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March 4,
2017 Week: 09 \ Day: 63
86004 Today: H 49° \
L 15° Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 68°[1910] Record Low: -16°[1966]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Coco Chanel
There are people
who have money and people who are rich.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Benjamin Harrison Day
Courageous Follower Day
Iditarod
International Scrapbooking Industry
Day
March Forth-Do Something Day
National Frozen Food Day Link
National Grammar Day
Old Inauguration Day
Sock Monkey Day
Toy Soldier Day Link
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
1-7
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
3-5
Festival of Owls Week
3-15
National Days of Action Link
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
► 51 Nero,
later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of
the youth)
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► 1351 Ramathibodi
becomes King of Siam.
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1628 England's
King Charles I grants a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
1681 English
Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him
sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
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► 1741 British
fleet under Rear Admiral of the Blue Sir Chaloner Ogle reaches Cartagena de
Indias (Colombia)
► 1774 First
sighting of Orion nebula (William Herschel)
1789 1st
US Congress meets and declares constitution in effect (9 senators, 13 reps)
1791 Vermont
admitted as 14th state (1st addition to the 13 colonies)
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► 1804 The
Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish
convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland's Battle of Vinegar Hill in
1798) led the colony's only significant convict uprising.
1829 Unruly
crowd mobs White House during President Jackson inaugural ball
1837 Chicago
becomes incorporated as a city.
1861 Confederate
States adopt "Stars & Bars" flag (US Civil War)
1880 NY
Daily Graphic publishes 1st half-tone engraving, by S H Horgan
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1902 American
Automobile Association (AAA) founded in Chicago
1913 1st
US law regulating the shooting of migratory birds passed
1913 US
Department of Commerce & Labor split into separate departments
► 1918 First
recorded case of Spanish flu at Funston Army Camp, Kanas; start of worldwide
pandemic killing 50-100 million
1921 Hot
Springs National Park created in Arkansas
1924 "Happy
Birthday To You" published by Claydon Sunny
1930 Coolidge
Dam in Arizona dedicated
1954 Peter
Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful
kidney transplant.
► 1965 David
Attenbrough became the new controller of BBC2
► 1966 John
Lennon says "We (the Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
► 1980 Robert
Mugabe's ZANU-PF wins parliamentary election in Zimbabwe
1983 U.S.
Public Health Service's publishes its guidelines for blood donors and AIDS
1994 4
Arab terrorist founded guilty of bombing the World Trade Center
► 1997 Brazil
Senate allows women to wear slacks
1997 US President
Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research
1998 Gay
rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United
States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply
when both parties are the same sex.
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► 2002 Canada
bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use
embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
► 2009 International
Criminal Court issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan
al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur becoming the
first sitting head of state to be indicted
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Finally
warming up…and most of our snow is gone…except in front of my building, which
is always the last place to melt. Headed out and did some shopping and even
found some sales. Nice.
Had
a great talk with my brother yesterday. He is at their hacienda recovering from
knee replacement surgery. He had no real pain until about a week after the
surgery and then it hit hard. Now, a month later, he is busy with rehab and
getting better each day. So glad to hear that. His in-laws spent some time
there and had a great time. Laura is currently in Miami on business but will be
back soon. Micho, their cute Chihuahua, is watching over him until Laura get
back.
Oh
great, as if talking to the Russians hasn’t encompassed the news since I got
back, now we learn that the VP used AOL to conduct state business while he was
Governor. Sorry, but while none of this may not have been illegal, it sure
doesn’t show good judgement. Whenever I met with Chapter officials or
government higher ups, there were always notes about the meeting. I had a
government email address during the last years of my work. All I ever got were
meeting notices. My responses consisted of nothing more than ‘I’ll be there.’ Any
confidential personnel information was always faxed and I would get a call that
I had to go and stand by the fax machine until it was received and then I had
to call that I had received the information. It seemed a little crazy at the
time, but now I get why. Too bad our
current leaders don’t follow the well-established governmental procedures.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
What
year did the National Football League play its first game in London?
1983
1990
1991
2007
15.0%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
95→Percentage of US police departments that use
or plan to use body cameras
44→Percentage of Americans who believe police
body cameras will do more to protect police officers than civilians
29→Who believe they will do more to protect civilians
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
Teacher:
"Class, in this final exam, everybody should get at least 75% marks."
Student: "We are all trying for 100% sir!"
