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2.24.16
Week: 08 \ Day: 55
February Averages: 46°\19°
86004 Today: H 43° \ L 26° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts:
25mph
Record High:
66°[1904] Record Low: -6°[1960]
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Observances Today
Inconvenience
Yourself Day
National
Cupcake Day (Canada) Link
World
Bartender 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
1803
US
Supreme Court 1st rules a law unconstitutional (Marbury v Madison)
1839
Steam
shovel patented by William Otis, Philadelphia
1857
1st
perforated US postage stamps delivered to government
1863
Arizona
Territory created
1868
1st
US parade with floats (Mardi Gras-Mobile Alabama)
1868
US
House of Representatives vote 126 to 47 to impeach President Andrew
Johnson
1888
Louisville,
Ky, becomes 1st government in US to adopt Australian ballot (i.e. secret ballot
on standard voting forms)
1908
In
'Muller v Oregon', the US Supreme Court favors an Oregon law limiting maximum
hours a woman may work and denies that it curtails 'liberty of contract'
1940
Frances
Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
1942
Voice
of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1968
Discovery
of 1st pulsar announced (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish)
1977
Pres
Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
1979
Highest
price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas
1980
USA
Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal
1983
A
special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice
of Japanese internment during World War II.
1987
LA
Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
1996
Cuba
downs 2 US planes
1999
The
State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed
robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
2002
19th
Winter Olympic Games close at Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1541
Santiago,
Chile founded by Pedro de Valvidia
1821
Mexico
gains independence from Spain
1906
Tomas
Estrada Palma defeats Jose Gomez in the election for president of Cuba, but
Gomez and his followers refuse to accept results and sponsor an uprising
1924
Mahatma
Gandhi released from jail
1946
Juan
Peron (Labor Party) first elected President of Argentina
1966
Coup
ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
1981
Britain's Prince
Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer
1989
150-million-year-old
fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
1989
Iran's Ayatollah
Khomeini offers a $1-3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel,
"Satanic Verses"
1997
Deng
Xiaoping, leader of China, cremated (died Feb 19th) 1998
Elton
John knighted
2008
Fidel
Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.
2013
Raúl
Castro is elected to a second term as the President of Cuba
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My Rambling Thoughts
Chilly and windy…not a day to be outside too
long.
Getting ready for quick trip to Denver, picked
up necessary snacks for the trip.
Also picked up a Sound Bar for my TV…way too
tired of Netflix through the TV speakers.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Spazy Croonerisms 19
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
A spoonerism is a pair of words that
can have their initial sounds switched to form new words. The pairs need only
sound the same, not necessarily be spelled the same (power saw & sour paw,
horse cart & coarse heart). There may sometimes be one or two connecting
words (kick the stone & stick the cone, king of the rats & ring of the
cats). Given the following definitions, what are the spoonerisms?
1) a lock's companion and a bright-colored tropical bird & a vegetable and
a vegetable
2) a chilly tome & a courageous chef
3) a mournful song & a spoiled cold dish of vegetables served with dressing
4) an excavation of an underground ore deposit in Geneva & the winner of a
beauty pageant sponsored by pig farmers
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…Business Facts…
Japan is the largest exporter of
frog's legs.
In Chinese, the KFC slogan
"finger lickin' good" comes out as "eat your fingers off".
The first owner of the Marlboro
Company died of lung cancer.
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…Harper’s Index…
$30-Price of a Donald Trump piñata in Reynosa,
Mexico
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…Politicians on the Chicken Crossing The Road…
DONALD TRUMP: All Mexican chickens who
wish to cross this road must submit to a complete background check, and full
body search.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @edkashi/@viiphoto: Nana Acheampong and
some of his family process #cocoa on their
farm in Bonsaaso, #Ghana
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2 jokes for the day
“Please keep your dog beside you,
sir,” a woman said crossly to the man sitting opposite to her on the bench at
the park. “I can feel a flea in my shoe.” “Midnight, come here,” replied the
man. “This woman has fleas.”
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Officer: Soldier, do you have change
for a dollar?
