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Almanac: Week: 08 \ Day: 050
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 63°\L 25°
Average Sky Cover: 0% Ave. humidity: 45%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 21mph
Ave. High: 46° Record
High: 65° (1981)
Ave. Low: 19° Record Low: -6° (1942)
Observances
Today:
Chocolate Mint Day
Chinese New Year
The Great American Spit Out
Iwo Jima Day (Landing)
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
American
Birkenbreiner Race
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Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1807 - VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for
treason; later acquitted
1856 - Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith,
Gambier, Ohio
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone
(phonograph)
1881 - Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all
alcoholic beverages
1906 - Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co (later
Kelloggs) founded
1910 - Aviator Charles K.
Hamilton flew his bi-plane to Tucson for an aviation exhibition at the Elysian
Grove race track.
1913 - 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box
1932 - William Faulkner completes his novel
"Light in August"
1942 - FDR orders detention & internment
of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
1945 - US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima
with 30,000 US Marines
1953 - William Inge's "Picnic," premieres
in NYC
1960 - Bil Keane's "Family Circus"
cartoon strip debuts
1968 - 1st US Teachers strike (Florida)
1974 - 1st American Music Award: Helen Reddy &
Jim Croce win
1984 - 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver
in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
1985 - Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced
by Coca-Cola
Today’s World
Events through History
1600 - The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina
explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America
1910 - Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed
from her 1st periods of forced isolation
1919 - Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B.
Du Bois (Paris)
1928 - 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz,
Switzerland
1984 - 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo,
Yugoslavia
2004 - Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an
honorary knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity."
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My Rambling
Thoughts
Beautiful spring day. I found a full service car wash in Flag. The
one near me closed down about a year ago, so I have been doing the drive thru
kind. After my trip, I needed a full service one. They did a great job.
While I did a long drive, I didn’t have any CD books to listen to
so I was stuck with the radio. After losing NPR from Flag, I ended up on a two
talk radio stations that would stay on for the trip. Sadly, they were both
right wing. I decided it was good to listen to another point of view. These
guys and gals are total wackos. They make no sense. And the callers are even
more insane. They have no respect of Obama, no respect for the more liberal legislators,
and while they scream about free speech, what they really mean, free speech for
only their point of view. If someone disagrees, they belittle not only their
opinion but also the individual. If one doesn’t agree, they are uninformed or
worse. While I disagree with most of what they say, it is more frightening that
they have lots of followers. Some guy named something Savage has been on the
air for over 20 years spewing his hatred. Rush has been on about as long. It is
no wonder our political system is so messed up. These guys don’t let other
opinions on the air, and certainly have an agenda. Next trip I’m figuring out
how to get audio books or music from my iPod into the car speakers. I used to
have an adaptor, years ago, that sent the iPod signal through some FM station
on my car radio, but have no idea where it might be. Guess I’ll start looking
for a new one. I probably got it at Radio Shack, which is now going out of
business. I’m sure the Best Buy kids would just look at me, shake their heads,
and wonder what rock I just climbed out from underneath.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Insert
the words in COLUMN II into the spaces in COLUMN I to form words. Do not
rearrange the letters.
COLUMN I............. COLUMN II
IN_ _ _ _O ACHE
CON_ _ _ _ NT AUNT
H_ _ _ _ING BAND
EX_ _ _ _ENT BITE
OR_ _ _ _R CELL
TA_ _ _ _RY CENT
DIS_ _ _ _T CHAR
FOR_ _ _ _ TE COLA
AL_ _ _ _ R DIME
EM_ _ _ _ Y DOME
PER_ _ _ _ TE EACH
A_ _ _ _ ON FERN
DIS_ _ _ _ GE JOIN
O_ _ _ _ TER LOVE
IN_ _ _ _ IVE PATH
IM_ _ _ _OR PEST
B_ _ _ _LOR POST
T_ _ _ _ER TUNA
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country
Facts…
-- France's capital Paris means "the working people".
--Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur means "Muddy River"
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Remember those old Nokia phones? The Internet hails them as
completely unbreakable, but they had another classic feature: The Snake Game.
And now Google
has it as a Doodle Game! Use your arrow keys to navigate the snake
around the screen picking up food and other boosts. But beware of the dynamite!
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 years
ago
There were 40 arrests on Friday including seven drunks, 15 for
illegal consumption, two contributing to the delinquency of a minor, three
shoplifters, three hitchhikers, two vagrancy and one malicious mischief, a
teenager who was breaking parking meters.
Harper’s
Index…
36
Number of NYC police officers wearing body cameras as part of a
pilot program started this fall
Rules of
Thumb…
LANDLORDING
An apartment building should be able to
sustain rents that give you $100 profit on each rental unit every month.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
A 17th century children’s game called “dibstones”
was similar to what we call “jacks” today, only back then sheep’s knuckles were
used instead of little metal gizmos.
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Joke-of-the-day
A man and a woman get in a terrible car wreck.
Both of their vehicles were completely destroyed, but fortunately, no one was
hurt.
Thankful, the woman says to the man in a flirting tone, "We're both okay, we
should celebrate."
So the woman gets a bottle of wine out of the trunk of the smashed car, and
hands it to the man with a smile.
