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Almanac: Week: 06 \ Day: 033
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 50°\L 25°
Average Sky Cover: 0% Ave. humidity: 60%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 23mph
Ave. High: 43° Record
High: 62° (1976)
Ave. Low: 18° Record
Low: -14° (1922)
Observances
Today:
Ayn Rand Day
Candelmas
Crepe Day—eat up
Groundhog Day
Imbolic
Marmot Day
Purification Day—for
Jesus
Sled Dog Day
World Play Your Ukulele Day
World Wetlands 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
1653 - New
Amsterdam becomes a city (later renamed New York)
1802 - 1st
leopard exhibited in US, Boston (admission 25 cents)
1811 - Russian
settlers establish Ft Ross trading post, north of SF
1848 - Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ends Mexican
War; US acquires Texas California, New Mexico & Arizona for $15 million
1863 - Samuel
Clemens becomes Mark Twain for 1st time
1887 - A
law is passed which will prohibit the use of Indian languages in schools.
1918 -Warned
by Washington that the U.S. must save food if it is to win the war, Arizona
flour mills began making barley and corn flour to conserve wheat.
1923 - Ethyl
gasoline 1st marketed, Dayton, Ohio
1927 - Ziegfeld Theater (Loew's Ziegfeld) opens at
6th Ave & 54th St NYC
1942 - US auto factories switch from commercial to
war production
1950
- 1st broadcast of "What's My Line," on CBS-TV
1964 - GI
Joe, debuts as a popular American boy's toy
1970 - Pete
Maravich becomes 1st to score 3,000 college basketball points
1980 - FBI
releases details of Abscam, a sting operation that targeted 31 elected &
public officials for bribes for political favors
2014 - Super
Bowl XLVIII: Seattle Seahawks defeat Denver Broncos 42-8, most viewed
television event in the United States with over 111 million viewers
Today’s World
Events through History
1709 - British
sailor Alexander Selkirk is rescued after being marooned on a desert island for
5 years, his story inspires "Robinson Crusoe"
1852 - 1st
British public men's toilet opens (Fleet St London)
1922 - James
Joyce's "Ulysses" published in Paris (1,000 copies)
1962 - 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400
years
1972 - Angry demonstrators burn the British Embassy
in Dublin to the ground in protest at the shooting dead of 13 people on 'bloody
sunday'
1986 - Dalai
Lama meets Pope John Paul II in India
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My Rambling
Thoughts
Ah, sunshine, no clouds, sanity has returned to our little
mountain town. I’m sure not used to, nor I do I want to get used to, several overcast
days in a row. The over an inch of rain was nice for the forest, but not for my
sanity.
Getting ready for the Super Bowl. Should be a good game,
especially if the Seahawks win.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Insert
one word in each pair to link the two words together. The end of the first word
is the beginning of the second.
1. Push __ __ __ Cushion
2. Digital __ __ __ __ __ __ Shy
3. Crystal __ __ __ __ Park
4. First __ __ __ __ __ Clown
5. Bed __ __ __ __ Candy
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Ready to make your screen do some gymnastics? You'll see what I
mean. Just type "Do a barrel roll" into the Google search bar and
watch what happens!
Eye
Facts…
--The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a
day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50
miles) every day.
--Sheep, goats, octopuses, and toads have rectangular pupils.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
F.O. Allen, commissioner of agriculture for Coconino County,
advises that a big potato crop is expected in the North Country this year.
There are 10 carloads ready; two are headed for Phoenix. The rest can be had
for about $1.67 ½ a hundred weight.
Harper’s
Index…
61
Percentage of all requests for Twitter user data that have come
from US gov’t
3/4
That Twitter complied with
Rules of
Thumb…
OFFENDING
PEOPLE
--The people who offend others most
easily are often the most easily offended themselves.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Unlike a traditional toxin, viper venom functions by preventing
the blood from clotting so that the victims bleed to death.
Valentine’s
Facts…
--In Korea, if you do not receive any gift on Valentine's day then
all the singles go to Korean restaurants and eat black noodles to celebrate (or
mourn) their single status.
--On April Fool's Day in 1977, the UK newspaper The Guardian ran a
7 page feature on the discovery of the fictitious island nation of "San
Seriffe."
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Joke-of-the-day
At a construction site on the 80th floor of a
high rise building, the lone conservative on the crew was having a heated
political discussion with the liberals on the project. Deciding to take a
break, he called everyone over to the edge of the roof. "Did you
know," he began, "that there are extremely violent invisible updrafts
that are able to keep a body floating in mid-air? They only occur at certain
times during the day between buildings. Here, I'll show you!"
