Feb 22

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1854 - 1st meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)

1856 - 1st national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh)

1872 - 1st national convention of Prohibition Party (Columbus Ohio)

1878 - Greenback Labor Party forms (Toledo Ohio)

1935 - Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House

1962 - Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts

1998 - 18th Winter Olympic games close at Nagano Japan

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

Nice day…ran some errands and it was nice to be able to be out and about without a jacket. Laura just had an opening  in San Francisco. What a great eye for design…so beautiful. I’m usually not into Mexican design, but would sure like some of this at my home. February and fire season has started. Scary. There is a 90 acre grass fire near Williams. No word yet on how it started. My guess is not lightning. Now that the economy is bouncing back the conservatives are now hitting social issues. I hope they hurry up and pick a winner to run against our President. Most of my female friends are past worrying about birth control, but most have daughters and granddaughters who are not. New abortion rules, birth control not covered by insurance, WTF is going on? I thought this was all settled decades ago. No wait…I know it was settled decades ago.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game

Hint: 1st equation equals 32     2nd equation equals 39 

NPR Sunday Puzzle

Will gives the names of people that you almost certainly never heard of before 2009, but who became suddenly famous

1.     Chesley Sullenberger:

2.     Nadya Suleman:

3.     Carrie Perjean:

4.     Falcon Heene:

5.     Una Lee and Laura Ling:

6.      Maria Belen Chapur :

7.      Joe Wilson:

8.      Bo:

Wuzzles  What concept or phrase do these suggest?

Lifestyle  Substance     

Planet Earth—Orkney Islands

Found on You Tube         

Mardi Gras Highlights from 150th anniversary

Harper’s Index         

Chances that a Pakistani approves of the US raid that killed Osama bin Laden: 1 in 10

Joke-of-the-day

A man takes his hamster to the vet, and after a short look at the creature the vet pronounces it dead. Not happy with the vet's diagnosis the man asks for a second opinion. The vet gives a whistle and in strolls a Labrador dog. The dog nudges the hamster around with its nose and sniffs it a couple of times before shaking his head.
"There" says the vet,” Your hamster is dead". Still not happy the man asks for a third opinion. The vet opens the back door and in bounds a cat. The cat jumps onto the table and looks the hamster up and down for a few minutes before looking up and shaking it's head.
"It's definitely dead sir", says the vet.
Convinced, the man enquires how much he owes. "That will be £1000, please". "A £1000 just to tell me my hamster is dead" fumes the man.
"Well", says the vet, "There's my diagnosis, the lab report and the cat scan".Rules of Thumb  
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guessIf showers five to seven minutes apart are taken in rapid succession, a 50-gallon natural gas hot-water heater will begin to run out of hot water during the fourth shower.

Somewhat Useless Information    

Mardi Gras is actually historically a Catholic celebration. Mardi Gras is French for 'Fat Tuesday' which has traditionally been a day for eating rich fatty foods before the Lent season begins, a time where many Catholics give up certain foods.

The Mardi Gras colors of purple, green and gold were actually selected by Grand Duke Alexis Alexandrovitch Romanoff of Russia during a visit to New Orleans in 1872. Purple stands for justice, gold stands for power and green stands for faith.

Yeah, It Really Happened                 

*-- In Chicago It's the Law --*- It is illegal to give a dog whiskey.- In the Pullman area, it is illegal to drink beer out of a bucket while sitting on the curb.
- Law forbids eating in a place that is on fire.- Kites may not be flown within the city limits.- It is forbidden to fish while sitting on a giraffe's neck.
- Spitting is forbidden- It is legal to protest naked in front of city hall as long as you are under seventeen years of age and have legal permits.

