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Almanac: Week: 07 \ Day: 049
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 53°\L 19°
Average Sky Cover: 0% Ave. humidity: 48%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 46° Record
High: 65° (1977)
Ave. Low: 19° Record Low: -11° (1942)
Observances
Today:
Independence Day: Gambia 1965 from UK
Battery Day
Cow Milked While Flying In An Airplane Day
National Drink Wine Day
Pluto Day 1930
Observances This
Week:
Feb 14-21
National Condom Week
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week
Brotherhood/Sisterhood Week
Build A Better Trade Show
Image Week
Through With The Chew
National Date (fruit) Week
National Pancake Week
National Justice for Animals Week
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Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1685 - Fort St. Louis is established by a Frenchman at
Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France's claim to Texas.
1688 - Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery
in Germantown, Pa
1735 - 1st opera performed in America,
"Flora," in Charleston, SC
1804 - 1st US land-grant college, Ohio University,
chartered
1885 - Mark Twain publishes the "Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn"
1896 - A
dentist's ad in the Arizona Gazette offered extractions for 50 cents, silver
fillings for $1.50, gold fillings for $2 and plates from $7 to $10 with a
Saturday Special of 25 cents for extractions.
1908 - 1st US postage stamps in rolls issued
1929 - The first Academy Awards are announced.
1930 - US astronomer Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto
1932 - Sonja Henie wins her 6th straight World
Women's figure skating title
1954 - The first Church of Scientology is
established in Los Angeles, California
1960 - 8th Winter Olympic games open in Squaw
Valley
1970 - Chicago 7 defendants found innocent of
inciting to riot
1978 - 1st Iron Man Triathlon (swim, bike ride,
marathon) held, Kona, Hawaii
Today’s World
Events through History
1129 - Jerusalem re-taken by Christians in peace
treaty between Holy Roman Emperor Frederik II and Egyptian ruler Al-Kamil
1678 - John Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress"
is published in Holborn, London
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy
Inverness Scotland
1879 - Sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi is
awarded a patent for design of Statue of Liberty
1911 - The first official flight with air mail
takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old
pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 km away.
1962 - France & Algerian Muslims negotiate
truce to end 7 year war
1968 - 10th Winter Olympic games close at Grenoble,
France
1979 - Snow falls in Sahara Desert
2014 - 2014 Ukrainian Revolution begins
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My Rambling
Thoughts
Quick trip to Denver was great. Weather going up was great.
Meeting was really good as I got to see lots of travel friends, some that I
haven’t seen for years. My stay with Bob was good. His companion Ann, a high
school friend, was also visiting. I’ve heard lots about her, and finally got to
meet her. Loveland is a really nice town. Got to have 2 dinners with Bob’s
daughter, Lori and her longtime companion Lynn. They have a great little
business making a variety of plaques…some ceramic, some wood. They take a
picture, make a template with a special printer and heat seal the photo onto
the tiles. Actually quite amazing. Lynn is a Lakota artist and as he says,
these tiles, made from his art work feed us, the originals he sells pay for
their vacations. The plaques are used as awards for various athletic things.
They also do luggage tags, coasters, trivets, and really just about anything.
The finished product is high gloss so is quite impressive.
The trip back started out a little dicey as there was an inch of
snow in Loveland. The day before had been 70°. Roads were wet and a little
slushy from Loveland to Pueblo, then it was dry the rest of the way. Gas prices
were good. Going they were never over $2, coming back they were just over $2.
The whole trip was 1796 miles and I averaged 68mph. Of course, the entire drive
was on interstates. I spent the night in Pueblo on the way up, and just outside
Albuquerque on the way back. Got to Loveland about noon on Friday, got back to
Flag just after noon on Tuesday.
While passing through Denver I stopped at the cemetery and left
flowers on my parent’s and grandparent’s graves. Also stopped at Apple Jack, a
famous liquor store in Colorado with excellent prices, drove past my old high
school, the house I grew up in, and my old stomping grounds. Lots has changed,
but was still very familiar. Overall a great trip.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
classic western phrase is represented by this?
TtHhIeSbToOtWhNof us
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country
Facts…
-- Thailand's capital Bangkok means "city of angels".
--Spain's capital Madrid means "place of abundant
water".
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Play the classic game from the '80s. Use
the arrow keys on your keyboard to navigate Pac Man around the screen. There's no
limit to how many times you can play, and if you click "Insert Coin"
below the search bar, Ms. Pac Man will appear!
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 years
ago
Walkup is pleased that his application was approved. The building
will be placed some 200 feet south of the new $200,000 infirmary on the campus.
Harper’s
Index…
Returns tomorrow
Rules of
Thumb…
GETTING A
JOB
Most job seekers can expect 1 to 4 job
leads and/or interviews for every 40 telephone calls they make.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Jimmy Carter was the first U.S. President to be born in a
hospital.
