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3.28.16 Week: 13 \ Day: 88
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 63° \ L 14° Average
Sky Cover: 20%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 68°[1971] Record Low: -1°[1975]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
International
Sister Cities Day Link
Barnum & Bailey Day
Be Mad Day
Mule Day
Virtual
Advocacy Day Link
Weed Appreciation Day Link
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Observances This Week
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
1799 NY State
abolished slavery
1804 Ohio passed
law restricting movement of Blacks, 1804
1845 Mexico
drops diplomatic relations with US
1866 1st
ambulance goes into service
1881 "Greatest
Show On Earth" was formed by PT Barnum & James A Bailey
1885 US
Salvation Army officially organized
1935 Robert
Goddard uses gyroscopes to control a Rocket
1972 Wilt
Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game
1978 Daryl Gates
becomes the 49th Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
1982 1st NCAA
Women's Basketball Championship: LA Tech beats Cheney 76-62
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
845 Paris is sacked by Viking raiders,
probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for
leaving.
1794 Louvre
opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1910 1st
seaplane, takes off from water at Martinques France (Henri Fabre)
1922 1st
microfilm device introduced
1939 Spanish
Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco 1960 Scotch
whisky factory explodes burying 20 fire fighters (Glasgow, Scotland)
2013 Pope Francis becomes
the first Pope to wash the feet of women in the Maundy Thursday service
2014 Russia
increases the price of gas to the Ukraine by 80%
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great Easter weather. Having a great day of
peace and quiet.
Pulled together my income tax stuff, at least
most of it. Now to set up an appointment to get it done.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Plain White
Riddles are little poems or phrases
that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this
is not a requirement.
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Difficulty:
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I constantly collide into all the
others,
The only one of 16 without colors.
Associated with English and banking and breaking,
The answer is right there for the taking.
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…Harper’s Index…
84-Estimated percentage of people killed in US
air strikes in Afghanistan in 2012 who were not intended targets
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto @ladzinski /
A fully grown #JoshuaTree extending
a composed gesture of love around its distantly related cousin, the Mojave Yucca,
seen leaning in here. #JoshuaTreeNationalPark
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2 jokes for the day
What is the longest word in the world?
Smiles ... because there is a MILE between the first and last letter.
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Little Johnny runs to his dad and
says, "Dad, there's water in the carburetor of the car!"
"How can you be so sure?" the father asks.
"I just know there is," replies Little Johnny.
"Do you even know what a carburetor is?"
"No," says Little Johnny.
"OK, where is the car?"
"In the lake."
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-------- College Degrees Are For Suckers --------*
If you ever thought lawyers were full of shit,
you were right. 45-year-old Kimberly Kitchen of James Creek, Pennsylvania used
forged documents to pretend to be a lawyer for an entire decade. The firm she
was working for only discovered her fraud last year. Kitchen handled estate
planning for more than 30 clients 'despite never having attended law school,
nor being admitted to the bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,' the
attorney general said in a statement. She had a forged law license, bar exam
results, an email showing she attended Duquesne University law school and a
check for a state attorney registration fee. The forgery charge is a
first-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to five years in prison; the
unauthorized practice charge is a third-degree misdemeanor, carrying up to a
year in jail. So how poorly did Ms. Kitchen perform as a lawyer with no formal
education or training? When she was discovered her firm was about to make her a
partner.
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Somewhat Useless Information
1. “Racism springs from ignorance.” – Mario Balotelli
2. “I refuse to accept the view that
mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that
the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality… I
believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.” –
Martin Luther King, Jr.
3. “You don’t fight racism with racism, the best way to
fight racism is with solidarity.” – Bobby Seale
4. “Racism is man’s gravest threat to man – the maximum
of hatred for a minimum of reason.” – Abraham Joshua Heschel
5. “You can’t delete racism. It’s like
a cigarette. You can’t stop smoking if you don’t want to, and you can’t stop
racism if people don’t want to. But I’ll do everything I can to help.” – Mario
Balotelli
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Ways to Spot an
American Abroad
Drinking Too Much
Look,
it's not that we can't hold our liquor. It's just that alcohol is way more
taboo here than most other countries. When kids go someplace that actually lets
them drink, they don't know what their limit is because nobody told them
how to drink responsibly. Plus, we like to check out your hospitals since we
spend two and a half times more on healthcare than you guys do. Americans want to
learn your secrets.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
88- Zbigniew
Brzezinski,
Warsaw,
national security advisor (Carter)
(81) Marlin
Perkins,
Carthage
Mo, TV host (Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom) (d.1986)
(67) Frederick
Pabst,
American
brewer (d. 1904)
61- Reba
McEntire,
McAlester
Ok, country singer (Can't Even Get the Blues)
50- Salt
(Cheryl R. James),
rocker
(Salt 'n' Pepa-Shake Ya Thang)
46- Vince
Vaughn,
Minneapolis,
American actor (Swingers, Wedding Crashers)
35- Julia
Stiles,
NYC,
American actress (Bourne series, Save the Last Dance)
30- Lady
Gaga [Stefani Germanotta],
NYC,
American singer/songwriter (Bad Romance)
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Historical Obits Today
@85-1991 Carlos
Montalban,
actor
(Bananas)
@80-1979 Emmett
Kelly,
circus
clown (Weary Willy)
@78-1969 Dwight
D. Eisenhower,
34th
US President (R, 1953-61) and WWII general, congestive heart failure
@66-1980 Jesse
Owens,
(Oly-gold-36),
lung cancer
@65-1953 Jim
Thorpe,
versatile
Saux & Fox athlete (Olympic gold-1912), heart failure
@59-1941 Virginia
Woolf-Stephen [Adeline],
British
writer (To Lighthouse), suicide
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Brain Teasers Answers
The cue ball on a pool table.
English is when spin is put on the cue ball to make it curve or bounce
differently off the rail. Banking is when a shot is played off the rail.
Breaking is the first shot played in a game of pool. The hint refers to the
fact that chalk is placed on a cue before it strikes the cue ball.
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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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