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Almanac: Week: 06 \ Day: 036
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 60°\L 31°
Average Sky Cover: 8% Ave. humidity: 55%
Wind ave: 11mph\Gusts: 25mph
Ave. High: 44° Record
High: 64° (1963)
Ave. Low: 18° Record
Low: -21° (1985)
Observances
Today:
Adlai Stevenson Day
Disaster Day
Move Hollywood & Broadway to Lebanon to Pennsylvania
Day
Weatherman's [Weatherperson's] Day
Western Monarch Day
World Nutella 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
1644 - 1st
US livestock branding law passed, by Connecticut
1736 - Methodists
John & Charles Wesley arrive in Savannah, Georgia
1777 - Georgia
becomes 1st US state to abolish both entail & primogeniture
1817 - 1st
US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights)
1870 - 1st
motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia
1881 - Phoenix,
Az incorporates
1901 - Loop-the-loop
centrifugal RR (roller coaster) patented by Ed Prescot
1901 - Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp
1904 - American
occupation of Cuba ends
1917
- Last American troops commanded by General Pershing leave Mexico
1917 -
Arizona Red Cross Chapters were told to prepare for war efforts
1922 - Reader's
Digest magazine 1st published
1937 - 1st Charlie
Chaplin talkie, "Modern Times," released
1948 - Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating
Olympic champion
1948 - Gretchen Fraser becomes 1st US woman Olympic
slalom champion
1967 - "Smothers
Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS
1971 - Apollo
14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition, lands Shepard, Mitchell walk on Moon for 4 hrs
1973 - Comic
strip "Hagar The Horrible" debuted
1988 - Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach Gov.
Evan Mecham
Today’s World
Events through History
1887 - Giuseppe
Verdi's opera "Otello" premieres at La Scala in Italy
1956 - 7th
Winter Olympic games close at Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
1958 - Gamel Abdel Nasser nominated 1st president
of United Arab Republic
1981 - Largest Jell-O made (9,246 gallons of
watermelon-flavor) in Brisbane
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My Rambling
Thoughts
Off to the dentist early this morning for crown work. The crown is
in the back of my mouth on top. For some reason, the dentist decided to
waterboard me throughout all the drilling. Never swallowed so much water in a
dentist chair. He even joked when he finished that the waterboarding had ended.
Told him that was my thought during the procedure. On top of that he had to put
one of those dams in my mouth so the mouth would stay fully open. Then his assistant
had to make 3 different temporaries. The first one broke, the second one was
too thin, and finally the third one worked. My mouth and jaw are a little sore…more
from the dam holding my mouth really open than the rest of the stuff. I’ll
survive and live another day.
Such a really nice spring day at the beginning of February. Can’t
believe this weather as I see what others are going through. Guess this weather
is helping continue that all of AZ is warm to hot. As I keep saying…I am at 7000 feet and this is
really unusual.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
--Our
usage dates back a long, long way. While among the first tools, our prototypes
were bone and plant. Today we are usually made of steel.
--We are related by design but not purposes, though sometimes we work well
together, especially in the holding business.
--We have relatives of different shapes and sizes. A hollow one is a real
sticker and our Chinese cousins can be all over you.
--In Great Britain we are a popular name for a pricking or tingling sensation,
and to be on us in the U.S. is to be in a state of excessive uneasiness.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country
Facts…
-- More books are written, published and sold per person per year in
Iceland than anywhere else on the planet. One in ten Icelanders will become a
published author in their lifetime.
--The Pirate Bay tried buying their own island in hopes of making
their own country with no copyright laws.
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
This one's strictly for techies in the know with a warped sense of
humor. You know that Bing is the search engine from Microsoft, Google's
longtime rival. Bing's user base is much smaller than Google's, and a lot of
that is due to Microsoft's pricey marketing campaigns. Click here to see
an interesting page http://gnib.org/
Eye
Facts…
--Those things you see in your eyes when you stare into space are
called Mouches Voltanes, which are also broadly referenced to as Floaters.
--Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 years
ago-in December
Christmas trees are on sale beginning next Monday at the Knob Hill
Ranger Station. Roland Rotty of the Forest Service.
Harper’s
Index…
5200
Estimated number of Puerto-Ri8cans who retire to the mainland US
each year
Rules of
Thumb…
LOSING
YOUR MONEY
You should drop out of a poker game when
you have lost more than 20 times the maximum bet allowed in the game.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
When table tennis was originally created in 1889, it was called
gossima.
Valentine’s
Facts…
-- Two in five people in the world marry their first love.
--Parents receive 1 out of every 5 Valentines.
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Joke-of-the-day
A new business was opening, and one of the
owner’s friends sent flowers for the occasion. But when the owner read the card
with the flowers, it said. “Rest in Peace”
The owner was little upset and called the florist to complain. After he had
told the florist about the obvious mistake, the florist said, “Sir, I’m really
sorry for the mistake, but rather than getting angry, you should imagine this:
Somewhere there is a funeral taking place today, and they have flowers with a
note saying, “Congratulations on your new location.”
Yep, It
Really Happened
KERMIT,
Texas (UPI)
A Texan boy's fascination with The Hobbit has gotten him in
trouble with school officials. Jason Steward, of Kermit, Texas, said it's
"unbelievable" that his 9-year-old son was suspended from school for
threatening to make another student disappear. Steward's son, Aiden, recently
brought a ring to Kermit Elementary School after seeing The Hobbit: The Battle
of Five Armies, in which Bilbo Baggins carries a magic invisibility ring. Jason
told the Odessa American that the school suspended Aiden when he said he could
make a classmate invisible with the ring. "I assure you my son lacks the
magical powers necessary to threaten his friend's existence," Jason told
the school in an email. "If he did, I'm sure he'd bring him right
back." Kermit Elementary School Principal Roxanne Greer said she could not
discuss the incident because student affairs are "confidential."
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
Henry 'Hank' Aaron, baseball
player (record 755 HRs, 1957 NL MVP) is 81
Roger
Staubach, NFL quarterback (Dallas Cowboys) is 73
Christopher
Guest, actor (SNL) is 67
Jane
Geddes, American LPGA golfer (1987 Women's Kemper Open) is 55
Bobby
Brown, US singer-songwriter is 46
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Remembered
for being born today
Robert "Bobbie" Peel,
British PM /founder (Bobbies) 1788-1850@62
Belle
Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], US female outlaw 1848-1889@40
Elizabeth
Ryan, doubles tennis champ (6 time Wimbled) 1892-1979@87
Adlai E
Stevenson II, (Gov-D-Ill), pres candidate 1900-1965@65
John
Carradine, actor (Grapes of Wrath) 1906-1988@82
Red
Buttons, [Aaron Chwatt], Bronx comedian/actor 1919-2006@87
Stephen J
Cannell, producer (Rockford Files) 1941-2010@69
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Historical
Obits Today
Maharishi
Mahesh Yogi, guru, founder of Transcendental Meditation 2008, @90
Dean
Jagger, actor (Mr Novak), 1991, @87
Thomas
Carlyle, historian/essayist, 1881, @85
Banjo
Paterson, Australian poet, "Walzing Matilda", heart attack,
1941, @76
Thelma
Ritter, actress (All About Eve) heart attack, 1969@66
Ella
Grasso, Governor of Connecticut, 1981, @61
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Brain Teasers Answers
Pins and Needles.
Notes:
A hollow one: a syringe needle is hollow.
Chinese cousins: acupuncture needles can be all over you.
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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…§
