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♥2.14.16 ♥ Week: 07 \ Day: 45
February Averages: 46°\19°
86004 Today: H 62° \ L °22 Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind ave: 1mph\Gusts:
7mph
Ave. High: 46°
Record High: 64°[1957] Ave. Low: 19° Record Low: -18°[1905]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Autism
Sunday Link
Batman Sticker Day Link
Frederick Douglass Day Link
International
Book Giving Day Link
League of Women Voters Day
Library
Lovers Day
National Have A Heart Day
National Condom Day Link
National
Women's Heart Day Link
Pet
Theft Awareness Day Link
Quirky Alone Day Link
Race Relations Day
Singles Awareness Day or Singles Appreciation Day Link
Statehood Day-Oregon-1859-33rd
Statehood
Day-Arizona-1912-48th
(World)
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day Link
World Marriage Day Link
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Observances This Week
7-14-Congenital
Heart Defect Awareness Week Link
Have A Heart for
A Chained Dog Week Link
Risk Awareness Week
7-15-International
Week of Black Women in The Arts Link
8-14-Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy
Week
9-11-International Petroleum Week Link
World AG Expo
9-12-American
Camp Week
9-15-National
Green Week Link
10-14-International Friendship Week Link
12-15-Great Backyard Bird Count
14-20-Random
Acts of Kindness Week Link
International
Flirting Week
Love a Mensch Week
14-21-National
Condom Week Link
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia
Staff Education Week
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1776
The
first Spanish arrive at what eventually becomes Needles, California.
1778 "
Stars
& Stripes" arrives in foreign port for 1st time (France)
1794
1st
US textile machinery patent granted, to James Davenport, Phila
1803
Apple
parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn
1803
Chief
Justice John Marshall declares that any act of U.S. Congress that
conflicts with the Constitution is void.
1844
Lt.
John C. Frémont first European to discover Lake Tahoe in the US
1849
In
New York City, James Knox Polk becomes first serving US President to
have his photograph taken (by Matthew Brady).
1872
1st
state bird refuge authorized (Lake Merritt CA)
1876
A
G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court
eventually rules Bell rightful inventor
1883
1st
state labor union legislation; NJ legalizes unions
1889
1st
train load of fruit (oranges) leaves LA for east
1899
US
Congress begins using voting machines
1903
US
Dept of Commerce & Labor forms
1907
1st
US foxhound association forms in NYC
1919
United
Parcel Service forms
1920
League
of Women Voters forms in Chicago
1924
IBM
Corporation founded by Thomas Watson
1929
St
Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, 7 gangsters killed, allegedly on Al
Capone's orders
1931
The
original "Dracula", starring Bela Lugosi as the titular
vampire, is released
1939
Victor
Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of film "Gone With the
Wind"
1941
One
millionth vehicle traverses the NY Midtown Tunnel
1941
Cebrie
Park in the Bronx renamed Halsey Street
1962
US
1st lady Jacqueline Kennedy conducts White House tour on TV
1966
Wilt
Chamberlain breaks NBA career scoring record at 20,884 points
1967 Aretha
Franklin records "Respect"
1969:
The
Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe of the Flathead Reservation enact a
resolution prohibiting the hunting or killing of Mountain Sheep.
1980
13th
Winter Olympic games open in Lake Placid, NY
1991
"The
Silence of the Lambs", based on the book by Thomas Harris, directed by
Jonathan Demme and starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is released
(Best Picture 1992)
2014
Actress Ellen
Page comes out as gay in a speech at the Human Rights Campaign's
"Time to Thrive" conference
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1747
Astronomer
James Bradley presents his discovery of the wobbling motion of the Earth on its
axis to the Royal Society, London
1895
Oscar
Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," opens in London
1949
1st
session of Knesset (Jerusalem Israel)
1952
6th
Olympic winter games open at Oslo, Norway
1963
"81/2"
a film directed by Federico Fellini premieres in Italy, starring
Marcello Mastroianni.
1989
Ayatollah
Khomeini orders Muslims to murder "Satanic Verses" novelist
Rushdie
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My Rambling Thoughts
Quiet and beautiful weather day here. Sure
feels like spring.
Cleaned off the deck of its branches, pine
needles and pine cones. It is a constant battle that nature usually wins.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Double-Nitions
Language brain teasers
are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate
words and letters.
Many of our everyday words have more
than one meaning. Below are eleven pairs of definitions. Both definitions in
each pair fit the same word. When read down, the first letters of the eleven
answers will spell out the name of a beloved TV celebrity.
1. Spend time idly or bread unit
2. Worker's organization or marriage
3. Pine tree fruit or ice cream holder
4. Feeling of curiosity or savings account accrual
5. Land parcel or considerable quantity
6. Illumination or not weighty at all
7. Typewriter type style or the VIP crowd
8. Baby's toy or city square
9. Weapon or upper body appendage
10. Bowling group or three nautical miles
11. Stand at a slant or thin
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…Business Facts…
The co-founder and CEO of SnapChat,
23-year-old Evan Spiegel, turned down an offer of $3 billion from Facebook and
then a $4 billion bid from Google.
Lentil As Anything, a successful
Australian restaurant, allows its customers to pay whatever price they feel
like paying for the food.
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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.
