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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1789 - Chinese troops driven
out of Vietnam capital Thang Long
1814 - Lord Byron's
"Corsair" sells 10,000 copies on day of publication
1884 - 1st volume of the
Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
1949 - RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion
1978 - Harriet Tubman is 1st
black woman honored on a US postage stamp
1985 - -61°F (-52°C),
Maybell, Colorado (state record)
♪Happy Birthday To: ♪
Returns tomorrow
Free Rambling
Thoughts
I became a real
home-fix-it person today. Went to Home Depot and got a new shower handle and
installed it, then got the materials for a new headboard cover for my bed. I
have several nice Star Quilts from the Lakota that I have no way to display. My
plan is to use them as a headboard and footboard to my bed. Sure hope it comes
out like I hope. No damage to the quilts, using safety pins to place hold them
around some ½” PVC pipe. I saw a similar project on one of those DIY shows. We’ll
see. The headboard will show the entire ‘star’ while the footboard will show
half the ‘star’. Then I found some Command strips that will hold my really cool
world map on the wall in my travel room. When you rent, you gotta find a way. I
know the maintenance guy could have fixed the shower handle, but it was so easy
I just did it.
I heard something
interesting today on CNN. The Republicans will nominate somebody and the party
will join and back the candidate…no matter who it is. The Dems will back Obama.
The vote will be determined by the 5-6% of independents. It’s probably true…so
let’s get to the vote. I’m really tired of all this nasty politics and the
millions that are being spent as our country is trying to recover. As the Super
Pacs spend that millions on their candidate…somebody is getting the money…TV
stations, radio stations, newspapers, billboard owners, restaurants and
caterers that feed all these politicians. Why isn’t that helping the economy with
$$$ and jobs? I’m sure none of the Super Pac workers are not working for
peanuts—even though they are Republicans.
Game Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Game
NPR Sunday
Puzzle
You
are given clues for two words. Add an "L" at the end of the first
word and you'll get the second one. For example, given "a fruit and a gem
from an oyster," the answer would be "pear" and
"pearl."
1. Arrived; desert animal:
2. Comfort; support for a painting:
3.
Some
air pollution; eye color:
4.
Part
of a church; part of a stomach:
5.
Front
of a ship; walk like a cat:
6.
Covered
with ivy; old records (45’s):
7.
Stick
um; a soft shade:
8.
To
push roughly; garden tool:
9.
Telegraph
inventor; a bit of food:
10. To take a car out on the road;
worthless talk:
11. Square to land on in Monopoly; where
the choir and alter are:
12. Actor Mason: sheriff in the old west:
Wuzzles What concept or phrase do these suggest?
Lifestyle Substance
AZ
Centennial – Feb 14: Did you know?…
A person from Arizona is called an Arizonan.Phoenix originated in 1866 as a hay camp to supply Camp McDowell
New: Daffynitions: :-)
ESOTERIC — A word known only by esoteric people
FLASHLIGHT — A case for holding dead batteries
Found on You
Tube
Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
Harper’s
Index
- Chances that an American fast food customer used posted calorie information to make food-buying choice: 1 in 6
- Number of US states in which less than 20% of adults are obese: 0
Joke-of-the-day
An attorney, anxious to
impress the judge with the detail, asked the following line of questions of a
doctor who had recently performed an autopsy.
Q: Doctor, before you performed the autopsy,
did you check for a pulse?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for blood pressure?
A: No.
Q: Did you check for breathing?
A: No.
Q: So, then it is possible that the patient
was alive when you began the autopsy?
A: No.
Q: How can you be so sure, Doctor?
A: Because his brain was sitting on my desk in
a jar.
Q: But could the patient have still been
alive, nevertheless?
A: Yes, it is possible that he could have been
alive and practicing law somewhere.
Planet Earth
Rules of
Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
To find out how many lights your Christmas tree needs, multiply the tree height times the tree width times three.
Somewhat
Useless Information
- Clara Peller, the elderly actress who first voiced the infamous Wendy's slogan "Where's the Beef?", was later fired after cutting a commercial for spaghetti sauce where she answers her famous question by saying, "I found it."
- Beefaroni contains vitamin A and no other vitamins.
- Selfridges, the renowned London department store, is said to offer the world's most expensive sandwich which cost approximately $130. The ingredients are Wagyu beef, fresh lobe foie gras, black truffle mayonnaise, brie de meaux, red pepper, and mustard confit and English plum tomatoes.
- Beefalo, also known as catalo or cattalo, is a hybrid beef animal, bred by crossing the domestic Pulled Angus with the American Bison. Texan Charles Goodnight developed the beefalo in the mid-19th century as he preferred bison meat to beef and, with this hybrid, sought to combine the flavor of the bison with the Angus' resistance to certain diseases and pests.
- Kobe beef is an exclusive beef from the black Tajima-ushi breed of Wagyu cattle, raised according to strict tradition in Japan.