The man almost forgetting about the accident takes a really big drink, and
hands the bottle to the woman.
The woman closes the bottle and put it away.
The man asks, "Aren't you going to take a drink?"
And the woman replies, "No, I'll celebrate after the cops leave."
BONUS
My wife asked for the broom...
And I said, "Why? Are you going somewhere?"
Yep, It
Really Happened
COACHELLA,
Calif. (UPI)
Police in California are searching for the "bra bandit"
-- a man recorded stealing clothes from a pickup truck while wearing a skirt
and two bras. Security camera footage from outside a Coachella home recorded a
man, dubbed the "bra bandit," wearing a skirt, a bra on his head and
another bra on his chest while walking past the home. Police said the clothing
items were taken from an unlocked pickup truck. The man, who is seen on the
video trying to scare a cat on the front porch of the home, also took cleaning
supplies, change and other clothing items from the truck. The
security camera footage shows the man narrowly avoid capture when a Riverside
County Sheriff's Office patrol car passes by the pickup truck while he's
inside. "We have had incidents where stuff has been stolen, but never like
this, where some guy is completely naked, and at a point in the video you
actually see him sniffing the bra," Vidal Coronel, daughter of the truck's
owner, told KESQ-TV. Coronel said the clothing items belong to her sister, who
has been using the pickup truck to move. "We all have kids here, and for
this guy to be walking around in a bra and a skirt stealing, and he could go
into someone's house and do something worse," Coronel said.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--Fathom
derives from the Ango-Saxon word "faetm" meaning to embrace. In those
days, most measurements were based on average size of parts. A fathom is the
average distance from fingertip to fingertip of the outstretched arms of a man
- about six feet.
--The Battle of Surigao Strait, fought in 1944 in Philippines between Allied
naval forces and naval forces of the Empire of Japan, was the last battle-line
action in history. Yamashiro and her American opponents were the last
battleships to engage another battleship in combat.
--The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought in 1942, was was the first fleet action
in which aircraft carriers engaged each other. The battle is considered a
tactical victory for Japan since the United States carrier USS Lexington was
lost, while Japan only lost the light carrier Shoho in the battle.
--No self-respecting boatswain's mate would dare admit he couldn't blow his pipe
in a manner above reproach. This pipe, which is the emblem of the boatswain and
his mates, has an ancient and interesting history. On the ancient row-galleys,
the boatswain used his pipe to call the stroke. Later because its shrill tune
could be heard above most of the activity on board, it was used to signal
various happenings such as knock-off and the boarding of officials. So
essential was this signaling device to the well-being of the ship that it
became a badge of office and honor in the British and American Navy of the
sailing ships.
--The word scuttlebutt is a Navy term for rumor. Comes from a combination of
the word "scuttle" to make a hole in the ship's side, causing her to
sink, and "butt", a cask used to hold drinking water. Scuttlebutt
literally means a cask with a hole in it. Scuttle describes what most rumors
accomplish if not to the ship, at least to morale. Butt describes the water
cask where men naturally congregated, and that's where most rumors get started.
--Port and starboard are shipboard terms for left and right, respectively.
Confusing those two could cause a ship wreck. In Old England, the starboard was
the steering paddle or rudder, and ships were always steered from the right
side on the back of the vessel. Larboard referred to the left side, the side on
which the ship was loaded. So how did larboard become port? Shouted over the
noise of the wind and the waves, larboard and starboard sounded too much alike.
The word port means the opening in the "left" side of the ship from
which cargo was unloaded. Sailors eventually started using the term to refer to
that side of the ship.
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Birthday’s
Today
Smokey
Robinson, R&B singer-songwriter (The Miracles) is 75
Lou
Christie [Lugee Sacco], singer-songwriter (Lightning Striking Again)
is 72
Jeff
Daniels, actor (Something Wild) is 60
Seal (Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel), English
vocalist/songwriter (Killer) is 52
Justine
Bateman, actress (Mallory-Family Ties) is 49
Benicio
Del Toro, Puerto Rico, actor (Licence to Kill) is 48
Mariana
Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress is 36
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Remembered
for being born today
Cedric
Hardwicke, actor (Peter Pan) 1893-1964@71
Merle
Oberon, Calcutta, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion) 1911-1979@68
Stan
Kenton, [Newcomb], jazz musician (Music 55) 1911-1979@67
Lee
Marvin, actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou), 1924-1987@63
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Historical
Obits Today
Deng
Xiaoping, head (Chinese Communist Party), 1997, @92
Grandpa
Jones, country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw), 1998, @84
Andre
Gide, French writer (Nobel 1947), 1951, @81
Georgios
Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, Pap smear, 1962, @78
Johnny
PayCheck (Donald Eugene Lytle), country
singer/songwriter, asthma, 2003, @64
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Brain Teasers Answers
INFERNO
CONDIMENT
HAUNTING
EXCELLENT
ORBITER
TAPESTRY
DISJOINT
FORTUNATE
ALLOVER
EMPATHY
PERCOLATE
ABANDON
DISCHARGE
ODOMETER
INCENTIVE
IMPOSTOR
BACHELOR
TEACHER
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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…§
