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2.9.16
Week: 06 \ Day: 40
February Averages: 46°\19°
86004 Today: H 55° \ L 34° Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts:
32mph
Ave. High: 45°
Record High: 64°[1996] Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -23°[1929]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Extraterrestrial
Culture Day
Extraterrestrial Visitor Day Link
International Pancake Day (aka
Shrove Tuesday)
National Stop Bullying Day Link
National Pizza Day Link
Paczki Day
Read in the Bathtub Day
Safer Internet Day Link
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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 (Second Full Week)
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
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1690
300
Indians and French sneak into the stockade at Schenectady, New York during a
snowstorm. After posting warriors at each building, a signal is given, and the
primarily Dutch occupants are attacked. Sixty settlers are killed, and
twenty-seven are captured. Mohawk Indians attempt to rescue some of the
captives as they are marched off to Canada, but they meet with little success.
1825
House
of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
1861
Jefferson
Davis & Alexander Stephens elected President & VP of the
Confederate States of America (US Civil War)
1861
Tennessee
votes against secession (US Civil War)
1861
Confederate
Provisional Congress declares all laws under the US Constitution were
consistent with constitution of Confederate states (US Civil War)
1870
US
Army establishes US National Weather Service
1871
Federal
fish protection office authorized by Congress
1886
US
President Grover Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle
because of anti-Chinese violence
1889
The
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a
Cabinet-level agency.
1891
1st
shipment of asparagus arrives in SF from Sacramento
1895
Volleyball
invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1909
1st
federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
1909
1st
forestry school is incorporated at Kent, Ohio
1922
Snow
on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
1926
Teaching
theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
1932
USA
enters
Olympic 2-man bobsled competition for 1st time
1942
Daylight
Savings War Time goes into effect in US
1943
FDR orders
minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1950
Sen Joseph
McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists
1963
7th
largest snowfall in NYC history (42.4 cm, 16.7")
1964
1st
appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
1964
GI
Joe character created
1969
Boeing
747 made its first commercial flight
1986
Patty
Sheehan wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Classic
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1893
Giuseppe
Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
1900
Dwight
Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
1913 -18]
10
Day Tragedy of Mexico-City; 3,000 die
1943
Japanese
troops evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic WWII battle on the Solomon Islands in
the Pacific
1994
Israeli
minister Shimon Perez signs accord with PLO's Yasser Arafat
1996
The
Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly
followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf.
2014
Protest
erupt in Sarajevo and other cities in Bosnia-Herzegovina; the unemployment rate
remains at 40% (57% for youth)
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♫ Birthdays Today ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
So I updated much of the website I’m working
on. Just a little more to go.
Started yesterday’s entry to blog and got a
phone call from my Tech guy that my email had been hacked. Took about an hour
but all is set and I now have lifetime protection against hacking of email.
Nice.
However that threw off my schedule and my
ability to watch the Broncos. So no post yesterday.
Just before the game started I got an IM,
through FB from a former student. I didn’t think it was really him, maybe because
of the email hack I had just dealt with. Anyway, after a few posts, it was
obvious that it was not him and a scam…something about him receiving $100,000
from the government and how if I went to the website, I too would get that amount.
Yeah, right. So I asked him who his elementary principal was. No response. I
knew it was a scam. I checked his FB page and several people had posted that he
had been hacked. Crazy world.
Still celebrating the Broncos win, Lady Gaga’s
National Anthem, and an interesting half time show. Smiled at several
commercials. Good day.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Fruits and Veggies
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
Identify the fruits and vegetables
from the following clues:
(Don't assume that you know how part of a clue is pronounced. There may be more
than one way!)
1. "Mom, may we please go outside? Will you please let us play? PLEASE!
PLEASE!"
2. Another name for a taxi + the rings in a tree indicate what? =
___________________.
3. A pool stick + C + a burnt brownish color = ______________________.
4. Your mother pairs socks at the toes.
5. A drink + me + the end of the word "talon" =
_____________________.
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…Business Facts…
Ma Yu Ching’s Bucket Chicken House
in Kaifeng, China is considered the world’s oldest operating restaurant, first
opening in 1153 AD during the Jing Dynasty.
In 2013, Candy Crush made $850,000
per day!
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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.
49. Ravel: To entangle,
or to disentangle
50. Refrain: To desist from doing something, or to repeat
51. Rent: To purchase use of something, or to sell use
52. Rock: An immobile mass of stone or figuratively similar
phenomenon, or a shaking or unsettling movement or action
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…Hard to Believe…
20. We went to the moon before we
thought to put wheels on suitcases.
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…Harper’s Index…
54-Percentage of US viewers of the 2016 FIFA
Women’s World Cup final who were male
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhotograph by Michael Yamashita. @yamashitaphoto - Dragon
dance, Tulou earth house, Meilin, China. Performed on festive occasions, the
dragon brings good luck and scares away evil spirits. In every Chinese
community around the world there will be Dragon dancing today to celebrate the
Lunar New Year. Happy Year of the Monkey!
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2 jokes for the day
What did the famous musician say the
moment he was born?
I'LL BE BACH!
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How Churches might be in 2020:
PASTOR: Praise the Lord.
CONGREGATION: Hallelujah!
