In the News This Week

1st February - 7th February

1/2/1893 - Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio.

2/2/1887 - In Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania the first Groundhog Day is observed.

3/2/1959 - A plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa kills Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, The Big Bopper.

4/2/2004 - Facebook is founded by Mark

5) Sprung fastener (4)

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12) Fun chamber (4, 4)

14) Emotional piece of music (8)

15) Holy Father (3, 4)

19) Spur (4)

21) Sunrise (4)

22) Grow slowly (3)

Last Week’s Solution across: 5) Far, 7) Scapegoat, 8) Draw, 10) Pince-nez, 11) Reel, 12) Bizarre, 14) Zone, 16) Soda, 17) Dodgems, 18) Dial, 20) Alkaline, 22) Team, 24) Allotment, 25) Pad

DoWN: 1) Acrid, 2) Epic, 3) Agonized, 4) Jazz, 5) Fur, 6) Raw, 8) Duress, 9) Amend, 12) Bedlam, 13) Reef knot, 15) Olive, 19) Inane, 20) Axle, 21) Lamp, 22) Tip, 23) Aid

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5/2/1919 - Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffith launch United Artists.

6/2/1958 - Eight Manchester United F.C. players and 15 other passengers killed in the Munich air disaster.

7/2/1935 - The classic board game Monopoly is invented.

I went out with a one legged girl once who worked in a brewery. She was in charge of the hops.