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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2021 On This Date 1905 – Paul Harris founded the Humor of the Day Rotary Club in Chicago. The club got its name because the members “It’s always a little rotated meeting places. mind-boggling to realize that these famous actors 1909 – J. Douglas McCurdy flew the know who I am.” Alexander Graham Bell-designed Silver Dart at an altitude of about ~ Emily Blunt 10 meters for nearly one kilometer across Baddeck Bay. It was the first airplane flight in Canada and the first powered flight in the British Empire. Happy Birthday! , born in 1983, is a 1939 – The 11th Academy Awards Emily Blunt British American actress who, as were celebrated at the Los Angeles a child, struggled with stuttering. Biltmore Hotel. You Can’t Take It She credits a teacher for helping her with You won Best Picture. overcome the stutter through acting. 1970 – The Juno Awards were Blunt’s acting breakthrough came in presented for the first time to honor 2006 when she costarred in the highly the best Canadian musical artists successful comedy The Devil Wears and bands. Prada. In 2018, she starred alongside Fishy Fact her husband, John Goldfish lose their color if they are Krasinski, in the kept in dim horror film A Quiet light or if they Place. That same are placed in a year, she also starred body of running as in the musical water, such as fantasy . She a stream. and Krasinski have two daughters.

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Today is Curling Is Cool Day. The sport of curling originated in Scotland in 1511, where teams would play on the icy surface of frozen lochs. Curling

stones are made of rare granite found in just two quarries: the Trefor Granite Quarry in Wales and from the island of Ailsa Craig in Scotland.

Where Am I? Wild Kingdom

This long, curved beach is Britain’s great fox-spider is so rare considered the most famous beach that it has only ever been seen in in the world. On one end stands an three locations throughout Dorset imposing fortress, a former fort that and . After is now a museum to the country’s they disappeared in military. But there is nothing stiff or 1993, the spider was formal about the beach itself, where thought to be extinct thousands jostle for a place to soak in the UK. When up the sun. February brings Carnival spider enthusiast Mike Waite and a massive parade that occupies rediscovered the species at a both the beach and the nearby Ministry of Defense training area

Palace hotel, an icon of this seaside last October, he was “over the

destination. Where am I? Brazil Janeiro, moon.” The large wolf spider lives

Copacabana Beach, Rio de de Rio Beach, Copacabana ANSWER: on the ground and is largely nocturnal, hunting at night with great speed and agility. Waite had Word Wise spent months searching the grounds Which word is not like the others? with a flashlight until he made the remarkable discovery. Cicero Titus

Punny Business

Augustus Nero

emperors. Roman were others the all but

Cicero was a Roman statesman, statesman, Roman a was Cicero ANSWER: ANSWER: I could really see myself in a job inspecting mirrors.

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