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2.12.16
Week: 06 \ Day: 43
February Averages: 46°\19°
86004 Today: H 57° \ L 18° Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 0mph\Gusts:
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Ave. High: 45°
Record High: 62°[1971] Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -12°[1908]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Darwin
Day
Independence Day-Chile-1818-from Spain
NAACP
Day-since 1909
Oglethorpe Day
Plum
Pudding DaySafety Pup Day
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Observances This Week
7-12-Burn
Awareness Week Link
Children's
Authors & Illustrators Week
International Coaching Week
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week
Solo Diners Eat Out Weekend
7-13-Celebration
of Love Week Link
Children of
Alcoholics WeekLink
Dump Your Significant Jerk Week
Freelance Writers
Appreciation Week
Jell-O Week
National
Secondhand Wardrobe Week Link
7-14-Congenital
Heart Defect Awareness Week Link
Have A Heart for
A Chained Dog Week Link
Risk Awareness Week
7-15-International
Week of Black Women in The Arts Link
8-14-Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy
Week
9-11-International Petroleum Week Link
World AG Expo
9-12-American
Camp Week
9-15-National
Green Week Link
10-14-International Friendship Week Link
12-15-Great Backyard Bird Count
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1599
Of
the seventy Acomas tried for battling with the Spaniards on December 4, 1598,
all seventy are found guilty. Today, Juan de Oñate orders their punishment. All
men over twenty-five years old have one foot cut off and serve as slaves for
twenty years. Everyone from twelve to twenty-five only have a foot cut off.
1733
Georgia
founded by James Oglethorpe, at site of Savannah
1821
Mercantile
Library of City of NY opens
1825
Creek
Indian treaty signed. Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in
Georgia to the government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826
1855
Michigan
State University was established.
1876
Al
Spalding opens his sporting good shop
1879
1st
artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Sq Garden, NYC)
1880
US
National Croquet League organizes (Phila)
1908
NY
to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in NYC George Schuster
wins after 88 days behind the wheel
1914
"The
Squaw Man", 1st feature-length film shot in Hollywood, directed
by Cecil B. DeMille and Oscar Apfel, is released in the US
1925
1st
federal arbitration law approved by Congress
1944
Wendell
Wilkie (R) enters presidential race
1949
"Annie
Get Your Gun" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 1147 performances
1950
Albert
Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
1955
President Eisenhower sends
1st US advisors to South Vietnam
1964
Beatles
1st NYC concert (Carnegie Hall)
1967
Pirate
Radio Free Harlem (NYC) begins transmitting
1984
Jayne
Torvill & Christopher Dean skate "Bolero" at Olympics
1987
Survivors
of a black man murdered by KKK members awarded $7 M damages
1999
US
President Bill Clinton acquitted by the Senate in his impeachment
trial
2002
US
Secretary of Energy makes the decision that Yucca Mountain is suitable to be
the United States' nuclear waste repository.
2004
The
city of San Francisco, California begins issuing marriage licenses to same-sex
couples in response to a directive from Mayor Gavin Newsom.
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1502
Muslims
in Granada forced to convert to Catholicism
1541
Santiago,
Chile founded
1554
Queen
of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is executed for treason.
1832
Ecuador
annexes Galapagos Islands
1947
French
fashion designer Christian Dior presents his first influential
collection, named the "New Look"
1994
17th
Winter Olympic games opens in Lillehammer, Norway
1994
"The
Scream" by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1893 pastel version)
is stolen in Oslo
2002
The
trial of former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milošević begins at the United Nations war
crimes tribunal in The Hague. He eventually dies four years later before its
conclusion. 2010
21st
Winter Olympic Games open at Vancouver, Canada
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My Rambling Thoughts
I think the Focus website is finally up to
date. If you wish to see it, Focus Travel Club/
. I will not just be doing update to the site. As most of you know I have been
traveling with Focus since my retirement. It is a great group of people, the
groups are small—usually around 20. There are always great coaches (bus) and
local English speaking guides. Check it out. The 2017 itineraries for some
interesting trips will be out in March. Enjoy and if you have any suggestions
for improvement, let me know.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Anagram Guru 5
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
The following word pairs are
anagrams which can be combined to form the name of an animal.Try to figure it
out.
