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Almanac: Week: 06 \ Day: 034 
February Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 59°\L 25°
Average Sky Cover: 22%  Ave. humidity: 35%    
Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  27mph
Ave. High: 44° Record High:  64° (1953)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low:  -16° (1955)

Observances Today:
Independence Day: Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 1948-from UK
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Create A Vacuum Day
Digital Learning Day
Facebook's Birthday
Liberace Day
‘Medjoola Date’ Day—eat one
National Signing Day
Thank a Mailman Day
USO Day
World Cancer Day

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
1846 - Mormons leave Nauvoo, Illinois, for settlement in the west
1849 - University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20 students
1913 - National Institute of Arts & Letters founded
1932 - 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
1932 - Gordon Sawyer, vice-president of the Southern Arizona Bank in Tucson, was kidnapped. The bank offered $5,000 reward for the arrest and conviction of the abductor
1938 - "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway
1938 - Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is officially released
1939 - Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile beyond human effort
1941 - United Service Organization (USO) founded
1957 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale (Syracuse NY)
1977 - Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" released
1987 - US President Reagan's veto of Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress 1997 - US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announces she just discovered that her grandparents were Jewish
1998 - Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in Brussels, Belgium
Today’s World Events through History
1194 - 100,000 ransom is paid for Richard I, King of England
1783 - Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000 (Calabria, Italy)
1797 - Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000
1859 - The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt
1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix, France
1945 - Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin meet at Yalta discuss final phase of the war
1962 - Russian newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1968 - Around 100 Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya arrive in Britain, escaping discrimination
1974 - Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb explodes on a bus in West Yorkshire, England, carrying British Army soldiers and some of their family members
1976 - 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck, Austria
2003 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution
2013 - Europol announces it will investigate over 680 football matches alleged to involve match fixing
2014 - Same-sex marriage is legalized in Scotland
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


My Rambling Thoughts
Another beautiful day here in Flag. Whatever the ground hog saw back east is certainly not effecting our weather. Great day to do some running around.
I got a new ROKU so I can get back to Netflix. Also called ROKU when I couldn’t hook it up and mentioned my dissatisfaction with the stick I bought. Found out that for $19 I could get 2 years’ service on the stick. I got it and will spend time getting it fixed in the near future so I can use it on my office TV. Also got 2 year service on the new ROKU3 for $15 at Best Buy. The joy and horror of modern technology.
My brother, his wife, and dog are back in Merida. So jealous. Thankfully I talked to Laura last night and got her banana bread recipe. I had a lot of it on my last trip and decided I could try it. The great thing about it is that is not real bready. Hard to explain but tastes soooooo good. Just waiting for my bananas to ripen.
From the latest news, it sure sounds like ISIS is mentally unbalanced. Today they burned a Jordanian pilot alive while he was in a cage. Now Jordan and Japan are demonstrating for ‘revenge’. So frightening.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Find an anagram for each word in Group A. Each anagram will answer one of the clues in Group B.

Group A

1. Earth
2. Rosin
3. Taxer
4. Lease
5. Darin
6. Sharp
7. Gofer

Group B

A. Surplus
B. Golf clubs
C. Blacksmith's furnace
D. Stringed instruments
E. Empty the sink
F. Valentine's Day symbol
G. Painter's stand

           
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country Facts…
--Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only European capital outside of Europe.
--A 2012 study in eastern Germany was unable to find a single person under the age of 28 who believed in God.

Easter Eggs…check it out…
This is another old-school tip o' the hat for video game or mini-game fans. Type "Zerg Rush" into the Google search bar and watch as little 'O's start dripping down from the top of the screen.
But wait, what are they doing? They're eating the search results! Click on the 'O's - fast! - before your entire search page is eaten.
The Zerg Swarm is a type of alien from the StarCraft game that consumes other matter in its quest for biological perfection. Much like the Borg from Star Trek, it is hated and feared across the StarCraft universe.

Eye Facts…
--There's a woman named Veronica Seider who had vision 20x better than average. She could identify people more than a mile (1.6km) away.
--If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576 megapixels.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO
Mrs. George T. Mason wants five music pupils to fill vacancies, Friday and Saturday at 317 Railroad Avenue. Special attention paid to finish and style. Suckling calves or poultry taken in exchange.

