May 6


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Todays  Historical  Highlights
1664 - Louis XIV of France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles
1700 - William Penn began monthly meetings for Blacks advocating emancipation
1800 - Indiana Territory organized
1822: All nonprofit government trading houses are closed on or near Indian lands. All future trading posts are commercial enterprises
1864 - Battle of Wilderness ends (total losses: USA-17,666; CSA-7,500)
1912 - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories The award is established by Joseph Pulitzer
1928 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded with around 20 employees
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Tonight our discussion group meets to discuss ‘Energy Geopolitics’. My entire adulthood, it seems, has had to deal with energy concerns. I was on the rez when the first gas prices occurred. Actually I learned up there that gasoline prices were very ‘flexible’. The local trading posts were always twenty to thirty cents higher than prices in town. Then came the gas shortage and the long lines in town and I remember only being able to buy gas by your license plate number..which really made travel to and from town a pain. Drive in on Friday night and can’t buy gas on Saturday. That was a time when it didn’t matter that much who you were…rich or poor. Now all energy prices are much harder on the poor than on the middle and upper classes. Our discussion will be about the worldwide changes in energy policy in my lifetime. Should be interesting.

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

NPR Sunday Puzzle
Given several 10-letter words, rearrange the first five letters to spell a common word and the last five letters to spell another common word. Each pair of answers is unique. For example, given "importance," the answer would be "primo" and "enact."
1.      Unsteadily: 
2.     Continuity: 
3.     Allegorist: 
4.     Patriotism:
5.     Mercantile: 
6.     Boisterous: 
7.     Decahedron:

Riddle of the day
What goes round the house and in the house but never touches the house?
Anagram: unscramblenumbers represent the number of letters in each answer word

Lifestyle  Substance     
Harper’s Index         
Amount former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf paid a lobbying firm for access to top US Lawmakers: $175,000
Found on You Tube 
Willie Mays       
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
A young man at this construction site was bragging that he could outdo anyone based on his strength. He especially made fun of one of the older workman. After several minutes, the older worker had enough.
 "Why don't you put your money where you mouth is?" he said. "I'll bet a week's wages that I can haul something in a wheelbarrow over to the other building that you won't be able to wheel back."
 "You're on, old man," the young man replied. "Let's see what you've got."
 The old man reached out and grabbed the wheelbarrow by the handles. Then nodding to the young man, he said with a smile, "All right. Get in."

Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
If the gear is too high, your legs will tire before your lungs. If the gear is too low, your lungs will tire first.
Yeah, It Really Happened
SEATTLE - A woman who went to use a Seattle Central Community College restroom says a man beat her to it -- by falling in through the ceiling.
Joy Estill said around 11 a.m. Wednesday, a man smashed through the ceiling of the restroom.
"My initial reaction was 'Do you need help?' -- I thought he was a worker," Estill told KOMO-TV, Seattle. "But then I realized he was not dressed like a worker doing labor; he was dressed like a regular person coming off the street."
Estill and other students held the man until security arrived and handcuffed him. He allegedly had a disposable camera in his hand, which led Estill to believe he was taking pictures, but police said he was hiding from officers after earlier trying to break into a locked bathroom in a fast food restaurant using a pocketknife. Police said he fled from officers at the college and climbed into the bathroom ceiling to hide, the report said.          
       
Somewhat Useless Information   
More interesting headlines:
Iraqi Head Seeks Arms
Disabled Fly to See President
Sewage Problems Rectified (can't believe that they meant to do that!)
Man Drowns Snapping Wife
Poet's Dinner Coming Up
Ship Sinks Today
Supreme Court Justice Stone Dead
Hershey Bars Change
No the great candy company wasn’t switch recipes; it was about General Hershey who was against changing the draft laws.
Would She Climb to the Top of Mr. Everest Again? Absolutely!
Organ Festival Ends in Smashing Climax
Textron Inc. Makes Offer to Screw Company Stockholders

Calendar Information        
…Happening This Week:
1-7
Bread Pudding Recipe Exchange Week
Update Your References Week
6-12
Dystonia Awareness Week
International Wildlife Film Week
Be Kind To Animals Week
Children's Mental Health Week
Choose Privacy Week
Drinking Water Week
Flexible Work Arrangement Week
Goodwill Industries Week
Kids Win Week
NAOSH Week
National Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week
National Family Week
National Hug Holiday Week
National Nurses Day and Week
National Occupational Safety & Health Day
National Pet Week
National Raisin Week
National Wildflower Week
North American Occupational Safety & Health Week
PTA Teacher Appreciation Week

