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2.3.16
Week: 05 \ Day: 34
February Averages: 46°\19°
86004 Today: H 36° \ L -1° Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
23mph
Ave. High: 44°
Record High: 64°[1963] Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -16°[1953]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Four
Chaplains Memorial Day
The
Day the Music Died - Buddy
Holly, Richie Valens & Big Bopper died in a plane crash in 1959.
National
Girls & Women in Sports Day)
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Observances This Week
National
School Counseling Week: 1-5 Link
International Networking Week: 1-5
African
Heritage & Health Week: 1-7
Women's
Heart Week: 1-7
International Hoof-Care Week: 2-5
Publicity for Profit Week: 2-8
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1690
1st
paper money in America issued (colony of Mass)
1743
Philadelphia
establishes a "pesthouse" to quarantine immigrants
1809
Territory
of Illinois organizes (including present-day Wisconsin)
1834
Wake
Forest University is established.
1876
Albert
Spalding with $800 starts sporting goods co, manufacturing 1st official
baseball, tennis ball, basketball, golf ball, & football
1882
Circus
owner PT Barnum buys his world famous elephant Jumbo
1913
16th
Amendment, federal income tax, ratified
1930
William
Howard Taft resigns as US chief justice for health reasons
1941
US
Supreme Court upheld Federal Wage & Hour law, sets minimum wages &
maximum hours
1945
Walt
Disney's "3 Caballeros" released
1948
Dick
Button becomes 1st world figure skating champion from US
1953
J
Fred Muggs, a chimp, becomes a regular on NBC's Today Show
1961
6th
largest snowfall in NYC history (17.4" (44.2cm))
1962
President
Kennedy bans all trade with Cuba except for food & drugs
1967
"Purple
Haze" recorded by Jimi Hendrix
1979
"YMCA"
by Village People peaks at #2 on pop singles chart
1994
President Bill
Clinton lifts US trade embargo against Vietnam
1997
Carl
Sagan Public Memorial at Ithaca NY
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1752
Dutch
States-General forbids export of windmills
1815
World's
first commercial cheese factory established, in Switzerland
1928
Paleoanthropologist Davidson
Black reports his findings on the ancient human fossils found at
Zhoukoudian, China in the journal Nature and declares them to be a new species
he names 'Sinanthropus pekinensis' (now known as 'Homo erectus')
1930
The
Communist Party of Vietnam is established.
1960
"La
Dolce Vita" directed by Federico Fellini and starring Marcello
Mastroianni and Anita Ekberg has its film premiere in Italy
1966
1st
soft landing on Moon (Soviet Luna 9)
1971
There
is a series of house searches by the British Army in Catholic areas of Belfast,
resulting in serious rioting and gun battles
1972
11th
Winter Olympic games opens in Sapporo, Japan (1st in Asia)
1986
The
Pope and Mother Teresa meet in Calcutta
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♫ Birthdays Today ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Pretty cold night and the daytime temp was not
that warm.
Did some running around and picked up stuff
for the Super Bowl. Not sure who will show up, but I’ll be ready for whatever
happens.
Since I didn’t go out yesterday, the vehicle
had lots of snow on the front windshield, and it was all ice. Got all the ice
off and got in the car to take off. The windshield wiper on the driver’s side
didn’t work. Found the wrench, dug off even more ice, tightened the wiper and
all was good. I get that as a safety procedure, the wiper disconnects so it won’t
burn out the motor…but I can’t figure out why that happened today. I had
cleaned off the wiper, raised it up and go all the ice off the area where it
rests. Works now so not going to worry about how it happened.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
One Who Yawns
Riddles are little poems
or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme,
but this is not a requirement.
I have been called a savage, a chief
and oft times a leader.
Some have called me the embodiment of courage, although to a Crook I did
surrender.
Where I was born, there were no enclosures.
In the end, to bring me down, it took 5000 soldiers.
As the "terror of the country", I had a reputation of cruelty and
cunning.
My tactics consisted of hitting and then running.
Many movies and stories of me were made.
The memories of me, the most famous of my people, will never fade.
People have spoken ill of me so many times it would give your throat a lump.
Yet sometimes, my name is the last word said when people make a big jump.
Now it's time to give it a try.
Do you know my name; who am I?
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…Business Facts…
In 1907, Kellogg’s launched a
campaign called "Wink Day" to promote Cornflakes. Women were
encouraged to “wink at your grocer and see what you get” (and what they got was
a free box of cereal!)
There's a company in China that
allows you to hire someone to stand in line for you for $3-$5 an hour.
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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.
