2-20-2015

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Almanac: Week: 08 \ Day: 051 
February Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 46°\L 19°
Average Sky Cover: 0%  Ave. humidity: 18%    
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  20mph
Ave. High: 46° Record High:  65° (1977)
Ave. Low: 19° Record Low:  -11° (1955)

Observances Today:
Cherry Pie Day
Observances This Week:
Feb 14-21
National Condom Week
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week
Brotherhood/Sisterhood Week 
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
Through With The Chew 
National Date (fruit) Week
National Pancake Week
National Justice for Animals Week
Feb 19-22

American Birkenbreiner Race
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Quote of the Day 


US Historical Highlights for Today
 1725 - 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH for £100 a scalp bounty
1768 - 1st American chartered fire insurance company opens (Penn)
1792 - US postal service created
1809 - US Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
1863 - Congress passed a bill making Arizona a separate territory of the US with Tucson as the capital.
1893 - Congressional Act modifies the White Mountain-San Carlos-Camp Apache Reserve, in western Arizona Territory
1929 - American Samoa organizes as territory of US
1933 - House of Reps completes congressional action to repeal Prohibition
1937 - 1st automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca
1962 - John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
1992 - Ross Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show

Today’s World Events through History
1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment
1673 - 1st recorded wine auction held (London)
1745 - Jacobite troops occupy Fort Augustus, Scotland
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Inverness Castle
1943 - New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn field (Mexico)
1952 - "African Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in NYC
1975 - A feud begains between the Official Irish Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army; the two groups assassinate a number of each other's volunteers until the feud ends in June 1975
2012 - Scientists successfully regenerate Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years
2013 - Estonia becomes the first country to establish a national system of fast chargers for electric cars
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


My Rambling Thoughts
Another great weather day.
My amaryllises that was planted in early January is in full bloom in the living room. Looks very nice with lots of red flowers.
We had our weekly lunch. Mary’s youngest grandchild had a health scare but is doing well now. High fever with ambulance ride to hospital due to severe cold weather in Chicago. Cheryl is still wondering about the ‘amusement park’ that is going to be built in Williams. The builders say they expect 2million visitors a year…seems a little high by about 10 fold. Time will tell. Dream on.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What animal eats and drinks with its tail?
           
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country Facts…
--Korea's capital Seoul means "Capital".
--China's capital Beijing means "Gate".
--Japan's capital Tokyo means "Eastern Capital".

Easter Eggs…check it out…
For a really fun and geeky Google Doodle Game, try the 50th Anniversary of Doctor Who. Oh no! The Daleks have stolen the Google logo! Use the Doctor to navigate the levels and retrieve every letter. But watch out for Daleks, lava and other hazards. Only the Doctor can save the universe!

Flagstaff, AZ History…
50 years ago
Our 46-bed jail is jammed with at least 18 over capacity every day and the need is increasing weekly. Offenders are sleeping on mattresses on the floor and 20-  to 30-day prisoners are being released at 10 days. Police Chief Elmo Maxwell stated that if we didn’t have the use of the County facility for women and juvenile offenders, he doesn’t know what we would do.

Harper’s Index…
73
Percentage of the city’s public-housing units deemed ‘deficient’ by they NYC Housing authority
22
Percentage of ‘needed repairs’ the agency plans to make this year.

Rules of Thumb…
RAISING SWINE
It takes the profit from four pigs to pay the cost of keeping a sow. The fifth pig is the first one that makes you money.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Mapmakers will often place a tiny piece of incorrect information in their maps to prevent illegal reproduction of their work. Called a "copyright trap," the fake text might be a bogus street name or even the mapmakers' initials hidden in the corner of a city park.
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Joke-of-the-day
"Simon, if I had eight apples in my right hand and ten apples in my left hand, what would I have?” 
“Huge hands, sir.”   

BONUS
Bob's a factory worker, and one day, the boss is showing a bunch of Japanese investors around the factory. One of them sees Bob, and they promptly exchange handshakes and start talking like long lost friends. Afterwards, Bob's boss asks him what that was about. Bob just replies 'oh, I know him from a few years back, I actually know a lot of important people.' 
His boss is sceptic, but Bob replies: 'Tell you what, name anyone you can think of, I bet you that they know me.'

'Fine,' says his boss, and he's determined to have Bob be embarrassed, so he decides to put the bar high: 'President Obama.' 'Cool, no problem,' says Bob. 
A week later they're both standing outside the White House, and Obama comes out, spots Bob and goes "Bob? What are you doing here? Come in, bring your friend, let's have a drink together." Bobs boss has no clue how, but somehow Bob and the president are friends. Once they leave his boss goes 'Fine, you know the president, but I bet you don't know the pope'. 
Bob accepts the challenge, and the next week they're standing in Saint Peters square. 'This isn't gonna work, he's never going to see me here when there's this much people. You stay here, I'll go talk to him and you'll see me on the balcony, the guards know me too.' Half an hour later, Bob and the pope appear side by side on the balcony. Bobs boss gets a heart attack, and Bob goes to visit him in the hospital. 
'What happened? Did you not expect me to actually know the pope?'

