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Almanac: Week: 06 \ Day: 034
February
Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 58°\L 24°
Average Sky Cover: 10% Ave. humidity: 68%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts: 24mph
Ave. High: 44° Record
High: 64° (1953)
Ave. Low: 18° Record
Low: -22° (1922)
Observances
Today:
African American Coaches Day
Four Chaplains Memorial Day-1943
Ice Worm Day
The Day The Music Died Cordova-1959
Observances This
Week:
Feb 1-7
African Heritage
& Health Week
Burn Awareness Week
Boy Scout Anniversary Week
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week
International Coaching Week
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend
Women's Heart Week
Feb 2-8
National School Counseling
Week
International Networking Week
Publicity for Profit Week
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Quote of
the Day
US Historical
Highlights for Today
1690 - 1st paper money in
America issued (colony of Mass)
1743 - Philadelphia
establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
1809 - Territory
of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
1834 - Wake
Forest University is established
1864 - Sherman's
march through Mississippi
1869 - Booth
Theater at 23rd & 6th opens in NYC (Romeo & Juliet)
1876 - Albert
Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official
baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1882 - Circus
owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1908 - Supreme
Court rules a union boycott violates Sherman Antitrust Act
1913 - 16th
Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
1941 - Supreme
Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets minimum wages & maximum
hours
1948 - Dick
Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
1967 - "Purple
Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix
1994
- President Bill Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
Today’s World
Events through History
1752 - Dutch
States-General forbids export of windmills
1783 - Spain
recognizes US independence
1815 - World's
first commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
1916 - Canada's
original Parliament buildings in Ottawa burn down
1928 - Paleoanthropologist Davidson
Black reports his findings on the ancient human fossils found at
Zhoukoudian, China in the journal Nature and declares them to be a new species
he names 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus')
1960 - "La
Dolce Vita" directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello Mastroianni
and Anita Anita Ekberg has its film premiere in Italy
1971 - OPEC mandates "total embargo"
against any company that rejects 55 percent tax rate
1972 - 11th
Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
1986 - The
Pope and Mother Teresa meet in Calcutta
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My Rambling
Thoughts
Sunshine continues…not very excited about 6 more weeks of winter…we’ll
see.
Interesting Super Bowl. Amazing last 2 minutes…high to low over a
play called by Seattle coach that made little sense. Oh well, only a game.
Ran a few errands and did a little cleaning. Ready for the rest of
the week.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Sometimes
this area is visible,
But more often than not it's intangible.
Countries have disputed these spaces,
Drawn treaties to dictate their extent.
Some people are said to have none,
Not knowing where to find them.
They can be found in nature,
Where water meets with land.
It is also a peak of Nevada,
The highest in that land.
So find me now if you can,
In the place between the beginning and the end.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country
Facts…
-- If NYC were its own country, and the NYPD was its army, it would
be the twentieth-best-funded army in the world, just behind Greece and just
ahead of North Korea.
--In 2006, an Australian man tried to sell New Zealand on eBay. The
starting price was $0.01 AUD and managed to reach $3000 before eBay closed the
auction.
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Google apparently feels that two off-kilter jokes are better than
one. Type "Tilt" or "Askew" into the Google search bar.
Don't lose your balance!
Eye
Facts…
--All humans have the ability to see ultraviolet light, but it is
passively filtered out by the eye's lens. People who undergo surgery to remove
the lens can detect ultraviolet light.
--The colossal squid has the largest eyes in the world.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
Al Beasley will ship a carload of horses to Phoenix between the
10th and 15th of December. He still has space for more. See him soon.
Harper’s
Index…
1 in 2
--Chance a resident of Las Vegas has been reported to a
debt-collection agency
Rules of
Thumb…
ORDERING
FRENCH FRIES
--The counter help in fast-food
restaurants will usually try to sell you some French fries if you don't include
any in your order. As a rule, one out of five customers will accept their
offer. The score for hot cherry pies is somewhat lower.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
--When Skee-Ball was first invented, the lane was 36 feet long.
Not many people could roll the ball that far, so they shortened it to 14 feet.
Valentine’s
Facts…
-- Close to 110 million roses (mostly red) will be purchased and
delivered around Valentine's Day in the U.S.
