2-9-15

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Almanac: Week: 07 \ Day: 040 
February Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 60°\L 33°
Average Sky Cover: 15%  Ave. humidity: 38%    
Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  20mph
Ave. High: 45° Record High:  64° (1996)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low:  -21° (1929)

Observances Today:
Clean Out Your Computer Day
Man Day
National Stop Bullying Day
Read in the Bathtub Day
Toothache Day

Observances This 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
Jell-O Week

Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week
International Hoof-Care Week

Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
Risk Awareness Week


Feb 9-15
International Flirting Week
International Friendship Week
Love a Mensch Week
National Green Week

Random Acts of Kindness Week 
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Quote of the Day 


US Historical Highlights for Today
1861 - Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of the Confederate States of America
1889 - Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency
1895 - Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1909 - 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
1922 - Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
1932 - USA enters Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time
1932 - Winnie Ruth Judd was found guilty of murder by a jury of twelve men on the first ballot taken at Maricopa County Courthouse in Phoenix.
1942 - Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
1950 - Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
1964 - 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
Today’s World Events through History
1526 - Spaniards are living in the Cakchiquel (Kaqchikel) Maya town of Iximche’ in modern Guatemala. A few decide to desert. They set a large fire as a diversion
1775 - English Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion
1893 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
1990 - Galileo flies by Venus
1996 - Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


My Rambling Thoughts
Saturday was such a great weather day I spent the day, or at least most of it outside. Then when I got home, visitors stopped by…thus no blog yesterday.
Another late night with Netflix, so doing this blog really early for me as I will be resting later this afternoon and this evening.
For those who don’t know it yet, the latest ISIS claim of killing is a young lady who graduated from NAU, our little mountain town. Her family is in Prescott and is awaiting proof of her killing before planning anything. Such a waste of a life, so hard on the family to wait.
I did catch up on my Sunday morning news and sure don’t get all the fuss over Obama’s comments at the prayer breakfast. I have been saying that for a long time, but then again, I am not the POTUS. All I can say to his critics…’the truth hurts’…
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Insert the word from group B into the empty spaces in group A. 

1. Ta__ __ __ __ry
2. K__ __ __ __en
3. D__ __ __ __le
4. S__ __ __ __et
5. T__ __ __ __t

Group B

A. Herb
B. Itch
C. Able
D. Pest
E. Wind

           
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country Facts…
-- In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China, the typical school year is 251 days.
--Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaires, with one out of every six households having at least $1,000,000 US dollars in disposable wealth.

Easter Eggs…check it out…
Want to strum a few bars? In honor of Les Paul, Google created this amazing interactive doodle
Use your keyboard keys or your mouse to strum out a tune or two. Google has a few melodies written out for you to play along, or you can just make up your own! You can even click the record button to record a song and Google will make you a custom link to share your jams with friends and family.

Eye Facts…
--Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
--In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 years ago
Hot school lunches will begin to be served on Monday. The cooks and helpers are being provided by the WPA.

Harper’s Index…
57,644
Number of arrests made by NYC police officers since 2004 in which the top charge was resisting arrest

Rules of Thumb…
THE BEST MOMENT TO SWAT A FLY
Wait for the bluebottle/fly to land on a hard surface, wait for it to move its front two legs to its face in a feeding/cleaning action - then swat it. By the time it puts its legs back down to push itself off you've got it.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins also wrote for Clarissa Explains It All.
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Joke-of-the-day
A surgeon was checking on a patient who had a hernia operation three days before. 
The doctor asked the man why he had not gotten out of bed. 
"I hurt," the man said. "You don’t know how it feels." 
"I know exactly how it feels," the doctor said. "I had the same procedure last month, and I was back at work two days later. There’s no difference in our operations." 
"Oh yes there is," said the patient. "You had a different surgeon."   

Bonus
A young boy enters a barber shop and the barber whispers to his customer, "This is the dumbest kid in the world. Watch while I prove it to you." 
The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then calls the boy over and asks, "Which do you want, son?" The boy takes the quarters and leaves. 
"What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never learns!" 
Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the ice cream store. 
"Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead of the dollar bill?" 
The boy licked his cone and replied, 
"Because the day I take the dollar, the game is over!"


Yep, It Really Happened
ADDISON, Ill. (UPI) - An Illinois woman said she was shocked and outraged to discover her Comcast cable TV bill referred to her as "Super [expletive]," using a word for a female dog. Mary Bauer, 63, of Addison, said she had been having trouble with her Comcast TV service and she needed to have 39 visits from technicians between November 2013 and April 2014. Bauer said four months went by without her receiving a paper bill in the mail, and when one finally arrived in the mail Wednesday it was addressed to "Super B---- Bauer." "This is a disgrace to me. Why are they doing this to me? I pay my bills. I do not deserve this," Bauer told WGN-TV. Comcast said the bill is under investigation and officials plan to contact Bauer for further information. The incident comes after Washington state resident Ricardo Brown received a Comcast bill addressed to "[Expletive] Brown," using a profanity in the place of the customer's first name. Comcast issued an apology to Brown and his wife.
           
Somewhat Useless Information
--It takes the Sun between 225 million and 240 million years to complete one orbit around the galaxy. That's moving at a breakneck 137 miles per second.
--Parts of the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado tower to 700 feet above the floor of the San Luis Valley. 
--Sand from storms in the Sahara can travel thousands of miles. Mineral dust from these storms has been found in huge concentrations in South America and the Caribbean.
--The deepest place on Earth is Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, with a depth of 35,840 feet below sea level. 
--You'll need to travel at 6.96 miles per second in order to escape Earth's gravity. The escape velocity of the Moon is 1.5 miles per second. 
--The oldest known European cave drawings are found in Chauvet Cave in southern France. The 416 drawings are estimated to be 32,000 to 35,000 years old. They feature horses, rhinos, buffalo, lions, and mammoths.

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Birthday’s Today
Roger Mudd, news anchor is 87
Carole King, [Klein], Brooklyn, pianist/singer (Tapestry) is 73
Joe Pesci, actor (Half Nelson) is 72
Alice Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple) is 71
Mia [Maria] Farrow, actress (Rosemary's Baby) is 70
Judith Light, (Angela-Who's the Boss) is 66
Charles Shaughnessy, actor (Nanny) is 60
Travis Tritt, country vocalist (Country Club) is 52
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Remembered for being born today
William Henry Harrison, 9th US President 1773-1841@68
Brian Donlevy, Ireland, actor (Barbary Coast) 1901-1972@71
Carmen Miranda, Brazil, vocalist/actress (Copacabana) 1909-1955@46
Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State 1909-1994@85
Ernest Tubb, guitarist/singer 1914-1984@70
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Historical Obits Today
[George] Gabby Hayes, actor 1969, @83
Sophie Tucker, Russ/US singer/actress, kidney failure, 1966@79
Percy Faith, Canadian musician, 1976, @67
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, novelist (Crime & Punishment), hemorrhages, 1881, @59
Paul Laurence Dunbar, African American dialect poet, TB, 1906@33
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Tapestry (D)
2. Kitchen (B)
3. Dwindle (E)
4. Sherbet (A)
5. Tablet (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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