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

14-21

National Condom Week

National Nestbox Week to provide bird houses for winter

NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

19-25 

National Entrepreneurship Week

Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week

Build A Better Trade Show Image Week

National Engineers Week

National Pancake Week

National Justice for Animals Week

National Future Farmers of America Week

Read Me Week

Texas Cowboy Poetry Week

Today Is                                                                      

Ash Wednesday Lent begins

Be Humble Day

Inconvenience Yourself Day

National Margarita Day

Single-Tasking Day

Spay Day

George Washington's Birthday 1732

Woolworth's Day 1879

World Thinking Day

St. Lucia: Independence Day (1979; Commonwealth of Nations)

Today’s Other Events                                                             

1500’s

1561 - William of Orange appointed viceroy of Burgundy/Charolais

1600’s

1630 - Indians introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving

1700’s

1774 - English House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright

1797 - Last Invasion of Britain: 1797 The Last Invasion of Britain by the French, begins near Fishguard, Wales 1821 - Spain sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million

1800’s

1856 - Many Rogue River War volunteers are at a party away from camp, when Indians attack the camp. Twenty-four whites are killed, including a Captain and an Indian Agent. This is the beginning of a series of raids along the river.

1876 - Johns Hopkins University opens

1879 - 1st 5 cent & 10 cent store opened by Frank W Woolworth (Utica NY)

1898 - Black postmaster lynched, his wife & 3 daughters shot in Lake City SC

1900’s

1900 - Hawaii became a US territory

1907 - 1st cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London

1923 - 1st successful chinchilla farm in US (LA California)

1924 - 1st presidential radio address (Calvin Coolidge)

1944 - Jack C. Montgomery, a Cherokee, is a First Lieutenant with the Forty-fifth Infantry in Italy. For his solo actions against three different enemy positions, he will be awarded the Medal of Honor.

1945 - Arab League forms (Cairo)

1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"

1958 - Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days

1959 - 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)

1968 - Rock group Genesis release their 1st record  "Silent Sun"

1974 - Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators

1988 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)

2000’s

2006 - At least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5 million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

2011 - An earthquake measuring 6.3 in magnitude strikes Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 181 people

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 80’s

Marni Nixon, singer (for Audrey Hepburn, Natalie Wood & Deborah Kerr) is 82

In their 60’s

Dick Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (NY Knicks, Phoenix Suns) is 69

Tom Van Arsdale, NBA all-star (Detroit, Cincinnati, KC-Omaha, Phil) is 69

Julius Erving, ABA/NBA forward (Virg Squirers, NY Nets, Phila 76ers) is 62

In their 40’s

Vijay Singh, Lautoka Fiji, PGA golfer (1993 Buick Classic) is 49

Thomas Jane, American actor is 43

In their 30’s

Drew Barrymore, actor is 37

Remembered for being born on this day

George "Sparky" Anderson,  baseball manager (Reds, Tigers)

Robert Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides) in 1857

Frederic F Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer in 1810

Gale Gordon, LA California, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy) in 1906

Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves in 1857

Edward M "Ted" Kennedy, (Sen-D-Mass)

Sheldon Leonard, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie) in 1907

Edna St Vincent Millay, poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize) in 1892

Sean O'Faolain, [John Whelan], Ireland, writer (Murder at Cobbler's Hulk) in 1900

Oliver, rock vocalist (Good Morning Starshine, Jean)

Anthony Van Dyck, Antwerp Belgium, painter in 1599

Charles E Whittaker, US Supreme Court justice in 1901

Robert Young, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD) in 1907

Today’s Obits                                                           

Felix Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court dies at 83 in 1965

David Susskind, TV host dies of heart attack at 66 in 1987

Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), dies at 57 in 1512

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game

 1st equation: 23+3+6=4+7+21= 32

2nd equation: 2+37=5+3+24+7 = 39

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.     Chesley Sullenberger:

a.     pilot who landed plane on Hudson River

2.     Nadya Suleman:

a.     Octomom

3.     Carrie Perjean:

a.     Miss USA contestant talked about Gay Marriage

4.     Falcon Heene:

a.     balloon boy

5.     Una Lee and Laura Ling:

a.     journalists held captive in North Korea

6.      Maria Belen Chapur :

a.      Mistress from Argentina to SC governor Mark Sanford

7.      Joe Wilson:

a.      Yelled ‘You lie’ during Obama speech

8.      Bo:

a.      Obama’s dog—Portuguese Waterdog

Wuzzle

• Dual roles
• Capitalism
• Blind innocence

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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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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