May 28--Memorial Day

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1742: 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)

1830: Congress authorizes Indian removal from all states to western prairie

1892: Sierra Club forms by John Muir in SF, for conservation of nature

1934: Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy

1937: Golden Gate Bridge in SF opens to vehicular traffic

1952: The women of Greece are given the right to vote

1963: Estimated 22,000 die in another cyclone in Bay of Bengal (India)

1972: White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Natl HQ at Watergate

1982: Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain

2002: NATO declares Russia a limited partner in the Western alliance

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Free Rambling Thoughts   

At last the winds have calmed down. The temperatures were a lot lower than hoped for, but not that bad. It was quiet around our housing area so it was nice to be outside part of the day.  A nice quiet weekend is always welcome.

I am shocked by the number of returning warriors who are in need of serious mental health treatment. War is horrible. I have to wonder if some of the problems come from a volunteer military. Many youngsters entering the military see themselves as ‘indestructible’. When they discover that neither they nor their comrades in arms are; they must ask themselves why the volunteered for this duty. People who are drafted always have the escape that they had no choice. A classmate from high school served in Viet Nam. He is still asking himself why he lived as many of his fellow soldiers died in front of him. It looks like he will never get an answer. He was drafted. Of course times have changed and those entering the military today are very different than those of Viet Nam. I have no answers, but hope that today’s soldiers will heal and become productive members of our society.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game—A close up picture of what?

NPR Sunday Puzzle: Separated by A

Clues are given for two short words. Combine the words and add the letter A in between them and you'll get the answer to a third clue. For example, given "a sudden wind" plus "a British conservative," you'll get "gust" and "Tory." If you combine the words with an "A" between them you'll get the answer to the next clue, "pertaining to taste" — "gustatory."

1.      Large +A+ light fog=a man with two wives:

2.     An event for Cinderella+A+a buck or doe=a singer of romantic songs:

3.     A friend+A+a piece of furniture=tasty:

4.     Another word for friend+A+a bothersome person=capital of Hungry:

5.     obvious+A+a monarch- surpassing:

6.     a male turkey+A+a bird of prey=an Indian weapon:

7.     part of a boxing match+A+a boxing match=circuitous:

8.     a sum of money set aside for a specific purpose+A+a mind reader=a person who believes in a literal interpretation of the Bible:

What is the word or phrase?

D  B#1

N  B#2

A  B#3

T  B#4

S  B#5

3x3 Word Boxes

The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 3 letters.

1.    good place to hold wild animals at
2.   without further
3.   yonder, for short

Lifestyle  Substance     

Summer Songs of the 1960’s

• The Twist, Chubby Checker 1960 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (1 week)
• Yesterday, The Beatles 1965 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (4 weeks)
• I Want To Hold Your Hand, The Beatles 1964 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (7 weeks)
• The House Of The Rising Sun, The Animals  1964 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (3 weeks)

Harper’s Index         

Estimated number of stray dogs killed in Ukraine in preparation for the Euro 2012 soccer tournament: 27,000

Found on You Tube 

Obama's Memorial Day Remembrance       

Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day

Wife: “There’s trouble with the car. It has water in the carburetor.”
Husband: “Water in the carburetor? That’s ridiculous.”
Wife: “I tell you the car has water in the carburetor.”
Husband: “You don’t even know what a carburetor is. Where’s the car?”
Wife: “In the swimming pool.”

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

If your turds float, there's too much fat in your diet.

Yeah, It Really Happened

HAMLIN, Germany - Officials in Hamlin, the German hometown of the Pied Piper, said modern-day rats have taken revenge on the city by chewing through a cable powering a fountain. Thomas Wahmes, spokesman for the Hamlin town council, said the rats gnawed through an electric cable powering the fountain near the city's transport station, The Local.de reported Thursday. Wahmes told the newspaper Suddeutsche Zeitung the rats were likely attracted to the area by food people have scattered for birds near the fountain.
The Brothers Grimm tale tells the story of how the Pied Piper used his music to lead all of the rats out of the city in 1284 and took the town's children when residents refused to pay. The city still employs an official rat catcher, but his position is mostly ceremonial and is more focused on piping than pest removal, The Local.de said.                 

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Inert matter does not enter chemical reactions.

• Liquids have a definite volume but no definite shape. Because the intermolecular forces are weak in a liquid, it is able to change its shape to conform to its container.

• The temperature at which a gas becomes a liquid is its condensation point.

• Hess's Law states that the amount of heat needed to change one substance to another depends on the substances and not on the reactions involved.

