2-10-15

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Almanac: Week: 07 \ Day: 041 
February Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 63°\L 28°
Average Sky Cover: 0%  Ave. humidity: 28%    
Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  19mph
Ave. High: 45° Record High:  65° (1951)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low:  -17° (1933)

Observances Today:
Extraterrestrial Culture Day
Extraterrestrial Visitor Day
Plimsoll Day—Samuel, a Brit, who took up for sailors’ safety
Umbrella Day

Observances This Week:
Feb 7-14
Celebration of Love Week
Children of Alcoholics Week
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week

Dump Your Significant Jerk Week
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
Jell-O Week

Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week
International Hoof-Care Week

Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
Risk Awareness Week
Feb 9-15
International Flirting Week
International Friendship Week
Love a Mensch Week
National Green Week

Random Acts of Kindness Week
Feb 10-12
World AG Expo
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Quote of the Day 


US Historical Highlights for Today
1676 - Wampanoag Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
1855 - US citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted US citizenship
1857 - Greek camel driver, Hadji Ali, arrived in US with a shipload of camels destined to open the first wagon road along the 35th parallel across Arizona.
1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted
1870 - City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
1870 - YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (NYC)
1879 - 1st electric arc light used (California Theater)
1890 - Around 11 million acres ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
1897 - NY Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1942 - Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
1949 - Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
1954 - Eisenhower warns against US intervention in Vietnam
1956 - "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1962 - Jim Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
1971 - American Mensa Ltd incorporates in New York
1992 - Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA
1996 - IBM computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov
Today’s World Events through History
     60 - St Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta
1535 - 12 nude Anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1716 - Scottish pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
1749 - 10th (final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
1824 - Simon Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1931 - New Delhi becomes capital of India
1975 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army agrees to a truce and ceasefire with the British government and the Northern Ireland Office; Seven "incident centres" are established in nationalist areas to monitor the ceasefire and the response of the security forces
1990 - South African President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on Feb 11th
2005 - His Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales announces engagement to Camilla Parker Bowles
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


My Rambling Thoughts
Monday and another spring day. My bulbs are starting to break the ground on my deck. Too bad they don’t know it’s February and I’m sure there will be more snow before the real spring arrives. Hard to believe when I watch what is happening on the East coast and Mid-west. Cheryl gave me an article last fall about planting bulbs in layers so they will come up at different times.  I’ll see if that really works.
Headed out this morning and got my haircut. The same lady has cut my hair for the past 6 or 7 haircuts and still doesn’t know me. When I go I am always her first Monday customer, still she doesn’t remember. She does a decent job, but is certainly not the sharpest scissors in the salon. Oh well, I’m just another old guy who tips well. She does give me the senior discount without asking.
A follow up to the Prescott girl who was maybe killed by ISIS. I figured I had missed the story when she was captured, but now the family has told ISIS that they kept their end of the bargain by not talking to the press or releasing anything about her capture, now the family wants proof of life or proof of death. So sad. Seems a little strange that some media outlet didn’t release anything. Maybe some media knew and just followed the family wishes.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Zona, the nutty professor, gathered the class one day for an experiment. Zona began, "I have in my hands a rock and a piece of wood. I am going to place them in this beaker of mysterious liquid, and you may observe what happens." Surprisingly, the rock floated and the wood sank! He turned to the class and said, "My question is: What is this mysterious liquid in the beaker?"  Do you know the answer?  

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country Facts…
--Water, electricity, and gas has been free in Turkmenistan since 1991
--In 1948, Costa Rica abolished its military and spends the money on education and culture instead

Easter Eggs…check it out…
What happens when gravity takes hold? As soon as you click in the Google search bar, all heck breaks loose!
Just as in a real catastrophe, it's important to keep focused. Go ahead and type in your search term, and then hit enter. It's a pretty silly gimmick, but it sure is fun to watch. For more wreckage, keep typing in search terms and hitting enter.

Eye Facts…
--Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
--When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate, they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
--The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 years ago
At Babbitt’s Thriftway this week. Cider 50 cents a gallon, Coffee 23 cents a pound, Butter 33 cents an pound, Jello 5 cents. Hogs whole or half 12 ½ cents a pound, Pigs Feet 8 cents.

