5-1-15

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Almanac: Week: 18 \ Day: 121
May Averages: 68° \35°
86004 Today: H 79°\L 36° Average Sky Cover: 45% 
Wind ave:   7mph\Gusts:  25mph
Ave. High: 63° Record High:  80° (1947) Ave. Low: 32° Record Low:  17° (1972)
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Observances Today:
Executive Coaching Day             National Purebred Dog Day
Labor Day (Most of the World)    New Homeowner's Day
Law Day                                   Save the Rhino Day
Lei Day -1928                                     School Principals' Day
Loyalty Day                                       Silver Star Day
Mariachi Day May Day              Space Day
Mother Goose Day                      Stepmother's Day
National Bubba Day                            Tuba Day
National Dance Day                   Yom Hashoah (Israel - Holocaust Day
National Infertility Survival Day
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Observances This Week:
1-3 Toad Suck Daze
1-7 Choose Privacy Week

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Observances This Month:
ALS Awareness Month  (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gehrig's Disease) 
American Wetlands Month                 APS Awareness Month 
Arthritis Awareness Month                Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Asthma Awareness Month                 Awareness of Medical Orphans Month


Better Hearing & Speech Month        Borderline Personality Disorder Month 
Brain Tumor Awareness Month         Building Safety Month  
Celiac Awareness Month                   Chip Your Pet Month 
Clean Air Month                       Creative Beginnings Month
Cystic Fibrosis Awareness Month 


Drum Month 


EcoDriving Month                             EDS (Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome) Awareness Month 


Family Wellness Month                     Fibromyalgia Education and Awareness Month
Freedom Shrine Month 

Gardening for Wildlife Month            Get Caught Reading Month
Gifts From The Garden Month           Global Civility Awareness Month
Global Health and Fitness Month               

Go Fetch! Food Drive for Homeless Animals Month
Golf Month 


Haitian Heritage Month                      Heal the Children Month
Healthy Vision Month                        Home Schooling Awareness Month
Huntington's Disease Awareness Month


International Audit Month                   International Business Image Improvement Month
International Civility Awareness Month  International Mediterranean Diet Month
International Victorious Woman Month


Jewish-American Heritage Month


Latino Books Month                          Lupus Awareness Month 


Maytag Month                                   Motorcycle Safety Month 
Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection & Prevention Month



National Allergy/Asthma Awareness Month          National Barbeque Month
National Better Hearing Month                             National Bike Month 
National Egg Month                                    National Foster Care Month 
National Good Car Keeping Month                       National Guide Dog Month 
National Hamburger Month                                   National Hepatitis Awareness Month
National High Blood Pressure Education Month  National Inventors Month 
Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month (aka NF Month) 
National Meditation Month                                   National Mediterranean Diet Month 
National Mental Health Month                    National Military Appreciation Month 
National Moving Month                               National Pet Month
National Osteoporosis Prevention Month             National Photo Month
National Physical Fitness & Sports Month           National Physiotherapy Month 
National Preservation Month                      National Salad Month
National Salsa Month (the food)                          

National Service Dog Eye Examination Month  
National Smile Month                                 National Stroke Awareness Month
National Sweet Vidalia Onions Month                  National Toddler Immunization Month 
National Tuberous Sclerosis Month            National Water Safety Month 
National Vinegar Month                               National Youth Traffic Safety Month 
Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month 


Older Americans Month


Personal History Month                              Pet Cancer Awareness Month 
Prader-Willi Syndrome Awareness Month             Preeclampsia Awareness Month 
Prepare Tomorrow's Parents Month 


React Month                                                         Revise Your Work Schedule Month


Social Security Education Awareness Month       Skin Cancer Awareness Month  
Spiritual Literacy Month                              Strike Out Strokes Month


Teen CEO Month                                         Tennis Month
Tay-Sachs and Canavan Diseases Month             Tourettes Syndrome Awareness Month 

Ultra-violet Awareness Month

Women's Health Care Month                      (World) Lyme Disease Awareness Month 

