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2.20.16
Week: 07 \ Day: 51
February Averages: 46°\19°
86004 Today: H 63° \ L 30° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
22mph
Ave. High: 46°
Record High: 65°[1977] Ave. Low: 19° Record Low: -11°[1958]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Love
Your Pet Day Link (or
Love Your Dog Day)
Northern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day
Women in Blue Jeans Days Link
World
Day for Social Justice
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Observances This Week
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
18-20 The Simplot Games Link
18-21 American Birkenbreiner Race
20-27 National Entrepreneurship WeekLink
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US Historical Highlights for Today
10
sleeping Indians scalped by whites in New Hampshire for £100 a scalp bounty
US
postal service created, postage 6 cents - 12 cents depending on distance
US
Supreme Court rules federal government power greater than any state
Congress
prohibits dueling in District of Columbia
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology forms 1st US collegiate architectural school
Hydraulic
electric elevator patented by Cyrus Baldwin
New
York's Metropolitan Museum of Art opens
1st
cantilever bridge in US completed, Harrodsburg, Kentucky
Congress
authorizes a US mint at Denver, Colorado
1st
automobile/airplane combination tested, Santa Monica, Ca
American
movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor
movies.
Batman
& Robin comic strip premieres in newspapers
Chemical
mixing error causes explosion that destroys 42 blocks in LA
Dylan
Thomas arrives in NYC for his 1st US poetry reading tour
1952 "
African
Queen" opens at Capitol Theater in NYC
US
Court of Appeals rules that Organized Baseball is a sport & not a business,
affirming the 25-year-old Supreme Court ruling
Jimi
Hendrix, rock
and roll guitarist, plays his first gig.
John
Glenn is 1st American to orbit Earth (Friendship 7)
Ross
Perot says he'll run for President on Larry King Show
US
movie box office hits quickest $1 billion for year (51 days)
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World Historical Highlights for Today
Orkney
and Shetland are left by Norway to Scotland, due to a dowry payment.
1st
recorded wine auction held (London)
Jacobite
troops occupy Fort Augustus, Scotland
Concepcion,
Chile, destroyed by earthquake; 5,000 die
1st
transport of Jews to concentration camps leave Plotsk Poland
New
volcano Paracutin erupts in farmer's corn field (Mexico)
Major
General Idi Amin Dada appoints himself president of Uganda
A
feud begins between the Official Irish Republican Army and the Irish National
Liberation Army; the two groups assassinate a number of each other's volunteers
until the feud ends in June 1975
The Southeast
Asia Treaty Organization disbands.
11
'loyalists' known as the "Shankill Butchers" are sentenced to life in
prison for 19 murders; the gang was named for its late-night kidnapping,
torture and murder (by throat slashing) of random Catholic civilians in Belfast
Scientists
successfully regenerate Silene stenophylla from a 31,800 year old piece of
fruit, greatly surpassing the previous record of 2,000 years
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My Rambling Thoughts
Windy, but nice day. Got my vehicle washed
after it suffered through a dirty winter. I know it will get more snow covering
it, but for now, it is clean and ready for my trip next week to Denver.
So not excited to keep hearing politicians
stand up and endorse one of the candidates. While if you candidate makes it to
the White House, you will be in line to get a plush government assignment. If your
candidate doesn’t make it, but your party does, you may get some perks. If you
party loses, few will remember the endorsement.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Cork in a Glass
Science brain teasers require
understanding of the physical or biological world and the laws that govern it.
If a cork is put into a glass of
water, the cork will almost always drift to the side of the glass. There is one
simple way, however, to get the cork to float in the center of the glass (the
horizontal center, not the vertical). What is it? Water, the glass, and the
cork are all that is required.
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…Business Facts…
Judge Judy makes $45 million a year.
7.6 million Christmas trees are sold
each year.
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…Harper’s Index…
2/5-Portion of black-white biracial Americans
who have no contact with their white family members
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…Mistaken History you learned in grade school…
People in the middle ages
had a low life expectancy
This one has a grain of truth to it.
Life expectancy was certainly shorter during the middle ages, largely due to
roughly 1/3 of children dying at a young age combined with a high rate of women
who died during childbirth. However, if you survived into adulthood and weren't
killed during a war, you could expect to live well into your 40s, 50s and 60s.
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NEW…Secret Societies…
The Bohemian Club:
The Bohemian Club was founded in
1872 in San Francisco. Every year they hold a retreat in the redwood forest at
Bohemian Grove and only the most powerful Republican men are invited to attend.
There, they get conduct a ceremony in front of a giant owl statue. Famous
members include: Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeotravelPhoto
by @jonathankingston A
mahout bathes his elephant while his family washes their clothes in Tamil Nadu,
India. Mahouts develop a life-long bond with their elephants that often begins
at a young age.
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2 jokes for the day
A Grammar freak arrogant wife texts
to her husband...
You are as useless as "ueue" in the word Queue.
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A Doctor and an Advocate loved the
same girl. The Doctor gave her a rose daily and the advocate gave the girl an
apple.
The girl got confused and asked the Advocate, "There is a meaning in
giving rose in love. Why are you giving me an apple?"
