2-23-15

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Almanac: Week: 09 \ Day: 054 
February Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 49°\L 31°
Average Sky Cover: 70%  Winter Storm Advisory
Wind ave:   11mph\Gusts:  31mph
Ave. High: 46° Record High:  66° (1946)
Ave. Low: 21° Record Low:  -6° (1960)

Observances Today:
National Day: Guyana 1970
Curling is Cool Day
Diesel Engine Day
Iwo Jima Day (flag raised) 1945
Museum Advocacy Day
National Dog Biscuit Day

Observances This Week:
Feb 19-22
American Birkenbreiner Race

            Feb 21-28

National Entrepreneurship Week

National Engineers Week
National FFA Week
Bird Health Awareness Week
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
National Invasive Species Awareness Week

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Quote of the Day

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US Historical Highlights for Today
 1792 - Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated (erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)
1813 - 1st US raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass
1821 - College of Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st US Pharmacy College
1822 - Boston is incorporated as a city
1836 - Alamo besieged for 13 days until 6th March by Mexican army
1870 - Mississippi is readmitted to US
1883 - Alabama becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
1886 - Aluminum manufacturing process developed
1892 - 1st college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Penn
1896 - Tootsie Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
1903 - The US-Cuba sign an agreement Cuba releases Guantanamo and Bahia Hondo
1904 - US acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million
1905 - Rotary Club International formed by 4 men in Chicago
1910 - 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)
1927 - Pres Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FRC)
1933 - President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt announced he would appoint Arizona Congressman Lewis Douglas to the position of director of the budget.
1944 - Jack C. Montgomery, a Cherokee, is a First Lieutenant with the Forty-fifth Infantry in Italy. For his solo actions against three different enemy positions, he will be awarded the Medal of Honor.
1947 - Gen Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews
1954 - 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
1965 - Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
1967 - 25th amendment (US Presidential succession) adopted
1968 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early US
1980 - 13th Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
Today’s World Events through History
 303 - Emperor Diocletian begins policy of persecution of Christians razing church at Nicomedia
1455 - Johannes Gutenberg prints his first book, Bible (estimated date)
1540 - Coronado's expedition sets off from Mexico in search of the 7 cities of Cibola
1992 - 16th Winter Olympic games closes in Albertville, France
1997 - Scientists in Scotland announced they succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"
1998 - Osama bin Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today

My Rambling Thoughts
A storm is a brewing here in our little mountain town. Windy and chilly most of the day with clouds coming and going. Snow to start about midnight. NICE!
Last night’s discussion was very informative. I think I now understand better the Crimea issue, the Ukraine issue, and what Putin’s plans are…mostly helping Mother
Russia regain its super power status. He certainly seems to have a plan and that plan seems to be working, more or less.
The coming storm got me excited about finishing my furniture moving, so I am now happy with all the rooms in the house. Again, NICE!
I doubt if I will be watching the Oscar’s tonight. I have my favorite movies and no longer care if they win or not. It sure has become quite the spectacle. Thank goodness for Netflix to keep my occupied tonight.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
See if you can figure out three words that are homophones of each other in each of the five problems below.


1. Worthless - flat piece moving with the air - blood vessel
2. Path or direction - to measure weight - watery part of milk 
3. Having no money - careful study; microscopic hole - to flow freely
4. Warty frog - having toes - pulled ahead
5. A cry - welt; corduroy ridge - large oceanic mammal

           
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Agriculture Facts…
-- Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
--A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

Book Facts…
-- Iceland Has the Most Books Published per Person per Year in the World
--In Iceland, more books are published and sold per person every year than anywhere else in the world. Ten percent of Icelanders become a published author in their lifetime.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
1915
John Chisholm came in Sunday evening with his 10-horse-team grader from boosting snow off the road along the divide near Bellemont. The road stretching from Williams to Flagstaff is now clear all the way through. The grader seems just the thing since it throws the snow off both sides, giving the road an opportunity to melt and dry fast while the snow melts and runs into the ditches.

