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February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 38°\L 33°
Average Sky Cover: 95% Ave. humidity: 100%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts: 10mph
Ave. High: 44° Record
High: 60° (2003)
Ave. Low: 17° Record
Low: -23° (1985)
Month
long Observances In February:
Adopt A
Rescued Rabbit Month
AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month
American Heart Month
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Bake for
Family Fun Month
Barley Month
Beat The Heat Month
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Dog
Training Education Month
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February
is Fabulous Florida Strawberry Month
From Africa to Virginia Month
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Grapefruit
Month
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International
Boost Self-Esteem Month
International Expect Success Month
International Hoof-care Month
International Prenatal Infection Prevention Month
--
Jobs in
Golf Month
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Library
Lovers Month
Love The Bus Month
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Marfan
Syndrome Awareness Month
Marijuana Awareness Month
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National
African American History Month
National African American Read-In
National Bird Feeding Month
National Black History Month
National Care About Your Indoor Air Month
National Cherry Month
National Condom Month
National Children's Dental Health Month
National Haiku Writing Month
National Hot Breakfast Month
National Laugh-Friendly Month
National Mend A Broken Heart Month
National Parent Leadership Month
National Pet Dental Health Month
National Prevent A Litter Month
National Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month
National Therapeutic Recreation Month
National Time Management Month
National Weddings Month
National Women Inventors Month
North American Inclusion Month (NAIM)
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Pet
Dental Health Month
Plant the Seeds of Greatness Month
Pull Your Sofa Off The Wall Month
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Relationship
Wellness Month
Responsible Pet Owner's Month
Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month
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Spay/Neuter
Awareness Month
Spunky Old Broads Month
Sweet Potato Month
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Wise
Health Care Consumer Month
Worldwide Renaissance of the Heart Month
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Youth
Leadership Month
Observances
Today:
Car Insurance Day…Change
Your Password Day
Decorating With Candy
Day
Freedom Day
G.I. Joe Day
Hula in The Coola Day
International Face
& Body Art Day
National Girls &
Women in Sports Day
Popcorn Day
Robinson Crusoe Day
Serpent Day…Spunky
Old Broads Day…Super Bowl XLIX
Observances This
Week:
Feb 1-7
African Heritage
& Health Week
Burn Awareness Week
Boy Scout Anniversary Week
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week
International Coaching Week
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend
Women's Heart Week
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Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1810 - 1st
insurance co managed by blacks (American Insurance Co of Phila)
1834 - State of
Georgia has begun the process of seizing CHEROKEE property.
1839 - CHEROKEE Chief
John Ross, and 228 other CHEROKEEs arrive in Little Rock, en route to the
Indian Territory
1860 - 1st
rabbi to open House of Representatives, Morris Raphall of NYC
1861 - Texas secedes from the Union
1862 - Julia
Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"
1893 - Thomas
Edison completes worlds 1st movie studio (West Orange NJ)
1898 - 1st auto
insurance policy in US issued, by Travelers Insurance Co
1904 - Santa Rita Hotel
opened at midnight in downtown Tucson. The largest hotel in Arizona at the
time, the five-story Santa Rita had 200 rooms with their own baths, a roof-top
garden and a ground-floor, courtyard patio.
1906 - 1st
federal penitentiary building completed, Leavenworth, Kansas
1909 - US forces withdraw from Cuba after liberal Jose
Miguel Gomez becomes president
1917 - By Executive
Order, PAPAGO Indian Reservation in established in AZ
1920 - 1st
commercial armored car introduced (St Paul Minn)
1935 - 1st
"March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
1951 - 1st telecast of atomic explosion
1953 - "You Are
There" with Walter Cronkite premieres on CBS television
1958 - 1st US
satellite (Explorer I) launched
1960 - 4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at
Greensboro NC Woolworth
1965 - Martin Luther
King Jr. & 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma Ala
1972 - 1st
scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1978 - Harriet
Tubman is 1st black woman honored on a US postage stamp
1982 - "Late
Night With David Letterman" debuts on NBC-TV
2003 - Space
Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere,
killing all seven astronauts aboard.
