Feb 3

 

 

Feb  3, 2021  Week: 5  Day: 34	Local:  H 52°\ L 29 °\Ave. Sky Cover: 60%
Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  10mph	Very Low Risk of Fire  Active fire:  59mi
Nearest lightning:  2367mi.;	Record: 64°[1953]   Record: -22°[1922]
Visibility:  10mi	Feb. Averages: 47°/19° (5 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), Nichomachean Ethics

Random Tidbits

The very first Superbowl took place on January 15th, 1967, with a halftime show featuring The Three Stooges, The University of Arizona and Grambling State marching bands, and two men in jetpacks. Bill Suitor and Robert Courter flew around the stadium for about 22 seconds - the maximum flight time of the jetpacks - reaching as high as 60 feet and wowing the crowd.

Dueling was a sport at the 1906 Olympics and 1908 Olympics.

A Little Humor

Q Why did the germ cross the microscope? To get to the other slide!

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I asked my date to meet me at the gym- but she didn’t show up. Guess the two of us aren’t going to work out.

True Things

Seen one eat a rockin' chair one time.

A woman out fishing with friends on her boat off the coast of Florida captured video of a large great white shark that approached the vessel and took a bite out of a motor. Erika Almond said she and her friends were fishing for amberjack about 65 miles south-southwest of Tampa Bay in her 34-foot SeaVee, named "Offshore Therapy," when the great white shark approached. "It was breathtaking. It came right up and took a chunk out of one of our motors," Almond said. She said shark sightings are not unusual in the area, but this experience was unique. "It's not unusual, we expect sharks when you're fishing and chumming like that but what made this unique was it was about a 14- to 16-foot great white shark. We couldn't believe what we were seeing," she said. Almond said Capt. Tyler Levesque was at one point able to reach down and touch the shark. "At one point he even rolled over like he wanted us to rub his belly," Almond said of the shark. Almond said that, despite the minor damage to her boat, she is grateful for the encounter. "We knew it was a special moment," she said. "It's truly an amazing experience to see all the things we see offshore and you never know what you're going to find."

Monthly Observations

 

International Boost Self-Esteem Month International Expect Success Month International Hoof-care Month International Month of Black Women in The Arts  Link International Prenatal Infection Prevention Month Link Jobs in Golf Month Link Library Lovers Month Love The Bus Month Link Marfan Syndrome Awareness Month Marijuana Awareness Month Link

 

Weekly Observations

Sundance Film Festival	28-2/7
Catholic Schools Week	31-2/6
Meat Week	31-2/6
National School Counseling Week  Link International Networking Week   Pride in Foodservice Week  Link Tax Identity Theft Week Link	1-5
Cordova Ice Worm Days: Link	1-6
African Heritage & Health Week: Children's Mental Health Week   Link  Tinnitus Awareness Week  Link   Women's Heart Week	1-7
American Camp Week	2-4
Dump Your Significant Jerk Week National Stationery Week: Cancelled Publicity for Profit Week	2-8

 

Today’s Observations

American Painters Day

Feed the Birds Day  Link
Four Chaplains Memorial Day
Golden Retriever Day

Global School Play Day Link 
Missing Persons Day

National Carrot Cake Day

National Girls & Women in Sports Day 
National Signing Day for College Football Link 
National Missing Person's Day  Link
National Women's Physicians Day  Link
The Day the Music Died - Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, the Big Bopper died in a plane crash in 1959.

Womens Physicians Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

It has warmed up very nicely today. About 5:00am this morning I was awakened to a ‘thud’. I didn’t hear any more so I went back to sleep. When I got up at 6:30 I went to my office and opened the curtains. All the icicles out the window were laying on the short roof over my front porch. It is nice to have a full view again.

When the Groundhog came out, all he saw were masks on everyone, so it is 6 more weeks of staying home.

Congress has a tough call…Rep Taylor-Greene, the Qanon lady in Congress, is a first term Representative who was just elected in November. Her views were well known by many of her voters who decided she was the best candidate for the office. Expelling her cancels the votes from the 14^th District in Georgia. Not expelling her leaves her crazy theories as a Representative of the US.

Eight of the rioters who were inside the Capitol screaming ‘Stop the Steal’ have been arrested. It has been learned since their arrest that none of the eight voted in the 2020 Presidential election. Hmmm.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I am taken from a mine, and shut up in a wooden case, from which I am never released, and yet I am used by almost everybody. What am I?

Historical Events

1690 – The first paper money in America was issued today, in the Colony of Massachusetts.

1783 – During the American Revolutionary War, Spain recognized the United States independence.

1809 – The Territory of Illinois was created by the 10th United States Congress.

1834 -Wake Forest University was established in North Carolina.

]1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to male citizens regardless of race.

1913 – The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect an income tax.

1891 – The official electrical lighting of London streets commenced.

1889 – Outlaw Belle Starr was murdered in Oklahoma, shot twice in the back.

1943 – The SS Dorchester is sunk by a German U-boat. Only 230 of 902 men aboard survive; the event is described in the the Four Chaplains Story.

1947 – The coldest weather ever recorded in North America was at Snag, Yukon: -63 °C or -81 °F.

1953 – Jacques Cousteau’s book The Silent World was published.

1959 – Rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa.

1971 – New York Police Officer Frank Serpico was shot during a drug bust in Brooklyn and survived to testify against police corruption.

2009 – Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling was made a knight of the Légion d’Honneur, which is France’s highest civilian award.

2009 Eric Holder becomes 82nd and 1st African American US Attoney General, succeeding Michael Mukasey

2016 US President Barack Obama visits his first US mosque - the Islamic Society of Baltimore mosque in Maryland

2018 Moscow has its heaviest snowfall in a day on record, killing one and bringing down 2,000 trees

2019 Pope Francis arrives in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, on the first ever papal visit to the Arabian peninsula

2020 Cruise ship Diamond Princess with 3700 passengers quarantined in Yokohama port, Japan after cases of COVID-19 found on board

Birthdays Today

@96 – Henry Heimlich, American physician, author (d. 2016)

@94 – George Nissen, gymnast. The inventor of the Trampoline (d. 2010)

@90 – James A. Michener, American author and (d. 1997)

@89 – Joey Bishop [Joseph Abraham Gottlieb ], American actor (d. 2007)

@84 – Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator (d. 1978)

@79 – John Ford [John Feeney], American film director (d. 1973)

78 – Blythe Danner, American actress

@72 – Gertrude Stein, American novelist, poet, playwright, (d. 1946; stomach cancer)

71 – Morgan Fairchild, American actress

65 – Nathan Lane, American actor and comedian

@61 – Horace Greeley, American journalist, abolitionist, politician (d. 1872)

@46 – Beau Biden, American soldier and politician (d. 2015; cancer)

@43 – Victor Buono, American actor (d. 1982; heart attack)

 

Puzzle Answer

Pencil lead