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2.17.16 Week: 07 \ Day: 48
February
Averages: 46°\19°
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Today: H 59° \ L 24° Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 11mph
Ave.
High: 46° Record High: 66°[1996]
Ave. Low:
19° Record Low: -8°[1956]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Champion
Crab Races Day Link
My Way Day
National PTA Founders Day Link
World
Human Spirit Day
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Observances This Week
14-20-Random
Acts of Kindness Week Link
International Flirting Week
Love a Mensch Week
14-21-National
Condom Week Link
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's &
Dementia Staff Education Week
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1621
Myles
Standish is elected as the first commander of the Plymouth Colony
1801
US House
of Representatives breaks electoral college tie, chooses Thomas
Jefferson President over Aaron Burr
1817
1st US
city lit by gas (Baltimore)
1865
Columbia
SC burns down during Civil War
1870
Esther
Morris appointed first female in Justice of the Peace in the United States
1870
Mississippi
becomes 9th state readmitted to US after Civil War
1876
Sardines
1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine)
1897
National
Organization of Mothers forms (Parent Teacher Association)
1905
Frances
Willard becomes 1st women honored in National Statuary Hall
1913
1st
minimum wage law in US takes effect (Oregon)
1913
NY
Armory Show introduces Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp to US public
1924
Johnny
Weissmuller sets 100-yard freestyle record (52.4 seconds)
1932
Irving
Berlin's musical "Face the Music" premieres in NYC
1933
1st
issue of "Newsweek" magazine published
1933
US
Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition
1934
1st high
school auto driving course offered (State College, Penn)
1936
The
world's first superhero, The Phantom, a cartoon strip by Lee Falk, makes his
first appearance in comics.
1958
Comic
strip "BC" 1st appears
1962
Beach
Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin"
1972
US
President Richard Nixon leaves Washington, D.C. for China
1974
Robert K.
Preston, a disgruntled U.S. Army private, buzzes the White House with a stolen
helicopter.
2014
US
Secretary of State John Kerry claims climate change requires urgent
action and that only a small "window of time" remained open
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1776
1st
volume of Gibbon's "Decline & Fall of Roman Empire" published
1795
Thomas
Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England
1837
Charles
Lyell makes his presidential address to the Geographical Society, London
and announces that Richard Owen has concluded from Darwin's fossils that
extinct species were related to current species in the same locality
1867
1st ship
passes through Suez Canal
1883
A
Ashwell patents free-toilet in London
1902
A
general strike in Barcelona and nearby towns leads to government-troop
reprisals that leave 40 dead
1904
Giacomo
Puccini's opera "Madama Butterfly" premieres in Milan
1931
1st
telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
1967
Beatles
release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"
1969
Golda
Meir sworn in as the first female prime minister of Israel
1978
11
civilians and 1 RUC officer are killed and 30 wounded by a Provisional Irish
Republican Army incendiary bomb at the La Mon Restaurant near Belfast
2006
A
massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll
is set at 1,126.
2012
Approximately
70 ancient Olympic artifacts are stolen from the Archaeological Museum of
Greece
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another warm day…we know snow will return, but
this is really nice.
Sent my brother his x-ray CD from his
Christmas accident. He had hoped it would heal by itself, but didn’t happen.
Time for some PT.
Watched a lot of the Grammy’s last night. Some
big time social awareness there. Nice to see it done in such artistic ways. One
may not agree with all that was seen, but have to respect their art. Even
though there were a few technical glitches, a good show. Lots of tributes to
artists we have lost and they were good too—especially Lady Gaga’s tribute and
Jackson Brown’s tribute.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Country Scramble
Trivia brain teasers have some
element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia questions.
Can
you unscramble the countries in Part 1 and match them with the appropriate fact
about them in Part 2? And your answer is?
Part 1
1. HCAIN
2. GRIINAE
3. PAJNA
4. SUKTROOAEH
5. MIKUDITDNENGO
6. HUFAIORSACT
7. MNAAORI
Part 2
1. This is the world's most populous country.
2. The capital of this country is Abuja.
3. This is the only country to ever suffer an attack with atomic weapons.
4. The capital of this country is Seoul.
5. This country is a great industrial power despite the fact that it must
import many resources.
6. The capital of this country is Pretoria.
7. Dracula's home, Transylvania, is in this country.
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…Business Facts…
GTA
V achieved $1 billion in sales just 3 days after its launch.
Jon
Bon Jovi has a restaurant that has no prices; guests pay whatever they can or
volunteer in exchange for their meal.
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…Hard to Believe…
28.
Nintendo was founded in 1889.
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…Harper’s Index…
5-Percentage of US college students in study
abroad programs who are black
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NEW…Mistaken History you learned in grade school…
Napoleon was short.
