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Tuesday, February 5, 2013
<a href="http://www.wbir.com/news/article/252961/2/IHOP-offers-free-pancakes-to-raise-donations-for-ETCH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="" />WBIR-TV</a>
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:02/05/2013,cd_max:02/05/2013&q=IHOP" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IHOP</a>
200,000+ searches<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/going-out-guide/wp/2013/02/05/today-is-national-pancake-day-at-ihop/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Today is National Pancake Day at IHOP</a>Washington Post (blog)Show up at an International House of Pancakes today and get a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes. The showing up is the easy part; the challenge is determining how long you're willing to wait for a stack of three pancakes. National Pancake Day ...
<a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-ihop-free-pancakes-20130204,0,1160163.story" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">IHOP gives away free pancakes for charity Tuesday</a>Los Angeles TimesEarly bird today gets the pancakes. A stack of them. For free from IHOP. And it's all in the name of charity. The restaurant chain is trying to encourage diners taking advantage of the complimentary meal to donate $3 million to the Children's Miracle ...
<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/Modern-Parenthood/2013/0206/Mary-Leakey-100th-birthday-A-son-on-her-adventuresome-parenting" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="" />Christian Science Monitor</a>
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:02/05/2013,cd_max:02/05/2013&q=Mary+Leakey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mary Leakey</a>
200,000+ searches<a href="http://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/Family/Modern-Parenthood/2013/0206/Mary-Leakey-100th-birthday-A-son-on-her-adventuresome-parenting" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mary Leakey 100th birthday: A son on her adventuresome parenting</a>Christian Science MonitorToday's helicopter parents might want to explore the parenting techniques of famed paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey, whose birth 100 years ago is celebrated today. Instead of hovering over or reigning-in her three sons, Ms. Leakey handed them ...
<a href="http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/02/06/mary-leakeys-100th-birthday/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mary Leakey's 100th Birthday and Her Legacy</a>National GeographicThrough a life of dedication to research and exploration of Africa's Rift Valley, Mary met and married Louis Leakey and together they brought to light some of the most significant and spectacular remains of ancient human ancestors more apelike, and ...
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/06/solomon-islands-earthquake-triggers-tsunami" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="" />The Guardian</a>
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:02/05/2013,cd_max:02/05/2013&q=Solomon+Islands" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Solomon Islands</a>
100,000+ searches<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/world/asia/earthquake-tsunami-solomon-islands-south-pacific.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tsunami Causes Deaths and Damages Homes on Solomon Islands</a>New York TimesThe low-lying Solomon Islands, however, were not spared. At least 100 homes in the town of Lata were destroyed by a surge of water, according to World Vision, a Christian humanitarian organization. Water and electricity also remained out in the town ...
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/06/solomon-islands-earthquake-triggers-tsunami" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Solomon Islands earthquake triggers tsunami</a>The GuardianA powerful earthquake off the Solomon Islands generated a tsunami up to 1.5 metres (5ft) high that damaged dozens of homes and left several people missing, presumed dead. Authorities cancelled tsunami warnings on more distant coasts in the Pacific.
<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/vonn-surgery-week-crash-article-1.1256631" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="" />New York Daily News</a>
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:02/05/2013,cd_max:02/05/2013&q=Lindsey+Vonn" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lindsey Vonn</a>
100,000+ searches<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/vonn-surgery-week-crash-article-1.1256631" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lindsey Vonn, who will have surgery in Colorado next week, plans to compete in ...</a>New York Daily NewsSCHLADMING, Austria - Lindsey Vonn will head home for surgery in Colorado next week after tearing two ligaments in her right knee and breaking a bone in her lower leg in a crash at the world championships. Vonn said Wednesday that she plans to ...
<a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfix/2013/02/06/sochi-olympics-2014-wait-lindsey-vonn-should-be-back-how-soon/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wait, Lindsey Vonn Should Be Back How Soon?</a>Wall Street Journal (blog)Lindsey Vonn isn't quite one of those athletes. While she is indeed one of the best skiers in the world, she's also one of the few Olympic athletes that fans can be bothered to know about during odd-numbered, non-Olympic years. So it was news when Vonn ...
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/jodi-arias-describes-sexual-encounter-week-meeting-travis/story?id=18411629" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="" />ABC News</a>
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:02/05/2013,cd_max:02/05/2013&q=jodi+arias" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jodi Arias</a>
50,000+ searches<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/jodi-arias-describes-sexual-encounter-week-meeting-travis/story?id=18411629" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jodi Arias Describes Sexual Encounter Week After Meeting Travis Alexander</a>ABC NewsThe tumultuous love affair between accused killer Jodi Arias and Travis Alexander began with such a rush of intensity that just days after meeting one another, Arias broke up with her boyfriend of four years and had her first sexual encounter with ...
