TODAY’s HOLY MACKEREL: 1948 - Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham Alabama for trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"
MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
It’s much too hard to look for May flowers with our continued high winds and today, our very cool temperatures. Any color is being ruined by the overnight lows in the twenties.
I had my second swelling attack in a week, so I guess it’s back to Allegra, which keeps them at one a month. This is getting to be a real pain, as even though the meds do slow it down and seem to stop major swelling, I basically lose the day. It is difficult to eat, drink water, and sometimes it makes me sleepy.
The damage in the south from all those tornadoes is freaky. One of the many amazing things is how no one is talking about cutting government spending. Every report has Americans happy that the Feds are on the way. It is good that our government is able to help at this great time of need.
So Will and Kate didn’t want toasters, blenders, and other typical household wedding gifts. They instead published a list of charities they support and asked that people donate to them. Very cool. I saw today that even some of the charity leaders were invited guests to the wedding. The times they are a changin’.
Hopefully tomorrow will be less windy and I will get to spend some time outside without being blown around. I ran a few errands today, and it was not pleasant to be outside. The wind chill dropped our temp about 10° throughout the day. When I did go out, the thermometer said 45° but the wind chill made it 37°.
Sadly, Libya is starting to sound a lot like Iraq. Today, one of Gaddafi’s sons and three of his grandkids were killed by NATO bombings. Such a tragedy. Sounds like the same thing that happened in Iraq.
Trivia Quiz […answers at bottom…] New Source!
Which state is called the Treasure State?
What is the postal abbreviation for Texas?
Which Joe was nicknamed the Yankee Clipper?
William Henry Gates III amassed his fortune from which source?
In Peter Pan, what sort of animal was Nana?
In basketball, where do the Supersonics come from?
Which state is called the Pine Tree State?
What is the postal abbreviation for Pennsylvania?
What is California's state capital?
What is Ohio's largest city?
CLOSEUP PICTURE: Can you identify this close up picture?
Hmmmm…
~Number of check-cashing shops currently operating in San Francisco: 141
~Number by which this EXCEEDS combined number of Starbucks and McDonald’s franchises: 42
FIRST TIME…NEW
Ivan IV (the Terrible) 1547 --- 1st Tsar of Russia.
Queen Mary I (Bloody Mary) 1553 --- 1st reigning queen of England.
Anne Bradstreet 1650 --- 1st published American woman writer. The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America
Ann Franklin 1762 --- 1st woman to hold the title of newspaper editor, "The Newport Mercury" in Newport, RI
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION…
~The cat's clavicle, or collarbone, does not connect with other bones but is buried in the muscles of the shoulder region. This lack of a functioning collarbone allows them to fit through any opening the size of their head.
~A cat sees about six times better than a human at night, and needs 1/6 the amount of of light that a human does - it has a layer of extra reflecting cells which absorb light.
~If a cat is frightened, the hair stands up fairly evenly all over the body; when the cat is threatened or is ready to attack, the hair stands up only in a narrow band along the spine and tail.
UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM:
SANDOWN, England - A British pub singer said he is facing a racial harassment charge for singing the disco tune "Kung Fu Fighting" with a pair of Chinese people in the bar. Simon Ledger, 34, said he was singing the Carl Douglas tune Sunday at the Driftwood Beach Bar in Sandown, England, and noticed a man of Chinese origin and his mother gesturing toward him and taking cell phone pictures, The Daily Telegraph reported Wednesday. Ledger, who said he regularly performs the Grammy-winning 1974 disco tune, said he received a call from police later while he was dining at a Chinese restaurant asking to meet with him about the incident. The singer said he was questioned and placed under arrest on a racial harassment charge.
A LITTLE LAUGH:
When a customer left his cell phone in my store, I scrolled through his saved numbers, stopped at "Mom" and pushed send.
His mother answered, and I told her what happened.
"Don't worry," she said, "I'll take care of it."
A few minutes later, the cell phone rang. It was "Mom."
"Martin," she said, "you left your cell phone at the convenience store."
FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’:
♫ Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ♫
1986 Inductee: Phil and Don transformed the Appalachian folk, bluegrass and country sounds of their Kentucky boyhood into a richly harmonized form of rock and roll. The sons of entertainers Margaret and Ike Everly, a traveling country and western team, the Everly Brothers performed as part of the family act on radio and in concert. On their own, they sang beguilingly of adolescent romance in crisp, shimmering voices…MORE INFO http://rockhall.com/inductees/the-everly-brothers/bio/
Click on Song Title to see and hear it.
