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March 18,
2017 Week: 11 \ Day: 77
86004 Today: H 69° \
L 30° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 68°[2004] Record Low: -1°[1954]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
William Butler Yeats
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory
was I had such friends.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Awkward Moments Day
Corn Dog Day Link
BYO Cup Day (7-11)- Link
Forgive Mom and Dad Day
International Sports Car Racing
Day Link
National Biodiesel Day
Worldwide Quilting Day Link
Play The Recorder Day
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
12-18
Campfire USA Birthday Week
Girl Scout Week Link
Termite Awareness Week
National Agriculture Week
13-19
International Brain Awareness Week
17-19
Sherlock Holmes Weekend (also Nov. 3-5)
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
►1314 Jacques
de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned
at the stake by King Philip IV of France
►1325 According
to legend, Tenochtitlan is founded on this date. The event is depicted on the
Mexican coat of arms.
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►1532 English
parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
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1870 1st
US National Wildlife Preserve (Lake Meritt in Oakland California)
►1892 Lord
Stanley presents silver challenge cup for hockey (Stanley Cup)
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1902 Enrico
Caruso becomes 1st well-known performer to make a record
1910 1st opera by an US composer (Converse)
performed at the Met, NYC
1919 Order
of DeMolay forms in Kansas City
►1922 British
magistrates in India sentence Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years imprisonment
for disobedience
1931 1st
electric shavers go on sale in US (Schick)
►1940 Benito
Mussolini joins Hitler in Germany's war against France & Britain
►1949 NATO
(North Atlantic Treaty Org) ratified
1959 US
President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs Hawaii statehood bill
1965 Poppin'
Fresh Pillsbury Dough Boy introduced
►1965 Cosmonaut
Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the
first person to walk in space.
1977 US
restricts citizens from visiting Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea & Cambodia
1990 Largest
art robbery in US history: 13 works of art worth over $500 million are stolen
from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston
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►2014 US
closes the Syrian embassy in Washington & expels all Syrian diplomats
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Corned
Beef & Cabbage on the stove. Homemade Soda Bread cooling. I’m ready for a
great Irish dinner.
Busy
day as I get ready for the discussion group meeting tomorrow. I’m leading the discussion
on ‘Trade, Jobs, & Politics’. Busy reading several articles on a new look
at trade. They believe that GDP was first used during the Great Depression and
is really not a valid measure anymore. Some very positive stuff about trading…both
with imports, exports, and most importantly the ‘Made In …’ tag on all our
stuff. Turns out ‘Made In…’ only means the LAST place the item was assembled.
Many items marked ‘Made In China’ are actually using items from the US. Hmmm.
Rethink is now involved.
Really?!?
I should have started a list the day our President took office. Now the Press Secretary
says that one of our oldest and greatest allies, GB, spied on his campaign. Of
course, no facts, just a commentary from someone at Faux News. Brits are justifiably
upset.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
Who
invented candlepin bowling?
Justin
White
Peter
Flynn
Howard
Down
Lionel
Barrow
21% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
2,078→Number of suspected drug users or dealers
who have been killed in the Pilipino war on drugs…July-December 2016
700,000→Estimated number who have turned themselves
in to the police
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
TEACHER:
Why are you late?
STUDENT: Well, because class started before I got here.
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
A
self-righteous woman slammed into a chicken truck twice because she does not
like the fact that people are eating living things.
26-year-old Judith Moriah Armstrong of Georgia, was arrested after she crashed
into the truck that was carrying live chickens before fleeing the scene.
The unidentified truck driver was traveling west on Highway 72, when a
four-door red car hit his truck twice.
The truck driver called the police when the car fled. Madison County deputies
found the vehicle's license plate in the debris the was left after the crash.
That is how they were able to trace the owner of the car, who matched the
description given to them by the truck driver.
During the interrogation, Armstrong admitted to being involved in an accident
and said that she fled for fear of losing her license.
She also told the officers that she hit the truck because she is a vegan.
Police said that Armstrong appeared to be drunk. She denied having alcohol
before the crash. She claimed that she "took a couple of shots" when
she got home.
She was tested for alcohol and blew a .089, which is above the legal limit.
Armstrong now faces charges of hit-and-run, aggressive driving, driving under
the influence, and obstruction.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
*--
10 Hilarious Sayings To Celebrate St. Patrick's Day --*
1. "There are only two kinds of people in the world. The Irish and those
who wish they were."
2. "Here's to a long life and many more. A quick death and an easy one. A
pretty girls and an honest one. A cold beer - and another one!"
3. "Irish diplomacy is the ability to tell a man to go to hell so that he
looks forward to making the trip."
4. "If you're lucky enough to be Irish, you're lucky enough!"
5. "In Heaven there is no beer that's why we drink it here."
6. "Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the Bible says love thy
enemy."
7. "I come from an Irish family. St. Patrick's Day was our big holiday.
The night before we'd hang up our stockings and in the morning they'd be full
of beer." --Sean Morey
8. "There are many good reasons for drinking, one has just entered my
head. If a man doesn't drink when he's living, how in the hell can he drink
when he's dead?"
9. "If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks."
