-Scotland
1, England 0
1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in
Brussels)
1931 Charlie Chaplin receives
France's distinguished Legion of Honor
1933 Polythene discovered by Reginald
Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
1971 The Alliance Party of Northern
Ireland (APNI) holds its first Annual Conference in the Ulster Hall in Belfast
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My Rambling Thoughts
Windy spring day…typical N. AZ this time of
year. While the wind is very much a pain just about everywhere, there is at
least no sand in the air. Promises from the weatherman that Easter will be
nice, sunny, warm, and only slightly breezy. Hmmm…heard that one before.
As if this political season hasn’t been insane
enough…now the media is reporting that all the caucus and polling results may not
be the actual votes at the conventions. Huh?
Had to laugh a few months ago when Trump was
trying to pose with an Bald Eagle and the bird was not too happy to sit still.
Then yesterday a small bird landed on the podium and just sat there quietly listening
to Bernie. Maybe nature knows more about our candidates than many voters do.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Man's Thirst
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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This teaser is in honor of man's
quest to quench his thirst with non-alcoholic beverages. Can you figure out
what drinks are depicted below?
1. Joint between thigh and lower leg + having great elevation + yielding
readily to pressure + swallowing liquid contents.
2. A practitioner of medicine + spicy hot pod like fruit that grows on plants.
3. Dried and powdered rhizome used as spice + another name for beer.
4. Underground portion of a plant + another name for ale.
5. A natural elevation of the earth's surface having considerable mass and a
height greater than that of a hill + water droplets condensed from the air.
6. A powder made from cacao seeds + tropical African evergreen plant having
reddish fragrant nutlike seeds.
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…Harper’s Index…
10-Factor by which a US drone strike is more
likely than a conventional US air strike to kill civilians
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeocreativePhoto
by @michaelnicknichols:
Orphan #elephants spend
an afternoon mudding in a man-made #waterhole in #Kenya.
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2 jokes for the day
Can February March?
Don't know, but April May.
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How many cups of coffee will this
hold?” the man asked as he placed a large thermos on the lunchroom counter.
“Six cups,” advised the waitress.
“Fine,” replied the man. “Give me two cups regular, two cups black, and two
with extra cream."
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Yep, It Really Happened
*---------- Microsoft's New Racist A.I. ----------*
Microsoft's newly launched A.I.-powered bot
called Tay, which was responding to tweets and chats on GroupMe and Kik, has
already been shut down due to concerns with its inability to recognize when it
was making offensive or racist statements. The bot wasn't coded to be racist,
but it 'learns' from those it interacts with. And naturally, given that this is
the Internet, one of the first things online users taught Tay was how to be
racist. Tay is able to perform a number of tasks, like telling users jokes, or
offering comments, but she is also designed to personalize her interactions
with users. As Twitter users quickly came to understand, Tay would often repeat
back racist tweets with her own commentary. What was also disturbing about this,
is that Tay's responses were developed by a staff that included improvisational
comedians. That means even as she was tweeting out offensive racial slurs, she
seemed to do so with abandon and nonchalance.
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Ways to Spot an
American Abroad
Fanny Packs
Americans don't actually wear fanny packs in the
states. For some reason, though, they become a crucial part of the ensemble
when we go overseas. Maybe it's the articles we read telling us to watch our
wallet. Maybe we don't know what to do with our stuff when we don't have our
SUV to cart it all around in. Whatever the reason, here we are. (You might also
want to check your white socks, gym shoes, shorts, and baseball caps.)
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(96) Selma
Rubin,
Toledo,
Ohio, environmental activist (Earth Day co-founder), (d. 2012)
(85) Anthony
Lewis,
New
York, columnist (NY Times) and author (Gideon's Trumpet) (d.2013)
(84) Gloria
Swanson,
Chicago,
American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly) (d.1983)
(84) Cyrus
R Vance,
Secretary
of State (d.2002)
(79) [James]
Alfred Ewing,
Dundee,
Scottish Physicist (magnetic properties of metals, hysteresis) (d.1935)
(77) Wilhelm
Röntgen,
Lennep,
Rhine Province, German physicist who discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901) (d.1923)
(75) Nathaniel
Currier,
lithographer
(Currier & Ives) (d.1888)
74- Michael
York,
England,
actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)
(66) Sarah
L Vaughan,
Newark,
NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody) (d.1990)
58- Bart
Connor,
gymnast/sportscaster
(Olympic-gold-1984)
57- Jennifer
Grey,
actress
(Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter
53- Quentin
Tarantino,
Knoxville,
Tn American director and screenwriter (Pulp Fiction)
(48) David
Janssen, [Meyer],
Naponee
Neb, actor (The Fugitive, Harry O), (d. 1980)
47- Pauley
Perrette,
American
actress, photographer, poet, writer
46- Mariah
Carey,
NYC,
singer (Love Takes Time, Hero)
41- Fergie
Duhamel,
Hacienda
Heights, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas)
28- Brenda
Song,
American
Disney actress
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Historical Obits Today
@95-2002 Billy
Wilder,
Austrian-born
American film director (The Lost Weekend, Some Like it Hot)
@93-2002 Milton
Berle,
American
actor and comedian (b. 1908)
@66-2002 Dudley
Moore,
British
actor, pneumonia
@58-1625 James
VI and I,
Scottish
born King of Scotland )1657-1625) and King of England and Ireland (1603-25),
poet and author
@34-1968 Yuri
Gagarin,
1st
man to orbit Earth,plane crash
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Nehi Soft Drink. (Knee + high + soft +
drink.)
2. Dr Pepper. (Doctor + pepper.)
3. Ginger Ale. (Ginger + ale.)
4. Root Beer. (Root + beer.)
5. Mountain Dew. (Mountain + Dew.)
6. Coca-Cola. (Cocoa + Kola.)
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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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