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Week: 8 Day: 45 |
Ave. Sky Cover: 5% Visibility: 10 miles |
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Local Temp:
56°\ 18° Wind: 0mph\ Gusts: 1mph |
High risk of
fire Active fire: 132mi.
\ Lightning: 1879mi. |
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Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days
w/moisture) |
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♥♥♥♥ Happy Valentine’s Day ♥♥♥♥
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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4-20 |
Winter Olympics XXIV |
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7-14 |
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week Link |
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7-14 |
Risk Awareness Week |
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8-14 |
Love Makes the World Go Round; but Laughter Keeps Us From
Getting Dizzy Week |
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11-20 |
Date (Fruit) Week |
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12-19 |
National Entrepreneurship Week Link |
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13-19 |
Children of Alcoholics Week Link Random Acts of Kindness Week Link |
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14-21 |
National Condom Week |
Daily Observations
My
Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice
winter day…After a walk through the neighborhood, I hopped in my vehicle to
check out the drive to the County Courthouse downtown. I may have to do jury
duty there on Tuesday. I needed to check out the possible parking in the area.
I hate downtown parking as there are no lots or structures and street parking
is a mess. I get free parking for jury duty but finding a spot will be a
challenge at 8a on Tuesday.
I had read
that all the snow at the Olympics was man-made snow. I was happily surprised when
I watched some snowboarding where it was snowing. Then the next day it was snowing
at the downhill events. For me, the snowstorms add to the challenge.
Arizona became
a state on Valentine’s Day 1912. Time to celebrate.
Favorite Memes
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A bit of Humor
How does a
nut sneeze?
Cashew!
Trivia
Q: The
Denver ____?
Question:
What is the highest-grossing holiday movie of all time?
Q: Which
programming language shares its name with an island in Indonesia?
Q: What is
the nationality of Picasso?
ANSWERS:
Answer 1:
Broncos
Answer 2:
Home Alone
Answer 3:
Java
Answer 4:
Spanish
Historical Events
W
278 –
Valentine, a priest in Rome in the days of Emperor Claudius II, was beheaded
for performing (illegal at the time) marriage ceremonies.
W
1849 – The
first photograph of a US President, James Polk, was taken in Washington, DC.
W
1903 – The
United States Department of Commerce and Labor is established (it was later
split into the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor).
W
1920 – The
League of Women Voters formed in Chicago, IL.
W
1929 – Four
men came in, dressed as police at Bugsy Moran’s headquarters on North Clark
Street in Chicago, killing seven of Bugs’s men in what is called the St.
Valentine’s Day Massacre. Moran was a rival of Al Capone.
W
1930 – The
Maltese Falcon, by Dashiell Hammett was published.
W
1946 – The
ENIAC Computer was introduced.
W
1949- The
Knesset (parliament of Israel) convened for the first time.
W
1962 – First
Lady Jacqueline Kennedy gave a tour of the White House on CBS television.
W
1989 – Union
Carbide agreed to pay $470 million to the Indian government for damages it
caused in the 1984 Bhopal disaster.
W
2005 –
Youtube.com was launched.
Birthdays Today
@80 – Jack Benny [Benjamin
Kubelsky], American
comedic actor (d. 1974)
@77 – Frederick Douglass, former slave, orator,
writer (d. 1895; heart attack)
71 – Terry Gross,
American radio host
62 – Meg Tilly,
American actress
52 – Simon Pegg,
English actor, director and producer
@37 – George Ferris, American engineer, inventor,
created the Ferris Wheel (d. 1896; typhoid)
30 – Freddie
Highmore, English actor