Harper’s Index…
$100,000
Cost of a ticket for aflight from CA ‘to the edge of space’ scheduled to begin service in 2016

Kindness Facts…
-- As a reward for record profits, the CEO of Lenovo, Yang Yuanqing, received a $3 million bonus, which he redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo's employees. He did the same again in 2013.
In 2002, Kenyan Maasai tribespeople donated 14 cows to the US to help with the aftermath of 9/11.

Rules of Thumb…
IDENTIFYING MINTS
All mints have square stems, but not all square stems are mints.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Despite his many name changes, musician Prince did have a real first name once: Prince.
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Joke-of-the-day
An old man decides to go into town one day to run some errands. On the way back, his wife calls his cell phone. 

"Look out honey, I just saw on the news that there's a car driving the wrong way on the interstate." 
"Not just one car, they all are!"

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After a hard day of drilling, the drill sergeant let the troops go. 

"All right, you idiots, report to the mess hall." 
Everybody walked away, sweating and their heads down, thankful for the end of the hard day. 
Only one private remained. 
He looked at the officer and sincerely said, "Boy, there sure were a lot of them, huh, sarge."   


Yep, It Really Happened
BETHESDA, Md. (UPI)
A Maryland man is clearing snow from Bethesda's sidewalks with a snowplow attached to an unusual vehicle -- a motorized toilet. David Goldberg, owner of the Union Hardware store, said he created the motorized commode, dubbed "Loo-cille" or "Loo-cy" for short, for last summer's pride parade, and he is taking his hybrid vehicle out of the garage once again to clear snow from sidewalks. "This is Loo-cy. Our motorized toilet that we did this summer for the pride parade. We just added a snow plow and [we're] ready for tomorrow morning's snow," Goldberg said in sending a picture of the toilet plow to WUSA-TV. Goldberg posted a video of the motorized toilet moving snow to YouTube. "Taking something very private and making it a spectacle is a jolt to the system by itself. But having it plow snow... Over the top!" he wrote in the video's description. Goldberg said the toilet has a hybrid engine. "I have not had to start the engine yet, but it is there after a long day if needed," Goldberg wrote on YouTube. "I do have duel exhaust mounted for show. It's all about the looks and fun."  

Somewhat Useless Information
Steve Alexander Wright, American comedian, actor and writer, is known for his distinctly lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, anti-humor, and one-liners with contrived situations.
Discography :
  • I Have a Pony, Warner Bros. Records CD (1985)
  • A Steven Wright Special, HBO DVD (1985)
  • The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, DVD (1989)
  • One Soldier, DVD (1999)
  • When the Leaves Blow Away, DVD (2006)
  • I Still Have a Pony, Comedy Central Records CD (2007)
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Did you know that broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and Chinese kale are all different breeds of the same plant?
This plant is ‘Brassica oleracea’ and in its uncultivated form it is known as wild mustard and it is rich in essential nutrients including vitamin C.
Its history as a domesticated plant is not clear before Greek and Roman times, when it was a well-established garden vegetable.
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Birthday’s Today
Sylvia Chase, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20) is 77
Peter Fonda, actor (Easy Rider) is 75
Ed "Too Tall" Jones, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys) is 64
Niecy Nash, American actress is 45
Dakota Fanning, American actress is 21
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Remembered for being born today
George Frideric Handel, baroque composer (Messiah, Water Music) 1685-1759@74
Wm E B Du Bois, civil rights activist and writer (Souls of Black Folk) 1868-1963@95
Victor Fleming, director ("Wizard of Oz", "Gone with the Wind"), 1889-1949@59
Paul Tibbets, Pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima 1915-2007@92
Johnny Winter, [John Dawson], American blues guitarist, 1944-2014@70
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Historical Obits Today
John Quincy Adams, 6th US President, stroke, 1848, @80
James Herriot [Alfred Wight], Scottish author (All Creatures Great & Small), cancer, 1995, @78
Stan Laurel, comedian (Laurel & Hardy), heart attack, 1965, @74
John F Mahoney, American physician developed penicillin treatment of syphillis, 1957, @67
John Keats, Romantic poet, TB, 1821, @25
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Vain - vane - vein

2. Way - weigh - whey
3. Poor - pore - pour
4. Toad - toed - towed
5. Wail - wale - whale

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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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