Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Feb 12, 2015)

Word Links IV



Insert one word in each pair to link the two words together. The end of the first word is the beginning of the second.



1. Short __ __ __ __ Light

2. Arch __ __ __ Station

3. Dill __ __ __ __ __ __ Barrel

4. Corn __ __ __ __ __ Box

5. Bar __ __ __ __ __ Pigeon





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Brain Teaser 2/11/2015

I have one, you have one.

If you remove the first letter, a bit remains.

If you remove the second, bit still remains.

After much trying, you might be able to remove the third one also, but it remains.

It dies hard!

Solution

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Today in History for 11th February 2015

Historical Events

1941 - 1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo)

1958 - Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant, Ithaca NY

1974 - Titan-Centaur rocket test launch fails

1986 - Activist Anatoly Scharansky released by USSR, leaves country

1986 - Australia beat India 2-0 to win the World Series Cup

1998 - Lyrics to "Candle in the Wind 1997" auctioned for $442,500

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Famous Birthdays

1819 - Samuel Parkman Tuckerman, composer

1919 - Gretchen Fraser, Tacoma Wash, slalom skier (Olympic-gold-1948)

1931 - Larry Merchant, author/boxing commentator (Showtime)

1939 - Bryan Gould, MP

1970 - Jason Allyn Scott, Iowa City Iowa, rower (Olympics-1996)

1971 - Linda Wild, Arlington Heights Ill, tennis star (1993 Melbourne Open)

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Famous Deaths

1899 - George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies

1940 - John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir, Gov-Gen of Canada (1935-40), dies

1976 - Alice Allen, actress (Call of the Hills), dies

1993 - Oksana Kostina, Russian gymnist, dies in an auto accident

2007 - Marianne Fredriksson, Swedish author (b. 1927)

2010 - [Lee} Alexander McQueen, English fashion designer (b. 1969)

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