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Almanac: Week: 06 \ Day: 034
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 59°\L 25°
Average Sky Cover: 22% Ave. humidity: 35%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 27mph
Ave. High: 44° Record
High: 64° (1953)
Ave. Low: 18° Record
Low: -16° (1955)
Observances
Today:
Independence Day: Sri Lanka (Ceylon) 1948-from UK
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Create A Vacuum Day
Digital Learning Day
Facebook's Birthday
Liberace Day
‘Medjoola Date’ Day—eat
one
National Signing Day
Thank a Mailman Day
USO Day
World Cancer Day
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
Feb 2-8
National School Counseling
Week
International Networking Week
Publicity for Profit Week
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Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1846 - Mormons leave Nauvoo, Illinois, for settlement in
the west
1849 - University of Wisconsin begins in 1 room with 20
students
1913 - National
Institute of Arts & Letters founded
1932 - 3rd Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
1932 - Gordon Sawyer, vice-president of the Southern Arizona Bank
in Tucson, was kidnapped. The bank offered $5,000 reward for the arrest and
conviction of the abductor
1938 - "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder opens on
Broadway
1938 - Disney's
"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" is officially released
1939 - Glenn Cunningham (top miler) says 4-min mile
beyond human effort
1941 - United
Service Organization (USO) founded
1957 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale
(Syracuse NY)
1977 - Fleetwood
Mac's "Rumours" released
1987 - US President Reagan's veto of Clean Water
Act is overridden by Congress 1997 - US
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announces she just discovered that her
grandparents were Jewish
1998 - Bill Gates gets a pie thrown in his face in
Brussels, Belgium
Today’s World
Events through History
1194 - 100,000 ransom is paid for Richard I, King
of England
1783 - Worst quake in 8 years kills some 50,000
(Calabria, Italy)
1797 - Earthquake in Quito, Ecuador kills 41,000
1859 - The Codex Sinaiticus is discovered in Egypt
1924 - 1st Winter Olympic games close at Chamonix,
France
1945 - Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin meet
at Yalta discuss final phase of the war
1962 - Russian
newspaper Izvestia reports baseball is an old Russian game
1968 - Around 100
Indians and Pakistanis from Kenya arrive in Britain, escaping discrimination
1974 - Provisional
Irish Republican Army bomb explodes on a bus in West Yorkshire, England,
carrying British Army soldiers and some of their family members
1976 - 12th Winter Olympic games opens in Innsbruck,
Austria
2003 - The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is officially
renamed Serbia and Montenegro and adopts a new constitution
2013 - Europol
announces it will investigate over 680 football matches alleged to involve
match fixing
2014 - Same-sex marriage is legalized in Scotland
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My Rambling
Thoughts
Another beautiful day here in Flag. Whatever the ground hog saw
back east is certainly not effecting our weather. Great day to do some running
around.
I got a new ROKU so I can get back to Netflix. Also called ROKU
when I couldn’t hook it up and mentioned my dissatisfaction with the stick I
bought. Found out that for $19 I could get 2 years’ service on the stick. I got
it and will spend time getting it fixed in the near future so I can use it on
my office TV. Also got 2 year service on the new ROKU3 for $15 at Best Buy. The
joy and horror of modern technology.
My brother, his wife, and dog are back in Merida. So jealous.
Thankfully I talked to Laura last night and got her banana bread recipe. I had
a lot of it on my last trip and decided I could try it. The great thing about
it is that is not real bready. Hard to explain but tastes soooooo good. Just
waiting for my bananas to ripen.
From the latest news, it sure sounds like ISIS is mentally
unbalanced. Today they burned a Jordanian pilot alive while he was in a cage.
Now Jordan and Japan are demonstrating for ‘revenge’. So frightening.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Find
an anagram for each word in Group A. Each anagram will answer one of the clues
in Group B.
Group A
1. Earth
2. Rosin
3. Taxer
4. Lease
5. Darin
6. Sharp
7. Gofer
Group B
A. Surplus
B. Golf clubs
C. Blacksmith's furnace
D. Stringed instruments
E. Empty the sink
F. Valentine's Day symbol
G. Painter's stand
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country
Facts…
--Rio de Janeiro was once capital of Portugal, making it the only
European capital outside of Europe.
--A 2012 study in eastern Germany was unable to find a single
person under the age of 28 who believed in God.
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
This is another old-school tip o' the hat for video game or
mini-game fans. Type "Zerg Rush" into the Google search bar and watch
as little 'O's start dripping down from the top of the screen.
But wait, what are they doing? They're eating the search results!
Click on the 'O's - fast! - before your entire search page is eaten.
The Zerg Swarm is a type of alien from the StarCraft game that
consumes other matter in its quest for biological perfection. Much like the
Borg from Star Trek, it is hated and feared across the StarCraft universe.
Eye
Facts…
--There's a woman named Veronica Seider who had vision 20x better
than average. She could identify people more than a mile (1.6km) away.
