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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.
***
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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