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Feb 1,
2019 Week: 04 \ Day: 32
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Today: H 49° \ L 21° \ Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind: 13mph\Gusts:
-mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 60°[2003] Record
Low: -23°[1985]
FebAverages: 45°\19°
Today’s Quote
Neither blame or praise yourself.
Plutarch
Random Tidbits
Scandium (Sc)
In the 1970s, metallurgists found that
aluminum-scandium alloys are strong and lightweight, making it useful in
aerospace components. It wasn't long before sporting-equipment manufacturers
started using the alloys in everything from baseball bats to lacrosse sticks.
Beryllium (Be)
Beryllium is recognized as a carcinogen by the
International Agency for Research on Cancer. In another form, however,
beryllium is highly desirable, even priceless. When combined with trace amounts
of chromium, beryllium takes on a beautiful green hue as the gemstone commonly
known as the emerald.
Gallium (Ga)
Few elements are weirder than gallium: A
relatively soft, glittering metal, it's widely used today in semiconductors and
other electronics, as well as in the pharmaceutical industry. But in years
past, gallium (atomic number 31) was a key part of a favorite parlor trick for
magicians because it melts when it's just slightly warmer than room
temperature. Thus, spoons that are made of gallium look normal, but when dipped
into a cup of hot tea will instantly dissolve.
More Observances This Month
Adopt A
Rescued Rabbit Month
AMD/Low
Vision Awareness Month
American
Heart Month
Bake for
Family Fun Month
Barley Month
Link
Beat The
Heat Month
Black History
Month
Cricket
World Cup (2/13-3/29)
Declutter
For A Cause Month
Dog Training
Education Month
Observances This Week
Cordova
Ice Worm Day: 1-3
US
Snow Sculpting Week: 1-5
Women's
Heart Week: 1-7
Observances for Today
Candy-Making Day
Car Insurance Day
Change Your Password Day Link
Decorating With Candy Day
G.I. Joe Day
Give Kids A Smile Day Link
Hula in The Coola Day
International Day of Black Women in The Arts
International Face & Body Art Day
Freedom Day
National Baked Alaska Day
National Cake Pops Day
Car Insurance Day
Change Your Password Day Link
Decorating With Candy Day
G.I. Joe Day
Give Kids A Smile Day Link
Hula in The Coola Day
International Day of Black Women in The Arts
International Face & Body Art Day
Freedom Day
National Baked Alaska Day
National Cake Pops Day
National Get Up Day (About Perserverance. Not Getting Out Of Bed.)
Robinson Crusoe Day
Spunky Old Broads Day
Wear Red Day
Working Naked Day Link
World Hijab Day Link
Robinson Crusoe Day
Spunky Old Broads Day
Wear Red Day
Working Naked Day Link
World Hijab Day Link
My Rambling Thoughts
Getting ready for
a storm…a whopping 2” of snow is expected. I can hardly wait. So glad I’m here
and not in the Midwest…-60° is not my cup of tea.
Our retirement
group met for lunch…Chinese. Just after we arrived, a class of about 20
Kindergarteners came in with their teachers and aides. They had just finished a
unit on China and were celebrating the Chinese New Year a tad early. The owner apologized
for the noise as we were leaving. Told him not to worry, we were all retired
teachers and enjoyed it. Cheryl had an interesting story. Yesterday in Williams…about
20 minutes away…some crazy barricaded himself in a vehicle at the local Safeway
(the only grocery store in that town). We had all gotten alerts on our phones
here in Flagstaff, telling us to avoid the area. The local cops talked him out
and arrested him, after about 5 hours. No shots fired, no one injured. Still
nothing about the reason he was acting so crazy. Small towns spread gossip real
fast, not so much with news.
My Visa to
Russia/China phone call came right on time. Answered all the questions. I had
to give my college attendance dates and degrees and their phone numbers. I
asked if this thing was new and she said she had been there 5 years and it was
this way when she started. Now we wait for Tumlare to make our actual plane
reservations to get it all processed. They will be sending me a FedEx label to
mail them my passport when they receive all the information they need from Tumlare.
The most
interesting thing about all this bureaucracy is that my contact lady told me
that many, many countries use electronic Visas, but not China or Russia. Since
China is so big with the new 5G networks and hardware for cell phones around
the world, one might assume they would use technology for Visas, but they don’t.
Maybe they know how easy everything is to hack.
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1700’s
1790
US Supreme Court convenes for 1st time (NYC)
1800’s
1840
Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, 1st in US,
incorporated
1846
Theophile Gautier publishes "Hashish Club" about his
initiation
1856
Auburn University is chartered as the East Alabama
ale College.
