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Almanac: Week: 07 \ Day: 040
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 60°\L 33°
Average Sky Cover: 15% Ave. humidity: 38%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 45° Record
High: 64° (1996)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -21° (1929)
Observances
Today:
Clean Out Your Computer Day
Man Day
National Stop Bullying Day
Read in the Bathtub Day
Toothache Day
Observances This
Week:
Feb 7-14
Celebration of Love Week
Children of
Alcoholics Week
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
Dump Your Significant
Jerk Week
Freelance Writers
Appreciation Week
Jell-O Week
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week
International Hoof-Care Week
Love Makes the World
Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
National Secondhand
Wardrobe Week
Risk Awareness Week
Feb 9-15
International
Flirting Week
International Friendship Week
Love a Mensch Week
National Green Week
Random Acts of
Kindness Week
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Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1861 - Jefferson
Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of the
Confederate States of America
1889 - Department
of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a Cabinet-level agency
1895 - Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in
Massachusetts
1909 - 1st forestry school is incorporated at Kent,
Ohio
1922 - Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
1932 - USA
enters Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time
1932 - Winnie Ruth Judd was
found guilty of murder by a jury of twelve men on the first ballot taken at
Maricopa County Courthouse in Phoenix.
1942 - Daylight
Savings War Time goes into effect in US
1950 - Sen Joseph
McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
1964 - 1st
appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
Today’s World
Events through History
1526 - Spaniards are
living in the Cakchiquel (Kaqchikel) Maya town of Iximche’ in modern Guatemala.
A few decide to desert. They set a large fire as a diversion
1775 - English
Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion
1893 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Falstaff"
premieres in Milan
1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck,
Austria
1990 - Galileo flies by Venus
1996 - Irish Republican Army declares the end of
its 18 month ceasefire shortly followed by a large bomb in London's Canary
Wharf
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My Rambling
Thoughts
Saturday was such a great weather day I spent the day, or at least
most of it outside. Then when I got home, visitors stopped by…thus no blog
yesterday.
Another late night with Netflix, so doing this blog really early
for me as I will be resting later this afternoon and this evening.
For those who don’t know it yet, the latest ISIS claim of killing
is a young lady who graduated from NAU, our little mountain town. Her family is
in Prescott and is awaiting proof of her killing before planning anything. Such
a waste of a life, so hard on the family to wait.
I did catch up on my Sunday morning news and sure don’t get all
the fuss over Obama’s comments at the prayer breakfast. I have been saying that
for a long time, but then again, I am not the POTUS. All I can say to his
critics…’the truth hurts’…
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Insert
the word from group B into the empty spaces in group A.
1. Ta__ __ __ __ry
2. K__ __ __ __en
3. D__ __ __ __le
4. S__ __ __ __et
5. T__ __ __ __t
Group B
A. Herb
B. Itch
C. Able
D. Pest
E. Wind
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country
Facts…
-- In the U.S. the typical school year is 180 days long. In China,
the typical school year is 251 days.
--Singapore has the world’s highest percentage of millionaires,
with one out of every six households having at least $1,000,000 US dollars in disposable
wealth.
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Want to strum a few bars? In honor of Les Paul, Google created
this amazing interactive doodle.
Use your keyboard keys or your mouse to strum out a tune or two.
Google has a few melodies written out for you to play along, or you can just
make up your own! You can even click the record button to record a song and
Google will make you a custom link to share your jams with friends and family.
Eye
Facts…
--Most of us have microscopic, worm like mites named Demodex that
live in our eyelashes and have claws and a mouth.
--In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies,
including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 years
ago
Hot school lunches will begin to be served on Monday. The cooks
and helpers are being provided by the WPA.
Harper’s
Index…
57,644
Number of arrests made by NYC police officers since 2004 in which
the top charge was resisting arrest
Rules of
Thumb…
THE BEST
MOMENT TO SWAT A FLY
Wait for the bluebottle/fly to land on a
hard surface, wait for it to move its front two legs to its face in a
feeding/cleaning action - then swat it. By the time it puts its legs back down
to push itself off you've got it.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Hunger Games author Suzanne Collins also wrote for Clarissa
Explains It All.