He then leaped off the side of the building,
and with arms spread-eagle, floated effortlessly on an unseen cushion of air,
and then gradually steered himself back to the safety of the roof.
"That's awesome," one of the
left-wingers shouted.
"I want to try it."
"Me too," another cried, and then
another, and as they leaped over the side of the roof, one after the other,
they fell 80 floors straight down to the ground, SPLAT! SPLAT! SPLAT!
A crowd rushed over to witness the carnage, and while doing so, one of the
spectators looked up and remarked, "Boy, Clark Kent sure hates
liberals!"
Yep, It
Really Happened
Spokane,
WA
A couple from Spokane, Washington discovered that after a dispute
with Comcast their billing account had been renamed with profanity. After
Ricardo and Lisa Brown argued over their bill with a customer service
representative from Comcast things went from bad to worse. On their next
monthly bill Ricardo Brown's name had been changed to "A**hole
Brown." When the Brown's attempted to have the profanity removed and Ricardo's
name restored they were met with opposition. The Brown's then contacted a
consumer advocacy writer, Christopher Elliott, and the incident was reported.
"You know employees talk about customers behind their back and say things
like this," Elliott told CBS News. "But I've never seen anyone put
something like this in writing. This falls into the category of 'What were they
thinking?'" Elliot then contacted Steve Kipp, Comcast's vice president of
communications in Washington, who said, "We have spoken with our customer
and apologized for this completely unacceptable and inappropriate name
change," he said. "We have zero tolerance for this type of
disrespectful behavior and are conducting a thorough investigation to determine
what happened. We are working with our customer to make this right and will
take appropriate steps to prevent this from happening again." "I'm a
bit stunned by this" said Elliott. "Comcast is a big company. They
can't control all their employees. But you'd think this is part of the basic
training they give to their employees -- don't call your customers
a-holes."
Somewhat
Useless Information
Did
you know that in the city of Dorset the mayor is less than 18 years old and is
very distinctive?
Well,
in the city of Dorset, which is obviously a town that does not take itself too
seriously, the mayor is four years old and his name is Robert Tufts.
According
to bringmethenews.com , the town that calls itself the Restaurant Capital of
the World celebrates its gustatory delights annually at a festival called A
Taste of Dorset and one tradition at the event is the selection of the next
year’s mayor. Instead of electing one, the townfolk pull a name out of a hat.
And whomever that name belongs to is the next mayor. Even if he or she is too
young.
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Birthday’s
Today
Tom
Smothers, comedian (Smother Brother Show), is 78
Bo
Hopkins, actor (Dynasty) is 73
Graham
Nash, guitarist (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young is 73
Christie
Brinkley, [Ex-Mrs Billy Joel], model/actress is 61
Michael T
Weiss, actor (Jarod-Pretender) is 53
Shakira [Shakira
Isabel Mebarak Ripoll], Colombian pop singer is 38
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Remembered
for being born today
Solomon R
Guggenheim, philanthropist (Guggenheim Museum) 1861-1949@88
James
Joyce, Ireland, novelist/poet (Ulysses) 1882-1941@59
Frank
Lloyd, Scotland, actor/director (Mutiny on Bounty) 1888-1960@74
Frank
McGrath, actor (Wagon Train) 1903-1967@64
Ayn Rand, Saint
Petersburg, writer\philosopher 1905-1982@77
Clarence "Buster"
Crabbe, swimmer (Olympic-gold)/actor 1908-1983@75
Elaine
Stritch, actress (30 Rock,) 1925-2014@89
Stan Getz, jazz
tenor saxophonist 1927-1991@64
Farrah
Fawcett, actress (Charley's Angels) 1947-2009@62
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Historical
Obits Today
Max
Schmeling, German boxer, 2005, @99
Bertrand
Russell, philosopher, 1970, @97
Gene
Kelly, actor/dancer (Singing in the Rain), 1996, @83
Boris
Karloff, [Pratt], British actor (Frankenstein), 1969, @81
Bert
Parks, [Jacobson], TV host (Miss America), cancer, 1992, @77
Martin
Lister, English naturalist and physician, 1712, @72
John
Cassavetes, US actor (Rosemary's Baby)/director, cirrhosis, 1989, @59
John L
Sullivan, heavyweight boxing champ, indulgences, 1918, @59
Philip
Seymour Hoffman, actor (Capote), OD, 2014, @46
Sid
Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie], bassist (Sex Pistols), OD, 1979, @21
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Pin
2. Camera
3. Ball
4. Class
5. Rock
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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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
