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March 6,
2017 Week: 10 \ Day: 65
86004 Today: H 48° \
L 37° Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 25mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 68°[1910] Record Low: -2°[1935]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Amelia Earhart
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Sofia Kovalevskaya Math Day Link
Day of The Dude Link
Casimir Pulaski Day Link
Fun Facts About Names Day Link
National Dress Day Link
Oreo Cookie 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
3-15
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
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1808 1st
college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
1831 Edgar
Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy
1836 Battle
of the Alamo: After 13 days of fighting 1,500-3,000 Mexican soldiers overwhelm
the Texan defenders, killing 182-257 Texans including William Travis, Jim Bowie
and Davy Crockett
► 1853 Giuseppe
Verdi's Opera "La Traviata" premieres in Venice
1857 Dred
Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens
► 1869 Dmitri
Mendeleev presents the first periodic table of the elements to the Russian
Chemical Society
1886 1st
US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA
1886 1st
US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, NYC
► 1899 "Aspirin"
(acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer
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► 1909 Gerhart
Hauptmann's "Griselda" premieres in Vienna
1921 Police
in Sunbury, Penn, issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4
inches below the knee
1930 Clarence
Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
► 1943 Sukarno asks
for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
1950 Silly
Putty goes on sale in the US
► 1955 Dutch
premiere of Samuel Becketts' "Waiting for Godot"
► 1957 Ghana
(formerly Gold Coast) declares independence from UK
► 1961 1st
London minicabs introduced
1966 Barry
Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1985 Yul
Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "The King & I"
1991 Following
Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, US President Bush declares
the war over.
► 1997 Picasso's
painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week
later.
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► 2013 Microsoft
is fined €561 by the Euro Commission for not providing alternative web browsers
2015 US
State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen with cyber fraud,
for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Windy
Sunday, not a great day to be outside. I had another angioedema swelling on
Friday night. Took my last pill to stop it. Called to get more pills. Out of
stock, will be in Monday afternoon. Here’s hoping I have no more attacks before
then. I had one attack on our trip, but caught it early and luckily, didn’t
swell enough for anyone to notice.
Watched
my Sunday morning news programs so I am caught up on the happenings of the
world. Also watched a few episodes of Vice I missed while on my trip. So
unfortunate the citizens of Syria have not been able to get the world behind
them. Watching the footage of the bombed out cities was so discouraging.
Watching little kids playing in the rubble was even worse. Still have two more
episodes to watch.
My
brother sent great pics of him and his wife cleaning up the jungle around their
hacienda property. Amazing how fast it
get overrun. Even sent a pic of them looking like the famous painting American
Gothic. Guess his knee is healing well.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
Where
is the real "Dracula's Castle"?
Edinburgh,
Scotland, United Kingdom
Transylvania,
Romania
Schwangau,
Germany
Malbork,
Poland
83.9% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
40→Number of states that allow the open carrying of assault
rifles without a permit
9→Number of states in which bestiality is legal.
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
In
high school, two boys, two friends (one Spanish and one American), were talking
about the grades they received in their classes.
American boy: "You got an F in Spanish! How could that happen? Spanish is
what you speak at home and stuff."
Spanish boy: "Probably the same way you got an F in English."
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*--
Worker Finds $100,000 Inside 30-year-old TV --*
A worker at an Ontario recycling plant opened up an old TV set and made a
shocking discovery -- more than $100,000 cash. Rick Deschamps, general manager
of Global Electric Electronic Processing, said the TV was brought to the
facility over a year ago, but a worker just started disassembling it in
January. "She came running up with this security cash box and she goes, 'I
found $100,000,'" he said. "We do anywhere from 10,000 to 30,000
televisions a month, so the odds that that TV came at that particular moment
with that woman, she opened it up, started dismantling it and finding the cash
box -- it's like finding the lottery," the manager said. The cash box also
contained documents that helped police track down the rightful owner, a
68-year-old man in Bolsover, Ontario. The man told police the money was
inherited from his parents and stashed in the TV for safe-keeping, but he
eventually forgot about the cash and gave the TV to a family friend. Meanwhile,
I found a dollar seventy-five in change behind the sofa cushions.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
NASA
officials have maintained that astronauts have never had sex on the
International Space Station or during any space shuttle missions. Scientists
speculate, however, that while sex in space might pose some mechanical
problems, conceiving a child could be dangerous. Low gravity could raise the
risk of an ectopic pregnancy, and radiation could raise the risk of birth
defects.
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While no NASA astronauts have had sex in space, in 1999 porn stars Silvia Saint
and Nick Lang did a 20-second zero-gravity intercourse scene for the film The
Uranus Experiment: Part Two.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@→ indicates
age at death
91- Alan Greenspan, American
economist, presidential advisor and Chairman of the Federal Reserve of the
United States (1987-2006), born in New York City
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@→88- Michelangelo, Italian
sculptor, painter, architect and poet of the High Renaissance (David, Ceiling
of the Sistine Chapel), born in Caprese, Tuscany (d. 1564)
@→86- Ed McMahon, American TV host (Johnny
Carson Show, Star Search), born in Detroit, (D 2009)
80- Valentina Tereshkova, Soviet
cosmonaut and 1st woman in space (Vostok 6), born in Maslennikovo, Russia
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@→78- Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Washington,
D.C., 1979-90, 95- ), drug indictment (D 2014)
71- Martin Kove,
American actor (Victor-Cagney & Lacey), born in Brooklyn, New York
@→70- Bob Wills, TX, actor (Lone Prairie,
Tornado in the Saddle) (D 1975)
70- Richard
"Dick" Fosbury, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1968), born in Portland,
Oregon
70- Rob Reiner,
actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me), born in The Bronx, New York
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@→ 63-John Smith, TV Western Actor (Laramie)
(D 1995)
58- Tom Arnold, Iowa,
[Mr Roseanne Barr Arnold], actor (Tom, True Lies)
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@→55- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet
("Sonnets from the Portuguese"), born in Kelloe, Durham (d. 1861)
54- D.L. Hughley,
American comedian and actor
@→52- Lou Costello, comedian/actor
(Abbott & Costello), born in Paterson, New Jersey (D 1959)
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45- Shaquille O'Neal, NBA center
(Magic, Lakers, Oly-gold-96), born in Newark, New Jersey
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@→36- Cyrano de Bergerac, French
playwright (Voyage to the Moon), known for his large nose (D 1655)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@98-1986 Georgia O'Keeffe, American sculptor/painter (Flowers)
@94-2016 Nancy Reagan [Anne Francis
Robbins], US First Lady
@93-1935 Oliver Wendell
Holmes Jr, American jurist, pneumonia
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@80-1973 Pearl
S[ydenstricker] Buck, American author (Good Earth - Nobel Prize 1938)
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@77-1982 Ayn Rand,
Russian-born American author-philosopher (Atlas Shrugged), heart failure
@77-1932 John Philip
Sousa,
US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), heart failure
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@55-1970 William Hopper,
actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason), stroke
@55-1888 Louisa May
Alcott,
American author (Little Women), stroke
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@49-1836 Davy
Crockett, American frontiersman, adventurer and politician, Battle of the Alamo
@40-1836 Jim Bowie,
American pioneer and soldier- Battle of the Alamo
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
Transylvania,
Romania
Bran
Castle received its nickname as Dracula's Castle because it is the only one in
Transylvania that bears any resemblance to the castle in Bram Stoker's novel.
In fact, Stoker derived his idea of Dracula's castle from an illustration of
Bran in a book. There are also rumors that the land around Bran is haunted just
to amp up the creep factor. Source: Bran Castle's official site
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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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