--Approximately 141 million Valentine's Day cards are exchanged
worldwide every year.
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Joke-of-the-day
Timothy : Why are you catching so many fleas?
Mike : Didn't you see the Notice Board?
There's going to be a Flea Market at our Apartment Lobby tomorrow morning.
Yep, It
Really Happened
A 19-year-old former Oregon State University student was cited for
public indecency after a 17-minute porn video of her in the Valley Library
reportedly appeared online.
Students said they heard about the video on social media platforms, where else,
that included Facebook, Twitter, and the Yik Yak phone app.
"I was surprised someone was in our library doing that," one student
told the local TV station. "I feel like it's always packed. I don't know
how anyone could get away with it."
University spokesman Steve Clark said security is a high priority. At the same
time, the Valley Library has 340,000 square feet and is used by 30,000 people a
week.
Apparently it is difficult to keep porn from happening with traffic like that.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Why
was a crown added to the flag of Liechtenstein?
Have
you ever seen the flag of Liechtenstein? It consists of two horizontal blue and
red bands charged with a gold crown at the canton and it was adopted in 1921.
In
1937 the crown was added to the flag after the country found out at the Summer
Olympics held the previous year that their flag was identical to the flag of
Haiti!
The
colors, as well as symbols of the flag carry cultural, political, and regional
meanings.
The
blue represents the sky, whereas the crown epitomizes the “unity of the people
and their prince”.
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Birthday’s
Today
Henry
Heimlich, doctor/inventor (Heimlich maneuver) is 94
Fran
Tarkenton, NFL QB (NY Giants, Vikings) is 75
Jim Hartz,
newscaster (NBC-TV) is 75
Blythe
Danner, actress (Butterflies are Free) is 72
Bob
Griese, NFL quarterback (Miami Dolphins) is 70
Morgan
Fairchild, [Patsy McClenny], actress (Falcon Crest) is 65
Nathan
Lane, actor (One of the Boys) is 59
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Remembered
for being born today
Felix
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer (Great Scherzos) 1809-1847@38
Horace
Greeley, editor ("Go west, young man") 1811-1872@61
Elizabeth
Blackwell, Bristol England, 1st woman physician 1821-1910@89
Norman
Rockwell, artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers) 1894-1978@84
Charles "Pretty
Boy" Floyd, gangster\FBI Most Wanted criminal 1904-1934@30
James A.
Michener, author (Hawaii) 1907-1997@90
Joey
Bishop, [Gottlieb], Bronx, talk show host (Joey Bishop Show) 1918-2007@89
Victor
Buono, actor (Untouchables) 1938-1982@43
Emile
Griffith, US Virgin Islands professional boxer, 1938-2013@75
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Historical
Obits Today
Ben
Gazzara, American actor, 2012, @ 81
Frank
Oppenheimer, American physicist, cancer, 1985, @72
Nancy
Kulp, actress (Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), cancer, 1991, @69
Woodrow
Wilson, 28th US president stroke, 1924, @67
John
Cassavetes, actor/director (Dirty Dozen), cirrhosis, 1989, @59
Belle
Starr, US female gangster, murdered, 1889, @40
Big
Bopper, rocker, plane crash, 1959, @28
Buddy Holly, rock and roll musician plane
crash, 1959, @22
Richie
Valens, rock vocalist (Donna), plane crash, 1959, @17
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Brain Teasers Answers
Boundaries
Boundary lines are and have been areas of dispute in countries for hundreds of
years. Sometimes boundaries are marked out with walls and fences, other times
they are assumed according to tradition and law.
People who have no personal boundaries are said to be very free spirits, while
people with very close personal boundaries are sometimes thought of as stuck up
or prudish.
Boundaries in nature are called ecosystem boundaries. An example of this is
where a lake meets with the land to form a marsh, or wetland.
The peak in Nevada is called Boundary Peak. It is located in the southwestern
portion of Nevada in the White Mountains. It is the highest point in Nevada,
reaching a height of 13,140 feet.
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Disclaimer: All opinions are
mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet
sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned
that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there,
many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events
occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be
totally accurate.
§…And That Is All for Now…§
