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2.19.16 Week: 07 \ Day: 50
February Averages: 46°\19°
86004 Today: H 59° \ L 33° Average Sky Cover: 80% 
Wind ave:   11mph\Gusts:  24mph
Ave. High: 46° Record High: 65°[1981] Ave. Low: 19° Record Low: -6°[1942]
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Quote of the Day 

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Observances Today                           
Best Friends Day  Link  (SpongeBob Squarepants)
Chocolate Mint Day Link
National Lashes Day Link

Women in Blue Jeans Days: 19-20 Link 
Iwo Jima Day (Landing)

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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
18-20 The Simplot Games Link
18-21 American Birkenbreiner Race

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1803 US Congress accepts Ohio's constitution, statehood not ratified till 1953
1807 VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later acquitted
1831 1st practical US coal-burning locomotive makes 1st trial run, Penn
1856 Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
1878 Thomas Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)
1881 Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
1906 WK Kellogg & Ch Bolin found Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co (later Kelloggs)
1910 Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area
1913 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box
1932 William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
1942 FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
1942 NY Yankees annouce 5,000 uniformed soldiers admitted free at each of their upcoming home games
1945 Brotherhood Day-1st celebrated

1945 US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese with 30,000 US Marines1946 Giants outfielder Danny Gardella is 1st major leaguer to announce he is jumping to the "outlaw" Mexican League

1949 1st Bollingen Prize for poetry awarded to Ezra Pound
1953 Georgia approves US 1st literature censorship board
1960 Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
1963 Robert Frost wins Bollingen Prize
1963 USSR informs JFK it is withdrawing several thousand troops from Cuba
1968 1st US Teachers strike (Florida)
1980 Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1000m in 1:15.18
1983 Fernando Valenzuela wins his salary arbitration of $1 million

1984 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
1987 US President Reagan lifts trade boycott against Poland
1992 Ken Ludwig's musical "Crazy For You" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1622 performances
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1600 The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America.
1819 British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.
1861 Russian Tsar Alexander II abolishes serfdom
1919 Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois (Paris) 1928 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
1984 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
2014 Death toll in Ukraine reaches 26 after Government crackdown on protesters
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice weekly lunch with our retirement group. Things are starting to happen with the trip for them to Ireland. Very cool.
Strong wind blew most of the night. Brought in lots of clouds and even some unexpected rain. Nice. Refilled my patio with pine needles and more branches. Not nice.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
How Many?
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a requirement.
My first is a number, my second another, 
And each, I assure you, will rhyme with the other. 
My first you will find is one-fifth of my second, 
And truly my whole, a long period reckoned. 
Yet my first and my second (nay, think not I cozen), 
When added together, will make but two dozen. 

How many am I?

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…Business Facts…
Amazon sells more e-books than printed books.

HP, Google, Microsoft, and Apple have one thing in common – apart from the obvious that they are IT companies. They were all started in garages.
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…Hard to Believe…
30. In Australia, there was a war called the emu war. The emus won.
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…Harper’s Index…
42-Percentage of West Germans who say there are still differences between East and West Germans
71-of East Germans who do
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…Mistaken History you learned in grade school…
Great Wall of China is visible from the moon
The Great Wall of China certainly is a marvel of humanity. It stretches over 5,500 miles including hilly and mountainous terrain. The myth of the Great Wall is that it is visible from the moon. This "fact" dates back to a "Ripley's Believe It or Not" (don't believe it) cartoon in 1932. The cartoon stated that the Great Wall was "the mightiest work of man, the only one that would be visible to the human eye from the moon." However, the Great Wall is not visible from the moon (how would someone in 1932 know this anyway?) and is barely visible from much closer in outer space. The idea behind this historical myth is really cool, but unfortunately no manmade objects are visible to the naked eye from the moon. There is just lots of cloudy white, blue, greens and yellows.
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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

nakedplanetCathedral Cove - New Zealand
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2 jokes for the day

I broke my finger today, but on the other hand, I'm completely fine!

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Teacher: If you are on the moon, what will happen to your weight?

a) Increase
b) Decrease
c) No change
d) Can not be predicted…

Student : Decrease

Teacher: Why?

Student : You will not get good food!!!      

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Yep, It Really Happened
Valentine's Balloons Knock Out Power to 5,000
LOS ANGELES - A California utility company said Valentine's Day balloons elicited emotions other than love when they struck lines and knocked out electricity to 5,000 customers. Southern California Edison said a bundle of runaway Mylar Valentine's Day balloons collided with power lines in South Los Angeles Monday evening. "Metallic balloons look harmless, but there's no way to overstate how dangerous they can be when released outside," Paul Jeske, SoCal Edison's director of corporate health and safety, said in a statement. The utility released a warning prior to Valentine's Day asking customers to avoid releasing the balloons outdoors or tying them to a person's wrist, as that poses an electrocution risk.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Not all wines improve with time. In fact, a vast majority of wines produced are ready to drink and do not have much potential for aging. Only a rare few will last longer than a decade.
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Red wines are red because fermentation extracts color from the grape skins. White wines are not fermented with the skins present.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
76- William ‘Smokey’ Robinson,
American R&B and soul singer-songwriter (The Miracles-Tears of a Clown)
73- Lou Christie [Lugee Sacco],
Glenwillard, Pennsylvania, American singer-songwriter (Lightning Striking Again)
(70) Nicolaus Copernicus,
Toruń Royal Prussia, Polish mathematician and astronomer (d. 1543)
(71) Cedric Hardwicke,
Stourbridge England, actor (Peter Pan, Richard III) (d.1964)
(63) Lee Marvin, NYC,
actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou) (d.1987)
61- Jeff Daniels, GA,
actor (Something Wild, Dumb & Dumber, Speed)
57 Roger Goodell,
Jamestown New York, American NFL Commissioner 54- Hana Mandlikova,
Prague Czechoslovakia, tennis player (1985 US Open)
49- Benicio Del Toro,
Puerto Rico, actor (Licence to Kill, Usual Suspects)
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Historical Obits Today
@92-1997 Deng Xiaoping,
head (Chinese Communist Party)
@84-1998 Louis Marshall ‘Grandpa’ Jones,
country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw), dies at 84
@81-1951 Andre Gide,
French writer (Nobel 1947), dies of pneumonia at 81
@78-1962 Georgios Papanikolaou,
Greek doctor, inventor of the Pap smear
@64-2003 Johnny PayCheck,
American country singer/songwriter, emphysema
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Brain Teasers Answers
Four Score.
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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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