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   The U.S. Congress created Lafayette National Park at Mt. Desert Island on the coast of Maine on February 26, 1919. The park, expanded and renamed Acadia National Park in 1929, was the first national park east of the Mississippi.

   Also on this date in 1919, Congress established the Grand Canyon National Park in the state of Arizona. Comprising over one million acres of northwestern Arizona, the park includes the most spectacular area of the 277-mile canyon cut by the Colorado River.

   Posted 1 year ago by Dee #

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   Today in Strangeness:

   On this date in 1975, on the Today show, the 1st televised kidney transplant took place. And on Feb. 26, 2006, the U.S. Census Bureau's World Population Clock ticked up to 6.5 billion people.

   Posted 1 year ago by Dee #

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   Thanks Dee...was not aware of the size of the Grand Canyon...wow!
   Two birthday peeps for February 26 are: King Wenceslaus who is the name sake of the Christmas Carol/Good King Wenceslaus. John H. Kellogg the father of the famous flaked cereal. He was a vegetarian & physician who pioneered the creation of that product. His younger brother founded the Kellogg Co.

   Posted 1 year ago by jeankit #

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