2004 - Janet
Jackson's breast is exposed during the half-time show of Super Bowl
Today’s
Events through History
1587 - Queen
Elizabeth I signs death warrant for Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots
1669 - French
King Louis XIV limits freedom of religion
1884 - 1st
volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant, published
1920 - Royal Canadian Mounted Police forms as Royal
Northwest Mounted Police merge with Dominion Police
1948 - Federation
of Malaysia forms from 9 sultanates
1958 - Egypt & Syria announce plans to merge
into United Arab Republic
1972 - Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal
charter
1991 - President F W de Klerk, says he would repeal
all apartheid laws
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Holy Moly…the first month of 2015 is over…and I am still occasionally
still writing 2014 on papers.
A little upset as my Roku stick isn’t working, but I’ll figure it
out…eventually. That means no Netflix today. Guess that’s good, as I got some
extra cleaning done throughout the day.
It is still basically overcast and raining, or as they say in
Oregon, it is misting. All this moisture is sure good for our forest. I would
prefer snow at this time of year, but will settle with rain…it is certainly better
than nothing. Mary texted me this morning and said that she drove to Phoenix
yesterday afternoon and had the windshield wipers on the entire way. Cheryl
called and Williams is just like Flag. In AZ, this is news. Wetter states, not
so much.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
You
mix and disrupt me,
But it makes me stronger.
You just ignore me,
But I get harder the longer.
To cap it off,
It's surprising to see,
You end up walking
All over me.
What am I?
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Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Easter
Eggs…check it out…
--Searching for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, gay
marriage, LGBT, LGBTQ, PFLAG, or GLAAD in Google Search will turn the search
input field’s borders rainbow colored, which is the LGBT campaigns’ theme,
presumably showing support for the communities.
Eye
Facts…
--Sectoral heterochromia is an eye condition where one part of the
iris appears different to the rest. It's generally a result of excessive
pigment.
--There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to
see colors the way everyone else does.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
--25 YEARS AGO The new
Walgreens on Cedar opened on Tuesday. They’re offering groceries as well as
drugs. The new Safeway joins them this Sunday.
Harper’s
Index…
46
--Percentage increase in requests by world governments for Twitter
user data since the beginning on 2014
Rules of
Thumb…
BATHTUB
TOYS
--Bathtub toys from Singapore generally
last longer than those from Taiwan.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
--The medical term stroke comes from the 16th century,
when a person suffering a cerebral hemorrhage was thought to have been hit by
"the stroke of God's hand."
Valentine’s
Facts…
--Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After
Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
--In Finland, Valentine's Day is called "Ystävänpäivä"
which translates into "Friend's day".
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Joke-of-the-day
Adam and Eve had an ideal marriage. He didn’t
have to hear about all the men she could have married, and she didn’t have to
hear about the way his mother cooked.
Yep, It
Really Happened
HOUSTON
(UPI)
UPS officials said they have fired a seasonal driver recorded by
Houston security cameras throwing packages over a fence and urinating on the
home. Ben Lucas said he checked his surveillance cameras after arriving home
Jan. 8 to find his packages -- .22 caliber ammunition, chemicals and a machine
for cleaning gun parts -- were on the inside of his locked fence and appeared
to have been damaged. Lucas said the video, which he later posted to YouTube,
showed the UPS driver throw the packages over the locked fence before unzipping
the fly of his pants and urinating on his home. "So basically I paid
someone to come to my house and pee on it," Lucas told KPRC-TV. Lucas said
he posted the video to UPS' Facebook page when officials seemed unwilling to
watch it or give him an apology. He said the move led to a phone call from a
UPS supervisor. "She was apologetic and wants to send me a 'we're sorry'
gift," he told KHOU-TV. "That's what I kind of wanted. I just wanted
someone to say, 'yeah he shouldn't have done that we'll try to make sure that
doesn't happen again,'" Lucas said. UPS issued a statement saying the
driver, a seasonal employee, was fired. "UPS was dismayed by actions that
violated decency and delivery care. The local management team did take action
to terminate the individual who was a seasonal delivery helper. However, they
were wrong if they did not clarify this resolution with Mr. Lucas at the time.
