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March 9,
2017 Week: 10 \ Day: 68
86004 Today: H 58° \
L 21° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts: 6mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 70°[1989] Record Low: 0°[1964]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Victor Borge
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Barbie Day
Get Over It Day Link
Joe Franklin Day
Nametag Day Link
World Kidney Day
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❆❆Observances
This 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
7-13
No More Week Link
8-10
American Nurses Association Week
8-14
National Catholic Sisters Week Link
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
► 1009 First known written
mention of Lithuania, in the annals of Quedlinburg
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► 1497 Nicolaus Copernicus'
1st recorded astronomical observation
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► 1522 Marten Luther begins
preaching his Invocavit Sermons in the German city of Wittenberg
► 1562 Kissing in public
banned in Naples (punishable by death)
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► 1745 Bells for 1st American
carillon shipped from England to Boston
► 1776 Publication of the
influential economics book "The Wealth of Nations" by Adam Smith
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► 1834 French Foreign Legion
is founded.
1841 US
Supreme Court rules the kidnapped slaves from the Spanish schooner the Amistad
are free
► 1860 1st Japanese ambassador
arrives in SF en route to Washington
1862 USS
Monitor and CSS Merrimack battle in Hampton Roads
1889 Kansas
passes 1st general antitrust law in US
1897 Indians
fans start calling the team "Indians" (in 1915 becomes official)
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► 1916 Mexican General
Francisco "Pancho" Villa invades US (18 killed)
► 1942 Construction of the
Alaska Highway began
► 1945 334 US B-29
Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bombs
1951 Edward
Teller and Stanislaw Ulam submit a classified paper at the Los Alamos lab,
in which they proposed their revolutionary new design, staged implosion, for a
practical megaton-range hydrogen bomb
1954 Edward
R Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)
1959 Barbie
makes her debut at the American Toy Fair in New York. Over a billion have been
sold worldwide since.
► 1961 Soviet flight Sputnik 9
carries and returns a dog named Chernushka (Blackie), frogs and a guinea pig
from orbit
1964 1st
Ford Mustang produced
1976 1st
female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1986 NASA
announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
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2006 Liquid
water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
2007 The
US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal
Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act
to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens.
2015 US
President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a
national security threat to the US
► 2016 EU Migrant Crisis:
Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia close their borders to migrants trying to reach
Northern Europe
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Headed
out to do my weekly shopping. Nice. Got lots done. Have even more stuff to do
tomorrow. Mary is still in Phoenix with another brother and Cheryl had to make
an ‘emergency’ run into Flag yesterday after her dryer completely died. She got
it a before her son was born and he is now 44. So our lunch tomorrow won’t be
happening. It’s OK ‘cause I’ve got plenty to do.
When
I was in school I was taught that gerrymandering was a negative thing…the
drawing of voting districts to help one party get a packed district and/or
putting the minority party into one district to cut their political influence.
I have always believed that lines should be based on population only. We are in
the midst of this political mess partially because of state’s gerrymandering. If we do not address this problem soon, our
political chaos will continue. We don’t draw new lines until the 2020 census is
conducted. Now is the time to change all the laws to allow districts to be drawn
based only on population. One simply needs to look at various states, AZ is a
good example, to see how our congressional districts are drawn. The current
system is crazy.
Now
the Republicans have released part of their ASA replacement…it is time to speak
up. Our President stated that ‘No one knew how complicated Healthcare was’.
Well for sure the Conservatives didn’t. The one problem no one seems to want to
deal with is drug prices. There are lots of ads on TV about the importance of
getting the Shingles shot. Doctors suggest it too. When I got mine, it was
covered, but my pharmacy shows me how much it would have cost had I not had
insurance. It would have cost $550. People without insurance can’t afford that.
We have seen several drugs go up to outrageous prices…because they can. A
friend carries an EpiPen due to allergies. Last year the pen, with 2 doses was
$130; now it is $375 and they expire. Until we find a way to stop skyrocketing
prescription costs, we will still have a mess. I too take an allergy medicine.
With my insurance it cost $2.14/month. The medicine became over the counter, so
not covered by insurance, is now $24.96/month. I just don’t get how people
without insurance get their meds.
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
How
many U.S. presidents were born in February?
2
3
4
5
40.7%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
+197→Percentage change since 1996 in the price of
higher education
-96→Of televisions
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
My
wife came home with four cases of beer, three boxes of wine, two bottles of
whiskey and two loaves of bread.
"Are we expecting guests?" I asked.
"No," she replied.
"Then why did you buy so much bread?"
