Today is Thursday, February 9, the 40th day of 2017 in the Gregorian calendar, with 325 days remaining.
There are:
5 days until Valentine's
Day;
11 days until Presidents'
Day;
19 days until Mardi
Gras;
20 days until Ash
Wednesday;
31 days until Daylight
Saving Time begins;
36 days until St.
Patrick's Day;
39 days until the
arrival of Spring;
59 days until Palm
Sunday;
61 days until First
Day of Passover;
55 days until April
Fools' Day;
64 days until Good
Friday;
65 days until Easter
Sunday;
67 days until US Federal
Income Tax filing day;
68 days until Last
Day of Passover;
72 days until Earth
Day;
77 days until Arbor
Day;
634 days until the
2018 mid-term elections; and
1,441 days until the end of Donald
Trump's term as President, assuming he isn't impeached.
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On this date in 1964, over 73 million Americans, or roughly 40% of the population of the entire country, gathered around television sets to watch the Beatles perform on The Ed Sullivan Show.
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Among other things, today is also National Pizza Day and National Bagel Day. Celebrate both- have a pizza bagel!
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Florida man caught trying to steal $7 billion, blames Jesus.
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The KGB Quotations Database contains 52,045 quotations.
Some persons born on February 9 who said interesting things:
- Brendan Behan (1923-1964), Irish Republican, poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright;
- Amy Lowell (1874-1925), American poet;
- Thomas Paine (1737-1809), English-American political activist, philosopher, political theorist, and revolutionary;
- Dean Rusk (1909-1994), United States Secretary of State from 1961 to 1969;
- James Stephens (1880-1950), Irish novelist and poet;
- Bill Veeck (1914-1986), franchise owner and promoter in Major League Baseball; and
- Alice Walker (1944), American novelist (The Color Purple), short story writer, poet, and activist.
Quote of the day:
"It is the duty of a patriot to protect his country from its government."
-Thomas
Paine
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A full moon, lunar eclipse, and comet all in one night. Here's how to watch it Friday.
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Archaeologists may have discovered another Dead Sea Scrolls cave. A team from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Liberty University in Virginia have discovered what they believe to be a 12th cave on the cliffs west of Qumran. In addition to Biblical text, the scrolls contain hymns, prayers, commentaries, and mystical formulas. They're so valuable that a fragment of an original scroll the size of a fingernail can cost up to $1 million.
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There are 26 ingredients in Doritos Nacho Cheese Tortilla Chips. If you really want to know...
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Wrong-way Trump... FBI reports show far more terror suspects coming from Canada. "We are looking the wrong direction," said a senior DHS official familiar with the data. "Not to say that Mexico isn’t a problem, but the real bad guys aren’t coming from there—at least not yet."
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It's not foreigners who are plotting here: what the data really shows... more than 76 percent of individuals arrested by the FBI over the past two years for terrorism-related offenses were U.S. citizens as a result of having been born in the United States.
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Have a project commitment due tomorrow. See you Monday. Have a great weekend!
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