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handeaux · 10 months

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Here Are 17 Uncommon Curiosities Reportedly Found In The Ohio River

The Queen City, as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously wrote, sits “in her garlands dressed, on the banks of the Beautiful River.” Once claimed by the French and named by them exactly that: La Belle Riviere, the Ohio has been the soul and foundation of our city ever since the first houses went up, but our Beautiful River has also proved to be a weird and moody companion, coughing up a bizarre miscellany from time to time.

Alligators In 1879, Dr. A. Jackson Howe procured a live, three-foot long alligator for display at the museum of the Cincinnati Society of Natural History. The reptile had been captured on the Covington shore, while several others were spotted frolicking in the Ohio River among some empty coal barges. Three years later, John Thornton found an alligator sleeping beneath the floorboards of his Newport icehouse. Charles Pitts of Covington lassoed a three-and-a-half-foot alligator from the Ohio River at the foot of Covington’s Main Street in 1870.

Bodies, Lots Of Bodies Almost from the time Cincinnati was first settled bodies have been recovered from the Ohio River including suicides, victims of foul play and accidental drownings. Among the earliest casualties was Francis Kennedy, who operated the first ferry between Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky and who drowned while hauling beef cattle to Fort Washington. Over the years, the old newspapers printed hundreds of inquest reports, often directed toward ascertaining the identities of bodies found overnight.

Catfish Of Unusual Size The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune of 3 February 1849 reports that Frederick Diserens, proprietor of the William Tell restaurant, and Colonel Josiah J. Stratton of the Fire Department, had shipped a “mammoth cat fish” to the Exchange Hotel in Philadelphia. The leviathan, caught in the Ohio River at Cincinnati, measured five feet, ten inches in length and tipped the scales at 158 pounds. Prior to its shipment east, the beast hung outside Diserens’ establishment on the south side of what is now Government Square. In 2009, two fishermen landed a blue catfish measuring four feet, six inches long and weighing 96 pounds within view of downtown Cincinnati.

Chemical “Slug” The Ohio River, lined with heavily fertilized farmland and a multitude of manufacturing plants, is regularly listed as among the most polluted streams in America. Residents of a certain age will recall the great carbon tetrachloride “slug” of 1977. When a tank full of toxic “carbon tet” ruptured at the FMC Corporation facility in February of that year, it released 5000 to 6000 pounds into the Ohio River as a 50- to 60-mile “slug” of highly polluted liquid. Water purification systems up and down the river shut off intake valves until the “slug” passed.

Elephant Bathing All of Cincinnati – and Covington, too – turned out on the morning of 9 August 1860 to watch an elephant swim across the Ohio River. The elephant was Lalla Rookh, star of the Dan Rice Circus. Lalla Rookh had been, for the past decade, a highlight of Dan Rice's big-top extravaganzas. Billed as the “Pachyderm Princess,” she was famous for her tightrope act and she also danced, rang bells and fired a pistol. She was a huge draw and, according to the Cincinnati Enquirer, brought out a good crowd for her river bath, estimated between 15,000 and 20,000

Ghosts No one ever solved the 1890 murder of Billy Fee, who was knifed and shot on the banks of the Ohio River near Lawrenceburg. Almost a year later a young man traveling by boat up the river past the murder scene cried out that he could see shadows on the darkened waters vividly recreating the murder scene. For years, residents of Lawrenceburg venturing near the river at night reported visions of the dreadful crime, accompanied by the sounds of shrieks and gunshots.

Giant Snakes On 11 August 1849, a Clermont County “man of respectability” named John Wait swore to an affidavit in which he claimed to have seen a snake more than 30 feet in length on the banks of Hartman’s mill pond. A posse was assembled and searched all over for the beast with no results, even after draining the mill pond. Sightings, however, continued for the next decade. In 1858, the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune reported that the dam at Hartman’s mill had been badly damaged by a flood and the snake was assumed to have escaped toward the Ohio River. According to a 1940 article in the Cincinnati Post, the Cincinnati Zoo offered to help citizens near Gallipolis locate a snake estimated at 35 feet in length. Coincidence?