- Acclaimed self-taught chef Fergus Henderson of St. John restaurant in London has been lauded for his "nose-to-tail" style of cooking. The menus at St John offers dishes using the most unusual parts - heart, kidneys, brain, and bone marrow - to create exceptional dishes.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
Harare, Zimbabwe - Troops of bag-snatching, truck-looting baboons are causing chaos at a border post between Zimbabwe and Zambia in daily raids for food, News Day reported on Tuesday."Baboons are an issue that must be dealt with here because they destroy travellers’ goods," the Zimbabwe Revenue Authority station manager at the Chirundu border post, Tichaona Phiri, told the newspaper."Sometimes they bite or clap people on their faces if they try to defend their property and they can snatch ladies' handbags and even destroy cars as they search for food."The apes also tear up sacks of maize on trucks moving through the border, a committee of lawmakers was told during a visit to the site, located in a national park."These baboons can smell maize on trucks and considering their huge numbers, it is very difficult to control them," the newspaper quoted Phiri as saying."But the problem is that they behave like human beings and are very good tricksters," said Phiri.
Calendar Information
…Happening
this month:
…Happening
This Week:
20-30
Sundance Film Festival
1-5
Catholic Schools Week
Meat WeekIntimate Apparel WeekNational Cowboy Poetry Gathering WeekInternational Hoof Care Week
1-7
International Snow Sculpting WeekSolo Diners Eat Out Weekend Women's Heart Week
Today Is
African-American Coaches DayCar Insurance Day
Freedom Day
G.I. Joe Day
Hula in The Coola Day
National Girls & Women in Sports Day
Robinson Crusoe Day
Spunky Old Broads Day
Working Naked Day
1500’s
1587 - English queen
Elizabeth I signs Mary Stuarts death sentence
1700’s
1709 - Alexander Selkirk
[Robinson Crusoe] rescued from Juan Fernandez
1788 - 1st US steamboat
patent issued, by Georgia to Briggs & Longstreet
1790 - Supreme Court
convenes for 1st time (NYC)
1800’s
1810 - 1st insurance co
managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
1861 - Texas becomes 7th state to secede
1865 - 13th amendment
approved (National Freedom Day)
1898 - 1st auto insurance
policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co
1900’s
1920 - 1st commercial
armored car introduced (St Paul Minn)
1951 - -50°F (-46°C),
Gavilan, New Mexico (state record)
1953 - "You Are There" with Walter
Cronkite premieres on CBS television
1958 - 1st US satellite (Explorer
I) launched
1959 - Texas Instruments requests patent of IC
(Integrated Circuit)
1960 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at
Greensboro NC Woolworth
1964 - Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand,"
1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr & 700
demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
1965 - Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's
nightly news
1972 - Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal
charter granted by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia
1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini returns to Iran after 15 yrs in exile
1979 - Patricia Hearst is released from a SF prison
for bank robbery
1987 - 163 day strike
against Deere & Co ends, workers accept wage freeze
2000’s
2003 - Space Shuttle
Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all
seven astronauts aboard
2005 - Canada introduces the Civil Marriage Act,
making Canada the fourth country to sanction same-sex marriage
2009 - Jóhanna
Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female Prime Minister of Iceland,
becoming the first openly gay Head of State in the modern world
Today’s
Birthdays
In their 70’s
Don Everly, vocalist (Everly Bros-Wake
Up Little Susie) is 75
Sherman Hemsley, actor (All in the
Family, Jeffersons, Amen) is 74
In their 50’s
Anthony LaPlagia, actor (Criminal
Justice, Betsy's Wedding) is 53
In their 40’s
Laura E Dern, actress (Blue Velvet,
Mask, Smooth Talk) is 45
Michael C. Hall, actor is 41
Brian Krause , actor is 40
Pauly Shore, actor is 44
Remembered for being born on this day
Thomas Cole, US, romantic
landscape painter (Hudson River School) in 1801
John Ford, Maine, director
(Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man) in 1895
Mother Ignacia del Espiritu Santo,
foundress of order in Philippines in 1663
Brandon Lee, Emerson Colo, actor
(Showdown in Little Tokyo)
Today’s
Obits
Rene Descartes, philosopher "I
think therefore I am" dies of pneumonia at 53 in 1650
Buster Keaton, [Joseph Francis], US
comic (General), dies of lung cancer at 69 in 1966
May O'Donnell, American modern dancer
and choreographer dies at 95 in 2004
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, novelist
(Frankenstein), dies of brain tumor at 53 in 1851
Answers
Brain Game
Numbers 1 and 8 are identical
NPR Sunday
Puzzle
1. Arrived; desert animal: came, camel
2. Comfort; support for a painting: ease, easel
3.
Some
air pollution; eye color: haze; hazel
4.
Part
of a church; part of a stomach: nave;
navel
5.
Front
of a ship; walk like a cat: prow; prowl
6.
Covered
with ivy; old records (45’s): viny; vinyl
7.
Stick
um; a soft shade: paste; pastel
8.
To
push roughly; garden tool: shove; shovel
9.
Telegraph
inventor; a bit of food: Morse; morsel
10. To take a car out on the road;
worthless talk: drive; drivel
11. Square to land on in Monopoly; where
the choir and alter are: chance; chancel
12. Actor Mason: sheriff in the old west: Marsha; marshal
Wuzzle
- Big Deal
- Cornerstone
- One after another
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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