| Good Morning, Do! Today is Saturday, March 18, 2023 ___________________________________________________ History: on this day, March 18, in 1945, 1,250 U.S. bombers attacked Berlin. ____________________________________________________ Bonehead Award: Man found guilty of murder after returning to scene to tell cops what happened __________________________________________________ Q Count Hermann Keyserling once said truly that the greatest American superstition was belief in facts. --- John Gunther (1901 - 1970) The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. --- Doug Larson ________________________________________________ An assistant to Nancy Pelosi told her she had a fantastic dream last night There was a humongous parade in Washington celebrating Pelosi. Millions lined the parade route, cheering when Nancy went past. Bands were playing; children were throwing confetti into the air; there were balloons everywhere. It was the biggest celebration Washington had ever seen. Nancy was very impressed and said, "That's really great! By the way, how did I look in your dream? Was my hair okay? Her assistant said, "I couldn't tell, the casket was closed. ___________________________________________________ If you can spare a coin, PLEASE hit PayPal with it! ___________________________________________________ Girl: 'When we get married, I want to share all your worries, troubles and lighten your burden.' Boy: 'It's very kind of you, darling, but I don't have any worries or troubles.' Girl: 'Well that's because we aren't married yet.' ____________________________________________ Son: 'Mum, when I was on the bus with Dad this morning, he told me to give up my seat to a lady.' Mom: 'Well, you have done the right thing.' Son: 'But mum, I was sitting on daddy's lap.' _________________________________________________ ________________________________________________ A woman goes to the local psychic and paid for contacting her dearly departed grandmother. The psychic's eyelids begin fluttering, her voice begins warbling, her hands float up above the table, and she begins moaning. Eventually, a coherent voice emanates, saying, "Granddaughter? Are you there?" he customer, wide-eyed and on the edge of her seat, responds, "Grandmother? Is that you?" "Yes granddaughter, it's me." "It's really, really you, grandmother?", the woman repeats. "Yes, it's really me, granddaughter." The woman looks puzzled, "You're sure it's you, grandmother?" "Yes, granddaughter, I'm sure it's me." The woman pauses a moment, "Grandmother, I have just one question for you." "Anything, my child." "Grandmother, when did you learn to speak English?" ________________________________________________ A little boy opened the big and old family Bible with fascination, looking at the old pages as he turned them. Then something fell out of the Bible and he picked it up and looked at it closely. It was an old leaf from a tree that has been pressed in between the pages. "Momma, look what I found," the boy called out. "What have you got there, dear?" his mother asked. With astonishment in the young boy's voice he answered, "It's Adam's suit!!" ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ A Huey Cobra practicing autorotations during a military night training exercise had a problem and landed on the tail rotor, separating the tailboom. Fortunately, it wound up on its skids, sliding down the runway doing 360s in a brilliant shower of sparks. As the Cobra passed the tower, the following exchange was overheard: Tower: "Sir, do you need any assistance?" Cobra: "I don't know, tower. We ain't done crashin' yet!" ___________________________________________________ A couple of professional basketball players decided to sign up as ocean beach lifeguards during their team's off-season. The Park manager stared up at the 7-foot-plus applicants. "Sure, you two can play basketball," he challenged, "but can you swim?" "Not a stroke," replied the taller of the two. "But we wade real good." ___________________________________________________ __________________________________________________ An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD has been earned by Marek Hecko, 26, Chelmsford, England Man found guilty of murder after returning to scene to tell cops what happened A man, who returned to the crime scene after murdering a father of two, has been sentenced to life in prison. The murder investigation was launched by Essex Police last July, after 44-year-old Adrian Ellingford was seriously assaulted at a residence in Chelmsford, England. Ellingford died as a result of multiple stab wounds. According to police, Marek Hecko, 26, approached the murder scene while "heavily intoxicated," carrying a bottle of brandy. He began telling officers that he knew what had happened and that he could help. After becoming