5-15-15

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Almanac: Week: 20 \ Day: 135
May Averages: 68°\35°
86004 Today: H 63°\L 42° Average Sky Cover: 80% 
Wind ave:   13mph\Gusts:  34mph
Ave. High: 67° Record High:  81° (1937) Ave. Low: 34° Record Low:  20° (1968)
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Observances Today:
Eastern Pacific Hurricane Season                    National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day
Endangered Species Day                                  National Defense Transportation Day
Hyperemisis Gravidarum Awareness Day        National Pizza Party Day
International Day of Families                        National Tuberous Sclerosis Day
National Tuberous Sclerosis Day                    Nylon Stockings Day
International MPS Awareness Day                 O. Henry Pun-off Day
International Virtual Assistants Day             Peace Officer Memorial Day
Isra Al Mi'Raj-Muslim                         Straw Hat Day
NASCAR Day                                      UN International Day of Families
National Bike to Work Day

Hollyhock Festival (Aoi Matsuri - Japan)
San Isidoro Day (Mexico)
Independence Day (Paraguay)

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Observances This 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

15-17  Art On The Square
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1602 - Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1672 - 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
1711 - Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is published anonymously
1817 - Opening of the first private mental health hospital in the US,
  the Asylum for the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their
  Reason (now Friends Hospital) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1862 - US Department of Agriculture created
1869 - National Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York,
  founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1905 - Las Vegas Nevada founded
1911 - Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil (Sherman Antitrust Act)
1915 - AT&T becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders
1918 - 1st airmail postal service (NY, Phila & Wash DC)
1928 - Mickey Mouse made his 1st ever appearance in silent film "Plane Crazy"
1933 - 1st voice amplification system to be used in US Senate
1940 - McDonald's opens its first restaurant in San Bernardino, California.
1943 - Desert Sanatorium in Tucson closed its doors.
1963 - Peter, Paul & Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
1967 - Jo Ann Prentice wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open
1972 - Assassination attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama
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Today’s World Events through History
1525 - The battle of Frankenhausen: German peasant army surrounded,
  5,000 slaughtered ; ends the peasants' uprising
1536 - Anne Boleyn & brother George, Lord Rochford, accused of
  adultery and incest
1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patents world's 1st machine gun
1971 - Irish Republican Army member William 'Billy' Reid is shot dead
  by British soldiers in Belfast
1976 - The Ulster Volunteer Force launch gun and bomb attacks on 2 pubs
  in County Armagh, killing 4 Catholic civilians and wounding many
  more; a British Army soldier is later convicted for taking part in the attacks
1976 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army kill 3 Royal Ulster Constabulary
  (RUC) officers in County Fermanagh and 1 in County Down
2013 - The Eurozone records a recession for the sixth straight quarter
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Windy with on and off rain. The rain wasn’t due until tomorrow, but it’s normal for our little mountain town.
Good lunch with Cheryl. Mary was headed for a long weekend in Phx. If you have a Smash Burger nearby, try it…very good burgers and lots more.
TCBS had its graduation today…lots of nice pics showing up on FB of the students promotion to high school. This class was in Kindergarten when I retired. Wow-time flies. Several colleagues grandkids were promoted today.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
With a little detective work and deep thought, the following facts can make an accurate statement. Can you figure it out? 

11 is a race horse
12 is 12
1111 race 
12112
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Body Facts…
The human testicles can produce 1,500 sperm during every heartbeat.

Camping can help to reset your body clock, according to research.

…Cat Facts…
One reason that kittens sleep so much is because a growth hormone is released only during sleep.

Cats have a weak sense of taste. They have only 473 tastebuds, humans have 9,000.

The average cat sleeps about 2/3 of the day.

…Cool Facts…
Rather than using mechanical mowers, Google regularly employs a flock of 200 goats to naturally mow and fertilize the lawns.

A man named John Harrison has a job tasting ice cream. He has tasted samples of over 200 million gallons of ice cream and his taste buds are insured for $1 million.

Scientists from Edinburgh University found a way to turn peanut butter into diamonds.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
WOOD -- WOOD -- WOOD -- Two more cars of 12-inch cedar blocks will be on the tracks next week. Leave your order with Babbitt Bros. for prompt delivery straight from the railroad car.

J. W. Weatherford is having a new cement sidewalk put in along the north side of the hotel and will remove the large posts underneath the second-story porch running along the side of the building.

