Feb 22,
2021 Week: 8 Day: 53 Visibility:
10 miles
Local: H 41°\
L 14°\Ave. Sky Cover: 5% Wind: 8mph/ Gusts:
13mph
Nearest
Lightning:3397 mi. Low Risk of Fire: Active
fire: 280mi
Record: 64°[2002] Record: -10°[1955]
Feb.
Averages: 47°/19° (5 days with moisture)
Today’s
Quote
Love is an act of endless
forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
~Peter Ustinov
Random Tidbits
Amalie Materna, who
played Brunnhilde during Wagner's lifetime (1876), may be the first proverbial
"fat lady".
A Little Humor
Why can’t you play cards on a rowboat?
Because you're sitting on the deck.
True Things
Man breaks record for
opening cans with mouth
An Ontario man broke a
Guinness World Record -- but not any teeth -- when he used his jaws to bite
open 24 full beverage cans in 1 minute. Chucky Mady, 32, an mixed martial arts
fighter from Windsor, was recorded on video using his powerful jaws to rip the
tops off the cans, causing soda to spray all over him and the surrounding area.
"I've been doing it for years -- I started when I was 16," Mady said.
"Just messing around. Party tricks." Mady said it was several years
later before he decided to take on the world record. "One day, I was
watching Guinness World Records Gone Wild on TV. There was this guy, Ryan
Stock, who was doing it. His record was 11 cans in 1 minute, and I was like: 'I
can do that.'" Guinness confirmed Mady set the new record at 24 cans.
Presidential Trivia
Long, long before becoming president or even senator, Obama worked
a summer job at a Baskin-Robbins. Sounds sweet, but the former president said
it actually made him dislike ice cream. Instead, he prefers chocolate-peanut
protein bars or caramels.
Donald Trump made several TV cameos in the'90s.
These days, most of us are used to seeing Donald Trump on our
screens. But he's no newbie to television: In addition to The Apprentice, Trump
appeared in a slew of television shows and movies in the'90s, including Home
Alone, The Nanny, and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
Weekly Observations
|
Bird Health Awareness Week Link |
21-27 |
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Lent [Christian] |
17-4/3 |
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National
FFA Week Link |
20-27 |
Today’s Observations
For The Love of Mike Day
George Washington's Birthday
International World Thinking Day
Museum Advocacy Day:
22-23 Link
National Cook a Sweet Potato Day
National Cupcake Day
(Canada) Link
National Margarita Day Link
National Wildlife Day Link
Play More Cards Day Link
Recreational Sports and Fitness Day
Shrove Monday
Single Tasking Day
Tex Avery Day Link
Walking the Dog Day
Woolworth's Day [founded in 1879]
World Thinking Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Cold front has moved out…nice sunny day…a good day for a long walk! So
nice to enjoy the outdoors.
One of our Focus Travelers lives in Broomfield. When I saw the news
report of debris falling from that Hawaii-bound United flight I texted her.
Thankfully, it was not her area of Broomfield. It was good to hear there were
no injuries on the flight or on the ground. NTSB will eventually figure out
what happened, so it won’t happen again.
I am glad I don’t live in Texas right now. First, they get hit with
snow and ice. Then the power and water infrastructure fail. Now the power
company has raised the I’m glad I don’t live in Texas. The snow and ice devastated
many. Then the power and water infrastructure failed. Just as power was being
restored the cost of a megawatt of electricity was raised. In December, a
megawatt cost about $50 and the average home paid about $125/month. The cost is
February is reported to be $9000/megawatt. No wonder Ted and his family took a
vacation in Cancun and left their dog in their cold house with food and water.
I’m at a loss for words.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
I weaken all men for hours each day. I show you strange visions while
you are away. I take you by night, by day take you back. None suffer to have
me, but do from my lack. What am I?
Historical Events
1620 – Popcorn was introduced to the English colonists by an Indian
named Quadequina.
1651 – St. Peter’s Flood (I): A storm surge flooded the Frisian
(Germany/Netherlands) coast, drowning 15,000 people.
1759 – Today is the day that middle class 27-year-old George
Washington married a rich widow (also 27) Martha Dandridge Curtis, and became a
wealthy man (he was already a war hero).
1819 – Spanish minister Don 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.
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.
1893 – The Record of a Sneeze was filmed by Thomas Edison. It was the
first film ‘close up‘.
1956 – Elvis Presley debuted on the music charts with Heartbreak
Hotel.
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.
2006 – iTunes sold its 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
@91 – Robert Young, actor
[Father Knows Best] (d. 1998)
@89 – Sheldon Leonard, American
actor, director and producer (d. 1997)
@83 – Robert Baden-Powell, British
founder of the boy Scouts (and Girl Guides) (d. 1941)
@82 – Rembrandt Peale, American
painter (d. 1860)
@77 – Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy, American
politician (d. 2009; brain cancer)
71 – Julius Erving, American basketball player and sportscaster
@67 – George Washington, American
patriot, general and politician, 1st President of the United States (d. 1799;
from medical bleeding)
@58 – Edna St. Vincent Millay (aka Nancy
Boyd), American poet, playwright (d. 1950; heart attack)
46 – Drew Barrymore, American actress, director, producer and
screenwriter
@44 – Steve Irwin,
Australian zoologist and television host (d. 2006; stingray)
@22 – Robert Wadlow, American,
tallest man ever recorded at 8 feet, 11.1 inches tall (d. 1940; autoimmune
disease)
Puzzle Answer
Sleep