confrontational, he was arrested on suspicion of murder, and while in custody, he was identified as the main suspect. After following hundreds of pieces of information pursued by detectives, officials said Hecko was charged within a few days with murder. "From the moment this was declared a murder investigation, our team worked tirelessly to gather CCTV, statements and compile the evidence needed to charge Hecko," Detective Chief Inspector Louise Metcalfe said. During the trial, Hecko tried to claim that he turned up to the scene after seeing what had happened on the news, "despite the news being nowhere online on social media at this point," police added. According to officials, the court also learned that Ellingford was with a former partner of Heckos on the night of his death and that Hecko had exhibited stalking behaviors. In court, Ellingfords wife delivered a statement, describing how Ellingford was an "amazing husband, loving son, a caring brother, a friend to many and most importantly a truly brilliant father." "He was brutally ripped from our lives in events that I still cant really comprehend myself or begin to explain to our boys," she shared. "The impact of his death has affected many people in very different ways. It is totally heartbreaking." Hecko was found guilty of murder at Chelmsford Crown Court on March 13. He was sentenced to life in prison, with a minimum of 26 years. _________________________________________________ DearWebby's Tech Support Pits From: JillElaine Re PDF converter Dear Webby I have written to you before without success but thought I would try again. I maintain a member list for a non profit group but the head agency sends PDF. I need to be able to use the info in different ways so convert to a doc format. I have used one I found online but it is limited to the number of free uses. Wondering if you know of any free converter without having to purchase a bells and whistles program that I don't need. Many Thanks - have been a subscriber for many years and read every day !!Have even used the odd tip !!! Elaine Dear Elaine Just get Open Office or Office Libre. They are both free and more or less the same. Libre has more samples and free templates. They both open PDF and let you edit them, and save as either PDF or Doc and a few other formats. ______________________________________________________ Today, March 18 in 0037, The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius will and proclaims Caligula emperor. 1123, The first Lateran Council (9th ecumenical council) opened in Rome. 1190, Crusaders killed 57 Jews in Bury St. Edmonds England. 1532, The English parliament banned payments by English church to Rome. 1541, Hernando de Soto observed the first recorded flood of the Mississippi River. 1583, Dutch States General & Anjou signed a treaty. 1673, Lord Berkley sold his half of New Jersey to the Quakers. 1692, William Penn was deprived of his governing powers. 1766, Britain repealed the Stamp Act. 1813, David Melville patented the gas streetlight. 1818, The U.S. Congress approved the first pensions for government service. 1834, The first railroad tunnel in the U.S. was completed. The work was in Pennsylvania. 1835, Charles Darwin left Santiago Chile on his way to Portillo Pass. 1850, Henry Wells & William Fargo founded American Express. 1865, The Congress of the Confederate States of America adjourned for the last time. 1874, Hawaii signed a treaty giving exclusive trading rights with the islands to the U.S. 1881, Barnum and Bailey's Greatest Show on Earth opened in Madison Square Gardens. 1891, Britain became linked to the continent of Europe by telephone. 1899, Phoebe, a moon of the planet Saturn, was discovered. 1900, Ajax (Amsterdam Football Club) was formed. 1902, In Turkey, the Sultan granted a German syndicate the first concession to access Baghdad by rail. 1903, France dissolved the Catholic religious orders. 1906, In Morocco, it was reported that France and Germany were in a deadlock at the Algeciras Conference. 1909, Einar Dessau of Denmark used a short wave transmitter to become the first person to broadcast as a "ham" operator. 1910, The first opera by a U.S. composer performed at the Met in New York City. 1911, Theodore Roosevelt opened the Roosevelt Dam in Arizona. It was the largest dam in the U.S. at the time. 1911, North Dakota enacted a hail insurance law. 1913, Greek King George I was killed by an assassin. Constantine I succeeded him. 1916, Russia countered the Verdun assault with an attack at Lake Naroch. The Russians lost 100,000 men and the Germans lost 20,000. 1917, The Germans sank the U.S. ships, City of Memphis, Vigilante and the Illinois, without any warning. 