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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
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
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
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