UPS sincerely apologizes to our customer. No behavior like this is
acceptable."
Somewhat
Useless Information
--Cheddar,
England, a village in the southwestern county of Somerset, is home to the
famous geological site Cheddar Gorge. Beginning in the 16th century, visitors
to Cheddar Gorge tasted cheese at local inns and started taking home
"cheese from cheddar."
--Cheddar is so important to the English palate that during World War II, it
was illegal to commercially produce any other variety of cheese in England.
--Cheddar cheese is naturally white or pale yellow. These days, much of it is
dyed orange with seeds from the annatto plant, and early cheese makers used
carrot juice and marigold petals.
--"American" cheese is a young, pasteurized cheddar that undergoes
additional processing to become the easy-to-melt variety.
--According to historians, President Andrew Jackson once served a 1,400-pound
block of cheddar at a White House party.
--"Squeaky curds" refers to fresh young cheddar in its natural shape,
before it's pressed into a block and aged. Fresh curds are considered a
delicacy - and they actually make a squeaking sound when you eat them.
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Birthday’s
Today
Billy
Mumy, California, actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space) is 61
Lisa
Marie Presley Keough Jackson, daughter of Elvis is 47
Pauly
Shore, comedian (Encino Man) is 47
Brian
Krause, actor (Charmed) is 46
Harry
Styles, British pop singer (One Direction) is 21
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Remembered
for being born today
Muriel
Spark, Edinburgh, novelist (Prime of Miss Jean Brodie) 1918-2006@88
John Ford,
director (Stagecoach) 1894-1973@79
Boris
Yeltsin, Ural Mts USSR, president of Russian SSR 1931-2007@76
Sherman
Hemsley, actor (Jeffersons), 1938-2012@74
Victor
Herbert, Dublin, composer (Babes in Toyland) 1859-1924@65
Langston
Hughes, poet (Weary Blues) and playwright (Mulatto) 1902-1967@65
Clark
Gable, actor (Gone With the Wind) 1901-1960@59
Rick
James (James Ambrose Johnson Jr), funk musician 1948-2004@56
Brandon
Lee, Emerson Colo, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo) 1965-1993@28
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Historical
Obits Today
• • • • •
Michael
P. Anderson - crew Space Shuttle Columbia disaster @43
David Brown - crew Space Shuttle
Columbia disaster @46
Kalpana
Chawla - crew Space Shuttle Columbia disaster @40
Laurel Clark - crew Space Shuttle
Columbia disaster @41
Rick D. Husband - crew Space Shuttle
Columbia disaster @45
Willie McCool - crew Space Shuttle
Columbia disaster @41
Ilan Ramon - crew Space Shuttle
Columbia disaster @48
• • • • •
Ed Koch,
American congressman\NYC Mayor, 2013, @88
George
Cruikshank, English illustrator (Grimm), 1878, @85
Hedda
Hopper, [Elda Furry], gossip columnist, 1966, @80
James G
MacDonald, cartoon voice (Mickey Mouse), 1991, @84
Mongo
Santamaria, Cuban percussionist and band leader, 2003, @80
Jack
Bailey, TV host (Queen for a Day), 1980, @72
Piet
Mondrian, abstract painter (Composition in Blue), pneumonia, 1944, @71
Joseph Francis Buster
Keaton, comic (General), cancer, 1966, @70
Mary
Shelley, novelist (Frankenstein), tumor, 1581, @ 53
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Brain Teasers Answers
Don't worry too much
Or my feelings lament
For in fact what I am,
Is simply cement.
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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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
