February 8, 2016

Kite Flying Day

Monday, February 8, 2016

The 39 day of the year

327 days left to go 

THIS WEEK IS 

• Celebration of Love Week
• Children of Alcoholics Week
• Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
• Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week
• Risk Awareness Week
• Jell-O Week
• Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
• National Secondhand Wardrobe Week
• Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
• American Camp Week

TODAY IS

• National Girl Scout Cookie Day (Info)
• Boy Scout Anniversary Day
• Laugh and Get Rich Day
• Losar
• Chinese New Year
• Opera Day
• National Kite Flying Day
• National Clean Out Your Computer Day 

ON THIS DATE...

1587: Mary, Queen of Scots, was beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she was implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I (read more). 

1802: Simon Willard patented the banjo clock.
1865: American YMCA director Lewis E. Jones was born . He wrote the enduring hymn, "Power in the Blood."
1910: The Boy Scouts of America was incorporated.
1922: President Warren Harding had the first radio installed in the White House. 
1924: Nevada State Prison inmate Jon Gee became the first person in the United States to be executed in the gas chamber.  
1926: Walt Disney Studios was formed. 

1960: Congress opened an investigation into widespread charges of "payola" that disc jockeys were being paid to play certain records. The accused included deejays Alan Freed and Dick Clark. Clark came through the scandal unscathed, but Freed never worked in radio again (read more).

1963: Lamar Hunt moved his American Football League franchise from Dallas to Kansas City.  The new team in Kansas City was named the Chiefs.  Dallas soon received a new team which became known as the Cowboys. 
1965: Supremes release "Stop In the Name of Love" (Song)

1968: The film "Planet of the Apes," starring Charleton Heston, Roddy McDowell, and Kim Hunter, opened through the U.S (see trailer.
1969:  The last issue of the "Saturday Evening Post" was published; it started in 1821
1974: The three-man crew of the Skylab space station returned to Earth after 84 days. 

1974: "Good Times," debuts on CBS TV (Show intro)

1985 - "The Dukes of Hazzard" ended its 6-1/2 year run on CBS television
1986: five-foot, seven-inch Spud Webb of the Atlanta Hawks won the NBA Slam Dunk competition (Watch) 
1989: A reedited version of the movie "Lawrence of Arabia" opened in New York City. Director David Lean revealed that due to an earlier editing mistake, for 20 years the camels had been moving in the wrong direction and nobody noticed.
1994: Actor Jack Nicholson attacked a car with a golf club.
1998: A rat grounded a 60-ton Swissair jetliner for two days until airline workers finally trapped it using cured ham as bait. Officials refused to say if the rat was traveling first class or coach.

2007: Anna Nicole Smith died after collapsing at the Seminole Hard Rock Cafe Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida.  She was 39.  







HISTORY SPOTLIGHT 

The Boy Scouts (Source) 

Chicago businessman William D. Boyce incorporated the Boy Scouts of America on this day in 1910. He didn’t, however, conceptualize the scouting movement -- the Boy Scouts were originated by Englishman, Sir Robert S.S. Baden-Powell. It seems that Mr. Boyce was visiting England and one foggy day in London town, he lost his way. A young boy guided him, but refused any monetary reward. A surprised Mr. Boyce queried as to why. The boy replied that he was a Scout and Scouts did not accept a reward for doing a good turn. This gesture of good will so inspired Boyce that he searched out Baden-Powell to learn more about the British Scouts. Upon his return to the United States, he formed the Boy Scouts of America. Boyce’s Scouts, and all those who followed, included along with their good deeds, outdoor camping, community service projects and other fun and educational projects. These are all part of the merit badge system for boys from eleven to seventeen years of age. Younger boys start out as Cub Scouts and older young men join the Explorers post.


QUICK TRIVIA 

National “Potato Lover’s” Day (Source) 





Potato Facts:

• The word , potato, is derived from a Native American word “Batata”
• The first cultivated potatoes date back to 500o BC in Peru. Originally, they were purple. When cooked they turn a deep blue color.
• Most of the nutrients found in potatoes are in the skin.
• Sweet potatoes are distant relatives of the common potato, while Yams are not potatoes at all, they  botanically are considered lilies.
• The average American eats 140 pounds of potatoes per year.
• The word spud actually means “to dig a small hole in the ground, similar to spade, a tool to dig small holes.
• The Spanish claim that they first introduced the potato to Europe in 1550 while the Irish say that it was in 1585 when Sir Walter Raleigh introduced the potato to Europe.

WORD OF THE DAY

quasi  [kwey-zahy, -sahy, kwah-see, -zee]  

adjective

resembling; seeming; virtual: a combining form meaning “resembling,” “having some, but not all of the features of,” used in the formation of compound words: 

"Sarah's gown and tiara gave her a quasi-royal appearance" 

 

WORD FROM THE WORD

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23

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