May 3


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Todays  Historical  Highlights
Pulitzer Prizes awarded today
1926 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sinclair Lewis (Arrowsmith)
1937 - Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize )Gone With the Wind)
1943 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Upton Sinclair (Dragon's Teeth)
1948 - Pulitzer prize awarded to James Michener (Tales of the South Pacific) & Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire)
1954 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Charles A Lindbergh (The Spirit of St. Louis) & John Patrick (The Teahouse of the August Moon)
1965 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Irwin Unger (Greenback Era)
1971 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Toland (Rising Sun)
1976 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Saul Bellow (Humboldt's Gift)
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1493: Today through tomorrow, the Pope divides the "new world" between the Spanish and the Portuguese
1830: 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1837: The University of Athens is founded
1919: America's 1st passenger flight (NY-Atlantic City)
1960: The Anne Frank House opens in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1971: All Things Considered premieres on 112 National Public Radio stations
1971: Nixon administration arrests 13,000 anti-war protesters in 3 days
1978: The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States
1997: Garry Kasparov begins chess match with IBM supercomputer Deep Blue
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Movie and lunch was good with our retirement group. I have to wonder about Hunger Games. It’s a chick flick with lots of blood. Strange movie from my perspective. Lunch at the Greek place was very good. I had only an appetizer, since I ate popcorn at the movie. It was beer battered French fries with feta cheese and a nice dipping sauce…spectacular. Mary had more pics of her new grandson…so cute. Next week is Cheryl’s birthday and it’s off to Williams for Bearizona and then lunch…should be a great time.

My neighbor’s theft did make the local paper today. Sure doesn’t sound very plausible when seen in print. Each lady is claiming a $300+ purse, and one had $150 sunglasses and $200 in cosmetics and the other had a $200 wallet and $80 bottle of perfume in their purse. No mention of cash, credit cards, or other valuables. Both ladies still had their car keys and cell phones as they drove off in separate cars later in the day. I’m not saying it didn’t happen, but just seems strange.

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

NPR Sunday Puzzle
Each word has 2 syllables. The first vowel sound in the first word is a long "E." Change this to a short "E," and phonetically you'll get a new word that answers the second clue. For example: if the clue is "slang term for an eye, and partner for salt," the answer would be: "peeper and pepper."
1.      Top of a room; opposite of buying:
2.     Popular polling organization; wrestling hold:
3.     Term of endearment; like gym clothes after exercising:
4.     A unit of petrol; a postal delivery:
5.     A lab container; former Tennis champ Boris:
6.     Ignoring the consequences; like the horseman in Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
7.     Lighthouse light; call to come closer:
8.     Butcher’s knife; ingenious:

Riddle of the day
Take one out and scratch my head, I am now black but once was red. What am I ?
Anagram: unscramblenumbers represent the number of letters in each answer word

Lifestyle  Substance     
Harper’s Index         
Number of states that have delayed filling judicial vacancies for budgetary reasons: 34
Found on You Tube 
Old Man Of The Mountain        
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
Little Emily was complaining to her mother that her stomach hurt. Her mother replied, “That’s because it's empty. Maybe you should try putting something in it."
The next day, the pastor was over at Emily's family's house for lunch. He mentioned having his head hurt, to which Emily immediately replied, "That's because it's empty. Maybe you should try putting something in it."

Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
The ground cushion is an invisible area near the runway where the interaction between the airplane's wing and the ground cause changes in an airplane's flight characteristics. Measured scientifically, the height of the ground cushion is about equal to the wingspan of the airplane. A pilot, however, will notice the effects at an altitude half the wingspan of the airplane.

Yeah, It Really Happened
CAPE MAY, N.J. - A New Jersey couple who noticed an unusual number of honeybees in their garden said they found a honeycomb and 30,000 of the insects in their attic crawl space. Victoria Clayton and Richard White, who live at a former bed and breakfast on Washington Street in Cape May, said they noticed many of the bees from their garden were entering their home through a third-floor laundry vent and they soon found there was a honeycomb in the attic crawl space with 30,000 honeybees tending to it, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported Monday.
The couple enlisted the help of Gary Schempp, 57, founder of insect rescue group Busy Bees NJ, to relocate the insects. Schempp said he and his assistant, John Reed, first poured some liquid smoke into the crawlspace, which caused the bees to believe the home was on fire and gorge themselves on honey until they were docile. The men then pulled out about 25 pounds of honey and nectar, which they said was unsuitable for consumption due to being polluted with dust. Schempp and Reed used a specially designed vacuum to gather up the bees and transport them back to Schempp's farm.                 