--Brendan Behan
10. "As an American of Irish descent, I am sick of these Irish
stereotypes. As soon as I finish my drink, I'm going to punch someone."
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Idaho
The
origin of Idaho's name, like a few other names we've already talked about, is a
mystery. When it was proposed as the name of a new U.S. territory, it was
explained as a derivation of the Shoshone Indian term ee-da-how,
meaning "gem of the mountains" or "the sun comes from the
mountains." It's possible that the word, and its Indian origin, were made
up by the man who proposed the name, George M. Willing, an eccentric
industrialist and mining lobbyist (not all historians and linguists agree on
this, though, and the most common alternate explanation is that the name comes
from the Apache word idaahe ("enemy"), which the
Kiowa applied to the Comanche they came in contact with when they migrated to
southern Colorado). When Congress was considering establishing a mining
territory in the Rocky Mountains in 1860, Willing and B. D. Williams, a
delegate from the region, championed "Idaho." The request for the
name came up in the Senate in January 1861 and Senator Joseph Lane of Oregon
objected to "Idaho," saying, "I do not believe it is an Indian
word. It is a corruption. No Indian tribe in this nation has that word, in my
opinion... It is a corruption certainly, a counterfeit, and ought not to be
adopted." Lane was roundly ignored, probably because he had the bad luck
of having been the vice presidential candidate for the pro-slavery southern
wing of the Democratic Party in the previous year's election.
After
the Senate approved the name, Williams, for some reason, gave into curiosity
and looked into Lane's claim. He heard from several sources that Willing or
someone in his group of territorial supporters had invented the name
"Idaho" and that the word didn't actually mean anything. Williams
went back to the Senate and requested that the name be changed. The Senate
agreed and used a name that had been on the table before Willing and Williams
showed up: "Colorado."
A
year later, Congress set out to establish another mining
territory in the northwest part of the continent. "Idaho" was again a
contender as a name. Without Williams there to call shenanigans and with the
senators who should have remembered the last naming incident just a little bit
preoccupied with the Civil War, "Idaho" went unchallenged and became
the name of the territory and the state.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
@88- Lillian Vernon, founder and CEO
of the Lillian Vernon Corporation (first company listed on US stock exchange
started by a woman), born in Leipzig, Germany (d. 2015)
@87- Cluny MacPherson, Canadian doctor and inventor of the gas mask,
born in St. John's, Newfoundland (d. 1966)
@84- Edward Everett
Horton, American actor/narrator (Bulwinkle Show), born in Brooklyn, (D 1970)
@83- Peter Graves [Aurness],
American actor (James Phelps-Mission Impossible), born in Minneapolis,
Minnesota (D 2010)
81- F. W. de Klerk, South African President (1989-94), winner of 1993
Nobel Peace Price with Nelson Mandela, born in Johannesburg, Transvaal Province
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79- Charley Pride, Sledge Miss, country singer (Sweet Country)
@76- George Plimpton, sports writer
(Paper Lion), born in NYC, New York (D 2003)
74-
Kevin Dobson, Jackson Hgts NY, actor (Kojak, Knots
Landing, Shannon)
@71- Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th US President (1885-89, @1893-97), born in
Caldwell, New Jersey (d. 1908)
@71- [Arthur] Neville Chamberlain, British Prime
Minister (C, 1937-40), born in Birmingham, England (D 1940)
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@68- John C. Calhoun, Andrew Jackson's Vice President (1825-32), born
in Abbeville, South Carolina (d. 1850)
@67- Edgar Cayce, American
psychic (d. 1945)
64- Wilson Pickett, American R&B singer (Funky Broadway), born in
Prattville, Alabama (d. 2006)
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@55- Smiley Burnette, Summum Ill,
cowboy (Charlie-Petticoat Junction) (D 1967)
54- Vanessa L Williams, Millwood NY, Actress, singer and 1st African
American Miss America (1983)
53- Bonnie Blair, Champaign Ill, speed skater (Oly-5 gold/brz-88,
92, 94)
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47- Queen Latifah, American rapper and actress (Khadijah
James-Living Single), born in Newark, New Jersey
@43- Barry
Wilson, England, rock drummer (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale) (D 1990)
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38- Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@85-2010 Fess Parker, American actor (Daniel Boone)
@84-2016 Joe Santos, American actor (Rockford files)
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@70ish-1845 John Chapman, [Johnny Appleseed], American pioneer agronomist
@70ish-1314 Jacques de Molay, French last Grand Master of The Knights Templar, burned
at the stake
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@64-2003 Adam Osborne, British-American author, book
and software publisher, and computer designer, brain disorder
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@53-1584 Ivan IV [Ivan the Terrible], Russian tsar
(1547-84), stroke
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@45-2009 Natasha Richardson, English actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale), traumatic
brain injury at 45
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
Justin
White
This
form of bowling, mostly found in New England and Eastern Canada, was invented
in 1880 in Worcester, Massachusetts, by local bowling alley owner Justin White.
Unlike more traditional forms of the game, candlepin involves pins that
resemble, well, candles. They're tall and thin, and players must hit them with
balls that are much smaller than a normal bowling ball - and lack finger holes.
But to make up for the tiny size, players get three rolls per frame instead of
two. Source: Boston.com
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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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