--If the human eye was a digital camera, it would have 576
megapixels.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
Mrs. George T. Mason wants five music pupils to fill vacancies,
Friday and Saturday at 317 Railroad Avenue. Special attention paid to finish
and style. Suckling calves or poultry taken in exchange.
Harper’s
Index…
$7000
Amount the city of Fairbanks, Alaska has spent to appeal a $37.50
campaign-violation fine levied against its Mayor
Rules of
Thumb…
INVITING
GUESTS
If you invite 100 people to a cocktail
party, plan on 75 coming; 25 will send regrets.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Florence Nightingale is not only known as a founder of modern
nursing, but also as a statistician, having developed the polar area diagram.
Valentine’s
Facts…
-- Studies show that the risk of a “secret love” being revealed
heightens romantic feelings for the partners, thanks to increased levels of
phenylethylamine (PEA)
--The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated
20,160 minutes kissing!
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Joke-of-the-day
* Excuses To Use When Caught Sleeping At Work
*
1. They told me at the blood bank that this
might happen.
2. This is just a 15 minute power nap like they raved about in that time
management course you sent me to.
3. Whew! I must have left the top off the whiteout.
4. I was testing the keyboard for drool resistance.
5. This is in exchange for the six hours last night when I dreamed about work!
6. No! Why did you interrupt me? I had almost figured out a solution to our
biggest problem.
7. Someone must have put decaf in the wrong pot.
8. Boy, that cold medicine I took last night just won't wear off.
9. Geez, I thought you (the boss) were gone for the day.
10. I'm just resting my eyes.
Yep, It
Really Happened
Springfield,
Mass
The Project Theater Board at Mount Holyoke College in South
Hadley, Massachusetts, decided in January to cancel its upcoming annual
presentation of the feminist classic "Vagina Monologues." The
all-women's college recently declared it would admit males who lived and "identified"
as female (regardless of genitalia), and the basis for cancellation of
"Vagina Monologues" was that the unmodifiable script is not
"inclusive" of those females -- that it covers only experiences of
females who actually have vaginas.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--The
average groundhog is 20 inches long and normally weighs from 12 to 15 pounds.
Punxsutawney Phil weighs about 20 pounds and is 22 inches long.
--Groundhogs are covered with coarse grayish hairs (fur) tipped with brown or
sometimes dull red. They have short ears, a short tail, short legs, and are
surprisingly quick.
--A groundhog's diet consists of lots of greens, fruits, and vegetables and
very little water. Most of their liquids come from dewy leaves.
--A groundhog can whistle when it is alarmed. Groundhogs also whistle in the
spring when they begin courting.
--Insects do not bother groundhogs and germs pretty much leave them alone. They
are resistant to the plagues that periodically wipe out large numbers of wild
animals. One reason for this is their cleanliness.
--Young Groundhogs are usually born in mid-April or May, and by July they are
able to go out on their own. The size of the litter is 4 to 9. A baby groundhog
is called a kit or a cub.
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Birthday’s
Today
Isabel
Peron, [Maria Martinez], dancer/president Argentina is 83
John
Schuck, actor (McMillan & Wife) is 75
James Danforth "Dan" Quayle,
Sen-Ind, 44th Vice President) is 68
Alice
Cooper, [Vincent Furnier], rocker (School's Out) is 67
Clint
Black, country vocalist (A Better Man) is 53
Oscar De
La Hoya, US boxer (Olympic Gold 92) is 41
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Remembered
for being born today
Raymond
Dart, Australian paleoanthropologist (Australopithecus africanus) 1893-1988@95
Nigel
Bruce, Baja Mexico, actor (Dr Watson-Sherlock Holmes) 1895-1953@58
Charles A
Lindbergh, pilot (1st to fly solo across Atlantic) 1902-1974@72
Robert
Coote, actor (Timmy-Rogues), 1909-1982@73
Rosa
Parks, civil rights activist (bus protestor) 1913-2005@92
Ida
Lupino, actress (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes) 1914-1995@77
William
Talman, actor (Hamilton-Perry Mason) 1915-1968@53
Betty
Friedan, feminist writer and feminist (Feminine Mystique) 1921-2006@85
Conrad
Bain, actor (Maude, Diff'rent Strokes), 1923-2013@89
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Historical
Obits Today
Carl
Albert, 54th Speaker of the House, 2000, @91
Betty
Friedan, writer and feminist, 2006 on birthday, @85
Barbara
McNair, American singer and actress, cancer, 2007, @72
Kenneth "Jethro"
Burns, country singer (Homer & Jethro), cancer, 1989, @68
Władziu Valentino Liberace,
pianist (Liberace Show), AIDS, 1987, @67
James
Donnelly, patriarch of the "Black Donnellys", murdered 1880, @63
Robert
Blair, Scottish poet (Grave), 1746, @46
Karen
Carpenter, rock drummer (Carpenters), anorexia, 1983, @32
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Heart (F)
2. Irons (B)
3. Extra (A)
4. Easel (G)
5. Drain (E)
6. Harps (D)
7. Forge (C)
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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…§
