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+ | <p><span class="hottrends-trends-list-date-header">Friday, February 1, 2013</span></p> | ||
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+ | <div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/groundhog-day-2013-punxsutawney-phil-shadow/story?id=18381290" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title"><strong>Groundhog Day 2013</strong>: Will 'Punxsutawney Phil' See His Shadow?</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">ABC News</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">Punxsutawney, the Pennsylvania town that is home to one of the most famous weather-predicting <strong>groundhogs</strong>, Punxsutawney Phil, has been carrying on the tradition of <strong>Groundhog Day</strong> since the 1800s, according to The Punxsutawney <strong>Groundhog</strong> Club.</span></div> | ||
+ | <div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/groundhog-day-2013-no-shadow-for-punxsutawney-phil-so-springsaround-the-corner/2013/02/02/34e6e620-6c9c-11e2-bd36-c0fe61a205f6_blog.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title"><strong>Groundhog Day 2013</strong>: No shadow for Punxsutawney Phil, so spring is around <strong>...</strong></span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">Washington Post (blog)</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">“Superstition has it that fair weather [at this midpoint] was seen as forbearance of a stormy and cold second half to winter,” NOAA writes in its summary of <strong>Groundhog Day</strong> background and folklore. <strong>Groundhog Day</strong>-like celebrations are held in several <strong>...</strong></span></div> | ||
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+ | <div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/groundhog-day-2013-punxsutawney-phil-shadow/story?id=18381290" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title"><strong>Groundhog Day</strong> 2013: Will 'Punxsutawney Phil' See His Shadow?</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">ABC News</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">Punxsutawney, the Pennsylvania town that is home to one of the most famous weather-predicting groundhogs, Punxsutawney Phil, has been carrying on the tradition of <strong>Groundhog Day</strong> since the 1800s, according to The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club.</span></div> | ||
+ | <div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/02/groundhog-day-punxsutawney-phil-weather" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title"><strong>Groundhog Day</strong>: Punxsutawney Phil predicts it won't stay cold much longer</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">The Guardian</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">Punxsutawney Phil was made famous to the outside world via the classic comedy movie <strong>Groundhog Day</strong> in which a jaded newsman played by Bill Murray is trapped to repeat the same 24 hours over and over again after being forced to cover the event.</span></div> | ||
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+ | <div class="hottrends-single-trend-image-container"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bill-clinton-speak-ed-koch-funeral-article-1.1253885" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="http://news.google.com/news/tbn/3n5SfoNYube2bM/1.jpg" alt="" /><span>New York Daily News</span></a></div> | ||
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+ | <div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/02/opinion/nocera-the-ed-koch-show.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title">The <strong>Ed Koch</strong> Show</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">New York Times</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">As <strong>Ed Koch</strong> matter-of-factly uttered those words, early in the movie, the audience, full of former staff aides, political loyalists and New York movers-and-shakers, chuckled knowingly. Throughout his political life, Koch's ego had never been far from <strong>...</strong></span></div> | ||
+ | <div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bill-clinton-speak-ed-koch-funeral-article-1.1253885" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title">Bill Clinton to speak at <strong>Ed Koch's</strong> funeral</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">New York Daily News</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">Clinton is a longtime friend of the three-term mayor, according to Koch's spokesman, George Arzt. PHOTOS: REMEMBERING FORMER NYC MAYOR <strong>ED KOCH</strong>. The public service will be held at Temple Emanu-El at Fifth Ave. and E. 65th St. Clinton will cut <strong>...</strong></span></div> | ||
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+ | <div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/box-office-report-warm-bodies-417605" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title">Box Office Report: '<strong>Warm Bodies</strong>' Tops Friday With $8.1 Mil; Stallone's 'Bullet <strong>...</strong></span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">Hollywood Reporter</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">A supernatural twist on Romeo and Juliet, <strong>Warm Bodies</strong> stars Nicholas Hoult as a zombie who rescues a girl (Teresa Palmer) from imminent death at the hands of his fellow undead. An unlikely romance develops, setting off an unforeseen chain of events.</span></div> | ||
