Good Morning *Winter Weather Edition*

Still waiting on this winter weather. Shows it on the map but nothing falling from the sky. Starting to Think all meteorologists lie.







1872 Russian Grand Duke Alexis goes on a gala buffalo hunting expedition with Gen. Phil Sheridan and Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer.

1879 The British-Zulu War begins. British troops -- under Lieutenant General Frederic Augustus -- invade Zululand from the southern African republic of Natal.

1908 A wireless message is sent long-distance for the first time from the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

1913 Kiel and Wilhelmshaven become submarine bases in Germany.

1915 The U.S. Congress establishes Rocky Mountain National Park.

1926 U.S. coal talks break down, leaving both sides bitter as the strike drags on into its fifth month.

1927 U.S. Secretary of State Kellogg claims that Mexican rebel Plutarco Calles is aiding communist plot in Nicaragua.

1932 Oliver Wendell Holmes retires from the Supreme Court at age 90.

1938 Austria recognizes the Franco government in Spain.

1940 Soviet bombers raid cities in Finland.

Joke of The Day: A college teacher reminds her class of tomorrow's final exam. 'Now class, I won't tolerate any excuses for you not being here tomorrow. I might consider a nuclear attack or a serious personal injury, illness, or a death in your immediate family, but that's it, no other excuses whatsoever!'

A smart-arse student in the back of the room raised his hand and asked, 'What would you say if tomorrow I said I was suffering from complete and utter sexual exhaustion?'
The entire class is reduced to laughter and snickering. When silence was restored, the teacher smiled knowingly at the student, shook her head and sweetly said, 'Well, I guess you'd have to write the exam with your other hand.'