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March 30,
2017 Week: 12 \ Day: 89
86004 Today: H 55° \
L 35° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 23mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007)
L: -16
(1966)
Record High: 70°[1971] Record Low: 1°[1998]
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❆❆Quote
of the Day❆❆
Henry J. Kaiser
Problems are only
opportunities in work clothes.
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❆❆Observances
Today❆❆
Doctors Day Link
Grass Is Always Browner On
The Other Side Of The Fence Day
Pencil Day
Torrents Day Link
World Bi-polar Day Link
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❆❆Observances
This Week❆❆
26-4/1
NanoDays Link
Health Information Professionals Week Link
International Phace Syndrome Awareness Week
National Cleaning Week
National Protocol Officer's Week
Pediatric Nurse Practitioner Week
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❆❆Today’s
Significant US Historical Events❆❆
► Today’s Significant International Historical Events
►1422 Ketsugan,
Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free Kaizoji temple
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►1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned
with laurel wreath
►1796 Carl
Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, discovers the construction of the
heptadecagon (17 sides)
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1822 Congress
combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1842 Ether
used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Ga)
1858 Pencil
with attached eraser patented (Hyman L Lipman of Philadelphia)
►1867 US
buys Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (2 cents an acre - Seward's Folly)
1870 15th
Amendment to the US constitution is adopted, guarantees right to vote
regardless of race
1870 Texas
becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union
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1909 Queensboro
Bridge opens, linking Manhattan & Queens
1910 Mississippi
Legislature founded The University of Southern Mississippi.
►1935 Newfoundland
changes time to 3½ hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
►1959 Dalai
Lama flees China and is granted political asylum in India
►1965 Vietnam
War: A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and
wounding 183 others.
►1969 Loyalists
bomb water and electricity installations in Northern Ireland in the hope that
the attacks would be blamed on the IRA and on elements of the civil rights
movement, which was demanding an end to discrimination against Catholics
1981 Pres Reagan shot
& wounded by John W Hinckley III
►1987 Vincent
van Gogh's "Sunflowers" sells for a record 22.5 million pounds ($39.7
million)
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2012 MasterCard
and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million
compromised credit card numbers
►2013 North
Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea
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❆❆My
Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Recent
blood test showed that I need to cut down on one of my Thyroid meds. Good news.
Picked it up at Walgreens, as usual. The tech said the pharmacist needs to talk
to you. Hmmm? So I wait and he finally comes out.
Pharmacist:
Is it was a new med.
Me:
No, just a smaller dose.
P:
Have you ever taken it before?
Me:
Yes, a year ago.
P:
OK, thanks.
Me:
How come you I had to wait to see you?
P:
AZ law requires that a pharmacist must meet with every patient who gets a new
med. So I’ll be seeing you on every script that isn’t a refill.
Me:
New law?
P:
Old law that is being newly enforced. The fine is $500/script.
Me:
OK, enjoy your day.
Note: It used to be that the tech would note it was a new med and ask if you wanted to see the Pharmacist. Guess our brilliant legislators figure the people are too dumb or too shy to say 'yes I want to see the pharmacist'.
I
have supported the idea that Congress has term limits, just like the President.
I think now I am going to support the idea that anyone elected as President or
VP must have some government experience. Probably the same for Congress. We are
living a dream/nightmare with so many powerful people who have zero government experience.
The businessman leader tells the people that he has done this or that with an
executive order, when in fact, the order does little or nothing. One cannot
simply overturn a law with an executive order, thank goodness. One can overturn
a previous executive order with another executive order. A president can issue
an executive order to make March 30th of each year to be a day that
Americans should not eat candy. It is not a law. The next president can issue a
new executive order that says March 30th will be a normal day. That
is not a law either. However; when a President issues an executive order that
removes constraints on coal production; he has to realize that there are laws,
passed by Congress that set rules about coal production. Too bad the neophyte
in the oval office doesn’t know that. Worse
yet, the poor coal miners hear about his executive order and assume coal will
become king again. NOT!
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❆❆Today’s
Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers
at the end of post)
What
U.S. state bears the slogan "The Land of Enchantment?"
California
Texas
New
Mexico
Arizona
65.8% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s
Index❆❆
63→Minimum number of super delegates at the Democratic
National Convention who were registered lobbyists
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❆❆ Joke
For The Day❆❆
My
cooking has always been the target of family jokes. One evening, as I prepared
dinner a bit too quickly, the kitchen filled with smoke and the smoke detector
went off. Although both of my children had received fire-safety training at
school, they did not respond to the alarm.
Annoyed, I stormed through the house in search of them. I found them in the
bathroom, washing their hands. Over the loud buzzing of the smoke alarm, I
asked them to identify the sound.
"It’s the smoke detector," they replied in unison.
"Do you know what that sound means?" I demanded.
"Sure," my oldest replied. "Dinner’s ready."
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❆❆Yep,
It Really Happened❆❆
*---
It's The Way He Would Have Wanted to Go ---*
A deceased man got a bizarre and seductive send-off when women started twerking
on his coffin. A video of the incident from Mexico showed mourners gathering to
pay their respects to the man before he was laid to rest. While the wooden
coffin was sitting on top of two motorcycles, women got on top and began
twerking. Reggae music was blasting while the upbeat crowd seemed to be
enjoying the show. At first, one woman began dancing and twerking on the
coffin. A female onlooker grabbed the dancer's skirt, exposing her underwear.
