Jan 16

 

 

Feb16 , 2021     Week: 7               Day:47                  Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 52°\ L 27°\Ave. Sky Cover: 70%                          Wind:  12mph/ Gusts: 29mph

Nearest Lightning: 1416mi.                                                      Very Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  349mi

Record: 70°[1977]  Record: -3°[1990] 

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

Today’s Quote

Life is the flower for which love is the honey.

~Victor Hugo

A Little Humor

Q Why did the bacteriologist quit her job?

She hated being microbe-managed.

Presidential Trivia

Theodore Roosevelt gave a speech right after being shot.

Teddy Roosevelt was one tough guy. Need proof? He was shot at close range shortly before giving a campaign speech in 1912, but instead of heading straight to the hospital, he stayed there to give his planned speech — with the bullet still lodged in his body.

William Howard Taft never got stuck in a bathtub.

Popular legend would have you believe that Taft is the president who got stuck in a White House bathtub, but that's actually not true. However, he did have an embarrassing bathtub incident at a hotel in New Jersey. The bath water displaced by his body flooded the floor in his room and trickled onto the heads of guests in the downstairs dining room.

Woodrow Wilson was the first president to give an address using broadcast radio.

Although Wilson was obviously used to public speaking, he was reportedly very anxious about giving his the "first live, remote, nationwide radio broadcast," in which he honored the anniversary of Armistice Day and outlined a vision for America.

Weekly Observations

Date (Fruit) Week Great Backyard Bird Count Link	12-21
World Irish Dancing Week National Entrepreneurship Week Link	13-20
Children of Alcoholics Week  Link  International Flirting Week   Jell-O Week   Love a Mensch Week  National Secondhand Wardrobe Week: 14-20  Through With The Chew   Link	14-20
National Condom Week National Nestbox Week NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week	14-21
Learning Disabilities Week	15-18
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link	15-20

 

Today’s Observations

Do a Grouch a Favor Day

International Pancake Day  
Kyoto Protocol Day Link
Mardi Gras  / Fat Tuesday / Paczki Day [Poland] 
National Almond Day Link
National Buna Day Link
National Innovation Day

Pancake Day Race Cancelled
Shrovetide: 14-16 

Travel Africa Day 

Fasching: 15-16 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Clouds are assembling across the sky. Precipitation expected tomorrow. Not a lot, but every little bit helps.

One of my doctors wanted a little more blood. Went to the hospital and had a good experience. The tech from the last visit was friendly and courteous. She even called me by my first name. She even looked down at the floor and said it took a couple of hours to clean up the dry blood. The blood draw was quick, and I was out of there, wishing both ladies a great week.

The GOP is not a happy bunch right now.  It looks like any party member in power who did not fully support Trump since the election can expect to be censured by their state party. The numbers keep growing. Sad.

‘1A’ on NPR had a great review of the current Mars missions. The US has a rover that will land and be able to actually bring back samples in a couple of years. Previous US missions only allowed computers on board the rover to gather data. When the samples are bought back, for the first time in human history, many humans will be able to touch Mars Rocks. WOW! In addition to the US Rover, China and the UAE are currently in orbit around Mars, preparing to land their own equipment. Cool.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

My voice is tender, my waist is slender, and I’m often invited to play.

Yet wherever I go I must take my bow or else I have nothing to say.

What am I?

Historical Events

1852 – Studebaker Brothers wagon company was established.

1883 – Ladies Home Journal magazine began publication.

1894 – Gunslinger John Wesley Hardin is pardoned after spending 15 years in a Texas prison for murder. Hardin shot and killed a man just for snoring, by firing through the wall at the sleeping snorer.

1923 – Howard Carter unsealed the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

1959 – Fidel Castro was sworn in as prime minister of Cuba after leading a Communist guerrilla campaign that forced dictator Fulgencio Batista into exile.

1968 – Haleyville, Alabama was the first town to use the 911 emergency number.

1983 – The Ash Wednesday brushfires in Southern Australia took the lives of 71 people, becoming Australia’s worst fire ever.

2005 – The National Hockey League canceled the entire 2004-2005 regular season and playoffs.

2006 – The last Mobile army surgical hospital (MASH) was decommissioned by the United States Army.

2018 More than 100,00 orangutans killed in Borneo since 1999 according to study published in "Current Biology".

2018 National state of emergency declared in Ethiopia in wake of anti-government protests.

2019 Pope Francis defrocks ex-cardinal and archbishop of Washington Theodore McCarrick for sexually abusing minors and adults. First Cardinal to be removed for sexual abuse.

2020 'Ghost ship' cargo vessel MV Alta washed up on the Irish coast near Ballycotton by Storm Dennis, after drifting across the Atlantic from Bermuda for 2 years.

Birthdays Today

@75 – Edgar Bergen, American actor, ventriloquist (d. 1978; kidney failure)

@73 – Hugh Beaumont, American actor (d. 1982; heart attack)

70 – Kim Jong-il, Korean dictator (d. 2011; heart attack?)

@67 – Robert Joseph Flaherty, American ‘Father of the Documentary Film’ (d. 1951)

63 – LeVar Burton, German-born American actor, director, and producer

63 – Ice-T [Tracy Lauren Marrow], American rapper and actor

@62 – Sonny Bono, American actor, singer, politician (d. 1998; skiing)

31 – The Weekend [Abel Makkonen Tesfaye], Canadian singer Superbowl XV

Puzzle Answer

A violin