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2.6.16
Week: 05 \ Day: 37
February Averages: 46°\19°
86004 Today: H 36° \ L 21° Average Sky Cover: 8%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts:
39mph
Ave. High: 45°
Record High: 65°[1963] Ave. Low: 18° Record Low: -23°[1989]
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Quote of the Day
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Observances Today
Canadian
Maple Syrup Day Link
Cordova Ice Worm Day:
5-7 Link
Girl
Scout Cookie Day Link
International Day of Zero
Tolerance to Female Genital
Mutilation Link
Ice Cream For Breakfast Day Link
Take Your Child To The Library Day
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Observances This Week
African
Heritage & Health Week: 1-7
Women's
Heart Week: 1-7
Publicity for Profit Week: 2-8
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1693 Royal
charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va
1788 Massachusetts
becomes 6th state to ratify constitution
1820 1st
organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)
1820 The
first 86 African American immigrants sponsored by the American Colonization
Society started a settlement in present-day Liberia.
1843 The
first minstrel show in the United States The Virginia Minstrels opens (Bowery
Amphitheatre in New York City).
1869 Harper's
Weekly publishes 1st picture of Uncle Sam with chin whiskers
1882 The
society of the Knights of Columbus forms in New Haven, Connecticut
1899 Spanish-American
War ends, peace treaty ratified by Senate
1902 Young
Women's Hebrew Association organizes in NYC
1911 1st
old-age home opened in Prescott, Arizona
1951 Radio
commentator Paul Harvey arrested for trying to sneak into Argonne
National Laboratory, a nuclear test site located 20 miles (32 km) west of Chi
1956 University
of Alabama suspends African-American student Autherine Lucy claiming that it
can no longer provide for her safety
1959 Fidel
Castro is interviewed by Edward R Murrow
1965 Righteous
Brothers "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'" hits #1
1973 40,000
civil servants demonstrate against higher pension contribution
1974 US
House of Reps begins determining grounds for impeachment of Nixon
1998 Washington
National Airport is renamed Ronald Reagan National Airport.
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1508 Maximilian
I proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor, though 1st Emperor in centuries not to be
crowned by the Pope
1819 Sir
Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore
1832 1st
appearance of cholera in Edinburgh, Scotland
1840 The
Treaty of Waitangi is signed between 40 Māori Chiefs (later signed by 500) and representatives of
the British crown in Waitangi, New Zealand. The treaty was designed to share
sovereignty between the two groups.
1911 Great
fire destroys downtown Constantinople (Istanbul, Turkey)
1932 1st
Olympic dog sled race, Lake Placid, NY (demonstration sport)
1933 Highest
recorded sea wave (not tsunami), 34 m, in North Pacific hurricane by USS Ramapo
1935 "Monopoly"
board game goes on sale for 1st time
1935 1st
election to allow women to vote in Turkey
1936 4th
Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1952 Queen Elizabeth
II succeeds King George VI to the British throne
1968 10th
Winter Olympic games opens in Grenoble, France
1971 Bernard
Watt (28), a Catholic civilian, is shot and killed by the British Army (BA)
during street disturbances in Ardoyne, Belfast
The
Irish Republican Army shoots and kills Gunner Robert Curtis, the first British
soldier to die during the 'Troubles'
1981 Suleiman
Nyambui runs world record 5k indoor (13:20.4)
2012 Canadian
singer Gordon Lightfoot is presented with the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond
Jubilee Medal by the Lieutenant Governor of Ontario
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♫ Birthdays Today ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
It’s been a busy last few days. The adult son
of a friend from the Rez needed ACL surgery on his knew. He had the surgery
yesterday and is staying at my place a couple of weeks during the healing
process. His parent’s both work on the Rez and neither can really take time off
to help him at home. So far all is good. He lays on the couch, watches TV and
even fixes his own meals. He’s very good on his crutches. An added body in the
house is strange, but gotta help out people in need.
