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Almanac: Week: 08 \ Day: 051
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 46°\L 19°
Average Sky Cover: 0% Ave. humidity: 18%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 46° Record
High: 65° (1977)
Ave. Low: 19° Record Low: -11° (1955)
Observances
Today:
Cherry Pie Day
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
1725 - 10 sleeping Indians scalped by whites in NH
for £100 a scalp bounty
1768 - 1st American chartered fire insurance
company opens (Penn)
1792 - US postal service created
1809 - US Supreme Court rules federal government
power greater than any state
1863 - Congress passed a
bill making Arizona a separate territory of the US with Tucson as the capital.
1893 - Congressional
Act modifies the White Mountain-San Carlos-Camp Apache Reserve, in western
Arizona Territory
1929 - American Samoa organizes as territory of US
1933 - House of Reps completes congressional action
to repeal Prohibition
1937 - 1st automobile/airplane combination tested,
Santa Monica, Ca
1962 - John Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth
(Friendship 7)
1992 - Ross Perot says he'll run for President on
Larry King Show
Today’s World
Events through History
1472 - Orkney and Shetland are left by Norway to
Scotland, due to a dowry payment
1673 - 1st recorded wine auction held (London)
1745 - Jacobite troops occupy Fort Augustus,
Scotland
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Inverness
Castle
1943 - New volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's
corn field (Mexico)
1952 - "African Queen" opens at Capitol
Theater in NYC
1975 - A feud begains between the Official Irish
Republican Army and the Irish National Liberation Army; the two groups
assassinate a number of each other's volunteers until the feud ends in June 1975
2012 - Scientists successfully regenerate Silene
stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of fruit, greatly surpassing the
previous record of 2,000 years
2013 - Estonia becomes the first country to establish
a national system of fast chargers for electric cars
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My Rambling
Thoughts
Another great weather day.
My amaryllises that was planted in early January is in full bloom
in the living room. Looks very nice with lots of red flowers.
We had our weekly lunch. Mary’s youngest grandchild had a health
scare but is doing well now. High fever with ambulance ride to hospital due to
severe cold weather in Chicago. Cheryl is still wondering about the ‘amusement
park’ that is going to be built in Williams. The builders say they expect
2million visitors a year…seems a little high by about 10 fold. Time will tell. Dream
on.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
animal eats and drinks with its tail?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country
Facts…
--Korea's capital Seoul means "Capital".
--China's capital Beijing means "Gate".
--Japan's capital Tokyo means "Eastern Capital".
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
For a really fun and geeky Google Doodle Game, try the 50th Anniversary of
Doctor Who. Oh no! The Daleks have stolen the Google logo! Use the
Doctor to navigate the levels and retrieve every letter. But watch out for
Daleks, lava and other hazards. Only the Doctor can save the universe!
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 years
ago
Our 46-bed jail is jammed with at least 18 over capacity every day
and the need is increasing weekly. Offenders are sleeping on mattresses on the
floor and 20- to 30-day prisoners are being released at 10 days. Police
Chief Elmo Maxwell stated that if we didn’t have the use of the County facility
for women and juvenile offenders, he doesn’t know what we would do.
Harper’s
Index…
73
Percentage of the city’s public-housing units deemed ‘deficient’
by they NYC Housing authority
22
Percentage of ‘needed repairs’ the agency plans to make this year.
Rules of
Thumb…
RAISING
SWINE
It takes the profit from four pigs to
pay the cost of keeping a sow. The fifth pig is the first one that makes you money.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Mapmakers will often place a tiny piece of incorrect information
in their maps to prevent illegal reproduction of their work. Called a
"copyright trap," the fake text might be a bogus street name or even
the mapmakers' initials hidden in the corner of a city park.
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Joke-of-the-day
"Simon, if I had eight apples in my right
hand and ten apples in my left hand, what would I have?”
“Huge hands, sir.”
BONUS
Bob's a factory worker, and one day, the boss
is showing a bunch of Japanese investors around the factory. One of them sees
Bob, and they promptly exchange handshakes and start talking like long lost
friends. Afterwards, Bob's boss asks him what that was about. Bob just replies
'oh, I know him from a few years back, I actually know a lot of important
people.'
His boss is sceptic, but Bob replies: 'Tell you what, name anyone you can think
of, I bet you that they know me.'
'Fine,' says his boss, and he's determined to
have Bob be embarrassed, so he decides to put the bar high: 'President Obama.'
'Cool, no problem,' says Bob.
A week later they're both standing outside the White House, and Obama comes
out, spots Bob and goes "Bob? What are you doing here? Come in, bring your
friend, let's have a drink together." Bobs boss has no clue how, but
somehow Bob and the president are friends. Once they leave his boss goes 'Fine,
you know the president, but I bet you don't know the pope'.
