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Almanac: Week: 08 \ Day: 052
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 59°\L 28°
Average Sky Cover: 90% Ave. humidity: 60%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 25mph
Ave. High: 46° Record
High: 60° (1995)
Ave. Low: 20° Record Low: -9° (1955)
Observances
Today:
Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language
Movement)-1952
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Card Reading Day-Tarot cards and all the e-cards you recieve
International Mother Language Day
Women in Blue Jeans Days
World Information Architecture 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
Feb 19-22
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
Feb 19-22
American
Birkenbreiner Race
Feb 21-28
Feb 21-28
National
Entrepreneurship Week
National Engineers Week
National FFA Week
Bird Health Awareness Week
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
National Invasive Species Awareness Week
National Engineers Week
National FFA Week
Bird Health Awareness Week
National Eating Disorders Awareness Week
National Invasive Species Awareness Week
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Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1858 - Edwin T Holmes installs 1st electric burglar
alarm (Boston, Mass)
1861 - Navaho elect Herrero Grande as chief
1861 - Navaho elect Herrero Grande as chief
1862 - Confederate Constitution & presidency
are declared permanent
1864 - 1st US Catholic parish church for blacks
dedicated, Baltimore
1866 - Lucy B Hobbs (Taylor) becomes 1st US woman
to earn a DDS degree
1874 - Oakland Daily Tribune begins publication
1878 - World's 1st telephone directory issued, 50
subscribers (New Harbor, CN)
1885 - Washington Monument dedicated (Washington,
DC)
1887 - Oregon becomes 1st US state to make Labor
Day a holiday
1903 - Cornerstone laid for US army war college,
Washington, DC
1904 - National Ski Association forms in Ishpeming
Mich
1915 - World's Fair in SF opens
1918 - The last Carolina parakeet dies in captivity
at the Cincinnati Zoo
1925 - 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine
published
1925 - Tucson's first
rodeo and rodeo parade held
1931 - Alka Seltzer introduced
1947 - 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera
"A Woman to Remember"
1947 - 1st instant developing camera demonstrated
in NYC, by E H Land
1948 - NASCAR is incorporated
1965 - Rights activist Malcolm X is shot
dead
1972 - Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president
to visit China
1975 - John Mitchell, HR Haldeman & John D
Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 yrs
1986 - AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes
at Western Middle School
2003 - "Real Time with Bill Maher" debuts
on HBO
2014 - US President Barack Obama meets
with the Dalai Lama
Today’s World
Events through History
1173 - Pope Alexander III canonizes Thomas
Becket Archbishop of Canterbury 1431 - Joan of Arc's
first day of interrogation during her trial for heresy
1795 - Freedom of worship established in France
under constitution 1797 - Trinidad, West Indies, surrenders to British
1804 - 1st locomotive, Richard Trevithick's, runs
for 1st time, in Wales
1874 - Benjamin Disraeli succeeds William
Gladstone as British premier
1922 - Irish Nationalist Eamon De Valera calls a
convention of the Sinn Fein, declaring the Republican Government the only
legitimate one in all Ireland
1952 - Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali
Language Movement)
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My Rambling
Thoughts
No storm but overcast sky all day until sun peaked through about
4p. Still fairly warm for Feb.
It was also rearrange bedrooms and do laundry. Feeling
accomplished. Next comes the living room which has looked the same forever.
Time for change.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
The
answers to the following definitions all start with the prefix
"para". It might take a bit of lateral thinking to figure them out!
For example, the definition: "Two places where a building is being
constructed" would have the answer "Parasites".
1. Two tender green plant growths
2. Two 10-cent pieces
3. Two male bovines
4. Two shark appendages
5. Two untruths
6. Two furry family members
BONUS:
7. Two dorky guys from "New Joisey"
1. Two tender green plant growths
2. Two 10-cent pieces
3. Two male bovines
4. Two shark appendages
5. Two untruths
6. Two furry family members
BONUS:
7. Two dorky guys from "New Joisey"
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country
Facts…
--Sociologists have found the worse the economy, the longer the
women's skirts are and the better economy, the shorter the skirt.
--In France, there's a place called Y.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 years
ago
It is estimated that that there is about $1.1 million due in fines
that “Go Stale" after 150 days unpaid since the first of January.
Collections are down due to fewer county employees due to a severe bare-bones
budget. J.P. Sedillo Chief Deputy and County Attorney Terrance Hance are
concerned about the legality of hiring a private agency for collections.
Harper’s
Index…
$4,900.000
Amount of improper Hurrican Sandy relief payments FEMA has
attempted to recover through collection letters
$453,000
Amount such letters have returned
Rules of
Thumb…
RULE OF
THUMB RULE
A rule of thumb works four out of five
times (including this one)
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
In 1973, Mao Zedong told Henry Kissinger that China had an excess
of females and offered the United States 10 million Chinese women.
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Joke-of-the-day
My grandparents were taking me on a vacation
to Disneyland. Grandma was excited for me when we boarded the plane, she
exclaimed that I was lucky, because I got the Shakespeare seat.
"Why is it the Shakespeare seat Grandma?"
"You are in seat 2-B, so it's the Shakespeare seat."
"Don't be silly Grandma. All the seats on an airplane are Shakespeare seats."
"How do you figure that?"
"Well, it's either seat 2-B or not 2-B."
"Why is it the Shakespeare seat Grandma?"
"You are in seat 2-B, so it's the Shakespeare seat."
