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Almanac: Week: 07 \ Day: 041
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 63°\L 28°
Average Sky Cover: 0% Ave. humidity: 28%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 19mph
Ave. High: 45° Record
High: 65° (1951)
Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -17° (1933)
Observances
Today:
Extraterrestrial Culture Day
Extraterrestrial Visitor Day
Plimsoll Day—Samuel,
a Brit, who took up for sailors’ safety
Umbrella 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
Feb 10-12
World AG Expo
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Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1676 - Wampanoag
Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
1855 - US
citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted US
citizenship
1857 - Greek camel
driver, Hadji Ali, arrived in US with a shipload of camels destined to open the
first wagon road along the 35th parallel across Arizona.
1863 - 1st US
fire extinguisher patent granted
1870 - City of
Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
1870 - YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association)
forms (NYC)
1879 - 1st
electric arc light used (California Theater)
1890 - Around
11 million acres ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
1897 - NY Times
begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1942 - Glenn
Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of
"Chattanooga Choo Choo"
1949 - Arthur
Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
1954 - Eisenhower warns
against US intervention in Vietnam
1956 - "My
Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1962 - Jim
Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
1971 - American
Mensa Ltd incorporates in New York
1992 - Bonnie
Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA
1996 - IBM
computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a
reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov
Today’s World
Events through History
60 - St Paul thought to have
been shipwrecked at Malta
1535 - 12 nude Anabaptists
run through Amsterdam streets
1716 - Scottish
pretender to the throne James III Edward returns to France
1749 - 10th
(final) volume of Fielding's "Tom Jones" is published
1824 - Simon
Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru
1931 - New
Delhi becomes capital of India
1975 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army agrees
to a truce and ceasefire with the British government and the Northern Ireland
Office; Seven "incident centres" are established in nationalist areas
to monitor the ceasefire and the response of the security forces
1990 - South African
President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on Feb 11th
2005 - His
Royal Highness Charles, Prince of Wales announces engagement to Camilla
Parker Bowles
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My Rambling
Thoughts
Monday and another spring day. My bulbs are starting to break the
ground on my deck. Too bad they don’t know it’s February and I’m sure there
will be more snow before the real spring arrives. Hard to believe when I watch
what is happening on the East coast and Mid-west. Cheryl gave me an article
last fall about planting bulbs in layers so they will come up at different
times. I’ll see if that really works.
Headed out this morning and got my haircut. The same lady has cut
my hair for the past 6 or 7 haircuts and still doesn’t know me. When I go I am
always her first Monday customer, still she doesn’t remember. She does a decent
job, but is certainly not the sharpest scissors in the salon. Oh well, I’m just
another old guy who tips well. She does give me the senior discount without
asking.
A follow up to the Prescott girl who was maybe killed by ISIS. I
figured I had missed the story when she was captured, but now the family has
told ISIS that they kept their end of the bargain by not talking to the press
or releasing anything about her capture, now the family wants proof of life or
proof of death. So sad. Seems a little strange that some media outlet didn’t
release anything. Maybe some media knew and just followed the family wishes.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Zona,
the nutty professor, gathered the class one day for an experiment. Zona began,
"I have in my hands a rock and a piece of wood. I am going to place them
in this beaker of mysterious liquid, and you may observe what happens."
Surprisingly, the rock floated and the wood sank! He turned to the class and
said, "My question is: What is this mysterious liquid in the beaker?"
Do you know the answer?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country
Facts…
--Water, electricity, and gas has been free in Turkmenistan since
1991
--In 1948, Costa Rica abolished its military and spends the money
on education and culture instead
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
What happens when gravity takes hold? As soon as you click in the Google search bar, all heck
breaks loose!
Just as in a real catastrophe, it's important to keep focused. Go
ahead and type in your search term, and then hit enter. It's a pretty silly
gimmick, but it sure is fun to watch. For more wreckage, keep typing in search
terms and hitting enter.
Eye
Facts…
--Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and
ears never stop growing.
--When you are looking at someone you love, your pupils dilate,
they do the same when you are looking at someone you hate.
--The human eye blinks an average of 4,200,000 times a year.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 years
ago
At Babbitt’s Thriftway this week. Cider 50 cents a gallon, Coffee
23 cents a pound, Butter 33 cents an pound, Jello 5 cents. Hogs whole or half
12 ½ cents a pound, Pigs Feet 8 cents.
Harper’s
Index…
$13,200,000,000
Total value of unclaimed money in NY state bank accounts
Rules of
Thumb…
SELLING
DOOR-TO-DOOR
If no one stops the dog from barking
within 15 seconds, no one will answer the door.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Knoxville, Tennessee’s Body Farm isn’t a day spa; it is a forensic
anthropology facility. Human cadavers are left outdoors in varying stages of
undress in water, under brush, etc., so that scientists can study the
decomposition process.
