Feb 25

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Feb 25, 2018 Week: 09\ Day: 56

86004 Today: H 38° \ L 11° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Wind ave.:   5mph\Gusts:  12mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 70°[1986]   Record Low: -10°[1919]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)

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Today’s Quote

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land,

when they can see nothing but sea.

  Francis Bacon

Harper’s Index

$61,380,600,000-Estimated minimum combined net worth of 45’s Cabinet members and advisers

114-Number of countries whose GDP is lower than that figure

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Observances This Week

16-25

Date (Fruit) Week

22-25

American Birkenbreiner Race

25- Mar 3National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
National Justice for Animals Week Link  Link
Telecommuter Appreciation Week

National Invasive Species Awareness Week Link

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Observances for Today

Pistol Patent Day

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1500’s                                          

≈1570 Pius V excommunicates Queen Elizabeth I of England and absolves her subjects from allegiance to the crown

1700’s

1751 1st performing monkey exhibited in America, NYC (admission 1 cent)

1791 1st Bank of US chartered

≈1795 French Politician and Educator Joseph Lakanal, defines on behalf of the French Revolution an “educational utopia” aiming to “put an end to inequalities of development that affected a citizen's capacities for judgment."

1799 1st federal forestry legislation authorizes purchase of timber land

1799 US Congress passes 1st federal quarantine legislation

1800’s

1836 Samuel Colt patents first revolving barrel multi-shot firearm

1839 Seminoles & black allies shipped from Tampa Bay Florida, to the West

1847 State University of Iowa is approved

1862 Congress forms US Bureau of Engraving & Printing

1862 Paper currency (greenbacks) introduced in US by President Abraham Lincoln

1863 Congress creates national banking system, comptroller of currency

1875 Kiowa Indians under Lone Wolf (Guipago) surrender at Ft Sill

1879 US Congress passed 1st Timberland Protection Act

1885 US Congress condemns barbed wire around government grounds

1900’s

1901 US Steel Corporation organized under J. P. Morgan, Sr.

1908 1st tunnel under Hudson River (railway tunnel) opens

≈1910 Dalai Lama flees Tibet for British India to escape Chinese troops

1913 The 16th Amendment to the US Constitution becomes law, providing the legal basis for the institution of a graduated income tax

1919 Oregon is 1st state to tax gasoline (1 cent per gallon)

≈1921 The Living Buddha, Hutuktu, is crowned King of Mongolia as the country declares independence from China

1925 Glacier Bay National Monument established in Alaska

1950 "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen

≈1951 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)

≈1952 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway

≈1971 Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark holds a meeting with Catholic Cardinal of Ireland William Conway, the first such meeting between men holding these offices since 1921

≈1972 Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single

1977 New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts

1977 Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons

≈1986 Corazon Aquino becomes President of the Philippines, Marcos flees the country

1987 US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action

1992 Muddy Waters wins Lifetime Achievement Award at the 34th Annual Grammy Awards

2000’s

≈2011 In the Irish general election, the Fianna Fáil-led government suffered the worst defeat of a sitting government since the formation of the Irish state in 1921

≈2011 French fashion house Christian Dior suspends its chief designer John Galliano after he is arrested for an anti-semitic verbal attack in Paris

≈2012 World Health Organization removes India from the list of polio endemic countries

≈2013 Cuban President Raul Castro announces he will not seek another term in 2018

2014 50 students are killed in a Boko Harem attack on a college in Buni, Nigeria

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My Rambling Thoughts

We had a nice little storm with about 4” of snow yesterday. Today it is melting fast. Bright blue sky is helping with the melting. I did go out and sweep off my vehicle. Guess I could have waited for it to melt. The HOA came through by cleaning off the sidewalks.

Amazing how quickly the Olympics has headed for it’s ending. I’ve seen some great competition and still the weekend is ahead. I just hope they don’t spend too much time on Ivanka as our representative. The games should remain as non-political as possible. NBC did some very good back stories too.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@92- Sun Myung Moon,

South Korean evangelist (Unification Church),

born in Chongju, Japanese Korea

(d. 2012)

80’s

83- Sally Jessy Raphael,

American TV talk show host (Sally),

born in Easton, PA

70’s

@78- Pierre Auguste Renoir,

French Impressionist painter and sculptor 

(Bal du moulin de la Galette, Luncheon of the Boating Party),

born in Limoges, France

(d. 1919)

