2-28-15

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Almanac: Week: 09 \ Day: 059 
February Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 42°\L 22°
Average Sky Cover: 85% 
Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  20mph
Ave. High: 47° Record High:  64° (1921)
Ave. Low: 20° Record Low:  -16° (1962)

Observances Today:
Floral Design Day
International Sword Swallowers Day
National Tooth Fairy Day
Open That Bottle Night
Public Sleeping Day
Rare Disease Day
US Snow Shoe Days

Observances This Week:
     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
     Feb 26-28

National Conference on Education
     Feb 27-28

Texas Cowboy Poetry Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
 1787 - The charter University of Pittsburgh is granted.
1844 - 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes, killing Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and other high-ranking U.S. federal officials
1849 - 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors arrives in SF from east coast
1850 - The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City, Utah
1854 - Republican Party formally organized at Ripon, WI
1859 - Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to choose exile or slavery
1861 - Territories of Nevada & Colorado created
1882 - 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard U
1883 - 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
1913 - 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South Georgia (S Atlantic)
1930 - Consolidated National Bank elevator operator could travel 60 miles a day, up and down, during a 10-hour work day in Tucson
1933 - 1st female in US Cabinet: Frances Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor
1943 - "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway
1951 - Senate committee reports of at least 2 major US crime syndicates
1956 - Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
1960 - 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Cal
1961 - JFK names Henry Kissinger special advisor
1970 - Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
1972 - Pres Richard Nixon ends historic week-long visit to China
1977 - 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, Los Angeles California)
1983 - Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch in the US
1993 - Gun battle erupts near Waco, Texas at Branch Davidian compound after FBI attempts a raid
1994 - Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a hand-gun, went into effect
1995 - Denver International Airport opens
Today’s World Events through History
1638 - Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
1667 - English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
1749 - 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom Jones" published
1784 - John Wesley charters Methodist Church
1922 - Egypt regains independence from Britain, but British troops remain
1974 - Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
1988 - 15th Winter Olympic games close at Calgary, Canada
1991 - United Nations troops move into Kuwait City and Saddam Hussein orders troops out of Kuwait; Iraqi soldiers ignite Kuwaiti oil fields during their retreat
2012 - Discovery of the largest prehistoric penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall 
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


My Rambling Thoughts
Had a great lunch with our retirement group. Early birthday celebration for me. Nice time. Nice gifts. Mary gave me some special socks for traveling that help with circulation and Cheryl gave me a huge beautiful mini-carnation plant in a cool planter. Let the celebrations begin. Looks like a good year ahead.
The weather guy says about a foot + of snow over the weekend. He says snow will start around midnight tonight, but we are already getting flurries. He has been way off on his predictions regarding amount of snow…so I will see. I am well stocked and have lots to do here at my house for the next five days so I’m not worried. My only hope is that I don’t get cabin fever before the snow stops.
DHS still doesn’t have any funding. So tired of this crap. My sandbox is bigger than yours is no way to run a democratic country. Expecting people to work without pay is crazy. I wonder how many workers at businesses would work if their CEO told them they wouldn’t get paid but should keep working so the business can stay open until funding arrives. Sure happy I don’t have any travel planned by plane in the near future, or any need to use my passport to enter or leave the country.
Here’s an idea…no Rep or Senator or their staff will receive pay until they do their job and fund DHS. The immigration thing is a court thing, not a funding thing.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I am a set of three words, all with the same six letters.
First I am a kingdom, though not royally so.
Then spell me backwards, and I become a thin plate.
Now rearrange my consonants, leaving my vowels in place ...
I am now a type of paper.
What are the words?          


Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Book Facts…
-- The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70 micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as light beams are too large.
--Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release of the first book.

Color Facts…
-- Red, Yellow, and Orange Stimulate Appetite The colors red, yellow and orange are not recommended for use in kitchens if you're trying to lose weight as they are known to stimulate appetite.
--The color orange was named after the fruit and not the other way around.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 years ago
Babbitt Bros awarded the 2nd prize of a 4-piece bedroom set in their “Better Homes” contest to Forest Supervisor and Mrs. R. W. Hussey. The 3rd prize, a fine 6-piece dining room set was presented to Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Wilson, The first prize went to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Yost and was presented in December.

Harper’s Index…
1/4
Portion of Americans who want their state to secede
2/3
Portion who cannot name all three branches of the Federal government

Kindness Facts…
-- Boxer Wladimir Klitshko auctioned his Olympic gold medal to raise money for underprivileged Ukrainian children. He raised $1,000,000. The buyer immediately returned the medal to Wladimir as he wanted it to remain in the Klitschko family.
--Johnny Depp travels with his Capt. Jack Sparrow costume to make impromptu visits to sick kids in hospitals.