Bob accepts the challenge, and the next week they're standing in Saint Peters
square. 'This isn't gonna work, he's never going to see me here when there's
this much people. You stay here, I'll go talk to him and you'll see me on the
balcony, the guards know me too.' Half an hour later, Bob and the pope appear
side by side on the balcony. Bobs boss gets a heart attack, and Bob goes to
visit him in the hospital.
'What happened? Did you not expect me to actually know the pope?'
'No, it wasn't that, I sort of expected that
to happen. But there was a tourist next to me that asked 'Who's the guy in his
pajamas standing next to Bob there?'
Yep, It
Really Happened
FORT
SMITH, Ark. (UPI)
An Arkansas Walmart employee accepted an on-camera proposal from
an unexpected suitor -- the ex-husband she divorced 43 years ago. Louis
Demetriades and Renate Stumpf, both 75, said they divorced 43 years ago, but
they rekindled their friendship in December when Demetriades called Stumpf for
help contacting one of their three children. Stumpf was shocked when
Demetriades, who lives in Tennessee, visited the Walmart store where she works
in Fort Smith, Ark., Saturday with a sign reading, "Happy Valentine's Day!
Will you marry me?" Stumpf said her initial "no" was meant just
to tease her suitor, and she quickly amended the answer to "Yes, but not
today." "Forty-three years is a long time, so I wasn't sure at
first," she told ABC News, "but I will marry him though because he's
changed for the better, I've come to realize." Demetriades said he chose
Walmart for his Valentine's Day surprise so he would have an audience of his
ex-wife's friends.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Marshal
Ferdinand Foch was a French soldier, military theorist, and the Allied
Généralissime during the WWI, appointed “Commander-in-Chief
(Généralissime) of the Allied Armies” in the spring of 1918.
Foch
played a decisive role in halting a renewed German advance on Paris in the
Second Battle of the Marne, after which he was promoted to Marshal of France.
“To
a large extent the final Allied strategy which won the war on land in Western
Europe in 1918 was Foch’s alone”, Addington said.
After
the Treaty of Versailles, Marshal Ferdinand Foch said something remarkable:
“This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years”. Well, 20
years and 65 days later, WW2 broke out!
+++
Did
you know that elephants contribute significantly to the production of Black
Ivory Coffee, which is the most expensive coffee in the world?
However,
the making of procedure will make you rethink about consuming it again!
It
is produced by the Black Ivory Coffee Company Ltd in Northern Thailand from
Arabica coffee beans consumed by elephants and collected from their feces, as
this fermentation helps remove the bitterness, Canadian entrepreneur Blake
Dinkin, 44 says.
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Birthday’s
Today
Sidney
Poitier, 1st African American actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor is 88
Bobby
Unser, auto racer (1968, 75, 81 Indianapolis 500) is 80
Buffy
Sainte-Marie, folksinger (Now That the Buffalo Are Gone) is 74
J[erome] Geils, rock guitarist (J Geils
Band-Centerfold) is 69
Sandy
Duncan, actress (Hogan Family) is 69
Peter
Strauss, actor in TV miniseries’ is 68
Ivana
Trump, ex-wife of Donald Trump (1st Wives Club) is 66
Patty
Hearst Shaw, SF, famous kidnap hostage (Tanya) is 61
Kelsey
Grammer, Virgin Islands, actor (Cheers/Fraiser) is 60
Charles
Barkley, NBA forward (Suns, Rockets, Oly-gold-96) is 52
French
Stewart, NM, actor (Harry Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun) is 51
Cindy
Crawford, model, is 49
Rihanna, Barbadian
singer is 27
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Remembered
for being born today
Russel
Crouse, journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)
1893-1966@73
Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney, founder (Pan Am Airways) 1899-1992@93
Robert
Guyn McBride, Tucson, composer (Mexican Rhapsody) 1911-2007@96
Jackie
Gleason, Brooklyn comedian (Honeymooners) 1916-1978@71
Robert
Altman, director (Nashville, M*A*S*H) 1925-2006@81
Amanda
Blake [Beverly Louise Neill], actress (Gunsmoke) 1929-1989@60
Larry
Hovis, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes) 1936-2003@67
Kurt
Cobain, rock vocalist (Nirvana) 1967-1994@27
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Historical
Obits Today
Rosemary
DeCamp, American actress 2001 @90
Curt
Gowdy, American sportscaster 2006 @86
Alexander
Haig, American soldier and politician 2010 @85
Chester
W Nimitz, US admiral (WW II), 1966, @80
Frederick
Douglass, escaped slave, anti-slavery leader, stroke, 1895, @77
Robert E
Peary, US pole explorer (North Pole, 6/4/1909), 1920, @ 63
Dick York, actor
(Bewitched), emphysema, 1992, @63
Sandra
Dee, American actress, kidney disease, 2005, @62
Paul Kane,
Irish-born painter, 1871, @60
Gene
Siskel, film critic, surgery complications, 1999, @53
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Brain Teasers Answers
They all do. No animal takes off their tail when eating or
drinking.
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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…§
