Today is...

[CUSP82]

Nah it's just a bad day! Maybe because it's the 13th and it's a Friday!

 

[Scandinavia]

Nah it's just a bad day! Maybe because it's the 13th and it's a Friday!

No, Friday the 13 is always good. These days are rare and we should celebrate on days like this. I'm eating pie, junk food and watching tv-series on HBO and Netflix. And Tomorrow it just an ordinary Saturday again. :biggrin1:

 

[closed224]

Rock on Scandinavia. Maybe you can entice a quiz or ten from TPW?

 

[not2big]

In History:

1258 - Baghdad falls to the Mongols, and the Abbasid Caliphate is destroyed.

1566 - St Augustine, Florida, founded

1633 - Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei arrived in Rome for trial before Inquisition for professing belief that earth revolves around the Sun

1777 - Marquis de Sade arrested without charge, imprisoned in Vincennes fortress

1826 - American Temperance Society forms in Boston. Cusp family moves to NY

1861 - Abraham Lincoln declared US president in Washington DC

1920 - League of Nations recognizes perpetual neutrality of Switzerland

1943 - Women's Marine Corps created

2000 - The last original "Peanuts" comic strip appears in newspapers one day after Charles M. Schulz dies.

 

[TPW]

February 14th

Today is...



VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

Frederick Douglass Day

International Book Giving Day

International Quirky Alone Day

League of Women Voters Day

Library Lovers Day

National Call in Single Day

National Condom Day

National Cream-Filled Chocolates Day

National Ferris Wheel Day

National Have a Heart Day

National Organ Donor Day

Pet Theft Awareness Day

Race Relations Day

World Marriage Day

World Whale Day


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[not2big]

In History:

1009 - First known mention of Lithuania, in the annals of the monastery of Quedlinburg.

1689 - English parliament places Mary Stuart/Prince William III on the throne

1803 - Apple parer patented by Moses Coats, Downington, Penn

1876 - A G Bell & Elisha Gray apply separately for telephone patents Supreme Court eventually rules Bell rightful inventor

1924 - IBM Corporation founded by Thomas Watson

1931 - The original "Dracula", starring Bela Lugosi as the titular vampire, is released

1989 - Union Carbide agrees to pay $470 mill damages for Bhopol disaster

1991 - "The Silence of the Lambs", starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins, is released

 

[closed224]

Anybody up for a little Chianti?

 

[not2big]

Anybody up for a little Chianti?

What are we celebrating? Or, do you just want to be quirky alone today?

 

[closed224]

Silly reference to "The Silence of the Lambs". Anthony Hopkins character enjoyed eating someone with a little Chianti. A little spermology that fell rather flatly.

 

[closed224]

It might have even been in the followup movie, but I Dont think so.
I do enjoy being quirky though.

 

[TPW]

February 15th

Today is...



National Hippo Day

Angelman Syndrome Day

Lupercalia

National Gumdrop Day

Remember The Maine Day

Singles Awareness Day

Susan B. Anthony Day
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[not2big]

In History:

399 - Philosopher Socrates sentenced to death by the city of Athens for corrupting the minds of the youth and of impiety
1689 - German Parliament declares war on France

1898 - USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die

1910 - The Boy Scouts of America founded.

1932 - George Burns & Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show"

1941 - Duke Ellington 1st records "Take the A Train"

1950 - Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released

1965 - Canada replaces Union Jack flag with Maple Leaf

1971 - After 1,200 years Great Britain abandons 12-shilling system for the decimal currency

1995 - Population of People's Republic of China hits 1.2 billion

 

[TPW]

February 16th

Today is...



Family Day

Do a Grouch a Favour Day

Kyoto Protocol Day

National Almond Day

Presidents' Day (George Washington's Birthday)
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[PurpleOnes]

February 15th

Today is...

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National Hippo Day

Angelman Syndrome Day

Lupercalia

National Gumdrop Day

Remember The Maine Day

Singles Awareness Day

Susan B. Anthony Day
​

Did not know that baby hippos would look that cute.

I must admit he looks like a small version of a dinosaur.

 

[not2big]

In History:

600 - Pope Gregory the Great decree saying "God bless You" is the correct response to a sneeze

1659 - 1st known cheque (£400) (on display at Westminster Abbey)

1838 - Kentucky passes law permitting women to attend school under conditions

1859 - The French Government passes a law to set the A-note above middle C to a frequency of 435 Hz, in an attempt to standardize the pitch.

1937 - DuPont Corp patents nylon, developed by employee Wallace H Carothers

1959 - Fidel Castro names himself Cuba's premier after overthrowing Batista

1965 - Pegasus 1 launched to detect micro-meteors and perhaps micro tears in penile tissue.

1989 - William Hayden becomes governor-general of Australia

2013 - Angelina Jolie undergoes a preventive double mastectomy after learning she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer due to a defective BRCA1 gene

 

[closed224]

. Then a picture of Cusp, and I gotta do him a favor (hope he doesn't want too many rum cookies). Oh well still a good day.
I will tell you this, 1965 was a very good year.

 

[TPW]

February 17th

Today is...



International Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday) :hungry:

Paczki Day :hungry:

Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday)

My Way Day eace:

National Champion Crab Races Day

National PTA Founders Day

Random Acts of Kindness Day :thanks:

World Human Spirit Day :grouphug:​

 

[PurpleOnes]

February 17th

Today is...

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International Pancake Day (Shrove Tuesday) :hungry:

Paczki Day :hungry:

Mardi Gras (Fat Tuesday)

My Way Day eace:

National Champion Crab Races Day

National PTA Founders Day

Random Acts of Kindness Day :thanks:

World Human Spirit Day :grouphug:​

A well taken picture of a certain food can make your mouth just water.

 

[TPW]

Agreed PurpleOnes. I am looking forward to having my homemade blueberry pancakes for dinner tonight in celebration of Pancake Tuesday...yummy!

 

[not2big]

In History:

1370 - Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania

1598 - Boris Godunov chosen tsar of Russia

1795 - Thomas Seddal harvests 8.3-kg potato from his garden Chester, England

1818 - Baron Karl von Drais de Sauerbrun patents "draisine" (early bicycle)

1876 - Sardines 1st canned (Julius Wolff-Eastport, Maine)

1933 - US Senate accept Blaine Act: ending prohibition. Cusp family parties all night.

1962 - Beach Boys introduced a new musical style with their hit "Surfin"

1966 - French satellite Diapason D-1A launch into Earth orbit

1967 - Beatles release "Penny Lane" & "Strawberry Fields"

1996 - Garry Kasparov defeats Deep Blue 4-2 in chess

2014 - US Secretary of State John Kerry claims climate change requires urgent action and that only a small "window of time" remained open