Green Clawed Beast It was a sultry afternoon on 14 August 1955 when Naomi Johnson and some friends headed to the Ohio River at Evansville for a refreshing dip. While swimming just 15 feet offshore, something swam up behind Mrs. Johnson and grabbed her leg. She felt claws scratch her leg as the thing pulled her under the water. She began kicking her assailant and was pulled under a second time before her friends lifted her out of the river. Her left leg was extensively lacerated and bruised, with one mark distinctly hand-shaped. Mrs. Johnson claimed to have seen a UFO just before she was attacked, and there were several UFO sightings in the Evansville area around the time of the incident, leading her to believe an extraterrestrial origin for her attacker.

Kentucky Border For most of our region’s history, the entire Ohio River belonged exclusively to Kentucky. That all changed on 21 January 1980, when the United States Supreme Court fixed the border between Ohio and Kentucky at the low-water mark of the river in 1792. With two centuries of dam construction and other navigational improvements, the Ohio River is significantly deeper and wider than it was in the 1790s. The border is now, in some cases, hundreds of feet off the Ohio shore.

Madonna’s Yacht Rusting away in an Ohio River tributary just 25 miles downriver from Cincinnati is a 186-foot yacht originally known as the Celt but probably most famous as the USS Sachem among a variety of names acquired over its 120-year history. Thomas Edison used it for anti-submarine research. It ran out of New York as a recreational fishing vessel and served as a coastal patrol ship during World War II. After the war it hauled tourists around Manhattan. Robert Miller of Finneytown bought the yacht for $7500 in the 1980s and rented it out to Madonna, who filmed part of her “Papa Don’t Preach” video onboard. Miller hauled it upriver to its current resting place shortly after sailing a boatload of friends around the rededication of the Statue of Liberty in 1986.

Man Afloat On 11 March 1879, a crowd of fifteen thousand swarmed the riverfront to catch a glimpse of the “Fearless Frogman,” Captain Paul Boynton, as he arrived in Cincinnati while floating from Pittsburgh to Cairo in a buoyant rubber suit. Outfitted with sails and oars, Boynton’s “peculiar life-saving dress” allowed him to maintain speeds of five or six miles per hour on his downriver odyssey. That night, he attended a performance at the Grand Opera House on Vine Street and, being recognized, was called to the stage and compelled to give a speech.

Mud Mermaids The Cincinnati Enquirer of 6 September 1894 reported two “nondescript creatures, horrible in appearance and strange in habits” at a sand bar in the Ohio River near Vevay, Indiana. The creatures appeared to be carnivorous, dining on fish and mussels plucked from the river. They were described as being yellowish in color, about five feet long, with webbed and clawed hands and feet. Their hairless heads had sharply pointed ears standing straight up. In the years since, the Vevay beings have been dubbed “Mud Mermaids.”

Octoman Police dispatchers along both sides of the Ohio River were swamped with frantic calls from late January to early February 1959 as dozens of residents and travelers reported strange creatures emerging from the depths. Sightings were recorded from New Richmond to the Licking River bridge. One witness compared the critter to an octopus while others said it looked like an immense human, leading to the nickname Octoman. Panic spread, with one 11-year-old boy calling the Cincinnati Post to confirm his teacher’s story that green men were clambering out of the river in platoons of twelve. To add to the mystery, all the streetlights along Kellogg Avenue from Lunken Airport to Coney Island extinguished as the first reports came in. After a week, sightings abated and Octoman seemingly disappeared.

Petroglyphs Just as the Ohio River slips across the state line from Pennsylvania, at the junction with Little Beaver Creek at East Liverpool, it covers a vast array of submerged designs carved into the rock. First recognized by French explorers in 1755, the display has been largely immersed in a much deeper river, only occasionally emerging into visibility in times of extreme drought. Hundreds of these Native American carvings were found for about 10 miles along the Ohio River from Midland, Pennsylvania through Wellsville, Ohio. The origin or date of the petroglyphs remains unknown and will likely never be determined.

Sea Lion In May 1962 several people reported a strange beast frolicking in the Ohio River near the Fernbank locks. The animal was not large; maybe three feet in length, but it was unlike anything naturally associated with the wildlife of the area. An expedition organized by the Cincinnati Zoo discovered that the mysterious visitor was a sea lion named “Playful George” that had escaped from a menagerie in Huntington, West Virginia and made its way nearly 200 miles downriver to the Markland Dam. George was captured and quarantined at the Zoo before returning home.

