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This is the KGB Report for Monday, March 12, the 71st day of 2018 in the Gregorian calendar, with 294 days remaining.
This is the 416th day of Donald Trump's presidency, of which he has spent 95 days at golf courses at a cost to taxpayers of $58,664,997. There are 1,045 days remaining in his term, assuming he doesn't resign, is otherwise removed from office, or his unhinged, psychotic behavior results in the destruction of the republic.
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Florida woman attacked by wild otter while kayaking .
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On this date in 1987, "Les Misérables" opened on Broadway and ran until May 18, 2003, closing after 6,680 performances. It is the fifth longest-running Broadway show in history and was the second-longest at the time. The show was nominated for 12 Tony Awards and won eight, including Best Musical and Best Original Score. (Full Wikipedia article)
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On this date: in 1455, letter dated this day by Enea Silvio Piccolomini
refers to the bible printed a year before and is the first record of
Johannes Gutenberg's Bible;
in 1894, Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for
the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain
operator Joseph A. Biedenharn.
in 1904, Andrew Carnegie established
the Carnegie Hero Fund;
in 1912, the Girl Guides (later renamed Girl
Scouts) was founded in the United States.
in 1928, in California, the
St. Francis Dam failed; the resulting floods killed 431 people.
in
1930, Gandhi began the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea to
protest the British monopoly on salt in India
in 1933, Franklin D.
Roosevelt addressed the nation for the first time as President of the
United States, the first of his "fireside chats".
in 1947,
the Truman Doctrine was proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism;
in
1959, the U.S. House joined the Senate and approved Hawaii statehood;
in
1965, the single "Wooly Bully" was released by Sam and the Sham and the
Pharaohs;
in 1993, North Korea said that it would withdraw from the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refused to allow
inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
in 1993, a large cyclonic
storm began forming over the Gulf of Mexico. It would become "the Storm
of the Century", stretching from the Honduras to Canada, affecting 40
percent of the country's population;
in 1994, the Church of England
first ordained female priests.
in 2009, Financier Bernard Madoff pled
guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street's
history.
in 2011, a reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power
Plant suffered an explosive meltdown that released radioactivity into
the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake and tsunami;
More of what happened on March 12 from On This Day and Wikipedia.
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Among other things, today is Commonwealth Day, Fill Our Staplers Day, Girl Scout Day, National Alfred Hitchcock Day, National Baked Scallops Day, National Plant a Flower Day, National Workplace Napping Day, and World Day against Cyber Censorship. (from Checkiday.com)
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Edward Franklin Albee III (March 12, 1928 - September 16, 2016) was an American playwright known for works such as The Zoo Story (1958), The Sandbox (1959), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), and A Delicate Balance (1966). Three of his plays won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and two of his other works won the Tony Award for Best Play. (Full Wikipedia article.)
Quote of the day:
"Remember one thing about democracy. We can have anything we want and at
the same time, we always end up with exactly what we deserve."
-Edward
Albee (Click
here for more quotes)
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The inventor of the world wide web warns over concentration of power among a few companies 'controlling which ideas are shared.' Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, has called for large technology firms to be regulated to prevent the web from being "weaponized at scale."
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The dark history of women, witches, and beer.
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Dentists keep dying of this lung disease. The CDC can't figure out why. Dental professionals are 23 times more likely to have idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis than the rest of the population.
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The military keeps encountering UFOs. Why doesn't the Pentagon care? We have no idea what's behind these weird incidents because we're not investigating.
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Why frogs sometimes rain down from the sky. Animal rain is, in fact, a thing.
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Bitcoin is ridiculous. Blockchain is dangerous. The true believers won’t stop until they’ve remade the world. Some of it will be thrilling. Some of it will keep us up at night.
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