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Almanac: Week: 07 \ Day: 043
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 48°\L 24°
Average Sky Cover: 0% Ave. humidity: 55%
Wind ave: 12mph\Gusts: 38mph
Ave. High: 45° Record
High: 58° (2002)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -16° (1965)
Observances
Today:
Independence Day-Chile-1818-from Spain
Darwin Day
Lincoln's Birthday
NAACP Day
National Plum Pudding Day
Oglethorpe Day
Paul Bunyan Day
Safety Pup 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
Feb 10-12
World AG Expo
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Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1733 - Georgia
founded by James Oglethorpe
1793 - 1st US
fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves
1825 - Creek
Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government
& migrate west
1855 - Michigan
State University was established
1879 - 1st
artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Sq Garden, NYC)
1908 - NY to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia)
begins in NYC George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
1920- The Fourth AZ State
Legislature held a one-day special session; voted to ratify the 19th Amendment
to the U.S. Constitution establishing women's suffrage
1964 - Beatles
1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)
1967 - Pirate Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins
transmitting
1995 - Bonnie Blair skates female world record 500m
(38.69 sec)
1999 - US
President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment
trial
2002 - US Secretary
of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be the United
States' nuclear waste repository
2004 - The city
of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex
couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
Today’s World
Events through History
1502 - Muslims
in Granada forced to convert to Catholicism
1541 - Santiago,
Chile founded
1832 - Ecuador
annexes Galapagos Islands
1947 - French
fashion designer Christian Dior presents his first influential
collection, named the "New Look"
1994 - 17th
Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My Rambling
Thoughts
Almost packed and ready for my short trip to Denver. I’ll be
leaving Thurs. AM and will be back on Monday or Tuesday. Excited to see my
fellow travelers and see if there are any exciting trips ahead this year.
Gas prices are back up…I knew it was too good to last. But weather
looks good for the trip.
AZ continues to mourn the fallen aid worker. All flags in the
state are at half-staff today.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Jake
and his friend Paco had very famous challenge sessions at their school. One
would suggest something they could do, and the other would prove it wrong
somehow.
One day, Jake surprised Paco by stating: "I can answer any question in the
world."
Sure that he would win the challenge, Paco accepted the task of proving it
wrong. He wrote up a test full of impossible questions. After a while, Jake
returned the test. Paco unbelievably lost the challenge and told Jake he could
indeed answer any question. How did Jake win?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country
Facts…
--Argentina's capital Buenos Aires means "Good air".
--Afghanistan's capital Kabul means "hump backed".
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Get a peek at what the famous search engine would have looked like
in the 1980s. If you have access to sound, you can even hear that
famous modem dialup sequence! The terminal will allow you to search four
options on-screen. It's a fun way to get a blast from the past.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 years
ago
Arizona State College is to receive $1,850,000 for its first
high-rise dorm on the heels of the eventual elevation to university status. ASC
President J. Lawrence
Harper’s
Index…
$700,000,000
Amount by which Dollar General outbid Dollar Tree in an attempted
takeover of Family Dollar
Rules of
Thumb…
CLIMBING
ABOARD A BOAT
If there are three or more inches of
water in the bilge of a rowboat, don't get in it. Your weight will be enough to
capsize the boat.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Canada has more lakes than all the other countries combined.
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Joke-of-the-day
Q: Why do teenage girls hang out in
odd-numbered groups?
A: Because they can't even.
Bonus
A priest, a doctor, and an engineer were
waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer
fumed, "What's with those guys? We must have been waiting for fifteen
minutes!"
The doctor chimed in, "I don't know, but I've never seen such inept
golf!"
The priest said, "Here comes the green-keeper. Let's have a word with
him."
He said, "Hello George, what's wrong with that group ahead of us? They're
rather slow, aren't they?"
The green-keeper replied, "Oh, yes. That's a group of blind firemen. They
lost their sight saving our clubhouse from a fire last year, so we always let
them play for free anytime."
