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February
12th Joke and Trivia
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During the heat of the
space race in the 1960's, the U.S. National Aeronautics and
Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write
in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable
research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at
a cost of about $1 million U.S. The pen worked and also enjoyed
some modest success as a novelty item back here on Earth. The
Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil.
You cannot strengthen the weak by
weakening the strong. You cannot help small men by tearing
down big men. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage-payer.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your
income. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting
class hatreds. You cannot build character and courage by taking
away a man's initiative and independence. You cannot help
men permanently by doing for them what they could and should
do for themselves.
--Abraham Lincoln
- Always do right- this
will gratify some and astonish the rest.
- - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
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Facts and Events:
In 1879, the first artificial ice rink opens in Madison Square Garden
in NYC
The city and county of San Franciso began to issue marriage license
to same-sex couples in 2004
Also in 2004, Mattel officially announced the split of Barbie and
Ken
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February
12th Birthdays: |
Jesse Spencer (1979)
Christina Ricci (1980)
Lorne Green (1915)
Arsenio Hall (1955)
Abraham Lincoln (1809)
Charles Darwin (1809) |
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