67. Transparent:
Invisible, or obvious
68. Trim: To decorate, or to remove excess from
69. Trip: A journey, or a stumble
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…Hard to Believe…
25. You can line up all 8 planets in
our solar system directly next to each other and it would fit in the space
between Earth and the Moon.
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…Harper’s Index…
1/3-Portion of US small business owners who
say they should have the right to refuse service to LGBT customers
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeotravelPhoto
by @mattiasklumofficial Thank
you nature! Luck is always a welcomed ingredient in my work! While following a
group of Hippos in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve a group of giraffes showed up
in the background and surprised me by crossing the river. Beautiful in the
landscape!
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2 jokes for the day
A girlfriend calls her boyfriend over and says, “Please come over here and help
me. I have a neat jigsaw puzzle, and I can’t figure out how to get it started.”
He asks, “What is it supposed to be when it’s finished?”
The girlfriend says, “According to the picture on the box, it’s a tiger.”
Her boyfriend decides to go over and help with the puzzle. She lets him in and
shows him where she has the puzzle spread all over the table.
He studies the pieces for a moment, then looks at the box, then turns to her
and says, “First of all, no matter what we do, we’re not going to be able to
assemble these pieces into anything resembling the tiger on that box.”
He takes her hand and says, “Second, I want you to relax, and then…..” he
sighed, “lets put all these Frosted Flakes back in the box.”
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What do you call a group of security guards in front of a Samsung store?
Guardians of the Galaxy.
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-- Man has FOUR Steel Rings Cut Off
His Penis --*
Firefighters on the Costa Blanca, Spain were
called to an unusual rescue last week when they had to use specialist cutting
tools to free a 36-year-old man's member. The Lithuanian man arrived at the
hospital after a kinky sex game went wrong and four metal rings got stuck on
his penis. But doctors had to call in the assistance of local firefighters to
remove the steel rings with specialist cutting equipment. The steel rings were
so thick that two cuts had to be made in each in order to prise them off the
delicate body part while cooling fluid was applied to avoid burning from the electric
circular saw. "It's not the first time that the hospital has called us to
cut off rings, but usually they are from the finger," said station chief
Javier Fayos. The team of firefighters took almost an hour to remove all the
metal rings.
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Somewhat Useless Information
More than 36 million heart-shaped
boxes of chocolate are sold for Valentine's Day each year.
About eight billion candy hearts will be produced this year; that's enough
candy to stretch from Rome, Italy to Valentine, Arizona 20 times and back
again.
About one billion Valentine's Day cards are exchanged in the US each year.
That's the largest seasonal card-sending occasion of the year, next to
Christmas.
In the Middle Ages, young men and women drew names from a bowl to see who their
valentines would be. They would wear these names on their sleeves for one week.
To wear your heart on your sleeve now means that it is easy for other people to
know how you are feeling.
The Italian city of Verona, where Shakespeare's lovers Romeo and Juliet lived,
receives about 1,000 letters addressed to Juliet every Valentine's Day.
The oldest surviving love poem till date is written in a clay tablet from the
times of the Sumerians around 3500 BC.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
95- Hugh
Downs,
Akron
Oh, TV journalist (20/20, Concentration)
(86) Thelma
Ritter,
Brooklyn,
actress (Miracle on 34th Street), (d.1969)
82- Florence
Henderson,
Dale
Ind, actress/singer (Carol-Brady Bunch)
(80) Jack
Benny, [Benjamin Kubelski],
Waukegan
Ill, "Oh! Rochester!" (d.1974)
(74) Woody
Hayes, [Wayne],
college
football coach (Ohio, 1968 coach of the year) (d.1987)
72- Carl
Bernstein,
Washington
Post investigative reporter (Watergate)
67- Raymond
Joseph Teller,
Phila,
magician (Penn & Teller)
*(62) Jimmy
Hoffa,
Teamsters
leader who disappeared in 1975
62- Ken
Wahl,
Chicago,
actor (Wanderers)
(60) Murray
"the K" Kaufman,
NYC
DJ (5th Beatle) (d.1982)
(57) Gregory
Hines,
NYC,
actor/dancer (White Nights, Taps) (d.2003)
(53) Vic
Morrow,
NYC,
American actor (Combat, Roots, Twilight Zone the Movie) (d.1982)
45- Simon
Pegg,
British
comedian and actor
(37) George
Washington Gale Ferris,
engineer/inventor
(Ferris Wheel) (d.1896)
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Historical Obits Today
?- St.
Valentine
marking
Valentines Day (some sources say 269, others 273).
@93-1975 Pelham
G Wodehouse,
English/US
writer (Piccadilly Jim)
@86-2012 Dory
Previn,
American
singer-songwriter
@71-1891 William
Tecumseh Sherman,
Union
Civil War General
@6-2003 Dolly
the Sheep,
first
mammal to be cloned from an adult cell dies young form a progressive lung
disease
@56-1780 William
Blackstone,
English
lawyer, gout
@50-1779 James
Cook,
British
explorer killed by Native Hawaiians
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Loaf
2. Union
3. Cone
4. Interest
5. Lot
6. Light
7. Elite
8. Block
9. Arm
10. League
11. Lean
Celebrity: Lucille Ball
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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… ♥♥♥♥
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