5-11-15

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Almanac: Week: 20 \ Day: 131
May Averages: 68°\35°
86004 Today: H 65°\L 32° Average Sky Cover: 75% 
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  17mph
Ave. High: 66° Record High:  86° (1996) Ave. Low: 33° Record Low:  16° (1933)
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Observances Today:

Donate a Day's Wages to Charity Day
Eat What You Want Day
Fibromyalgia and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day
Hostess Cupcake Day
National Nightshift Workers Day
National Receptionists Day
National School Nurse Day
National Third Shift Workers Day
National Women's Check-up Day
Root Canal Appreciation Day
Twilight Zone Day
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Admission Day (Minnesota)-1858-32nd state
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Observances This Week:
6-12 National Nurses Day and Week     

10-16 American Craft Beer Week   National Transportation Week

Food Allergy Awareness Week               National Women's Health Week
National Bike to Work Week                   Neuropathy Awareness Week

National Hospital Week                Reading is Fun Week 
National Etiquette Week               Salute to Moms 35+ Week

National Nursing Home Week                 Salvation Army Week
National Police Week                            Universal Family Week

National Return To Work Week               Work At Home Moms Week
National Stuttering Awareness Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1751 - 1st hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital) in the 13 Colonies in America
1752
 - 1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)

1792 - Columbia River discovered & named by US Capt Robert Gray
1816 - American Bible Society forms (NY)
1904 - Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace
1910 - Montana's Glacier National Park forms
1924 - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)
1929 - 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)
1940 - NY World's Fair reopens
1942 - William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, published
1947 - BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio)
1953 - Winston Churchill criticizes Sec of State John Foster Dulles' domino theory
1960 –1st contraceptive pill is made available on the market
1965 - Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument
1967 - 100,000,000th US phone connected
1974 - "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield hits #7
1987 - 1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)
1988 - Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis 500 lap (221.565 mph)
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Today’s World Events through History
   330 - Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes capital of Roman Empire
1812 - Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Some observers consider
  it disgusting & immoral.
1949 - By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th member of UN
1949 - Siam renames itself Thailand
1960 - Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in Buenos Aires
1965 - Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000
1981 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" (based on TS Eliot)
  premieres in London
1989 - Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to preserve its elephant herds
1995 - More than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation
  Treaty indefinitely and without conditions
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Clouds with no rain…oh well.
Last night’s discussion group was very well done. We discussed the accomplishments and failures of Obama’s administration. Interesting how many of his plans that would probably have worked well were blocked by Congress…and usually through non-action rather than votes. I once worked for a ‘dreamer’ boss…one who was always putting out new ideas. My job was to make those ideas workable for the betterment of the school. So many in Congress seem to see their job to prevent ideas from working rather than helping them work. So sad.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
There are so many words. If you take the letters found in the word VALENTINES, using the clues below, can you figure out the words that can be made?

1. A number between 8 and 10
2. A person owned by another person
3. An indigenous person
4. To express anger, or a heating duct opening
5. A person who stands watch and/or is watching
6. Necessary to existence or well-being of something
7. A type of beverage served in a pub
8. Agreeably tolerant or permissive
9. Lacking noise
10. Foreign Language
11. Goes away, or items that fall from trees and need raking
12. Opposite of odd

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cat Facts…
Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming themselves as they do through urination!

Cat families usually play best in even numbers. Cats and kittens should be acquired in pairs whenever possible!

…Cool Facts…
In Norway, owners of electric cars enjoy free public parking, free ferry trips, and the right to drive in bus lanes.

There's a Japanese artist and designer who makes wedding rings embedded with the the sound waves for "I do".

In Tokyo, there’s a self-proclaimed superhero who goes by the name Mangetsu Man. Keeping his identity secret, he wears a purple bodysuit with a large yellow smiley head. His self-described mission is to keep the city trash-free.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
A crew from Taylor and Taylor Engineering is working on a preliminary survey for the pipe line to Lake Mary.

At the Orpheum. The “Swing with the Syncopating Sirens” all-girl band will supply a torrid musical background for Harry Berry and his “Sunkist Vanities” stage attraction. 10 vaudeville acts are included.

Richfield Oil Co. has launched a new and perfected gasoline with one of the most spectacular ad campaigns ever created.

The second half of your 1939 real estate tax is due by 5 p.m. on Monday. After that you will be subject to a 10 percent late charge W. E. Jolly, County Treasurer.