She then spanked the dancer's backside and threw water on her. A second woman
in tight leggings then joined her and also twerked on top of the coffin. The
video was posted with the caption: 'When Brayan dies.' The video has been seen
more than 36,500 times.
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❆❆Somewhat
Useless Information❆❆
The
most famous naval battle of the War of 1812 was the Battle of Boston Harbor
fought on 1 June 1813. It was a duel between two frigates, which ultimately
humiliated the proud and cocky U.S. navy.
The
bloodiest ship-to-ship action of the age of sail was fought between the
American frigate USS Chesapeake and the British frigate HMS Shannon during the
War of 1812. In an engagement that lasted less than 15 minutes, the British
lost 23 killed and 56 wounded, while the Americans lost 48 killed and 99
wounded. Between the wounded of the ships' two companies, another 23 died of
their wounds in the two weeks following the action.
During
the court-martial that followed the capture of USS Chesapeake by HMS Shannon,
Midshipman William Sitgreaves Cox, the junior-most officer on the Chesapeake,
was charged with cowardice, disobedience of orders, desertion from quarters,
neglect of duty, and unofficer like conduct. He had taken the injured captain
below-deck during the battle and could not regain the deck when the British
boarded the Chesapeake.
In the end, Mr. Cox was only convicted of unofficer like conduct, and neglect
of duty for leaving the deck when he knew, or should have known, that a
boarding action was imminent, since every other officer above him was either
injured or out-of-action and Cox was technically in command of Chesapeake.
Cox's family tried for nearly 140 years to exonerate his name. Finally, in
1952, Cox's great grandson, succeeded in bringing the matter to the attention
of the House Armed Services Committee which reviewed the historical facts of
the case and recommended his reinstatement.
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❆❆How
our states were named❆❆
Mississippi
The
state is named for the Mississippi River. You may have heard that mississippi means
"the Father of Waters" and you may have heard that from no
less a source than novelist James Fenimore Cooper or President Abraham Lincoln
(who wrote in a letter after the Civil War after Union victories
during the Civil War, "the Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the
sea"). I hate to pee on Honest Abe's parade, but the word, a
French derivation of the Ojibwa messipi (alternately misi-sipi or misi-ziibi)
actually means "big river." It may not sound as dramatic as
Lincoln's preferred translation, but whatever the meaning, the name caught on.
As French explorers took the name down the river with them to the delta, it was
adopted by local Indian tribes and replaced their own names, and the earlier
Spanish explorers' names, for the river.
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❆❆Birthdays
Today❆❆
@ indicates age at death
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90- Peter Marshall
TV
game show host (Hollywood Squares), born in Huntington, West Virginia
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@86- Marc Davis
American
Disney animator (d. 2000)
@86- Richard Dysart
Brighton
Mass, actor (Leland MacKenzie-LA Law) (D 2015)
@82- Francisco Jose de Goya
Fuendetodos
Spain, painter/etcher (Naked Maja) (D 1828)
80- Warren Beatty
actor
(Bonnie & Clyde, Shampoo, Dick Tracy), born in Richmond, Virginia
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72- Eric Clapton
English
singer and guitarist (Tears in Heaven), born in Ripley, Surrey, England
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67- Robbie Coltrane
Scottish
actor (Harry Potter films) and comedian, born in Rutherglen, South Lanarkshire
60- Paul Reiser
American
actor (My 2 Dads, Diner, Aliens, Mad About You), born in NYC, New York
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@58- Anna Sewell
English
author (Black Beauty), born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (d. 1878)
55- M C Hammer
[Stanley
Kirk Burrell], rapper (Hammer Time), born in Oakland, California
53- Ian Ziering
American
actor ("Beverly Hills 90210"), born in West Orange, New Jersey
52- Piers Morgan
editor
(Daily Mirror)
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49- Celine Dion
Canadian
singer (I'm Your Woman), born in Charlemagne, Quebec
46- Mark Consuelos
Zaragosa
Spain, actor (Mateo Santos-All My Children)
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38- Norah Jones
American
singer and pianist, born in Brooklyn, New York
@37- Vincent van Gogh
Dutch
artist, painter and pioneer of Expressionism (The Potato Eaters, Irises), born
in Groot-Zundert, Netherlands (d. 1890)
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❆❆Historical
Obits Today❆❆
@101-2002
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother of the United Kingdom
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@95-2004 Alistair Cooke
English-born
journalist
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@86-1986 James Cagney
actor (Yankee
Doodle Dandy)
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@72-1992 Manolis Andronicos
Greek
archaeologist who discovered ancient royal Macedonian tombs in northern Greece
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@61-1840 George (Beau) Brummell
Dandy, syphilis
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@58-2004 Michael King
New Zealand
historian and author (Penguin History of New Zealand), car crash
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❆❆Trivia
Hive Answers❆❆
New
Mexico
Prior
to 1932, New Mexico's nickname was "the Sunshine State." After this
slogan was taken by Florida, the state decided to change its official motto to
"The Land of Enchantment," with the first license plates featuring
the new slogan appearing in 1941. In 1989, the state designated the song
"Land of Enchantment - New Mexico," written by Martin Murphy, Chick
Raines and Don Cook, as the official ballad of New Mexico. Source: Encyclopedia
of New Mexico
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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
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