Soldier: Sure, buddy.
Officer: That's no way to address an officer! Now let's try it again.
Do you have change for a dollar?
Soldier: No, SIR!
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Yep, It Really Happened
|
Associated Press via The Guardian (London), --
New World Order: (1) Yet another woman gave birth to her own granddaughter in
January. Tracey Thompson, 54, offered to be the surrogate mother for her
fertility-challenged daughter, Kelley, and delivered a 6-pound, 11-ounce girl
at The Medical Center in Plano, Texas.
(2) After notable successes in the United
States, Latin America claimed in December its first transgender pregnancy
after Ecuadorean Fernando Machado announced he was expecting a child with his
partner Diane Rodriguez. Fernando used to be "Maria"; Diane used to
be "Luis"; and though both undergo hormone therapy, they have
retained their birth organs.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Girl Scout cookies can have a
different name based on what bakery they come from? Samoas might be called
Caramel deLites and Trefoils called shortbread. Each council chooses a baker,
either ABC Bakers or Little Brownie Bakers.The baker will each produce a
similar cookie, but the name and recipe are slightly different.
According to the Girl Scouts website, Girl Scout cookies made their first
appearance in 1917. At the time, a troop in Oklahoma baked the cookies and sold
them in a high school cafeteria as a service project.
Cookies were baked and sold commercially in the 1930s.
The revenue from cookie sales stays within the Girl Scout councils. The
national Girl Scout organization, Girl Scouts of the USA, gets a royalty from
the licensed baker in exchange for the use of the Girl Scouts trademarks. No
other revenue from the cookie sales goes to the national organization.
The cookie program is meant to encourage girls to learn five important skills -
goal setting, decision making, money management, people skills, and business
ethics.
These days customers can find their favorite cookies by searching for a seller
through a mobile app or ordering online from a Girl Scout they know.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
(94) Abe
Vigoda, NYC,
actor
(Barney Miller, The Godfather), (d. 2016)
(80) Chester
Nimitz,
US
admiral (commanded Pacific fleet in WW II) (D.1966)
(74) Winslow
Homer,
US,
painter (Gulfstream) (D.1910)
(73) Wilhelm
Karl Grimm,
Hanau
Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales) (D.1850)
(73) James
Farentino,
Brooklyn,
actor (The Final Countdown), (d. 2012)
71- Barry
Bostwick,
San
Mateo Ca, actor (Rocky Horror Show, Megaforce)
69- Edward
James Olmos,
Cal,
actor (Miami Vice, Stand & Deliver, Triumph)
66- George
Thorogood,
Wilmington,
Delaware, American singer and guitarist (The Delaware Destroyers-Bad to the
Bone)
65- Debra
Jo Rupp,
American
actress (That 70’s Show)
60- Paula
Zahn,
Napperville
Ill, news anchor (ABC, CBS This Morning)
58- Sammy
Kershaw,
Kaplan
LA, country vocalist (Cadillac Style)
(56) Steve
Jobs,
San
Francisco, American computer entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple (d. 2011)
50- Billy
Zane,
actor
(Orlando, Memphis Belle, Millions, Titanic)
38- Floyd
Mayweather,
Grand
Rapids Mich, featherweight boxer (Oly-br-96)
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Historical Obits Today
@92-1998 Henny
Youngman,
comedian
(Take my wife please)
@81-2006 Don
Knotts,
American
actor
@81-2006 Dennis
Weaver,
American
actor
@81-1986 Tommy
Douglas,
Canadian
politician and "Father of Medicare"
@76-1994 Dinah
Shore,
singer
(Chevrolet), cancer
@71-1991 George
Gobel,
Chicago,
comedian (George Gobel Show), surgery complications
@70-1990 Malcolm
Forbes,
CEO
(Forbes Publishing), heart attack
@49-1815 Robert
Fulton,
steamboat
pioneer, TB
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) key and parrot & pea and carrot
2) cold book & bold cook
3) sad ballad & bad salad
4) Swiss mine & Miss Swine
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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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