Feb 16,
2021 Week: 7 Day: 47 Visibility:
10 miles
Local: H 42°\ L 18°\Ave. Sky Cover: ?% Wind: 11mph/ Gusts:
20mph
Nearest Lightning: 1920mi. Very Low Risk of Fire: Active fire: 347 mi
Record: 66°[1996] Record: -8°[1956]
Feb. Averages: 47°/19° (5 days with moisture)
Today’s
Quote
The most powerful weapon
on earth is the human soul on fire.
~Ferdinand Foch
Random Tidbits
Presidents Day is an
American holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February. Originally
established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington, it is still
officially called "Washington's Birthday" by the federal government.
Traditionally celebrated on February 22--Washington's actual day of birth--the
holiday became popularly known as Presidents' Day after it was moved as part of
1971's Uniform Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to create more three-day weekends
for the nation's workers. Many states still choose to call their own
celebration on this day "Presidents' Day."
A Little Humor
Why are shopaholics so hard to help?
They can be very clothes-minded about the problem
Presidential Trivia
Warren Harding had unique nicknames.
Legend has it that Harding's mother wanted to name him
Winfield>>>P, but when she didn't get her way, she found a loophole by
giving him the nickname"Winny." Some folks also called
him"Sonny."
Calvin Coolidge was born on Independence Day.
Sometimes a person's birthday seems unusually significant. Case in
point: Coolidge was born on July 4>>>P. But you probably wouldn't see
him getting too wild and crazy at his birthday party — he was notoriously
quiet, earning the nickname"Silent Cal."
Herbert Clark Hoover was the first president born in a Western
state.
Previous presidents were all born in the Eastern part of the
county, but Hoover was the first to be born west of the Mississippi. He grew up
in the very small town of West Branch, Iowa, and reportedly never even crossed
the Mississippi until he was 22 years old.
Weekly Observations
|
Date (Fruit) Week |
12-21 |
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World Irish Dancing Week |
13-20 |
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Children of Alcoholics Week
Link National Secondhand Wardrobe
Week: 14-20 Through
With The Chew Link |
14-20 |
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National Condom Week NCCDP Alzheimer's &
Dementia Staff Education Week |
14-21 |
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Learning Disabilities Week |
15-18 |
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Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week Link |
15-20 |
|
Lent [Christian] |
17-4/3 |
Today’s Observations
Analog to
Digital TV Day
Ash Wednesday
Human Spirit Day
My Way Day
National Cabbage Day
National PTA Founders Day Link
Public Science Day
Random Acts of Kindness Day
World Human Spirit Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
I woke up to a little over an inch of snow. It was overcast. By 9a the
sun was shining. I went to get a mani-pedi at 11am. This dry winter has played
havoc on my fingernails so I also did them today. When I got out at 12Noon, it
was overcast and a little snow. Five minutes after I got home, the sky was clear
and sunny again. Crazy weather.
Thankfully at 7000’ we are getting moisture and tolerable
temperatures. Most of the country is frozen solid, dealing with once in a century
snowfall, power outages, and accident- closed highways. I am fortunate.
I got a suspicious email this morning. It claimed to be from Norton
Security telling me that my checking account had been charged $649 for their services.
I don’t have Norton, I use another security. I called the number and foreign guy
told me I could cancel my account as soon as he removed the software from my
computer. I’m not a real geek, but even I know that any subscription will
automatically stop working if the software isn’t renewed. I hung up, saved the
email in case my bank account has an issue. I hate these companies that try and
scam me.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
I have a big mouth and I am also quite loud! I am NOT a gossip, but I
do get involved with everyone’s dirty business. What am I?
Historical Events
1600 – Giordano Bruno, an early ‘Free Thinker‘, born in 1548, was
burned at the stake.
1621 – Myles Standish was appointed as the first commander of the
English Plymouth Colony in North America.
1859 – Dmitri Mendeleev began creating what we now call The Periodic
Table.
1863 – A group of citizens of Geneva, Switzerland, founded an
International Committee for Relief to the Wounded, which later became known as
the International Committee of the Red Cross.
1904 – Giacomo Puccini’s opera Madame Butterfly premiered at the La
Scala theatre in Milan, Italy. It was one of the first worldwide pop culture
event ‘hits’.
1933 – The magazine Newsweek was published for the first time. Newsweek
ceased print publication with the December 31, 2012 issue.
1933 – Blondie Boopadoop married Dagwood Bumstead in Chic Young’s
popular comic strip, Blondie.
1958 – Pope Pius XII designated St. Clare of Assisi the patron saint
of television.
1959 – Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite, was launched to
measure cloud-cover distribution.
1968 – The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opened in
Springfield, MA
1972 – With the 15,007,034th Volkswagen Beetle coming off the assembly
line, the VW Beetle broke the world car production record held for more than
four decades by the Ford Motor Company’s Model T, which was in production from
1908 and 1927.
1979 – A Prairie Home Companion premiered on Minnesota Public Radio.
1996 – In the final game of a six-game match, world chess champion
Garry Kasparov defeated Deep Blue, IBM’s chess-playing computer, and won the
match, 4-2. But in 1997, Deep Blue defeated Kasparov in a rematch.
2009 – 368 US Television stations permanently shut off their analog
transmission signals, becoming digital.
2014 US Secretary of State John Kerry claims climate change requires
urgent action and that only a small "window of time" remained open
2016 Oldest known case of human-Neanderthal sex (100,000 yrs ago)
revealed by Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig),
50,000 yr old Neanderthal woman's remains from Altai mountains show traces of
Homo Sapiens DNA
2016 Channing Dungey announced new President of ABC Entertainment
Group, first African-American to lead a major US broadcast network
2016 Chief executive Tim Cook confirms Apple will contest an FBI order
to unlock the phone of San Bernardino gunman Syed Rizwan Farook
2020 Amazon boss Jeff Bezos pledges $10 billion to help fight climate
change.
Birthdays Today
@95 – Hal Holbrook, American
actor (d. 2021)
85 – Jim Brown, football star
@75 – [Clarence Linden]Buster Crabbe, American
Olympian, actor (d. 1983; heart attack)
59 – Lou Diamond Phillips, American actor
58 – Michael Jordan, American basketball player
58 – Larry the Cable Guy (Daniel Whitney), American comedian
47 – Jerry O’Connell, American actor
40 – Joseph Gordon-Levitt, American actor, director, and producer
40 – Paris Hilton, American model, media personality
30 – Ed Sheeran, English singer-songwriter
Puzzle Answer
A vacuum cleaner
