Feb 22

 

 

Feb 22, 2021     Week: 8    Day:  53                           Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 41°\ L 14°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%                   Wind:  8mph/ Gusts:  13mph

Nearest Lightning:3397 mi.                                         Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  280mi

Record: 64°[2002]  Record: -10°[1955] 

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

Today’s Quote

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

~Peter Ustinov

Random Tidbits

Amalie Materna, who played Brunnhilde during Wagner's lifetime (1876), may be the first proverbial "fat lady".

A Little Humor

Why can’t you play cards on a rowboat?

Because you're sitting on the deck.

True Things

Man breaks record for opening cans with mouth

An Ontario man broke a Guinness World Record -- but not any teeth -- when he used his jaws to bite open 24 full beverage cans in 1 minute. Chucky Mady, 32, an mixed martial arts fighter from Windsor, was recorded on video using his powerful jaws to rip the tops off the cans, causing soda to spray all over him and the surrounding area. "I've been doing it for years -- I started when I was 16," Mady said. "Just messing around. Party tricks." Mady said it was several years later before he decided to take on the world record. "One day, I was watching Guinness World Records Gone Wild on TV. There was this guy, Ryan Stock, who was doing it. His record was 11 cans in 1 minute, and I was like: 'I can do that.'" Guinness confirmed Mady set the new record at 24 cans.

Presidential Trivia

Long, long before becoming president or even senator, Obama worked a summer job at a Baskin-Robbins. Sounds sweet, but the former president said it actually made him dislike ice cream. Instead, he prefers chocolate-peanut protein bars or caramels.

Donald Trump made several TV cameos in the'90s.

These days, most of us are used to seeing Donald Trump on our screens. But he's no newbie to television: In addition to The Apprentice, Trump appeared in a slew of television shows and movies in the'90s, including Home Alone, The Nanny, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Weekly Observations

Bird Health Awareness Week Link  
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week 
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
National Engineers Week
National Invasive Species Awareness Week
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National Justice for Animals Week  
Link  Link

 

 

 

 

21-27

Lent [Christian]

17-4/3

National FFA Week Link 

20-27  

 

Today’s Observations

Be Humble Day

For The Love of Mike Day
George Washington's Birthday

International World Thinking Day

Museum Advocacy Day: 22-23  Link 
National Cook a Sweet Potato Day

National Cupcake Day (Canada) Link  
National Margarita Day 
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National Wildlife Day 
Link  
Play More Cards Day 
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Recreational Sports and Fitness Day

Shrove Monday
Single Tasking Day

Tex Avery Day Link
Walking the Dog Day

Woolworth's Day [founded in 1879]
World Thinking Day 
Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Cold front has moved out…nice sunny day…a good day for a long walk! So nice to enjoy the outdoors.

One of our Focus Travelers lives in Broomfield. When I saw the news report of debris falling from that Hawaii-bound United flight I texted her. Thankfully, it was not her area of Broomfield. It was good to hear there were no injuries on the flight or on the ground. NTSB will eventually figure out what happened, so it won’t happen again.

I am glad I don’t live in Texas right now. First, they get hit with snow and ice. Then the power and water infrastructure fail. Now the power company has raised the I’m glad I don’t live in Texas. The snow and ice devastated many. Then the power and water infrastructure failed. Just as power was being restored the cost of a megawatt of electricity was raised. In December, a megawatt cost about $50 and the average home paid about $125/month. The cost is February is reported to be $9000/megawatt. No wonder Ted and his family took a vacation in Cancun and left their dog in their cold house with food and water. I’m at a loss for words.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

I weaken all men for hours each day. I show you strange visions while you are away. I take you by night, by day take you back. None suffer to have me, but do from my lack. What am I?

Historical Events

1620 – Popcorn was introduced to the English colonists by an Indian named Quadequina.

1651 – St. Peter’s Flood (I): A storm surge flooded the Frisian (Germany/Netherlands) coast, drowning 15,000 people.

1759 – Today is the day that middle class 27-year-old George Washington married a rich widow (also 27) Martha Dandridge Curtis, and became a wealthy man (he was already a war hero).

1819 – Spanish minister Don Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams signed the Florida Purchase Treaty, giving the United States control of all of Florida.

1853 – Washington University in St. Louis was founded as Eliot Seminary.

1855 – Pennsylvania State University was founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania)

1872 – The Prohibition Party held its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.

1879 – The first F.W. Woolworth’s Five& Dime opened in Utica, NY. It became the first chain store.

1893 – The Record of a Sneeze was filmed by Thomas Edison. It was the first film ‘close up‘.

1956 – Elvis Presley debuted on the music charts with Heartbreak Hotel.

1980 – The ‘Miracle on Ice’ – The US Men’s Hockey Team won a 4-3 victory over the Soviet Union at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Two days later, the Americans went on to beat Finland and take home the gold medal.

2006 – iTunes sold its BILLIONTH music download. 16-year-old Alex Ostrovsky of West Bloomfield bought “Speed of Sound” by Coldplay. He later got a phone call from Steve Jobs and won a lot of iPod and Mac stuff.

2006 – At least six men staged Britain’s biggest bank robbery ever stealing the equivalent of 92 million American dollars from a security depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

2017 US President Donald Trump overturns Obama directive on Transgender rights to use toilets.

2018 Neanderthals not humans were the first artists on Earth, producing red cave paintings 65,000 years ago in Spain, according to new research published in "Science".

Birthdays Today

@91 – Robert Young, actor [Father Knows Best] (d. 1998)

@89 – Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director and producer (d. 1997)

@83 – Robert Baden-Powell, British founder of the boy Scouts (and Girl Guides) (d. 1941)

@82 – Rembrandt Peale, American painter (d. 1860)

@77 – Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy, American politician (d. 2009; brain cancer)

71 – Julius Erving, American basketball player and sportscaster

@67 – George Washington, American patriot, general and politician, 1st President of the United States (d. 1799; from medical bleeding)

@58 – Edna St. Vincent Millay (aka Nancy Boyd), American poet, playwright (d. 1950; heart attack)

46 – Drew Barrymore, American actress, director, producer and screenwriter

@44 – Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (d. 2006; stingray)

@22 – Robert Wadlow, American, tallest man ever recorded at 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall (d. 1940; autoimmune disease)

Puzzle Answer

Sleep

 

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