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+ | <div class="hottrends-single-trend-news-article-container"><a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-netflix-house-of-cards-creates-social-media-buzz-binge-20130201,0,6133834.story" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title">Netflix's '<strong>House of Cards</strong>' creates social media buzz-binge</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">Los Angeles Times</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">Netflix Inc.'s strategy of simultaneously releasing all 13 episodes of its new political drama "<strong>House of Cards</strong>" is generating social media buzz -- with well over 10,000 mentions since the show's debut just after midnight Friday. "<strong>House of Cards</strong>" is <strong>...</strong></span></div> | ||
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+ | <p><a href="http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/01/playstation-4-rumors-spread-following-sony-tease" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-title"><strong>PlayStation 4</strong> Rumors Spread Following Sony Tease</span></a><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-source">IGN</span><span class="hottrends-single-trend-news-snippet">Following yesterday's Future of PlayStation tease from Sony, new rumors suggest that the <strong>PlayStation 4</strong> will be announced this mont</span></p> | ||
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Friday, February 1, 2013
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/groundhog-day-2013-punxsutawney-phil-shadow/story?id=18381290" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="" />ABC News</a>
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500,000+ searches<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/groundhog-day-2013-punxsutawney-phil-shadow/story?id=18381290" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Groundhog Day 2013: Will 'Punxsutawney Phil' See His Shadow?</a>ABC NewsPunxsutawney, the Pennsylvania town that is home to one of the most famous weather-predicting groundhogs, Punxsutawney Phil, has been carrying on the tradition of Groundhog Day since the 1800s, according to The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club.
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/post/groundhog-day-2013-no-shadow-for-punxsutawney-phil-so-springsaround-the-corner/2013/02/02/34e6e620-6c9c-11e2-bd36-c0fe61a205f6_blog.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Groundhog Day 2013: No shadow for Punxsutawney Phil, so spring is around ...</a>Washington Post (blog)“Superstition has it that fair weather [at this midpoint] was seen as forbearance of a stormy and cold second half to winter,” NOAA writes in its summary of Groundhog Day background and folklore. Groundhog Day-like celebrations are held in several ...
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200,000+ searches<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/groundhog-day-2013-punxsutawney-phil-shadow/story?id=18381290" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Groundhog Day 2013: Will 'Punxsutawney Phil' See His Shadow?</a>ABC NewsPunxsutawney, the Pennsylvania town that is home to one of the most famous weather-predicting groundhogs, Punxsutawney Phil, has been carrying on the tradition of Groundhog Day since the 1800s, according to The Punxsutawney Groundhog Club.
<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/02/groundhog-day-punxsutawney-phil-weather" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Groundhog Day: Punxsutawney Phil predicts it won't stay cold much longer</a>The GuardianPunxsutawney Phil was made famous to the outside world via the classic comedy movie Groundhog Day in which a jaded newsman played by Bill Murray is trapped to repeat the same 24 hours over and over again after being forced to cover the event.
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100,000+ searches<a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118065566/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">'Warm Bodies' earns lively $8.1 mil</a>VarietyMuch like Universal's success with scarer "Mama," "Warm Bodies'" PG-13 rating is likely working in its favor this frame as many new releases for the last two months have been R rated. "Mama," in its third week in release, only dropped to fourth place ...
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<a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-netflix-house-of-cards-creates-social-media-buzz-binge-20130201,0,6133834.story" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Netflix's 'House of Cards' creates social media buzz-binge</a>Los Angeles TimesNetflix Inc.'s strategy of simultaneously releasing all 13 episodes of its new political drama "House of Cards" is generating social media buzz -- with well over 10,000 mentions since the show's debut just after midnight Friday. "House of Cards" is ...
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</embed> MyWikiBiz February 1 in history:
- 1963: The Communications Satellite Corporation (Comsat) was incorporated as a private U.S. company to establish, working with the telecommunications administrations of other countries, a commercial communications satellite system.
- 1960: Four African American students staged a sit-in at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina; by February 5, 300 students were participating, and a movement of sit-ins at public segregrated facilities was launched across the South.
- 1944: During World War II, after an effective preliminary bombardment, the first of 40,000 U.S. troops landed on the Marshall Island atoll of Kwajalein; within a week the atoll had been taken from the Japanese.
- 1896: La Bohème, the most enduringly popular of Giacomo Puccini's many operas, was first performed, at the Teatro Regio (Turin), under Arturo Toscanini.