For AZ centennial celebration: town names

• Jerome, AZ
: a town in Yavapai County, the population is 353, area is 0.7 sq mi (1.8 km2). The presence of silver and copper has been known in the area around what is now Jerome since the Spanish colonial era when Arizona was part of New Spain, named for Eugene Murray Jerome, a New York investor who owned the mineral rights and financed mining there but he never visited the town, is a tourist destination, with many abandoned and refurbished buildings from its boom town days

• Joseph City, AZ
: an unincorporated community located in Navajo County,  the population is 1,386, settled in 1876 by colonists from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, finally names in 1923 to honor Joseph Smith, site of the Jack Rabbit Trading Post, a famous Route 66 landmark

Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

27-6/2

Hurricane Preparedness Week

Black Single Parents Week

Today Is                                                                      

International Jazz Day

Memorial Day

formerly Decoration Day:

began following Civil War, Gen Logan giving his official proclamation in 1868 when flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery;

it is not important who was the very first, what is important is that Memorial Day was established. Memorial Day is not about division. It is about reconciliation;

it is about coming together to honor those who gave their all; the first state to officially recognize the holiday was New York in 1873; by 1890 it was recognized by all of the northern states;

the South refused to acknowledge the day, honoring their dead on separate days until after World War I (when the holiday changed from honoring just those who died fighting in the Civil War to honoring Americans who died fighting in any war);

the "National Moment of Remembrance" resolution was passed on Dec 2000 which asks that at 3 p.m. local time, for all Americans "To voluntarily and informally observe in their own way a Moment of remembrance and respect, pausing from whatever they are doing for a moment of silence or listening to 'Taps."

Memorial Day Prayer for Peace

National Hamburger Day

Sierra Club Day Slugs Return From Capistrano Day

Azerbaijan: Day of the Republic (1918)
Ethiopia: National Day (Commemorates the end of the Derg junta in 1991)

Today’s Other Events                                                             

Before 1000CE

585 BC: A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce

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1500’s

1533: England's archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn's marriage

1539: Hernando de Soto lands in Florida

1600’s

1664: 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston)

1700’s

1774: 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)

1800’s

1830: Andrew Jackson, called "Sharp Knife" by the Indians, has long fought the Indians of the southeast. He believes that the Indians and white settlers will not be able to peacefully live together. His solution to this is to renege on all of the previous treaties, which granted the Indians their lands forever, and to move all Indians west of the Mississippi River

1851: One in a series of treaties is signed with California Indians at Dent's and Ventine's Crossings. The purpose of the treaty is to reserve lands for the Indians and to protect them from angry Europeans

1900’s

1923: Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere

1929: 1st all color talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)

1930: The Chrysler Building in New York City officially opens

1961: Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)

1962: Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel premieres on CBS

1968: AL announces it is splitting into 2 divisions

1970: The formerly united Free University of Brussels officially splits into two separate entities, the French-speaking Université Libre de Bruxelles and the Dutch-speaking Vrije Universiteit Brussel

1978: Al Unser became 5th to win Indianapolis 500, 3 times

1991: Ethiopian rebels seize Addis Ababa

2000’s

2004: The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, to become prime minister of Iraq's interim government

2008: The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Remembered for being born on this day

Louis Agassiz, Switzerland, naturalist/geologist/teacher (peak in Flagstaff named for him) in 1807

George I, King of England (1714-27) in 1660

Thomas Moore, Ireland's National Bard in 1779

Xin Qiji, Chinese poet in 1140

Gary Stewart, Latcher County Ky, country singer (She's Actin' Single)in 1945

James Francis Thorpe, Shawnee OK, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1912) in 1887

T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done) in 1910

In their 80’s

Carroll Baker, actress (Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow) is 81

In their 70’s

Jerry West, W Virginia, NBA superstar (LA Lakers, Olympic-gold-1960) is 74

In their 60’s

John Fogerty, Berkeley Cal, rock vocals (Creedence Clearwater Revival is 67

Rudy Giuliani, (Mayor-R/L-NYC) is 68

Gladys Knight,  singer, leader of Pips (Last Train) is 68

Today’s Obits                                                            

Anne Bronte, novelist, dies of TB in 1849 at 29

Gary Coleman, American actor dies of hematoma in 2010 in 42

Edward VIII, abdicating King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies in 1972 at 77

Sidney Greenbaum, grammarian, dies in 1996 at 66

Audie Murphy, actor (Whispering Smiths), WWI hero, dies in plane carsh in 1971 at 46

Roy Roberts, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), dies of heart attack in 1975 at 75

Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary), dies in 1843 at 84

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game: Close Up Picture

What is the word or phrase?

Stand up and be counted

NPR Sunday Puzzle

1.      Large +A+ light fog=a man with two wives: bigamist
2.     An event for Cinderella+A+a buck or doe=a singer of romantic songs: balladeer
3.     A friend+A+a piece of furniture=tasty: palatable
4.     Another word for friend+A+a bothersome person=capital of Hungry: Budapest
5.     obvious+A+a monarch- surpassing: overtaking
6.     a male turkey+A+a bird of prey=an Indian weapon: tomahawk
7.     part of a boxing match+A+a boxing match=circuitous: roundabout
8.     a sum of money set aside for a specific purpose+A+a mind reader=a person who believes in a literal interpretation of the Bible: fundamentalist

3x3 boxes

BAY

ADO

YON

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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