Sea Serpents In the dim, pre-dawn light of Friday, 11 January 1878, Ben Karrick was driving his horse-drawn delivery wagon over the Roebling Suspension Bridge when he saw a most unusual sight in the Ohio River below – a sea serpent. He told the Cincinnati Gazette that the creature’s serpentine head protruded from the water some twelve or fifteen feet and it lashed the water into foam with its tail. Karrick told the newspaper that the beast made a noise similar to the deep lowing of a cow, interspersed with a loud hissing noise. A day previously, John Davidson, master of the Silver Moon steamboat, saw a nearly identical monster while docked at Vevay, Indiana. In July 1893, pleasure boaters near Blennerhassett Island saw “a monstrous submarine animal or serpent, with an immense head and staring, bulbous eyes” gliding alongside their boat. The witnesses estimated the critter at more than 10 feet in length.

Underwater Pedestrian Newspapers around the nation carried the news in July 1878 that Captain John T. Guire, identified as “the celebrated submarine diver,” had entered into a wager that he would walk from Cincinnati to Cairo on the bottom of the Ohio River. Guire’s previous exploits in the Mississippi River at Saint Louis were cited as proof of his skill and determination. Although it was noted that Guire engaged in practice strolls near Cincinnati, it does not appear that the 500-mile underwater hike to Cairo ever materialized.

#ohio river #cincinnati cryptids #octoman #paul boynton #mud mermaids

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myhauntedsalem · 3 months

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"All houses wherein men have lived and died. Are haunted houses." ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#ghost and hauntings #paranormal #ghost and spirits #haunted salem #myhauntedsalem #quotes #paranormal quotes

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realmackross · 8 months

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Time: September 1st, around 2:30 am. Content Warnings: mental health tw, depression tw, grief tw, there are heavy mentions of not being able to have kids.

"There is no grief like the grief that does not speak." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Late nights. Late nights were always the fucking hardest. It was the time when most of the world slumbered away and rested their weary minds and souls. Recharged for the next day with at least some rest and preparation for what life was about to throw at them. But not for Mackenzie. Not anymore.

Late nights sucked. Infomercials often popped up at a certain hour for shit she didn't need while she scrolled endlessly on her phone until the battery was almost as dead as she was. Then came the reruns. Episodes of things that took her back to staying up late as a child, because she wanted to rebel against her parents despite knowing she would have to be up early for a photoshoot or filming on some new project.

But tonight's viewing left a different taste in Mackenzie's mouth. Usually mind numbing and something to pass the time; this late night rerun of Grey's Anatomy had just hit different.

Maybe it was because of the injuries she had sustained in a recent and shameful dumpster dive. Or maybe it was because more than usual, she was missing Brody. Whatever it was, the episode's central theme of babies and being a parent had taken Mackenzie's lifeless heart and started to slowly pull it apart with each little bit sending jolt after jolt of emotion to a woman who could barely feel anything anymore; except all the things you hid yourself under a mound of blankets from, until it felt like you could no longer breathe from the weight, darkness, and heat.

The thought of never being able to have a family with the man she loved, much less have children of her own, had lingered lightly in the back of her mind, and most of the time stayed there with all the other shit she thought about. But just like most things in her life, Mackenzie hadn't been able to grieve.

She hadn't been able to grieve Brody for the guilt she regularly felt. She hadn't been able to grieve her former life for having to stay hidden from the public as best she could. She hadn't been able to grieve losing her family. Her friends. And the list went on and on. But tonight, the universe had decided she was going to grieve motherhood.

As the episode progressed, and she watched Amelia's struggle, Mackenzie began to slowly break. First, a slight quiver of her lip and a shake of her head for perhaps denial or the refusal of wanting to go down this path. Then her eyes trying to well up, but being a zombie had made it nearly impossible. However, soon, she had found her knees drawn up into her chest as she rocked back and forth on the couch.

The hard truth that she would never be able to give birth to kids of her own had smacked her like a ton of bricks dropped into a pillow case. And with each passing moment came the thoughts of firsts and how they would never exist for her. No first steps or first words. No first day of pre-school or first day of college. Then came the realization that there would be no motherly advice to give. No hugs to hand out when life got impossibly hard. There would be no weddings or grandchildren. Or even a legacy to carry on the Ross name.

In that moment, a woman who no longer needed to breathe felt like she was suffocating. And out of heartbreak and anger found herself throwing the remote down as hard as she could, until she realized that just like everything else in her life, there was no Brody to share this hurt with. There was just no one, who would ever love her like that again.