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Joke-of-the-day
A surgeon was checking on a patient who had a
hernia operation three days before.
The doctor asked the man why he had not gotten out of bed.
"I hurt," the man said. "You don’t know how it feels."
"I know exactly how it feels," the doctor said. "I had the same
procedure last month, and I was back at work two days later. There’s no
difference in our operations."
"Oh yes there is," said the patient. "You had a different
surgeon."
Bonus
A young boy enters a barber shop and the
barber whispers to his customer, "This is the dumbest kid in the world.
Watch while I prove it to you."
The barber puts a dollar bill in one hand and two quarters in the other, then
calls the boy over and asks, "Which do you want, son?" The boy takes
the quarters and leaves.
"What did I tell you?" said the barber. "That kid never
learns!"
Later, when the customer leaves, he sees the same young boy coming out of the
ice cream store.
"Hey, son! May I ask you a question? Why did you take the quarters instead
of the dollar bill?"
The boy licked his cone and replied,
"Because the day I take the dollar, the game is over!"
Yep, It
Really Happened
ADDISON, Ill. (UPI) - An Illinois woman said she was shocked and
outraged to discover her Comcast cable TV bill referred to her as "Super
[expletive]," using a word for a female dog. Mary Bauer, 63, of Addison,
said she had been having trouble with her Comcast TV service and she needed to
have 39 visits from technicians between November 2013 and April 2014. Bauer
said four months went by without her receiving a paper bill in the mail, and
when one finally arrived in the mail Wednesday it was addressed to "Super
B---- Bauer." "This is a disgrace to me. Why are they doing this to
me? I pay my bills. I do not deserve this," Bauer told WGN-TV. Comcast
said the bill is under investigation and officials plan to contact Bauer for
further information. The incident comes after Washington state resident Ricardo
Brown received a Comcast bill addressed to "[Expletive] Brown," using
a profanity in the place of the customer's first name. Comcast issued an
apology to Brown and his wife.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--It
takes the Sun between 225 million and 240 million years to complete one orbit
around the galaxy. That's moving at a breakneck 137 miles per second.
--Parts of the Great Sand Dunes in Colorado tower to 700 feet above the floor
of the San Luis Valley.
--Sand from storms in the Sahara can travel thousands of miles. Mineral dust
from these storms has been found in huge concentrations in South America and
the Caribbean.
--The deepest place on Earth is Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, with a
depth of 35,840 feet below sea level.
--You'll need to travel at 6.96 miles per second in order to escape Earth's
gravity. The escape velocity of the Moon is 1.5 miles per second.
--The oldest known European cave drawings are found in Chauvet Cave in southern
France. The 416 drawings are estimated to be 32,000 to 35,000 years old. They
feature horses, rhinos, buffalo, lions, and mammoths.
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Birthday’s
Today
Roger
Mudd, news anchor is 87
Carole
King, [Klein], Brooklyn, pianist/singer (Tapestry) is 73
Joe Pesci, actor
(Half Nelson) is 72
Alice
Walker, US, novelist (Color Purple) is 71
Mia [Maria] Farrow, actress (Rosemary's Baby)
is 70
Judith
Light, (Angela-Who's the Boss) is 66
Charles
Shaughnessy, actor (Nanny) is 60
Travis
Tritt, country vocalist (Country Club) is 52
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Remembered
for being born today
William
Henry Harrison, 9th US President 1773-1841@68
Brian
Donlevy, Ireland, actor (Barbary Coast) 1901-1972@71
Carmen
Miranda, Brazil, vocalist/actress (Copacabana) 1909-1955@46
Dean Rusk, US
Secretary of State 1909-1994@85
Ernest
Tubb, guitarist/singer 1914-1984@70
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Historical
Obits Today
[George] Gabby Hayes,
actor 1969, @83
Sophie
Tucker, Russ/US singer/actress, kidney failure, 1966@79
Percy
Faith, Canadian musician, 1976, @67
Fyodor
Dostoyevsky, novelist (Crime & Punishment), hemorrhages, 1881, @59
Paul
Laurence Dunbar, African American dialect poet, TB, 1906@33
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Tapestry (D)
2. Kitchen (B)
3. Dwindle (E)
4. Sherbet (A)
5. Tablet (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…§
