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Almanac: Week: 06 \ Day: 038 
February Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 62°\L 27°
Average Sky Cover: 15%  Ave. humidity: 48%    
Wind ave:   9mph\Gusts:  18mph
Ave. High: 45° Record High:  66° (1963)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low:  -18° (1903)

Observances Today:
"e" Day (math)
Ballet Day
Charles Dickens Day
Dump Your Significant Jerk Day
Ice Cream For Breakfast Day
Send a Card to a Friend Day 
Wave All you Fingers at Your Neighbor Day

Observances This Week:
Feb 1-7
National Day-Grenada-1974-independence from Britain
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

Feb 7-14
Celebration of Love Week
Children of Alcoholics Week
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week

Dump Your Significant Jerk Week
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week
International Hoof-Care Week

Jell-O Week Love Makes the World Go Round;
But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
Risk Awareness Week
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Quote of the Day 
 
US Historical Highlights for Today
 1795 - 11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states
1839 - Henry Clay declares in Senate "I had rather be right than president"
1876 - War Department authorizes General Sheridan to start operations against the Indians
1894 - The Cripple Creek miner's strike, led by the Western Federation of Miners, begins in Cripple Creek, Colorado.
1914 - Charlie Chaplin debuts "The Tramp" in "Kid Auto Races at Venice"
1928 - The Arizona Daily Star reported troubles in Tucson concerning the price of gasoline with dealers both admitting and denying they made a profit of six cents a gallon.
1936 - A flag is authorized for US Vice President
1936 - Felix the Cat, Cartoon Character, by Van Beuren debuts
1940 - Walt Disney's 2nd feature-length movie, "Pinocchio", premieres (NYC)
1962 - President Kennedy begins blockade of Cuba bans all Cuban imports\exports
1964 - Cassius Clay becomes a Moslem
1969 - Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major US racetrack (Hialeah)
1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army claim responsibility for the for kidnapping of Patty Hearst, daughter of Randolph Hearst
1985 - "New York, New York" became the official anthem of NYC
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Today’s World Events through History
1812 - Poet Lord Byron (6th Baron Byron) makes his 1st speech in House of Lords
1969 - Al-Fatah-leader Yasser Arafat becomes president of PLO
1976 - World's largest telescope (600 cm) begins operation (USSR)
1991 - The IRA launches a mortar attack on 10 Downing Street at a cabinet meeting
1998 - 18th Winter Olympic games open at Nagano Japan
2013 - Azerbaijan launches its first satellite, Azerspace-1
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


My Rambling Thoughts
Another great weather day here in Flag…is it really February?
Cosmos, the new one, is now on Netflix, so I am re-watching this great series.
I’m ready for the weekend, and contemplating when to leave for the Focus Blowout meeting in Denver next Saturday. Looking at one day before the meeting in Denver to check out some old haunts then the meeting, then Sunday doing something and heading back on Monday.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I'm a ten-letter word, but when I am heard,
I have only four, not one letter more.

My first two sounds are neat; a kind of sheet,
That starts with spread, not the kind on a bed.

Of my sounds, the third is what will be heard,
alphabetically, in the middle of modus operandi.

If you want to hear more, then like the shore,
I end at the sea, that's a hint, you see.

What word am I?

           
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country Facts…
--The flag of the Philippines is flown with the red stripe up in times of war and blue stripe up in times of peace.
--Iceland has no army and is also recognized as the world’s most peaceful country.

Easter Eggs…check it out…
Click here to see some of googles covers over the years

Eye Facts…
--Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
--Tigers can see 6 times better at night than humans.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 years ago
The new license plates will be dark blue with white numbers, 12” x 6 ½” and say “Arizona 40 - Grand Canyon State - Coconino County “

Harper’s Index…
-25
Average percentage change in the rate of painkiller OD deaths 2 years after a state legalizes medical marijuana

Rules of Thumb…
KEEPING A FRIEND
Never loan a friend more than you can afford to give away.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
The Kentucky Derby is also known as the Run for the Roses. But that isn't the only race with a flowery nickname: the Belmont Stakes also goes by the Run for the Carnations, and the Preakness Stakes doubles as the Run for the Black-Eyed Susans

Santa Facts…
-- One town in Indiana is called Santa Claus. There is also a Santa, Idaho.
--Coca Cola was the first beverage company to use Santa for a winter promotion.
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Joke-of-the-day
"Dad, are they allowed to put two people in the same grave?" 
"I don't think so, son. Why do you ask?" 
"Because that headstone over there says, 'Here lies a lawyer and an honest man.'"

