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Today 50°/30° Sky cover: 95% Wind 7mph Gusts 5mph Active Fire: 614 miles away Risk of fire: Low Nearest Lightning: 119 miles away Air Quality: Fair Overcast Light
Snow Mar. Daily Averages: Temps:
53°\23° Moisture: 6
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Alien Abduction Day (Started in 08 at Toronto Alien Festival) |
Proposal Day |
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Today’s Thoughts
The first full day
of spring is chilly, wet, grey, with light snow at 7000’.
It is election day
in AZ where we have a Presidential Preference vote. It is only open to
registered Dems and registered Republicans. This time I voted at the 2nd floor
car dealership Conference Room. Over my many years of voting, I have voted in
School gyms, church basements, libraries, and empty small stores in a mall, and
in city elections by dropping off my ballot into a box outside city offices. I
have never walked into a working car dealership, taken an elevator to the 2nd
floor, followed voting signs down a long hallway and voted in a tiny conference
room. All 5 poll workers were very nice, the process was fast. It just felt
weird.
Terms with origins in rural America
Get go
"Get
go," meaning from the beginning, originated in Black English. It was used
in print by Toni Cade Bambara, a 1960s civil rights activist, who wrote fiction
set in the rural South and in Harlem.
Influential Women
Sally
Ride (1951-2012). A physicist and astronaut, Ride joined NASA in
1978. Five years later, in 1983, she became the first American woman to go to
outer space. (Recommended biography here.)
Sacagawea (1788-1812). Sacagawea
was a Lemhi Shoshone woman best known for her expedition with Lewis and Clark
through the territory of the Louisiana Purchase. The Native American traveled
from North Dakota to the Pacific Ocean with the explorers. (Recommended
biography here.)
Historical Myths many still believe…
The
Wright Brothers Invented the First Airplane
While
the Wright Brothers did indeed make the first sustained, controlled heavy
aircraft flight in 1903, they weren’t the first to fly an aerial machine. The
National Air and Space Museum confirms, “Sir George Cayley (1773–1857) built
the world’s first hand-launched glider in 1804. It was five feet long and was
the first example of the configuration of a modern aircraft.”
Influential Native Americans…
Kent
Monkman
A
creative visionary whose work has been commissioned by the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, Kent Monkman is a Swampy Cree artist born in Canada. His work centers
on the effects of Christianity on Indigenous communities. With solo exhibits
across Canada and group exhibits throughout North America, Monkman's impactful
art challenges conventional depictions of his people by white artists like Paul
Kane.
Historic Events
1760 – The Great
Boston Fire of 1760 destroyed 349 buildings, but no reported deaths.
1916 – Albert
Einstein’s Theory of General Relativity was published in Annalen der Physik.
1923 – The Arts Club
of Chicago hosted the opening of Pablo Picasso’s first United States showing.
Typically the March
equinox falls on this date when both day and night are of equal length.
Birthdays with some quotes
@103 – Vera Lynn, English
singer and actress (d. 2020)
@98 – Carl Reiner, American
actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
“Writing is the
basis of all, because creating something that didn’t even exist before is like
taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of
nothing. You’ve got an empty page, you’ve got an idea, and then you start
typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a
movie or something else that’s a plus, but the original writing of it is what’s
very exciting.”
93 – Hal Linden,
American actor
@86 – Fredric Wertham,
German-American psychologist and author (d. 1981)
@76 – Edgar Buchanan,
American character actor (d. 1979; stroke)
@74 – Fred Rogers, American
children’s television host (d. 2003)
“Often when you
think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something
else.”
@71 – Jerry Reed, American
singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2008; emphysema)
76 – Bobby Orr,
Canadian ice hockey player
@69 – Ozzie Nelson,
American actor and bandleader (d. 1975; liver failure)
67 – Spike Lee,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
“I believe in
destiny. But I also believe that you can’t just sit back and let destiny
happen. A lot of times, an opportunity might fall into your lap, but you have
to be ready for that opportunity. You can’t sit there waiting on it. A lot of
times you are going to have to get out there and make it happen.”
67 – Holly Hunter,
American actress
“In some ways, it
would be nice to stay younger, but I feel pretty happy about growing older…
Personally, I don’t have a lot of the regular hand-ups with getting older that
some people do. I’ve never tried to disguise my age. People find out anyway.”
@61 – Ted Bessell, American
actor and director (d. 1996; aneurysm )
38 – Ruby Rose,
Australian actress
…The End for today…
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