Somewhat Useless Information   
Americans consume an average of 200 pounds of meat, 31 pounds of cheese, 16 pounds of fish, and 415 pounds of veggies on an annual basis.
In the 1950s, the meat and poultry consumed per person on average was 138 lbs a year, which means that meat consumption has increased by around 45 percent over the past 60 years.

Calendar Information        
…Happening This Week:
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Bread Pudding Recipe Exchange Week
Update Your References Week

Today Is                                                                      
Lumpy Rug Day
Garden Meditation Day
National Day of Prayer
National Day of Reason
National Specially-abled Pets Day
National Teacher Day
National Two Different Colored Shoes Day
Paranormal Day Public Radio Day World Press Freedom Day
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Constitution Day (1791-Poland)
Constitution Memorial Day
(1947-Japan)
Day of the Holy Cross
(Mexico for the cross found in 344)

Todays Other Events                                                             
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1400’s
1455: Jews flee Spain
1491: Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I
1494: Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St Iago"
1500’s

1600’s
1621: Francis Bacon accused of bribery
1654: Bridge at Rowley Mass begins charging tolls for animals
1700’s
1715: Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
1765: 1st US medical college opens in Philadelphia
1800’s
1802: Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city
1806: Lewis and Clark meet Nez Perce Chief, Weahkoonut (Bighorn)
1845: Fire kills 1,600 in popular theater in Canton China
1846: Mexican army surrounds fort in Texas
1867: The Hudson's Bay Company gives up all claims to Vancouver Island
1900’s
1901: Fire destroyed 1,700 buildings in Jacksonville, Florida
1916: The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin
1952: 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1965: 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
1978: "Sun Day": solar energy events are held in US
1979: 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain (Margaret Thatcher)
1982: Pres Reagan begins 5 minute weekly radio broadcasts
1988: 4,200 kg Colombian cocaine in seized at Tarpon Springs Florida
1999: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma is slammed by an F5 tornado killing forty-two people, injuring 665, and causing $1 billion in damage.
2000’s
2000: The sport of geocaching begins, with the first cache placed and the coordinates from a GPS posted on Usenet
2001: The United States loses its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission for the first time since the commission was formed in 1947
2003: New Hampshire's famous Old Man of the Mountain collapses
2006: Zacarias Moussaoui is sentenced to life in prison in Alexandria, Virginia

Todays Birthdays                                                           
In their 90’s
Pete Seeger, NYC, folk singer (Weaver, We Shall Overcome ) is 93
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In their 70’s
Ron Popeil, American inventor (Pocket Fisherman) is 77
Frankie Valli, [Castelluccio], Newark NJ, singer (Four Seasons-Sherry) is 75
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In their 30’s
Dulé Hill, American actor (Psych) is 37
Under 30 years old
Cheryl Burke, American professional dancer (DWTS)is 28
Remembered for being born on this day
Beulah Bondi, Chicago, actress (It's a Wonderful Life) in 1892
James Brown, Barnwell, South Carolina, American soul singer ( Papa's Got a Brand New Bag, Living in America) and originator of funk music in 1933
Bing Crosby, Tacoma Wash, singer (White Christmas, Going My Way) in 1903
Niccolo Machiavelli, Florence, Italy, politician/writer (Prince) in 1469
Golda Meir, [Meyerson], Kiev Ukraine, 4th Israeli PM (1969-74) in 1898
Sugar Ray Robinson, [Walter Smith], Ailey, Georgia, middle/welterweight boxer (1946-52, 55, 58) in 1921
Dodie Smith, English novelist and playwright (101 Dalmatians)in 1896

Todays Obits                                                           
Jackie Cooper, American actor (Our Gang…)dies in 2011 at 88
Pimen, [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church, dies in 1990 at 79
Wally Schirra, American astronaut ((Mercury, Gemini and Apollo)) in 2007 at 84
John Winthrop, American astronomer and Pres. Of Harvard in 1779 at 64

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day
A Match
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.      Top of a room; opposite of buying:
a.     ceiling, selling
2.     Popular polling organization; wrestling hold:
a.     Neilson; nelson
3.     Term of endearment; like gym clothes after exercising:
a.     sweetie; sweaty
4.     A unit of petrol; a postal delivery:
a.     liter; letter
5.     A lab container; former Tennis champ Boris:
a.     beaker, Becker
6.     Ignoring the consequences; like the horseman in Legend of Sleepy Hollow:
a.     heedless; headless
7.     Lighthouse light; call to come closer:
a.     beacon, beckon
8.     Butcher’s knife; ingenious:
a.     cleaver; clever

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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
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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