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March 14,
2017 Week: 11 \ Day: 73
86004 Today: H 63° \
L 27° Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 0mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 69°[2007] Record Low: -4°[1990]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Marcus Aurelius
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the
causes of it.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
International Ask A Question Day
International Day of Action for Rivers Link
MOTH-ER Day
Organize Your Home Office Day
Potato Chip Day Link
National
Pi Day (as in the math pie = 3.14159265 etc.) Link
National Pie Day Link
Save a Spider Day Link
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
3-15
National Days of Action 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
1644 England
grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
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1743 1st
American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
1794 Eli
Whitney patents the cotton gin machine revolutionizing the cotton industry
in the southern US states
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1812 Congress
authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
1870 California
legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
►1885 Gilbert
& Sullivan's comic opera "Mikado" premieres in London at the
Savoy Theatre
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1900 US
currency goes on gold standard after Congress passes the Currency Act
1903 1st
national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL
1904 In
a landmark case, Northern Securities Company v United States, the Supreme Court
finds that the company has violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act; this is the
first case that T. Roosevelt has undertaken in his 'trust-busting' campaign
1913 John
D. Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1923 US
President Warren G. Harding becomes 1st president to pay taxes
1931 1st
theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)
1936 Federal
Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
1950 FBI's
"10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
1956 Ampex
Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1964 Dallas,
Texas; Jack Ruby sentenced to death for Lee Harvey Oswald's murder
1968 CBS
TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it
clear it is sponsored by the CIA
►1984 Gerry
Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in
central Belfast.
►1986 European
Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1992 Soviet
newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1993 3,000th
performance of "Nunsense"
►1995 1st
time 13 people in space
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2003 Start
of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions
►2013 Xi
Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China
►2016 President Putin orders
Russian troops out of Syria
►2016 NASA
releases data showing February 2016 warmest month ever recorded globally: 1.35C
above the long-term average
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Good
ol’ Pi Day must be catching on. Today is also now National Pie Day, which used
to be in January. Thanks math geeks.
Lawmakers
are always busy trying to pass laws that are just wrong. Only a few ever make
it to become law, but that doesn’t stop them. One AZ legislator wanted a law
that would make if possible for authorities to confiscate property of anyone
who was ‘involved’ in a protest that led to property damage. The big issue on that
one was the First Amendment and that pesky free speech thing. Now our National
Congress is looking at a bill that would require employees to give their
employer their genetic testing results or automatically pay 30% more for health
insurance. This would help employers make decisions about hiring and promotion
of people who may have a ‘genetic anomaly’. This has passed one committee and still has a
few hurdles before it becomes a law. Talk about an invasion of privacy, not to
mention the thousands of other problems. More later, I’m sure.
Politicians
have always never directly answered a question they don’t want to. What is new
is the extent this administration is doing it. Q: Does the President have
evidence of wiretapping? A: We all have read in the papers how people can
listen to conversations through the TV or microwave oven… So odd to have an
administration that believes in conspiracy theories.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
What
was the first music video MTV played when it launched Aug. 1, 1981?
In
The Air Tonight
Brass
in Pocket
Billie
Jean
Video
Killed the Radio Star
44.3%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
265→Number of Syrian refugees settled in Erie, Pa.
58→In NYC and LA combined
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
The
manager of a large city zoo was drafting a letter to order a pair of animals.
He sat at his computer and typed the following sentence: "I would like to
place an order for two mongooses, to be delivered at your earliest
convenience."
He stared at the screen, focusing on that odd word "mongooses." Then
he deleted the word and added another, so that the sentence now read: "I
would like to place an order for two mongeese, to be delivered at your earliest
convenience."
Again he stared at the screen, this time focusing on the new word, which seemed
just as odd as the original one. Finally, he deleted the whole sentence and
started all over. "Everyone knows no fully stocked zoo should be without a
mongoose," he typed. "Please send us two of them."
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
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There Can Be Only One ------------*
Brooksville, Florida police arrested a man they say was swinging swords at
customers in Walmart on Broad Street. The responding officers were called by
the store's manager, who said someone was threatening customers in the parking
lot. When they got there, they found Shannon Schenck carrying two swords and
appearing to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol, the police department
said. Several witnesses told officers Schenck had "assumed a fighting
stance and unsheathed the swords in a threatening manner while approaching
customers exiting their vehicles." Officers also found less than 20 grams
of marijuana on Schenck, as well as a glass pipe with marijuana residue.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
In
the Middle Ages wearing spectacles signified knowledge and learning. Painters
of the time often included spectacles when portraying famous persons even when
depicting people who lived before the known invention of spectacles. On
numerous paintings the religious teacher Sofronius Eusebius Hieronymus (340 -
420 AD) is portrayed with a lion, a skull and a pair of reading glasses. He is
the patron saint of spectacle makers.
***
It actually is true that eating carrots can help you see better. Carrots
contain Vitamin A, which feeds the chemicals that the eye shafts and cones are
made of. The shafts capture black and white vision. The cones capture color
images.
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Healthy
eyes are so sensitive to light that a candle burning in the dark can be
detected a mile away. The human eye can distinguish about 10 million different
colors. There currently is no machine that can achieve this remarkable feat.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Delaware
Delaware
is named for the Delaware River and Delaware Bay. These, in turn, were named
for Sir Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, the first colonial
governor of Virginia, who traveled the river in 1610. The title is likely
ultimately derived from the Old French de la werre (“of the
war” or a warrior).
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
89- Frank Borman, American
astronaut (Gemini 7, Apollo 8) and CEO of Eastern Air Lines (1975-86), born in
Gary, Indiana 84- Michael
Caine,
[Maurice J Micklewhite], actor (Alfie), born in London, England
84- Quincy Jones Jr, composer/singer
(We Are The World), born in Chicago, Illinois
@81- Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the
Menace) (D 2001)
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@76- Albert Einstein, German-born
theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate (theory of relativity), born in Ulm,
German Empire (d. 1955)
72- Michael Martin
Murphey, country singer (Wildfire), born in Dallas, Texas
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69- Billy Crystal,
Long Beach, New York, American actor, writer, producer (Soap, City Slickers)
66- Jerry Greenfield,
American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
65- J Fred Muggs,
chimpanzee (Today show), born in French Cameroon
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29- Stephen Curry, American
basketball player and NBA star (Golden State Warriors), born in Akron, Ohio
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
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@83-2010 Peter Graves
[Aurness], American actor
@77-1932 George Eastman, American
inventor (Kodak camera) and founder of the Eastman Kodak Company, shoots
himself in the heart
@72-1973 Murat B
"Chic" Young, US comic strip artist (Blondie)
@71-1992 C V Wood Jr,
theme park developer (Disneyland), cancer
@65-1925 Walter Camp,
father of American football
@64-1883 Karl Marx,
German philosopher (Communist Manifesto), pleurisy
@62-1989 Edward Abbey
(environmental author), after surgery
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
When
MTV initially launched in 1981, viewers were treated to the sound of a rocket
launching and the classic image of a man in a spacesuit planting a multicolored
MTV flag on the moon. Following that, the song ironically titled "Video
Killed the Radio Star" by The Buggles was played as the first music video.
The song had been released in 1979, was already a moderate success worldwide
and has since been covered by notable celebrity musicians like Ben Folds,
Pentatonix, Erasure and even Alvin and the Chipmunks. Source: The Post Gazette.
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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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