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*--------
The Records Continue to Fall --------*
A Mexican woman born without arms broke a world record for lighting candles
with her feet on an Italian game show. Adriana Irene Macias Hernandez used her
feet to light 11 candles and claim the Guinness World Record for "Most
birthday candles lit with the feet in one minute" in front of the audience
of Italy's Lo Show dei Record. The previous record of seven was set by American
Ashrita Furman, who holds multiple world records. Hernandez became proficient
at completing tasks with her feet after she was born without arms. In addition
to breaking the record, Hernandez graduated with a law degree, has written
multiple books and travels around the world to deliver lectures about her
disability.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
There's
No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: In the 1840s, bars in the United States offered
anyone buying a drink a "free lunch." It was really just a bunch of
salty snacks that made customers so thirsty, they kept buying drinks.
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Bring Home the Bacon: The Dunmow Flitch Trials, an English tradition that
started in 1104, challenged married couples to go one year without arguing. The
winners took home a "flitch" (a side) of bacon.
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Spill
the Beans: In ancient Greece, the system for voting new members into a private
club involved secretly placing colored beans into opaque jars. Prospective
members never knew who voted for or against them - unless the beans were
spilled.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Arizona
There are two sides
in the argument over the origin of Arizona's name. One side says that the name
comes from the Basque aritz onak (“good oak”) and was applied
to the territory because the oak trees reminded the Basque settlers in the area
of their homeland. The other side says that the name comes from the
Spanish Arizonac, which was derived from the O'odham (the language
of the native Pima people) word ali ?ona-g (“having a little
spring”), which might refer to actual springs or a site near rich veins of
silver discovered in 1736. For what it's worth, official Arizona state
historian Marshall Trimble had supported the latter explanation but for now
favors the former.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@→ indicates
age at death
@→ 96- Vyacheslav Mikhailovich
Molotov, Soviet foreign minister (UN) (D1986)
The
name "Molotov cocktail" was coined by the Finns during the Winter
War. The name was an insulting reference to Soviet foreign minister Vyacheslav
Molotov, who was one of the architects of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact signed
in late August 1939
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@→ 88- Mickey Spillane, [Frank],
mystery writer (I the Jury), born in Brooklyn, (D 20063)
81- Mickey
Gilley,
Ferriday La, country singer (Urban Cowboy)
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@→ 79- Marty Ingels, American
comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2015)
@→ 76- Will Geer, Frankfort
Indiana, American actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons) (D 1978)
75- Mark
Lindsay, Eugene Or, rock vocalist/sax (Paul Revers & Raiders)
74- Charles
Gibson,
American television journalist
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@→ 64- Bobby
Fischer, American world chess champion (1972-75), born in Chicago, Illinois (d.
2008)
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58- Kato [Brian] Kaelin, actor (Beach Fever)/OJ roommate/ witness
@→ 57- Amerigo
Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), born in Florence (d. 1512)
@→ 56- Carl
Betz,
Pitts, actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show) (D 1978)
@→ 54- Raul Julia, PR, actor
(Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman) (D 1994)
53-
Steve Wilkos, TV Host
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46- Emmanuel
Lewis,
American actor (Webster), born in Brooklyn
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37-
Matthew Gray Gubler, TV actor (Criminal Minds)
@→ 34- Yuri
Gagarin, Russian cosmonaut and 1st man into space (aboard Vostok 1), born in
Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (d. 1968)
30- Bow Wow, American rapper
and actor
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@→ 27- Bobby Sands, Irish IRA
member and leader of the hunger strike at Maze Prison where he died-1981
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@100-1996 George
Burns,
American actor and singer
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@93-1994 Lawrence
E Spivak, journalist (Meet the Press)
@91-2016 Robert
Horton,
American actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena)
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@91-2006 John
Profumo, British cabinet minister (sex scandal)
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@85-1992 Menachem Begin, PM Israel (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979)
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@76-1994 Fernando
Rey,
Spanish actor (The French Connection), cancer
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@56-2005 Chris
LeDoux,
American country singer, cancer
@50-1969 Richard
Crane,
actor (Surfside 6), heart attack
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@42-1989 Robert
Mapplethorpe, US photographer, AIDS
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@24-1997 The
Notorious B.I.G. [Christopher Wallace], American rapper, shot
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
4
As
of February 2017, there have been 45 U.S. presidents. Of these, four were born
in February: George Washington (Feb. 22, 1732), William Henry Harrison (Feb. 9,
1773), Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12, 1809) and Ronald Reagan (Feb. 6, 1911). They
were the first, ninth, 16th and 40th presidents, respectively. President's Day,
which is traditionally celebrated on the third Monday in February, was
originally created in honor of the first president and is still officially
known as Washington's Birthday, despite its more general colloquial title.
Source: Born-Today.com, History.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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