The Flag High girls’ basketball team made the
national news this week. Sadly it didn’t make the local paper until today. The
girls showed up for their game, following a cultural awareness day wearing
their hair tied in traditional buns that are tied with yarn. One of the refs
told them they couldn’t wear the buns and yarn as it was a safety hazard. There
is a cultural tradition, with lots of rules that go with the bun. Rather than forfeit
the game, they relented and removed the hair tie. It made FB during the game.
Outrage was coming from far and wide. The Navajo Nation President sent a letter
to the high school athletic association for AZ. They relented and issued a
statement that the buns were OK during games and that refs in N. AZ would have
training i cultural awareness. Most female Native athletes, especially Navajo,
and other teammates both on and off the rez had started wearing their hair tied
in the traditional way. Glad it is worked out, but so sad that it happened in
the first place.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I Must Not Fear...
Trivia brain teasers
have some element of trivia in them, but they are not just pure trivia
questions.
A phobia is an irrational fear or
hatred of a specific thing or situation which compels one to avoid it despite
awareness and reassurance that the object or situation is not dangerous. Listed
below are the names and definitions of six phobias. Five are real phobias
documented in psychology journals, while one is an imposter. Can you determine
which one from the list below is not a real phobia?
Trichopathophobia - Fear of hair
Pentheraphobia - Fear of mother-in-law
Aibohphobia - Fear of Palindromes
Doraphobia - Fear of fur or skins of animals
Logizomechanophobia - Fear of computers.
Onomatophobia- Fear of hearing a certain word or of certain names.
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…Business Facts…
Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin Group,
is dyslexic.
A full-time cashier at Costco makes
about $49,000 annually. The average wage at Costco is nearly 20 dollars an hour
and 89% of Costco employees are eligible for benefits.
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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.
43. Presently: Now, or
soon
44. Put out: Extinguish,
or generate
45. Puzzle: A problem,
or to solve one
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…Hard to Believe…
18. If the timeline of earth was
compressed into one year, humans wouldn't show up until December 31 at 11:58
p.m.
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…Harper’s Index…
3/4-Portion of tattoo removals in the US that
are performed on women
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
natgeotravelPhoto
by @alisonwrightphoto //
Agore, boy with painted dots, Erbore tribe Omo Valley, Ethiopia
There are over 200,000 people living among the eighty unique tribes in the Omo
Valley, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1980. Each of the tribes has their
own costumes, traditions and even language.
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2 jokes for the day
After 20 years of marriage, a couple
was lying in bed one evening, when the wife felt her husband begin to touch her
in ways he hadn't in quite some time.
It almost tickled as his fingers started at her neck, and then began moving
down past the small of her back. He then slid his hand across her shoulders and
neck, slowly worked it down one side, then the other, stopping just over her
lower stomach.
He then proceeded to place his hand on her left inner arm, caressed downward
again, working down her side, passed gently over and then in between her
buttock and down her leg to her calf. Then, he proceeded up her inner thigh,
stopping just at the uppermost portion of her leg. He continued in the same
manner on her right side, then suddenly stopped, rolled over and became silent.
As she had become quite aroused by this caressing, she asked in a loving voice,
"That was wonderful. Why did you stop?"
"I found the remote," he said.
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A woman walked into the kitchen to
find her husband stalking around with a fly swatter.
"What are you doing?" she asked.
"Hunting flies," He responded.
"Oh, killing any?" She asked.
"Yep, three males, two females," he replied.
Intrigued by this she asked, "How can you tell?"
He responded, "Three were on a beer can, two were on the phone."
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-- Fist Fly as Flight
Attendants Have Fist Fight --*
A Delta Air Lines flight from Los Angeles to
Minneapolis was diverted to Salt Lake City, Utah as a result of the fist fight
among the female flight attendants. Passengers aboard the plane said that they
witnessed three cabin crew members engaging in a fist fight. They were expelled
due to bad behavior. The fight broke out after two flight attendants disagreed
about their work responsibilities and the argument turned violent. A third
flight attendant tried to calm them down, but was hit by flying fists. The fight
was reported to the captain of the plane, and he decided to make an emergency
landing and expel the flight attendants. Passengers went without peanuts for
the rest of the flight.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The average Super Bowl 50 ticket
price is set at just over $6,350 as of this writing. Compare that to the nearly
$4,100 average ticket price on last year's Super Bowl during the same two weeks
before the big game, and it seems likely Super Bowl 50 will set a new record.
