February 12th - Today is the 43rd day of the year, with only 322 days remaining in 2006.

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

Darwin Day
Charles Darwin, English naturalist and founder of the theory of evolution, was born in 1809. Celebrate science today.


"Universal Time" (UT) which is sometimes referred to, now colloquially, as "Greenwich Mean Time" (GMT)
FIRST QUARTER - Feb 5   6:28 a.m.
FULL MOON - Feb 13   4:44 a.m.
LAST QUARTER - Feb 21   7:17 a.m.
NEW MOON - Feb 28   0:32 a.m.


TAGLINES (http://taglinesgalore.com)
- And to think ... you're product of 38,000,000,000 years of evolution.
- Be patient, evolution hasn't finished with me yet.
- Darwin was an optimist.
- Don't start the evolution without me.
- Ego makes us believe evolution is moving up.
- Evolution created anchovies. Man's ignorance put them on pizza.
- Evolution is nature's way of issuing upgrades.
- Evolution is nothing more than scientists making monkeys of themselves.
- Evolution stops when stupidity is no longer fatal.
- He's an evolutionary step in the wrong direction.
- If evolution is outlawed, only outlaws will evolve.
- If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?
- Poodles are nature's way of saying not all of her mistakes are extinct.


ACTING -
1904 Ted Mack, Denver CO, TV host (Original Amateur Hour) [D: 07/12/76]
1915 Lorne Greene, Ottawa Canada, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica) [D: 09/11/87]
1919 Forrest Tucker, Plainfield IN, actor (O'Rourke-F Troop, Sands of Iwo Jima) [D: 10/25/86]
1936 Joe Don Baker, Groesback TX, actor (Walking Tall, Fletch)
1950 Michael Ironside, Toronto Canada, actor, (Starship Troopers, Dr Swift-ER)
1953 Joanna Kerns (Joanna Cruise DeVarona), SF CA, actress (Growing Pains)
1955 Arsenio Hall, Cleveland OH, actor/talk show host (Arsenio, Coming to America)
1980 Christina Ricci, Santa Monica CA, actress (Wednesday-Addams Family, Casper)

ARTISTIC -
1938 Judy Blume, Elizabeth NJ, author (Forever, Summer Sisters) National Book Foundation Medal 2004

HISTORIC -
1663 Dr Cotton Mather, Boston MA, "Puritan" minister/prolific author [D: 02/13/1728]
1809 Abraham Lincoln, Hardin County KY, (R) 16th President (1861-65) [D: 04/15/1865]
1893 Omar Bradley, Clark MO, General of Army WWII "The GI General" [D: 04/08/81]
1915 Andrew J Goodpaster, Granite City IL, General/Supreme Commander (NATO-Europe) [D: 05/17/2005]

MUSIC -
1939 Raymond Manzarek, Chicago IL, keyboardist (Doors-Light My Fire)
1950 Steve Hackett, London England, rock guitarist (Genesis-Against All Odds/GTR)
1968 Chynna Phillips, LA CA, singer (Wilson Phillips-Hold On)

SCIENCE -
1637 John Swammerdam, Amsterdam, anatomist/entomologist (Bible of Nature) [D: 02/17/1680]
1809 Charles Darwin, Shrewsbury England, evolution theory (Origin of species) [D: 04/19/1882]

SPORTS -
1831 John Morrissey, Ireland, boxer/developer Saratoga Springs horse race track [D: 05/01/1878]
1926 Joe Garagiola, St Louis MO, sportscaster/host (Today Show) Baseball HoF 1991
1934 Bill Russell, Monroe LA, NBA center (Celtics) 11 championships in 13 years
1938 Johnny Rutherford, Coffeyville KS, International Motorsports HoF/winner 3x Indy 500


1733 Englishman James Oglethorpe founds the 13th and final American colony of Georgia, and its first city at Savannah.
1793 First US fugitive slave law passed; requires return of escaped slaves.
1850 Original Washington's Farewell Address manuscript sells for $2,300.
1874 King David Kalakaua of Sandwich Island HI, is first king to visit US.
1892 Former President Abraham Lincoln's birthday is declared a national holiday in the United States.
1909 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is founded.
1915 In Washington, DC, the first stone of the Lincoln Memorial is put into place.
1924 Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to deliver a political speech on radio.
1955 President Eisenhower sends first US advisors to South Vietnam.
1973 First US POWs in North Vietnam released; 116 of 456 flown to Philippines.
1998 Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740.
1998 US district judge T Hogan declares line-item veto law unconstitutional.
2004 Mattel Inc. announces the split of Barbara Millicent Roberts and Ken Carson (aka Barbie and Ken) after 43 years of dating.
MORE EVENTS

SOURCE: Earth Calendar
Isra and Merag - Sudan
Lantern Festival - Taiwan
Lincoln's Birthday - United States of America
Mother's Day - Norway
Spring Festival - China
Union of Myanmar - Myanmar / Burma


READING CHOICE
One day the zookeeper noticed that the orangutans was reading two books ... the Bible and Darwin's Origin of Species.

In surprise he asked the ape, "Why are you reading both those books?"

"Well," said the orangutans, "I just wanted to know if I was my brother's keeper or my keeper's brother."


My theory on evolution is that Darwin was adopted. - Steven Wright


MONKEYS: God's funhouse mirror. (WordFoolery)

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