The group fell silent for a moment.
The priest said, "That's so sad. I think I will say a special prayer for
them tonight."
The doctor said, "Good idea. I'm going to contact my ophthalmologist
colleague and see if there's anything he can do for them."
The engineer said, "Why can't they play at night?"
Yep, It
Really Happened
CHANGWON,
South Korea (UPI)
Emergency responders in a South Korean city were called to rescue
a woman whose robot vacuum cleaner latched onto her hair while she was taking a
nap. The Changwon city fire department said workers responded to the
52-year-old woman's Changwon home after the robot vacuum cleaner latched onto
her hair while she was sleeping on the floor. The emergency responders were
able to open the vacuum and free the woman after about 30 minutes, the fire
department said. "This case was quite special," a fire department
representative said. "We had seen weird things, but this was a very weird
call that we received." The fire department said the woman lost about 10
strands of hair, but was otherwise unharmed. The device appears to be similar
to the Roomba, a circular robotic vacuum cleaner that has sold more than 10
million units since hitting the market in 2002.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--Spiders
are vital to a healthy ecosystem. They eat harmful insects, pollinate plants,
and recycle dead animal and plants back into the earth. They are also a
valuable food source for many small mammals, birds, and fish.
--The silk in a spider's web is five times stronger than a strand of steel that
is the same thickness. A web made strands of spider silk as thick as pencil
could stop a Boeing 747 jumbo jet in flight. Scientists still cannot replicate
the strength and elasticity of a spider's silk.
--The world's biggest spider is the goliath
spider (Theraphosa blondi). It can grow up to 11 inches wide, and its fangs are
up to one inch long. It hunts frogs, lizards, mice, and even small snakes and
young birds.
--The world's smallest spider is the Patu marplesi. It is so small that 10 of
them could fit on the end of a pencil.
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Birthday’s
Today
Joe
Garagiola, sportscaster/host (Today Show) is 89
Charles
Van Doren, American quiz show contestant is 89
Bill
Russell, NBAer (Boston Celtics, Oly-gold-56) is 81
Joe Don
Baker, actor (Eischied, Walking Tall) is 79
Maud
Adams, Lulea Sweden, actress (Octopussy) is 70
Chynna
Phillips, vocalist (Wilson Philips-Hold On) is 47
Josh
Brolin, actor (Johnny-Private Eye) is 47
Christina
Ricci, actress (Casper) is 35
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Remembered
for being born today
Cotton
Mather, Puritan minister (Salem witchcraft trials) 1663-1728@65
Abraham
Lincoln, Kentucky, (R) 16th US President 1809-1865@56
Charles
Darwin, England, evolution (Origin of the Species) 1809-1882@73
Lorne
Greene, Ottawa, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica) 1915-1987@72
Forrest
Tucker, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop) 1919-1986@67
Arlen
Specter, Sen-PA 1930-2012@82
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Historical
Obits Today
Eubie
Blake, ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), 1983, @96
James
Cash Penney, US founder (J C Penney), 1971, @95
Isaac Sidney "Sid"
Caesar, comic actor\writer, 2014, @91
Immanuel
Kant, German philosopher, 1804, @79
Charles
M. Schulz, cartoonist, cancer, 2000, @77
Tom
Landry, football coach (Dallas Cowboys), cancer, 2000, @75
George
Heriot, Scottish goldsmith and philanthropist, 1624, @61
Oliver,
American pop singer, cancer, 2000, @54
Ethan
Allen, American patriot, stroke, 1789, @51
Grant
Wood, US painter (American Gothic), cancer, 1942, @50
Sal Mineo, actor
(Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed, 1976, @37
Jane Grey, queen
of England for 9 days, beheaded, 1554, @17
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Brain Teasers Answers
For all the impossible questions, Jake simply wrote "I don't
know", or gave an incorrect answer. Jake never said the answer had to be
correct!
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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…§