1862
Julia Howe publishes "Battle Hymn of Republic"
1865
13th amendment approved (National Freedom Day)
1884
1st volume of the Oxford English Dictionary, A-Ant,
published
1900’s
1909
US forces withdraw from Cuba after liberal Jose Miguel
Gomez becomes president; ensuing
political instability
will bring a threat of US
intervention in 1912
1929
Pi Alpha Phi, the first Asian-American interest fraternity
in the United States, is founded at UC
Berkeley
1935
1st "March of Time" newsreel premieres at the Capitol
1951
1st X-ray moving picture process demonstrated
1951
UN condemns People's Republic of China as aggressor
in Korea
1958
1st US satellite (Explorer I) launched
1958
"Volare" ("Nel blu dipinto di blu") single released by
Domenico Modugno (Grammy Award Record
of the
Year, Song of the Year 1958)
1959
Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated
Circuit)
1960
4 students stage 1st civil rights sit-in, at Woolworth's
in Greensboro, North Carolina
1965
Martin Luther King Jr. & 700 demonstrators arrested
in Selma Ala
1968 Saigon police chief Nguyễn Ngọc
Loan executes Viet
Cong
officer Nguyễn Văn Lém with a pistol shot to head.
The
execution is captured by photographer Eddie
Adams
and becomes an anti-war icon.
1972
Kuala Lumpur becomes a city by a royal charter granted
by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong of
Malaysia.
1978
Director Roman Polanski skips bail & fled to France after
pleading guilty to charges of
engaging in sex with a 13-
year-old girl
1991
South African President F. W. de Klerk says he will
repeal all apartheid laws
1991
American writer John Grisham publishes his second
novel "The Firm"
(bestselling novel of the year)
2000’s
2003
Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into
the Earth's atmosphere, killing all
seven astronauts
aboard.
2009
Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir is elected as the first female
Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming
the first openly gay
Head of Government in the modern
world.
2016
Alphabet, Google's parent company surpasses Apple as
the world's most valuable company
($568bn vs
$535bn), after releasing income
results
2018
Archaeologists announce discovery of thousands of
undetected structures in Mayan
lowland civilization,
Guatemala, using Lidar, suggests
population of 10
million
Birthdays Today
1550 John Napier,
Scottish
mathematician and inventor (logarithms),
born
in Edinburgh, Scotland
(d.
1617)-@66±
1895 John Ford,
American
director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man),
born
in Cape Elizabeth, Maine
(d.
1973)-@79
1901 Clark Gable,
American
actor (Gone With the Wind, It Happened One Night)
known
as 'The King of Hollywood', born in Cadiz, Ohio
(d.
1960)-dies from blood clot
1902 Langston
Hughes,
American
poet (Weary Blues) and playwright (Mulatto),
born
in Joplin, Missouri
(d.
1967)-@59-blood clot
1902-Langston
Hughes,
African-American
poet, author, activist, and Harlem Renaissance
leader
(d.
1967)-@65-prostate cancer complications
1918 Muriel
Spark,
Scottish
writer (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie),
born
in Edinburgh, Scotland
(d.
2006)-@88
1931 Boris
Yeltsin,
Russian
politician and President of Russian Federation
(1991-1999),
born in Butka, Sverdlovsk,
(d.
2007)-@76-heart failure
1938 Sherman
Hemsley,
actor
(All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen),
born
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
(d.
2012)-@74-lung cancer
1948 Rick James
[James
Ambrose Johnson, Jr.],
American
funk musician ("Super Freak"), born in Buffalo New York
(d.
2004)-@56-pulmonary failure
1965 Brandon Lee,
movie
actor, son of Bruce Lee
(d.
1993)-@28-accidental shooting on movie set
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82- Don Everly,
American
singer and half of the rock and roll duo "The Everly
Brothers"
(Bye Bye Love, Wake Up Little Susie), born in Brownie,
Kentucky
82- Garrett
Morris,
actor
(SNL, Martin, Carwash), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
51- Lisa Marie
Presley Keough Jackson,
daughter
of Elvis, born in Memphis, Tennessee
48- Michael C.
Hall,
American
actor (Dexter, Six Feet Under), born in Raleigh, NC
32- Rhonda Rousey,
MMA
fighter
25- Harry Styles,
British
pop singer (One Direction), born in Redditch, England
Historical Obits Today
@88-2013
Ed Koch,
American
congressman and New York City Mayor (1977-89)
@88-1981
Donald Wills Douglas,
American
aircraft industrialist (McConnell Douglas) and
aviation
pioneer (Douglas DC-3)
@83-2014
Maximilian Schell,
Swiss-Austrian
actor (Judgment at Nuremberg, The Pedestrian)
@80-1966
Hedda Hopper
[Elda
Furry],
American
gossip columnist
@72-1980
Jack Bailey,
TV
host (Queen for a Day)
@70-1966
Buster Keaton,
American
actor and comedian (Navigator, Steamboat Bill Jr,
The
General),
dies
of lung cancer
@53-1851
Mary Shelley,
English
novelist (Frankenstein),
dies
of a brain tumor
