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2.22.16
Week: 08 \ Day: 53
February Averages: 46°\19°
86004 Today: H 62° \ L 28° Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
16mph
Record High:
64°[2002] Record Low: -10°[1955]
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Quote of the Day
Observances Today
87th
Academy Awards Ceremony Link
Museum
Advocacy Day: 22-23 Link
Tex Avery Day Link
Woolworth's
Day
World Thinking Day Link
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Observances This Week
20-27
National Entrepreneurship Week Link
21-27 Bird Health Awareness WeekLink
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week
Link
Build A Better Trade Show Image
Week
National Date (fruit) Week
National Eating Disorders
Awareness Week
National Engineers Week
National FFA Week Link
National Invasive Species Awareness
Week Link
National Justice for Animals
Week Link
National Pancake Week
(Bisquick)
Through With The Chew Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1630
Indians
introduce pilgrims to popcorn, at Thanksgiving
1656
New
Amsterdam granted a Jewish burial site1821 Spain sells (east) Florida to
United States for $5 million
1854
1st
meeting of Republican Party (Michigan)
1856
1st
national meeting of Republican Party (Pittsburgh)
1876
Johns
Hopkins University opens
1879
1st
5 cent & 10 cent store opened by Frank W Woolworth (Utica NY)
1888
John
Reid of Scotland demonstrates golf to Americans (Yonkers NY)
1889
US
President Cleveland signs bill to admit Dakotas, Montana & Washington state
to the union
Hawaii
became a US territory
1923
1st
successful chinchilla farm in US (Los Angeles California)
1932
Purple
Heart award reinstituted
Airplanes
are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
1942
President
Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the
Philippines as American defenses collapse
1944
Jack
C. Montgomery, a Cherokee, is a First Lieutenant with the Forty-fifth Infantry in
Italy. For his solo actions against three different enemy positions, he will be
awarded the Medal of Honor.
1967
25,000
US & South Vietnamese troops launch Operation Junction City against Viet
Cong. Largest US airborne assult since WWII
1973
US
& China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC
1980
USA
beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3, referred to as "Miracle on Ice".
USA captain Mike Eruzione scores winning goal in 3rd period
1988
Bonnie
Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)
1989
1st
Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
1995
Steve
Fossett completes 1st air balloon over Pacific Ocean (9600 km)
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1774
British
House of Lords rules authors do not have perpetual copyright
1907
1st
cabs with taxi meters begin operating in London
1911
The
Canadian Parliament resolves to maintain union with the British Empire, while
controlling domestic fiscal affairs
1920
1st
artificial rabbit used at a dog race track (Emeryville, California)
1958
Egypt
& Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
1974
Ethiopian
police shoot at demonstrators
Afghanistan
declares martial law
1983
Hindus
kill 3000 Muslims in Assam, India
1989
UK
physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
1997
Dolly
the Sheep, world's first cloned mammal (from an adult cell) is announced by the
Roslin Institute in Scotland
1998
18th
Winter Olympic games close at Nagano Japan
2006
At
least six men stage Britain's biggest robbery ever, stealing £53m (about $92.5
million or 78€ million) from a Securitas depot in
Tonbridge, Kent.
My Rambling Thoughts
Nice relaxing Sunday. Got an email to update
Focus Travel site, and got some of it done. All set for my trip to Denver on
Thursday. Should be a great time seeing fellow Focus Travelers.
Looks like the Republican candidates are
becoming a workable number…too bad there are no candidates with any empathy.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A Real "Dead
One"
Riddles are little poems or phrases
that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this
is not a requirement.
I can be straight or not
I can be flat or round
I have three layers
The rounder I am - the straighter I am
I can be a person's trademark
I can be chemically challenged
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…Business Facts…
Hewlett Packard was started at a
garage in Palo Alto in 1939.
Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft
was a college drop out.
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…Harper’s Index…
41,000,000-Estimated number of native Spanish
speakers living in the US
43,000,000-Living in Spain
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…Mistaken History you learned in grade school…
Slaves built the pyramids
This is a story that has been
popularized in Hollywood films and Sunday school classrooms all over the
country. The only problem is that it simply is not true. The pyramids were not
built by slaves, but rather paid laborers, who most likely worked in
three-month shifts (it probably took 30 years to build the Great Pyramid). That
isn't to say that the laborers didn't work hard. Skeletons of laborers buried
near the pyramids show extensive signs of hard labor, but they certainly had
things better than unpaid and underfed slaves. This myth is thought to have its
roots with the ancient Greek historian Herodotus who claimed slaves made the
pyramids. The only problem with using Herodotus as a reliable source (other
than he wrote some really bizarre things) was that he wrote about the pyramids
more than 2,000 years after they were built. Which is roughly around the length
of time between when Herodotus lived and when you are reading this now.