With the credits rolling and the glare of the bright screen lighting up the house, Mackenzie wiped her eyes and what little flow of tears she had before lowering her legs and grabbing the remote that had bounced off the couch and onto the floor.

Deciding it was time for a change of the channel, she flipped to the next station to see funny animal videos, including one of a llama pronking to the beat of some popular song, which made her laugh rather loudly as if the breakdown she had just experienced had never occurred.

But it was there. It had happened. And just like everything else that was horrible in her life, she slowly began to force it down deeper only to be held behind a dam of emotion that was already barely together by hairline cracks that had been forming since the day her life as a zombie had started. And it was only a matter of time, before the poor patching job that kept her from breaking would explode resulting in something that no one could have ever seen coming.

#solo: disintegration #mental health tw #depression tw #grief tw #wickedswriting #{closer to fine; plot}#relationship: brody stevens

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theworstfoundingfathers · 1 year

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Who is the worst? Round 1: John Marshall vs Paul Revere

John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American politician, lawyer, and Founding Father who served as the fourth chief justice of the United States from 1801 until his death in 1835. He remains the longest-serving chief justice and fourth-longest serving justice in the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, and is widely regarded as one of the most influential justices ever to serve. Prior to joining the court, Marshall briefly served as both the U.S. secretary of state under President John Adams, and a representative, in the U.S. House of Representatives from Virginia, thereby making him one of the few Americans to serve on all three branches of the United States federal government.

After 1803, many of the major decisions issued by the Marshall Court confirmed the supremacy of the federal government and the federal Constitution over the states.

In the early 1790s, the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party emerged as the country was polarized by issues such as the French Revolutionary Wars and the power of the presidency and the federal government. Marshall aligned with the Federalists, and at Alexander Hamilton's request, he organized a Federalist movement in Virginia to counter the influence of Thomas Jefferson's Democratic-Republicans. Like most other Federalists, Marshall favored neutrality in foreign affairs, high tariffs, a strong executive, and a standing military.

Marshall believed that slavery was an evil, opposed the Atlantic slave trade, and feared increasing Southern focus on slavery would fracture the Union, as ultimately occurred; however, he owned slaves for most of his life. In 1783, his father Thomas Marshall as a wedding present gave John Marshall his first slave, Robin Spurlock, who would remain Marshall's manservant as well as run Marshall's Richmond household and upon Marshall's death receive a now-seemingly cruel choice of accepting manumission on the condition of emigrating to another state or to Africa (at age 78 and leaving his still-enslaved daughter Agnes) or choosing his master/mistress from among Marshall's children.

Paul Revere (December 21, 1734 O.S. (January 1, 1735 N.S.) – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, Sons of Liberty member, and Patriot. He is best known for his midnight ride to alert the colonial militia in April 1775 to the approach of British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 1861 poem, "Paul Revere's Ride".

From 1765 on, in support of the dissident cause, he produced engravings and other artifacts with political themes. Among these engravings are a depiction of the arrival of British troops in 1768 (which he termed "an insolent parade") and a famous depiction of the March 1770 Boston Massacre (see illustration). Although the latter was engraved by Revere and he included the inscription, "Engraved, Printed, & Sold by Paul Revere Boston", it was modeled on a drawing by Henry Pelham, and Revere's engraving of the drawing was colored by a third man and printed by a fourth.

[During the famous midnight ride] Revere, Dawes, and Prescott were detained by a British Army patrol in Lincoln at a roadblock on the way to Concord. Prescott jumped his horse over a wall and escaped into the woods; he eventually reached Concord. Dawes also escaped, though he fell off his horse not long after and did not complete the ride.

Revere was captured and questioned by the British soldiers at gunpoint. He told them of the army's movement from Boston, and that British army troops would be in some danger if they approached Lexington, because of a large number of hostile militia gathered there.

Contrary to popular belief, Revere and Dawes were not the only riders; however, they were the only two to be noted in poetry. Samuel Prescott and Israel Bissell were also tasked to undertake the mission, Bissell being the person to ride the farthest distance of all.

#sorry these are both so long asjdfklsa #worst founding father #founding fathers bracket #founding fathers #brackets #amrev #john marshall #paul revere

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flummoxconspiracy · 7 months

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Haunted 👻 🪦

Haunting is something that lurks or slinks in the shadows, on your tail. Haunting is the ill effects that linger on through time. Haunting is an external manifestation at a certain place that repeats itself over and over again. It is a mind disturbed. It is no peace.

