Feb 13

 

 

Feb  13, 2021  Week: 6  Day: 44	Local:  H 51°\ L 37°\Ave. Sky Cover: 10%
Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  19mph	Very Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  90mi
Nearest lightning:  1042mi.	Record: 68°[1977] Record:-18°[1905]
Visibility:  10mi	Feb. Averages: 47°/19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

Love has no age, no limit; and no death.

~ John Galsworthy

Love isn't something you find. Love is something that finds you.

~Loretta Young

Random Tidbits

Stat
When you spill something and yell, "I need some paper towels, stat!", you're speaking Latin, and you may not even realize it! "Stat" is short for statim, the Latin word for "immediately."

A Little Humor

Q Why was the invisible man sad?

His girlfriend couldn't see him anymore.

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My friend keeps saying-cheer up man it could be worse-you could be stuck underground in a hole full of water. I know he means well

Presidential Trivia

Abraham Lincoln created the Secret Service only a few hours before his death.

The story of Abraham Lincoln's assassination is well known. But few people are aware that several hours before his death, Lincoln signed legislation to create the Secret Service, which is now responsible for protecting the president's life. However, it probably wouldn't have helped Lincoln: the original purpose wasn't to protect the president, but rather to investigate counterfeit money.

Andrew Johnson escaped indentured servitude as a child.

Though many presidents came from elite, well-educated backgrounds, Andrew Johnson did not. His mother sent him to work as an indentured servant when he was a child, though he and his brother later escaped. He never had a formal education, but his wife, Eliza, helped him learn to read and write.

Ulysses S. Grant was not his real name.

The 18th president's birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant, but due to a mistake made on his West Point application, he became Ulysses S. Grant. His middle initial doesn't stand for anything and in a letter to his wife he joked," Find some name beginning with 'S' for me."

Weekly Observations

Burn Awareness Week  Link   Children's Authors & Illustrators Week	7-13
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week Link Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week  Link National Marriage Week  Link  Link Risk Awareness Week	7-14
Freelance Writer Appreciation Week	8-13
Love Makes the World Go Round; but, Laughter       Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week Love A Mench Week Random Acts of Kindness Week Link	8-14
Date (Fruit) Week Great Backyard Bird Count Link	12-21
World Irish Dancing Week National Entrepreneurship Week Link	13-20

 

Today’s Observations

Desperation Day Link
Dream Your Sweet Day

Employee Legal Awareness Day
Galentine's Day  Link
Get a Different Name Day

International Condom Day Link
Madly In Love With Me Day
National Break Up With Your Carrier Day Link
National Cheddar Day Link
National Italian Food Day

National Tortellini Day

National Wingman's Day
Self-Love Day
World Radio Day Link

World Whale Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A warm, nice day. A storm is expected tonight or tomorrow or Sunday, depending on the forecast one reads. While I was out shopping for the week, I decided to wash the road dirt off my vehicle. That should help guarantee some moisture this weekend.

Before the impeachment started, I heard a great interview on NPR with the Secretary of Homeland Security. Fox and others have been claiming that Biden opened the border to all who want to cross and that there has been no Covid testing of these illegals. I am not surprised that this is not the case. While Biden did stop the holding of illegals on the Mexican side, any entering must be Covid tested, and meet the qualifications for asylum. The asylum seekers are the only ones who are being allowed in, and they still must go through normal asylum procedures. He pointed out that the Trump administration had changed the asylum requirements and that his office must write more humane criteria.  Sounds good to me.

Today the Trump team seems to suggest that a word has one, and only one, definition and does not change due to context.  If they are correct and they win, discussions throughout America will certainly change. Athletic cheerleaders and crowds will no longer be yelling ‘Fight, Fight, Fight’ for their team. It could insight violence. One who is going to ‘run’ for office will be incorrect unless they are running in a foot race of some kind. Their argument is very weak.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

Which three letters can frighten a thief away?

Historical Events

1633 – Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome to face charges of heresy by the Catholic Church for advocating Copernican theory, which held that the Earth revolved around the Sun.

1689 – William and Mary were proclaimed co-rulers of England.

1741 – The first magazine was published in America – The American Magazine.

1866 – Jesse James committed the first daylight armed bank robbery in the United States during peacetime, at the Clay County Savings Association in the town of Liberty, Missouri.

1895 – Oscar Wilde’s final play, The Importance of Being Earnest, opened at the St. James’ Theatre in London.

1906 -The patent (#812,554) was issued to Alfred Einhorn for his synthesis of procaine, which was given the tradename of Novocain.

1914 -The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP ) was established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.

1937 – Prince Valiant, Comic Strip began.

1946 – The world’s first electronic digital computer, ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) was first demonstrated at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, by John W. Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert.

1965 – Sixteen-year-old Peggy Fleming won the ladies’ senior figure skating title at Lake Placid, NY.

1967 – CBS’s As The World Turns was the first Soap Opera to broadcast in color.

2000 – Two days after Charles M Schulz died, February 11, the last original Peanuts comic strip was printed in newspapers.

2002 – Former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani received an honorary knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II.

2004 – Astronomer Travis Metcalfe of the Harvard – Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics believed he discovered the largest diamond in the known universe at the center of the white dwarf star, BPM 37093. Observations claim that the core of the star is a diamond crystal 4000 km in diameter.

2017 US President Donald Trump accepts the resignation of national security adviser Michael Flynn over his dealings with Russia.

2018 South Africa declares a three-year drought a National Disaster, though pushes Cap Town's "Day Zero" to June 4

2018 Israeli Police report recommends Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu be prosecuted on bribery, fraud, and breach-of-trust charges.

2020 January 2020 was the hottest January in recorded history according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

2020 Scientists overturn current thought about how planets form - not by violent collision but gentle clumping, through study of Arrokoth in Kepler belt, published in "Science".

Birthdays Today

@97 – Bess Truman, American wife of US President Harry S Truman (d. 1982)

@97 – Chuck Yeager, the first pilot to break the sound barrier (d. 2020)

88 – Kim Novak, American actress

87 – George Segal, American actor

80 – Bo Svenson, Swedish-American actor

@77 – Peter Tork, singer-songwriter, bass player, actor (d. 2019; rare carcinoma)

77 – Stockard Channing, American actress

77 – Jerry Springer, English-American television host

@72 – Tennessee Ernie Ford, American singer and actor (d. 1991; liver failure)

71 – Peter Gabriel, English singer-songwriter and musician

@50 – Grant Wood, American painter (d. 1942; pancreatic cancer)

24 – Prince Jackson, son of Michael.

Puzzle Answer

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