Rules of Thumb…
Off line for some unknown reason

Unusual Fact of the Day…
'We've Only Just Begun,' a No. 2 smash hit for The Carpenters in 1970, was written and composed by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols as a commercial for a bank.
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Joke-of-the-day
Q: "Where do you see yourself in five years?"
A: "I don't know, I don't have 2020 vision."

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An Engineer was unemployed for long time. He could not find a job so he opened a medical clinic and puts a sign up outside: "Get your treatment for $500, if not treated get back $1,000." 
One Doctor thinks this is a good opportunity to earn $1,000 and goes to his clinic. 
Doctor: "I have lost taste in my mouth." 
Engineer: "Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient's mouth." 
Doctor: "This is Gasoline!" 
Engineer: "Congratulations! You've got your taste back. That will be $500." 
The Doctor gets annoyed and goes back after a couple of days later to recover his money. 
Doctor: "I have lost my memory, I cannot remember anything." 
Engineer: "Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient's mouth." 
Doctor: "But that is Gasoline!" 
Engineer: "Congratulations! You've got your memory back. That will be $500." 
The Doctor leaves angrily and comes back after several more days. 
Doctor: "My eyesight has become weak." 
Engineer: "Well, I don't have any medicine for this. Take this $1,000." 
Doctor: "But this is $500..." 
Engineer: "Congratulations! You got your vision back! That will be $500."          


Yep, It Really Happened
PERTH, Australia (UPI)
Police in Western Australia said a fisherman reeled in an unusual find Tuesday -- an unexploded German grenade from World War I. Western Australia Police said a man fishing off the Applecross Jetty in Perth about 2 a.m. Tuesday reeled in an object that appeared to be an explosive device and police called in a Bomb Response Unit, which identified the object as a 1915 German Granatenwerfer grenade without a fuse. The object, which is also known as a pineapple bomb due to its resemblance to the fruit, was transported by Navy personnel to a safe area for disposal, police said. Geoff Smith of the Western Australian Arms and Armament Society told The Guardian the grenade was likely brought back to Australia as a souvenir following the war. "It has to have been brought back by someone and then dumped. It's the only way it could have got there," Smith said.  

Somewhat Useless Information
-- Common dream motifs that transcend cultural and socio-economic boundaries include falling, flying, nakedness in public, and unpreparedness. Such shared dreams arise from experiences and anxieties fundamental to all people.
-- While dream interpretation may not be accurate, it is certainly not new. The Beatty Papyrus, written around 1350 B.C. and discovered at Thebes, is the oldest dream dictionary existing today. It describes special dream-interpreting priests called 'Masters of the Secret Things' or 'Learned Ones of the Magic Library.'
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Birthday’s Today
Gavin MacLeod, actor (Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat) is 84
Tommy Tune, dancer/choreographer (Boyfriend) is 76
Mario Andretti, Italian American race-car driver is 75
Bernadette Peters, [Lazzara], Queens NY, actress (Jerk) is 67
Me-old enough
Paul Krugman, economist\NY Times columnist (Nobel Prize-2008) is 62
Rae Dawn Chong, actress (Color Purple) is 54
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Remembered for being born today
Margaret of Scotland, queen of Norway 1261-1283@22
Mary Lyon, US, educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame) 1797-1849@52
John Tenniel, England, illustrator (Alice in Wonderland) 1820-1914@93
Philip Showalter Hench, physician (cortisone-Nobel) 1896-1965@69
Linus Pauling, chemist/peace activist (Nobel 1954, 1962) 1901-1994@93
Bugsy Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas 1906-1947@41
Vincente Minnelli, director (American in Paris, Gigi) 1903-1986@83
Zero "Samuel" Mostel, Brooklyn, actor (Fiddler on the Roof) 1915-1977@62
Charles Durning, actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie) 1923-2012@89
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Historical Obits Today
Paul Harvey, American radio broadcaster, 2009@90
Henry James, US/British writer (Bostonians), 1916@72
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Jack Benny Show, heart disease, 1977@71
Cuauhtémoc, the last Aztec Emperor, killed by Hernán Cortés, 1525@29
Mr Ed, talking horse, 1979@20ish
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Brain Teasers Answers
animal = a kingdom, not royal, but biological
lamina = a thin plate
manila = a type of paper

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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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