Young Achievers of Tomorrow Month
Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1704 - Boston Newsletter publishes 1st newspaper advertisement
1785 - Kamehameha, the king of Hawaiʻi defeats Kalanikupule and establishes
  the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi
1841 - 1st emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri, for California
1863 - Confederate "National Flag" replaces "Stars & Bars"
1880 - John P. Clum printed the first issue of the Tombstone Epitaph in a tent.
1883 - "Buffalo Bill" Cody put on his 1st Wild West Show
1886 - US general strike for 8-hour working day begins
1893 - World Columbian Exposition opens in Chicago
1931 - Empire State Building opens in NYC
1939 - Batman comics hit street
1939 - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
1941 - General Mills introduces Cheerios1944 - Pulitzer prize awarded to American Martin Flavin for his novel
  "Journey in the Dark"
1948 - Glenn Taylor, Idaho Senator, arrested in Birmingham, Alabama, for
  trying to enter a meeting through a door marked "for Negroes"
1950 - Gwendolyn Brooks is 1st African American awarded Pulitzer Prize for poetry
1950 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Rodgers & Hammerstein (South Pacific)
1952 - Mr Potato Head introduced
1960 - Pancho Gonzalez retires from tennis
1960 - Russia shoots down Francis Gary Powers' U-2 spy plane over Sverdlovsk
1961 - 1st US airplane hijacked to Cuba
1961 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Harper Lee (To Kill a Mockingbird)
1963 - 1st American (James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest
1964 - 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth)
1967 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Bernard Malamud (Fixer)
1971 - Amtrak Railroad begins operation
1972 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Wallace Stegner (Angle of Repose)
1981 - Tennis player Billie Jean King acknowledges a lesbian relationship
  with Marilyn Barnett - becoming first prominent sportswoman to come out
2006 - The Puerto Rican government closes the Department of Education
  and 42 other government agencies due to significant shortages in cash flow.
2013 - A digital camera is created that can mimic insect compound eyes
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Today’s World Events through History
1006 - Supernova observed by Chinese & Egyptians in constellation Lupus
1328 - Wars of Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton –
  the Kingdom of England recognizes the Kingdom of Scotland as an
  independent state.
1707 - England, Wales & Scotland form United Kingdom of Great Britain
1776 - Adam Weishaupt founds secret society of Illuminati
1883 - Amsterdam World's Fair opens
1889 - Bayer introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1908 - World's most intense shower (2.47" in 3 minutes) at Portobelo, Panama

1919 - Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through
              crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages
1940 - The 1940 Olympics are cancelled
1948 - North Korea proclaims itself People's Democratic Republic of Korea

1986 - Russian news agency Tass reports Chernobyl nuclear power plant mishap
1988 - Two IRA attacks in and near Roermond, Netherlands, kills 3 British
              servicemen and wounds 3 more
1997 - Tony Blair elected Prime Minister of UK
2009 - Same-sex marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2014 - Hundreds march through Nigerian capital calling for the release of
              Schoolgirl’s abducted by Islamic militants, Boko Haram, who oppose
              Western education
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 
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My Rambling Thoughts
Wow…summer has arrived. Almost 80° today with little wind.
Had a good lunch and conversation with Mary and Cheryl. Great Mexican food at our favorite Mexican place. We all had a good week.
Can’t believe it is almost May. Wow, time flies.
Sure hope the upcoming weekend has peace in all the major cities. I keep wondering if a citizen was involved in an incident that ended with a death if the citizen would be allowed to walk free without ever being arrested and released on bond. That is not how it is on TV.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
BARD
BARN
BARE

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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***NEW***…Cat Facts…
Katy Perry has a cat named Kitty Purry.

In 1964, in Holland's embassy in Moscow, two Siamese cats kept meowing and clawing at the walls of the building. Their owners finally investigated, thinking they would find mice. Instead, they discovered microphones hidden by Russian spies.

…Cool Facts…
There's a type of strawberry in Japan that is completely white, inside and out, with red seeds.

Taiwan became the first country in the world to offer free Wi-Fi connectivity to its citizens and all its foreign tourists.

After noticing the wind rustling and turning the leaves on trees, French entrepreneur Jérôme Michaud-Larivière designed wind turbine trees that could provide clean energy for urban settings.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
The intermittent waterfall in Purtyman Canyon is flowing rapidly with all the snowmelt. This rare event has been running for an unusual 10 days now and can be seen from the Encinosa Picnic Grounds.
The City Council has voted to install seat belts in all of the city vehicles at a cost of $4.40 each for trucks and $1.15 per passenger car to be installed by the Firestone Store.
Skiing is excellent at Bill Williams on 12 inches of packed and new snow. The Snow Bowl has 80 to 100 inches on the upper slopes and night skiing is available Friday and Saturday from 5 to 10 p.m.
~ Another unexpected foot-deep snow shower snarled the morning traffic.

…Harper’s Index…
2750--Year by which South Koreans will be “extinct” given current fertility rates, according to government demographers

…Linguistic Facts…
Of the 7.2 billion people on earth, nearly 2/3 speak one of these 12 languages:
Chinese- 1.4 billion             Hindi-Urdu-588 M               English 527M
Arabic 467M                         Spanish 389M                       Bengali 250M
Russian 245M                       Portuguese 193M                 German 132M
Japanese 123M                     French 118M                        Italian 67M
…Murphy’s Real Laws…
18.    Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool. 

19.    It is hard to understand how a cemetery can raise its burial costs and blame it on the higher cost of living.


…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Philip Morris once ran an ad acknowledging “smokers’ cough.” They claimed it was caused by smoking brands other than Philip Morris.
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2 jokes for the day
A rancher asked his veterinarian for some free advice. "I have a horse that walks normally sometimes, and sometimes he limps. What shall I do?" 
The Vet replied, "The next time he walks normally, sell him."