Then there’s this floating goof. Ectoplasm like a loose bag.

‘Haunted Houses’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

All houses wherein men have lived and died Are haunted houses. Through the open doors The harmless phantoms on their errands glide, With feet that make no sound upon the floors.

We meet them at the doorway, on the stair, Along the passages they come and go, Impalpable impressions on the air, A sense of something moving to and fro.

There are more guests at table than the hosts Invited; the illuminated hall Is thronged with quiet, inoffensive ghosts, As silent as the pictures on the wall.

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patricia-von-arundel · 9 months

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Don't fuck around, Flanagan. You don't want to find out.

Do not fuck around.

You're at 50:50, but The Haunting of Hill House was a really bad 50, so...

...And also, what in the fucking hell is the setting???

You know what? I don't fucking want to know. 🙄

"Loosely based," oh kiss my ass...

WHY IS HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW IN THIS FUCKING THI-

I need Xanax before watching this. Arthur Pym. Dupin. WHY? Do we also get Richard Parker? We get Annabel Lee...

Hey, Flanagan, why dontcha try some Faulkner next? Hey, want to go see Rowan Oak? The old Oxford Post Office? Lunch at Venice Kitchen? Good pizza.

And thin ice...

...It took me a minute to realize the last was an ad. You can laugh.

Anyway, I'm not supposed to be doing social media right now anyway, and I'm having enough brain shit going on without thinking about Hill House.

(And also about the trash human beings who liked it, but that's kind of funny, because neither had read the book. Not enough pictures, I suppose.)

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isaqueandradeartwork · 1 year

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MEMORIES ARE LIKE GHOSTS (Part XII - Haunted Houses)

Directed by: Isaque Andrade

Music: Lavoisier's Law (Memories are like ghosts) 2022

Glitch samples made with labmasterofshapes.com

Videogame landscapes samples taken from the youtube channel The 4th Division

"Haunted Houses" taken from the title of the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Isaque Andrade #videoart #glitch video #isaqueandradeartwork

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scurvyoaks · 2 years

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18th century side chair, New England. Note the sign. At the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, Maine Historical Society, Portland.

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judyconda · 2 years

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"Thus passed a few swift years, and they no longer were children. He was a valiant youth, and his face, like the face of the morning, Gladdened the earth with its light, and ripened thought into action. She was a woman now, with the heart and hopes of a woman. "Sunshine of Saint Eulalie" was she called; for that was the sunshine Which, as the farmers believed, would load their orchards with apples She, too, would bring to her husband's house delight and abundance, Filling it full of love and the ruddy faces of children. Now had the season returned, when the nights grow colder and longer, And the retreating sun the sign of the Scorpion enters. Birds of passage sailed through the leaden air, from the ice-bound, Desolate northern bays to the shores of tropical islands, Harvests were gathered in; and wild with the winds of September Wrestled the trees of the forest, as Jacob of old with the angel. All the signs foretold a winter long and inclement. Bees, with prophetic instinct of want, had hoarded their honey Till the hives overflowed; and the Indian bunters asserted Cold would the winter be, for thick was the fur of the foxes. Such was the advent of autumn. Then followed that beautiful season, Called by the pious Acadian peasants the Summer of All-Saints! Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new-created in all the freshness of childhood. Peace seemed to reign upon earth, and the restless heart of the ocean Was for a moment consoled. All sounds were in harmony blended." *poetry story is taken part from Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow : #fairytaletuesday #fairytale #poetry #poet #poetic #poets #poetsofinstagram #poetryofinstagram #darkacademia #darkaesthetic #darkacademiaaesthetic #bloodandwine #worldgothday #Spiritique #mindfulness #Spiritual #Spirituality #mystical #mystique #mystic #mysticisim #renaissance #renaissanceart #folk #folklore #folkspirits #folkmystic #fantasy #goth #gothic https://www.instagram.com/p/CfV1eCiOJIA/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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brookston · 2 months

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Holidays 2.27

Holidays

Anosmia Awareness Day

Aspirin Day

Doctors’ Day (Vietnam)

False Flag Day

Flag Day (Antigua and Barbuda)

Goat Willow Day (French Republic)

Godhra Train Burning Remembrance Day (India)

The Hop (Fairy Holiday)

Insipid Day (according to Jonathan Swift)

