Feb 15

 

Happy President’s Day!

Feb 15, 2021     Week: 7               Day: 48                Visibility: 10 miles

Local: H 41°\ L 16°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5%                                    Wind:  6mph/ Gusts: 4mph

Nearest Lightning: 315mi.                                                 Very Low Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  349mi

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

Today’s Quote

Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for those who grieve, too short for those who rejoice, but for those who love, time is eternity. ~Henry Van Dyke

Random Tidbits

The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived, receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day.

In Medieval times, girls ate unusual foods on St. Valentine's Day to make them dream of their future husband.

A Little Humor

Q What do you call a stolen yam? A hot potato

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When I Wake Up In The Morning I Shake My Head. If It Rattles I Know I Still Have My Marbles

Presidential Trivia

Grover Cleveland served two terms, but they weren't back-to-back.

Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms, as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. He won his first election by a very narrow margin, lost the 1888 election to Benjamin Harrison, and then came back in 1892 after winning the popular vote.

Benjamin Harrison was the first White House occupant with electricity.

Harrison and his wife Caroline were the first occupants of the White House to enjoy the wonders of electricity. But as it was a new technology, the couple was afraid of being electrocuted by the light switch, so they regularly left the lights on all day and night.

William McKinley was very forgiving towards his attempted assassin.

McKinley's reaction to being shot is unlike anything you've ever heard. He was shot in the torso by an anarchist in 1901 in a receiving line, and as they took him away, he said,"Don't let them hurt him," referring to a mob that was forming around the would-be assassin. He later said the shooter was,"some poor misguided fellow," and"he didn't know, poor fellow, what he was doing. He couldn't have known."

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

Angelman Syndrome Day Link
Fasching: 15-16
Love Reset Day
Lupercalia
National Chewing Gum Day

National Gumdrop Day Link
National Hippo Day Link
President's Day 

Remember The Maine Day
Shrovetide: 14-16 

Singles Awareness Day

Susan B Anthony Day

Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show: 15-16

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

The storm was quick and left just enough snow to barely cover the ground. But moisture is moisture and I ain’t complaining. Still no side effects from the Moderna vaccine. One down, One to go.

After watching most of the impeachment procedure there is a difference between Civil Disobedience and Criminal Activity. Our country needs a clear and concise definition of each, so that law enforcement, politicians, and everyday people can recognize the difference. Until that happens, this country is going to experience turmoil. I would also be beneficial to define clearly and concisely ‘peaceful’ and ‘non-peaceful’. I’m hoping for the best.

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

Lovely and round, I shine with pale light, grown in the darkness, A lady’s delight. What am I?

Historical Events

1758 – Mustard was first advertised for sale in America, by Benjamin Jackson, in Philadelphia, PA.

1764 – The city of St. Louis was established in Spanish Louisiana (now in Missouri, USA).

1879 – US President Rutherford B. Hayes signed a bill allowing female attorneys to argue cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

1898 – An explosion sank the battleship, USS Maine, in Cuba’s Havana harbor, killing 260 of the fewer than 400 American crew members aboard, sparking the Spanish-American war.

1903 – The first Teddy Bear was introduced in Brooklyn, NY.

1932 – George Burns and Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on The Guy Lombardo Show on CBS radio.

1950 – Disney’s Cinderella cartoon feature opened in theaters. It was one of the biggest films of the year and was theatrically re-released several times- 1957, 1965, 1973, 1981, and 1987.

1953 – The first American to win the women’s world figure skating championship was 17-year-old Tenley Albright.

1961 – The whole 18-member U.S. figure skating team was killed in a plane crash in Berg-Kampenhout, Belgium. The team was on its way to the 1961 World Figure Skating Championships in Prague, Czechoslovakia.

1965 – The flag we know today, the red and white maple leaf was designed as the new flag of Canada. Prior to that, the official flag was Britain’s Union Jack.

1992 – Serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced in Milwaukee to life in prison.

2001 – The first draft of the complete human genome was published in Nature.

2003 – It was estimated that between 8,000,000-30,000,000 people in 600 cities worldwide… the protest of the Iraq War was the largest protest in the history of the world.

2005 – YouTube was activated online.

2013 – A meteor exploded in the sky over Russia’s Ural Mountains, near Chelyabinsk, shattering glass and setting off car alarms for miles. Also, asteroid DA14 came with 18,000 miles of Earth.

2011 US President Barack Obama awards writer and activist Maya Angelou the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

2019 US President Donald Trump declares a national emergency to divert funds to build a border wall, after signing bipartisan spending agreement to avoid another government shutdown.

2020 Beijing orders people returning to the city after Lunar New Year holiday to self-quarantine for 14 days to prevent spread of Covid-19.

Birthdays Today

@100 – Miep Gies (Hermine Santruschitz), Austrian/Hungarian citizen, protected Anne Frank’s family and held Anne’s diary (d. 2010)

@98 – Irena Sendler, Polish social worker saved 2,500 Jewish children from Warsaw (d. 2007)

@90 – Charles Lewis Tiffany, American jeweler (d. 1902)

@86 – Susan B. Anthony, American suffragist and activist (d. 1906)

@86 – Cesar Romero, American actor (died in 1994)

@81 – Harvey Korman, American comedic actor (d. 2008)

@77 – Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer, physicist, mathematician (d. 1642)

@77 – John Sutter, owned the property that started The California Gold Rush (d. 1880)

@75 – Cyrus McCormick, American and businessman, co-founded International Harvester (d. 1884; stroke)

@73 – Henry E. Steinway, German-American businessman, founded Steinway & Sons (d. 1871)

70 – Jane Seymour, English-American actress

@33 – Chris Farley, American comedic actor (d. 1997; OD)

Puzzle Answer

A pearl