40. Overlook: To
supervise, or to neglect
41. Oversight:
Monitoring, or failing to oversee
42. Peer: A person of
the nobility, or an equal
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…Hard to Believe…
17. A speck of dust is halfway in
size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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…Harper’s Index…
43-Percentage of Americans born before 1976
who describe themselves as environmentalists
32-of those between 1981 and 1996
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
nakedplanet Sunrise over Hallstatt, Austria
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2 jokes for the day
HR: This is your revised salary,
Keep it confidential.
Employee: Don't worry, I'm equally ashamed of it.
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The Bride kissed her father and
placed something in his hand.
Everyone in the room was wondering what was given to the father by the bride.
The father could feel the suspense in the air and all eyes were on him to
divulge the secret and say something.
So he announced: "Ladies and Gentlemen, today is the luckiest day of my
life." Then he raised his hands with what his daughter gave him and said,
"My daughter has finally returned my Credit Card to me!!!"
The whole audience burst into laughter. But one was in complete silence... The
Groom!
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Yep, It Really Happened
The Atlantic- In January, the upscale Italian
fashion house Dolce & Gabbana introduced stylish hijabs and abayas aimed at
Muslim women unafraid to call attention to themselves as they exercise their
obliged modesty. D&G's marketing effort even accessorized models'
headscarves and cloaks with stilettos and oversized, gaudily framed sunglasses.
It was clear from the suggested retail prices that D&G would be pitching
the line mainly in the wealthy Persian Gulf countries like United Arab
Emirates.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Every year, Sealed Air, the makers
of bubble wrap, produces enough bubble wrap to stretch around the world 10
times.
Bubble Wrap was originally marketed as a type of three dimensional textured
wallpaper. It didn't catch on.
One minute of popping bubble wrap provides the same amount of stress relief as
a 33-minute massage.
In 1957, two inventors got the idea for bubble wrap by sealing two shower
curtains together, creating air bubbles between them.
Bubble wrap's usefulness as a packing material wasn't discovered until 1961
when it was used to ship IBM's fragile new computer systems.
The current world record for the most people popping bubble wrap simultaneously
is 942 people.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
96- Henry
Heimlich,
doctor/inventor
(Heimlich maneuver)
91- Shelley
Berman,
comedian
(Son of Blob, Love American Style), born in Chicago, Illinois
(89) Joey
Bishop, [Gottlieb],
talk
show host (Joey Bishop Show), born in The Bronx, New York (d.2007)
(89) Elizabeth
Blackwell,
Bristol
England, 1st woman physician (d.1910)
(84) Norman
Rockwell,
US,
artist/illustrator (Sat Evening Post covers) (d.1978)
(77) Clarence
Mulford,
Ill,
western writer (Hopalong Cassidy) (d.1956)
76- Fran
Tarkenton,
Richmond
Va, NFL QB (NY Giants, Minnesota Vikings)
1943 Blythe
Danner,
Phila
PA, actress (Butterflies are Free)
(72) Gertrude
Stein,
Penn,
author (Autobiography of Alice B Toklas) (d.1946)
66- Morgan
Fairchild, [Patsy McClenny],
actress
(Falcon Crest), born in Dallas, Texas
(61) Horace
Greeley,
editor
("Go west, young man") (d.1872)
60- Nathan
Lane,
Jersey
NJ, actor (One of the Boys, Frankie & Johnnie)
32- Elizabeth
Holmes,
American
entrepreneur and CEO of Theranos (youngest self-made female billionaire -
Forbes 2014), born in Washington, D.C.
(30) Charles
"Pretty Boy" Floyd,
gangster
and FBI Most Wanted criminal (d.1934)
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Historical Obits Today
@82-2006 Al
Lewis,
American
actor (Grandpa Munster)
@81-2012 Ben
Gazzara,
American
actor
@73-1996 Audrey
Meadows,
actress
(Alice-Honeymooners), lung cancer
@72-1985 Frank
Oppenheimer,
American
physicist, cancer
@70-1468 Johann
Gensfleisch Gutenberg, printer
@69-1991 Nancy
Kulp,
actress
(Jane Hathaway-Beverly Hillbillies), cancer
@67-1924 Woodrow
Wilson,
28th
US president, stroke
@59-1989 John
Cassavetes,
actor/director
(Husbands, Dirty Dozen), cirrhosis
@40-1889 Belle
Starr,
US
female gangster, murdered
@28-1959 Big
Bopper,
rocker,
plane crash
@22-1959 Buddy
Holly,
rock
and roll musician (That'll be the Day), plane crash
@17-1959 Richie
Valens,
rock
vocalist (Donna), plane crash
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Brain Teasers Answers
My name, in case you still don't know.
Is simply one word, Geronimo.
Geronimo was quoted to have said, "Where I was born, there were no
enclosures".
Autobiographers have stated it took more than 5000 soldiers and 500 scouts to
capture Geronimo the last time and often referred to him as "the terror of
the country".
In 1883, Geronimo surrendered to General George Crook.
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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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