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2.10.16
Week: 06 \ Day: 41
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
All
The News That's Fit To Print Day
Christian:
Ash Wednesday
Plimsoll
Day
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Observances This Week
Burn
Awareness Week: 7-12 Link
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week: 7-12
International Coaching Week: 7-12
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week: 7-12
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend: 7-12
Celebration
of Love Week: 7-13 Link
Children of Alcoholics Week: 7-13 Link
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week: 7-14 Link
Dump Your Significant Jerk Week: 7-13(
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week: 7-14 Link
Risk Awareness Week: 7-14
International Week of Black Women in The Arts: 7-15 Link
Jell-O Week: 7-13
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week: 7-13
National Secondhand Wardrobe Week: 7-13 Link
Love Makes the World Go Round; But,
Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week: 8-14
American Camp Week: 9-12
International Petroleum Week: 9-11 Link
National Green Week: 9-15 Link
World AG Expo: 9-11
International Friendship Week: 10-14 Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1676
Wampanoag
Indians under King Philip kill all men in Lancaster Mass
1846
Beginning
of Mormon march to western US
1855
US
citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad granted US
citizenship
1870
City
of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
1870
YWCA
(Young Women's Christian Association) forms (NYC)
1879
1st
electric arc light used (California Theater)
1890
Around
11 million acres ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement-- The South Dakota
"land grab" takes place. Parts of the Great Sioux Reservation is
opened to settlers.
1897
NY
Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1899
Treaty
of Paris which ended the Spanish-American War is signed by President McKinley;
US acquires Philippines, Puerto Rico & Guam
1933
Delivery
of 1st singing telegram (Postal Telegram Co NYC)
1940
Tom
& Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1942
Glenn
Miller awarded 1st ever gold record for selling 1 million copies of
"Chattanooga Choo Choo"
1946
Charles
"Lucky" Luciano is deported to Italy, and never returns to
the United States
1947
WW
II peace treaties signed
1949
Arthur
Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
1951
"John
& Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
1954
Eisenhower warns
against US intervention in Vietnam
1956
"My
Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1962
Jim
Beatty sets American indoor mile record (3:58.9) in LA
1962
USSR
swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
1967
25th
Amendment (US Presidential Disability & Succession) ratified
1968
Peggy
Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
1971
American
Mensa Ltd incorporates in New York
1989
Miami
Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
1989
To
gain deregulation WWF admits pro wrestling is an exhibition & not a sport,
in a NJ court
1993
"Michael
Jackson Talks To Oprah Winfrey" airs on ABC & drew an astounding
39.3 rating/56 share, 90 million people
1996
IBM
computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a
reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov
1998
Olympic
figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery
1998
Voters
in Maine repeal a gay rights law passed in 1997 becoming the first U.S. state
to abandon that law.
2015
Comedian
Jon Stewart announces he will be leaving "The Daily Show" at the end
of the year
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1355 The
St. Scholastica's Day riot breaks out in Oxford, England, leaving 62 scholars
and perhaps 30 locals dead in two days.
1535 12
nude anabaptists run through Amsterdam streets
1720 Edmund
Halley appointed 2nd Astronomer Royal of England
1763 Treaty
of Paris ends French-Indian War, surrendering Canada to Britain
1824 Simon
Bolivar named dictator by the Congress of Peru 1837 Russian
poet Alexander Pushkin is fatally injured in a duel with French officer
Georges-Charles de Heeckeren d'Anthès
1879 Henry
Morton Stanley departs for the Congo
1914 In
accordance with the understanding reached by General J.C. Smuts and Mahatma
Gandhi, 60 passive resistance prisoners are released from the Pietermaritzburg
Prison; 40 passive resisters are released in Durban, 8 in Newcastle and 11 in
Port Elizabeth 1915 US President Wilson protests to Britain on the
use of US flags on British merchant ships to deceive the Germans
1931 New
Delhi becomes capital of India
1975 The
Provisional Irish Republican Army agrees to a truce and ceasefire with the
British government and the Northern Ireland Office; Seven "incident
centres" are established in nationalist areas to monitor the ceasefire and
the response of the security forces
1990 South
African President de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on
Feb 11th
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My Rambling Thoughts
Good lunch with our retirement group. Mary and
Cheryl are thinking about a trip to Ireland. Hope it happens.
