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| February Observances: | poster links | resource links | ||
| African American / Black History Month |
Black History posters | Patchwork of African American Life Lessons | ||
| National History Day | history posters | National History Day Org | ||
| AMD/Low Vision Awareness Month | eye posters | Prevent Blindness | ||
| American Heart Month | cardiac system posters | American Heart Association | ||
| Bird/Wild Bird Feeding Month | birds posters | Birdfeeding Organization | ||
| Cherry Month - Oh, George!! | botany posters | Cherry Marketing Association | ||
| Children's Dental Health Month | teeth posters | American Dental Association | ||
| Library Lovers Month | literature posters | Library Support Net | ||
| February Holidays | ||||
| Feb 2 - Candlemas - midpoint between Winter Solstice & Spring Equinox | candle poster | “If Candlemas Day is bright and clear, There'll be two winters in the year,” Scottish Rhyme | ||
| Feb 2 - Groundhog Day - see Candlemas | groundhog poster | If the groundhog sees his shadow we will have six more weeks of winter. Punxsatawney Groundhog Club | ||
| 2-7-2008- Chinese Lunar New Year 4706, Year of the Rat (1-28-2009) |
China posters | Chinese New Year Traditions | ||
| Feb. 5, 2008 - Mardi Gras Day French for "Fat Tuesday" & Shrove Tuesday, (Pancake Day) - always 46 days before Easter. |
Mardi Gras posters | Last Day of Carnival before the fasting season of Lent. Mardi Gras (Fr.) Famous Carnivals are celebrated in New Orleans, Rio de Janiero, Nice and Cologne. |
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| Feb 6, 2008 - Ash Wednesday - 7th Wed. before Easter (2-25-2009) |
Lent posters Christianity posters |
Lenctentid: Time of Lengthening Religion & Ethics BBC site |
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| Feb 14 - Valentine's Day | Valentine's posters | Valentine's Day Lesson Plans | ||
| Feb. 18, 2008 - President's Day - Celebrate 3rd Monday | Presidents posters | Presidents Day | ||
| February Notable Dates | ||||
| b. 2-1-1902 - Langston Hughes, poet | Langston Hughes posters | CP Links for Learning - Hughes | ||
| 2-1-2003 - Columbia Shuttle Tragedy | space exploration posters | NASA | ||
| 2-1-1865 - Freedom Day- President Lincoln signs 13th Amendment | Lincoln posters | CP Links for Learning - Lincoln | ||
| b. 2-2-1650 - Nell Gwynne, actress | Nell Gwynne portrait print | Nell Gwynne Resource File | ||
| b. 2-2-1745 - Hannah More, author | Hannah More print | Hannah More Resource File | ||
| b. 2-2-1840 - Louis Bourgault-Ducoudray, composer | Bourgault-Ducoudray print | |||
| b. 2-2-1882 - Kate Chopin, author | Kate Chopin poster | Kate Chopin Resource File | ||
| b. 2-2-1882 - James Joyce, author | James Joyce print | James Joyce Resource File | ||
| b. 2-2-1923 - James Dickey, author | Deliverance book cover poster | James Dickey Resource File | ||
| b. 2-3-1809 - Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, composer | Mendelssohn print | Mendelssohn Resource File | ||
| b. 2-3-1809 - Ada Negri, author | Ada Negri portrait print | Ada Negri Resource File | ||
| b. 2-3-1874 - Gertrude Stein, author | Gertrude Stein poster | Gertrude Stein Resource File | ||
| b. 2-3-1907 - James A. Michener, author | James Michener Resource File | |||
| b. 2-4-1864 - Margot Asquith, author | Margot Asquith print | Margot Asquith Resource File | ||
