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Almanac: Week: 06 \ Day: 037
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 64°\L 25°
Average Sky Cover: 2% Ave. humidity: 18%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 15mph
Ave. High: 45° Record
High: 65° (1963)
Ave. Low: 18° Record
Low: -21° (1899)
Observances
Today:
Bubble
Gum Day
Canadian
Maple Syrup Day
Cordova
Ice Worm Day
Girl
Scout Cookie Day
Give
Kids A Smile Day
International
Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation
Lame
Duck Day
National
Doodle Day
Wear
Red Day
Working
Naked 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
1693 - Royal
charter granted College of William & Mary,
Williamsburg, Va
1778
- France recognizes USA, signs Treaty of Alliance in Paris; 1st US treaty
1788 - Massachusetts
becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
1815 - NJ
issues 1st US railroad charter (John Stevens)
1843 - The
first minstrel show in US- Bowery Amphitheatre in New York City
1869 - Harper's
Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
1891 - 1st
great train robbery by Dalton Gang (Southern Pacific #17)
1899 - Henry
Fountain Ashurst, youngest member of the Territorial Legislature of Arizona and
Speaker of the House, introduced House Bill 41 which created the Northern
Arizona Normal School, now Northern Arizona University
1911 - 1st
old-age home opened in Prescott, Arizona
1935 - "Monopoly"
board game goes on sale for 1st time
1971 - 1st
time a golf ball is hit on Moon (by Alan Shepard)
2014 - Jay
Leno ends his time on The Tonight Show
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Today’s World
Events through History
1685 - Duke
of York becomes King James II of England and VII of Scotland
1832 - 1st
appearance of cholera in Edinburgh, Scotland
1911
- Great fire destroys downtown Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)
1918 - Britain
grants women (30 & over) vote
1932 - 1st
Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY (demonstration sport)
1936 - 4th
Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1952 - Queen Elizabeth
II succeeds King George VI to the British throne
1968 - 10th
Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France
1971
- The Irish Republican Army shoots and kills Gunner Robert Curtis, 1st
British soldier to die during the 'Troubles'
1992
- The Sámi people of the far northern Nordic countries have an official
day celebrating their existence
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice lunch with Mary and Cheryl. Mary ‘forgot’ until we called.
She was a little late. Good conversation and good food at Wildflower Bread Co. Stopped
at Whole Foods, Eddie Bauer, and REI as they were nearby. Whole Foods is OK,
but Sprouts is better in selection and prices. Eddie Bauer left the mall and
opened at the new place. Not as much selection and I won’t be going back again.
Jordan is now saying that the ISIS defeat is now a world war,
since the killing of American, Japanese, and Jordanian hostages. All Muslim
countries are now saying that ISIS is not part of Islam. The burning of the
Jordanian pilot was the last straw. Burning of a human is the worst thing that
can happen in Islam.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
You
are given five words and five definitions. Each of the words can be anagrammed
into a two word phrase that fits one of the definitions. Your task is to assign
each definition to its corresponding word.
Example - cobalt: to hit a feline in a high arc (cat lob)
Words: chameleon, medium, physical, president, tungsten
Definitions:
a boat constructed of thick mud-like soil
a cozy canvas shelter
a device for trapping tarantulas
a not too bright bird
a tidy house
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country
Facts…
-- The water between India and Sri Lanka is only 3-30 feet deep and
was purportedly passable on foot until 1480 AD when a cyclone moved some sand
around.
--Brazil has their own version of Miss America. Miss Bumbum Brazil
pageant is an annual competition for the best butt in the country.
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
--If you use Google fairly often, you may notice that the main
logo changes from time to time, often on holidays and the like.
--Over the years, these "Google Doodles," as they are
called, have gotten more ambitious. And with the company's growth around the
world, they've broadened and spread.
Eye
Facts…
-- Poor eyesight (myopia) is associated with higher IQ.
--Shark corneas are used in eye transplants and shark bone marrow
can be used to graft human bones.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 years
ago
The Mt. Elden CCC has constructed a fine group of red rock stone
buildings at the Walnut Canyon Museum that harmonize with the surrounding
natural scenery. Six miles of city water line were laid to supply water.
Harper’s
Index…
30
Portion of former NFL players expected to get dementia, according
to a report prepared for the league
Rules of
Thumb…
SPREADING
MANURE
A rule of thumb for spreading manure is
5 pounds per square yard - a shovelful here and there to the imprecise. You
generally use less poultry manure per square yard - a handful rather than a
shovelful - because it is much higher in nitrogen than other live-stock manure.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
George S. Patton, the man who helped drive the Nazis out of North
Africa and liberate Sicily during World War II, believed he’d fought in North
Africa and Sicily centuries before. A staunch believer in reincarnation, Patton
claimed to have fought during the Punic Wars as both a Roman legionnaire and as
the Carthaginian general Hannibal.
Valentine’s
Facts…
-- In 1537, England's King Henry VII officially declared February
14th the holiday of St. Valentine's Day.