While Cheryl and I were waiting, a middle aged woman was stepping up onto the sidewalk from the parking area. She fell. Several of us rushed over. One lady was calling 911 and I went inside to find her daughter. The Fire Dept was there in a couple of minutes, the ambulance about 10 minutes later. She had a huge brace on one leg and the other leg appeared to be broken. Not sure how it happened, but they took her off in the ambulance. Amazing how many people stopped and offered help. None were just staring, but all were taking off jackets to prop up her head. Others were talking to her. The manager of the restaurant came out and had some of his staff stay with her until she left. Reassuring to see such caring people.
Worked some more on the Focus website. Just a
little more to do.
So politics is starting to mean something…actual
voting is taking place. Guess we’ll see who moves on as delegates are assigned
for upcoming conventions. From my point of view…this should be the beginning of
coverage of Presidential Elections. I am so tired of the past 2+ years of
blabbing, it is hard to realize that now is the time to pay attention. We do
need a big change, maybe even a revolution, in setting some dates for
Presidential candidate announcements, fundraising, and voting in primary only a
couple of weeks before the party conventions. And the conventions no more than
a month before the election. A nice dream, compared to the nightmare we are living
through now.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Liars, Liars...?
Logic puzzles require
you to think. You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
In the land of Brainopia, there are
three races of people: Mikkos, who tell the truth all the time, Kikkos, who
always tell lies, and Zikkos, who tell alternate false and true statements, in
which the order is not known (i.e. true, false, true or false, true, false).
When interviewing three Brainopians, a foreigner received the following
statements:
Person 1:
I am a Mikko.
Person 2:
I am a Kikko.
Person 3:
a. They are both lying.
b. I am a Zikko.
Can you help the very confused foreigner determine who is who, assuming each
person represents a different race?
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…Business Facts…
There's a company in Switzerland
called Algordanza that will turn your ashes into a diamond for your family.
The upside-down ketchup bottle
earned its inventor 13 million dollars.
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…Grammar Craziness…
The English language includes an
interesting category of words and phrases called contronyms— terms that,
depending on context, can have opposite or contradictory meanings.
53. Sanction: To
approve, or to boycott
54. Sanguine:
Confidently cheerful, or bloodthirsty
55. Scan: To peruse, or
to glance
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…Hard to Believe…
21. A human could swim through the
arteries of a blue whale.
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…Harper’s Index…
30-Percentage of Americans who say that
Hollywood producers too few movies with strong female protagonists
11-That it produces too many
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeocreativePhoto
by @randyolson: #Flamingos spread
their wings in front of a#windmill in
Siboli National Park on Lake Turkana. #Kenya. Note: Love this shot as I have seen this in Kenya...admittedly, not this close, but still brings back memories.
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2 jokes for the day
A priest and a cab driver went to
heaven.
The priest was given fifty bags of gold and a nice house.
The cab driver was given the same but also a boat, a lake and a box of
diamonds.
The priest asked St. Peter, "Hey I was a priest, how come I don't get a
box of diamonds or a lake or a boat?"
St. Peter said, "We go by results. During your sermons people slept,
during his cab rides people prayed."
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Joey goes into a pharmacy and says
to the pharmacist, "Hello, could you give me condom please? I'm going to
my girlfriend's place for dinner and I think I may be getting lucky
tonight."
The Pharmacist gives him the condom but as soon as he does Joey tells him,
"Give me another condom because my girlfriends sister is also very cute
too and always crosses her legs in a provocative manner when I am around, I
think I might get lucky with her too."
The Pharmacist gives him another condom and as he was about to leave Joey
returned and requested for a third.
"My girlfriend's mom is really cute and she always makes eye contact when
I'm around and since she invited me for dinner I think she might be expecting
me to make a move."
During the dinner Joey sits down with his girlfriend on the right, her sister
on the left and her mom facing him. When the dad walks in. Joey lowers his and
starts the dinner prayer.
"Dear Lord bless this dinner and thank you for all you've given
us..." Ten minutes later Joey is still praying. His girlfriend now
surprised gets close to him and whispers, "I didn't know you where this
religious."
Joey with his head still bowed in prayer replied "I never knew your dad
was a Pharmacist!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
Frontiers of Fashion
Fort Worth-Even though concealed-carry gun
permit-holders in Texas can now "open carry," pistol-packing women
concerned with fashion are not limited to traditional firearms in ordinary
cowboy holsters. An online company, The Well Armed Woman, offers such carry
options as stylish leggings, lace waistbands and an array of underarm and bra
holsters (even an in-cup model, the "Marilyn") in leopard-print and
pastel colors. However, a woman's body shape and size may be more important
shopping considerations, according to the company's founder. "A 32A bust
could not conceal a Glock 19 very well -- nor would a 42DD-or-larger (front)
allow for effective cross-draw carry."