Today Is                                                                      
Beverage Day
Buddha Day
International Baby Lost Mother's Day
Joseph Brackett Day honoring the Shaker religious leader, born May 6, 1797
Military Spouse Appreciation Day
Motorcycle Mass & Blessing of The Bikes Day
National Infertility Survival Day
No Diet Day
No Homework Day
Nurses Day or National RN Recognition Day
Occupational Safety & Health Day
World Laughter Day

Todays Other Events                                                             
1300’s
1355 - 1,200 Jews of Toledo Spain killed by Count Henry of Trastamara
1400’s
1429 - English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc
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1600’s
1626: The Purchase of Manhattan takes place. The Shinnecock or Canarsee Indians, according to which source you believe, sell it to Peter Minuit.
1697 - Stockholm's royal castle (dating back to medieval times) is destroyed by fire (in the 18th century, it is replaced by the current Royal Palace)
1700’s
1727 - Jews are expelled from Ukraine by Empress Catherine I of Russia
1789 - 1st inauguration ball (for George Washington in NYC)
1800’s
1824 - Beethoven's 9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna
1832 - Greece becomes independent republic
1866 - German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in assassin attempt
1888 - George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1895 - In Saint Petersburg, Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society his invention - the world's first radio receiver. In the former Soviet Union the anniversary of this day is celebrated as Radio Day. (Marconi did the same in summer of 1895)
1900’s
1904 - Flexible Flyer trademark registered
1913 - British House of Commons rejects woman's right to vote
1914 - US Congress establishes mother's day
1928 - England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1934 - World's largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
1940 - Winston Churchill becomes PM of Britain
1941 - Glenn Miller records "Chattanooga Choo Choo" for RCA
1942 - Nazi decree orders all Jewish pregnant women of Kovno Ghetto executed
1946 - William H Hastie inaugurated as 1st black governor of Virgin Islands
1952 - The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer
1956 - Pulitzer prize for Drama awarded to Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett (The Diary of Anne Frank)
1970 - "Long & Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
1992 - 5 NYC cops arrested in Hauppauge Long Island for selling cocaine
1993 - South Africa agrees to multi-racial elections
1994 - Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to beat a #1 seed (Seattle)
1998 - Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.
1999 - Kosovo War: In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20 wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
1999 - Pope John Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054
1999 - A jury finds The Jenny Jones Show and Warner Bros. liable in the shooting death of Scott Amedure, after the show purposely deceived Jonathan Schmitz to appear on a secret same-sex crush episode. Schmitz later killed Amedure and the jury awarded Amedure's family $25 million USD
2000’s
2007 - The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.

Todays Birthdays                                                           
In their 80’s
Willie Mays, Westfield Alabama, baseball centerfielder (Giants, NY Mets)is 81
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In their 60’s
Masanori Murakami, First Japanese baseball player in major leagues is 68
Bob Seger, Dearborn Mich, folk singer (Night Moves )is 67
In their 50’s
Tony Blair, British Prime Minister (Labour, 1997-2007 ) is 59
George Clooney, actor (Batman) is 51
Roma Downey, Derry Ireland, actress (Touched by an Angel ) is 52
In their 40’s
Ken Harvey, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)is 47

Remembered for being born on this day
Phebe Ann Coffin, 1st female ordained minister in New England (Quaker) in 1829
Chapin Aaron Harris, US, found America Society of Dental Surgeons in 1806
Sigmund Freud,  Austrian neurologist and father of psychology in 1856
Stewart Granger, [James Stewart], London, actor (Prisoner of Zenda) in 1913
Maximilien Robespierre, Arras Fr, French revolutionary/advocate in 1758 
Loyd Sigmon, American amateur ("ham") radio broadcaster in 1909
Orson Welles [George], actor (Citizen Kane , War of the Worlds) in 1915
Theodore H White, historian/writer (Making of President) in 1915

Todays Obits                                                           
William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies of brain tumor in 1987 at 73
Marlene Dietrich, [Maria Losch], actress (Angel), dies in 1992 at 90
Charles Farrell, actor (Vern-My Little Margie), dies in 1990 at 89
Cornelius Jansen, theologian (Jansenism), dies in 1638 at 53
Maria Montessori, Italian physician/educationist, dies in 1952 at 81
Henry David Thoreau, US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), dies of TB in 1962 at 44
Guy Williams, actor (Zorro, Lost in Space) dies of brain aneurysm in 1989 at 65

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

Riddle of the day
The sun
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.      Unsteadily: tunes; daily
2.     Continuity: tonic; unity
3.     Allegorist: legal; riots
4.     Patriotism: tapir; moist
5.     Mercantile: cream; inlet
6.     Boisterous: obits; rouse
7.     Decahedron: ached; drone
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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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