Harper’s Index…
$7000
Amount the city of Fairbanks, Alaska has spent to appeal a $37.50 campaign-violation fine levied against its Mayor

Rules of Thumb…
INVITING GUESTS
If you invite 100 people to a cocktail party, plan on 75 coming; 25 will send regrets.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Florence Nightingale is not only known as a founder of modern nursing, but also as a statistician, having developed the polar area diagram.

Valentine’s Facts…
-- Studies show that the risk of a “secret love” being revealed heightens romantic feelings for the partners, thanks to increased levels of phenylethylamine (PEA)
--The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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Joke-of-the-day
* Excuses To Use When Caught Sleeping At Work *
1. They told me at the blood bank that this might happen. 
2. This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in that time management course you sent me to. 
3. Whew! I must have left the top off the whiteout. 
4. I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance. 
5. This is in exchange for the six hours last night when I dreamed about work! 
6. No! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our biggest problem. 
7. Someone must have put decaf in the wrong pot. 
8. Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off. 
9. Geez, I thought you (the boss) were gone for the day. 
10. I'm just resting my eyes.        


Yep, It Really Happened
Springfield, Mass
The Project Theater Board at Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley, Massachusetts, decided in January to cancel its upcoming annual presentation of the feminist classic "Vagina Monologues." The all-women's college recently declared it would admit males who lived and "identified" as female (regardless of genitalia), and the basis for cancellation of "Vagina Monologues" was that the unmodifiable script is not "inclusive" of those females -- that it covers only experiences of females who actually have vaginas.        

Somewhat Useless Information
--The average groundhog is 20 inches long and normally weighs from 12 to 15 pounds. Punxsutawney Phil weighs about 20 pounds and is 22 inches long. 
--Groundhogs are covered with coarse grayish hairs (fur) tipped with brown or sometimes dull red. They have short ears, a short tail, short legs, and are surprisingly quick. 
--A groundhog's diet consists of lots of greens, fruits, and vegetables and very little water. Most of their liquids come from dewy leaves.
--A groundhog can whistle when it is alarmed. Groundhogs also whistle in the spring when they begin courting.
--Insects do not bother groundhogs and germs pretty much leave them alone. They are resistant to the plagues that periodically wipe out large numbers of wild animals. One reason for this is their cleanliness.
--Young Groundhogs are usually born in mid-April or May, and by July they are able to go out on their own. The size of the litter is 4 to 9. A baby groundhog is called a kit or a cub.

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Birthday’s Today
Isabel Peron, [Maria Martinez], dancer/president Argentina is 83
John Schuck, actor (McMillan & Wife) is 75
James Danforth "Dan" Quayle, Sen-Ind, 44th Vice President) is 68

Alice Cooper, [Vincent Furnier], rocker (School's Out) is 67
Clint Black, country vocalist (A Better Man) is 53
Oscar De La Hoya, US boxer (Olympic Gold 92) is 41
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Remembered for being born today
Raymond Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus africanus) 1893-1988@95
Nigel Bruce, Baja Mexico, actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes) 1895-1953@58
Charles A Lindbergh, pilot (1st to fly solo across Atlantic) 1902-1974@72
Robert Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues), 1909-1982@73
Rosa Parks, civil rights activist (bus protestor) 1913-2005@92
Ida Lupino, actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) 1914-1995@77
William Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason) 1915-1968@53
Betty Friedan, feminist writer and feminist (Feminine Mystique) 1921-2006@85
Conrad Bain, actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes), 1923-2013@89
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Historical Obits Today
Carl Albert, 54th Speaker of the House, 2000, @91
Betty Friedan, writer and feminist, 2006 on birthday, @85
Barbara McNair, American singer and actress, cancer, 2007, @72
Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, country singer (Homer & Jethro), cancer, 1989, @68
Władziu Valentino Liberace, pianist (Liberace Show), AIDS, 1987, @67
James Donnelly, patriarch of the "Black Donnellys", murdered 1880, @63
Robert Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), 1746, @46
Karen Carpenter, rock drummer (Carpenters), anorexia, 1983, @32
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Heart (F)
2. Irons (B)
3. Extra (A)
4. Easel (G)
5. Drain (E)
6. Harps (D)
7. Forge (C)

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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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