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Somewhat Useless Information
At the end of 2015, Facebook
released some impressive statistics about how many people use the site. On
average, there were 1.04 billion daily active users on the site, according to
the December 2015 statistics. The number of average mobile users was nearly as
high, at 934 million a day.
With its acquisition of Oculus VR in 2014, Facebook signaled that virtual
reality content would play a big part in its future. In September 2015,
Facebook introduced immersive 360-degree videos to users' News Feeds.
The original "face" that appeared on the site belonged to none other
than Oscar-winner Al Pacino. In the original homepage design for the site,
there was a pixelated, blue-and-white male face that appeared at the top of the
site. In his book, "The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company
That Is Connecting the World," author David Kirkpatrick reported the image
was of a young Pacino from his "Godfather" days.
RecordSetter.com reports that the person who has allegedly received the most
pokes on Facebook is Yan D. from Singapore. The record-keeping site vets
entries -- users have to present video proof of their supposed records form
their public Facebook accounts. Right now, Yan D. has received 1,000,069 pokes
on the site.
After winning re-election in 2012, a photo of President Barack Obama and the
First Lady embracing with the caption "Four more years" generated the
most likes of any photo in Facebook history. As of now, the image has garnered
4,410,548 likes
In the site's exhaustive language drop-down menu, Facebook has an "English
(Pirate)" option. In "Pirate," for instance, your News Feed
becomes "Home Port." Facebook itself is now "Ye olde
Facebook." Looking at your activity log now becomes "Scour the Ship's
Records."
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(92) [Maurice]
Harold MacMillan,
(C)
British PM (1957-63), born in London, England (d.1986)
89- Leontyne
Mary Violet Price,
Laurel
Miss, opera soprano (Porgy & Bess)
87- Jim
Whittacker,
mountain
climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest)
86- Robert
Wagner,
actor
(It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart), born in Detroit, Michigan
(86) Jimmy
Durante,
long-nosed
comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash), born in NYC, New York (d.1980)
(85) Walter
Houser Brattain,
Amoy,
China, American physicist (Nobel 1956-transistor) (d.1987)
79- Don
Wilson,
rock
guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme)
77- Roberta
Flack,
Black
Mountain North Carolina, US vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face)
(75) Jerry
Goldsmith,
pianist/composer
(Twilight Zone) (d.2004)
(70) Boris
Pasternak,
Moscow,
Russian novelist/poet (Doctor Zhivago, Nobel 1958) (d.1960)
60- Greg
Norman,
Queensland,
Australia, PGA golfer (1984 Kemper)
(59) Walter
Brown,
Massachusetts
US, original owner of the Boston Celtics and important figure in the
development of ice hockey in the United States (d.1964)
55- George
Stephanopoulos,
presidential
adviser (Clinton)
52- Glenn
Beck,
American
radio and television host
42- Elizabeth
Banks,
Pittsfield,
Massachusetts, American actress (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Man on a Ledge)
25- Emma
Roberts,
American
actress
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Historical Obits Today
1992 Alex
Haley,
US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), heart Attack
@89-2005 Arthur
Miller,
American playwright
@85-2014 Shirley
Temple,
American actress and diplomat, famous 1930s child star (Bright Eyes,
Heidi)
@84-1918 Ernesto
Teodoro Moneta,
Italian pacifist, Nobel Prize Laureate
@84-1912 Joseph
Lister,
1st Baron Lister, surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic)
@81-1482 Luca
della Robbia,
Italian sculptor (majolica reliefs)
@77-1923 Wilhelm
Röntgen,
German physicist who discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901), cancer caused by
radiation
@75-2008 Roy
Scheider,
American Actor (Jaws), cancer
@70-1957 Laura
Ingalls Wilder,
US author (Little House on Prarie)
@50-2000 Jim
Varney,
American actor (Ernest), lung cancer
@9-1998 Buddy
the Wonder Dog,
dog (Air Bud), cancer
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Brain Teasers Answers
Person 1 is a Mikko.
Person 2 is a Zikko.
Person 3 is a Kikko.
Thanks for helping!
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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.
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That Is All for Now… ♥♥♥♥
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