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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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
