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March 13,
2017 Week: 11 \ Day: 72
86004 Today: H 66° \
L 27° Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 1mph\Gusts: 9mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 70°[2007] Record Low: -9°[1962]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The years teach much which the days never know.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Donald Duck Day
Fill Our Staplers Day
Good Samaritan Involvement Day
Itra-Uterine Growth Awareness Restriction (IUGAR) Day
K-9 Veterans Day Link
Ken Day (Doll)
L. Ron Hubbard Day
Napping Day (Monday after daylight savings times)
National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day
Smart & Sexy Day
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
3-15
National Days of Action Link
6-12
Women in Construction Week Link
National School Breakfast
Week
Women of Aviation Worldwide
Week
7-13
No More Week Link
8-14
National Catholic Sisters Week Link
11-17
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
12-18
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Girl Scout Week Link
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week
13-19
International Brain Awareness Week
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
► 1634 First
meeting of what would become the Academie Francaise in Paris at the house of
Valentin Conrart
1639 Cambridge
College renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard
1656 Jews
are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
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► 1781 William
Herschel sees what he thinks is a "comet" but is actually the
discovery of the planet Uranus
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1852 Uncle
Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly
1868 Senate
begins US President Andrew Johnson's impeachment trial
1884 US adopts Standard Time
1897 San
Diego State University is founded.
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► 1921 Mongolia
(formerly Outer Mongolia) declares independence from China
1925 Tennessee
makes it unlawful to teach evolution
1930 Clyde
Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
1942 Julia
Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
► 1957 Bloody
battles after anti-Batista demonstration in Havana Cuba
1961 JFK sets
up the Alliance for Progress
1965 Jeff
Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
► 1979 European
Monetary System is established, ECU created
1980 Eric
Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
1986 Microsoft
has its Initial public offering.
1989 FDA
orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1991 Exxon
pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
► 1996 At
Dunblane Primary School, Scotland, 16 children and 1 teacher are shot dead by
Thomas Hamilton who then commits suicide. As a result handguns were banned in
the UK.
1997 The
Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by
millions on television. They are now a hotly debated controversy.
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2012 Encyclopedia
Britannica announces that it will no longer publish printed versions of its encyclopedia
► 2013 Cardinal
Jorge Mario Bergoglio is elected the new pope, taking the papal name Pope Francis
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Sure
hope this spring weather continues…windows open, little wind, warm temps…NICE!
Nice
morning walk, should have worn shorts, but that will have to wait for another
day.
Watched
my Sunday Morning shows…DST ruins my early morning routine, but still got it
all done. I’ll adjust in a few weeks. I did see a couple of stories that DST
change has an increase in heart attacks and traffic accidents. DST reminds me
of a very old saying: Only the whiteman would believe that cutting off an inch
of a blanket and sewing it to the other end makes the blanket longer.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
Pulp
Fiction director Quentin Tarantino said he'll quit filmmaking after he's made
how many movies?
9
10
13
22
26.4% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
8→Number of Egyptian anchorwomen suspended last summer for
being overweight
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
Yesterday
at a job interview I filled my glass of water until it overflowed a little.
"Nervous?" asked the interviewer.
I replied, "No, I always give 110%."
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
A magazine article published by Duke Energy, one of
the largest electric utilities in the country, took aim at the clock-changing
law, which was updated just over a decade ago by a 2005 energy bill. It pointed
out a number of adverse health effects that are a side effect of using 0.5
percent less energy per day as a result of gaining an hour of sunlight.
Studies published over the last decade on the effects of daylight saving time
"have found that the time change interrupts sleep cycles, causing fatigue,
lack of productivity and sadness," the article added. Even worse, medical
studies showed that daylight saving time also can lead to death. "Other
studies show that the number of heart attacks spikes in the days following the
March time change, and after the November time change, the frequency of heart
attacks decreases."
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
Unlike
a fish, which moves its tale from side to side, a dolphin swims by moving its
tale (made up of flukes) up and down. And a dolphin carries more oxygen in its
blood than a fish and can swim longer than a fish...hence, dolphins are better
adapted to the sea than are any fish.
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The
killer whale is the largest dolphin. The smallest dolphin is the Hector or Maui
Dolphin, of which only 150 are left today. The narwhal dolphin has a large
ivory tusk (like a unicorn) which is often poached. The only remaining
populations are in the Greenland Sea and Baffin Bay.
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Dolphins
typically do not live alone, but rather in schools or pods. They have a complex
social structure. Unlike most wild animals, dolphins spend a lot of time
enjoying sex and foreplay that is not determined by being 'in season' or the
urge to procreate.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Connecticut
The
state is named after the Connecticut River, which was named quinnitukqut by
the Mohegans who lived in the eastern upper Thames valley. In their Algonquian
language, the word means “long river place” or “beside the long tidal river.”
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
@96- James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (d. 1911)
95- Allan Jaffee, comic strip
cartoonist/illustrator (MAD Magazine)
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@82- Paul Fix, Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman) (D 1983)
@82- Peter Breck, actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji), born in
Rochester, New York (d. 2012)
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76- Charo, pop singer ("cuchi-cuchi")/comedienne
74- L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard,
sci-fi writer and founder of the Church of Scientology, born in Tilden,
Nebraska (d. 1986)
@74- William J. Casey, American head of the CIA during the Iran-contra
scandal (1981-87), born in New York City (d. 1987)
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68- Robert S. Woods, American actor
(Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons), born in Maywood, California
67- William H Macy, actor
(Homicide, Water Engine), born in Miami, Florida
@61- Percival "Percy" Lowell, American astronomer (predicted
discovery of Pluto), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1916)
61- Dana Delany, American
actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach, Exit to Eden), born in NYC, New York
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@52- Fred Berry, actor (Rerun-What's Happening), born in St Louis,
(D 2003)
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45- Common (Lonnie Lynn),
rapper
41- Danny Masterson, actor
(hyde-That 70’s Show)
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32- Emile Hirsch, American actor
(Into the Wild, Speed Racer), born in Topanga, California
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@85-1906 Susan B. Anthony, American social
reformer and women's suffrage movement leader
@80-2006 Maureen Stapleton, American
actress
@80-1938 Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Monkey
Trial attorney
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@67-1901 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President
of the United States (Republican: 1889-93), pneumonia
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@44-1943 Stephen Vincent Benét, American author, heart attack
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@15-1884 Leland Stanford, Jr., son of
American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him, typhoid
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
10
Since
the announcement of his 2015 film "The Hateful Eight," Tarantino has
maintained that he will retire from filmmaking after he has completed 10
movies. This, as of 2016, gives him two more films before his retirement.
However, he has at times softened his tone, saying at the 2016 Jerusalem Film
Festival that - while the 10 movies would serve as his core legacy - he could
resume filmmaking later in life. He added that even if he were to make another
film, it would "never [be] put in the same shelf next to the other 10. So
it doesn't contaminate the other 10." Source: Vanity Fair
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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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