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Today’s 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?
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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: unscramble—numbers 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
Today’s 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)
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.
Today’s 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
In their 50’s
Tony Blair, British Prime
Minister (Labour, 1997-2007 ) is 59
George Clooney, actor
(Batman) is 51
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
Theodore H White,
historian/writer (Making of President) in 1915
Today’s 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
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
Answers
Brain Game: Close Up
Picture
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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
Anagrams
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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