Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Mar 16, 2015)

All in Order 2



Complete the words below using three consecutive letters in alphabetical order, e.g. _ _ A _ U S; add A B and C it would become ABACUS.



1. C O _ _ E _,



2. _ _ _ O R M,



3. S O _ E _ _,



4. _ U _ G _ L,



5. S _ O _ _ Y,



6. _ O B U _ _.





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Today in History for 15th March 2015

Historical Events

1913 - Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court

1926 - Belgium's "black monday", franc falls

1948 - Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine

1960 - Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)

1988 - NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK

1989 - NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform

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Famous Birthdays

1791 - Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873)

1831 - Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)

1921 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian hockey executive (d. 1971)

1934 - Kanshi Ram, Indian dalit leader

1946 - David Wall, English ballet dancers/director (Royal Academy of Dancing)

1965 - Marianne Morris, Middletown OH, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA-3rd)

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Famous Deaths

1891 - Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)

1934 - Davidson Black, Paleoanthropologist, dies while working alone during the night, in Beijing, China at 49

1966 - Heinrich Lemacher, composer, dies at 74

1972 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)

1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer, dies at 94

2007 - Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)

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