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March 10,
2017 Week: 10 \ Day: 69
86004 Today: H 61° \
L 29° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 70°[1989] Record Low: -9°[1958]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
William Arthur Ward
Adversity causes some men to break; others to break records.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
International Bagpipe Day
International Day of Awesomeness Link
Land Line Telephone Day
Mario Day
Salvation Army Day
US Paper Money Day
Women & Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
World Sleep Day Link
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
3-15
National Days of Action Link
5-11
Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week Link
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week Link
National Sleep Awareness Week
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Return The Borrowed Books Week
Save Your Vision Week
Teen Tech Week
6-12
Women in Construction Week Link
National School Breakfast
Week
Women of Aviation Worldwide
Week
7-13
No More Week Link
8-10
American Nurses Association Week
8-14
National Catholic Sisters Week Link
10-12
World Rattlesnake Roundup
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
► 1535 Bishop
Tomés de Berlanga discovers the Galapagos Islands
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1789 Franklin
College founded
1791 John
Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver
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1847 1st
money minted in Hawaii
1849 Abraham
Lincoln applies for a patent (only US president to do so) for a device to
lift a boat over shoals and obstructions
1862 US
issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)
1874 Purdue
University (Indiana) admits its 1st student
1876 1st
telephone call; Alexander Graham Bell says "Mr. Watson, come
here, I want to see you" to his assistant Thomas Watson
1893 New
Mexico State University cancels its 1st graduation ceremony; its only graduate
Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before
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1903 Harry
Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
► 1910 Republic
of China officially abolishes slavery
1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO
begins radio transmissions
► 1945 Japan
grants occupied Vietnam Independence
► 1945 Tokyo
in fire after night time B-29 bombings, more than 100,000 people die, mostly
civilians.
1948 1st
civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca
1959 Tennessee
Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth" premieres in NYC
► 1959 Tibetan
uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa, Tibet
► 1966 North
Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
1969 James
Earl Ray pleads guilty to murder of Martin Luther King Jr
► 1975 Dog
spectacles patented in England
1978 "The
Incredible Hulk", starring Bill Bixby as David Banner, premieres
on CBS
1982 US President
Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
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► 2006 Mass
unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would
eventually kill more than 152 people.
► 2013 Aung
San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for
Democracy
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Decided
it was time to change my oil and get my car washed professionally. Started out
at 9:30 for the oil change. Jiffy Lube needs to change its name to Not in a
Jiffy Lube. They have 2 bays. One has a car in the bay and one waiting. The
other has no car in the bay with one car waiting. The guy puts me in the empty
bay line. And guides me to the waiting room where he says ‘Hildy will be with
you soon.” An hour and fifteen minutes later Hildy calls me to the desk. She
begins the sales pitch for hundreds of dollars’ worth of ‘other things’ they
can do. I take the new air filter and rear wiper blade. She sez ‘I’ll have your
vehicle ready in about 15-20 minutes.’ Well, that didn’t work, so I finally
paid my bill after 2 hours and 10 minutes. As I was leaving I noted that there
was a car in each bay and 3 cars behind each bay waiting. Little did the last
people know that they might have to send out for food before their vehicles would
be ready.
Then
I headed to the Car Wash, to find that there were so many cars in line, they
had actually stopped one lane of traffic on a two lane road. My vehicle will
get washed another day.
The
new suggestion by the Republicans is getting a lot of bad press. Many
organizations are coming out against it. I repeat, the problem is not
healthcare insurance alone, until the Congress addresses high drug costs they
will never solve the insurance crisis. As a member of Federal BC/BS, I have to
say I like the idea that policies can be written for other large groups…like
Food Service Workers or Small Business Employees. These would be very large
groups of people and therefore would decrease costs. However, don’t like the
phrase ‘available to everyone’. ‘Available’ is not the same as ‘affordable’.
The only thing they have in common is they both start with ‘a’ and end with ‘able’.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
The
Big Three was not part of what "invasion" in the 1960s?
The
American Invasion
The
British Invasion
The
Rock Invasion
The
Hip-Hop Invasion
48.4%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
15.6→Factor by which the annual number of
reported bomb threats at US schools has increased since 2011
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
"Well,
what seems to be the problem?" asked the clock repair man.
"It's my grandfather clock. It used to go tic toc, tic toc, tic toc. Now,
it just goes tic, tic, tic, tic, tic," replied the young lady.