Harper’s Index…
$13,200,000,000
Total value of unclaimed money in NY state bank accounts

Rules of Thumb…
SELLING DOOR-TO-DOOR
If no one stops the dog from barking within 15 seconds, no one will answer the door.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Knoxville, Tennessee’s Body Farm isn’t a day spa; it is a forensic anthropology facility. Human cadavers are left outdoors in varying stages of undress in water, under brush, etc., so that scientists can study the decomposition process.
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Joke-of-the-day
A Roman walks into a bar 
Holds up two fingers and says five beers please

Bonus
A 20-something year-old girl finally decided to introduce her boyfriend to her parents. She hid him from them because she was afraid of how they'd react because he's very religious, but now that they're engaged she couldn't hide it anymore. 
The boy shakes the father's hand firmly and sits down for a talk. 
"So I understand that you want to marry my daughter. Do you have a job to support her?"
"With God's help sir, someday soon, I'll find a job."
"Are you planning on having kids?"
"With God's help sir, someday, yes."
"I understand that you're a student. How are you going to pay your tuition and afford a baby?"
"With God's help sir, I'm very certain both of these are possible goals." 
The conversation went pleasantly and politely. After the boy left, the mother asked the father: "Well? What do you think of the young lad?" 
To which the father replied: "He seems pretty nice, the only problem is that he seems to believe that I'm God."          


Yep, It Really Happened
BOLIVIA, N.C. (UPI)
Authorities in North Carolina said they have re-arrested a prison inmate who escaped from the facility by putting on a coat and walking out the front door. The Brunswick County Sheriff's Office said William Earl Hewett was found hiding in a camper on his family's property Tuesday morning, five days after his escape from the Brunswick County prison. Hewett escaped from the prison Thursday by donning a coat and posing as his brother, Curtis Hewett, who was due to be released that day, the sheriff's office said. Security camera footage from the incident shows Hewett walk through a metal detector before being pursued by a jailor. Footage taken outside the facility shows Hewett shed the coat and outrun the jail worker to make his escape. Hewett was charged with escaping from a county or municipal facility. He was also served outstanding warrants on charges of burning property and property damage. Hewett was ordered held in lieu of $3 million bond. The sheriff's office said five others, including Hewett's mother, stepfather and girlfriend, were arrested on allegations of helping to hide the suspect from authorities. Curtis Hewett is also facing charges for helping his brother escape. Brunswick County Sheriff John Ingram blamed "human error" for Hewett's escape and said one person has been fired as a result of the probe, which is ongoing.    

Somewhat Useless Information
How many parents set Social Media accounts in their baby’s names?
According to a new study conducted by Gerber.com, 40% of mothers between the ages of 18 and 34 created a social media account for their little ones before they were born.
The study didn’t have to do with accounts with pictures and posts about their babies that are registered under the parents, it has to do with actual accounts that are opened in the baby’s name.
Gerber’s poll included 1,000 mothers with children under the age of 2.
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Which is the largest planet in our galaxy?
Did you know that the largest planet discovered in our galaxy is 29 times bigger than Jupiter?
‘DENIS-P J082303.1-491201 b’ is an extrasolar planet and was discovered by Sahlmann et al., 2013 using the ESO telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory.
‘DENIS-P J082303.1-491201 b’ is about 67.7 light years or 642 trillion km or 399 trillion miles) from Earth!
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Birthday’s Today
Leontyne Mary Violet Price, opera soprano (Porgy & Bess) is 88
Jim Whittacker, mountain climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest) is 85
Robert Wagner, actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart) is 85
Roberta Flack, vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face) is 76
Mark Spitz, swimmer (Oly-9 gold/silver/bronze-68, 72) is 65
Greg Norman, Queensland, Australia, PGA golfer is 60
George Stephanopoulos, presidential adviser, news anchor is 54
Glenn Beck, Conservative radio\television host is 51
Laura Dern, actress (Jurassic Park) is 48
Elizabeth Banks, actress (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) is 41
Emma Roberts, actress (Blow) is 24
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Remembered for being born today
Samuel Plimsoll, inventor (Plimsoll line for ships) 1824-1898@74
Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist(Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958) 1890-1960@70
Jimmy Durante, long-nosed comedian 1893-1980@86
Walter Houser Brattain, physicist (Nobel -transistor) 1902-1987@85
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Historical Obits Today
Arthur Miller, American playwright, 2005, @89
Shirley Temple, actress and diplomat, 2014, @85
Pius XI, [Ambrogio D A Ratti], Italian Pope (1922-39), 1939, @81
Alex Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), heart attack, 1992@70
Jim Varney, actor\commercials, cancer, 2000, @50
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Brain Teasers Answers
The mysterious liquid is water. The rock is pumice or volcanic glass which floats in water and the wood was from the desert ironwood tree which is so dense that it actually sinks in water.
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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.
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