Feb 22

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Feb. 22, 2020 Week: 8 Day: 53

86004: H 56° \ L 35° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%

Nearest lightning: 2642mi.; Nearest active fire: 523mi.

Wind: 4mph\Gusts: 7mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 54°[2002] Record Low: -10°[1955]

Feb. Averages: 47°\19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s LOVE Quote

Sometimes when you look back on a situation,

you realize it wasn't all you thought it was.

A beautiful girl walked into your life. You fell in love.

Or did you? Maybe it was only a childish infatuation, or maybe just a brief moment of vanity.

Henry Bromel

Random Tidbits

Strict security measures are in place to keep Fort Knox secure. That means no one person knows the entire entry combination to access the gold vault. Instead, the information is divided up among several people. Even information about who knows a piece of the combination is classified.

Guarding Fort Knox and its gold reserves are members of the United States Mint Police. Established in 1792, the Mint Police organization is one of the country's oldest federal law enforcement agencies. Before being tasked with guarding the gold, each member of the Mint Police must go through a three-month training regiment, followed by a five-week specialized training in the field.

Observations This Week

Date (Fruit) Week: 14-23
National Entrepreneurship Week: 15-22 Link
National FFA Week: 15-22 Link 
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week: 16-23
National Engineers Week: 16-22
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week: 16-22 Link
Random Acts of Kindness Week: 16-23 Link 

American Birkenbreiner Race: 20-23
Texas Cowboy Poetry Gathering: 21-22

Observations for Today

Be Humble Day

George Washington's Birthday

International World Thinking Day

National Cook a Sweet Potato Day

National Margarita Day Link

National Wildlife Day
 

Single Tasking Day

Walking the Dog Day

Women in Blue Jeans Days  Link

Woolworth's Day

World Sword Swallowers Day

World Thinking Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice early spring day...awaiting snow tomorrow night.

Our discussion group meets tomorrow to discuss Climate change and global order. Got a lot of reading to do today and tomorrow. Should be a good discussion.

Getting excited about my next trip to Tahiti and more including Bora Bora. A little early to start laying stuff out, but I'm really ready for some warm daily weather.

I sure hope that the missing children will be found now that mom is in jail in Hawaii with a huge bond.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Here is a clue with numerals and letters; you have to figure out what the letters stand for.

Ex. 360 D in a C = 360 degrees in a circle

1. 101 D

2. 206 B in the HB

3. 88 K on a P

4. 30 C on the D

5. 118 E in the PT

Historical Events

1620 - Popcorn was introduced to the English colonists by an Indian named Quadequina.

1759 - Today is the day that middle class 27 year old George Washington married rich widow (also 27) Martha Dandridge Curtis, and became a wealthy man (he was already a war hero).

1819 - Spanish minister Do Luis de Onis and U.S. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams signed the Florida Purchase Treaty, giving the United States control of all of Florida.

1853 - Washington University in St. Louis was founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.

1855 - Pennsylvania State University was founded in State College, Pennsylvania (as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania)

1872 - The Prohibition Party held its first national convention in Columbus, Ohio, nominating James Black as its presidential nominee.

1879 - The first F.W. Woolworth's Five& Dime opened in Utica, NY. It became the first chain store.

1924 - President Calvin Coolidge delivered the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House.

1956 - Elvis Presley debuted on the music charts with Heartbreak Hotel.

1960 - # 1 Hit : Percy Faith - Theme from 'A Summer Place'

1974 - Samuel Byrck unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate President Richard Nixon.

1975 - # 1 Hit : Average White Band - Pick Up the Pieces

1980 - The 'Miracle on Ice' - The US Men's Hockey Team won a 4-3 victory over the Soviet Union at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York. Two days later, the Americans went on to beat Finland and take home the gold medal.

1997 Dolly the Sheep, world's first cloned mammal (from an adult cell) is announced by the Roslin Institute in Scotland

2006 - iTunes sold it's BILLIONTH music download. 16 year old Alex Ostrovsky of West Bloomfield, bought "Speed of Sound" by Coldplay. He later got a phone call from Steve Jobs and won a lot of iPod and Mac stuff.

2006 - At least six men staged Britain's biggest bank robbery ever stealing the equivalent of 92 million American dollars from a security depot in Tonbridge, Kent.

2017 US President Donald Trump overturns Obama directive on Transgender rights to use toilets

2018 Neanderthals not humans were the first artists on Earth, producing red cave paintings 65,000 years ago in Spain, according to new research published in "Science"

Birthdays Today

@96 - Don Pardo, American radio and television announcer (died in 2014)

@91 - Robert Young, American actor (died in 1998)

@89 - Sheldon Leonard, American actor, director and producer (died in 1997)

@83 - Robert Baden-Powell, British founder of the boy Scouts (and Girl Guides) (died in 1941)

@77 - Edward Kennedy, American politician (died in 2009; cancer)

70 - Julius Erving, American basketball player and sportscaster

@67 - George Washington, American patriot, general and politician, 1st President of the United States (died in 1799; following blood letting)

@58 - Edna St. Vincent Millay (aka Nancy Boyd), American poet and playwright (died in 1950; fall)

@44 - Steve Irwin, Australian zoologist and television host (died in 2006; stingray barb)

44 - Drew Barrymore, American actress, director, producer and screenwriter

Puzzle Answer:

1. 101 Dalmatians

2. 206 bones in the human body

3. 88 keys on a piano

4. 30 companies on the Dow

5. 118 elements in the periodic table