Feb. 2 2012


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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 05/ Day:    
Today: H   55°L 16° Averages: H  43° L 18° Records: H   60°(2003)L -23°(1985)
Wind: ave:   6mph; Gusts:  18mph  ave. humidity:  63%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:
1st Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania is observed—1887
1st leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents) — 1802
1st presidential news conference on network TV-Eisenhower—1955 
Al Capone sent to prison—1932 
Dalai Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India— 1986
Frank Sinatra's singing debut in Indianapolis (Tommy Dorsey Orch) — 1940
Indian languages in schools prohibited by law—1887
New Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York City) — 1653
Pedro de Mendoza finds Argentine city of Buenos Aires— 1536
Pete Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points— 1970
Samuel Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time— 1863
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican War; US acquires TX, CA, NM, 
     AZ for $15 million— 1848

     Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts:   
A good day all around. Talked to both Cheryl and Mary. Cheryl is doing well, and in good spirits…her eye surgery will be next Wed. and she is very optimistic. Mary’s headed to Phx to look for her 2nd home and her pain is almost gone. Both are cautious but both are ready for healing.
 
Got a call from TC that a friend’s father passed away yesterday. He has been incarcerated for years for abusing his granddaughter. Sadly, this has torn their family apart. His passing may or may not bring the family back together. Hopi way he should be in the ground by sunset, but since he was in prison, they have to wait for an autopsy…so even in death he brings tension to the family. I can only hope that his children will reconcile as family is everything.
Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)
Hidden Word
Find a hidden word in the sentence
Dancing off-kilter in the rain.
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:

Ok, then?

Read This Carefully!!
On a Maternity Room door:
"Push. Push. Push."
Picture of the Day: Uganda

impenetrable  forest Uganda...Home of the Gorillas

Harper’s Index:         
Amount by which the average Canadian household is richer than the average American one: $43,232
Unusual Fact of the Day:
Why can Goofy talk but Pluto can't? According to Disney, "Goofy was created as a human character, as opposed to Pluto, who was a pet."
Joke-of-the-day:
A mother was preparing pancakes for her sons, Kevin, 5, Ryan, 3. The boys began to argue over who would get the first pancake. Their mother saw the opportunity for a moral lesson. "If Jesus were sitting here, He would say, 'Let my brother have the first pancake. I can wait.'"
Kevin turned to his younger brother and said, "Ryan, you be Jesus!"  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FOLLOWING FOSSILS
Northern fossils generally are larger than southern fossils.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
A woman from Sao Jose do Rio Preto in Brazil is accused of trying to kill her husband by putting poison inside her privates - then asking him to perform oral sex on her. The woman planted a toxic substance in her genitals then lured her husband to bed. But when she asked him to give her oral sex, he is said to have fled after noticing a strange smell. If that were his only criteria for refusing oral sex she probably never got any.
The suspicious husband then took his wife to the hospital where doctors carried out tests and found she had ingested a poisonous substance.
Her husband is now suing her for the alleged attempted murder.
  • Somewhat Useless Information   
  • The first pay-per-view concert shown on television occurred in 1962. It featured The Kingston Trio performing at Madison Square Garden, and access to the program, using a technology called Phonevision, cost $1.50.
  • The first company to advertise on television was watchmaker Bulova, whose name appeared on screen for a few seconds preceding a baseball game the afternoon of July 1, 1941, between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Brooklyn Dodgers.
  • While Star Trek's Captain Kirk and Lieutenant Uhura are widely credited with the first black/white kiss on network television, William Shatner revealed in his autobiography that their lips never actually "met" - it only looked that way on screen thanks to the camera angle.
  • Telethons have been around since the earliest days of television. Milton Berle hosted the first one on WNBT in New York in 1949, when celebrities gathered to help raise more than $1 million for the Damon Runyon Cancer fund.
  • The first television show to utilize "open" captions, that is, captions visible onscreen without special closed captioning equipment, was PBS's The French Chef.
  • Character actress Doris Parker was the first to utter the word "damn" on a network sitcom. She dropped the "d" bomb on an episode of My Favorite Martian that originally aired on March 28, 1965.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
1-7
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend
Women's Heart Week

Today Is                                                                      
Candelmas: Presentation of the Lord Day (Catholic/Orthodox)
Crepe Day
Groundhog Day/ Groundhog Job Shadow Day / Hedgehog Day
Ice Cream For Breakfast Day
Imbolic: (Saint) Brighid’s Day
Marmot Day: Alaska’s Groundhog Day
National Girls and Women In Sports Day
Sled Dog Day
Take Your Child To The Library Day
Ukulele Day
World Play Your
World Wetlands Day

Today’s Events through History  
1st broadcast of "What's My Line" — 1950
2 days after becoming chancellor, Adolf Hitler dissolves Parliament— 1933
2:22:22 on 2/2/22
Bottle cap with cork seal patented by William Painter (Baltimore) — 1892
Cold snap across Europe kills more than 100 people (over 400 people by 2/8) —2012
Ethyl gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio— 1923
FBI releases details of Abscam— 1980
In 1905, the Shoshone and Arapaho tribes of the Wind River Reservation ceded a large part of their reservation to the United States. According to Federal Register Number,10fr02254, they will get a small part of that land back —1945
International Ski Federation (FIS) forms— 1924
Lie detector 1st used in court (Portage Wisc) — 1935
NYC's Grand Central Terminal opens— 1913

US female Figure Skating championship won by Dorothy Hamill— 1975
Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 70’s
Tom Smothers , comedian (Smother Brother Show, Serial)  is 76
In their 50’s
Christie Brinkley, [Ex-Mrs Billy Joel], model/actress (SI, Vacation) is 59
In their 30’s
Shakira, Colombian pop singer is 36
Remembered for being born today
Jacques Philippe Marie Binet, French mathematician (1786-1856)
Clarence "Buster" Crabbe, California, swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)/actor (1908-1983)
Farrah Fawcett, Texas, actress (Charley's Angels, Burning Bed) (1947-2009)
Stan Getz, Phila, jazz tenor saxophonist (Benny Goodman, Jimmy Dorsey) (1927-1991)
John Glover, English chemist (sulfuric acid) (1817-1902)
Solomon R Guggenheim, philanthropist (Guggenheim Museum NYC) (1861-1949)
Howard Johnson, American hotelier (1897-1972)
James Joyce, Ireland, novelist/poet (Dubliners, Ulysses, Finnigan's Wake) (1882-1941)
Ayn Rand, writer (Atlas Shrugged, Fountainhead) (1905-1982)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Boris Karloff, [Pratt], British actor (Frankenstein)—1969—at 81
Martin Lister, English naturalist and physician—1712—at 73
Bert Parks, [Jacobson], TV host (Miss America)—lung cancer—1992—at 77
Bertrand Russell, philosopher, British MP—1970—at 97
John L Sullivan, Mass, heavyweight boxing champ—overindulgence—1918—at 59
Sid Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie], bassist (Sex Pistols)—OD—1979—at 21

Answer: Hidden Countries
Dancing off-KILTer in the rain.
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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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 That Is All for Now  §

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