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3.3.16
Week: 09 \ Day: 63
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 65° \ L 29° Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
19mph
Record High:
66°[1910] Record Low: -9°[1915]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
International Ear Care Day
Princess
Day Link
World
Book Day Link
World Wildlife Day Link
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Observances This Week
1-7
National
Cheerleading Week
National Ghostwriters Week
National Pet Sitters Week Link
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
Universal Human Beings Week Link
Will Eisner Week
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1634
1st
tavern in Boston opens (Samuel Cole)
1776
American
commodore Esek Hopkins occupies Nassau, Bahamas
1791
1st
US internal revenue act (taxing distilled spirits & carriages)
1801
1st
US Jewish governor, David Emanuel, takes office in Georgia
1805
Louisiana-Missouri
Territory forms
1812
US
passes 1st foreign aid bill (aids Venezuela earthquake vicitims)
1813
Office
of Surgeon General of the US Army forms
1817
Mississippi
Territory is divided into Alabama Territory & Mississippi
1819
The
United States starts its Indian "civilization" program.
1820
Missouri
Compromise passes, allowing Missouri to join the United States despite slavery
still being legal there.
1837
Congress
increases US Supreme Court membership from 7 to 9
1837
US
President Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas
1845
Florida
becomes 27th state of the Union
1849
Territory
of Minnesota organizes
1849
US
Home Department (later renamed the Department of the Interior) established by
Congress
1855
US
Congress approves $30,000 to test camels for military use
1863
1st
US wartime military conscription bill enacted
1863
Abraham
Lincoln approves charter for National Academy of Sciences1863 Idaho
Territory forms
1865
US
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, & Abandoned Lands established by Abraham
Lincoln to help destitute free blacks
1869
University
of South Carolina opens to all races
1871
US
Congress changes Indian tribes status from independent to dependent
1871
US
Congress establishes the civil service system
1877
Rutherford
Birchard Hayes is sworn in as the 19th US president
1879
1st
female lawyer heard by US Supreme Court (Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood)
1879
US
Geological Survey director authorized in Dept of the Interior
1885
1st
US state (California) establishes a permanent forest commission
1885
American
Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) incorporates
1885
US
Congress passes Indian Appropriations Act (Indians wards of federal government)
1887
Anne
Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old blind-deaf Helen Keller
1891
US
Congress creates Courts of Appeal
1900
US
Steel Corporation organizes
1901
US
Congress creates National Bureau of Standards, in Dept of Commerce
1903
North
Carolina becomes 1st state requiring registration of nurses
1905
US
Forest Service forms
1915
US
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics(NACA) created, the predecessor of
NASA
1923
Time
magazine publishes 1st issue featuring Joseph G. Cannon (Speaker of US House of
Representatives)
1931
"Star
Spangled Banner" officially becomes US national anthem by congressional
resolution
1933
Mount
Rushmore dedicated
1945
US
& Philippine forces recaptures Corregidor
1955
Elvis
Presley makes his 1st TV appearance on a broadcast of radio show
"Louisiana Hayride"
1959
1st
US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer 4, launched
1966
Buffalo
Springfield form (Steven Stills, Neil Young, et al)
1991
LA
Police severly beat motorist Rodney King, captured on amateur video
1988
The
Alaska Ntive Claims Act is amended.
2005
Steve
Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane around the world solo
without any stops without refueling - a journey of 40,234 km/25,000 mi
completed in 67 hours and 2 minutes.
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World Historical Highlights for
Today
1284
Statute
of Rhuddlan incorporated the Principality of Wales into England
1875
Georges
Bizet's opera "Carmen" premieres (Paris)
1904
Emperor Wilhelm
II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a
political document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
2004
Belgian
brewer Interbrew and Brazilian rival AmBev agreed to merge in a $11.2 billion
deal that formed InBev, the world's largest brewer.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Most of the Focus Travel Club site is updated.
Just waiting for more information.
Beautiful spring day…enjoying it while I can,
as the white stuff is headed our way over the weekend, or next week. So much
for my tulips and daffodils that are already breaking ground.
Listening to the Super Tuesday results…but
after about 2 minutes if just becomes blah, blah, blah. Ready to get to
November and see what shakes out.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Analogy Anagrams
Language brain teasers
are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and
manipulate words and letters.
Some anagrams are almost too good to
be true. The letters in the capitalised words or phrases can be rearranged in
delightful ways to fill the gaps!
e.g. Is my lovely _____ really a WOMAN HITLER?
Answer: mother-in-law
1. The _____ Church can be BEST IN PRAYER.
2. The school bully gave his victim NINE THUMPS as a _____.
3. Someone with BAD CREDIT can still manage to pay with a _____.
4. If you missed it last time, keep waiting, for _____ SHALL YET COME!
5. Perhaps because _____ could be a NICE SILKY WOMAN, a president fell for her!
Warning! The hint will give you the starting letters of all words. It will make
the teaser quite easy, so only check if really necessary!