| b. 2-4-1887 - Zena Dare, actress | Zena Dare print | Zena Dare biography | ||
| b. 2-4-1902 - Charles Lindbergh, aviator | Charles Lindbergh print | Charles Lindbergh Resource File | ||
| b. 2-4-1906 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, theologian | Dietrich Bonhoeffer Resource File | |||
| b. 2-4-1906 - Clyde W. Tombaugh, astronomer | Pluto poster | Clyde Tombaugh Resource File | ||
| b. 2-4-1920 - Betty Friedan, author & activist | Betty Friedan TIME cover | Betty Friedan Resource File | ||
| b. 2-5-1914 - Wm. S. Burroughs, poet | The Naked Lunch book cover | Wm. S. Burroughs Resource File | ||
| b. 2-5-1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player | Hank Aaron poster | Hank Aaron Resource File | ||
| b. 2-6-1756 - Aaron Burr, NJ | Aaron Burr Resource File | |||
| b. 2-6-1796 - John Stevens Henslow, botanist | John Stevens Henslow | John Stevens Henslow Resource File | ||
| b. 2-6-1809 - Karl Bodner, artist | Karl Bodner print | Karl Bodner Resource File | ||
| b. 2-6-1911 - Ronald Reagan, US President | Presidents posters | White House Bio - Reagan | ||
| b. 2-6-1913 - Mary Leakey, scientist | Mary Leakey poster | anthropology posters | ||
| b. 2-6-1913 - Rosa Parks, civil rights activist | Rosa Parks posters | CP Links for Learning - Parks | ||
| 2-6-1788 - Massachusetts Admission, 6th | Massachusetts posters | Massachusetts History Timeline | ||
| b. 2-7-1812 - Charles Dickens, author | Charles Dickens posters | CP Links for Learning - Dickens | ||
| b. 2-7-1867 - Laura Ingalls Wilder, author | Laura Ingalls Wilder Home | |||
| b. 2-7-1883 - Eubie Blake, musician | Eubie Blake poster | Eubie Blake Resource File | ||
| b. 2-7-1885 - Sinclair Lewis, author | Sinclair Lewis print | Sinclair Lewis Resource File | ||
| b. 2-7-1920 - An Wang; China | An Wang poster | An Wang Resource File | ||
| b. 2-8-1819 - John Ruskin, philosopher | John Ruskin print | John Ruskin Resource File | ||
| b. 2-8-1828 - Jules Verne, author | Jules Verne poster | Jules Verne Resource File | ||
| b. 2-8-1834 - Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleyev | Mendeleyev Periodic print | Mendeleyev Resource File | ||
| b. 2-8-1851 - Kate Chopin, author | Kate Chopin poster | Kate Chopin Resource File | ||
| b. 2-8-1876 - Paula Modersohn-Becker, artist | Expressionist posters | Modersohn-Becker Resource File | ||
| b. 2-8-1880 - Franz Marc, artist | Expressionist posters | Franz Marc Resource File | ||
| b. 2-8-1888 - Dame Edith Evans, actress | Dame Edith Evans print | Dame Edith Evans Resource File | ||
| b. 2-9-1773 - Wm. Henry Harrison, US President | W. H. Harrison print | White House Bio - Harrison | ||
| b. 2-9-1809 - Charles Darwin | Charles Darwin posters | Charles Darwin Resource File | ||
| b. 2-9-1865 - Mrs. Patrick Campbell, actress | Mrs. Patrick Campbell print | Mrs. Patrick Campbell Resource File | ||
| b. 2-9-1910 - Jacques-Lucien Monod, biologist | Jacques-Lucien Monod print | Jacques-Lucien Monod Resource File | ||
| b. 2-9-1923 - Brendan Behan, author | Ireland posters | Brendan Behan Resource File | ||
| b. 2-9-1944 - Alice Walker, author | The Color Purple poster | Alice Walker Resource File | ||
| b. 2-9-1945 - Mia Farrow, actress | Mia Farrow print | Mia Farrow Resource File | ||
| b. 2-10-1775 - Charles Lamb, poet | Charles Lamb Resource File | |||
| b. 2-10-1868 - William Allen White, author | William Allen White print | William Allen White Resource File | ||