Bonus
A large group of ISIS fighters in Iraq are moving down a road when they hear a voice call from behind a sand dune: "One Marine is better than ten ISIS fighters." 
The ISIS commander quickly orders 10 of best men over the dune where a gun battle breaks out and continues for a few minutes, then silence. 
The voice once again calls out: "One Marine is better than one hundred ISIS 'S.O.B.'s'." 
Furious, the ISIS commander sends his next best 100 troops over the dune and instantly a huge gun fight commences. After 10 minutes of battle, again silence. 
The voice calls out again: "One Marine is better than a thousand ISIS fighters." The enraged ISIS commander musters 1,000 fighters and sends them to the other side of the dune. Rifle fire, machine guns, grenades, rockets and cannon fire ring out as a terrible fight is fought ... then silence. 
Eventually, one badly wounded ISIS fighter crawls back over the dune and with his dying words tells his commander, "Don't send any more men ... it's a trap. There's two of them."     


Yep, It Really Happened
This Florida man served gator tail at his tailgate Super Bowl party. The only problem is he didn't have a license to kill the reptiles. 
30-year-old Richard Nixie chose the wrong menu item for a Super Bowl meal when he decided to kill five small alligators for a gator tail dinner, Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission officials said. 
Nixie was arrested and charged with possession and taking alligators without a proper tag.
According to a report from the wildlife commission, Nixie caught five small alligators -- less than 5 feet in length. 
Nixie admitted trapping the alligators and then cutting off their tails for "Super Bowl Dinner" at his home the report states.
Nixie was released after posting $500 bail but will have to appear before a judge. All in all a small price to pay for an epic Super Bowl dinner. A small price for him, anyway. 
The alligators had a somewhat greater commitment. 
           

Somewhat Useless Information
-- The Cranberries: The band was originally known as "The Cranberry Saw Us," a pun on "cranberry sauce." Members soon shortened the name for simplicity.
--Lynyrd Skynyrd: The group is named after Leonard Skinner, an annoying gym coach some of the band members had in high school, who supposedly had them expelled for having long hair. 
--Five for Fighting: The stage name for John Ondrasik came from his love of hockey. Players who fight in the National Hockey League get five minutes in the penalty box, or "five for fighting."
--Three Dog Night: The name is derived from an Australian Aboriginal custom of sleeping with a dog for warmth during cold nights. The colder the night, the more dogs.
--No Doubt: This California-based "third wave" ska band was named after a favorite expression of its founder, John Spence, who ultimately committed suicide. 
--Toad the Wet Sprocket: Members of this alt-rock band drew their name from a monologue delivered by Eric Idle on a Monty Python album from 1980.

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Birthday’s Today
Miguel Ferrer, actor (Robocop) is 60
James Spader, actor (Endless Love) is 55
Garth Brooks, country vocalist is 53
Eddie Izzard, British actor \ comedian is 53
Chris Rock, comedian (SNL) is 50
Steve Nash, Johannesburg NBA guard (Mavericks, Suns, Lakers) is 41
Ashton Kutcher, actor (That 70s Show) is 37
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Remembered for being born today
Sir Thomas More, English statesman, humanist, and author 1478-1535@57
John Deere, blacksmith\ manufacturer 1804-1886@82
Charles Dickens, novelist (Oliver Twist) 1812-1870-@58
Laura Ingalls Wilder, author (Little House on the Prarie) 1867-1957@90
Sinclair Lewis, novelist/social critic (Nobel 1930) 1885-1951@65
Eubie Blake, ragtime composer/pianist 1887-1983@96
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Historical Obits Today
Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and aviator, 2001, @94
Dale Evans, actress \ singer 1912-2001@88
Jimmy Van Heusen, composer (Call Me Irresponsible), stroke, 1990, @77
Harvey Firestone, manufacturer Firestone Tire, 1937, @ 69
Doug Henning, Canadian magician 1947-2000@52
Nick Adams, actor (Interns, Pillow Talk, FBI Story), OD, 1968, @36
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Brain Teasers Answers
Excellency (XLNC)

The four letters, XLNC, sound just like the ten-letter word excellency.
The first two sounds (XL) are the name of a spreadsheet program.
If you arrange the letters in modus operandi alphabetically (addeimNooprsu), the letter N is the middle letter. Also, modus operandi is usually written as an abbreviation, MO, which in the alphabet, would have an N in the middle.
The final letter (C) sounds like sea. Do you see?

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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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