Advocate answered: Because, "An Apple a day keeps the doctor away!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
5-story Slide Installed in Chinese
Shopping Mall
SHANGHAI - Say what you like about the
Chinese, but whether they are building walls or slides, they like to go big. A
Shanghai shopping mall has installed a five-story-tall stainless steel slide
that brings shoppers to the ground floor in 16 seconds. The slide, installed at
the Printemps shopping mall, is due to open to the public in the coming weeks,
but it has already attracted a lot of attention online from social media users
who question its safety. Users of the Weibo microblogging site questioned
whether the rapid speed of the 66-foot slide would cause discomfort to riders'
backsides and lead to potentially dangerous collisions, but mall managers said
the slide has been tested for safety and only one person will be allowed on the
ride at a time. The slide was built to resemble a dragon because China.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The earliest hockey games were
played with chunks of frozen cow dung. This dates back to the game's outdoor
roots. For understandable reasons, modern athletes prefer the vulcanized rubber
disc we all know today.
In space travel, the threat of free-floating equipment drifting off is a very
serious one. Houston's Johnson Space Center prepares astronauts for this
problem at the Precision Air Bearing Facility (PABF), which works like a
gigantic air-hockey table and includes what the Center officially describes as
a set of "two-ton hockey pucks" hovering over the floor. These are
pushed around by aspiring astronauts.
The first rubber hockey pucks were made from sliced-up lacrosse balls. When the
sport moved indoors, whole balls were originally used, but rink owners soon
found it preferable to cut them into thirds and keep the middle section. This
basic design was the standard by 1885.
The word "puck" was first recorded in the February 7th, 1876 edition
of the Montreal Gazette, so the NHL regards this date as the hockey puck's
birthday-even though they'd already been used for decades by then.
In 2000, the Canadian Taxpayers' Federation urged the country's citizens to
protest their government's $12 million bailout of domestic NHL franchises. How?
By mailing oodles of hockey pucks to then-Prime Minister Jean Chretien.
According to group president Walter Robinson, "When the rubber hits the
Prime Minister's office in a shower of hockey pucks, Mr. Chretien might
have some sense knocked into him and respond." The Prime Minister never
revealed how many pucks he'd actually received.
"Smart pucks" were released by Fox television in 1996. Also known as
the "FoxTrax," these high-tech gizmos sported a hidden microchip that
transmitted an infrared signal to a series of computers which superimposed blue
and red halos around the puck on television screens during play, making them
easier to see.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
92- Gloria
Vanderbilt,
don't my jeans look great (poor little rich girl)
89- Sidney
Poitier,
Miami, Florida 1st African American actor to win an Oscar for Best
Actor ('Lillies in the Field' - 1963)
(82) Ansel
Adams,
San Francisco,photographer (1966 ASMP Award), (d.1984)
82- Bobby
Unser,
auto racer (1968, 75, 81 Indianapolis 500)
75- Buffy
Sainte-Marie,
Maine, folksinger (Now That the Buffalo Are Gone)
74- Mitch
McConnell,
Sheffield, Alabama
(73) Russel
Crouse,
journalist/novelist/playwright (Life with Father)(d.1966)
(71) Jackie
Gleason,
Brooklyn, American comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners) (d.1987)
70- J[ohn]
Geils,
NYC, rock guitarist (J Geils Band-Centerfold),
70- Sandy
Duncan,
Henderson Tx, actress (Hogan Family)
69- Peter
Strauss,
Croton-on-Hudson NY, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
68- Jennifer
O'Neill,
Rio de Janeiro Brazil, actress (Summer of '42)
(67) Larry
Hovis,
Wapito Wash, comedian (Gomer Pyle, Hogan's Heroes)(d.2003)
(60) Amanda
Blake [
Beverly Louise Neill], Buffalo, New York American actress (Kitty
Russell-Gunsmoke) (d.1989)
57- Ivana
Trump,
Gottwaldov Cz, ex-wife of Donald Trump (1st Wives Club)
62- Patty
Hearst Shaw,
SF, famous kidnap hostage (Tanya)
53- Charles
Barkley,
Leads Alabama, NBA forward (Phoenix, Rockets, Oly-gold-96)
52- French
Stewart,
NM, actor (Harry Solomon-Third Rock From the Sun)
50- Cindy
Crawford,
Dekalb Ill, supermodel (Sports Illustrated Swimsuit)
28- Rihanna,
Barbadian singer
(27) Kurt Cobain,
Aberdeen Washington,
rock vocalist (Nirvana) (d.1994)
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Historical Obits Today
@90-2001 Rosemary
DeCamp,
American actress (b. 1910)
@86-2006 Curt
Gowdy,
American sportscaster
@80-1966 Chester
W Nimitz,
US admiral (WW II)
@77-1895 Frederick
Douglass,
escaped slave, anti-slavery leader
@67-2005 Hunter
S. Thompson,
American journalist and author, suicide
@63-1992 Dick
York,
actor (Bewitched), emphysema
@62-2005 Sandra
Dee,
American actress, kidney diseasev
@53-1999 Gene
Siskel,
American film critic, surgery complications
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Brain Teasers Answers
The reason that a cork drifts to the side of a
glass is that it floats to the highest point. Since water "clings" to
the glass, the highest point is around the edge of the water. To get the cork
to float in the middle of the glass, all you have to do is fill the glass as
much as possible. The water will form a convex shape above the glass, with the
highest point at its center. This is where the cork will settle.
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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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