Feb 28

 

Week: 10 Day: 59	Ave. Sky Cover:  15% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   43°\ 3° Wind: 12mph\ Gusts: 18mph	Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 317mi. \ Lightning: 1816mi.
Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

 

28 - 3/1	Isra Al Mi'Raj Carnival 28-3/1
28-3/4	National Invasive Species Awareness Week Link

 

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Snow slowly melting.

Last night was a great discussion. We had 3 new couples attend along with our regulars. The meeting usually about 9pm after 2-hour discussion. We agreed that there needs to be more media attention to demographics. Someone needs to be in the media and make demographics an interesting topic. It is so much more than numbers. Last night we didn’t end until 10. I’ll miss the next meeting as I will hopefully be in Tahiti.

I was pleased to see that the Dept. of Interior is working hard to get rid of geographic terms that are derogatory terms. There are almost 700 place designations that are derogatory to various cultures. The most common is the term ‘squ*w’, which refers to female genitalia. We all remember the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squ*w Valley, CA. It will soon be known as ‘Palisades Tahoe’. Lots more will be changing too. About time.

Today is my birthday. I’ll be having lunch with some friends and enjoying the day. No candles as it would definitely be a fire hazard.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

If Apple made a car what would be missing?

Windows

Trivia

Q: Of What Tribe Was Boadicea the Head?

 

Q: In Which City Was John F Kennedy Assassinated?

 

Q: Of which ship was Miles Standish captain?

Q: Which US state in 1907 was the last to declare Christmas a legal holiday?

 

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Iceni: in ancient Britain, a tribe that occupied the territory of present-day Norfolk and Suffolk and, under its queen Boudicca (Boadicea), revolted against Roman rule.

Answer 2: Dallas

Answer 3: The Mayflower

Answer4: Oklahoma

 

Historical Events

W                 1066 – Westminster Abbey opened

W                 1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc was executed on the order of conquistador Hernán Cortés.

W                 1784 – John Wesley chartered the first Methodist Church in the United States.

W                 1844 – The USS Princeton exploded while demonstrating a gun, killing five people, and injuring many more.

W                 1854 – The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. It was primarily anti-slavery people.

W                 1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was incorporated in New York, as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone.

W                 1935 – Wallace Carothers discovered Nylon while working at DuPont.

W                 1947 – The 228 Incident in Taiwan resulted in protests and rioting. Between 10,000 and 20,000 people were killed.

W                 1953 – Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announced that they had found the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.

W                 1983 – CBS sitcom M*A*S*H ended after 11 seasons, airing a special two-and-a-half-hour episode watched by 77% of the television viewing audience.

W                 2002 – Sotheby’s auction house announced that Peter Paul Reubens was the creator of the painting The Massacre of the Innocents, not Jan van den Hoecke as previously believed.

W                 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigned as the pope of the Catholic Church – the first pope to do so since 1415.

Birthdays Today

@93 – Linus Carl Pauling, American chemist and biochemist (d. 1994)

@90 – Gavin MacLeod, American actor (d. 2021)

@81 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist [Steve Canyon] (d. 1988)

74 – Bernadette Peters, American actress, singer

69 – Paul Krugman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

67 – Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian and actor

@65 – Charles ‘Bubba’ Smith, American football player and actor (d. 2011; CTE)

65 – John Turturro, American actor

@62 – Zero Mostel, American actor and comedian (d. 1977; aneurysm)

61 – Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian-American actress

46 – Ali Larter, American actress

45 – Jason Aldean, American singer-songwriter

@41 – Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947; shot)