| b. 2-10-1890 - Boris Pasternak, author | Boris Pasternak print | Boris Pasternak Resource File | ||
| b. 2-10-1898 - Bertolt Brecht, author | Three Penny Opera poster | Bertolt Brecht Resource File | ||
| b. 2-10-1927 - Leontyne Price, opera singer | Leontyne Price print | Leontyne Price Resource File | ||
| b. 2-11-1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor | Thomas Edison posters | CP Links for Learning - Edison | ||
| b. 2-12-1663 - Cotton Mather, theologian | theology posters | Cotton Mather Resource File | ||
| b. 2-12-1809 - Charles Darwin, scientist | Charles Darwin poster | Charles Darwin Resource File | ||
| b. 2-12-1809 - Abraham Lincoln, US President | Lincoln posters | CP Links for Learning - Lincoln | ||
| b. 2-12-1880 - John L. Lewis, labor leader | John L. Lewis / TIME Cover | John L. Lewis Resource File | ||
| b. 2-12-1884 - Max Beckmann, artist | Expressionists prints | Max Beckmann Resource File | ||
| b. 2-12-1893 - Omar Bradley, military | Lt General Omar Bradley / TIME Cover | Omar Bradley Resource File | ||
| b. 2-13-1766 - Thomas Robert Malthus, philosopher | Malthus portrait print | Thomas Malthus Resource File | ||
| b. 2-13-1873 - Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin, opera singer | Chaliapin as Don Quichotte Chaliapin as Boris Godunov |
Feodor Chaliapin Resource File | ||
| b. 2-13-1923 - Chuck Yaeger, aviator | Chuck Yaeger poster | Chuck Yaeger Resource File | ||
| b. 2-14-1404 - Leone Battista Alberti, architects | Alberti print | Leone Battista Alberti Resource File | ||
| 2-14-1859 - Oregon Admission, 33th state | Oregon State Capital Tour | |||
| b. 2-14-c.1818 - Frederick Douglass, MD | Frederick Douglass posters | CP Links for Learning - Douglass | ||
| 2-14-1912 - Arizona Admission, 48th state | Arizona Humanities Council | |||
| 2-14-1913 - James Hoffa, labor leader | James Hoffa / TIME Cover | James Hoffa Resource File | ||
| b. 2-15-1564 - Galileo Galilei, mathematician, astronomer | Galileo Galilei posters | Galileo Galilei Resource File | ||
| b. 2-15-1748 - Jeremy Bentham, philosopher | Jeremy Bentham print | Jeremy Bentham Resource File | ||
| b. 2-15-1820 - Susan B. Anthony, suffragette | Susan B. Anthony posters | CP Links for Learning - Anthony | ||
| 2-15-1845 - Elihu Root, Nobel Peace winner | Elihu Root TIME Magazine cover | Elihu Root Resource File | ||
| b. 2-15-1874 - Ernest Shackleton, explorer | Ernest Shackleton print | Ernest Shackleton Resource File | ||
| b. 2-16-1834 - Ernst Haeckel, biologist | Ernst Haeckel print | Ernst Haeckel Resource File | ||
| b. 2-16-1847 - Ludwig Philipp Scharwenka, composer | Scharwenka print | Scharwenka Resource File | ||
| b. 2-17-1821 - Lola Montez, dancer | Lola Montez print | Lola Montez Resource File | ||
| b. 2-17-1924 - Margaret Truman, author | Margaret Truman TIME cover | Margaret Truman Resource File | ||
| b. 2-17-1963 - Michael Jordan, basketball player | Michael Jordan poster | Michael Jordan Resource File | ||
| b. 2-18-1374 - Jadwiga of Poland | Jadwiga print | Jadwiga of Poland Resource File | ||
| b. 2-18-1745 - Alessandro Volta, physicist | Alessandro Volta print | Alessandro Volta Resource File | ||
| b. 2-18-1931 - Toni Morrison, author | Toni Morrison posters | CP Links for Learning - Morrison | ||
| b. 2-19-1473 - Nicolaus Copernicus, astronomer | astronomy posters | Nicolaus Copernicus Resource File | ||