"Don't be silly Grandma. All the seats on an airplane are Shakespeare seats."
"How do you figure that?"
"Well, it's either seat 2-B or not 2-B."
**
I went to the zoo the other day. They only had
one animal; a dog.
It was a Shih Tzu.
It was a Shih Tzu.
Yep, It
Really Happened
South
Carolina
Normal people bury their frustration and silently resent their
partner until they get to either alcohol or Internet porn (or both). Not this
South Carolina woman. 30-year-old Michelle Smart's frustration immediately came
to the surface in the form of a vocal and animated argument.
Granted her boyfriend, 33-year-old Ryan Rucker, pushed her off of him and, according to Smart, punched and kicked her multiple times, which is not quite as judicious of a rejection as might have been called for, but the argument escalated dangerously when Smart told Rucker that she would shoot him because she has a gun.
Cops noted that Smart "continually was changing her story throughout the investigation," adding that, "For these reasons, Ms. Smart's account became less believable."
Smart, was judged the "primary aggressor" by cops, and was arrested for domestic violence since Rucker "feared for his safety when Ms. Smart pulled the gun out and threatened to use it."
Police seized a Ruger handgun and six bullets.
Granted her boyfriend, 33-year-old Ryan Rucker, pushed her off of him and, according to Smart, punched and kicked her multiple times, which is not quite as judicious of a rejection as might have been called for, but the argument escalated dangerously when Smart told Rucker that she would shoot him because she has a gun.
Cops noted that Smart "continually was changing her story throughout the investigation," adding that, "For these reasons, Ms. Smart's account became less believable."
Smart, was judged the "primary aggressor" by cops, and was arrested for domestic violence since Rucker "feared for his safety when Ms. Smart pulled the gun out and threatened to use it."
Police seized a Ruger handgun and six bullets.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--In
1974, Johnny Carson requested that NBC stop airing Tonight Show reruns on the
weekend. He wanted to save those reruns for the extra time off he was planning
to take during weekdays. NBC wanted to fill those weekend slots, so they hired
Lorne Michaels to develop a show.
--The show was originally called NBC's Saturday Night because there was already a show titled Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on ABC. Cosell's show ended in 1976 and Lorne took the name.
--On the show's premiere, Chevy Chase became the first person to say the signature line, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"
--The Festrunk brothers, also known as "Two Wild and Crazy Guys," were based on separate characters that Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd had developed individually. When Martin hosted SNL in the seventies, the two morphed their characters into a set of brothers.
--Eddie Murphy got cast because he called the show's talent coordinator, Neil Levy, every day for a week explaining how desperately he needed the job. Levy decided he'd give Murphy a job as an extra, but brought him in to audition as well. His audition was so good that he was given a contract right away.
--Tina Fey had already left the show before the 2008 election, but Lorne Michaels knew he had to ask her to return when, within a few minutes, both his doorman and Robert De Niro pointed out Fey's resemblance to Sarah Palin.
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--The show was originally called NBC's Saturday Night because there was already a show titled Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell on ABC. Cosell's show ended in 1976 and Lorne took the name.
--On the show's premiere, Chevy Chase became the first person to say the signature line, "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!"
--The Festrunk brothers, also known as "Two Wild and Crazy Guys," were based on separate characters that Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd had developed individually. When Martin hosted SNL in the seventies, the two morphed their characters into a set of brothers.
--Eddie Murphy got cast because he called the show's talent coordinator, Neil Levy, every day for a week explaining how desperately he needed the job. Levy decided he'd give Murphy a job as an extra, but brought him in to audition as well. His audition was so good that he was given a contract right away.
--Tina Fey had already left the show before the 2008 election, but Lorne Michaels knew he had to ask her to return when, within a few minutes, both his doorman and Robert De Niro pointed out Fey's resemblance to Sarah Palin.
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Birthday’s
Today
Tricia
Nixon Cox, Richard Milhaus' daughter is 69
Tyne Daly, actress
(Cagney & Lacey) is 69
Mary-Chapin
Carpenter, country vocalist (This Shirt) is 57
Jennifer
Love Hewitt, actress (Party of Five) is 36
Corbin
Bleu, actor and singer is 26
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Remembered
for being born today
Antonio
Lopez de Santa Anna, president of Mexico 1794-1876@82
Charles
Scribner, US, music publisher (Scribner Catalog) 1921-1871@50
Andres
Segovia, classical guitarist, 1893-1987@94
Anaïs Nin, French
writer 1903-1977@73
Erma
Bombeck, humorist (Grass is Always Greener...) 1927-1996@69
Nina
Simone, [Eunice Waymon], vocalist/pianist (Porgy) 1933-2003@70
Rue
McClanahan, actress (Maude, Golden Girls) 1934-2010@76
Barbara
Jordan, (Rep-D-Tx, 1972-78) 1936-1996@59
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Historical
Obits Today
Mary
Edwards Walker, surgeon\feminist, only woman awarded Medal of Honor (US Civil
War), 1919, @86
King James
I of Scotland, assassinated, 1437, @42
Malcolm X,
[Little], human rights activist, assassinated, 1965, @39
Florence
Ballard, rocker (Supremes), heart attack, 1976, @32
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Parachutes
2. Paradigms
3. Parables
4. Paraffins
5. Paralyze
6. Parapets
7. Paranoids
2. Paradigms
3. Parables
4. Paraffins
5. Paralyze
6. Parapets
7. Paranoids
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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…§
