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Friday, February 22, 2013
<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/drink-national-margarita-day-article-1.1270806" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="" />New York Daily News</a>
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:02/22/2013,cd_max:02/22/2013&q=National+Margarita+Day" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">National Margarita Day</a>
100,000+ searches<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/life-style/eats/drink-national-margarita-day-article-1.1270806" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Drink up! It's National Margarita Day</a>New York Daily NewsGet ready to celebrate a holiday you (probably) didn't know existed: National Margarita Day. “America loves margaritas. It's the number-one-selling cocktail in the country,” said Kyle Ford, a New York City-based mixologist and brand ambassador for ...
<a href="http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2013/02/22/%C2%A1it%E2%80%99s-national-margarita-day/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">¡It's National Margarita Day!</a>San Francisco Chronicle (blog)Not that you really need a reason, but today is National Margarita Day. The origins of this holiday stretch back to ancient times when — just kidding, it's a marketing ploy from the big tequila, lime and cheesy-plastic-cup triad. Or something. Anyway ...
<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/23/ken_taylor_former_canadian_ambassador_still_feels_slighted_by_argo.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><img src="" alt="" />Slate Magazine (blog)</a>
<a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:02/22/2013,cd_max:02/22/2013&q=argo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Argo</a>
50,000+ searches<a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2013/02/23/ken_taylor_former_canadian_ambassador_still_feels_slighted_by_argo.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Canada's Former Ambassador Feels Slighted by Argo</a>Slate Magazine (blog)The criticism of the film in Canada isn't new, but it seems to have grown now that Argo is widely expected to win the Academy Award for best picture, which coincides with the release of the DVD version of the film, points out the New York Times. “In ...
<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/canada-ambassador-feels-slighted-argo-18571834" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ex-Canada Ambassador Slighted by Affleck's "Argo"</a>ABC NewsThe Canadian former ambassador to Iran who protected Americans at great personal risk during the 1979 Iran hostage crisis says it will reflect poorly on Ben Affleck if he doesn't say a few words about Canada's role if the director's film "Argo" wins ...
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<a href="http://www.google.com/search?tbs=cdr:1,cd_min:02/22/2013,cd_max:02/22/2013&q=el+chapo+guzman" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">El Chapo Guzman</a>
50,000+ searches<a href="http://abcnews.go.com/ABC_Univision/ABC_Univision/mexican-drug-lord-el-chapo-guzman-killed/story?id=18570440" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How Mexican Drug Lord 'El Chapo' Guzmán Was Killed, and Then Wasn't</a>ABC NewsIt seems that Mexican drug boss Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzmán is alive and well, and probably laughing at those thousands of Twitter users, as well as some government officials, who suggested on Thursday that he was dead. The rumors of his demise started ...
<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/el-chapo-guzman-not-killed-in-guatemala-2013-2" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reports That Mexican Drug Kingpin Died In Shootout Almost Certainly False</a>Business InsiderTwitter has been roiling after a Guatemala official told reporters Thursday that one of two victims of a gunfight looked like the infamous Mexica
</embed> MyWikiBiz February 22 in history:
- 1980: A young and inexperienced U.S. hockey team upset the powerhouse Soviet Union at the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, N.Y.
- 2002: Jonas Savimbi, the Angolan resistance and rebel leader whose efforts to seize control of his country kept Angola in a state of civil war for 27 years, was killed by government troops.
- 1987: Pop-art icon Andy Warhol died in New York City following surgery.
- 1889: President Grover Cleveland signed into the law the Omnibus Bill, dividing the Dakota Territory into North Dakota and South Dakota.
- 1819: John Quincy Adams and Luis de Onís signed the Adams-Onís treaty, whereby Spain ceded Florida to the United States; the treaty, which also ended the so-called West Florida Controversy, went into force on Feb. 22, 1821.
- 1512: The Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci, the first to describe the Western Hemisphere as a previously unknown continent rather than as a part of Asia and whose name was given to the New World, died.