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3.7.16 Week: 10 \ Day: 67
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 58° \ L 25° Average Sky Cover: 5% 
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  34mph Wind Advisory in effect
Record High: 66°[1972]   Record Low: -1°[1945]
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Quote of the Day 

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Observances Today                         
Casimir Pulaski Day Link 
Cereal Day Link
Fun Facts About Names Day  Link  
National Be Heard Day
National Cereal Day  Link

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Observances This Week
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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
6-12

Girl Scout Week Link 
Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week Link
National Sleep Awareness Week
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Read an E-Book Week Link
Return The Borrowed Books Week
Save Your Vision Week
Teen Tech Week
Women in Construction Week  Link
Festival of Owls Week
National School Breakfast Week
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1774   British close port of Boston to all commerce

1801   Massachusetts enacts 1st state voter registration law
1850   Daniel Webster endorses Compromise of 1850
1876   Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone
1887   North Carolina State University is founded by the North Carolina General Assembly.
1917 1st jazz record released on a 78 by Original Dixieland Jass Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company ("Dixie Jazz Band One Step," one side "Livery Stable Blues" other)
1918   Pres Wilson authorizes US Army's Distinguished Service Medal
1925   American Negro Congress organizes
1933  Game of "Monopoly" invented
1939  Glamour magazine begins publishing
1942   1st cadets graduated from flying school at Tuskegee
1955   Mary Martin as "Peter Pan" televised

1981 1st homicide at Disneyland, 18 year old is stabbed to death
1983 TNN (The Nashville Network) begins on Cable TV
1995 NY becomes 38th state to have the death penalty
1996 1st surface photos of Pluto (photographed by Hubble Space Telescope)
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1530  King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope. Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church
1785   James Hutton, geologist, presents his full theory of uniformitarianism at a meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
1912   Roald Amundsen announces discovery of the South Pole
1939   Guy Lombardo & Royal Canadians 1st record "Auld Lang Syne"
1973   Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
1989   Iran drops diplomatic relations with Britain over Salman Rushdie's book "Satanic Verses"
1994   ANC chief Nelson Mandela rejects demand by white right-wingers for separate homeland in South Africa
2005   Mass protest outside the National Assembly of Kuwait building for women's voting rights in Kuwait.
2013   UN Security Council approves further North Korean sanctions for its nuclear testing
2015   54 people are killed & 143 are wounded by 5 Boko Haram suicide bombings in Maiduguri city, Nigeria
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My Rambling Thoughts
Wind, wind, and more wind has arrived. Not a day to be outside.
Watched way too much Netflix last night. Now having a very lazy day.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Missing Letters I
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Below are incomplete words. Place two letters in each bracket so that you can complete the word on the left and begin the word on the right. Good luck.

Perfu (--) rge
Barb (--) itor
Again (--) ain
Sta (--) sture
Giraf (--) deral
Featu (--) medy

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…Harper’s Index…
1/4 –Portion of white Americans who say that the closing of a local public library would have a major impact on their family
1/2 –of Hispanic Americans
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…Politicians on the Chicken Crossing The Road…
BILL CLINTON: I did not cross the road with that chicken.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

natgeoPhotograph by @JohnStanmeyer
Farmers pond, silently veiled in trees, at a village on the outskirts of #Gyumri,#Armenia.

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2 jokes for the day
You wanna hear a dirty joke? 

A boy fell in a mud puddle. 

You wanna hear a clean joke? 

He took a bath.

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Dam It -
Q: What did the fish say when he swam into a cement wall? 

A: "Dam."   

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Yep, It Really Happened
Man Convicted of Stabbing Neighbor Over Birds
CAMDEN, N.J. - A southern New Jersey man has been found guilty of stabbing his downstairs neighbor to death in a dispute over pet birds. Camden County prosecutors say 65-year-old David Giordano was convicted of aggravated manslaughter in the slaying of 52-year-old Michael Taylor. The Voorhees Township man had been Taylor's upstairs neighbor. Prosecutors say Giordano poured water on Taylor's pet birds because they were chirping too loudly. The birds had been kept on Taylor's porch. Giordano then repeatedly stabbed Taylor with a knife when Taylor confronted him. Taylor died from his injuries at a hospital nearly three weeks later. Giordano faces 15 to 30 years in state prison.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(86) Yvonne Chouteau,
Fort Worth, Texas, Shawanee dancer (one of the "five Moons" of Oklahoma), born in (d. 2016)
(77) Luther Burbank,
Lancaster, Massachusetts, American horticulturist who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants,  (d. 1926)
76- Daniel J Travanti,
Kenosha, Wisconsin, actor (Frank Furillo-Hill St Blues)
(65) Tammy Faye Bakker,
gospel singer/wife of Jim Baker (PTL)(d,2007)
(64) James Donnelly,
Irish-Canadian patriarch of the Donnelly family (Black Donnelly massacre), (d. 1880)
64- Lynn Swann,
NFL receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)/sportscaster
(63) Robert Roy MacGregor,
Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
(62) Maurice Ravel,
French composer (d. 1937)
60- Bryan Cranston,
Canoga Park, California, American actor (Breaking Bad, Malcolm in the Middle)
56- Ivan Lendl,
Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, Czech tennis champion (US Open 1985-87)
52- Wanda Sykes,
American actress and comedienne
46- Rachel Weisz,
London, English actress (The Mummy, The Constant Gardener) and fashion model
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Historical Obits Today
@89-1967 Alice B. Toklas,
American companion to Gertrude Stein
@77-1844 John Wedgwood,
ceramicist and founder of the Royal Horticulture Society
@75-1985 Victor W Farris,
inventor of paper milk carton, etc
@70-1999 Stanley Kubrick,
American film director (2001 A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange) heart attack
@62-322 BC Aristotle,
Greek philosopher
@48-1274 Thomas Aquinas,
Italian thelogian/saint, riding accident
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Brain Teasers Answers
Perfume - merge
Barbed - editor
Against - stain
Stage - gesture
Giraffe - federal
Feature - remedy

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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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