Jan 17

 

 

Feb 16, 2021     Week: 7               Day: 47                Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 42°\ L 18°\Ave. Sky Cover: ?%                    Wind:  11mph/ Gusts:  20mph

Nearest Lightning: 1920mi.                                              Very Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire: 347 mi

Record: 66°[1996]  Record: -8°[1956] 

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

Today’s Quote

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

~Ferdinand Foch

Random Tidbits

Presidents Day is an American holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February. Originally established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington, it is still officially called "Washington's Birthday" by the federal government. Traditionally celebrated on February 22--Washington's actual day of birth--the holiday became popularly known as Presidents' Day after it was moved as part of 1971's Uniform Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to create more three-day weekends for the nation's workers. Many states still choose to call their own celebration on this day "Presidents' Day."

A Little Humor

Why are shopaholics so hard to help?

They can be very clothes-minded about the problem

Presidential Trivia

Warren Harding had unique nicknames.

Legend has it that Harding's mother wanted to name him Winfield>>>P, but when she didn't get her way, she found a loophole by giving him the nickname"Winny." Some folks also called him"Sonny."

Calvin Coolidge was born on Independence Day.

Sometimes a person's birthday seems unusually significant. Case in point: Coolidge was born on July 4>>>P. But you probably wouldn't see him getting too wild and crazy at his birthday party — he was notoriously quiet, earning the nickname"Silent Cal."

Herbert Clark Hoover was the first president born in a Western state.

Previous presidents were all born in the Eastern part of the county, but Hoover was the first to be born west of the Mississippi. He grew up in the very small town of West Branch, Iowa, and reportedly never even crossed the Mississippi until he was 22 years old.

Weekly Observations

Date (Fruit) Week
Great Backyard Bird Count 
Link

12-21

World Irish Dancing Week
National Entrepreneurship Week
Link

13-20 

Children of Alcoholics Week  Link 
International Flirting Week  
Jell-O Week  

Love a Mensch Week 

National Secondhand Wardrobe Week: 14-20 

Through With The Chew   Link

 

 

14-20

National Condom Week
National Nestbox Week

NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

 

14-21

Learning Disabilities Week

15-18

Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link

15-20  

Lent [Christian]

17-4/3

 

Today’s Observations

Analog to Digital TV Day
Ash Wednesday 

Human Spirit Day

My Way Day
National Cabbage Day

National Cafe’ Au Lait Day

National PTA Founders Day Link
Public Science Day

Random Acts of Kindness Day Link   
World Human Spirit Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

I woke up to a little over an inch of snow. It was overcast. By 9a the sun was shining. I went to get a mani-pedi at 11am. This dry winter has played havoc on my fingernails so I also did them today. When I got out at 12Noon, it was overcast and a little snow. Five minutes after I got home, the sky was clear and sunny again. Crazy weather.

Thankfully at 7000’ we are getting moisture and tolerable temperatures. Most of the country is frozen solid, dealing with once in a century snowfall, power outages, and accident- closed highways. I am fortunate.

I got a suspicious email this morning. It claimed to be from Norton Security telling me that my checking account had been charged $649 for their services. I don’t have Norton, I use another security. I called the number and foreign guy told me I could cancel my account as soon as he removed the software from my computer. I’m not a real geek, but even I know that any subscription will automatically stop working if the software isn’t renewed. I hung up, saved the email in case my bank account has an issue. I hate these companies that try and scam me.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud! I am NOT a gossip, but I do get involved with everyone’s dirty business. What am I?

Historical Events

1600 – Giordano Bruno, an early ‘Free Thinker‘, born in 1548, was burned at the stake.

1621 – Myles Standish was appointed as the first commander of the English Plymouth Colony in North America.

1859 – Dmitri Mendeleev began creating what we now call The Periodic Table.

1863 – A group of citizens of Geneva, Switzerland, founded an International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as the International Committee of the Red Cross.

1904 – Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly premiered at the La Scala theatre in Milan, Italy. It was one of the first worldwide pop culture event ‘hits’.

1933 – The magazine Newsweek was published for the first time. Newsweek ceased print publication with the December 31, 2012 issue.

1933 – Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead in Chic Young’s popular comic strip, Blondie.

1958 – Pope Pius XII designated St. Clare of Assisi the patron saint of television.

1959 – Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite, was launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.

1968 – The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield, MA

1972 – With the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle coming off the assembly line, the VW Beetle broke the world car production record held for more than four decades by the Ford Motor Company’s Model T, which was in production from 1908 and 1927.

1979 – A Prairie Home Companion premiered on Minnesota Public Radio.

1996 – In the final game of a six-game match, world chess champion Garry Kasparov defeated Deep Blue, IBM’s chess-playing computer, and won the match, 4-2. But in 1997, Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in a rematch.

2009 – 368 US Television stations permanently shut off their analog transmission signals, becoming digital.

2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry claims climate change requires urgent action and that only a small "window of time" remained open

2016 Oldest known case of human-Neanderthal sex (100,000 yrs ago) revealed by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), 50,000 yr old Neanderthal woman's remains from Altai mountains show traces of Homo Sapiens DNA

2016 Channing Dungey announced new President of ABC Entertainment Group, first African-American to lead a major US broadcast network

2016 Chief executive Tim Cook confirms Apple will contest an FBI order to unlock the phone of San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook

2020 Amazon boss Jeff Bezos pledges $10 billion to help fight climate change.

 

Birthdays Today

@95 – Hal Holbrook, American actor (d. 2021)

85 – Jim Brown, football star

@75 – [Clarence Linden]Buster Crabbe, American Olympian, actor (d. 1983; heart attack)

59 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor

58 – Michael Jordan, American basketball player

58 – Larry the Cable Guy (Daniel Whitney), American comedian

47 – Jerry O’Connell, American actor

40 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor, director, and producer

40 – Paris Hilton, American model, media personality

30 – Ed Sheeran, English singer-songwriter

Puzzle Answer

A vacuum cleaner

 

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