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Almanac: Week: 09 \ Day: 053
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004
Today: H 54°\L 24°
Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind
ave: 20mph\Gusts: 36mph
Ave. High: 47° Record High: 64°
(2002)
Ave. Low: 20° Record Low:
-10° (1955)
Observances
Today:
87th Academy Awards Ceremony
Be Humble Day
Daytona 500
George Washington's Birthday
National Margarita Day
Tex Avery Day—Creator of Bug Bunny
Walking the Dog Day
Woolworth's Day—1879-1st store opens
World Thinking Day
Observances This
Week:
American
Birkenbreiner Race
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
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Quote of
the Day
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1630 - Indians
introduce pilgrims to popcorn
1784 - 1st US
ship to trade with China, "Empress of China", sails from NY
1821 - Spain
sells (east) Florida to United States for $5 million
1825 - Russia
& Britain establish Alaska-Canada boundary
1854 - 1st
meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)
1876 - Johns
Hopkins University opens
1888 - John
Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
1889 - US
President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington
1890 - Weakened by rains
and flood waters, the Walnut Grove Dam on the Hassayampa River collapses
killing 50 people and destroying property as far south as Wickenburg.
1900 - Hawaii became
a US territory
1903 - Due to
drought the US side of Niagara Falls runs short of water
1920 - 1st
artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville, California)
1935 - Airplanes
are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
1959 - 1st
Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
1969 - Barbara
Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track
1980 - USA beats
USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3, referred to as "Miracle on Ice"
1988 - Bonnie
Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)
1989 - 1st Spanish
commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
1995 - Steve Fossett
completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
2009 - Heath Ledger,
posthumousl, wins the Academy Award for Best Supporting Act for his performance
as the Joker in "The Dark Knight"
Today’s World
Events through History
1907 - 1st cabs
with taxi meters begin operating in London
1917 - Russian
February Revolution begins with strike at factory in Petrograd
1958 - Egypt
& Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
1972 - Official
Irish Republican Army explodes a bomb at Aldershot military barracks, the
headquarters of the Parachute Regiment, killing seven people
1997 - Dolly the
sheep, world's first cloned mammal (from an adult cell) existence announced by
the Roslin Institute in Scotland
1998 - 18th Winter
Olympic games close at Nagano Japan
2014 - Marit Bjørgen
of Norway becomes the most successful female Winter Olympian with 10 medals
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Realized late this afternoon that our discussion group was meeting
tonight. So I spent the afternoon doing readings for the discussion. Tonight is
Russia’s place in the world after the fall of USSR. Articles were great. Discussion
should be interesting.
While we had a clear sky it was way too windy to spend much time
outside. I didn’t get any more furniture moved today. Maybe tomorrow.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
My
author's uncertain yet my title's the same,
I contain random text yet order's my aim.
Read me one day and see my pages are totally bare.
Try again another day and the words will be there.
I'm not a book of magic although it may sound,
I can predict the future, and inside, your life can be found.
Move my eye, I become involved in lactic extraction.
But that's just a clue, a minor distraction.
What am I?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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**NEW**Agriculture
Facts…
--Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were
domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
--The most expensive cow in the world was sold in 2009 for $1.2
million.
**NEW**Book
Facts…
--In the “Forrest Gump” novel that the movie is based on, Forrest
goes into space with NASA. Upon return, he crash lands on an island full of
cannibals. He only survives because he beats the head cannibal at chess every day.
--There's a book titled "Everything men know about
women" that has over 100 blank pages.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
Some of the vacant saloon buildings are already spoken for as
there is a big demand for business buildings. Charles Prochnow is fitting up
the old Commercial Bar room for a card and fancy lunch room.
Harper’s
Index…
$680,000
Average amount US customs officials paid to build each of the 21
houses for employees in rural AZ
$86,000
Average market value of houses in the area
**NEW**Kindness
Facts…
-- Acts of kindness make us happier and healthier.
--Lenovo CEO Redistributed His $3M Bonus to 10,000 Employees.
Twice.
Rules of
Thumb…
FINDING
STOLEN PAINTINGS
Fewer than one in five stolen paintings
are ever found.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Inspired by the events at an outdoor barbecue, “Uncle Milton”
Levine modified a clear plastic tissue box into a prototype for the ant farm.
Between 1956 and 1966, he sold some 12 million of them (live ants originally
included).
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Joke-of-the-day
My wife said she wanted to see 50 Shades of
Grey.
So I took a photo of her hair!
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While stitching a cut on the hand of a
75-year-old farmer, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man.
Eventually the topic got around to politicians and their role as our leaders.
The old farmer said, "Well, as I see it, most politicians are 'Post
Tortoises'."