Estimates suggest that during the Super Bowl, we consume 4,000 tons of popcorn,
eight million pounds of guacamole with 14,500 tons of chips, and over 1.2
billion chicken wings, among other snacks. We will wash that down with over 325
million gallons of beer.
While many people watch the Super Bowl simply for the football action, bets on
the "Golden Game" have taken on a life of their own as fans place
bets on everything from the outcome of the game to the result of the opening
coin toss and how long the National Anthem will be sung. According to
Superbowlbets.com every year an estimated 200 million people worldwide wager
approximately $10 billion on some form of Super Bowl bet.
This is the only year that the NFL is abandoning the classic Roman Numeral
designation, thinking that Super Bowl 50 sounds more appealing than Super Bowl
L. However, next year Roman numerals will be back with Super Bowl LI.
Only four teams have never reached the Super Bowl. The recently added
Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texans have not done so, nor have two of the
league's oldest members: the Detroit Lions and Cleveland Browns.
Last year's Super Bowl topped the list with 114.4 million viewers being treated
to an exciting game that came down to the last seconds before New England
sealed a victory over Seattle with a goal-line interception. Of the top ten
individual television broadcasts ever, all but one are Super Bowls.
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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
99- Zsa
Zsa Gabor, [Zsa Sari],
Budapest,
actress (Queen of Outer Space)
(93) Ronald
Reagan,
Tampico
IL, actor (Bedtime for Bonzo) and 40th US President (d. 2004 )
85- Rip
Torn,
Tx,
actor (Coma, Summer Rental, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
(80) Aaron
Burr,
Newark
NJ, (D-R), 3rd US VP (1801-05), dueler (d.1836)
76- Mike
Farrell,
St
Paul Minn, actor (BJ Honeycutt-M*A*S*H, Battered)
76 Tom
Brokaw,
Yankton
SD, news anchor (NBC Nightly News)
73- Fabian
[Fabiano Anthony Forte],
American
vocalist (Turn Me Loose, Tiger), born in Philadelphia, PA
(65) Natalie
Cole,
vocalist
(Pink Cadillac, Miss You Like Crazy), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2015)
54- Axl
Rose, [William Bailey],
Lafayette
In, vocalist (Guns & Roses)
(53) George
Herman (Babe) Ruth,
baseball
great (NY Yankees), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d.1948)
(36) Bob
[Robert Nesta] Marley,
Nine
Mile St Ann, Jamaican reggae musician and singer-songwriter (Wailers-No Woman)
(d.1981)
(33) Eva
Braun,
mistress
and wife of Adolf Hitler, born Munich Germany (d.1945)
(29) Christopher
Marlowe,
English
poet/dramatist (Dr Faustus) (d.1593)
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Historical Obits Today
@82-2012 Peter
Breck,
American
actor,
@79-1991 Danny
Thomas,
comedian
(Jazz Singer), heart attack
@76-1994 Jack
Kirby,
cartoonist
(X-Men, Spider-Man, Hulk), heart attack
@74-@74-1996 Guy Madison,
actor
(Wild Bill Hickok), emphysema
@68-1950 Frank
Speck,
American
Anthropologist (Algonquin Tribes and Eastern Woodland Native Americans)
@55-1981 Hugo
Montenegro,
American
film music composer, emphysema
@54-1685 Charles
II,
King
of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1660-85), apoplectic fit
@51-1998 Carl
Wilson,
rock
vocalist and guitarist (Beach Boys), lung cancer
@49-1993 Arthur
Ashe,
tennis
star (Wimbledon 1975), AIDS
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Brain Teasers Answers
Aibohphobia is not a real, documented phobia;
it is actually a joke started on the Internet. It has not appeared in any
documented psychology journal. The joke, of course, is that the word
Aibohphobia is a palindrome.
The title is part of a quote on fear from the book Dune, by Frank Herbert.
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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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