'No, it wasn't that, I sort of expected that to happen. But there was a tourist next to me that asked 'Who's the guy in his pajamas standing next to Bob there?'

Yep, It Really Happened
FORT SMITH, Ark. (UPI)
An Arkansas Walmart employee accepted an on-camera proposal from an unexpected suitor -- the ex-husband she divorced 43 years ago. Louis Demetriades and Renate Stumpf, both 75, said they divorced 43 years ago, but they rekindled their friendship in December when Demetriades called Stumpf for help contacting one of their three children. Stumpf was shocked when Demetriades, who lives in Tennessee, visited the Walmart store where she works in Fort Smith, Ark., Saturday with a sign reading, "Happy Valentine's Day! Will you marry me?" Stumpf said her initial "no" was meant just to tease her suitor, and she quickly amended the answer to "Yes, but not today." "Forty-three years is a long time, so I wasn't sure at first," she told ABC News, "but I will marry him though because he's changed for the better, I've come to realize." Demetriades said he chose Walmart for his Valentine's Day surprise so he would have an audience of his ex-wife's friends.          

Somewhat Useless Information
Marshal Ferdinand Foch was a French soldier, military theorist, and the Allied Généralissime during the WWI, appointed “Commander-in-Chief (Généralissime) of the Allied Armies” in the spring of 1918.
Foch played a decisive role in halting a renewed German advance on Paris in the Second Battle of the Marne, after which he was promoted to Marshal of France.
“To a large extent the final Allied strategy which won the war on land in Western Europe in 1918 was Foch’s alone”, Addington said.
After the Treaty of Versailles, Marshal Ferdinand Foch said something remarkable:  “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years”. Well, 20 years and 65 days later, WW2 broke out!
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Did you know that elephants contribute significantly to the production of Black Ivory Coffee, which is the most expensive coffee in the world?
However, the making of procedure will make you rethink about consuming it again!
It is produced by the Black Ivory Coffee Company Ltd in Northern Thailand from Arabica coffee beans consumed by elephants and collected from their feces, as this fermentation helps remove the bitterness, Canadian entrepreneur Blake Dinkin, 44 says.
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Birthday’s Today
Sidney Poitier, 1st African American actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor is 88
Bobby Unser, auto racer (1968, 75, 81 Indianapolis 500) is 80
Buffy Sainte-Marie, folksinger (Now That the Buffalo Are Gone) is 74
J[erome] Geils, rock guitarist (J Geils Band-Centerfold) is 69
Sandy Duncan, actress (Hogan Family) is 69
Peter Strauss, actor in TV miniseries’ is 68
Ivana Trump, ex-wife of Donald Trump (1st Wives Club) is 66
Patty Hearst Shaw, SF, famous kidnap hostage (Tanya) is 61
Kelsey Grammer, Virgin Islands, actor (Cheers/Fraiser) is 60
Charles Barkley, NBA forward (Suns, Rockets, Oly-gold-96) is 52
French Stewart, NM, actor (Harry Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun) is 51
Cindy Crawford, model, is 49
Rihanna, Barbadian singer is 27
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Remembered for being born today
Russel Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father) 1893-1966@73
Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, founder (Pan Am Airways) 1899-1992@93
Robert Guyn McBride, Tucson, composer (Mexican Rhapsody) 1911-2007@96
Jackie Gleason, Brooklyn comedian (Honeymooners) 1916-1978@71
Robert Altman, director (Nashville, M*A*S*H) 1925-2006@81
Amanda Blake [Beverly Louise Neill], actress (Gunsmoke) 1929-1989@60
Larry Hovis, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes) 1936-2003@67
Kurt Cobain, rock vocalist (Nirvana) 1967-1994@27
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Historical Obits Today
Rosemary DeCamp, American actress 2001 @90
Curt Gowdy, American sportscaster 2006 @86
Alexander Haig, American soldier and politician 2010 @85
Chester W Nimitz, US admiral (WW II), 1966, @80
Frederick Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, stroke, 1895, @77
Robert E Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), 1920, @ 63
Dick York, actor (Bewitched), emphysema, 1992, @63
Sandra Dee, American actress, kidney disease, 2005, @62
Paul Kane, Irish-born painter, 1871, @60
Gene Siskel, film critic, surgery complications, 1999, @53
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Brain Teasers Answers
They all do. No animal takes off their tail when eating or drinking.
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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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