"Hmmm, I think I can fix this," he says. He opens the door on the
clock, looks at it, and then says to the lady, "Don't worry, we have ways
of making it toc!"
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*--------------
No Pants Allowed --------------*
Runners in 37 U.S. cities and 12 Australian cities stripped down to their
skivvies to run through the streets and raise money for cancer research.
Cupid's Undie Run, an annual event timed to coincide with Valentine's Day, took
place Saturday afternoon in U.S. cities including New York, Chicago, Detroit,
Cleveland, Salt Lake City, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Nashville,
Philadelphia, and Oklahoma City. Twelve Australian cities, including Sydney,
Melbourne, Brisbane, and Canberra, also participated in the underwear run. The
event featured participants in their underwear running a mile to raise money
for the Children's Tumor Foundation. Organizers did not yet offer numbers for
the event, but last year's undie run raised more than $3.5 million for
neurofibromatosis research. "Why do we run with our butts out? It's
simple. We run in our undies because people with NF can't cover up their
tumors. They can't put clothes on to feel more comfortable, so why should we?"
the event's official website explains.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
With
a Grain of Salt: Salt was once believed to have healing properties, and to eat
or drink something with a grain of salt was to practice preventive medicine
against potential poisoning or illness.
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Happy
as a Clam: The original phrase was "happy as a clam at high tide."
Because clam diggers are able to gather clams only at low tide, the clams are
much safer (and happier) when the tide is high and the water is too deep to
wade into.
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Take
the Cake: The phrase originated at cakewalk contests, where individuals would
parade and prance in a circle to the audience's delight. The person with the
most imaginative swagger would take home first prize, which was always a cake.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Arkansas
The first Europeans
to arrive in the area of present-day Arkansas were French explorers accompanied
by Illinois Indian guides. The Illinois referred to the Ugakhpa people native
to the region as the Akansa (“wind people” or “people of the
south wind”), which the French adopted and pronounced with an r.
They added an s to the end for pluralization, and for some
reason it stuck when the word was adopted as the state's name. The
pronunciation of Arkansas was a matter of debate (Ar-ken-saw vs. Ar-kan-zes)
until it was officially decided by an act of the state legislature in 1881.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@→ indicates
age at death
@→93- Sam Jaffe, American actor
(Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey), born in NYC, (D 1984)
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@→87- Kate
Sheppard, New Zealand suffragette and the most prominent member of New Zealand's
women's suffrage movement, born in Liverpool, England (d. 1934)
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77- Chuck Norris [Carlos Ray], American martial arts
actor (Missing in Action), born in Ryan, Oklahoma
@→75- John McCloskey, 1st American
cardinal and Archbishop of New York, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1885)
@→70- James Earl Ray, American
assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., born in Alton, Illinois (d. 1998)
70- [Avril] Kim Campbell, Canada's 1st
female Prime Minister and 19th overall (1993), born in Port Alberni, British
Columbia
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@→68- Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, US country singer (Homer &
Jethro) (D 1989)
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59- Sharon
Stone,
Meadville Pennsylvania, American actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver, Casino)
55- Jasmine
Guy,
actress (Whitley-Different World), born in Boston, Massachusetts
@→54- Osama bin
Laden, Islamic militant and founder of al-Qaeda, born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
(d. 2011)
53- Prince
Edward [Edward Anthony Richard Louis], Prince of Britain and son of Elizabeth
II, born in Buckingham Palace, London
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46- Jon Hamm, American actor (Mad Men - Don Draper), born in
St. Louis, Missouri
40- Shannon
Miller,
Rolla MO, gymnast (Oly2 gold-2 silver/3 bronze-92, 96)
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39- Robin
Thicke, American singer
33- Carrie
Underwood, American country singer, born in Muskogee, Oklahoma
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@93ish-1913 Harriet Tubman, abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR
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@85-1998 Lloyd
Bridges, American actor (Sea Hunt)
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@69-1996 Ross
Hunter,
American film producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk), cancer
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@38-2010 Corey
Haim,
Canadian actor, pneumonia\OD
@30-1988 Andy Gibb, singer, heart infection
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
The
British Invasion
The
Big Three did not travel across the Atlantic Ocean during the "British
Invasion" in the 1960s. However, one of their members had a connection to
The Beatles, who originally chose Johnny Hutchinson to be their drummer before
settling on Ringo Starr to replace Pete Best. Source: NPR
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And
That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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