International Polar Bear Day

Majuba Day (Orania, South Africa)

Marathi Language Day (India)

Mercury Day Day

Mr. Rogers Remembrance Day

National Albert Day

National Anosmia Awareness Day

National Cigar Day

National Khachapuri Day (Georgia)

National Protein Day

National Retro Day

National She’s The B.O.S.S. Day

National Susan Day

National Term Limits Day

No-Brainer Day

Oops Day (Commemorating Tower of Pisa Leaning)

Peace Memorial Holiday (Taiwan)

Perseverance Day (Elder Scrolls)

Pokémon Day

Public Sector Day (Kuwait)

Ralph Nader Day

Read Five Pages in the Dictionary Day

Special Operations Forces Day (Russia)

Threepenny Day (Eton College, England)

World NGO Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

The Big Breakfast Day

National Grape Harvest Festival (Argentina)

National Kahlua Day

National Milk Tart Day (South Africa)

National Strawberry Day

World’s Biggest Tea Party Day (Pakistan)

4th & Last Tuesday in February

Digital Learning Day [4th Tuesday]

World Spay Day [Last Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning February 27 (4th Week)

International Petroleum Week [thru 2.29]

Independence & Related Days

Aurumia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Dominica (from UK; 1967)

Dominican Republic (from Haiti, 1844)

Lebanon (Declared; 1945)

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Declared sovereignty over Western Sahara, 1976)

Slavtria (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

St. Kitts Statehood Day (West Indies; 1967)

Festivals Beginning February 27, 2024

BakingTech Conference (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 2.29]

Geneva International Jewish Film Festival (Geneva, Switzerland) [thru 3.4]

Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo (Houston, Texas) [thru 3.17]

Iowa Hawkeye Farm Show (Cedar Falls, Iowa) [thru 2.29]

Wilmington Beer Week (Wilmington, Delaware) [thru 3.3]

Feast Days

Alnoth (Christian; Saint)

Anaximenes (Positivist; Saint)

Bhumchu (Sikkim, India)

Bir Chilarai Divas (Assam, India)

Carl Sagan Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Day of Selene (Goddess of the Moon; Ancient Greece)

Day of the Elders (Pagan)

Equirria (Ancient Roman Chariot and Horse Race) [1st of 2 / 2nd one 3.14]

Equaria, Mars Gradius (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Feast of Morrighan, the Three-Fold Goddess of War & Death (Badbh, Remain and Macha; Celtic Book of Days)

Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Christian)

Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (Christian; Saint)

Galmier of Lyon (a.k.a. Baldomerus; Christian; Saint)

George Herbert (Anglicanism)

Guru Ravidas Jayanti / Magha Purnima (India)

The Hop (Shamanism)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Writerism)

Honorina (Christian; Saint)

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (Artology)

John of Gorze (Christian; Saint)

John Steinbeck (Writerism)

Julian, Cronin and Besas (Christian; Martyrs)

Leander of Seville (Christian; Saint)

Silly Hat Day (Pastafarian)

Thalelaeus the Hermit (Christian; Saint)

William F. Lamby (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [12 of 71]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [13 of 60]

Premieres

The Adventures of Chip ’n’ Dale (Animated TV Series; 1959)

The Arctic Giant (Fleischer Cartoon; 1942) [#4]

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (TV Game Show; 2007)

The Black Prince, by Iris Murdoch (Novel; 1973)

Fast and Moose or Charley’s Antler (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 156; 1962)

The Fella with a Fiddle (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

The Female Man, by Joanna Russ (Novel; 1975)

Girlfriend, by Avril Lavigne (Song; 2007)

The Gold Bricks, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 45 & 46 1965)

Good Bye Lenin! (Film; 2004)

Hotel California, by The Eagles (Song; 1977)

House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday (Novel; 1968)

Jaws, by Peter Benchley (Novel; 1974)

The Magnet Men, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 43 & 44; 1965)

Not Barking (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)

Orange & Lemons, by XTC (Album; 1989)

O-Solar Meow (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1967)

Picador Porky (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Psyche, by Matthew Locke (Opera; 1675) [oldest known opera in English]

The Shriek (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1933)

Some Kind of Wonderful (Film; 1987)

Symphony No. 8 in F Major, by Ludwig van Beethoven (Symphony; 1814)

To Bring You My Love, by PJ Harvey (Album; 1995)

