Today is Monday, February 27, the 58th day of 2017 in the Gregorian calendar, with 307 days remaining.
There is:
one day until Mardi
Gras;
2 days until Ash
Wednesday;
13 days until Daylight
Saving Time begins;
18 days until St.
Patrick's Day;
21 days until the
arrival of Spring;
33 days until April
Fools' Day;
41 days until Palm
Sunday;
42 days until First
Day of Passover;
46 days until Good
Friday;
48 days until Easter
Sunday;
49 days until US Federal
Income Tax filing day;
50 days until Last
Day of Passover;
54 days until Earth
Day;
60 days until Arbor
Day;
67 days until Cinco
de Mayo;
76 days until Mother's
Day;
91 days until Memorial
Day;
627 days until the
2018 mid-term elections; and
1,423 days until the end of Donald
Trump's term as President, assuming he isn't impeached.
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On this date in 1940, Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben at the University of California Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley, California discovered Carbon-14, a radioactive isotope of carbon with an atomic nucleus containing 6 protons and 8 neutrons. Its presence in organic materials is the basis of the radiocarbon dating method pioneered by Willard Libby and colleagues (1949) to date archaeological, geological and hydrogeological samples.
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Among other things, today is also National Strawberry Day.
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Police: Florida man interprets "test drive" as "free $150K Maserati."
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Some persons born on February 27 who said interesting things:
- Hugo Black (1886-1971), Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1937 to 1971;
- Peter De Vries (1910-1993), American editor and novelist;
- James T. Farrell (1904-1979), American novelist, short-story writer, and poet;
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet and educator;
- Ralph Nader (1934), American political activist, author, lecturer, and attorney;
- David Sarnoff (1891-1971), American businessman and pioneer of American radio and television;
- Irwin Shaw (1913-1984), American playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and short-story author;
- John Steinbeck (1902-1968), American author;
- Theodore Sturgeon (1918-1985), American writer;
- Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011), British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian;
- Joanne Woodward (1930), American actress, producer, activist, and philanthropist;
Quote of the day:
"I always keep my Constitution in my coat pocket... You ought to keep
one on you all the time."
-Hugo Black
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We're all guinea pigs in a failed decades-long diet experiment. "The change in dietary advice to promote low-fat foods is perhaps the biggest mistake in modern medical history."
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Last week, excessive sleep was linked to Alzheimer's. This week, it's sugar.
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