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…Secret Societies…
The Rosicrucians:
Named for their symbol of a rose on a cross, the Rosicrucians have one central
belief -- that all members of their order share the same secret wisdom. Their
beliefs combine occultism with aspects of popular religion which they
ironically spell out on their very public Facebook page.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by Chien-Chi Chang (@chien_chi_chang/@magnumphotos)
Monks and volunteers at Kha Khat Wain monastery in Bago, Myanmar (Burma) carry
food to the dining hall for some 800 monks and novices.
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2 jokes for the day
Q. Why don't Antartians eat M&Ms?
A. They're too tough to peel.
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3 young men met one pretty lady
after church service. The men decided to introduce themselves. The first man
says, I am Joseph but not the dreamer, the second man says I am John but not
the Baptist and the last man says I am Abraham but not the father of nations.
The pretty lady said hello to her new friends and introduced herself as Mary
but not a virgin.
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Yep, It Really Happened
Husband Assaults Wife Over
Breastfeeding Baby
A husband was arrested on a charge of assault
after allegedly shooting a gun at his wife because he got jealous that she
spent time with their baby, police in Minnesota said. Police said that they
have arrested 28-year-old Nicholas George Lehmeier, after being accused of
abusing his wife for more than 10 years. The woman told the police that when
she was sitting on the couch with the baby, Lehmeier became upset because she
was spending time breastfeeding the child instead of being with him. Lehmeier
grabbed a shotgun, loaded it, and pointed it at her and the child. He then
pulled the trigger of the gun, but it did not shoot.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(83) Robert
Baden-Powell,
founder
(Boy Scouts, Girl Guides)(d.1941)
(91) Robert
Young,
Chicago,
Illinois actor (Father Knows Best, Marcus Welby MD) (d.1998)
(89) Gale
Gordon,
LA,
CA actor (Conklin-Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy) (d.1995)
(80) Sheldon
Leonard,
NYC,
actor/director (Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie) ()d.1997
(77) Edward
M "Ted" Kennedy,
Boston
Massachusetts Politician (Sen-D-Mass) (d,2009)
(74) Leonard
"Chico" Marx,
NYC,
actor/comedian (Marx Brothers, Animal Crackers) (d.1961)
(67) George
Washington,
Westmoreland,
Virginia, 1st American president (d.1799)
(58) Edna
St Vincent Millay,
Rockland,
Maine poet/dramatist/feminist (Harp Weaver-Pulitzer Prize) (d. 1950)
54- Oliver
[William Oliver Swofford],
North
Wilkesboro,
NC,
American pop singer (Good Morning Starshine, Jean), (d. 2000)
66- Julius
Erving,
Nassau
County New York, ABA/NBA forward (Virg Squirers, NY Nets, Phila 76ers)
53- Vijay
Singh,
Lautoka
Fiji, PGA golfer (1993 Buick Classic)
(44) Steve
Irwin,
Melbourne,
Australian naturalist and TV personality (The Crocodile Hunter) (d.2006)
41- Drew
Barrymore,
LA,
CA, actress (ET, Firestarter, Poison Ivy)
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Historical Obits Today
@82-1965 Felix
Frankfurter,
Justice
of the U.S. Supreme Court
@82-1832 Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe,
German
writer,
@77-1875 Charles
Lyell,
British
geologist (Elements of Geology)
@66-1987 David
Susskind,
TV
host (Open End, David Susskind Show), heart attack
@60-1512 Amerigo
Vespucci,
Italian
explorer (America)
@58-1987 Andy
Warhol,
pop
artist, heart attack
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Brain Teasers Answers
Hair
Straight hair is round in shape
Wavy or curly hair is flat in shape (the curlier the hair the flatter)
Hair consists of 3 layers -
Cuticle (outer layer)
Cortex (second layer)
Medulla (center layer)
Chemically challenged - permed, tinted, bleached, etc.
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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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