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Joke-of-the-day
A Roman walks into a bar
Holds up two fingers and says five beers please
Bonus
A 20-something year-old girl finally decided
to introduce her boyfriend to her parents. She hid him from them because she
was afraid of how they'd react because he's very religious, but now that
they're engaged she couldn't hide it anymore.
The boy shakes the father's hand firmly and sits down for a talk.
"So I understand that you want to marry my daughter. Do you have a job to
support her?"
"With God's help sir, someday soon, I'll find a job."
"Are you planning on having kids?"
"With God's help sir, someday, yes."
"I understand that you're a student. How are you going to pay your tuition
and afford a baby?"
"With God's help sir, I'm very certain both of these are possible
goals."
The conversation went pleasantly and politely. After the boy left, the mother
asked the father: "Well? What do you think of the young lad?"
To which the father replied: "He seems pretty nice, the only problem is
that he seems to believe that I'm God."
Yep, It
Really Happened
BOLIVIA,
N.C. (UPI)
Authorities in North Carolina said they have re-arrested a prison
inmate who escaped from the facility by putting on a coat and walking out the
front door. The Brunswick County Sheriff's Office said William Earl Hewett was
found hiding in a camper on his family's property Tuesday morning, five days
after his escape from the Brunswick County prison. Hewett escaped from the
prison Thursday by donning a coat and posing as his brother, Curtis Hewett, who
was due to be released that day, the sheriff's office said. Security camera
footage from the incident shows Hewett walk through a metal detector before
being pursued by a jailor. Footage taken outside the facility shows Hewett shed
the coat and outrun the jail worker to make his escape. Hewett was charged with
escaping from a county or municipal facility. He was also served outstanding warrants
on charges of burning property and property damage. Hewett was ordered held in
lieu of $3 million bond. The sheriff's office said five others, including
Hewett's mother, stepfather and girlfriend, were arrested on allegations of
helping to hide the suspect from authorities. Curtis Hewett is also facing
charges for helping his brother escape. Brunswick County Sheriff John Ingram
blamed "human error" for Hewett's escape and said one person has been
fired as a result of the probe, which is ongoing.
Somewhat
Useless Information
How
many parents set Social Media accounts in their baby’s names?
According
to a new study conducted by Gerber.com, 40% of mothers between the ages of 18
and 34 created a social media account for their little ones before they were
born.
The
study didn’t have to do with accounts with pictures and posts about their
babies that are registered under the parents, it has to do with actual accounts
that are opened in the baby’s name.
Gerber’s
poll included 1,000 mothers with children under the age of 2.
+++
Which
is the largest planet in our galaxy?
Did
you know that the largest planet discovered in our galaxy is 29 times bigger
than Jupiter?
‘DENIS-P
J082303.1-491201 b’ is an extrasolar planet and was discovered by Sahlmann et
al., 2013 using the ESO telescopes at the La Silla Paranal Observatory.
‘DENIS-P
J082303.1-491201 b’ is about 67.7 light years or 642 trillion km or 399
trillion miles) from Earth!
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Birthday’s
Today
Leontyne
Mary Violet Price, opera soprano (Porgy & Bess) is 88
Jim
Whittacker, mountain climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest) is 85
Robert
Wagner, actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart) is 85
Roberta
Flack, vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face) is 76
Mark
Spitz, swimmer (Oly-9 gold/silver/bronze-68, 72) is 65
Greg
Norman, Queensland, Australia, PGA golfer is 60
George
Stephanopoulos, presidential adviser, news anchor is 54
Glenn
Beck, Conservative radio\television host is 51
Laura
Dern, actress (Jurassic Park) is 48
Elizabeth
Banks, actress (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) is 41
Emma
Roberts, actress (Blow) is 24
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Remembered
for being born today
Samuel
Plimsoll, inventor (Plimsoll line for ships) 1824-1898@74
Boris
Pasternak, Russian novelist(Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958) 1890-1960@70
Jimmy
Durante, long-nosed comedian 1893-1980@86
Walter
Houser Brattain, physicist (Nobel -transistor) 1902-1987@85
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Historical
Obits Today
Arthur
Miller, American playwright, 2005, @89
Shirley
Temple, actress and diplomat, 2014, @85
Pius XI,
[Ambrogio D A Ratti], Italian Pope (1922-39), 1939, @81
Alex
Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), heart attack,
1992@70
Jim
Varney, actor\commercials, cancer, 2000, @50
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Brain Teasers Answers
The mysterious liquid is water. The rock is pumice or volcanic
glass which floats in water and the wood was from the desert ironwood tree
which is so dense that it actually sinks in water.
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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…§
