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Almanac: Week: 07 \ Day: 042
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 60°\L 26°
Average Sky Cover: 0% Ave. humidity: 55%
Wind ave: 11mph\Gusts: 24mph
Ave. High: 45° Record
High: 62° (1971)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -12° (1908)
Observances
Today:
Be Electrific Day
Don't Cry Over Spilled Milk Day
Get Out Your Guitar Day
Make a Friend Day
Make A Friend's Day
National Shut-in Visitation Day
Pro Sports Wives Day
Satisfied Staying Single Day
White Shirt Day or White T-shirt Day
World Day of The Sick
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
Feb 10-12
World AG Expo
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Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1790 - Society
of Friends petitions Congress for abolition of slavery
1809 - Robert
Fulton patents steamboat
1812 - Massachusetts
Governor Gerry signs a redistricting bill - first "gerrymander"
1878 - 1st US bicycle
club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms
1897 - White
Rose Mission opens on East 97th Street, NYC
1916 - Baltimore
Symphony Orchestra presents its 1st concert
1916 - Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth
control
1935 - Consolidated National
Bank merged with Valley Bank and Trust Company of Phoenix to become Valley
National Bank.
1942 - "Archie"
comic book debuts
1960 - Jack
Paar walks off his TV show
1963 - CIA Domestic Operations Division created
1963 - Julia Child's show The French Chef premieres
1978 - The
"longest walk" takes place to protest Indian treatment
1993 - Janet Reno
selected by President Clinton as US Attorney General
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Today’s World
Events through History
660 BC - Traditional
date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu
1858 - 1st
apparition of the Virgin Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes
1928 - 2nd
Winter Olympic games opens in St Moritz, Switzerland
1945 - Yalta
agreement signed by FDR, Churchill & Stalin
1970 - Japan becomes 4th nation to put a satellite
(Osumi) in orbit
1979 - Iran's
premier Bakhtiar resigns, Ayatollah Khomeini seizes power
1990 - Nelson
Mandela released after 27 years imprisonment in South Africa
2011 - Egyptian
Revolution culminates in the resignation of Hosni Mubarak
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My Rambling
Thoughts
Great weather day…again.
Talked to Bob this morning and am set to spend weekend at his
place in Loveland and we will go to the Focus Travel meeting together. Also his
daughter Lori is off this weekend, so we will be able to spend some time
together too. NICE!
Sad news that ISIS confirmed that the AZ hostage is dead. Still not
sure how she died/was killed but this does bring some closure for the saddened
family. After my visits to Africa, I fully support NGO’s and the work they do
in various countries. However, I heard an interview on NPR regarding Syria and
NGO’s. One former worker who brought thousands of blankets to Syrian refugees
said that he quit doing that in mid-2014 because of the danger of crossing into
Syria from Turkey, where this young lady was abducted in December 2014. Too bad
she didn’t get the message.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Fill
in the blank below with a word that means the same as the word on the left when
read normally and fits the definition on the right when read backwards.
Friends _________ hit sharply.
Rinds of fruit __________ What we do with over one third of our lives.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country
Facts…
--Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
--Singapore means "Lion city".
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
This one is pretty similar to Gravity, but in this case the search
bar and Google logo fall into a fantastical ocean of
incredible creatures. Click around in the water to make waves. And when you
enter in search words, like "fish," the images will plop right into
the water!
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 years
ago
Superintendent of Schools Sturgeon Cromer and City Police Chief
Elmo Maxwell announce a combined crackdown on loitering and littering on the
campus and adjacent areas with special emphasis on student jaywalking and
loitering by others in these areas. Citations will be issued to appear in the
City Magistrates court to answer charges.
Harper’s
Index…
$1,700,000
Amount held in the largest unclaimed account at NY state bank
Rules of
Thumb…
ESTIMATING
THE TEMPERATURE
When spit freezes before it hits the
ground, it's at least 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
In early drafts of the Back to the Future script,
the time machine was built out of an old refrigerator.
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Joke-of-the-day
Q: What do you call cheese that's not yours?
A: Nacho cheese!
BONUS
Three college professors were driving down the
highway at a very slow speed. A policeman pulled them over and explained that
driving so slowly on the highway could be hazardous. The driver pointed out the
sign that read "20." He explained that he was going 20 mph because of
the sign. The policeman pointed out that the sign indicated they were driving
on Highway 20.
Somewhat embarrassed the professor apologized and promised to be more
observant.
