Feb 27

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Feb. 27, 2020 Week: 9 Day: 59

86004: H 45° \ L 22° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest lightning: 1675mi.; Nearest active fire: 231mi.

Wind: 11mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 64°[1921 ] Record Low: -12°[1961]

Feb. Averages: 47°\19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s LOVE Quote

“A friend is someone who knows all about you

and still loves you.”

― Elbert Hubbard

Random Tidbits

Sleep is a universal characteristic of complex living organisms and has been observed in insects, mollusks, fish, amphibians, birds, and mammals. In fact, sleep is so important that humans can survive longer without food than they can without sleep.

Observations This Week

Bird Health Awareness Week: 23-29 Link
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week: 23-29
Nat'l Invasive Species Awareness Week: 23-29 Link
National Justice for Animals Week: 23-29Link Link
Cordova Ice Worm Days: 25-3/1 Link
International Petroleum Week: 25-27 Link
Lent: 26-4/11
National Money Show: 27-29

Observations for Today

Anosomia Awareness Day Link
Digital Learning Day Link
International Polar Bear Day Link
International Toast Day Link
National Chili Day Link
National Kahlua Day

National Retro Day Link
National Strawberry Day

No Brainer Day 

Polar Bear Day

World NGO Day Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Cheryl has a bad cough from her visiting son, so we postponed my bday lunch till next week. So Mary and I ate at one of our favorites. We'll party when Cheryl recovers.

AZ is very conservative. The AZ House just passed a bill to require inmates who are injured doing prison work and sue will have to pay their medical expenses if they win in court. Seems a little Draconian to me.

I have always believed that the Olympics should not be political. I was against all the boycotts, against the fist thing and anything else political. This is the 40^th anniversary of the Miracle on Ice. Trump was in Vegas for a rally. At the same time, the team was at other events for the 40^th. They were invited to his rally and called up on stage. As they were climbing the stairs, they were handed MAGA hats. Some wore them, some didn't. Social media is lambasting those who wore the hats. I agree, their achievement was not political during the game. It shouldn't be 40 years later.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

One is to three as three is to five and five is to four and four is the magic number. What is the pattern?

Historical Events

1703 - The first Mardi Gras was celebrated in Mobile, Alabama in 1703.

1801 - District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801 - Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress. 'Taxation without representation.'

1812 - Lord Byron gave his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.

1827- Masked and costumed students danced through the streets of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the first of the city's famous Mardi Gras celebrations.

1879 - Saccharin, the artificial sweetener, was discovered by Constantin Fahlberg,

1900 - German chemist Felix Hoffmann was issued the patent (#644,077) for 'Acetyl Salicylic Acid'. We now call it Aspirin.

1936 - Shirley Temple received a new contract from 20th Century Fox that paid the seven-year-old star $50,000 per film.

1951 - The Twenty-second Amendment to the United States Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, was ratified.

1960 - The US Olympic hockey team defeated the Soviet Union in the semifinals at the Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California. The next day, the US team beat Czechoslovakia to win its first-ever Olympic gold medal in hockey.

1973 - The American Indian Movement (AIM) occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota.

1974 - People magazine was published for the first time

1980 - There was only one Grammy for Best Disco Recording ever, and it was awarded to Gloria Gaynor for I Will Survive.

1999 - Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new endurance record after being in a hot air balloon for 233 hours and 55 minutes.

2006 - The African Burial Ground National Monument was established in Lower Manhattan, New York. Over 15,000 Africans, slave and free, were buried there from the 1690s through 1790s.

2010 (Earthquake) Coastal Maule, Chile

2013 Pope Benedict XVI presents his farewell address to Vatican City

2018 Jared Kushner, son-in-law of President Trump, has his top-secret security clearance at the White House downgraded

2019 Michael Cohen, former lawyer to Donald Trump testifies before the House Oversight Committee saying Trump is "racist", a "con man" and "a cheat"

2019 Second summit begins between US President Donald Trump and North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, Vietnam

Birthdays Today

40- Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Bill and Hillary

@66-John Steinbeck, author (d. 1968; heart disease)

@79-Elizabeth Taylor, actor (d. 2011)

Puzzle Answer:

One has three letters in the word three has five letters in it five has four letters and four has four letters in it (if you try more numbers they will always come back to the number four: so four is the magic number)