--Boxing Day is called boxing day because it was the day the
family opened a gift box for the poor.
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Joke-of-the-day
They were amazed by almost everything they
saw, but especially by two shiny, silver walls that could move apart and then
slide back together again.
The boy asked, "What is this, Father?"
The father (never having seen an elevator)
responded, "Son, I have never seen anything like this in my life, I don't
know what it is."
While the boy and his father were watching with amazement, a fat old lady in a
wheel chair moved up to the moving walls and pressed a button.
The walls opened, and the lady rolled between them into a small room. The walls
closed and the boy and his father watched the small numbers above the walls
light up sequentially. They continued to watch until it reached the last
number, and then the numbers began to light in the reverse order.
Finally the walls opened up again and a gorgeous 24-year-old blonde stepped
out. The father, not taking his eyes off the young woman, said quietly to his
son.....
"Go get your Mother."
Yep, It
Really Happened
ALBUQUERQUE
(UPI)
Police in New Mexico said they arrested a woman who dialed the
wrong number and offered to sell drugs to the wrong person -- a police
detective. Albuquerque police said Renea Lucero, 30, apparently dialed the
wrong number Wednesday afternoon when she called a police detective and asked
if he was interested in buying any cocaine or heroin. The detective, who was
familiar with Lucero from a previous case, arranged to meet Lucero at a
location in the city to purchase drugs. Police said the detective called for
backup, and officers met with Lucero, who was observed removing heroin from her
bra and handing it off to Luciano Navarro, her driver. Navarro sold the heroin
to the undercover detective for $30, police said. Lucero, Navarro and another
woman who was in the car were arrested, police said. Lucero allegedly admitted
to officers that she had accidentally called the detective, thinking it was the
phone number of her boyfriend's friend. She said she was trying to raise gas
money for a trip to Los Lunas. Jail records show Lucero was released from
custody Thursday.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Germans
started asking the groundhog about spring as an excuse to drink, eat and be
merry. The Pennsylvania Dutch are actually from Germany, aka Deutschland. The
first celebrants of Groundhog Day were Pennsylvania Dutch who used the holiday
as an excuse to get together and party. Feb. 2 is almost exactly halfway
through winter, so what better time to gather together with your friends and
neighbors to eat some good food, drink some good drink, and look ahead to the
coming spring?
***
In
the 1880s some friends in Punxsutawney, Penn., went into the woods on Candlemas
Day to look for groundhogs. This outing became a tradition, and a local
newspaper editor nicknamed the seekers "the Punxsutawney Groundhog
Club." Starting in 1887 the search became an official event centered on a
groundhog called Punxsutawney Phil. A ceremony still takes place every year.
Phil's official title is: Punxsutawney Phil, Seer of Seers, Sage of Sages,
Prognosticator of Prognosticators and Weather Prophet Extraordinary. Phil was
given that name by Freas, the newspaper editor, in 1886 in a series of
announcements in his newspaper, The Punxsutawney Spirit.
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Birthday’s
Today
Zsa Zsa
Gabor, [Zsa Sari], Budapest, actress is 98
Rip Torn, actor (Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof) is 84
Mamie Van
Doren, American actress is 84
Mike
Farrell, actor (BJ Honeycutt-M*A*S*H) is 76
Tom Brokaw, news
anchor (NBC Nightly News) is 75
Fabian [Fabiano
Anthony Forte], vocalist (Turn Me Loose) is 73
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Remembered
for being born today
Aaron
Burr, Newark NJ, (D-R), 3rd US VP, dueler, 1756-1836@80
J.E.B.
Stuart [James Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart], Confederate
General 1833-1864@31
Louis
Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (Murder, Inc.) 1897-1944@47
Ronald
Reagan, actor\40th US President 1911-2004@93
Eva Braun,
mistress (Adolf Hitler) 1912-1945@33
Mary
Nicol Leakey, palaeontologist 1913-1996@83
Bob [Robert
Nesta] Marley, Jamaican reggae 1945-1981@36
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Historical
Obits Today
Frankie
Laine, American singer, 2007, @93
Peter
Breck, American actor, 2012, @82
Danny
Thomas, comedian (Jazz Singer), heart attack, 1991, @79
Jack
Kirby, cartoonist (X-Men, Spiderman, Hulk), heart failure, 1994, @76
Guy
Madison, actor (Wild Bill Hickok), emphysema, 1996, @74
George VI, King of Britain
(1936-52), heart attack, 1952, @56
Hugo
Montenegro, American film music composer emphysema, 1981, @56
Carl
Wilson, vocalist\guitarist (Beach Boys), lung cancer, 1998, @51
Arthur
Ashe, tennis star (Wimbledon 1975), AIDS, 1993, @49
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Brain Teasers Answers
chameleon: a tidy house (clean home)
medium: a not too bright bird (dim emu)
physical: a boat constructed of thick mud-like soil (clay ship)
president: a device for trapping tarantulas (spider net)
tungsten: a cozy canvas shelter (snug tent)
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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…§