PASTOR: Can we please turn our iPads and Kindle Bibles to Exodus 20:1. When
you’re done, kindly switch on your Bluetooth to receive the sermon… Please have
your debit cards ready as we shall now collect tithes and offering. You can
connect to the church WiFi using password Lord99087 and as for the renovation
donations, you’re welcome to contribute via EFT or mobile banking. The holy
atmosphere is truly electric as the iPads beep and flicker.
CHURCH SECRETARY: This week’s meetings will be held on the various Whatsapp
groups so please don’t miss out! Wednesday Bible teachings will be held live on
Skype @1900hrsGMT. By the way, you may follow the Pastor on Twitter for
counseling and don’t forget our weekly prayers on YouTube. God bless You All.
CONGREGATION: Amen!
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Yep, It Really Happened
The Ol' Hiding Drugs in Your Hollow
Leg Ploy
QUEENSBURY, N.Y. Authorities say a 40-year-old
man has been caught trying to smuggle prescription drugs into an upstate New
York jail in his prosthetic leg after being arrested for assaulting his
girlfriend. Terrance Seymour was charged last week after his girlfriend said he
beat her with the stock of a rifle and held her against her will for nearly 12
hours inside the home they share in the town of Horicon. Officials say
corrections officers at the county jail discovered doses of the prescription
drug Suboxone hidden inside a hollow in his prosthesis during a search.
Seymour, who lost a leg in a childhood accident, was charged with assault and
promoting prison contraband.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Philo Farsworth was a 14-year-old
Idaho farm boy when he came up with a brainstorm that eventually led to the
first practical electronic television. Working with a horse-drawn harrow to
harvest potatoes one row after another, it occurred to him that an electronic
image could be scanned and reproduced line by line - one row after another.
Why is there no channel 1 on American TV? Because in the 1940s, TV and radio
shared some frequencies, raising the prospect of interference. Channel 1 was
only used by low-watt TV stations, so the industry was willing to surrender the
frequency to radio.
We think of cable as a means to deliver 200-plus channels, but its first
customers had no choices at all - people in remote areas whose TV reception was
terrible. "Community antennas" were built on high ground in Arkansas,
Oregon and Pennsylvania in 1948. Then cables carried the signals to individual
homes.
Japanese manufacturer Ikegami Tsushinki invented a hand-held TV camera that it
called a "handy-looky," mimicking the slang term
"walkie-talkie." Tne product caught on. The nickname did not.
Early TV cameras sometimes were thrown off by certain colors. After Soviet
broadcaster Olga Vysotskaya gave a gymnastics demonstration while wearing a
certain hue in 1938, she got letters from viewers asking her why she had
appeared in the nude.
The wireless TV remote control was born in the Chicago area in 1955. Zenith
engineer Eugene Polley created the Flash-Matic, which sent a light signal to
the television. However, sunlight could cause confusion. A year later, Zenith's
Robert Adler devised a remote called the Space Command that used ultrasound and
was state of the art for decades. Eventually, infra-red signaling took over.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
88- Roger
Mudd,
news anchor (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News), born in Washington,
D.C.
(85) Dean
Rusk,
US Secretary of State (d.1984)
77- Barry
Mann,
R&B singer (Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp Bomp Bomp)
74- Carole
King, [Klein],
pianist/singer (Tapestry), born in Brooklyn, New York
73- Joe
Pesci,
Newark NJ, actor (Half Nelson, Goodfellas)
(72) Samuel
Jones Tilden,
philanthropist for NY Public Library (d.1886)
72- Alice
Walker,
US, novelist (Color Purple, Meridian)
71- Mia
[Maria] Farrow,
LA, actress (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo)
(70) Ernest
Tubb,
Tx, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You) (s.1984)
(68) William
Henry Harrison,
Charles City Virginia, 9th President of the United States (d.1841)
67- Judith
Light,
Trenton NJ, (Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live)
61- Charles
Shaughnessy,
actor (Nanny), born in London, England
53- Travis
Tritt,
Marietta Ga, country vocalist (Country Club)
(41) Brendan
Behan,
author/poet (Hostage), born in Dublin, Ireland (d.1964)
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Historical Obits Today
@89-1995 J
William Fulbright,
(Sen-D-Ark)/anti-Vietnam War
@83-1969 [George]
Gabby Hayes,
western sidekick actor
@81-1995 David
Wayne, [Wayne Mcmeekan],
US actor (Dallas)
@79-1966 Sophie
Tucker,
Russ/US singer/actress (My Yiddish Mama), kidney failure
@69-1984 Yuri
Andropov,
Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84), renal failure
@67-1976 Percy
Faith,
Canadian musician, cancer
@59-1881 Fyodor
Dostoyevsky,
Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), pulmonary
hemorrhage
@55-1981 Bill
Haley,
vocalist (Rock Around Clock), heart attack
@33-1906 Paul
Laurence Dunbar,
African American dialect poet, TB
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Lettuce
2. Cabbage
3. Cucumber
4. Tomato
5. Watermelon
Explanation of each answer:
1. The words "let us" point to lettuce.
2. Cab is another name for a taxi, and the rings in a tree tell its age. When
we combine cab and age, cabbage is the result.
3. A pool stick is called a cue stick. Burnt umber is a brownish color. When we
combine cue, c, and umber, cucumber is the result.
4. Mating socks is an expression for pairing socks. When mating socks at the
toes, tomato is the result.
5. Water is a drink. When we combine water, me, and "lon", watermelon
is the result.
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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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