<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/jodi-arias-testifies-calls-ex-boyfriends-abusive-article-1.1256321" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jodi Arias testifies, describes tumultuous past of allegedly abusive boyfriends</a>New York Daily NewsPHOENIX — A woman charged in the Arizona stabbing and shooting death of her lover resumed testimony Tuesday, recounting her troubled past and the numerous boyfriends who cheated on her as the defense works to seek sympathy from jurors. Jodi Arias ...
<a href="http://www.eonline.com/news/385602/smash-season-2-debuts-to-series-low-ratings?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&utm_source=eonline&utm_medium=rssfeeds&utm_campaign=rss_topstories" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="" />E! Online</a>
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:02/05/2013,cd_max:02/05/2013&q=Smash" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Smash</a>
50,000+ searches<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2013/02/06/nbc-ratings-smash-deception-do-no-harm/1896331/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">'Smash' crashes and NBC takes a deep ratings dive</a>USA TODAYAnd Tuesday's second-season premiere of Smash, which goes inside the making of a Broadway musical, set series lows with 4.5 million viewers. That marked a 61% plunge from last February's series opener, which aired behind The Voice, and a 25% from ...
<a href="http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/06/smash-premiere-falls-short-loses-viewers/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">'Smash' Premiere Falls Short, Loses Viewers</a>New York Times (blog)“Smash,” which NBC extensively retooled after disappointing viewers who initially responded well to its pilot episode, fell a staggering 71 percent in the rating for the audience NBC most seeks to reach, viewers between the ages of 18 and 49. It also ...
<a href="http://www.cmj.com/news/sasquatch-2013-lineup-postal-service-vampire-weekend-the-xx-and-more/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="" />CMJ</a>
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:02/05/2013,cd_max:02/05/2013&q=Sasquatch+2013" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sasquatch 2013</a>
50,000+ searches<a href="http://blogs.seattletimes.com/opinionnw/2013/02/05/counting-down-to-sasquatch-2013/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Counting down to Sasquatch 2013</a>The Seattle Times (blog)I bought my early-bird ticket to Sasquatch the day after last Thanksgiving. I've never been to a music festival that required camping. Nor have I heard a band play at the fabled Gorge Amphiteater in Quincy, Wash. To say I'm “excited” about the whole ...
<a href="http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Sasquatch-2013-lineup-announced-4253067.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sasquatch 2013 lineup announced</a>Seattle Post IntelligencerLocal superstars Macklemore & Ryan Lewis and The Postal Service will join Mumford & Sons and dozens of other acts at the 2013 Sasquatch
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Birthdays
- 1962 Jennifer Jason Leigh (actress)
- 1948 Christopher Guest (comic)
- 1948 Barbara Hershey (Herzstein) (actress)
- 1946 Charlotte Rampling (actress)
- 1942 Roger Staubach (quaterback)
- 1940 H.R. Giger (surrealist artist)
- 1934 Hank Aaron (baseballer hall of fame)
- 1928 Andrew Greeley (priest, author, sociologist)
- 1919 Red Buttons (Aaron Chwatt) (comedian, actor)
- 1914 William S. Burroughs (writer)
- 1900 Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (governor)
February 5 in history:
- 1897, the Indiana House of Representatives passed, 67-0, a measure redefining the method for determining the area of a circle, which included altering the value of pi. (The bill died in the Indiana Senate.)
- 1900, the United States and the United Kingdom sign treaty for Panama Canal
- 1919, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists
- 1924, the Royal Greenwich Observatory begin broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the "BBC pips"
- 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposes a plan to enlarge the Supreme Court of the United States
- 1958, a hydrogen bomb known as the Tybee Bomb is lost by the US Air Force off the coast of Savannah, Georgia, never to be recovered
- 1973, services were held at Arlington National Cemetery for Army Lt. Col. William B. Nolde, the last American combat casualty before the Vietnam cease-fire
- 1974, John Murtha becomes the first Vietnam War veteran elected to the Congress of the United States
- 1988, Manuel Noriega is indicted on drug smuggling and money laundering charges
- 1989, in an important move signaling the close of the nearly decade-long Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan, the last Russian troops withdraw from the capital city of Kabul. Less than two weeks later, all Soviet troops departed Afghanistan entirely, ending what many observers referred to as Russia's "Vietnam"
- 1994, Byron De La Beckwith is convicted of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers
- 1997, the so-called Big Three banks in Switzerland announce the creation of a $71 million fund to aid Holocaust survivors and their families.
- 1997, Investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter
- 2002, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia., indicted John Walker Lindh on 10 charges, alleging he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and then conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans. (Lindh later pleaded guilty to lesser offenses and was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.)
- 2002, Congressional committees decided to subpoena former Enron Chairman Kenneth Lay to appear to tell what he knew of Enron's complex financial dealings. (Lay did appear, but refused to testify, citing his Fifth Amendment rights.)