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Daily Almanac for Wednesday, February 15, 2023

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Loons (North American English) or divers (British / Irish English) are a group of aquatic birds found in much of North America and northern Eurasia. All living species of loons are members of the genus Gavia, family Gaviidae and order Gaviiformes /ˈɡævi.ɪfɔːrmiːz/. DESCRIPTION Loons, which are the size of large ducks or small geese, resemble these birds in shape when swimming. Like ducks […]

Daily Almanac for Sunday, February 12, 2023

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Mirai Aileen Nagasu (長洲 未来, Nagasu Mirai, born April 16, 1993) is an American figure skater. She is a 2018 Olympic Games team event bronze medalist, three-time Four Continents medalist (silver in 2016, bronze in 2011 and 2017), the 2007 JGP Final champion, a two-time World Junior medalist (silver in 2007, bronze in 2008), and […]

Musical genius Burt Bacharach, who was married to famous women, Marlene Dietrich, Angie Dickinson and Carole Bayer Sager, dies at 94

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Burt Freeman Bacharach (/ˈbækəræk/ BAK-ə-rak; May 12, 1928 – February 8, 2023) was an American composer, songwriter, record producer, and pianist who is widely regarded as one of the most important and influential figures of 20th-century popular music. He composed hundreds of pop songs from the late […]

Daily Almanac for Wednesday, February 8, 2023

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Simon Willard (April 3, 1753 – August 30, 1848) was a celebrated American clockmaker. Simon Willard clocks were produced in Massachusetts in the towns of Grafton and Roxbury, near Boston. Among his many innovations and timekeeping improvements, Simon Willard is best known for inventing the eight-day patent timepiece that came to be […]

MLB World mourns loss of 1970’s Oakland A’s/Milwaukee Brewers 3B Sal Bando age 78

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Salvatore Leonard Bando (February 13, 1944 – January 20, 2023) was an American third baseman and general manager in Major League Baseball. He was best known for his eleven seasons with the Kansas City and Oakland Athletics, where he earned prominence as the captain for the “Swingin’ A’s” dynasty that won three […]

Daily Almanac for Tuesday, February 7, 2023

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Dame Ellen Patricia MacArthur DBE (born 8 July 1976) is a retired English sailor, from Whatstandwell near Matlock in Derbyshire, now based in Cowes, Isle of Wight. MacArthur is a successful solo long-distance yachtswoman. On 7 February 2005, she broke the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the globe, a feat […]