May 22


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Todays  Historical  Highlights
18031st public library opens (Connecticut)
1807Former VP Aaron Burr is tried for treason in Richmond Va (acquitted)
18431st wagon train, 1000+ depart Independence Missouri for Oregon
1856Violence in Senate, SC rep Brooks used a cane on Mass Sen Sumner
1931Canned rattlesnake meat 1st goes on sale in Florida
1933Loch Ness Monster is 1st reportedly sighted by John Mackay
1953President Eisenhower signs Offshore Oil Bill
1957South Africa government approves race separation in universities
1964LBJ presents "Great Society"
1973: President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-1973: President Nixon confesses his role in Watergate cover-up

Happy Birthday To:  

 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Another great weather day in Flag; just a little hazy from the fires down south. Thankfully the fire lines have held at just over 39,000 acres. There was little wind in the fire area and while the humidity is still very low, the lines held and a couple of the fires are now 35% contained. No great winds expected until late in the week, so hopefully the dedicated crews will get a much better handle on the fires.

My brother is having knee surgery this week. It is a simple cartilage removal he has done before. The difference this time is that he has passed the magic age (60) where everything seems to change. A few years ago, he went in the day of the surgery, they took his blood pressure, his temperature, and did the surgery. Today he spent 3 hours in pre-op with an EKG, X-ray of his lungs, and the BP. I was happy to tell him that I too had the pre-op stuff when I had my thyroid operation last year. At the time, I thought it was a little over the top for a day surgery but accepted it. With the same thing happening to my brother, I realized that this is part of why medical costs are so friggin’ high. As we get old-er the medical profession gets more paranoid, so they seem to be over testing to avoid lawsuits. In my case, I was asleep during the operation, but my brother will be awake, only slightly sedated.  As I told my brother, it’s a way to reach your deductible quickly.

Game   Center   (answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up picture of what?

NPR Sunday Puzzle
Name something that belongs in the category that begins with each of the following letters: C, H, A, M and P. For example, given "girls' names," you might say Carol, Henrietta, Alice, Mary and Penelope. (Many other answers may apply)1.      US Presidents: Coolidge,
2.     Things seen in a church:
3.     Shakespearean plays:
4.     6 letter words that start and end with the same letter:
Riddle of the day
As I went across the bridge, I met a man with a load of wood which was neither straight nor crooked. What kind of wood was it?
Anagram: unscramblenumbers represent the number of letters in each answer word

Lifestyle  Substance     
Harper’s Index         
Rank that the 396,906 deportees of 2011 in the Agency’s history: 1
Found on You Tube 
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
Two Musicians’ in a major symphonic orchestra were discussing who they thought the LEAST talented musician in the band was.
One of them said; that’s easy. See that guy standing in the back? Well, we just put two sticks in his hands and we call him a Drummer.
The other responded; well, if we take one stick away, we call him a Conductor!
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
A quart jar will hold 1,000 crickets.
Yeah, It Really Happened
Star Wars is the most successful movie-related toy line ever sold, with 250 million action figures sold between 1978 and 1986. Imagine those numbers since the digitally re-mastered re-release, new trilogy and Clone Wars cartoon series!Han Solo's ship in the Star Wars trilogy, The Millennium Falcon, was inspired by a hamburger with an olive on the side.             
Somewhat Useless Information   
Russia -- A man who had to be cut from a garbage chute in the Russian city of Tyumen told emergency workers he was hiding from his girlfriend. The 32-year-old man said he was on the eighth floor of his building when he decided to disappear. He went into free fall before getting wedged in at the fifth-floor level of the garbage chute."A witness reported to the regional rescue service that there was a man in the chute," said a spokeswoman for Emergency Response Services.
For AZ centennial celebration: town names
  • Cameron, AZ:  (Navajo: Naʼníʼá Hasání). population was 885; a total area of 18.7 square miles (48.5 km2); The racial makeup of the CDP was 94.68% Native American, 1.74% White, 0.10%Black or African American, 0.10% Asian, 0.82% from other races, and 2.56% from two or more races. 4.09% of the population is Hispanic or Latino of any race
  • Carefree, AZ: a master-planned community; a town in Maricopa County, Arizona; population of the town is 3,799; The racial makeup of the town was 98.39% White, 0.24% Black or African American, 0.03% Native American, 0.44% Asian, 0.34% from other races, and 0.55% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race is 2.66% of the population.
  • Chino Valley, AZ: "Chino" is the Spanish name for the abundant curly grama grass growing in the area; site of the first Territorial Capital of Arizona; population of the town is 10,817; a town in Yavapai County, Arizona; The racial makeup of the town was 94.07% White, 0.23% Black or African American, 0.94% Native American, 0.15% Asian, 0.08% Pacific Islander, 2.59% from other races, and 1.94% from two or more races. 9.78% of the population is Hispanic or Latino of any race.
  • Crown King, AZ: site of a former gold mining town; the population of the 133; an unincorporated community in Yavapai County that is threatened by one of the fires in AZ