@78- Zeppo Marx [Herbert Manfred Marx],

American comedian and actor (Marx Brothers),

born in NYC,

lung cancer (d. 1979)

@77- Bobby Riggs,

American tennis player 

("The Battle of the Sexes", US Open 1939, 41),

born in Los Angeles

prostate cancer (d. 1995)

@76- [John] Anthony Burgess [Wilson],

essayist and novelist (A Clockwork Orange),

born in Harpurhey, Lancashire

lung cancer (d. 1993)

@76- James "Jim" Backus,

American actor

(Mr Magoo, Rebel Without a Cause, Gilligan's Island),

born in Cleveland, Ohio

Parkinsons (d. 1989)

76- Karen Grassle,

American actress (Caroline-Little House on Prairie),

born in Berkeley

@72- José de San Martín,

Argentine General,

liberated Argentina, Chile and Peru from Spanish rule,

born in Yapeyú, Argentina

(d. 1850)

@71- John Foster Dulles, 

US Secretary of State(1953-59),

born in Washington, D.C.

colon cancer (d. 1959)

50’s

@58- George Harrison,

English pop star and Beatle

(Traveling Wilburys-My Sweet Lord),

born in Liverpool, England

cancer (d. 2001)

53- Carrot Top, [Scott Thompson],

comedian (Amer Comedy Award-1994)

52- Tea Leoni,

American actress (Flying Blind, Naked Truth),

born in NYC

40’s

@48- Enrico Caruso,

operatic tenor (Faust),

born in Naples, Italy

peritonitis (d. 1921)

43- Chelsea Handler,

American comedian and actress

42- Rashida Jones,

American actress (Parks and Recreation),

writer, model, and musician,

born in Los Angeles

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@90-1723 Christopher Wren,

English astronomer and architect (St. Paul's Cathedral)

80’s

@83-2006 Darren McGavin [Richardson],

American actor

(Murphy Brown, The Night Stalker, A Christmas Story)

70’s

@77-1975 Elijah Muhammad [Elijah Robert Poole],

American religious leader (Nation of Islam),

heart failure 

@71-1983 Tennessee Williams,

US playwright and writer (Streetcar Named Desire),

choked

60’s

@65-1957 Bugs Moran,

American gangster,

lung cancer in prison

@61-2017 Bill Paxton,

American actor (Titanic, Big Love),

surgical complications

50’s

@56- James Coco,

actor (Joe-Dumplings),

heart attack

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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.

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Feb 24

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Feb 24, 2018 Week: 08\ Day: 56

86004 Today: H 39° \ L 6° \ Average Sky Cover: 100% 

Feel like: 18°

Wind ave.:   17mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 525 yards

Record High: 66°[1904]   Record Low: -4°[1909]

Feb Averages: 46°\19°

Feb Records: H: 71° (1986) L: -23° (1985)

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Today’s Quote

If you can't describe what you are doing as a process,

you don't know what you're doing.

  W. Edwards Deming

Harper’s Index

11-Factor by which the director of the Australian postal service earned more in 2016 that the Prime Minister

$167,000,000-Net loss the service reported in 2015

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Observances This Week

16-25

Date (Fruit) Week

17-24

National Entrepreneurship Week Link
National FFA Week Link

18-24

Bird Health Awareness Week Link  
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Engineers Week
Through With The Chew Link
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link

20-23

American Camp Week Link
International Petroleum Week  Link
Learning Disabilities Week

22-25

American Birkenbreiner Race

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Observances for Today

Forget Me Not Day  Link 
International Sword Swallowers Day
National Dance Day
National Tortilla Chip Day

Open That Bottle Night
Women in Blue Jeans Days Link 

World Bartender Day Link

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Today’s Significant US Historical Events

≈Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1800’s                                          

1803 US Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)

≈1804 London's Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute

1857 1st perforated US postage stamps delivered to government

1863 Arizona Territory created

1868 1st US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile, Alabama)

1868 US House of Representatives vote 126 to 47 to impeach President Andrew Johnson

1888 Louisville, Kentucky, becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot (i.e. secret ballot on standard voting forms)

1893 The American University is chartered by an act of the Congress of the United States of America

1899 Western Washington University is established

1900’s

1909 The Hudson Motor Car Company is founded.

≈1917 German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)

1925 Thermite explosive 1st used to break up ice jam, Waddington, NY

1938 Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles

≈1942 Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)

≈1977 US President Jimmy Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights

≈1981 Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer

1985 Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"

1987 LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point

1989 150 million year old fossil egg found in Utah with a fossilized dinosaur embryo inside, the oldest dinosaur egg yet found in the Northern Hemisphere

≈1997 Qatar inaugurates the world's largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporting facility and formally launches Qatar Liquefied Gas Co.

