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Almanac: Week: 09 \ Day: 054
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004
Today: H 49°\L 31°
Average Sky Cover: 70% Winter Storm Advisory
Wind
ave: 11mph\Gusts: 31mph
Ave. High: 46° Record High: 66°
(1946)
Ave. Low: 21° Record Low:
-6° (1960)
Observances
Today:
National Day: Guyana 1970
Curling is Cool Day
Diesel Engine Day
Iwo Jima Day (flag raised) 1945
Museum Advocacy Day
National Dog Biscuit 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
1792 - Humane Society of Massachusetts incorporated
(erected life-saving stations for distressed mariners)
1813 - 1st US
raw cotton-to-cloth mill founded in Waltham, Mass
1821 - College of
Apothecaries organized in Phil; 1st US Pharmacy College
1822 - Boston
is incorporated as a city
1836 - Alamo
besieged for 13 days until 6th March by Mexican army
1870 - Mississippi
is readmitted to US
1883 - Alabama
becomes 1st US state to enact an antitrust law
1886 - Aluminum
manufacturing process developed
1892 - 1st
college student government forms at Bryn Mawr Penn
1896 - Tootsie
Roll introduced by Leo Hirshfield
1903 - The
US-Cuba sign an agreement Cuba releases Guantanamo and Bahia Hondo
1904 - US
acquired control of the Panama Canal Zone for $10 million
1905 - Rotary
Club International formed by 4 men in Chicago
1910 - 1st
radio contest held (Philadelphia)
1927 - Pres Calvin
Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FRC)
1933 - President-elect
Franklin D. Roosevelt announced he would appoint Arizona Congressman Lewis
Douglas to the position of director of the budget.
1944 - Jack C. Montgomery, a
Cherokee, is a First Lieutenant with the Forty-fifth Infantry in Italy. For his
solo actions against three different enemy positions, he will be awarded the
Medal of Honor.
1947 - Gen Eisenhower opens
drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews
1954 - 1st mass
inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
1965 - Constance
Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president
1967 - 25th
amendment (US Presidential succession) adopted
1968 - Wilt
Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving
time commences nearly two months early US
1980 - 13th
Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
Today’s World
Events through History
303 - Emperor Diocletian begins
policy of persecution of Christians razing church at Nicomedia
1455 - Johannes
Gutenberg prints his first book, Bible (estimated date)
1540 - Coronado's
expedition sets off from Mexico in search of the 7 cities of Cibola
1992 - 16th
Winter Olympic games closes in Albertville, France
1997 - Scientists in Scotland announced they
succeeded in cloning an adult mammal, producing a lamb named "Dolly"
1998 - Osama bin
Laden publishes a fatwa declaring jihad against all Jews and Crusaders
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
A storm is a brewing here in our little mountain town. Windy and
chilly most of the day with clouds coming and going. Snow to start about
midnight. NICE!
Last night’s discussion was very informative. I think I now
understand better the Crimea issue, the Ukraine issue, and what Putin’s plans
are…mostly helping Mother
Russia regain its super power status. He certainly seems to have a
plan and that plan seems to be working, more or less.
The coming storm got me excited about finishing my furniture
moving, so I am now happy with all the rooms in the house. Again, NICE!
I doubt if I will be watching the Oscar’s tonight. I have my favorite
movies and no longer care if they win or not. It sure has become quite the spectacle.
Thank goodness for Netflix to keep my occupied tonight.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
See
if you can figure out three words that are homophones of each other in each of
the five problems below.
1. Worthless - flat piece moving with the air - blood vessel
2. Path or direction - to measure weight - watery part of milk
3. Having no money - careful study; microscopic hole - to flow freely
4. Warty frog - having toes - pulled ahead
5. A cry - welt; corduroy ridge - large oceanic mammal
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Agriculture
Facts…
-- Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
--A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
Book
Facts…
-- Iceland Has the Most Books Published per Person per Year in the
World
--In Iceland, more books are published and sold per person every
year than anywhere else in the world. Ten percent of Icelanders become a
published author in their lifetime.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
1915
John Chisholm came in Sunday evening with his 10-horse-team grader
from boosting snow off the road along the divide near Bellemont. The road
stretching from Williams to Flagstaff is now clear all the way through. The
grader seems just the thing since it throws the snow off both sides, giving the
road an opportunity to melt and dry fast while the snow melts and runs into the
ditches.