If
you ask anyone what he or she knows about Napoleon, it is a sure bet that his
height (or lack thereof) will be mentioned. In fact, he was so upset by being
short; he developed a chip on his shoulder that resulted in his conquering most
of Europe. While this makes for great personal drama, it isn't true. Napoleon
was actually around 5' 7" tall, which was taller than the average of 5'
5" at the time. So where does this myth come from? Well, you can thank the
English, the staunchest opponent of Napoleonic France. You see, Napoleon was 5'
2" in French measurement, which differed from the Imperial measurements
that the English used. So when the English heard that Napoleon was 5'2",
they just kind of ran with the propaganda aspect. It also didn't help that the
French had a nickname for their beloved leader as "le petit caporal"
or The Little Corporal.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeotravelPhoto
by @argonautphoto (Aaron
Huey). A young boy covered in paint at a #Jouvert parade,
Carnival Monday in #PortOfSpain, #TrinidadCarnival2016.
J'ouvert is a contraction of the French jour ouvert, or dawn/day break. Bands
of people covered in paint, mud, and oil make their way through the streets of
Port of Spain drinking copious amounts of alcohol and dancing to welcome the
daybreak of#CarnivalMonday.
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2 jokes for the day
A straight eyed and cross eyed guy bump into each other, and the cross eyed guy
said to the straight eyed guy.
“Why don’t you look where you are going?"
The straight eyed guy responded to the cross eyed guy.
“Why don’t you go where you are looking?"
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“Has your son decided what he wants to be when he grows up?” I asked my
friend.
“He wants to be a garbage man,” he replied.
“That’s an unusual ambition to have at such a young age.”
“Not really. He thinks that garbage men work only on Tuesdays.”
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Yep, It Really Happened
Great Art!
Fed up with the "pretense" of the
art world, performer (and radio personality) Lisa Levy of Brooklyn, New York,
sat on a toilet, naked and motionless, at the Christopher Stout Gallery in
January to protest artists' "BS" by presenting herself in the
"humblest" way she could imagine. Visitors were invited to sit on a
facing toilet (clothed or not) and interact with her in any way except for
touching. Levy told the Bushwick Daily website that too much "ego,"
"like a drug," "distorts your reality."
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Somewhat Useless Information
Presidents'
Day is an American holiday celebrated on the third Monday in February.
Originally established in 1885 in recognition of President George Washington,
it is still officially called "Washington's Birthday" by the federal
government. Traditionally celebrated on February 22--Washington's actual day of
birth--the holiday became popularly known as Presidents' Day after it was moved
as part of 1971's Uniform Monday Holiday Act, an attempt to create more
three-day weekends for the nation's workers. Many states still choose to call
their own celebration on this day "Presidents' Day."
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Even
though many states celebrate Abraham Lincoln's birthday concurrently with
Washington's birthday, it is not a federally designated holiday.
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Birthdays Today
“()”
indicates age at death
91- Hal Holbrook,
Cleveland, Ohio actor (All the President's Men, Mark
Twain)
(90) William Cadbury,
England, chocolate manufacturer (Cadbury) (d.1957)
80- Jim Brown,
St. Simons Georgia, NFL running back (Cleveland Browns)
(77) Mary Ann Mobley,
Biloxi Ms, American model/actress (Miss America-1959,
Diff'rent Strokes), (d. 2014)
(75) Arthur Kennedy,
Worcester Mass, actor (Fantastic Voyage, Peyton Place) (d.1990)
(70) Jock Mahoney,
Chicago, Illinois, actor (Dallas, Yancy Derringer, Day
of Fury) (d.1989)
70- Dodie Stevens,
actress (Mary Hartman!)
(69) A Montgomery Ward,
found mail-order business (Montgomery Ward) (d.1913)
(66) Gene Pitney,
Hartford Ct, vocalist/songwriter (Town Without Pity) (d.2006)
54- Lou Diamond Phillips,
Philippines, actor (La Bamba, Stand & Deliver)
53- Michael Jordan,
NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls) and sports superstar
53- Larry the Cable Guy,
American comedian
(47) Huey Newton,
Black Panther leader (d.1989)
44- Billie Joe Armstrong,
Oakland, California singer/musician (Green Day)
42- Jerry O'Connell,
NYC, actor (Scream 2, Andrew-My Secret Identity)
35- Donielle Thompson,
Wheatridge CO, gymnast (World-bronze-95, Oly-96)
35- Paris Hilton,
American actress and heiress
@37-2013 Mindy McCready,
American country singer, suicide
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Historical Obits Today
@85-2005 Dan O'Herlihy,
Irish actor
@81-1982 Lee Strasberg,
acting coach/actor (And Justice for All)
@79-1909 Geronimo [one who yawns],
Apache chief, pneumonia
@71-1890 Christopher Sholes,
American inventor (QWERTY keyboard), TB
@57-1924 Henry
Bacon,
American
architect, (Lincoln Memorial), cancer
@51-1673 Molière, [Jean Baptiste Poquelin],
French playwright (The Misanthrope), TB
@37-2013 Mindy McCready,
American country singer, suicide
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. China: This is the world's most populous
country.
2. Nigeria: The capital of this country is Abuja.
3. Japan: This is the only country to ever suffer an attack with atomic
weapons.
4. South Korea: The capital of this city is Seoul.
5. United Kingdom: This country is a great industrial power despite the fact
that it must import many resources.
6. South Africa: The capital of this country is Pretoria.
7. Romania: Dracula's home, Transylvania, is in this country.
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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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That Is All for Now… ♥♥♥♥
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