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Today is Liberation Day in San Marino. Americans remain woefully misinformed about San Marino. (American remain woefully misinformed about most countries that aren’t located between Canada and Mexico.) It’s not only Liberation Day in San Marino, but, it’s also the feast day of St. Agatha – (patron saint of breast cancer survivors, but again, IContinue reading “Proceed with caution”

February 5, 1958 –A B-47 returning from a simulated combat mission suffered a midair collision with an F-86, on this date. A Mark 15 Mod 0 hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb was purposely jettisoned by the crippled B-47 bomber off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, and has yet to be recovered. The bomb,Continue reading “Your Gov’t needs your help”

February 5, 1816 –Rossini’s opera Barber of Seville premieres in Rome on this date. It was one of the earliest Italian operas to be performed in America and premiered at the Park Theater in New York City on November 25 1825. Demand Euphoria!

Today is the fifth day of the Lunar New Year celebrations. It is the welcome day for the God of Wealth, Caishen also called Cai Boxing Jun. Many families worship the God of Wealth in the early morning. After the ceremony, people usually light firecrackers to welcome the god into their home. (Remember ACME isContinue reading “Po Wu – All Taboos are broken today”

Today, the Fourth day of the Lunar New Year is the day to welcome the kitchen god, the god of fortune and other gods. The fourth day of the Lunar New Year is when the God of Stove reports back to Heaven. The God of Stove will then returns back to your house later onContinue reading “Remember to honor your kitchen god”

February 4, 2007 – Can you make it rain harder? Prince performed at Super Bowl XLI, in the pouring rain and giving what is arguably the greatest Halftime show performance on this date. And so it goes

On February 4, 2008, at 00:00 GMT, NASA transmitted the Beatles song Across The Universe in the direction of the star Polaris, 431 light years from Earth. The transmission was made using a 70m antenna in the DSN’s Madrid Deep Space Communication Complex, located outside of Madrid, Spain. It was done with an “X band”Continue reading “Images of broken light”

February 4, 1979 –Co-Ed Fever, one of the three series that attempted to capitalize on the success of the motion picture National Lampoon’s Animal House, (the others were ABC’s Delta House and NBC’s Brothers and Sisters,) had a special preview on CBS-TV on this date. The show had such poor ratings that it was cancelledContinue reading “Co-Ed Fever premiered”

February 3, 1882 – P.T. Barnum purchased the elephant Jumbo on this date. He kept him for three years until the animal’s skull was crushed by a train. After his death, Jumbo’s skeleton was donated to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The elephant’s heart was sold to Cornell University. Jumbo’sContinue reading “Goodbye Jumbo”

February 3, 1959 –The Day the Music Died: Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper were on a tour called “Winter Dance Party” tour. The musicians were traveling from venue to venue on tour buses. A small plane carrying The Big Bopper (J.P. Richardson), Buddy Holly and Richie Valens crashed near Mason City, Iowa,Continue reading “February makes us all shiver”