February 1st - Today is the 32nd day of the year, with only 333 days remaining in 2006.

February Flowers - Violet, Primrose
February Birthstone - Amethyst (Sincerity)

Leavenworth Prison Birthday
Leavenworth Prison in Leavenworth, Kansas, was the first federal penitentiary. It was completed in 1906.


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
NEW MOON - Jan 29   2:15 p.m.
FIRST QUARTER - Feb 5   6:28 a.m.
FULL MOON - Feb 13   4:44 a.m.
LAST QUARTER - Feb 21   7:17 a.m.


From the Home Office in Wahoo, Nebraska, it's the Top Ten List for December 27, 1994
TOP TEN QUESTIONS YOU'VE GOT IT EASY IN JAIL
10. Every night there's a mint on your pillow.
9. Bars of your cell are rusty from Jacuzzi-steam.
8. Guards meet with you to help plan your escape.
7. They replaced your regular coffee with Folgers crystals. In the resulting riot, ten died.
6. You share a cell with one of Heidi Fleiss' girls.
5. You get frequent flier miles for good behavior.
4. You have a summer cell in the Hamptons.
3. Every day around 4:00 -- pony rides!
2. Other inmates refer to your cell as "Margaritaville."
1. You call the warden "daddy."
©MMV, CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.


ACTING -
1901 Clark Gable, Cadiz OH, actor (Gone With the Wind, It Happened One Night) [D: 11/16/60]
1926 Stuart Whitman, SF CA, actor (Captain Apache, Ransom, Cimarron Strip, Revenge)
1937 Garrett Morris, New Orleans LA, comedian (SNL, Hunter, The Jamie Foxx Show)
1938 Sherman Hemsley, Philadelphia PA, actor (All in the Family, Jeffersons, Amen)
1954 Billy Mumy, San Gabriel CA, actor (Will Robinson-Lost in Space, Dear Brigitte)
1965 Brandon Lee, Oakland CA, actor (Showdown in Little Tokyo) [D: 03/31/93]
1965 Sherilyn Fenn, Detroit MI, actress (Anna-Gilmore Girls, Audrey-Twin Peaks)
1968 Pauly Shore, Hollywood CA, comedian (Totally Pauly, Encino Man)

ARTISTIC -
1887 Charles Nordhoff, London England, writer/collaborator (The Mutiny on the Bounty) [D: 04/10/47]
1895 John Ford, Cape Elizabeth ME, director (Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man) [D: 08/31/73]
1904 S J Perelman, Brooklyn NY, author/humorist/screenwriter (Around the World in 80 Days) [D: 10/17/79]
1918 Dame Muriel Spark, Edinburgh Scotland, novelist (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie)

HISTORIC -
1878 Hattie Wyatt Caraway, Bakerville TN, politician/teacher/first woman elected to senate [D: 12/21/50]
1931 Boris Yeltsin, Butka Soviet Union, president of Russian SSR 1991-99
1936 Azie Taylor Morton, Dale TX, U.S. Treasurer 1977-81 [D: 12/07/2003]
1968 Lisa Marie Presley, Memphis TN, (Elvis' daughter)

MUSIC -
1859 Victor Herbert, Dublin Ireland, composer (Babes in Toyland-March of the Toys) [D: 05/24/24]
1934 Bob Shane, Hilo HI, vocalist (Kingston Trio-Scarlet Ribbons)
1937 Don Everly, Brownie KY, singer (Everly Brothers-Wake Up Little Susie)
1937 Dr Hook (Ray Sawyer), Chickasaw AL, vocalist (Dr Hook-Cover of the Rolling Stone)
1948 Rick James, Buffalo NY, singer/song writer (Salt 'N' Pepper) [D: 08/06/2004]

SCIENCE -
1844 Granville Stanley Hall, Ashfield MA, first president American Psychological Association/Clark University [D: 04/24/24]
1961 Daniel M Tani, Ridley Park PA, astronaut (STS-108, 12th shuttle flight to International Space Station)

SPORTS -
1908 Albie Booth, New Haven CT, collegiate Hall of Fame football star (Yale) [D: 03/01/59]
1915 Sir Stanley Matthews, first British soccer player to be knighted [D: 02/23/2000]


1790 In New York City the Supreme Court of the United States convenes for the first time.
1796 The capital of Upper Canada is moved from Newark to York.
1862 Julia Ward Howe's "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is published for the first time in the Atlantic Monthly.
1884 Edition one, A-Ant, of the Oxford English Dictionary is published.
1893 Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria (West Orange, New Jersey).
1913 New York City's Grand Central Terminal opens as the world's largest train station.
1920 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police begin operations.
1949 RCA releases first single record ever (45 rpm)
1958 Merger of Egypt and Syria to form the United Arab Republic, which lasted until 1961.
1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1965 Peter Jennings, 26, becomes anchor of ABC's nightly news
1968 Official unification of the three former military services of Canada, the Royal Canadian Navy, the Canadian Army and the Royal Canadian Air Force became the united Canadian Armed Forces.
1972 First scientific hand-held calculator (HP-35) introduced ($395)
1979 Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Confederal Agreement Day - Senegal
Federal Territory Day - Malaysia
San Cecilio - Spain
St. Brigid's Day - Montserrat
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Imbolic (or Oimelc) - Celticism
Lunasa or Lammas (Southern Hemisphere) - Paganism
Oimelc / Brigid (Northern Hemisphere) - Paganism


RE-ENGINEERING
Two guys sat down for lunch in the office cafeteria. "Hey, whatever happened to Pete?" one asked.

"He got this notion he was going to build a new kind of car," his colleague replied.

"How was he going to do it?"

"He took an engine from a Pontiac, tires from a Chevy, seats from a Lincoln, hubcaps from a Caddy and well, you get the idea."

"So what did he end up with?"

"Ten years in jail."


Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work or prison. - Tim Allen


FEDERAL PRISON: Uncle slammer. (Wicked-Good Dictionary)

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