1. Zeal, Gel
2. Neat, Help
3. Boa, Luff
4. Bow, Mat
5. Evil, Owner
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…Business Facts…
There's a café in France which
charges €7 for a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely
to staff.
There’s a company that provides
private flights for individuals who want to join the “mile high club”. For
$425.00 you get a 1 hour flight, chocolates, champagne, and a curtain.
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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.
60. Skinned: Covered
with skin, or with the skin removed
61. Splice: To join, or to separate
62. Stakeholder: One who has a stake in an enterprise, or a
bystander who holds the stake for those placing a bet
63. Strike: To hit, or to miss in an attempt to hit
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…Hard to Believe…
23. On both Saturn and Jupiter, it
rains diamonds.
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…Harper’s Index…
70-Percentage of obese US preschoolers whose
parents believe their children are ‘about the right weight’.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
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2 jokes for the day
A wealthy old lady decides to go on
a photo safari in Africa, taking her poodle along for company. One day the
poodle starts chasing butterflies and before long, discovers that he's lost.
Wandering about, he notices a hungry-looking leopard heading rapidly in his
direction. The poodle thinks, "Oh, oh!" Noticing some bones on the
ground close by, he immediately settles down to chew on the bones with his back
to the approaching cat. Just as the leopard is about to leap, the poodle
exclaims loudly, "Boy, that was one delicious leopard! I wonder if there
are any more around here?" Hearing this, the leopard halts his attack in
mid-strike, a look of terror comes over him and he slinks away into the trees.
"Whew!", says the leopard, "That was close! That poodle nearly
had me!"
Meanwhile, a monkey who had been watching the whole scene from a nearby tree,
figures he can put this knowledge to good use and trade it for protection from
the leopard. So off he goes, but the poodle sees him heading after the leopard
with great speed, and figures that something must be up. The monkey soon
catches up with the leopard, spills the beans and strikes a deal for himself
with the leopard. The leopard is furious at being made a fool of and says,
"Here, monkey, hop on my back so you can watch me chew that poodle to
bits!"
Now, the poodle sees the leopard coming with the monkey on his back and thinks,
"What am I going to do now?", but instead of running, the dog sits
down with his back to his attackers, pretending he hasn't seen them yet, and
waits until they get just close enough to hear. "Where's that damn
monkey?" the poodle says, "I sent him off an hour ago to bring me
another leopard!"
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There's a little old Christian lady
living next door to an atheist. Every morning the lady comes out onto her front
porch and shouts "Praise the Lord!"
The atheist yells back, "There is no God."
She does this every morning with the same result. As time goes on, the lady
runs into financial difficulties and has trouble buying food. She goes out onto
the porch and asks God for help with groceries, then says "Praise the
Lord."
The next morning she goes out onto the porch and there's the groceries she
asked for, and of course, she shouts "Praise the Lord!"
The atheist jumps out from behind a bush and says, "Ha, I bought those
groceries - there is no God."
The lady looks at him and smiles, she shouts "Praise the Lord, not only
did you provide for me Lord, you made Satan pay for the groceries!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
*------ An Amazing One-In-a-Million
Birth ------*
If you're white and your partner is black and
you have a baby, that baby will be a mix of black and white. In some very rare
circumstances, the baby will have either predominantly black or predominantly
white characteristics, making the baby effectively black OR white. But say you
had twins. Last year Hannah Yarker gave birth to twin girls. Hannah is white
and her partner, Kyle Armstrong, is mixed-race. The twin girls; one black and
one white. What are the chances one twin would be black and the other white?
