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 * Danny Klink ** 

I was born on February 28, 1995 in Ethiopia. When my mom died I was sent to an orphanage. I was adopted at age five. I've been living in the US ever since. **Facts about Etiopia** 1) Ethiopia has a population of about 83 million. 2) Ethiopia is the oldest independant country in Africa. 3) It is also one of the oldest countries in the world. 4) Credited with being the origion of mankind because of bones found there dating back to 3.2 million years.

**1995** 1) The population of the US in 1995 was 262,764,948. 2) Cosmonaut Valeri Polyokov returns after setting a record for 438 days in space. 3) Windows 95 is released by microsoft. 4) Bill Clinton was the president at that time. He was our 42nd president and he was in office from1993-01. 5) The winner of the Super Bowl was San Fransisco 49ers and they were playing San Diego Chargers. The score was 49-26 and the MVP was quarterback Joe Montana. 6) Earthquake in Japan, known as the Kobe Earthquake, kills more than 5000 and injures 26,000. 7) The US rescues Mexico's economy with a $20 billion doller aid. 8) Car bomb in Oklahoma city exploded outside outside fedeeral office building collapsing wall and floor. 168 people were killed including 19 children and one person who died in a rescue effort. Over 220 buildings sustained damage. 9) Top movie this year was __Batman Forever.__ The director of this movie was Joel Schumecher. This movie shows how Batman has to face off with Two Face and Joker stop them from destroying Gothem City. 10) In 1935 Du Pont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon.

 ** Ferbruary ** weather in1995 -temp- 33 degrees low & 45 degrees high no percipitation today dew point 36.2 degrees

1)This is the second month of the year and also the shortest. February had 28 days in the month until Julius Caesar gave it 29. Last, February is a leap year month. 2) In 1991 "Les Miserbles" opens. It is shown at theatre Carre, Amsterdam. This play was by Victor Hugo. 3) In 1906 Richard Oldem discovers the earth's core. He set the stage for the work of another scientist to revolutionize our understanding of what was happening inside of the earth. It was then, when they figured out that earth has an inner and outer core. 4) My birth stone is amethyst. According to old legend amethyst is supposed to make the wearer calm and in control of his various emotional levels. It is also a purple gem stone as you can see in this image below. 5) 1827 Baltimore & Ohio became the first US chartered for commercial transportation of freight and passangers. Investors hoped that a railroad would allow Baltimore, the second largest city in the US at that time, to succesfully compete with New York for western trade. New Yorkers were profiting from easy access, the Erie Canal.    6) In 1935 Du Pont scientist Wallace Carothers invents nylon. 7) In 1940 basketball is televised for the first time. 9) In 1958 a school bus in Floyd county, Kentucky, hits a wrecker truck. The bus plunges down an embankment and into the rainswollen Levisa Fork River. The driver and the 26 children die in the worst school bus accident in US history.