| b. 2-19-1877 - Gabriele Munter, artist | Expressionists prints | Gabriele Munter Resource File | ||
| b. 2-19-1865 - Sven Anders Hedin, explorer | Sven Anders Hedin print | Sven Anders Hedin Resource File | ||
| b. 2-20-1844 - Joshua Slocum, explorer | Joshua Slocum print | Joshua Slocum Resource File | ||
| b. 2-20-1874 - Mary Garden, opera singer | Mary Garden TIME Magazine Cover | Mary Garden Resource File | ||
| b. 2-20-1937 - Nancy Wilson, singer | Nancy Wilson photo | Nancy Wilson Resource File | ||
| b. 2-21-1801 - John Henry Newman, theologian | John Henry Newman print | John Henry Newman Resource File | ||
| b. 2-21-1821 - Rachel, actress | Rachel print | Rachel Resource File | ||
| b. 2-21-1836 - Leo Delibes, composer | Leo Delibes print | Leo Delibes Resource File | ||
| b. 2-21-1895 - Henrik Dam, biologist | Henrik Dam print | Henrik Dam Resource File | ||
| b. 2-21-1907 - W. H. Auden, author | W. H. Auden Resource File | |||
| b. 2-21-1936 - Barbara Jordan, lawyer & statesperson | Barbara Jordan poster | Barbara Jordan Resource File | ||
| b. 2-22-1732 - George Washington, US President | George Washington posters | George Washington Birthplace | ||
| b. 2-22-1788 - Arthur Schopenhauer, philosopher | Arthur Schopenhauer print | Arthur Schopenhauer Resource File | ||
| b. 2-22-1892 - Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet | Edna St. Vincent Millay Resource File | |||
| b. 2-22-1925 - Edward Gorey, Chicago | Edward Gorey print | Edward Gorey Resource File | ||
| b. 2-22-1972 - Michael Chang, tennis player | Michael Chang poster | Michael Chang Resource File | ||
| b. 2-23-1685 - Georg Friedrich Händel, composer | Handel posters | George Frideric Handel Resource File | ||
| b. 2-23-1786 - Wilhelm Karl Grimm, storyteller | Grimm's Fairytales | |||
| b. 2-23-1868 - W. E. B. DuBois, educator & activist | W. E. B. DuBois posters | CP Links for Learning - DuBois | ||
| 2-23-1945 - Iwo Jima Day | WWII posters | U.S. Marines raised the flag on Mt. Suribachi | ||
| b. 2-24-1304 - Ibn Battuta, explorer | Ibn Battuta print | Ibn Battuta Resource File | ||
| b. 2-24-1463 - Pico Della Mirandola, philosopher | Pico Della Mirandola print | Pico Della Mirandola Resource File | ||
| 2-24-1803, Marbury v. Madison; The Supreme Court established judicial review as a legitimate power of the Court on constitutional grounds. | Landmark Supreme Court Decisions posters | Background on Marbury v Madison | ||
| b. 2-24-1836 - Winslow Homer, artist | Winslow Homer posters | CP Links for Learning - Homer | ||
| b. 2-24-1890 - Marjorie Main, actress | Marjorie Main "The Egg & I" poster |
Marjorie Main Resource File | ||
| b. 2-25-1778 - Gen. Jose de San Martin | San Martin print | San Martin Resource File | ||
| b. 2-25-1841 - Pierre August Renoir, artist | Renoir poster | Pierre August Renoir Resource File | ||
| b. 2-25-1873 - Enrico Caruso, opera singer | Enrico Caruso prints | Enrico Caruso Resource File | ||
| 2-25-1928 - First U.S. television license | inventions posters | Museum of Television
“Television is in the business of reprogramming the sensory life of North America, changing the outlook and experience of the population. This has nothing to do with programs: it has everything to do with the medium.” Marshall McLuhan |
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| 2-26-1564 - Christopher Marlowe christened | Christopher Marlowe print | Christopher Marlowe Resource File | ||