≈1998 Elton John knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace in London

≈1999 The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.

2000’s

2002 19th Winter Olympic Games close at Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

≈2008 Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba due to ill health after nearly fifty years

≈2010 Europe risks a double-dip recession after bad results emerge from France, Germany and Italy, it is reported today; the Eurozone only grew by 0.1% in the last quarter of 2009

≈2013 Raúl Castro is elected to a second term as the President of Cuba

≈2014 Pope Francis creates a second Secretariat with the power to audit any Vatican agency at any time

≈2016 Oldest Muslim graves in Europe, from the 8th century, identified at a buriel site in Nimes, France

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My Rambling Thoughts

Our retirement group met for lunch and talking. Lasted longer than expected, but well worth it. Didn’t have time to post yesterday.

Woke up to snow this morning. For the first time in forever, it is actually accumulating on the ground, trees, sidewalks, etc. Glad I can stay home and not have to deal with the bad road conditions. By late afternoon, looks like the HOA will have to bite the bullet and bring in the snow removal crew. We now have a good 4” and it’s still coming down and still piling up. If this keeps up, I’ll have to know the snow off my blue spruce as the branches will be bent to the sidewalk.

I began a great teaching career just as the world was switching from quill pens to fountain pens. Tee Hee. Since the beginning of teaching in the US, teachers have always had ‘other duties as assigned.’ For many it was stoking the fire every morning so the classroom would be warm. When I started it was raising the flag on campus every day of the week. Teachers now have after school conferences, before school meetings, training beyond the regular school day, recess duty, morning bus duty, afternoon bus duty, … Now 45 wants to add conceal/carry to some teacher’s duty. While this is a dumb idea, he at least is suggesting ‘bonus’ pay will suddenly appear from the magic money pit. Every military person and every educator and most gun enthusiasts will say that ‘the good guy with the gun has one job…stop the perp.’ What happens to the students under that teacher’s care? Are they now on their own? Then I heard about ‘the safest school in America’ on the news. It is in middle America. Every classroom has bullet-proof glass, every teacher has a panic button, every hallway has security cameras that have a live feed to the local police department. And to top it off, every hallway has smoke bombs that can be detonated to confuse the shooter. So happy to be retired after a great career.

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Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@94- Abe Vigoda,

American actor (Barney Miller, The Godfather),

born in NYC

(d. 2016)

70’s

76- Joe Lieberman,

(Sen-D Connecticut)

@74- Winslow Homer,

American painter (Gulfstream)

@73- Wilhelm Karl Grimm,

German story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales),

born in Hanau, Hesse-Cassel, Holy Roman Empire

infection (d. 1859)

71- Edward James Olmos,

actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph)

60’s

68- George Thorogood,

 American singer and guitarist 

(The Delaware Destroyers-Bad to the Bone),

born in Wilmington, Delaware

67- Debra Jo Rupp,

American actress (That 70’s Show)

62- Paula Zahn,

news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)

60- Sammy Kershaw,

country vocalist (Cadillac Style)

50’s

@56- Steve Jobs,

American computer entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple,

born in San Francisco, California

cancer (d. 2011)

52- Billy Zane,

actor (Titanic, Dead Calm),

born in Chicago, Illinois

40’s

41- Floyd Mayweather,

featherweight boxer(Olympic bronze 1996),

born in Grand Rapids Michigan

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Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91-1998 Henny Youngman,

American comedian and violinist (Take my wife ... please)

80’s

@88-2012 Jan Berenstain [Janice Marian Grant],

American author (The Berenstain Bears)

@81-2006 Don Knotts,

American actor (Andy Griffth Show, 3's Company)

@81-2006 Dennis Weaver,

American actor (Chester-Gunsmoke, Duel, Battered)

@81-1986 Tommy Douglas,

Canadian politician

"Father of Medicare"

70’s

@76-1994 Dinah Shore,

singer (Chevrolet),

cancer

@71-1991 George Gobel,

comedian (George Gobel Show),

following heart surgery

@70-1990 Malcolm Forbes,

American publisher of Forbes Magazine,

heart attack 

40’s

@49-1815 Robert Fulton,

American inventor and engineer

(first commercial steamboat),

TB

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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.

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