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Joke-of-the-day
A farmer was counting his cows and initially
only counted 196, but when he rounded them up he had 200.
A young man studying in a college abroad sent
this SMS to his father: "Dear dad, no mon, no fun, your son."
The father replied: "Dear son, too bad, so sad, your dad."
Yep, It
Really Happened
TAMPA,
Fla. (UPI)
Authorities in Florida said a couple who took a nap in a dumpster
after a drunken night at a casino nearly met their end in the back of a garbage
truck. Hillsborough County garbage truck driver Radames Valazquez called 911
early Wednesday morning to report a man and a woman were trapped in the back of
his truck. Valazquez said he was about to compact his truck's load when he
heard the couple shouting for help. "I got two people, I don't know how
they got in the back of the truck, but they stuck in the truck. I almost killed
both of them," he told the 911 dispatcher. Hillsborough County sheriff's
deputies said they determined Donald Jordan, 37, and Lisa Sirabella, 49, had
fallen asleep in a WaWa gas station dumpster after a drunken night at the
Seminole Hard Rock Casino. Jordan, who authorities said appeared highly
intoxicated, told deputies he and Sirabella were visiting Tampa from Kissimmee
and sought warmth in the dumpster after being left stranded by some friends.
Jordan and Sirabella, who both complained of back pain after their ride in the
garbage truck, were taken to Tampa General Hospital.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Do
shells actually sound like the ocean?
Did
your parents use to tell you as a child that when you put a shell next to your
ear you can actually hear the ocean?
If
so, is it true?
The
answer is ‘no’. When we put a shell next to our ear we actually hear “the
ambient noise that’s being produced all around and inside you, which you
normally don’t hear or pay attention to because it’s too quiet”, according to
mentalfloss.com
+++
How
much of the world’s currency is physical money?
Does
all of the world’s money really exist? Have you ever thought that people are
earning and spending money without ever touching it?
According
to economists, only 8% of the world’s currency is physical money (cash), the
rest only exists on computer hard drive, in electronic bank accounts around the
world.
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Birthday’s
Today
George
Kennedy, actor (Cool Hand Luke) is 90
Toni
Morrison, novelist (Tar Baby, Beloved, Song of Solomon) is 84
Yoko Ono Lennon, [Mrs
John Lennon], singer and artist is 82
Cybill
Shepherd, actress (Moonlighting, Last Picture Show) is 65
Juice
Newton, [Judy Cohen], vocalist (Angel of the Morning) is 63
John
Travolta, actor (Welcome Back Kotter, Pulp Fiction) is 61
Vanna
White, [Rosich], TV host (Wheel of Fortune) is 58
Matt
Dillon, actor (Flamingo Kid) is 51
Dr. Dre, [Andre
Romelle Young], rapper and record producer is 50
Molly
Ringwald, actress (16 Candles, Pretty in Pink) is 47
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Remembered
for being born today
Mary I
Tudor, [Bloody Mary], queen of England 1516-1558@42
Jacques
Cassini, French astronomer (rings of Saturn) 1677-1856@79
Count Alessandro
…Volta, physicist and inventor (battery) 1845-1827@82
George
Peabody, merchant/philanthropist 1795-1869@74
Swami
Ramakrishna [Gadadhar Chatterji], Indian mystic 1836-1886@49
Nikos
Kasandsakis, Greek writer (Zorba the Greek) 1887-1957@74
Wendell
Wilkie, Presidential candidate/author 1892-1944@52
George "The Gipper"
Gipp, football star (Notre Dame) 1895-1920@25
Bill
Cullen, TV game show host (over 20 different games) 1920-1990@70
Jack
Palance, [Walter Palanuik], actor (City Slickers) 1919-2006@87
Helen
Gurley Brown, author/publisher/editor Cosmopolitan, 1922-2012@90
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Historical
Obits Today
Maria
Franziska von Trapp, Austrian-born
singer, 2014, @99
Michelangelo Buonarroti,
Italian sculptor/painter (David), 1564, @88
Kublai
Khan, Mongol Emperor 1294, @78
Robert
Merrill, songwriter (Funny Girl), suicide, 1998, @76
John
Batterson Stetson, hat manufacturer,
1906, @75
Andy
Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], actor (Andy's Gang), cancer, 1977, @71
Martin
Luther, biblical scholar/religious reformer, stroke, 1546, @62
Robert
Oppenheimer, creator of atomic bomb, cancer, 1967, @62
Frances
Willard, founder (Woman's Christian Temperance), influenza, 1898 @58
Dale
Earnhardt, race car driver, crash at Daytona 500, 2001, @49
Joseph
Hamilton, pioneer radioactive isotopes in disease, cancer, 1957, @49
Mary
Stuart, Queen of Scots, beheaded, 1587, @44
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Brain Teasers Answers
This town ain't big enough for the both of us.
The words "The both of us" do not entirely fit into the words
"This town."
"This Town" isn't large enough for "The both of us."
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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…§