Harper’s
Index…
$100,000
Cost of a ticket for aflight from CA ‘to the edge of space’
scheduled to begin service in 2016
Kindness
Facts…
-- As a reward for record profits, the CEO of Lenovo, Yang Yuanqing,
received a $3 million bonus, which he redistributed to about 10,000 of Lenovo's
employees. He did the same again in 2013.
In 2002, Kenyan Maasai tribespeople donated 14 cows to the US to
help with the aftermath of 9/11.
Rules of
Thumb…
IDENTIFYING
MINTS
All mints have square stems, but not all
square stems are mints.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Despite his many name changes, musician Prince did have a real
first name once: Prince.
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Joke-of-the-day
An old man decides to go into town one day to
run some errands. On the way back, his wife calls his cell phone.
"Look out honey, I just saw on the news that there's a car driving the
wrong way on the interstate."
"Not just one car, they all are!"
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After a hard day of drilling, the drill
sergeant let the troops go.
"All right, you idiots, report to the mess hall."
Everybody walked away, sweating and their heads down, thankful for the end of
the hard day.
Only one private remained.
He looked at the officer and sincerely said, "Boy, there sure were a lot
of them, huh, sarge."
Yep, It
Really Happened
BETHESDA,
Md. (UPI)
A Maryland man is clearing snow from Bethesda's sidewalks with a
snowplow attached to an unusual vehicle -- a motorized toilet. David Goldberg,
owner of the Union Hardware store, said he created the motorized commode,
dubbed "Loo-cille" or "Loo-cy" for short, for last summer's
pride parade, and he is taking his hybrid vehicle out of the garage once again
to clear snow from sidewalks. "This is Loo-cy. Our motorized toilet that
we did this summer for the pride parade. We just added a snow plow and [we're]
ready for tomorrow morning's snow," Goldberg said in sending a picture of
the toilet plow to WUSA-TV. Goldberg posted a video of the motorized toilet
moving snow to YouTube. "Taking something very private and making it a
spectacle is a jolt to the system by itself. But having it plow snow... Over
the top!" he wrote in the video's description. Goldberg said the toilet
has a hybrid engine. "I have not had to start the engine yet, but it is
there after a long day if needed," Goldberg wrote on YouTube. "I do
have duel exhaust mounted for show. It's all about the looks and fun."
Somewhat
Useless Information
Steve
Alexander Wright, American comedian, actor and writer, is known for his
distinctly lethargic voice and slow, deadpan delivery of ironic, philosophical
and sometimes nonsensical jokes, paraprosdokians, anti-humor, and one-liners
with contrived situations.
Discography
:
- I Have a Pony, Warner Bros.
Records CD (1985)
- A Steven Wright
Special,
HBO DVD (1985)
- The Appointments
of Dennis Jennings, DVD (1989)
- One Soldier, DVD (1999)
- When the Leaves
Blow Away,
DVD (2006)
- I Still Have a
Pony,
Comedy Central Records CD (2007)
+++
Did
you know that broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, and Chinese
kale are all different breeds of the same plant?
This
plant is ‘Brassica oleracea’ and in its uncultivated form it is known as wild
mustard and it is rich in essential nutrients including vitamin C.
Its
history as a domesticated plant is not clear before Greek and Roman times,
when it was a well-established garden vegetable.
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Birthday’s
Today
Sylvia
Chase, newscaster (ABC Weekend News, 20/20) is 77
Peter
Fonda, actor (Easy Rider) is 75
Ed
"Too Tall" Jones, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys) is 64
Niecy
Nash, American actress is 45
Dakota
Fanning, American actress is 21
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Remembered
for being born today
George
Frideric Handel, baroque composer (Messiah, Water Music) 1685-1759@74
Wm E B Du
Bois, civil rights activist and writer (Souls of Black Folk) 1868-1963@95
Victor
Fleming, director ("Wizard of Oz", "Gone with the
Wind"), 1889-1949@59
Paul
Tibbets, Pilot of B-29 "Enola Gay" over Hiroshima 1915-2007@92
Johnny
Winter, [John Dawson], American blues guitarist, 1944-2014@70
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Historical
Obits Today
John
Quincy Adams, 6th US President, stroke, 1848, @80
James
Herriot [Alfred Wight], Scottish author (All Creatures Great &
Small), cancer, 1995, @78
Stan
Laurel, comedian (Laurel & Hardy), heart attack, 1965, @74
John F
Mahoney, American physician developed penicillin treatment of syphillis,
1957, @67
John
Keats, Romantic poet, TB, 1821, @25
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Vain - vane - vein
2. Way - weigh - whey
3. Poor - pore - pour
4. Toad - toed - towed
5. Wail - wale - whale
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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…§
