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Almanac: Week: 09 \ Day: 059
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004
Today: H 42°\L 22°
Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind
ave: 4mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 47° Record High: 64°
(1921)
Ave. Low: 20° Record Low:
-16° (1962)
Observances
Today:
Floral Design Day
International Sword Swallowers Day
National Tooth Fairy Day
Open That Bottle Night
Public Sleeping Day
Rare Disease Day
US Snow Shoe Days
Observances This
Week:
Feb 21-28
National
Entrepreneurship Week
National Engineers Week
National FFA Week
Bird Health Awareness Week
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
National Invasive Species Awareness Week
Feb 26-28
National Conference
on Education
Feb 27-28
Texas Cowboy Poetry
Week
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1787 - The charter University of Pittsburgh is
granted.
1844 - 12-inch gun aboard USS Princeton explodes, killing
Secretary of State Abel P. Upshur, Secretary of the Navy Thomas Gilmer, and
other high-ranking U.S. federal officials
1849 - 1st boat load of gold rush prospectors
arrives in SF from east coast
1850 - The University of Utah opens in Salt Lake City,
Utah
1854 - Republican Party formally organized at
Ripon, WI
1859 - Arkansas legislature requires free blacks to
choose exile or slavery
1861 - Territories of Nevada & Colorado created
1882 - 1st US college cooperative store opens, at Harvard
U
1883 - 1st US vaudeville theater opens (Boston)
1913 - 6.8-m, 4000-kg elephant seal killed, South
Georgia (S Atlantic)
1930 - Consolidated
National Bank elevator operator could travel 60 miles a day, up and down,
during a 10-hour work day in Tucson
1933 - 1st female in US Cabinet: Frances Perkins
appointed Secretary of Labor
1943 - "Porgy & Bess" opens on
Broadway
1951 - Senate committee reports of at least 2 major
US crime syndicates
1956 - Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
1960 - 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw
Valley, Cal
1961 - JFK names Henry Kissinger special
advisor
1970 - Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate
Bridge
1972 - Pres Richard Nixon ends historic
week-long visit to China
1977 - 1st killer whale born in captivity
(Marineland, Los Angeles California)
1983 - Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs
(CBS); record 125 million watch in the US
1993 - Gun battle erupts near Waco, Texas at Branch
Davidian compound after FBI attempts a raid
1994 - Brady Law, imposing a wait-period to buy a
hand-gun, went into effect
1995 - Denver International Airport opens
Today’s World
Events through History
1638 - Scottish Presbyterians sign National
Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
1667 - English colony Suriname in Dutch hands
1749 - 1st edition of Henry Fieldings' "Tom
Jones" published
1784 - John Wesley charters Methodist Church
1922 - Egypt regains independence from Britain, but
British troops remain
1974 - Ethiopian government of Makonnen forms
1988 - 15th Winter Olympic games close at Calgary,
Canada
1991 - United Nations troops move into Kuwait City
and Saddam Hussein orders troops out of Kuwait; Iraqi soldiers ignite
Kuwaiti oil fields during their retreat
2012 - Discovery of the largest prehistoric
penguin, Kairuku grebneffi, at nearly 5ft tall
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Had a great lunch with our retirement group. Early birthday
celebration for me. Nice time. Nice gifts. Mary gave me some special socks for
traveling that help with circulation and Cheryl gave me a huge beautiful
mini-carnation plant in a cool planter. Let the celebrations begin. Looks like
a good year ahead.
The weather guy says about a foot + of snow over the weekend. He
says snow will start around midnight tonight, but we are already getting
flurries. He has been way off on his predictions regarding amount of snow…so I
will see. I am well stocked and have lots to do here at my house for the next
five days so I’m not worried. My only hope is that I don’t get cabin fever
before the snow stops.
DHS still doesn’t have any funding. So tired of this crap. My
sandbox is bigger than yours is no way to run a democratic country. Expecting
people to work without pay is crazy. I wonder how many workers at businesses
would work if their CEO told them they wouldn’t get paid but should keep
working so the business can stay open until funding arrives. Sure happy I don’t
have any travel planned by plane in the near future, or any need to use my
passport to enter or leave the country.
Here’s an idea…no Rep or Senator or their staff will receive pay
until they do their job and fund DHS. The immigration thing is a court thing,
not a funding thing.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I
am a set of three words, all with the same six letters.
First I am a kingdom, though not royally so.
Then spell me backwards, and I become a thin plate.
Now rearrange my consonants, leaving my vowels in place ...
I am now a type of paper.
What are the words?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Book
Facts…
-- The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70
micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as
light beams are too large.
--Author J K Rowling wrote the final chapter of the last Harry
Potter book in "something like 1990", seven years before the release
of the first book.
Color
Facts…
-- Red, Yellow, and Orange Stimulate Appetite The colors red, yellow
and orange are not recommended for use in kitchens if you're trying to lose
weight as they are known to stimulate appetite.
--The color orange was named after the fruit and not the other way
around.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 years
ago
Babbitt Bros awarded the 2nd prize of a 4-piece bedroom set in
their “Better Homes” contest to Forest Supervisor and Mrs. R. W. Hussey. The
3rd prize, a fine 6-piece dining room set was presented to Mr. and Mrs. H. T.