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…Harper’s Index…
+40-Percentage change since 2005 in annual
payments made in to the music-licensing organization BMI
-30-In overall music-industry revenue
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…Politicians on the Chicken Crossing
The Road…
JOHN McCain: My friends, the chicken crossed the
road because he recognized the need to engage in cooperation and dialogue with
all the chickens on the other side of the road.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
discovery.hd.
The dance Competition.
Photography by @ (Tahir Abbas Awan).Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity
of the human spirit.
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2 jokes for the day
If Apple made a car, would it have Windows?
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Our teacher asked what my favorite animal was, and I said, "Fried
chicken."
She said I wasn't funny, but she couldn't have been right, because everyone
else laughed. My parents told me to always tell the truth. I did. Fried chicken
is my favorite animal. I told my dad what happened, and he said my teacher was
probably a member of PETA. He said they love animals very much. I do, too.
Especially chicken, pork and beef.
Anyway, my teacher sent me to the principal's office. I told him what happened,
and he laughed, too. Then he told me not to do it again.
The next day in class, my teacher asked me what my favorite live animal was. I
told her it was chicken. She asked me why, so I told her it was because you
could make them into fried chicken. She sent me back to the principal's office.
He laughed, and told me not to do it again.
I don't understand. My parents taught me to be honest, but my teacher doesn't
like it when I am. Today, my teacher asked me to tell her what famous person I
admired most.
I told her, "Colonel Sanders."
Guess where I am now ...
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Yep, It Really Happened
Active Balloon Popper Alert at Canadian School
Ottawa - The sound of popping balloons had
dozens of police officers descending on Carleton University Sunday evening,
following erroneous reports of a shooter on campus. Several students took to
social media to report a possible emergency situation, with the campus placed on
lockdown while campus security and Ottawa police investigated. The false alarm
was traced to the Tory building, near the center of the campus, where students
were reportedly popping about 80 balloons, sending some students into a panic
and triggering the emergency call. Students at the library, across the
courtyard from the Tory building, were told to stay inside until the situation
was cleared. Emergency responders quickly determined the source of the false
alarm, and the lockdown was lifted within 20 minutes.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The Roman calendar used to have 355
days with an extra 22-day month every two years until Julius Caesar became
emperor in the 1st Century and ordered his Alexandrian astronomer Sosigenes to
devise something better.
Sosigenes decided on a 365-day year with an extra day every four years to
incorporate the extra hours, and so February 29th was born.
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In addition to leap days there are
also leap seconds. A leap second is a one-second adjustment that is
occasionally applied to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) in order to keep its
time of day close to the mean solar time, or UT1. Without such a correction,
time reckoned by Earth's rotation drifts away from atomic time because of
irregularities in the Earth's rate of rotation.
Since this system of correction was implemented in 1972, 26 leap seconds have
been inserted.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(87) Ruby
Dandridge,
Memphis,
actress (Father of the Bride)
83- Lee
Radziwell Ross,
NYC,
princess (Jackie O's sister)
(76) George
William Hill,
US
astronomer (calculated Moon's orbit)(d.1914)
(75) Alexander
Graham Bell,
Edinburgh,
inventor (telephone) (d.1922)
(66) George
M Pullman,
inventor
(railway sleeping car) (d.1897)
65- Ed
Marinaro,
actor
(Hill Street Blues)
54- Herschel
Walker,
WFL/NFL
running back (NJ Generals, Dallas Cowboys)
54- Jackie
Joyner-Kersee,
E
St Louis IL, heptathele (Olympic-gold-88, 92)
45- Tyler
Florence, chef,
Food
Network personality, & cookbook author
42- David
Faustino,
Los
Angeles, actor (Bud-Married With Children)
34- Jessica
Biel,
Ely,
Minnesota, American actress (Mary Camden in 7th Heaven)
(26) Jean
Harlow, [Harlean Carpentier],
Kansas
City, Missouri, 30s' sex goddess (Dinner at 8) (d.1937)
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Historical Obits Today
@89-1993 Carlos
Montoya,
flamenco
guitarist
@89-1966 William
Frawley,
American
actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy)
@74-1987 ,
Danny Kaye (David Daniel Kaminsky)
comedian
(Danny Kaye Show), heart failure
@67-1703 Robert
Hooke,
scientific
genius
@63-1792 Robert
Adam,
Scottish
architect (Syon House, Middlesex), ulcer
@54-1992 Sandy
Dennis,
actress
(Up the Down Staircase), cancer
@52-1959 Lou
Costello,
comedian/actor
(Abbott & Costello), heart attack
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Presbyterian
2. Punishment
3. Debit Card
4. Halley's Comet
5. Monica Lewinsky
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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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