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Week
13 Day 81 Flag Today
78°/42° Wind 11 mph Gusts - mph
Active
Fire: 2556 miles away Risk of fire: Extreme Nearest
Lightning: 1540 miles away
Air
Quality: Moderate Sunshine
Mar.
Averages: Temps: 54°\24°
Moisture: 12 days
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Weekly Observations
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16-22 Act Happy Week LGBT Health Awareness Week Link Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week
Link AKC Agility Championships Link |
22-28 International
Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism &
Discrimination Passiontide |
Daily Observations
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39 And Holding Day Link |
Tuskegee Airmen Day |
Today’s Quotes
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Today’s Memes
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Today’s Thoughts
I am really enjoying this spring weather. I filled with gas this morning…gas
is now $4.23/gal at Sam’s…the cheapest place in Flag. Many are charging around
$4.50.
Since it is spring, I turned the mattress today, put on a new toothbrush
head, and after that I started to think about the need to do spring cleaning in
the future.
Sorry to hear of Robert Meuller’s passing at 81. He was an FBI director and
led the investigation into any Trump/Russia collusion during the 2016 campaign.
I have subscribed to Funny Times, a monthly print newspaper. It is
filled with interesting stories and funny cartoons. Annually they print Dave Barry’s
review of the previous year. This morning, I was reading his article. I made it
to March before I stopped. It was amazing how many of Trump’s leadership decisions
were reviewed. I must admit, I had forgotten some of them. And there was a lot
of other news that I had forgotten. Hopefully I’ll finish the rest of the month
this afternoon or tomorrow. You can subscribe to Funny Times online. I
find it well worth the money.
Real Hoaxes
The
Dreadnought Hoax
A group
of pranksters posed as foreign dignitaries to tour the British battleship HMS
Dreadnought. Naval ceremony did the rest, and the visitors were treated like
VIPs without anyone properly checking. The prank landed because the performance
was confident and the uniforms looked official enough.
Princess
Caraboo
A young
woman appeared in an English town speaking a made-up language and claiming
royal origins. Locals tried to decode her story, hosted her, and treated her
like a fascinating mystery. The truth eventually unveiled that she was actually
from another town in England, but the townspeople were surprisingly
good-natured about the whole thing.
The Sokal
Affair
A physicist submitted a deliberately nonsensical academic article packed with jargon to test a journal’s standards. It was published, and only afterward did he reveal it was a hoax meant to expose weak editorial scrutiny. The whole episode became a cultural argument about expertise, language, and credibility.
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Historic Events
REBUS ANSWERS
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Birthdays
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William Shatner (95
years old) Canadian author,
director and actor (Star
Trek; T J Hooker), born in Montreal, Quebec φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Jeremy Clyde (85
years old), English pop singer and guitarist (Chad & Jeremy - "A
Summer Song") and actor (The Iron Lady), born in Dorney, Buckinghamshire φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ James Patterson (79
years old) American author (Alex
Cross, Witch and Wizard), born in Newburgh, New York φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Andrew Lloyd
Webber (78 years old) British
theatrical composer (Jesus
Christ Superstar; Phantom of the Opera; Cats), born in London, England φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Wolf Blitzer (78
years old), American television journalist (CNN), born in Augsburg, Germany φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Bob Costas (74
years old), American sportscaster and talk show host (Later), born in Queens,
New York φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Laurie David
[Laurie Lennard] (68 years old), American environmental activist and film
producer (An Inconvenient Truth, Fed Up), born in Long Island, New York φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Matthew Modine (67
years old), American actor (Birdy; Full Metal Jacket; Stranger Things), and
filmmaker, born in Loma Linda, California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Alex Padilla (53
years old), American politician (Senator-D-Ca 2021-), born in Los Angeles,
California φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Reese Witherspoon (50 years old) American actress (Pleasantville,
Legally Blonde, Sweet Home Alabama), born in New Orleans, Louisiana φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Taiwanese-American actress (Fresh
Off the Boat), born in Richmond, Virginia φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ American NFL player (Houston
Texans), born in Waukesha, Wisconsin φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ |
Emperor
Maximilian I (1459-1519; @59, stroke) Holy
Roman Emperor (1508-19, established Hapsburg dynasty in Spain), born
in Wiener Neustadt, Austria φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Robert A.
Millikan (1868-1953; @85) American physicist (photoelectric
effect; Nobel 1923), born in Morrison, Illinois φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Hans Wilsdorf (1881-1960; @79) German businessman and
founder of Rolex and Tudor, born in Kulmbach, Bavaria φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Chico Marx (1887-1961; @74, arteriosclerosis) American comedian (Marx
Brothers), born in New York City φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Louis D L'Amour, American best-selling author (Hondo, Jubal Sackett),
born in Jamestown, North Dakota (d. 1988; @80) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Karl Malden (Mladen George Sekulovich) (1912-2009; @97) American actor (Streets
of San Francisco; A Streetcar Named Desire; American Express commercials),
born in Chicago, Illinois φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Forest 'Bud'
Sagendorf, American cartoonist (Popeye), born in Wenatchee, Washington (d.
1994; @79) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ George Wyle
[Bernard Weissman], American composer (The Ballad of Gilligan's Island";
"It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year"), and orchestra leader
(The Flip Wilson Show), born in New York City (d. 2003; @87) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Ross Martin
[Martin Rosenblatt], Polish-American actor (Mr Lucky; The Wild Wild West),
born in Gródek, Lwowskie, Poland (d. 1981; @61, heart attack playing tennis) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Werner Klemperer,
German-American Emmy Award-winning stage and screen actor (Judgment at
Nuremberg; Hogan's Heroes - "Col. Klink"), born in Cologne, Germany
(d. 2000; @80) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Marcel Marceau,
French mime artist and actor (Barbarella, Silent Movie), born in Strasbourg,
France (d. 2007; @84) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Pat Robertson,
American Baptist televangelist and media mogul (700 club, Presidential
candidate-R-1989), born in Lexington, Virginia (d. 2023; @93) φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ Stephen
Sondheim (1930-2021; @91) American Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize winning composer and lyricist (West
Side Story; Sunday in the Park With George; A Funny Thing Happened on the Way
to the Forum, Gypsy), born in New York City φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ φ |
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