1919, The Order of DeMolay was established in Kansas City. 1920, Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar. 1921, Poland was enlarged with the second Peace of Riga. 1921, The steamer "Hong Koh" ran aground off of Swatow China. Over 1,000 people were killed. 1922, Mohandas K. Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience in India. He served only 2 years of the sentence. 1922, Princeton and Yale played the first intercollegiate indoor polo championship. 1931, Schick Inc. displayed the first electric shaver. 1937, More than 400 people, mostly children, were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, TX. 1938, Mexico took control of all foreign-owned oil properties on its soil. 1938, New York first required serological blood tests of pregnant women. 1940, The soap opera "Light of the World" was first heard on NBC radio. 1940, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini held a meeting at the Brenner Pass. The Italian dictator agreed to join in Germany's war against France and Britain during the meeting. 1942, The third military draft began in the U.S. because of World War II. 1943, The Reich called off its offensive in Caucasus. 1943, American forces took Gafsa in Tunisia. 1944, The Russians reached the Rumanian border in the Balkans during World War II. 1945, 1,250 U.S. bombers attacked Berlin. 1945, Maurice "Rocket" Richard became the first National Hockey League (NHL) player to score 50 goals. 1948, France, Great Britain, and Benelux signed the Treaty of Brussels. 1949, The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) was ratified. 1950, Nationalist troops landed on the mainland of China and capture Communist held Sungmen. 1952, In Philadelphia, PA, the first plastic lenses were fitted for a cataract patient. 1953, An earthquake hit West Turkey killing 250 people. 1954, RKO Pictures was sold for $23,489,478. It became the first motion picture studio to be owned by an individual. The person was Howard Hughes. 1959, U.S. President Eisenhower signed the Hawaii statehood bill. 1962, French and Algerian rebels agreed to a truce. 1963, "Tovarich" opened at the Broadway Theater in New York City for 264 performances. 1963, France performed an underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria. 1963, The U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Miranda decision concerning legal council for defendants. 1965, Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov became the first man to spacewalk when he left the Voskhod II space capsule while in orbit around the Earth. He was outside the spacecraft for about 20 minutes. 1966, The government of Indonesia was formed by General Suharto. 1966, Scott Paper began selling paper dresses for $1. 1968, The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve. 1969, U.S. President Nixon authorizes Operation Menue. It was the secret bombing of Cambodia. 1970, The U.S. Postal Service experienced the first postal strike. 1970, The NFL selected Wilson to be the official football and scoreboard as official time. 1971, U.S. helicopters airlifted 1,000 South Vietnamese soldiers out of Laos. 1971, A landslide in Lake Yanahuani, Chungar Peru, killed 200. 1974, Most of the Arab oil-producing nations ended their five- month embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan. 1975, Saigon abandoned most of the Central Highlands of Vietnam to Hanoi. 1975, The Kurds ended their fight against Iraq. 1977, Vietnam turned over an MIA to a U.S. delegation. 1979, Iranian authorities detained American feminist Kate Millett. The next day she was deported. 1980 - The Vostok rocket exploded on the launch pad killing 50. 1981 - The U.S. disclosed that there were biological weapons tested in Texas in 1966. 1986 - Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of Prince Andrew to Sarah Ferguson. 1986 - The U.S. Treasury Department announced that a clear polyester thread was to be woven into bills in an effort to thwart counterfeiters. 1987 - The U.S. performed nuclear tests at a Nevada test site. 1990 - Thirteen paintings were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The value was $100 million making it the largest art robbery in history. 1989 - A 4,400-year-old mummy was discovered at the Pyramid of Cheops in Egypt. 1990 - The first free elections took place in East Germany. 1990 - The 32-day lockout of baseball players ended. 1990 - In Tampa, FL, a little league player was killed after being hit with a pitch. 1992 - Leona Hemsly was sentenced to 4 years in prison for tax evasion. 1992 - White South Africans voted for constitutional reforms that would give legal equality to blacks. 1994 - Zsa Zsa Gabor filed for bankruptcy. 1997 - A Russian AN-24 crashed killing 50 people. 2003 - China's new president, Hu Jintao, announced that his country must deepen reforms and raise living standards of workers and farmers. 2023, Do smiled.
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