| b. 2-26-1802 - Victor Hugo, author | Victor Hugo print | Victor Hugo Resource File | ||
| b. 2-26-1842 - Camille Flammarion, astronomer | Flammarion woodcut print | Camille Flammarion Resource File | ||
| b. 2-26-1846 - Buffalo Bill Cody, IA | Buffalo Bill posters | Buffalo Bill Cody Resource File | ||
| 2-26 – 3-5, 2005 - World Special Olympics Winter Games, Nagano, Japan | Olympics posters | Special Olympics Program | ||
| b. 2-27-1807 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, poet | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow posters | CP Links for Learning - Longfellow | ||
| b. 2-27-1847 - Ellen Terry, actress | Ellen Terry print | Ellen Terry Resource File | ||
| b. 2-27-1888 - Lotte Lehmann, opera singer | Lotte Lehmann | Lotte Lehmann Resource File | ||
| b. 2-27-1897 - Marian Anderson, opera singer | Marian Anderson print | Marian Anderson Resource File | ||
| b. 2-27-1902 - John Steinbeck, author | John Steinbeck poster | John Steinbeck Resource File | ||
| b. 2-27-1923 - Dexter Gordon, musician |
Dexter Gordon poster | Dexter Gordon Resource File | ||
| b. 2-27-1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, actress | Elizabeth Taylor photo | Elizabeth Taylor Resource File | ||
| b. 2-28-1553 - Michel de Montaigne, author | Michel de Montaigne print | Michel de Montaigne Resource File | ||
| b. 2-28-1882 - Geraldine Farrar, politician | Geraldine Farrar TIME print | Geraldine Farrar Resource File | ||
| b. 2-28-1901 - Linus Pauling, scientist | Linus Pauling photo | Linus Pauling Resource File | ||
| b. 2-29-1792 - Gioacchino Rossini, composer | Gioacchino Rossini print | Gioacchino Rossini Resource File | ||
| b. 2-29-1892 - Augusta Savage, sculptor | Augusta Savage poster | Augusta Savage Resource File | ||
| February Facts Facts & Tidbits | ||||
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February is the shortest month of the year, and the only month to have an extra day added every 4th year, or Leap Year. Other names for February include the Anglo-Saxon Solmoneth (sun month), Kale-monath (cabbage) and Charlemagne's designation, Hornung. |
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| February Astrological Signs | ||||
 Aquarius: January 20 - Feb 18 |
• Aquarius poster • Aquarius, the Water Carrier Ecard |
cardinal, earth, universal;"I build," ambitious, cautious, authoritative, cunning, competent, stable, saturnine, knees/skeleton; prudent, cautious, suspicious. | ||
| Pisces: Feb 19 - March 20 |
• Pisces poster • Pisces, the Fish Ecard |
fixed, air, universal; "I know," friendships, cause-oriented, the group, society, progressive, eccentric, aloof, calves/ankles; democratic, unconventional, detached. | ||
| February Birthstones | ||||
| • Amethyst is a purple variety of quartz whose name comes from the Greek 'a' ("not") and 'methustos '("to intoxicate"), referring to the belief of the ancient Greeks and Romans that those who wore amethyst were protected from intoxication. |
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• Birthstone (U of Washington) • Amethyst Resource File |
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| February Flowers | ||||
| • Violets signify faithfulness, fertility and love. • Primrose is the first "rose" (prime-rose) to flower in the spring. |
• flower posters | • Violet Resource File • Primrose Resource File |
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