A Whale of a Tale or That She Blows Up (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 155; 1962)

Wigwam Whoopee (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1948)

The Wild Chase (WB MM Cartoon; 1965)

Wild Wild World (WB MM Cartoon; 1960)

You Better You Bet, by The Who (Song; 1981)

Today’s Name Days

Baldur, Gabriel, Marko, Markward (Austria)

Donat, Gabrijel (Croatia)

Alexandr (Czech Republic)

Leander (Denmark)

Helbe, Helve, Helvi (Estonia)

Torsti (Finland)

Honorine, Léandre (France)

Baldur, Gabriel, Marko (Germany)

Asklepios, Asklipios, Nisios (Greece)

Edina (Hungary)

Leandro, Onorina (Italy)

Andra, Daiva, Līva, Līvija (Latvia)

Fortūnatas, Gabrielius, Ginvilas, Skirmantė (Lithuania)

Laila, Lill (Norway)

Aleksander, Anastazja, Auksencjusz, Gabriel, Gabriela, Honoryna, Leander, Leonard, Sierosława (Poland)

Procopie, Talaleu (Romania)

Alexander (Slovakia)

Gabriel (Spain)

Lage (Sweden)

Margaret (Ukraine)

Houston, Leander, Leandra, Leandro, Leland (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 58 of 2024; 308 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 9 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 18 (Xin-You)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 18 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 17 Sha’ban 1445

J Cal: 28 Grey; Sevenday [28 of 30]

Julian: 14 February 2024

Moon: 91%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 2 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Anaximenes]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 69 of 89)

Week: 4th Week of February

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 9 of 30)

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Holidays 2.27

Holidays

Anosmia Awareness Day

Aspirin Day

Doctors’ Day (Vietnam)

False Flag Day

Flag Day (Antigua and Barbuda)

Goat Willow Day (French Republic)

Godhra Train Burning Remembrance Day (India)

The Hop (Fairy Holiday)

Insipid Day (according to Jonathan Swift)

International Polar Bear Day

Majuba Day (Orania, South Africa)

Marathi Language Day (India)

Mercury Day Day

Mr. Rogers Remembrance Day

National Albert Day

National Anosmia Awareness Day

National Cigar Day

National Khachapuri Day (Georgia)

National Protein Day

National Retro Day

National She’s The B.O.S.S. Day

National Susan Day

National Term Limits Day

No-Brainer Day

Oops Day (Commemorating Tower of Pisa Leaning)

Peace Memorial Holiday (Taiwan)

Perseverance Day (Elder Scrolls)

Pokémon Day

Public Sector Day (Kuwait)

Ralph Nader Day

Read Five Pages in the Dictionary Day

Special Operations Forces Day (Russia)

Threepenny Day (Eton College, England)

World NGO Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

The Big Breakfast Day

National Grape Harvest Festival (Argentina)

National Kahlua Day

National Milk Tart Day (South Africa)

National Strawberry Day

World’s Biggest Tea Party Day (Pakistan)

4th & Last Tuesday in February

Digital Learning Day [4th Tuesday]

World Spay Day [Last Tuesday]

Weekly Holidays beginning February 27 (4th Week)

International Petroleum Week [thru 2.29]

Independence & Related Days

Aurumia (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Dominica (from UK; 1967)

Dominican Republic (from Haiti, 1844)

Lebanon (Declared; 1945)

Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Declared sovereignty over Western Sahara, 1976)

Slavtria (Declared; 2021) [unrecognized]

St. Kitts Statehood Day (West Indies; 1967)

Festivals Beginning February 27, 2024

BakingTech Conference (Chicago, Illinois) [thru 2.29]

Geneva International Jewish Film Festival (Geneva, Switzerland) [thru 3.4]

Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo (Houston, Texas) [thru 3.17]

Iowa Hawkeye Farm Show (Cedar Falls, Iowa) [thru 2.29]

Wilmington Beer Week (Wilmington, Delaware) [thru 3.3]

Feast Days

Alnoth (Christian; Saint)

Anaximenes (Positivist; Saint)

Bhumchu (Sikkim, India)

Bir Chilarai Divas (Assam, India)

Carl Sagan Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Day of Selene (Goddess of the Moon; Ancient Greece)

Day of the Elders (Pagan)

Equirria (Ancient Roman Chariot and Horse Race) [1st of 2 / 2nd one 3.14]