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a 'post tortoise'
was.
The old farmer said, "When you're driving down a country road and you come
across a fence post with a tortoise balanced on top, that's a post
tortoise."
The old farmer saw the puzzled look on the doctor's face so he continued to
explain.
"You know he didn't get up there by himself, he doesn't belong up there, he
doesn't know what to do while he's up there, he's elevated beyond his ability
to function,
and you just wonder what kind of idiot put him up there to begin with."
Yep, It
Really Happened
EUGENE,
Ore. (UPI)
Oregon authorities have released a video of a man who claimed to
have been assaulted by detectives punching himself in the face in his jail
cell. The Lane County Sheriff's Office said Aleksander Robin Tomas-zewski, 33,
claimed to have been physically assaulted by detectives Jan. 9 while being
questioned on charges of including stalking and first-degree sexual abuse, but
deputies reviewed security tapes from the county jail and saw Tomas-zewski
repeatedly punch himself in the face to give himself black eyes. Sgt. Carrie
Carver, a sheriff's office spokeswoman, said Tomas-zewski appeared to strike
himself in the face 45 times in the four-minute video. Tomas-zewski pleaded
guilty to attempted coercion and filing a false report in connection with the
incident. He was sentenced to 20 days in jail for each charge Feb. 10, but was
released with credit for time served. He was also sentenced to three years of
probation and ordered to pay $600 in fines.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--The
Sahara desert is the world's largest at 3,500,000 square miles.
--The only dangers from tarantulas comes from the irritating chemicals found on
their abdominal hair, which sometimes cause rashes.
--Potato chip were invented in Saratoga Springs in 1853 by chef George Crum.
--This was an Olympic sport from 1900 to 1920, when Great Britain was the last
team to win the gold medal. Other sports no longer in the games: Croquet, Golf
and ricket.
--Hat makers in the 18th and 19th century used mercury for curing felt, causing
as many as 1 in 10 to go insane. Hat workers, unfortunately, did not know it
was a deadly poison.
--Hogan's Alley by Richard Outcault
was the first comic strip published in color. It featured a Yellow Kid, whom
experts consider to be America's first modern comic character.
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Birthday’s
Today
Dick Van
Arsdale, NBA all-star (Knicks, Suns) is 72
Tom Van
Arsdale, NBA all-star (Detroit, Cincinnati, KC-Omaha, Phil) is 72
Julius
Erving, ABA/NBA forward (Nets, 76ers) is 65
Vijay
Singh, PGA golfer (1993 Buick Classic) is 52
Michael
Chang, tennis star (1989 French Open) is 43
Drew
Barrymore, actress (ET, Firestarter) is 40
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Remembered
for being born today
George
Washington, 1st American president 1732-1799@67
Rembrandt
Peale, portrait/historical painter (Court of Death)1778-1860@82 Heinrich Hertz, physicist, 1st to
broadcast & receive radio waves 1857-1894@36
Robert
Baden-Powell, founder (Boy Scouts, Girl Guides) 1857-1941@83
Leonard "Chico"
Marx, actor/comedian (Marx Brothers), 1891-1961@74
Gale
Gordon, actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy) 1906-1995@89
Robert
Young, actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD) 1907-1998@91
Sheldon
Leonard, actor/director (Danny Thomas Show) 1907-1997@89
Edward M "Ted"
Kennedy, Politician (Sen-D-Mass) 1932-2009@77
Robert Kardashian,
American lawyer 1944-2003@59
Steve
Irwin, Australian naturalist\TV personality 1962-2006@44
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Historical
Obits Today
Felix
Frankfurter, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1965, @82
Charles
Lyell, British geologist (Elements of Geology), 1875, @77
David
Susskind, TV host (Open End), heart attack, 1987, @66
Ed
Flanders, actor (Dr Westphall-St Elsewhere), suicide, 1995, @60
Andy
Warhol, pop artist, heart attack, 1987, @58
Amerigo
Vespucci, Italian explorer (America), 1512, @57
David II
Bruce, King of Scots (1331..71), 1371, @46
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Brain Teasers Answers
A Diary
Line 1
All Diaries have the same title yet the author is always you.
Line 2
The text is varied depending on the individual but the purpose of a diary is to
order events.
Lines 3 & 4
On Jan 1st a Diary is empty but fills up over the course of the year.
Lines 5 & 6
A diary can predict the future in so much as future appointments are recorded
in them and to an extent you can see what days of the week future dates will
fall on.
Lines 7 & 8
A cryptic clue to the word Diary. Move the i one space to the right and you get
the word Dairy. A place for Milking, or lactic extraction.
(Note: In some countries, the term "day planner" is used instead of
"diary".)
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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…§