At the Majestic Saturday night, Anne Kellerman in “Neptune’s Daughter” 7 full reels. Children 5 cents -- Adults 25 cents

…Harper’s Index…
3/10- Portion of former NFL players expected to get dementia, according to a report prepared for the league

…Revisited History…
The last, isolated populations of mammoths survived until around 1650 BC, around 1,000 years after the building of the pyramids. 

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
A cat's ability to see well at night is due to its tapetum, a membrane that reflects visible light back through the cat's retina. It's also what causes the weird "glowing" effect in the dark.
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2 jokes for the day
I rear-ended another car this morning. I tell you, I knew right then and there that it was going to be a really bad day.

The driver got out of the other car, and wouldn't you know it! He was a dwarf!! He looked up at me and said, "I am Not Happy."

So I said, "Well, then, which one are you?"

And, that's how the fight started.
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Bob stood over his tee shot for what seemed an eternity. He waggled, looked up, looked down, waggled again, but didn't start his back swing.

Finally his exasperated partner asked, "what the hell is taking so long?"

"My wife is up there watching me from the clubhouse," Bob explained. "I want to make a perfect shot."

"Good lord!" his companion exclaimed. "You don't have a snowball's chance in hell of hitting her from here."   
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Yep, It Really Happened
SHENZHEN, China (UPI) - Forget about thrill rides. How about a shrill ride? The Window of the World theme park in China has a new attraction that some are just dying to ride. It's called Samadhi, and it's designed to give riders the sensation of being dead, cremated, and reborn. First, the visitor goes on a journey through a "morgue." Next, they are placed in a casket and put on a conveyor belt for "cremation" -- which is simulated by a sudden blast of hot air over the rider to simulate flames. The air reaches temperatures up to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. The attraction also uses flashes of light to give the rider "an authentic experience of burning." Finally, an image of a womb is projected onto the ceiling and riders must crawl until they reach a white, padded room -- where they are "reborn." Sound fun? The ride's creators went to great lengths to make the experience as accurate as possible by visiting a real crematorium and lying inside the incinerator. Window of the World is a cultural theme park instead of a regular amusement park. Other attractions featured there include replicas of France's Eiffel Tower and its Arc de Triomphe. When many riders reach the end of the experience they are said to be drenched in sweat. Whether that's a result of the heat -- or being scared to death, is uncertain.        
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Somewhat Useless Information
Saturday mail delivery in Canada was eliminated by Canada Post on February 1, 1969!

In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes!

There are 18 different animal shapes in the Animal Crackers cookie zoo!

Should there be a crash, Prince Charles and Prince William never travel on the same airplane as a precaution!

Your body is creating and killing 15 million red blood cells per second!

The king of hearts is the only king without a moustache on a standard playing card!

There are no clocks in Las Vegas gambling casinos!  

There is one slot machine in Las Vegas for every eight inhabitants!
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Birthday’s Today
78 - Trini Lopez, Trinidad, singer/guitarist (If I Had a Hammer)
75 - Lainie Kazan, Brooklyn, singer/actress (Lust in the Dust, Beaches)
71 - Miruts Yifter, Ethiopia, 5K/10K runner (Olympic-gold-1980)
60 - Lee Horsley, Muleshoe Tx, actor (Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston)
46 - Emmitt Smith, running back (Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader)
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Remembered for being born today
- Eddy Arnold, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime) 1918-2008@89 
- Joseph Cotten, Virginia, actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse) 1905-1994@88 
- Bessie Hillman, founder(Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America)1889-1970@81 
- James Mason, England, actor (Lolita) 1909-1984@75 
- Lyman Frank Baum, NY, children's book author (Wizard of Oz) 1856-1919@62 
- Pierre Curie, France, physicist (Nobel 1903) 1859-1906@46 
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Historical Obits Today
Carlos Fuentes, Mexican author-2012@83
June Carter Cash, American musician and singer, heart problems-2003@73
Jerry Falwell, American evangelist, heart attack-2007@73
Edward Flanagan, American priest\founder of Boys Town, heart attack-1948@61
Emily Dickinson, US poet, long illness-1886@55
Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player, cancer?-2009@44
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Brain Teasers Answers
11 is a race horse
12 is one too 
11 won one race 
12 won one too 
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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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