Equaria, Mars Gradius (Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Feast of Morrighan, the Three-Fold Goddess of War & Death (Badbh, Remain and Macha; Celtic Book of Days)

Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help (Christian)

Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows (Christian; Saint)

Galmier of Lyon (a.k.a. Baldomerus; Christian; Saint)

George Herbert (Anglicanism)

Guru Ravidas Jayanti / Magha Purnima (India)

The Hop (Shamanism)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Writerism)

Honorina (Christian; Saint)

Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida (Artology)

John of Gorze (Christian; Saint)

John Steinbeck (Writerism)

Julian, Cronin and Besas (Christian; Martyrs)

Leander of Seville (Christian; Saint)

Silly Hat Day (Pastafarian)

Thalelaeus the Hermit (Christian; Saint)

William F. Lamby (Muppetism)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Lucky Day (Philippines) [12 of 71]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Unlucky Day (Grafton’s Manual of 1565) [13 of 60]

Premieres

The Adventures of Chip ’n’ Dale (Animated TV Series; 1959)

The Arctic Giant (Fleischer Cartoon; 1942) [#4]

Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? (TV Game Show; 2007)

The Black Prince, by Iris Murdoch (Novel; 1973)

Fast and Moose or Charley’s Antler (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 156; 1962)

The Fella with a Fiddle (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

The Female Man, by Joanna Russ (Novel; 1975)

Girlfriend, by Avril Lavigne (Song; 2007)

The Gold Bricks, Parts 1 & 2 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 45 & 46 1965)

Good Bye Lenin! (Film; 2004)

Hotel California, by The Eagles (Song; 1977)

House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday (Novel; 1968)

Jaws, by Peter Benchley (Novel; 1974)

The Magnet Men, Parts 3 & 4 (Underdog Cartoon, S1, Eps. 43 & 44; 1965)

Not Barking (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)

Orange & Lemons, by XTC (Album; 1989)

O-Solar Meow (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1967)

Picador Porky (WB MM Cartoon; 1937)

Psyche, by Matthew Locke (Opera; 1675) [oldest known opera in English]

The Shriek (Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Cartoon; 1933)

Some Kind of Wonderful (Film; 1987)

Symphony No. 8 in F Major, by Ludwig van Beethoven (Symphony; 1814)

To Bring You My Love, by PJ Harvey (Album; 1995)

A Whale of a Tale or That She Blows Up (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S3, Ep. 155; 1962)

Wigwam Whoopee (Fleischer/Famous Popeye Cartoon; 1948)

The Wild Chase (WB MM Cartoon; 1965)

Wild Wild World (WB MM Cartoon; 1960)

You Better You Bet, by The Who (Song; 1981)

Today’s Name Days

Baldur, Gabriel, Marko, Markward (Austria)

Donat, Gabrijel (Croatia)

Alexandr (Czech Republic)

Leander (Denmark)

Helbe, Helve, Helvi (Estonia)

Torsti (Finland)

Honorine, Léandre (France)

Baldur, Gabriel, Marko (Germany)

Asklepios, Asklipios, Nisios (Greece)

Edina (Hungary)

Leandro, Onorina (Italy)

Andra, Daiva, Līva, Līvija (Latvia)

Fortūnatas, Gabrielius, Ginvilas, Skirmantė (Lithuania)

Laila, Lill (Norway)

Aleksander, Anastazja, Auksencjusz, Gabriel, Gabriela, Honoryna, Leander, Leonard, Sierosława (Poland)

Procopie, Talaleu (Romania)

Alexander (Slovakia)

Gabriel (Spain)

Lage (Sweden)

Margaret (Ukraine)

Houston, Leander, Leandra, Leandro, Leland (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 58 of 2024; 308 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 2 of week 9 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Nuin (Ash) [Day 10 of 28]

Chinese: Month 1 (Bing-Yin), Day 18 (Xin-You)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025)

Hebrew: 18 Adair I 5784

Islamic: 17 Sha’ban 1445

J Cal: 28 Grey; Sevenday [28 of 30]

Julian: 14 February 2024

Moon: 91%: Waning Gibbous

Positivist: 2 Aristotle (3rd Month) [Anaximenes]

Runic Half Month: Tyr (Cosmic Pillar) [Day 4 of 15]

Season: Winter (Day 69 of 89)

Week: 4th Week of February

Zodiac: Pisces (Day 9 of 30)

#Holidays

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