DAYBOOK INFORMATION
«THIS MONTH
ALS Awareness Month ► (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease) ► APS ( Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome) Awareness Month ►Arthritis Awareness Month ► Better Hearing & Speech Month ►Borderline Personality Disorder Month ►Brain Tumor Awareness Month ►Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month ► Healthy Vision Month ► Huntington's Disease Awareness Month ► Heal the Children Month ►Awareness of Medical Orphans Month ► ► Lupus Awareness Month ► Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection & Prevention Month ► National Allergy/Asthma Awareness Month ►Family Wellness Month ► National Hepatitis Awareness Month ► Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month (aka NF Month) ►( World) Lyme Disease Awareness Month ►National Meditation Month ►National Mental Health Month ► National Physiotherapy Month ► National Osteoporosis Prevention Month ► National Stroke Awareness Month ► Skin Cancer Awareness Month ► Strike Out Strokes Month ► Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month ► Women's Health Care Month ►
Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month ►Haitian Heritage Month ► International Civility Awareness Month ►Jewish-American Heritage Month
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«THIS WEEK
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Bread Pudding Recipe Exchange Week
Be Kind To Animals Week
National Correctional Officer's Week
Children's Mental Health Week
Drinking Water Week
Flexible Work Arrangement Week
Goodwill Industries Week
Kids Win Week
National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week
National Family Week
National Hug Holiday Week
National Pet Week
North American Occupational Safety & Health Week
Update Your References Week
«TODAY IS
Amtrak Day
Executive Coaching Day
Free Comic Book Day
Keep Kids Alive! Drive 25 Day
Law Day
Lei Day
Loyalty Day
May Day
Mother Goose Day
Motorcycle Mass & Blessing of The Bikes Day
National Dance Day
National Infertility Survival Day
New Homeowner's Day
Save The Rhino Day
School Principals' Day
Silver Star Day
Stepmother's Day
World Laughter Day
Italy--Festival of Saint Efisio
Russia--International Labor Day
Israel--Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Day)
Most of the World--Labor Day
Today’s Events:
… ARTS
1939 - Batman comics hit street
1950 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific)
1961 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1979 - Elton John becomes 1st pop star to perform in Israel
… ATHLETICS
1926 - Brooklyn Dodgers & Boston Braves deadlock at 1-1 in 26 innings
1940 - The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1960 - Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
… BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1841 - 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri for CA
1883 - "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
1884 - Construction begins on Chicago 1st skyscraper (10 stories)
1884 - Proclamation of the demand for eight-hour workday in the United States
1927 - 1st British airliner to serve cooked meals (Imperial Airways)
1935 - Boulder Dam completed
1941 - General Mills introduces Cheerios
1952 - Mr Potato Head, introduced
1994 - Charles Kuralt, retires as CBS newsman (On the Road)
… INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1637 - After numerous incidents, and incursions on both sides, English settlers in Connecticut declare war on the Pequot Indians. Most of the fighting take places in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
1833 - A census of the Creek upper towns shows 14,142 people, including 445 Negro slaves.
… INTERNATINOAL POLITICS
1889 - 1st International Workers Day
1960 - Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
1997 - Tasmania becomes the last state in Australia to decriminalize homosexuality
2004 - Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia join the European Union, celebrated at the residence of the Irish President in Dublin.
2009 - Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden
… SCIENCE & RELIGION
1889 - Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1919 - Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
1949 - Gerard Kuiper discovers Nereid, (2nd satellite of Neptune)
1963 - 1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest
… US POLITICS
1866 - American Equal Rights Association forms
1873 - 1st US postal card issued
2010 - Car bomb fails to go off in Times Square, New York City
… ARTISTS: AUTHORS: COMPOSERS…
1924 - Terry Southern American novelist and screenwriter
…ATHLETES
Chuck Bednarik, Football Hall of Famer, turns 86
Curtis Martin, Football player, turns 38
1915 - Archie Williams, American athlete
…BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1909 - Ethel Jane Cain, original UK Speaking Clock voice
1830 - Mother (Mary Harris) Jones, US reformer and labor organizer
…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)
Dann Florek, Actor ("Law and Order: SVU"), turns 60
Judy Collins, Folk singer, turns 72
Rita Coolidge, Singer, turns 66
1916 - Glenn Ford, Quebec Canada, actor
1918 - Jack Paar, Canton Ohio, American television host of the Jack Paar Show
Ray Parker Jr., R&B singer, turns 57
1907 - Kate Smith, American singer
…POLITICIANS
1852 - Calamity [Martha] Jane [Burke], frontier adventurer/Indian fighter
1738 - King Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii
1912 - Winthrop Rockefeller American philanthropist and governor of Arkansas
…SCIENCE & RELIGION
Scott Carpenter, Former astronaut, turns 86
1839 - Chardonnet, inventor (rayon)
Today’s Obits:
1997 - Bebe, AKA Flipper, dolphin, dies at 40
1998 - Eldridge Cleaver, American activist dies of prostate cancer/diabetes at 63
1902 - John Glover, English chemist (production sulfuric acid), dies at 85
1539 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany during childbirth at 35
1965 - Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show), dies of emphysema at 53
1873 - David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), dies of malaria at 60
ANSWERS:
Trivia Quiz
Which state is called the Treasure State?
Montana
What is the postal abbreviation for Texas?
TX
Which Joe was nicknamed the Yankee Clipper?
DiMaggio
William Henry Gates III amassed his fortune from which source?
Computer Software
In Peter Pan, what sort of animal was Nana?
Dog
In basketball, where do the Supersonics come from?
Seattle
Which state is called the Pine Tree State?
Maine
What is the postal abbreviation for Pennsylvania?
PA
What is California's state capital?
Sacramento
What is Ohio's largest city?
Columbus
Close Up Picture
…AND THAT’S ALL FOR NOW