Teacher: "Are you being serious?"
Student: "Well, no sir. But it was you who cracked a joke first."
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*---
It's Hard to Hurt Someone with a Spork ---*
First it was finger guns. Now a school in McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, has
banned the use of forks and knives after police were called numerous times on
reports of students stabbing one another. Students allegedly used the forks and
knives to stab one another during fights, and used bathroom breaks to use
drugs. Parents and students complained about the restrictions, saying that they
are too extreme, but officials insisted that these measures are necessary for
the safety of the children. Over the past several weeks, multiple students were
rushed to the hospital after being stabbed by forks or knives. After banning
food utensils, officials told the children to eat with their fingers. Officials
will cancel the bans once students learn to control themselves, and act in a
civil and legal manner.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
The
oldest known recipe is for a 4,000-year-old beer made by the Sumerians.
Sumeria's neighbors, the Egyptians, built the pyramids under the influence.
Workers at Giza received about four liters of beer a day, according to Patrick
McGovern, a biomolecular archaeologist at the University of Pennsylvania.
Beer (in part because it contains antimicrobial ethanol) was a healthier drink
than polluted Nile river water.
In Europe during the Middle Ages, beer, often of very low strength, was an
everyday drink for all classes and ages of people. A document from that time
mentions nuns having an allowance of six pints of ale each day.
You
might have known that fact if you were a beer expert, or cerevisaphile - a word
derived from the Latin name of the Roman goddess of agriculture, Ceres, and
vis, meaning strength.
Hops, the bittering agent in beer, belong to the family Cannabaceae, making
them marijuana's close cousins and lending a little perspective to the term
"hopped up."
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@→ indicates age at death
@→92- Benjamin Waterhouse,
physician co-founder of Harvard Medical School (smallpox vaccine pioneer), born
in Newport, Rhode Island (d. 1846)
91- Richard
DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway, born
in Grand Rapids, Michigan
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79- Paula
Prentiss, [Ragusa] San Ant Tx, actress (Parallax View, He & She)
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67- Rick
Perry, American politician, Governor of Texas (R) (2000-2015), born in Paint
Creek, Texas
@→63- Antonio Vivaldi,
Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons), born in Venice, Italy (d. 1741)
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56- Patricia
Heaton, actress (Debra-Everybody Loves Raymond), born in Cleveland, Ohio
56- Ray
"Boom Boom" Mancini, boxer (killed a boxer in the ring)
56- Steven
Weber, actor (Brian Hackett-Wings), born in Queens, New York
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@→49- Pearl White,
[Victoria], US actress/stunt woman (Perils of Pauline) (D 1938)
48- Chaz
Bono [Chastity Sun Bono], American actress (Sonny & Cher Show), born in Los
Angeles, California
@→43- Knute Rockne, Norwegian/US
football player/coach (Notre Dame) (D 1931)
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@→22- Bobbi Kristina Brown,
daughter of Whitney Houston & Bobby Brown, born in Livingstone, New Jersey
(d.2015)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@92-2009 Horton
Foote, American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Academy Award-winning
screenwriter
@90-1999 Harry
Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
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@89-1944 Fannie
Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist
@84-1996 Minnie
Pearl, country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry)
@84-1992 Arthur
Babbitt, animator (Mr Magoo, Goofy)
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@70-2016 Pat
Conroy, American writer (The Great Santini, Prince of Tides), pancreatic cancer
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@68-1978 Wesley
Bolin, Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona
@68-1868 Jesse
Chisholm, American (Cherokee) pioneer of the Chisholm Trail
@63-1858 Matthew
C. Perry, Commodore of the United States Navy who opened
Japan to Western influence and trade, rheumatism
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@55-1193 Saladin,
1st Sultan of Egypt and Syria and the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, fever
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@43-1994 John
Candy, actor (SCTV, Uncle Buck), heart attack
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
1983
The
National Football League played its first official game in Europe in 1983 when
the Minnesota Vikings took on the St. Louis Cardinals in a preseason showdown
in London. In 1990 the NFL established the World League of American Football,
which it later changed to World League, NFL Europe and finally NFL Europa
before it folded. On August 3, 1990 the NFL awarded London the eighth team in
the European league called the London Monarchs, and in 1991 the first ever league
game took place at Wembley Stadium. Source: worldleagueofamericanfootball.com,
profootballhof.com, footballgeography.com, nytimes.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
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