As the policeman turned to walk back to his car, he noticed the other two
professors on the floor ...looking scared to death! He asked the driver,
"What's wrong with them?"
The driver replied, "We just turned off Highway 105."
Yep, It
Really Happened
Seattle
An idiot in Seattle narrowly avoided strengthening the gene pool
when he survived being stuck head-first down a chute attached to a railroad car
for 18 hours.
Emergency crews responded to the scene after receiving 911 calls from people
who heard someone yelling for help, said the Seattle Fire Department.
"We don't see these very often," spokesman Kyle Moore said.
"Apparently overnight he had crawled into a hole in a void space of the
car and slid head-first at a 45 degree angle down this little chute and was
stuck. He could not move, and he was stuck in this very small confined
space."
"If he actually successfully made it through the small hole at the end he
would have just been underneath the train car," he said.
Firefighters were able to rescue the man by pulling him out by his feet. It was
unclear why the man crawled into the chute.
The man was very stiff by the time firefighters got him out, but appeared not
to have suffered any serious physical injury. Any preexisting brain damage is
subject to speculation.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--The
earliest and most simple undergarment was the loincloth - a long strip of
material passed between the legs and around the waist. King Tutankhamen was
buried with 145 of them, but the style didn't go out with the Egyptians.
Loincloths are still worn in many Asian and African cultures.
--Men in the Middle Ages wore loose, trouser-like under-garments called braies,
which one stepped into and tied around the waist and legs about mid-calf.
--Medieval women wore a close-fitting undergarment called a chemise, and
corsets began to appear in the 18th century. Early versions of the corset were
designed to flatten a woman's bustline, but by the late 1800s, corsets were
reconstructed to give women an exaggerated hourglass shape.
--Bras were invented in 1913 when American socialite Mary Phelps-Jacob tied two
handkerchiefs together with ribbon. She patented the idea a year later.
Maidenform introduced modern cup sizes in 1928.
--Around 1920, as women became more involved in sports such as tennis and
bicycling, loose, comfortable bloomers replaced corsets as the undergarment of
choice. The constricting corset soon fell out of favor altogether.
--The thong made its first public U.S. appearance at the 1939 World's Fair,
when New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia required nude dancers to cover
themselves, if only barely. Thongs gained popularity as swimwear in Brazil in
the 1970s and are now a fashionable form of underwear in many parts of the
world.
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Birthday’s
Today
Conrad
Janis, actor (Mork & Mindy) is 87
Tina
Louise, actress (Ginger-Gilligan's Island, Julie-Dallas) is 81
Burt
Reynolds, actor (Evening Shade) is 79
Sergio
Mendes, jazz/pop musician (Brazil '66/'77/'88) is 74
Jeb Bush,
American politician is 62
Mary
Docter, US, 3000m speed skater (Olympics-1980, 84, 88, 92) is 54
Sheryl
Crow, musician (All I Want to Do-Grammy 1995) is 53
Sarah
Palin, politician is 51
Jennifer
Aniston, actress (Rachel-Friends) is 46
Brandy
[Norwood], singer (Les Miserables, Moisha) is 36
Taylor
Lautner, actor (Twilight Sage) is 22
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Remembered
for being born today
William
Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer 1800-1877@77
Thomas
Alva Edison, inventor (held 1200 patents) 1847-1931@84
Max Baer, heavyweight
boxing champ 1909-1959@50
Sidney
Sheldon, TV writer 1917-2007@89
Eva Gabor,
Budapest, actress (Green Acres) 1919-1995@76
Leslie
Nielsen, Canadian actor (Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun) 1926-2010@84
Bobby "Boris"
Pickett, singer-songwriter (Monster Mash) 1938-2007@69
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Historical
Obits Today
Don Porter, actor
(Gidget), 1997, @84
Peter
Benchley, author (Jaws), lung disease, 2006, @65
Lee J
Cobb, actor (12 Angry Men), heart attack, 1976, @64
Rene
Descartes, philosopher "I think therefore I am", pneumonia, 1650,
@53
Whitney
Houston, singer\actress, drowning, 2012, @48
Sylvia
Plath, American poet/novelist (Ariel), suicide, 1963, @30
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Brain Teasers Answers
Fill in the blank below with a word that means the same as the
word on the left when read normally and fits the definition on the right when
read backwards.
Friends __Pals slap_______ hit sharply.
Rinds of fruit __Peels sleep________ what we do with over one third of our
lives.
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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…§
