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Week 6 Day 36 Flag
Today 48°/28° Wind 11 mph
Gusts 18 mph Active Fire: 132 miles away Risk of
fire: High Nearest Lightning: 2081 miles
away Air Quality: Fair Sunshine
Breezy Feb. Averages: Temps: 46°\22° Moisture:
4.7Days |
Monthly Observations
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National Goat Yoga Month |
National Parent Leadership Month |
Weekly Observations
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1-7 African Heritage & Health Week International Networking Week |
2-8 PeriAnesthesia Nurse Awareness Week Link International Hoof-Care Week Link National Mentoring Summit Link |
Daily Observations
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Adlai Stevenson Day Link |
Shower With A Friend Day Link |
Today’s Quote
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Today’s Meme
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Today’s Thoughts
A nice but breezy
day…at least there is no sand.
I just learned that
there is a Flagstaff in South Africa. Flagstaff, Eastern Cape, South Africa is
1 sq mi in area and has 4821 people living there.
The US Constitution
spells out that the states run all Federal elections.
Irony on display:
Trump praises Iranian citizens protesting their government; the sends troops
into US cities to stop protests.
The government shutdowns
are certainly an inconvenience that our country doesn’t need. Since 1977 there
have been more than 20 funding gaps ranging from 1-42 days. It is time to revisit
this all to common strategy.
I’m more than ready
for the Milan Olympics. The Opening ceremony is Friday afternoon. I’m hoping
for a good Olympics and a break from the world’s problems during the games.
Then on Sunday, the Super Bowl. I like the Seahawks and am again hoping for a
good game, new enjoyable commercials, and another short escape from the news of
the world.
Trivia
About 1 million Earths could
fit inside the sun.
From 93 million miles away, it
can be easy to forget just how big the sun is. With a diameter of 864,938 miles and a
circumference of about 2,715,396 miles, the brilliant ball of hydrogen and helium at
the center of our solar system is large enough to fit about 1 million Earths inside of it.
It’s also some 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit on the surface and, thanks to nuclear
reactions, 27 million degrees in its core, producing the same amount of energy
every second as 100 billion tons of dynamite.
Don’t let that give you earthlings an inferiority complex, however — in
about 5 billion years, the sun will run out of hydrogen, and eventually
collapse into a white dwarf roughly
the same size as the Earth. (Earth won’t survive that,
but luckily we don’t need to worry about it for quite some time.) In the
meantime, the sun will remain almost unfathomably larger than anything orbiting
it — about 1,000 Jupiters could fit inside
it, for instance, as could 64.3 million of Earth’s moons.
Historic Events
Birthdays with some quotes
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John Witherspoon (1723-1794
@71) Scottish-American
president of the College of New Jersey who signed the Declaration of
Independence, born in Gifford, Scotland §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Robert Peel (1788-1850;
@62, horse riding accident) British Prime
Minister (Tory/Conservative/Peelite: 1834-35; 1841-46), founder of
the British Conservative Party and the modern police force (Bobbies), born in
Bury, Lancashire, England §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Belle Star [Myra
Belle Shirley] American outlaw (American wild west), born in Carthage,
Missouri (d. 1889; @40, murdered) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ André Citroën (1878-1935;
@57, cancer) French automobile
pioneer, born in Paris, France §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Elizabeth Ryan (1891-1979;
@87) American tennis player (26
Grand Slam doubles titles), born in Anaheim, California §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Adlai Stevenson II (1900-1965;
@65, heart attack) American
politician (US Ambassador to UN, 1961-65; Governor of Illinois, 1949-53;
Democratic presidential candidate, 1952 & 1956), born in Los Angeles,
California §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ John Carradine, American actor (The
Grapes of Wrath, Stagecoach, Howling), born in Greenwich Village, New York
(d. 1988; @82) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ William S.
Burroughs (1914-1997; @83) American writer (Naked Lunch,
The Nova Trilogy) and visual artist, born in St.
Louis, Missouri §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Red Buttons [Aaron Chwatt], American
comedian (The Red Buttons Show), and Academy Award-winning actor (Sayonara;
The Poseidon Adventure), born in New York City (d. 2006; @87) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Bernard Kalb, American journalist,
moderator, lecturer and author, one of the most respected broadcast
journalists of his time (CBS News, New York Times), born in New York City (d.
2023 @100) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ American Baseball Hall of
Fame right fielder (MLB record
755 HRs; NL MVP 1957; 25 × MLB All-Star; Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee
Brewers), born in Mobile, Alabama §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Stephen J.
Cannell, American TV producer (The Rockford Files, The A-Team, 21 Jump
Street) and writer, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2010; @69,
melanoma) §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ |
Roger Staubach (84 years old),
American College and Pro Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Heisman Trophy
1963, Navy; Super Bowl 1971 [MVP], 77; Dallas Cowboys), born in Cincinnati,
Ohio §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Craig Morton (83 years old), College
Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Cal; NFL: Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos),
born in Flint, Michigan §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ American
electrical engineer (founded
Atari, created Pong), born in Clearfield, Utah §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Mark Fuhrman (74 years old), American LAPD
detective in the O. J. Simpson murder case, born in Eatonville, Washington §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ American golfer (US Open
1986, LPGA 1987), born in Huntington, New York §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Tim Meadows (65 years old), American
comedian and actor (Saturday Night Live, Mean Girls), born in Highland Park,
Michigan §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ British sailor, 4-time
Olympic champion and CEO and skipper of America's Cup team INEOS Britannia,
born in Macclesfield, England §§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§§ Cristiano Ronaldo(41
years old) Portuguese soccer
striker (5 x Ballon d'Or; Sporting Lisbon; Manchester United, Real Madrid,
Juventus), born in Funchal, Portugal |
…The End for today…
