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Almanac: Week: 06 \ Day: 034 
February Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 58°\L 24°
Average Sky Cover: 10%  Ave. humidity: 68%    
Wind ave:   9mph\Gusts:  24mph
Ave. High: 44° Record High:  64° (1953)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low:  -22° (1922)

Observances Today:
African American Coaches Day
Four Chaplains Memorial Day-1943
Ice Worm Day
The Day The Music Died Cordova-1959

Observances This Week:
Feb 1-7
African Heritage & Health Week
Burn Awareness Week
Boy Scout Anniversary Week
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week
International Coaching Week
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend
Women's Heart Week
Feb 2-8

National School Counseling Week 
International Networking Week
Publicity for Profit Week

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Quote of the Day 


US Historical Highlights for Today
 1690 - 1st paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
1743 - Philadelphia establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
1809 - Territory of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
1834 - Wake Forest University is established
1864 - Sherman's march through Mississippi
1869 - Booth Theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
1876 - Albert Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1882 - Circus owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1908 - Supreme Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
1913 - 16th Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
1941 - Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets minimum wages & maximum hours
1948 - Dick Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
1967 - "Purple Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix
1994 - President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam

Today’s World Events through History
1752 - Dutch States-General forbids export of windmills
1783 - Spain recognizes US independence
1815 - World's first commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
1916 - Canada's original Parliament buildings in Ottawa burn down
1928 - Paleoanthropologist Davidson Black reports his findings on the ancient human fossils found at Zhoukoudian, China in the journal Nature and declares them to be a new species he names 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus')
1960 - "La Dolce Vita" directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni and Anita Anita Ekberg has its film premiere in Italy
1971 - OPEC mandates "total embargo" against any company that rejects 55 percent tax rate
1972 - 11th Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
1986 - The Pope and Mother Teresa meet in Calcutta
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


My Rambling Thoughts
Sunshine continues…not very excited about 6 more weeks of winter…we’ll see.
Interesting Super Bowl. Amazing last 2 minutes…high to low over a play called by Seattle coach that made little sense. Oh well, only a game.
Ran a few errands and did a little cleaning. Ready for the rest of the week.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Sometimes this area is visible,
But more often than not it's intangible.
Countries have disputed these spaces,
Drawn treaties to dictate their extent.

Some people are said to have none,
Not knowing where to find them.

They can be found in nature,
Where water meets with land.

It is also a peak of Nevada, 
The highest in that land.

So find me now if you can,
In the place between the beginning and the end.

           
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country Facts…
-- If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just ahead of North Korea.
--In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The starting price was $0.01 AUD and managed to reach $3000 before eBay closed the auction.

Easter Eggs…check it out…
Google apparently feels that two off-kilter jokes are better than one. Type "Tilt" or "Askew" into the Google search bar. Don't lose your balance!

Eye Facts…
--All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is passively filtered out by the eye's lens. People who undergo surgery to remove the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
--The colossal squid has the largest eyes in the world.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO
Al Beasley will ship a carload of horses to Phoenix between the 10th and 15th of December. He still has space for more. See him soon.

Harper’s Index…
1 in 2
--Chance a resident of Las Vegas has been reported to a debt-collection agency

Rules of Thumb…
ORDERING FRENCH FRIES
--The counter help in fast-food restaurants will usually try to sell you some French fries if you don't include any in your order. As a rule, one out of five customers will accept their offer. The score for hot cherry pies is somewhat lower.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
--When Skee-Ball was first invented, the lane was 36 feet long. Not many people could roll the ball that far, so they shortened it to 14 feet.

Valentine’s Facts…
-- Close to 110 million roses (mostly red) will be purchased and delivered around Valentine's Day in the U.S.
--Approximately 141 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged worldwide every year.
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Joke-of-the-day
Timothy : Why are you catching so many fleas?
Mike : Didn't you see the Notice Board? 
There's going to be a Flea Market at our Apartment Lobby tomorrow morning.

           
Yep, It Really Happened
A 19-year-old former Oregon State University student was cited for public indecency after a 17-minute porn video of her in the Valley Library reportedly appeared online.
Students said they heard about the video on social media platforms, where else, that included Facebook, Twitter, and the Yik Yak phone app.
"I was surprised someone was in our library doing that," one student told the local TV station. "I feel like it's always packed. I don't know how anyone could get away with it."
University spokesman Steve Clark said security is a high priority. At the same time, the Valley Library has 340,000 square feet and is used by 30,000 people a week.
Apparently it is difficult to keep porn from happening with traffic like that. 
           

Somewhat Useless Information
Why was a crown added to the flag of Liechtenstein?
Have you ever seen the flag of Liechtenstein? It consists of two horizontal blue and red bands charged with a gold crown at the canton and it was adopted in 1921.
In 1937 the crown was added to the flag after the country found out at the Summer Olympics held the previous year that their flag was identical to the flag of Haiti!
The colors, as well as symbols of the flag carry cultural, political, and regional meanings.
The blue represents the sky, whereas the crown epitomizes the “unity of the people and their prince”.
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Birthday’s Today
Henry Heimlich, doctor/inventor (Heimlich maneuver) is 94
Fran Tarkenton, NFL QB (NY Giants, Vikings) is 75
Jim Hartz, newscaster (NBC-TV) is 75
Blythe Danner, actress (Butterflies are Free) is 72
Bob Griese, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins) is 70
Morgan Fairchild, [Patsy McClenny], actress (Falcon Crest) is 65
Nathan Lane, actor (One of the Boys) is 59
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Remembered for being born today
Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer (Great Scherzos) 1809-1847@38
Horace Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man") 1811-1872@61
Elizabeth Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician 1821-1910@89
Norman Rockwell, artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers) 1894-1978@84
Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, gangster\FBI Most Wanted criminal 1904-1934@30
James A. Michener, author (Hawaii) 1907-1997@90
Joey Bishop, [Gottlieb], Bronx, talk show host (Joey Bishop Show) 1918-2007@89
Victor Buono, actor (Untouchables) 1938-1982@43
Emile Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer, 1938-2013@75
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Historical Obits Today
Ben Gazzara, American actor, 2012, @ 81
Frank Oppenheimer, American physicist, cancer, 1985, @72
Nancy Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), cancer, 1991, @69
Woodrow Wilson, 28th US president stroke, 1924, @67
John Cassavetes, actor/director (Dirty Dozen), cirrhosis, 1989, @59
Belle Starr, US female gangster, murdered, 1889, @40
Big Bopper, rocker, plane crash, 1959, @28
Buddy Holly, rock and roll musician plane crash, 1959, @22

Richie Valens, rock vocalist (Donna), plane crash, 1959, @17
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Brain Teasers Answers
Boundaries
Boundary lines are and have been areas of dispute in countries for hundreds of years. Sometimes boundaries are marked out with walls and fences, other times they are assumed according to tradition and law.
People who have no personal boundaries are said to be very free spirits, while people with very close personal boundaries are sometimes thought of as stuck up or prudish.
Boundaries in nature are called ecosystem boundaries. An example of this is where a lake meets with the land to form a marsh, or wetland.
The peak in Nevada is called Boundary Peak. It is located in the southwestern portion of Nevada in the White Mountains. It is the highest point in Nevada, reaching a height of 13,140 feet.

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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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