…Harper’s Index…
46-Percentage increase in requests by world governments for Twitter user data since the beginning of this year

61-Percentage of all requests that have come from the U.S. government

3/4- Portion of U.S. government requests with which Twitter complies

…100 People…
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
77 people would have a place to shelter themfrom the wind and the rain
23 would not

…Revisited History…
Oxford was officially founded in 1249, whereas Tenochtitlán was built in 1325, marking the accepted beginning of the Aztec civilization. 

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
About half the known geysers on Earth are located in Yellowstone National Park.
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2 jokes for the day
A girl walks into a supermarket and asks the clerk, "Can I have a turkey for my grandma?"
The clerk responds, "Sorry. We don't do exchanges."
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For all of you with teenagers or who had teenagers, you may want to know why they really have a lot in common with cats: 

1. Neither teenagers nor cats turn their heads when you call them by name. 

2. No matter what you do for them, it is not enough. Indeed, all humane efforts are barely adequate to compensate for the privilege of waiting on them hand and foot. 

3. You rarely see a cat walking outside of the house with an adult human being, and it can be safely said that no teenager in his or her right mind wants to be seen in public with his or her parents. 

4. Cats and teenagers can lie on the living-room sofa for hours on end without moving, barely breathing. 

5. Cats have nine lives. Teenagers carry on as if they did.     

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Yep, It Really Happened
OMAHA (UPI) - A Nebraska woman filed a seven-page handwritten court brief detailing her lawsuit against all homosexuals on behalf of "God" and "his son, Jesus Christ." Sylvia Driskell, 66, of Auburn, filed a federal lawsuit Friday in Omaha asking for a federal judge to rule on whether or not homosexuality is a sin. Driskell's seven-page court brief, which is entirely handwritten, describes the woman as an "ambassador for plaintiffs God, and his son, Jesus Christ." The defendants listed in the lawsuit are "homosexuals," noting the group uses the "alis [alias], gay." The brief cites several Bible verses and argues "that homosexuality is a sin and that they the homosexuals know it is a sin to live a life of homosexuality. Why else would they have been hiding in the closet." Driskell cited the Biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as evidence of God's distaste for "immoral behavior." "I never thought that I would see a day in which our great nation or our own great state of Nebraska would become so compliant to the complicity of some peoples lewd behavior," Diskell wrote. "Why are judges passing laws, so sinners can break religious and moral laws. Will all the judges of this nation, judge God to be a lier [liar]." Driskell is representing herself in the lawsuit.        
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Somewhat Useless Information
Leonardo Da Vinci said “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.” just before dying

When Russell Brand and Katy Perry divorced, Russell was eligible to claim half of the $44 million she earned during their marriage, but declined, according to slickamericans.com

The creator of the Sims had the idea for the game while rebuilding his life after a fire, according to en.wikipedia.org.
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Birthday’s Today
87 - Brother Andrew, Dutch missionary
35 - Matthew Lawrence, Phila, actor (Dynasty, Matthew-Brotherly Love)
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Remembered for being born today
Irving Berlin, [Isadore Balin], composer (White Xmas) 1888-1989@101 
Foster Brooks, comedian/actor (Miles-Mork & Mindy) 1912-2001@89 
William Glasser, psychiatrist (reality therapy, choice theory) 1925-2013@88
William Carey, philanthropist(W.P. Carey & Co. LLC) 1930-2012@81
Salvador Dali, Figueras Spain, surrealist artist (Crucifixion) 1904-1989@84
Margaret Rutherford, England, actress (Murder Most Foul) 1892-1970@80 
Denver Pyle, Bethune Colo, actor (Dukes of Hazzard) 1920-1997@77
Phil Silvers, Brooklyn, comedian (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show) 1912-1985@74
Charles Warren Fairbanks, (R) 26th US VP 1852-1918@66 
Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese Siamese twins 1811-1874@62 
Ira Aldridge, 19th c African American Shakespearian actor 1807-1867@60 
Doug McClure, Glendale California, actor (Virginian, Roots) 1935-1995@59 
Natasha Richardson, actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale) 1963-2009@45
Cory Monteith, Canadian actor and musician (Glee) 1982-2013@31
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Historical Obits Today
Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic & Span), 1992@98
Henry Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order)-1927@90
Edward H Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization)-1935@77
Floyd Patterson, American boxer, cancer-2006@71
Lex Barker, American actor (Tarzan), heart attack-1973@54
Bob Marley, reggae singer, brain & lung cancer-1981@36
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. NINE
2. SLAVE
3. NATIVE
4. VENT
5. SENTINEL
6. VITAL
7. ALE
8. LENIENT
9. SILENT
10. LATIN
11. LEAVES
12. EVEN

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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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