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Week 5 Day 32 Flag
Today 51°/30° Wind 7 mph
Gusts 13 mph Active Fire: 132 miles away Risk of
fire: High Nearest Lightning: 1568 miles
away Air Quality: Moderate Sunshine Breezy
Feb. Averages: Temps: 46°\22° Moisture:
4.7Days
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Monthly Observations
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Adopt A Rescued Rabbit Month Link |
An Affair To Remember Month Link |
Weekly Observations
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Sundance Film Festival: 22-2/1
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1-7 African
Heritage & Health Week |
Daily Observations
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Candy-Making Day |
International Face & Body Art Day
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Today’s Quote
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Today’s Meme
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Today’s Thoughts
I’m starting the new
month with nice weather, even if it is a little breezy.
ICE just bought a
huge warehouse in Surprise, AZ, just outside Phoenix, for $70million. No word
on why, but a good guess would be another prison for immigrants.
Lots of people wear
a pin or ribbon on their clothing to raise awareness for a particular cause. I
wonder if this really does that and what else people should do?
Getting a prescription renewed when there are no refills is becoming more difficult for me. I have diarrhea from a med I’m taking to kill my blood cancer. It was time for renewal, so I called the Doctor. Their auto answer said if I needed a script renewed, I should contact the pharmacy. I did that and about 3 hours later I got a text from Walgreens saying the renewal was declined. I called the Dr. again and tried to speak to a human…that was impossible. I left a voice mail. They called me back about an hour later and I asked what was going on. She said she would send it while we spoke. In my original request, Walgreens said I could pick it up on Tuesday. Then this morning I got a text from Walgreens that my script was ready. Life can be very confusing.
Trivia
Alaska’s flag was created by a
13-year-old.
Every flag
has a story, but few are as endearing as Alaska’s. One of the rare places to
have a flag before it was actually a state, the Last Frontier held a contest to
design its territorial standard in 1926 — and a 13-year-old won. (The contest was open only to Alaskan children in grades seven to
12, but it’s still impressive.) Benny Benson lived in an orphanage known as the
Jesse Lee Home in Seward, Alaska, when he came up with the winning design,
which included a description he wrote himself: “The blue field is for the Alaska sky and
the forget-me-not, an Alaska flower. The North Star is for the future of the
state of Alaska, the most northerly in the Union. The dipper is for the Great
Bear – symbolizing strength.” His design also featured “1867” in commemoration of the year the United States bought Alaska from Russia, although the numbers didn’t make the
final cut.
In addition to being hailed as a local hero, Benson won a watch with his design
on it and a $1,000 scholarship. He eventually used that money to attend
Hemphill Diesel Engineering School after moving to Seattle in 1936. He was 45
when Alaska became a state in 1959, fulfilling the hopeful description of his
design. Alaska kept its flag instead of adopting a new one, and Benson’s work
lives on today.
Historic Events
Birthdays with some quotes
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Scottish mathematician and
inventor (logarithms), born in Edinburgh, Scotland §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Charles-Joseph Sax, Belgian music
instrument builder of wind and brass instruments whose son invented the
saxophone, born in Dinant, Wallonia, Belgium (d. 1865; @75) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Thomas Cole (1801-1848; @47, pleurisy) American romantic
landscape painter (Hudson
River School), born in Bolton le Moors, Lancashire, England §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Meyer Guggenheim,
Swiss-born patriarch of the Guggenheim family, one of the world's wealthiest
families in the 19th century, born in Lengnau, Switzerland (d. 1905; @77) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Hattie Wyatt
Caraway, American politician (1st woman elected to US Senate, Senator for
Arkansas 1931-45), born near Bakerville, Tennessee (d. 1950; @72) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ John Ford (John Martin
Feeney)(1895-1973; @79) American director (Stagecoach,
Air Mail, Quiet Man), born in Cape Elizabeth, Maine §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Clark Gable (1901-1960; @59, heart attack) American actor (Gone With The
Wind; It Happened One Night) known as 'The King of Hollywood', born in Cadiz,
Ohio §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Langston Hughes (1902-1967;
@66, prostate cancer) American poet (Weary
Blues), playwright (Mulatto),
and librettist (Troubled Island), born in Joplin, Missouri §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Zhang Chunqiao (1917-2005;
@88) Chinese politician
and writer (member of the Gang of Four), born in Heze, Shandong, Republic of
China §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Scottish author (The Prime of
Miss Jean Brodie), born in Edinburgh, Scotland §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Boris Yeltsin (1931-2007;
@76, heart failure) Russian politician
and 1st President of Russian Federation (1991-99), born in Butka, Sverdlovsk §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ (Isaac) Don Everly, American rock and roll
singer-guitarist (The Everly Brothers - "Bye, Bye Love"; "Wake
Up Little Susie"; "When WIll I Be Loved"), born in Brownie,
Kentucky (d. 2021; @84) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Sherman Hemsley, American actor (All
in the Family; The Jeffersons; Amen), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d.
2012; @74, superior
vena cava syndrome) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Terry Jones, Welsh comedian (Monty
Python), born in Colwyn Bay, Denbighshire, Wales (d. 2020; @77,
dementia) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Jessica Savitch, American broadcast
journalist and pioneering female news anchor (NBC Weekend), born in
Wilmington, Delaware (d. 1983; @36, auto accident) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Rick James (1948-2004;
@56, pulmonary failure) American
funk musician ("Super
Freak"), born in Buffalo New York §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Brandon Lee, American actor
(Showdown in Little Tokyo), born in Oakland, California (d. 1993; @28,
accidently shot during filming) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Lisa Marie Presley
(1968-2023; @54, cardiac arrest) American
singer-songwriter ("Lights Out"), and daughter of Elvis, born in
Memphis, Tennessee
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Garrett Morris (89 years old), actor
(SNL, Martin, Carwash), born in New Orleans, Louisiana §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Billy Mumy (72 years old), American
actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte), born in San Gabriel,
California §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Pauly Shore (58 years old), American
comedian (Totally Pauly, Encino Man), born in Hollywood, California §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Brian Krause (57 years old),
American actor (Charmed), born in El Toro, California §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Michael C. Hall (55 years old),
American actor (Dexter, Six Feet Under), born in Raleigh, North Carolina §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Ronda Rousey (39 years old),
American pro wrestler, actress, author, mixed martial artist and judoka (UFC
Women's Bantamweight Champion 6 defences; Olympic bronze 70kg judo 2008;
WWE), born in Riverside, California §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ 1994 British
pop singer (One Direction -
"What Makes You Beautiful"; solo - "Sign of the Times"),
born in Redditch, England
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…The End for today…