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A driver is pulled over by a policeman and the policeman approaches the driver’s door. 
"Is there a problem, Officer?" 
The policeman says, "Sir, you were speeding. Can I see your license please?" 
The driver responds, "I'd give it to you but I don't have one." 
"You don't have one?" 
The man responds, "I lost it four times for drunk driving." 
The policeman is shocked. "I see. Can I see your vehicle registration papers please?" 
"I'm sorry, I can't do that." 
The policeman says, "Why not?" 
"I stole this car." 
The officer says, "Stole it?" 
The man says, "Yes, and I killed the owner." 
At this point the officer is getting irate. "You what?" 
"She's in the trunk if you'd like to see." 
The Officer looks at the man and slowly backs away to his car and calls for back up. Within minutes, five police cars show up, surrounding the car. A senior officer slowly approaches the car, clasping his half-drawn gun. 
The senior officer says, "Sir, could you step out of your vehicle please!" 
The man steps out of his vehicle. "Is there a problem, sir?" 
"One of my officers told me that you have stolen this car and murdered the owner." 
"Murdered the owner?" 
The officer responds, "Yes, could you please open the trunk of your car please?" 
The man opens the trunk, revealing nothing. 
The officer says, "Is this your car sir?" 
The man says, "Yes" and hands over the registration papers. 
The officer, understandably, is quite stunned. "One of my officers claims that you do not have a driving license." 
The man digs in his pocket revealing a wallet and hands it to the officer. The officer opens the wallet and examines the license. He looks quite puzzled. "Thank you, sir. One of my officers told me you didn't have a license, stole this car, and murdered the owner." 
The man replies, "I bet you the liar told you I was speeding, too!"  

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Yep, It Really Happened
MILAN, Italy (UPI) - The latest museum to dump knowledge on Italy is the Museo Della Merda, a facility dedicated to the study of human and animal feces. The Museo Della Merda, which roughly translates to "Museum of Poop," although the intended wording is somewhat more profane, describes itself as an "agency for change" that "houses documents and information on excrement in culture, technology and history." The poo-seum aims to show "what a useful and living substance crap really is." Headquartered in the Piacenza province hamlet of Castelbosco, it held a launch event Monday at the Leonardo da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology in Milan. The exhibit tracks the history of excrement and seeks to educate visitors on the ways poo is put to good use around the world. "Few phenomena are so rich in material and conceptual complexity as the cultural history of [excrement]," the museum said. The museum was founded by Gianantonio Locatelli, a Castelbosco farmer who wanted to put the 220,000 pounds of excrement created by his animals each day to good use. Museum tours can be arranged for Saturdays and Sundays between May and August.         
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Somewhat Useless Information
The game show The Price Is Right debuted in 1956, hosted by Bill Cullen. Drew Carey has been the host of The Price Is Right since 2007.
In 1972 the daytime game show became The New Price Is Right, hosted by Bob Barker. During his tenure, Bob Barker only missed one tape day of The Price Is Right's daytime version. It was in the mid-1970's.
When Bob Barker was the host, every person who attended a taping received a postcard with Bob Barker's picture on it. The printed text on the back told your friends to watch you on the show. You wrote in the airdate and dropped it in the mailbox outside in the lobby of Studio 33. The Price Is Right paid the postage!
You are eligible to be a contestant if you are 18 years of age or older and have not been on The Price Is Right in over 10 years (or any other game show within the past year). The show tapes in Los Angeles, California.
Cars get shown more often during the course of a game than other prizes do because the show gets paid a flat fee every time the car appears on viewers' screens.
The original Showcase Showdown wheel was spun "sideways" rather than "forward" and there was no $1000 bonus, nor a bonus spin.

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Birthday’s Today
86 - Sonny James, [James Loden], Hackelburg AL, rocker (Young Love)
76 - Judy Collins, singer (Send in the Clowns, Clouds)
70 - Rita Coolidge, Nashville Tn, singer (Higher & Higher, We're All Alone)
69 - John Woo, Hong Kong director
61 - Ray Parker Jr, rock guitarist/vocalist (Ghostbusters)
48 - Tim McGraw, American musician
46 - Wes Anderson, American director and writer
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Remembered for being born today
Louis Nye, American comedian and actor 1913-2005@92
Glenn Ford, Quebec Canada, actor (Cade's County) 1916-2006@90 
- Malcolm Scott Carpenter, Boulder, astronaut (Mercury 7) 1925-2013@88
Jack Paar, television host of the Jack Paar Show 1918 -2004@85
Dan O'Herlihy, Ireland, actor (Fail Safe, Last Starfighter, Robocop) 1919-2005@85
- Kate Smith, American singer 1907-1986@79
Joseph Heller, Brooklyn, novelist (Catch-22) 1923-1999@76 
Calamity Jane [Martha Jane Canary], frontierswoman 1852-1903@51
Max Robinson, broadcast journalist (ABC Evening News) 1939-1988@49
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Historical Obits Today
David Livingstone Steve Reeves, American actor, blood clot-2000@74
Eldridge Cleaver, American activist, cancer-1998@62
Antonín Dvorak, Czech composer (Slavic Dancing), influenza-1904@ 62
David Livingstone, British physician/explorer (Africa), malaria-1873@60
Spike Jones, composer (Spike Jones Show), emphysema1965@53
Paul Joseph Goebbels, German Nazi Minister of Propoganda, suicide with his wife and arranges the death of his 6 children-1945@47
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Brain Teasers Answers
end up behind bars
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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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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