Feb 6

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Feb 6, 2019 Week: 06 \ Day: 37

86004 Today: H 34° \ L 24° \ Average Sky Cover: 95% 

Feels like: 23°

Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  18mph Visibility:  ½mi

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FebAverages: 45°\19°

Today’s Quote

What we really are matters more than

what other people think of us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

Random Tidbits

Eduard Haas III, the Austrian inventor of the flat, sort of chalky candy PEZ, came up with the name by riffing on the German word for peppermint—Pfefferminz. And to truly dominate trivia night,

One more: Renato Bialetti, the guy who popularized the stove-top, octagonal espresso maker that still bears his name, also asked that his remains be buried in the receptacle that was most important to him in life. When he died in 2016 at the age of 93, his ashes were placed in one of his pots and buried next to his late wife.

Observances This Week

Women's Heart Week: 1-7

Publicity for Profit Week: 2-8

African Heritage & Health Week: 3-9

Dump Your Significant Jerk Week: 3-9

Burn Awareness Week: 3-9 Link 

Children's Authors & Illustrators Week: 3-9

Children's Mental Health Week: 4-10 Link

National School Counseling Week: 4-8 Link

International Networking Week: 4-8

Observances for Today

Canadian Maple Syrup Day Link
International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation Link
Lame Duck Day
National Chopsticks Day

National Girls & Women in Sports Day 
National Signing Day Link
Play Monopoly Day  Link 

My Rambling Thoughts

It’s been snowing on and off since last night. We have about 2” of the predicted foot so far. The weather guy still sez a foot, so I guess this will continue to President’s Day.

Changed linens and towels this morning and washed and dried the dirty ones...even washed and dried  my great bamboo pillows.  Even used those scent packets for the pillows. What else to do on this snowy day?

This is interesting…each business has 100 employees. Half of those employees are undocumented. Business provides paperwork to show they are here legally. Who owns these 5 businesses? None other than 45’s family. Hmmm. And one of the former maids who cleaned 45’s residence at one of the golf clubs will be sitting in the House tonight during 45’s speech. Somehow, I don’t think he will recognize her during his speech. But I’ll watch it, just in case he does.

Wonder how Jared is doing with his Middle East Peace negotiations no that it has been announced that US military arms are passing through Saudi Arabia to the Yemen civil war and ending up in the ‘wrong’ hands. Hmmm.

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1800’s

1819 Stamford Raffles founds Singapore as a British trading

            port

1820 First 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the

            American Colonization Society start a settlement in

            present-day Liberia

1832 1st appearance of cholera in Edinburgh, Scotland

1840 The Treaty of Waitangi is signed between 40 Māori

            Chiefs (later signed by 500) and representatives of the

            British crown in Waitangi, New Zealand. The treaty was

            designed to share sovereignty between the two

            groups.

1843 The first minstrel show in the United States: The Virginia

            Minstrels opens (Bowery Amphitheatre in NYC).

1869 Harper's Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with

            chin whiskers

1894 Bottle opener patented by William Painter

1900’s

1935 "Monopoly" board game goes on sale for 1st time

1951 Radio commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to

            sneak into Argonne National Laboratory, a nuclear test

            site located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chicago

1971 The Irish Republican Army shoots and kills Gunner

            Robert Curtis, the first British soldier to die during the

            'Troubles'

1992 The Sámi people of the far northern Nordic countries

            have an official day celebrating their existence

1998 Washington National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan

            National Airport

2000’s

2018 Elon Musk's company SpaceX launches Falcon Heavy,

            world's most powerful rocket

Birthdays Today

1756 Aaron Burr,

3rd US Vice President (D-R: 1801-05)

killed Alexander Hamilton in a pistol duel,

born in Newark, New Jersey

(d. 1836-@80)

1893 Muhammad Zafrulla Khan,

President of UN General Assembly (1962-63),

born in Sialkot, Pakistan

(d. 1985-@92)

1895- George Herman "Babe" Ruth Jr.,

Baseball legend

(d/1948-@53-cancer)

1912 Eva Braun,

German mistress and wife of Adolf Hitler,

born in Munich, Germany

(d. 1945-@33-suicide)

1913 Mary Leakey,

British paleoanthropologist,

discovered earliest human footprints ((3.6 million years old),

born in London

(d. 1996-@83)

1911 Ronald Reagan,

40th US President (Republican: 1981-89) and

actor (Bedtime for Bonzo), born in Tampico, Illinois

(d. 2004-@93)

1917 Zsa Zsa Gabor

[Zsa Sari],

Hungarian-born actress (Queen of Outer Space),

born in Budapest

(d. 2016-@99)

1945 Bob Marley,

Jamaican reggae musician & singer-songwriter

(Wailers-No Woman), born in Nine Mile, Saint Ann, Jamaica

(d. 1981-@36-melanoma)

1950 Natalie Cole,

American vocalist (Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy),

born in Los Angeles, California

(d. 2015-@65-congestive heart failure)

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88- Mamie Van Doren,

American actress, model, singer, and sex symbol

(Teacher's Pet, The Navy vs. the Night Monsters),

born in Rowena, South Dakota

80- Mike Farrell,

American actor & director & activist

(M*A*S*H, Battered, Patch Adams),

born in Saint Paul, Minnesota

79- Tom Brokaw,

American news anchor (NBC Nightly News 1982-2004),

born in Webster, South Dakota

76- Fabian

[Fabiano Anthony Forte],

American vocalist (Turn Me Loose, Tiger),

born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

57- Axl Rose

[William Bailey],

American singer & songwriter (Guns & Roses-Sweet Child of

 MIne),

born in Lafayette, Indiana

Historical Obits Today

@102-2017 "Professor" Irwin Corey,

American comedian (Car Wash, Doc)

@79-1991 Danny Thomas,

comedian (Jazz Singer, Danny Thomas Show),

dies of a heart attack

@76-1994 Jack Kirby,

American cartoonist (X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk, Capt America),

dies of heart failure

@74-1996 Guy Madison

[Robert Moseley],

American actor (Wild Bill Hickok),

dies of emphysema

@68-1950 Frank Speck,

American Anthropologist (Algonquin Tribes and Eastern

Woodland Native Americans)

@56-1981 Hugo Montenegro,

American film music composer (Good, Bad,  and Ugly),

dies of emphysema

@56-1952 George VI,

King of the United Kingdom (1936-52),

dies of a coronary thrombosis

@49-1993 Arthur Ashe,

American tennis player (3 Grand Slam singles titles),

dies of AIDS related pneumonia at 49