About a million to one. The stunned mom claimed, "I can't believe I have
one of each."
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Somewhat Useless Information
Some say pancakes actually date back
to the Stone Age, when cavemen cooked the batter over a heated rock. But the
first written reference to a pancake appeared in the year 1430, when they were
made from gruel.
The first International House of Pancake restaurant opened in Los Angeles in
1958. The IHOP acronym, however, did not make its way into our vernacular until
15 years later as part of a marketing strategy.
To find remnants of the world's largest pancake, travel to the United Kingdom.
In 1994, the people of Manchester gathered to watch as the Co-Operative Union
created a 49-foot wide flapjack.
On October 16, 2014, chefs John Pijnappels and Humphrey den Otter whipped,
flipped, and stacked 242 pancakes to create a tower that measured two feet, 11
inches tall.
The British celebrate the beloved breakfast dish on Shrove Tuesday, or what we
in the states know as Mardi Gras. The tradition began in the 1400s as a way for
people to use as much milk, fats, and eggs as possible before they began
fasting for Lent.
Today, there are more than 1,600 IHOPs worldwide. The United States is home to
the majority of the franchise's locations (1,579 restaurants and counting),
there are also locations in Canada, Dubai, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
90- Joe
Garagiola,
St
Louis Mo, sportscaster/host (Today Show)
(88) Omar
Bradley,
General
of Army WW II (GI General) (d.1981)
82- Bill
Russell,
Monroe
La, NBAer (Boston Celtics, Oly-gold-56)
80- Joe
Don Baker,
Groesback
Tx, actor (Eischied, Walking Tall, Fletch)
78- Judy
Blume,
author
(Wifey)
(73) Charles
Darwin,
Shrewsbury,
Shropshire, English naturalist (Origin of the Species) who conceived the theory
of evolution by natural selection, (d. 1882)
(72) Ted
Mack,
Denver,
Colorado TV host (Original Amateur Hour),(d.1976)
(72) Lorne
Greene,
Ottawa
Canada, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica) (d.1987)
71- Maud
Adams,
Lulea
Sweden, actress (Octopussy, Rollerball, Tattoo)
(67) Forrest
Tucker,
Plainfield
Ind, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Dusty Trail)(d.1986)
(65) Cotton
Mather,
Boston,
American Puritan minister (Salem witchcraft trials), (d.1728)
60-
Arsenio Hall,
Los
Angeles comedian (Alan Thicke, Arsenio, Coming to America) 48- Chynna
Phillips,
vocalist
(Wilson Philips-Hold On),
(56) Abraham
Lincoln,
Kentucky,
(R) 16th US President (d.1865)
48- Josh
Brolin,
actor
(Johnny-Private Eye, Jimmy Hickok-Young Riders)
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Historical Obits Today
@96-1983 Eubie
Blake,
US
ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You)
@95-1971 James
Cash Penney,
US
founder (J C Penney)
@91-2014 Isaac
Sidney "Sid" Caesar,
American
comic actor and writer ("Your Show of Shows")
@84-1979 Jean
Renoir,
French
writer/director (Human Beast)
@80-2015 Gary
Owens,
American
disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show)
@79-1804 Immanuel
Kant,
German
philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden),
@77-2000 Charles
M. Schulz,
American
cartoonist, cancer
@75-2000Tom
Landry,
American
football coach (Dallas Cowboys), leukemia
@72-1947 Sidney
Toler,
actor
(Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), cancer
@60-1624 George
Heriot,
Scottish
goldsmith and philanthropist
@51-1789 Ethan
Allen,
American
patriot, apoplectic fit
@50-1942 Grant
Wood,
US
painter (American Gothic), cancer
@37-1976 Sal
Mineo,
actor
(Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed
@17-1554 Jane
Grey,
queen
of England for 9 days, beheaded
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Gazelle.
2. Elephant.
3. Buffalo.
4. Wombat.
5. Wolverine.
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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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