19 Mar

 

Week 12  Day 78 Flag Today  72°/47°                             Wind 13 mph Gusts 23 mph

Active Fire: 192 miles away Risk of fire: Extreme   Nearest Lightning: 2061 miles away

Air Quality: Moderate Sunshine Breezy

Mar. Averages: Temps: 54°\24° Moisture: 12 days

Weekly Observations

10-20 Native American Awareness Week Link 12-21 World Police and Fire Games Link 15-21 American Chocolate Week  National Agriculture Week National Animal Poison Prevention Week  Link  Link National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week  Link  National Poison Prevention Week Link World Folktales & Fables Week 16-20 Healthcare HR Week Link

16-22 Act Happy Week International Teach Music Week International Brain Awareness Week Link LGBT Health Awareness Week Link National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week National Fix A Leak Week Link National Fragrance Week Link Wellderly Week 18-21 Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week Link 19-22 AKC Agility Championships Link

Daily Observations

Absolutely Incredible Kid Day Client's Day Link Certified Nurses Day Link Eid-Al-Fitr Goddess of Fertility Day  International Digital Learning Day  Link International Read To Me Day Link National Backyard Day Link

National Certified Nurses Day  Link  Link National Chocolate Caramel Day Link National Farm Rescuer Day Link  National Poultry Day Link National Spray Tanning Day Link  Operation Iraqi Freedom Day Raspberry Day Swallows Return to San Juan Capistrano Day

Today’s Quotes                                                                 

Today’s Memes

Today’s Thoughts

The weather guy says we will have record warmth for the next few days. Just wish that also brought some moisture to our parched forest.

It’s been in the news for a couple of months…Iran had funded two different attempts on Trump’s life. Now the question is: Do those attempts cause Trump to be retaliating by bombing all of Iran into submission?  I get that he is mad, but what about the innocent civilians living under that tyrannical ruler?

Gas prices continue to rise. When does the winning begin? 

Real Hoaxes

Piltdown Man

For decades, a supposed “missing link” fossil shaped conversations about human evolution. It looked believable enough that many people treated it like a major scientific breakthrough. Later, it was revealed as a carefully assembled fake that embarrassed a lot of confident experts.

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The Cottingley Fairies

Two girls produced photographs that appeared to show fairies hanging around the English countryside. Plenty of adults, including some very respectable ones, fell for it because the images were so persuasive. The story lasted far longer than you’d expect because even adults like the idea of magic being real. 

Try Rebus

T R O U B L E

ENTURY

Historic Events

 March in History

 

REBUS ANSWERS

You are in trouble Are you in trouble?

LONG TIME, NO SEE

Birthdays

Ursula Andress (90 years old), Swiss model, actress and sex symbol (Dr. No, Casino Royale, She, Sensuous Nurse), born in Ostermundigen, Switzerland φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Sirhan Sirhan (82 years old) 1944 Palestinian-born assassin of US Senator Robert F. Kennedy, born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Glenn Close (79 years old) 1947 American actress (The Big Chill, Fatal Attraction), born in Greenwich, Connecticut φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Harvey Weinstein (74 years old) 1952 American film producer (Miramax Films) and convicted sex offender whose actions helped spark the #MeToo movement, born in New York City φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Bruce Willis (71 years old) 1955 American actor (Moonlighting, Die Hard), born in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ

David Livingstone (1813-1873; @60, malaria) Scottish explorer who was famously found by Henry Morton Stanley in Africa, born in Blantyre, South Lanarkshire, Scotland φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890; @69, heart attack) English explorer and translator (Arabian Nights), born in Torquay, Devon φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Wyatt Earp (1848-1929; @80) American frontiersman and marshal who participated in the gunfight at the OK Corral, born in Monmouth, Illinois φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925; @65, apolplexy) American orator and statesman known as "The Great Commoner", born in Salem, Illinois φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Earl Warren (1891-1974; @83) Governor of California and 14th US Supreme Court Chief Justice (1953-69), born in Los Angeles, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Jackie Moms Mabley, American comedian and actress (The Merv Griffin Show), born in Brevard, South Carolina (d. 1975; @78, heart failure) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ John Sirica (1904-1992; @88) American federal judge (Watergate hearings), born in Waterbury, Connecticut φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Adolf Eichmann (1906-1962; @56, executed by hanging) German Nazi officer (SS-Obersturmbannführer, Holocaust organizer), born in Solingen, German Empire φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Tige Andrews, American character actor (The Mod Squad, The Detectives Starring Robert Taylor), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2007; @86) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Patrick McGoohan, American-born Irish actor, writer, and director (The Prisoner, Secret Agent/ Danger Man), born in Queens, New York (d. 2009; @80) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Paul Atkinson, British rock guitarist (The Zombies - "She's Not There"; "Time Of The Season"), and record company executive, born in Cuffley, Hertfordshire (d. 2004; @58, liver disease after 2 transplants) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ

 

…The End for today…