Calendar Information        
…Happening This Week:
19-25
National Safe Boating Week
21-27
Recreational Water Illness and Injury Prevention Week
National Medical Transcription Week
National Backyard Games Week
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories Old-Time Player Piano Week

Today Is                                                                      
Buy-A-Musical-Instrument Day
International Day for Biological Diversity
National Maritime Day since 1933

Canada: Canadian Immigrants' Day
Sri Lanka: National Heroes Day
US: Rhode Island: Neighbor Day
Yemen: National Day
1918 from Ottoman Empire


Todays Other Events                                                             
1300’s
1370Jews are expelled/massacred from Brussels Belgium
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1500’s
15701st atlas, with 70 maps, published
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1700’s
17611st life insurance policy in US, issued in Philadelphia
1800’s
1807: Townsend Speakman 1st sells fruit-flavored carbonated drinks (Phila)
1840The transporting of British convicts to the New South Wales colony is abolished
1849Abraham Lincoln patents a buoying device
1851: As one of the last conflicts in the "Mariposa Indian Wars" in California, a large group of Yosemite Indians are captured at Lake Tenaija.
1863: As a part of the "Owens Valley War" in California, Paiute Chief Captain George arrives at Camp Independence. He tells the soldiers the Paiutes want peace. This effectively ends the war.
1897The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames was officially opened
1900’s
1915: Lassen Peak erupts with a powerful force, and is the only mountain, other than Mount St. Helens, to erupt in the continental US during the 20th century
1938Dodgers announce contracts to install lights at Ebbets Field
1941British troops attack Baghdad
1947: 1st US ballistic missile fired
1954: Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan is Bar Mitzvahed
1961: 1st revolving restaurant (Top Of The Needle in Seattle), opens
1967"Mister Rogers' Neighborhood," debuts on NET (now PBS)
1990: Microsoft releases Windows 3.0
1992: Johnny Carson's final appearance as host of Tonight Show
2000’s
2004: The U.S. town of Hallam, Nebraska, is wiped out by a powerful F4 tornado that broke a width record at an astounding 2.5 miles wide. It also kills one local resident
2011: An EF5 Tornado strikes the US city of Joplin, Missouri killing at least 158 people, the single deadliest US tornado since modern record keeping began in 1950

Todays Birthdays                                                           
Remembered for being born on this Day
Mary Cassatt, US, Impressionist painter (Woman Bathing) in 1844
Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish author, physician brought Sherlock Holmes to life twice in 1859
Thomas Gold, astronomer (proposed steady-state theory of universe) in 1920
Quinn Martin, American television producer in 1922
Laurence Olivier, England, actor (Rebecca, Hamlet, Jazz Singer)in 1907
Vance Packard, Granville Summit Pa, author (Hidden Persuaders) in 1914
Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer (RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES , Flying Dutchman) in 1813
In their 80’s
T Boone Pickens, CEO (Shamrock, Mesa Petroleum Co) is 84
In their 70’s
Richard Benjamin,  director/actor (Goodbye Columbus, He & She) is 74
Theodore Kaczynski, American terrorist (Unabomber) is 70
Peter Nero ( Bernard Nierow) NYC, conductor/pianist (A Sunday in NY)is 78
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In their 40’s
Naomi Campbell, model/actress (Cool as Ice, Unzipped) is 42

Todays Obits                                                           
Joan Davis, actress (I Married Joan), dies of heart attack in 1961 at 53
Rocky Graziano, boxer/writer/actor (Mr Rock & Roll), dies in 1990 of heart failure at 71
Victor(-Marie) Hugo, French writer (Les Miserables), dies in 1885 at 83
Margaret Rutherford, English actress (Murder Ahoy, VIP's), dies in 1972 at 80

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day
Sawdust
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.      US Presidents: Coolidge, Hoover, Adams, Madison, Pearce
2.     Things seen in a church: Cross, Holy water , Aisle, Missile, Priest
3.     Shakespearean plays: Comedy of Errors, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra, Macbeth , Pericles-- Prince of Tyre
4.     6 letter words that start and end with the same letter: : Cognac , Hurrah , Asthma, Museum , Pick Up (truck)
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All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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