Wilson, The first prize went to Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Yost and was presented in
December.
Harper’s
Index…
1/4
Portion of Americans who want their state to secede
2/3
Portion who cannot name all three branches of the Federal
government
Kindness
Facts…
-- Boxer Wladimir Klitshko auctioned his Olympic gold medal to raise
money for underprivileged Ukrainian children. He raised $1,000,000. The buyer
immediately returned the medal to Wladimir as he wanted it to remain in the
Klitschko family.
--Johnny Depp travels with his Capt. Jack Sparrow costume to make
impromptu visits to sick kids in hospitals.
Rules of
Thumb…
Off line for some unknown reason
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
'We've Only Just Begun,' a No. 2 smash hit for The Carpenters in
1970, was written and composed by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols as a
commercial for a bank.
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Joke-of-the-day
Q: "Where do you see yourself in five
years?"
A: "I don't know, I don't have 2020 vision."
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An Engineer was unemployed for long time. He
could not find a job so he opened a medical clinic and puts a sign up outside:
"Get your treatment for $500, if not treated get back $1,000."
One Doctor thinks this is a good opportunity to earn $1,000 and goes to his
clinic.
Doctor: "I have lost taste in my mouth."
Engineer: "Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the
patient's mouth."
Doctor: "This is Gasoline!"
Engineer: "Congratulations! You've got your taste back. That will be
$500."
The Doctor gets annoyed and goes back after a couple of days later to recover
his money.
Doctor: "I have lost my memory, I cannot remember anything."
Engineer: "Nurse, please bring medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the
patient's mouth."
Doctor: "But that is Gasoline!"
Engineer: "Congratulations! You've got your memory back. That will be
$500."
The Doctor leaves angrily and comes back after several more days.
Doctor: "My eyesight has become weak."
Engineer: "Well, I don't have any medicine for this. Take this
$1,000."
Doctor: "But this is $500..."
Engineer: "Congratulations! You got your vision back! That will be
$500."
Yep, It
Really Happened
PERTH, Australia (UPI)
Police in Western Australia said a fisherman reeled in an unusual
find Tuesday -- an unexploded German grenade from World War I. Western
Australia Police said a man fishing off the Applecross Jetty in Perth about 2
a.m. Tuesday reeled in an object that appeared to be an explosive device and
police called in a Bomb Response Unit, which identified the object as a 1915
German Granatenwerfer grenade without a fuse. The object, which is also known
as a pineapple bomb due to its resemblance to the fruit, was transported by
Navy personnel to a safe area for disposal, police said. Geoff Smith of the
Western Australian Arms and Armament Society told The Guardian the grenade was
likely brought back to Australia as a souvenir following the war. "It has
to have been brought back by someone and then dumped. It's the only way it
could have got there," Smith said.
Somewhat
Useless Information
-- Common dream motifs
that transcend cultural and socio-economic boundaries include falling, flying,
nakedness in public, and unpreparedness. Such shared dreams arise from
experiences and anxieties fundamental to all people.
-- While dream interpretation
may not be accurate, it is certainly not new. The Beatty Papyrus, written
around 1350 B.C. and discovered at Thebes, is the oldest dream dictionary
existing today. It describes special dream-interpreting priests called 'Masters
of the Secret Things' or 'Learned Ones of the Magic Library.'
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Birthday’s
Today
Gavin
MacLeod, actor (Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat) is 84
Tommy
Tune, dancer/choreographer (Boyfriend) is 76
Mario
Andretti, Italian American race-car driver is 75
Bernadette
Peters, [Lazzara], Queens NY, actress (Jerk) is 67
Me-old
enough
Paul
Krugman, economist\NY Times columnist (Nobel Prize-2008) is 62
Rae Dawn
Chong, actress (Color Purple) is 54
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Remembered
for being born today
Margaret
of Scotland, queen of Norway 1261-1283@22
Mary Lyon, US,
educator (Mt Holyoke) (Hall of Fame) 1797-1849@52
John
Tenniel, England, illustrator (Alice in Wonderland) 1820-1914@93
Philip
Showalter Hench, physician (cortisone-Nobel) 1896-1965@69
Linus
Pauling, chemist/peace activist (Nobel 1954, 1962) 1901-1994@93
Bugsy
Siegel, gangster created casinos in Las Vegas 1906-1947@41
Vincente
Minnelli, director (American in Paris, Gigi) 1903-1986@83
Zero
"Samuel" Mostel, Brooklyn,
actor (Fiddler on the Roof) 1915-1977@62
Charles
Durning, actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie) 1923-2012@89
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Historical
Obits Today
Paul
Harvey, American radio broadcaster, 2009@90
Henry
James, US/British writer (Bostonians), 1916@72
Eddie "Rochester"
Anderson, Jack Benny Show, heart disease, 1977@71
Cuauhtémoc, the
last Aztec Emperor, killed by Hernán Cortés, 1525@29
Mr Ed, talking
horse, 1979@20ish
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Brain Teasers Answers
animal = a kingdom, not royal, but biological
lamina = a thin plate
manila = a type of paper
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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…§
