Spark! Pro Series - 11 February 2025 (original) (raw)
February 11, 2025, 3:50pm 1
Today in History: 11 February
1543 – Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and English King Henry VIII sign anti-French covenant
1768 – Samuel Adams’ letter opposing taxes in the Townshend Act circulates around the American colonies
1809 – American inventor Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
1861 – US President-elect Abraham Lincoln takes train from Springfield IL to Washington, D.C.
1916 – Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1942 – “Archie” comic book debuts
1963 – American chef Julia Child’s show “The French Chef” premieres on WGBH in Boston – one of the first cooking shows in the US
1983 – “Weird Al” Yankovic records “Ricky” and “Buckingham Blues” to complete his debut LP, at Scotti Brothers Studio in Santa Monica, California
1990 – Nelson Mandela is released after 27 years of imprisonment in South Africa
2020 – Bernie Sanders wins the New Hampshire Democratic primary
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1725 – Louis Mandrin, French smuggler considered the French Robin Hood
1800 – William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer
1847 – Thomas Edison, American inventor
1917 – Sidney Sheldon, American novelist and playwright
1936 – Burt Reynolds, American actor
1998 – Khalid (Donnel Robinson) – American R&B singer-songwriter
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1650 – Rene Descartes, French philosopher
1963 – Sylvia Plath, American poet and posthumous Pulitzer Prize winner
1986 – Frank Herbert, American sci-fi author
2012 – Whitney Houston, American singer, actress, and film producer
The Funnies:
Quote of the Day
YouTube Clip of the Day
Comic of the Day
Mouseover: The bottom ones are also potentially bad news for any other planets in our solar system that have been counting on Earth having a stable orbit.
Explain XKCD 3049: Incoming Asteroid - explain xkcd
Image Credit: xkcd: Incoming Asteroid
Inspirobot Sometimes Controversial Inspirational Quote of the Day:
In case you missed it, you can read yesterday’s artificially intelligent Spark by @lonny6654 over here
joshuagriffin (RedBeardedGriff) February 11, 2025, 4:03pm 2
I have no idea what Inspirobot is on about today.
gurugabe1 (GuruGabe)
February 11, 2025, 4:42pm 3
Isn’t the CotD a repeat of a recent one?
1858: St. Bernadette’s first visions of Mary at Lourdes
1778: Voltaire returns to Paris from exile
1805: Sacajawea gives birth to her first child
1969: Jennifer Aniston - American actress
1953: Jeb Bush - American politician
1964: Sarah Palin - American politician
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2nd?
mweed (MWeed) February 11, 2025, 4:45pm 4
Yeah. Comic doesn’t match mouseover, explanation, or image link.
Is this a repeat?
No clue? Is that older than?
IYKYK
@jameswalker @gurugabe1 @Panda-Marie @chrisdavis8
DailyLlama (DailyLlama) February 11, 2025, 5:09pm 6
Have I missed some new kind of emoticon? Because I don’t understand what 38> means, and I feel that’s essential to understanding Inspirobot, and it’s making me feel old.
VikingMichael (VikingMichael) February 11, 2025, 5:35pm 7
Whoopsy daisy. I fixed the Comic of the Day. Thanks for pointing that out!
ajason (aJason) February 11, 2025, 5:42pm 8
It looks like a sideways chicken or dragon to me, but who knows?
I would vote chicken, completely unrelated to whatever Inspirobot’s post.
38>
lamocon (lamocon) February 11, 2025, 7:17pm 9
That song is fantastic! I haven’t listened to that for a hot minute.
His two best IMHO:
Do not put Descartes before De Horst
The musical selection is of German Pop Stars:
@Panda-Marie @chrisdavis8 @gurugabe1 @hulksmash72
For me it’s these:
One of these days before he retires I need to check him out. Sad thing is Arkansas only attracts country acts it seems.
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alawford (alawford) February 12, 2025, 12:38am 12
Just read up on her, very interesting…
it-bags (IT_Bags)
February 12, 2025, 1:03am 13
I can’t believe I’m the first to post the BEST IT song ever! (If you’re of a certain age)