Feb 15

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Feb 15, 2019 Week: 07 \ Day: 46

86004 Today: H 38° \ L 28° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  13mph Visibility: 2 mi

Record High: 65°[1996]   Record Low: -10°[1942]

FebAverages: 45°\19°

Today’s Quote

The sky lovingly smiles on the earth and her children.

Henry Morton Stanley

Random Tidbits

The symbolism of the pyramid on the Great Seal's reverse is trickier. The pyramid has 13 steps the designers apparently never got tired of the 13 motif and the Roman numeral for 1776 is emblazoned across the bottom. The all-seeing Eye of Providence at the top of the pyramid symbolizes the divine help the early Americans needed in establishing the new country. The pyramid itself symbolizes strength and durability.

Observances This Week

Children of Alcoholics Week: 10-16 Link 
International Friendship Week: 10-16 Link
Jell-O Week: 10-16 
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week: 10-16
International Flirting Week: 10-16
Freelance Writer Appreciation Week: 11-15
Love a Mensch Week: 11-17
National Green Week: 11-15 Link
American Association For The Advancement of Science Week: 14-17  Link
National Condom Week: 14-21 Link
National Nestbox Week: 14-21
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week: 14-21
Date (Fruit) Week: 15-24
Great Backyard Bird Count: 15-18 Link

Observances for Today

Angelman Syndrome Day Link
Annoy Squidward Day (aka Your Boss) Link
Love Reset Day
Lupercalia
National Caregivers Day Link
National Gum Drop Day  Link
National Hippo Day Link
No One Eats Alone Day Link
Remember The Maine Day
 Singles Awareness Day

Susan B Anthony Day

World Information Architecture Day Link  Link 
Women in Blue Jeans Days thru 16 Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Weatherman got it right…lots of rain, wet rain, much needed rain. There has already been ½” and it’s still coming down. So needed in our beautiful National Forest. Who care if it’s still February.

Headed out to Sam’s in the rain, got gas, got cookies, got wet.

OMG…A National Emergency because he didn’t get the wall. Hmmm. He may have told Mitch, but I won’t believe it until he does it.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

BC’s

399 BC Philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by the city

            of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth of the

            city and for impiety

1700’s

1764 St. Louis, Missouri founded as a French trading post by

            Pierre Laclède

1768 1st mustard manufactured in America advertised,

            Philadelphia

1799 1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania

1900’s

1903 1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris

            & Rose Michtom

1913 1st avant-garde art show in America opens in NYC

1917 San Francisco Public Library (Main Branch at Civic

            center) dedicated

1943 Wartime propaganda poster "We Can Do It!" produced

            by J. Howard Miller and posted on the walls of

            Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company's

            plants in the Midwest

1992 Jeffrey Dahmer found sane and guilty of killing 15 boys

2000’s

2011 US President Barack Obama awards writer and activist

            Maya Angelou the Presidential Medal of Freedom

2018 First known case of transgender woman breastfeeding

            reported in "Transgender Health Journal" in US

Birthdays Today

1564 Galileo Galilei,

Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer who has been called

the father of science, born in Pisa, Duchy of Florence, Italy

(d. 1642-@77)

1809 Cyrus McCormick,

American inventor and businessman (mechanical reaper),

born in Shenandoah Valley, Virginia

(d. 1884-@75)

1820 Susan B. Anthony,

American social reformer and women's suffrage movement

 leader, born in Adams, Massachusetts

(d. 1906-@86)

1909 Miep Gies,

Dutch biographer of Anne Frank

(d. 2010-@100)

1922 John B Anderson,

American Republican politician and presidential candidate (1980),

born in Rockford, Illinois

(d. 2017-@95)

1907 Cesar Romero,

American actor (Batman, Ocean's 11), born in NYC, New York

(d. 1994-@86)

1927 Harvey Korman,

American actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles),

born in Chicago, Illinois

(d. 2008-@81)

1964 Chris Farley,

US actor (SNL, Wayne's World, Coneheads),

born in Madison, Wisconsin

(d. 1997-@33-Cocaine OD)

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68- Jane Seymour

[Joyce Frankenberg],

British actress (Live and Let Die, Somewhere in Time, Dr Quinn),

born in London, England

65- Matt Groening,

American cartoonist and writer (Life in Hell, The Simpsons,

 Futurama), born in Portland, Oregon

45- Omarosa Manigault,

Reality TV, worked in White House

Historical Obits Today

@97-1967 J. Frank Duryea,

American inventor (Duryea Motor Wagon Company,

first auto built in the US)

@87-2002 Howard K. Smith,

American journalist

@83-2009 Phil Carey,

American actor (One Life to Live)

@76-1984 Ethel Merman,

singer/actress (Kid Million),

dies in her sleep while suffering brain cancer

@49-1965 Nat King Cole,

American singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa),

dies of cancer

@48-1973 Wallace "Wally" Cox,

American comedian and actor (Mister, Underdog, Peepers,

Hollywood Squares),

dies of a heart attack

@38-2002 Kevin Smith,

New Zealand actor (Ares-Hercules),

dies after falling from a prop tower