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Daily Chronical – THE MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 2021 Celebrate Quote of the Day Black “The only reason they come History Month to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it.” On This Date ~ Clark Gable 1920 – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police Force was founded when the Royal North-West Mounted Police merged with the Dominion Police. Happy Birthday! Contrary to popular opinion, the motto Clark Gable (1901–1960) began his of the RCMP is “Uphold the law,” career in film in not “Mounties always get their man.” 1924 and soon 1964 – The Beatles’ hit song “I Want became a star. The to Hold Your Hand” reached No. 1 debonair actor won on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. an Academy Award in 1934 for his 2003 – The entire crew of seven comic performance astronauts died when NASA space in It Happened One Night. His shuttle Columbia broke apart as it best-remembered role is that of Rhett returned to Earth. Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939). Celebrity Trivia A leading box office attraction for many years, Gable was known to Arthur Miller wrote The Misfits, Hollywood as “the King.” He made his first original screenplay, as more than 65 films, the last of which a vehicle for his wife, Marilyn was The Misfits (1961). He died of a Monroe. The two divorced just heart attack four months before his prior to the filming of the movie. only son was born. ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles (CAN) ONDAY EBRUARY M , F 1, 2021 Today is Spunky Old Broads Day, celebrating women over 50 who exude courage, wisdom, and vivacity. This holiday begs the question, “Is 50 really that old?” By some statistics, “middle age” is 65 nowadays, while “old” is 73. Eye in the Sky Root of the Matter The 12 well-known zodiac signs A bed of roses correspond to constellations in the heavens. These symbols were invented If a circumstance is likened to a bed 3,000 years ago by the Babylonians. of roses, then it is considered But the ancient stargazers chose to effortless and comfortable. The omit a 13th constellation, Ophiuchus, image first appeared in which some consider the 13th sign the 13th century, in the of the zodiac. Ophiuchus is the medieval French poem snake-bearer, depicted as a man The Romance of the holding a serpent. In the sky, Rose. In the story, a lover dreams Ophiuchus is between Scorpio that he tours a garden and finds a and Sagittarius and occurs from literal bed of roses next to the November 29–December 17. The Fountain of Love. In later centuries, Babylonians chose to ignore poets borrowed the image. In 1599, this 13th sign because they felt that Christopher Marlowe wrote of a 12 signs corresponded perfectly shepherd wooing his love: And I will with the 12 months of their make thee a bed of roses. calendar year. Word Scramble Riddle Me This I R T N C A E Why didn’t the skeleton Known beyond a doubt go to the dance? CERTAIN ANSWER: It had no body to go with. go to body no had It ANSWER: ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles EXTRA! THE TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 2021 It’s Groundhog Day! On This Date Quote of the Day 1887 – The town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, held its first annual “I don’t want to be younger; Groundhog Day. The I just want to look it.” event was started by ~ Christie Brinkley local newspaper editor Clymer Freas, but the origin of the idea dates back centuries. Happy Birthday! 1931 – Mail was delivered by rocket Christie Brinkley, born in 1954, is for the first time. Sent from one a supermodel, businesswoman, and Austrian village to another about actress who grew up in Michigan and three miles away, the rocket landed California. After graduating from with a small parachute. high school, the stunning blonde 1940 – Frank Sinatra joined the went to Paris to study Tommy Dorsey Orchestra. In his first art. However, she year with Dorsey, Sinatra released was serendipitously more than 40 songs, including “I’ll discovered by a Never Smile Again.” photographer at a 1943 – The last German troops at post office. She soon Stalingrad surrendered to the Red had a modeling agent Army. Of the 91,000 prisoners, only and national advertising campaigns, about 6,000 would survive to see with many more to follow. Brinkley Germany again. went on to grace the covers of more than 500 magazines, including an Groundhog Trivia unheard-of three sequential Sports Groundhogs hibernate one to Illustrated Swimsuit Issues, from a burrow. Each spring, males 1979 to 1981. She’s been married emerge earlier than females. four times and has three children. ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles (CAN) UESDAY EBRUARY T , F 2, 2021 Today is Groundhog Day. The first observance took place in 1887 when a newspaper editor convinced a group of Pennsylvania hunters and businessmen to adopt the German tradition of using small animals to forecast the weather. Who Am I? Wild Kingdom I was born in Rome, Italy, but at a Rising ocean temperatures threaten young age, my mother moved us to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef, but Pozzuoli, where we lived in extreme scientists have a reason to poverty. During World War II, our rejoice. A new coral reef city was bombed, and I was struck was discovered off Cape by shrapnel and left with a York, the far northern tip permanent scar on my chin. At age of Australia. The new 15, I returned to Rome to take up “blade-like” reef juts up acting and modeling. My beauty from the seafloor, and at made finding work easy. In 1961, 1,640 feet, it is taller than the Empire I won an Oscar for Best Lead State Building. Scientists were Actress, securing my status as an flabbergasted by the discovery, the elite Hollywood star. Now well into first of its kind in 120 years, especially my 80s, I am still acting and still since it is so close to the Great Barrier wowing audiences with my natural Reef. The find is just more evidence of beauty. Who am I? the great mysteries still held by our Loren Sophia ANSWER: vast oceans. Who Said So? Buy a Vowel This American British essayist, _ B _ _ N D an authority on idioms, said, “People say that life is the thing, Exist in large numbers ABOUND ANSWER: ANSWER: but I prefer reading.” Smith Pearsall Logan ANSWER: ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles EXTRA! THE WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2021 On This Date 1916 – A fire destroyed the Center Block Quote of the Day of the Parliament Buildings in Ottawa, Ontario, and killed seven people. A “A fool can throw a stone quick-thinking clerk closed the iron in a pond that 100 wise doors and saved the Parliamentary men cannot get out.” Library. The tragedy was widely ~ Saul Bellow blamed on German wartime saboteurs. 1959 – Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “the Big Bopper” Happy Birthday! Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa. Norman Rockwell (1894–1978) was born in New York City. An enormously 1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins popular illustrator, became the first Rockwell specialized woman to pilot in warm and humorous the space shuttle scenes of everyday as mission STS- small-town life. He 63 got underway is best known for from Kennedy his magazine covers, Space Center. notably for The Saturday Evening Post. Rockwell’s poster series on the Four Freedoms was inspired Artist Friendship by a Franklin D. Roosevelt speech and was widely circulated during On September 7, 1948, Norman World War II, as was his Rosie the Rockwell presented a large Riveter drawing. The Stockbridge, birthday cake to his friend and Massachusetts Norman Rockwell fellow artist Grandma Moses in Museum contains 700 original celebration of her 88th birthday. Rockwell paintings and drawings. ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles (CAN) WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2021 Today is Feed the Birds Day. An excellent way to attract birds to your backyard is to put out bird feeders. Birds are attracted to black-oil sunflower seeds. In the winter, seeds mixed with suet fat provide a high-energy snack. You Are What You Eat Only Human Durian is known as the “King of Researchers have discovered a type of Fruits.” The delicacy is popular in cell in the brain that they are calling a Southeast Asia and grows in tropical time cell. These nerve cells place a rainforests, but it has gotten a bad rap sort of stamp on certain memories so in the West due to its stinky smell. that we can recall important events or The flesh is said to taste like cheese, sequences of events in the proper almonds, garlic, and caramel all at order. The neurons, located once. Its appearance is also imposing, in the hippocampus, help us for its hard outer shell is covered in create timelines that make spikes. But durian is considered one sense. Researchers discovered that of the world’s most nutritious foods, people with damage to the full of protein, fiber, vitamins, and hippocampus have trouble putting minerals. The plant has also been used memories in the correct order. Time in traditional Malaysian medicine to cells can speed up and slow down, reduce fevers and treat jaundice. depending on one’s mood, which explains why some experiences seem to drag on forever. Word Wise Which word is not like the others? Name Three Everest Baikal Can you name three gods of Aconcagua Denali Mt. Olympus whose names others are mountains.
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