5-16-15

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Almanac: Week: 20 \ Day: 136
May Averages: 68°\35°  Winter Storm Advisory
86004 Today: H 40°\L 33° Average Sky Cover: 95% 
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  22mph
Ave. High: ° Record High:  ° () Ave. Low: ° Record Low:  ° ()
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Observances Today:

Armed Forces Day       National Piercing Day
Biographer's Day                     National Sea Monkey Day
Do Dah Day- Dog and Animal Festival 
Love a Tree Day                      Preakness
Mimosa Day                Wear Purple for Peace Day
National Learn To Swim Day
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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

16-22  National Safe Boating Week                   National Heritage Breeds Week     
EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week          National Stationery Week 
National Dog Bite Prevention Week                  National New Friends, Old Friends Week
National Medical Transcription Week  

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1760 - Creek warrior Chief Hobbythacco (Handsome Fellow) has often supported
 the English, but, at the outbreak of the Cherokee war, he decides to support
 the Cherokees.
1817 - Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1861 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
1866
- US Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime)

1868 - By one vote, US Senate fails to impeach President Andrew Johnson
1891 - George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam
1903 - 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at SF (George Wymann)
1910 - US Bureau of Mines forms
1914 - American Horseshoe Pitchers Association organizes in Kansas City
1939 - Food stamps are 1st issued
1944 - The Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corporation of Tucson advertised that
 its B-24 Liberator planes carried many tons of aircraft parts and supplies
 that were urgently needed by American airmen based halfway around the
 world
1946 - Musical "Annie Get Your Gun" starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC
1965 -  Campbell Soup Company introduces SpaghettiOs under Franco-American
1966 - Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is released
1985 - Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
1991 - Queen Elizabeth II becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
2013 - Bill Gates becomes the world's richest man with $72.7 billion again
 after losing the position in 2008
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Today’s World Events through History
1527 - Florence becomes a republic
1532 - Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord Chancellor
1568 - Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England
1792 - Denmark abolishes slave trade
1911 - Remains of a neanderthal man found on Jersey, Channel Islands
1920 - Joan of Arc (Jeanne D'arc) canonized a saint
1936 - 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley) flight to France
1948 - Israel issues its 1st postage stamps
2007 - Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of Scotland. He is the first Scottish
 National Party leader to be elected as First Minister after winning a historic
 victory at the Scottish general election on the 3rd May.
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Crazy weather day here. As one posted on FB…Attention: Mother Nature was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She is off her meds. Anyone spotting her should notify Father time…
Woke up to rain and snow. Then some wind. Then more snow, sunshine, rain, snow, fog or clouds or something coming off the pavement as the wind blew and the rain fell. Still raining and/or snowing.  Winter storm advisory announced this afternoon. It IS the middle of May. Just stayed home, shaking my head every time I looked outside.
So  the Boston Bomber will be executed…sometime. I am not a proponent of the death penalty. Never have been. Had I been on the jury, he would have gotten life without parole. Somehow, upon his death, I believe he will become yet another martyr to show how violent the US really is.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I have no voice, yet I speak to you;
I tell of all things in the world that people do.
I have leaves, but I am not a tree.
I have a spine and hinges, but I am not a man or a door; I have told you all, I cannot tell you more.
What am I?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Body Facts…
There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.

Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your food begin to eat you.

…Cat Facts…
A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.

The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.

…Cool Facts…
Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, called kids at hospitals to chat with them in character.

There's a pizza company in Alaska called 'Airport Pizza' that delivers for free by plane. Pizzas cost $30 each, any time of year.

In 2001, the island country of Niue featured Pikachu and other Pokemon on their currency.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
At last Saturday’s Kite Flight, Judges Frank B. Quirk, H. K. Magnum and George Hanly really took a hand in demonstrating skilled kite flying and judging flights. They said they wished there had been more participation. Jose Nunez won “First Kite in The Air” and fourth-grader Louis Sanchez won “Best All Round Kite with a Bridle.

From The Golden State to The Empire State, only TWA flies over the Painted Desert, the Grand Canyon and the Boulder Dam. Call TWA at the Winslow Airport. Flights to New York $127.25; to San Francisco $46.65; to Chicago $77.30.

Mayor Pilcher announced that Flagstaff will have a portion of the gasoline tax gained here returned from the state next year. An increase in property taxes will also be required for the much-needed repair our streets.

90 acres north of Fort Tuthill and 50 acres on the west side of Oak Creek Canyon have been planted with young ponderosa pines from the nursery at Leroux Springs.

The area north of Fort Tuthill has been previously planted and then burned again accidentally. Roland Rotty, Director of the Forest Service.

…Harper’s Index…
-25--Average percentage change in the rate of painkiller-overdose deaths two years after a state legalizes medical marijuana

…Revisited History…
The patent for the first fax machine was filed in 1843, the same time period of America's westward expansion.

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Dogs who bark continuously can get laryngitis, just like humans, but not as quickly. Canine vocal cords are thicker and take longer to get irritated.
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2 jokes for the day
A tourist stopped a local in a village he was visiting and asked; "What is the quickest way to the lake?
The local thought for a while. "Are you walking or driving?" he asked the tourist. "I'm driving."
"That is the quickest way!" the local said.

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A little girl was in church with her mother when she started feeling ill. "Mommy," she said, "can we leave now?"
"No," her mother replied.
"Well, I think I have to throw up!"
"Then go out the front door and around to the back of the church and throw up behind a bush." After about 60 seconds the little girl returned to her seat.
"Did you throw up?" Mom asked.
"Yes."
"How could you have gone all the way to the back of the church and returned so quickly?"
"I didn't have to go out of the church, Mommy. They have a box next to the front door that says, 'For the Sick.'           

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Yep, It Really Happened
Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies arrested a 50-year-old woman, charging her with robbing three Brandon banks in a span of 30 minutes earlier in the day.
The spree started at 3:19 p.m. and ended at 3:43 p.m., deputies said. Cindy Carabeo was charged with three counts of armed robbery. 
Deputies said a female robber first entered the BB&T bank and handed a written note to a teller saying she had a firearm and wanted cash. She was given an undisclosed amount of money before fleeing the building.
Sixteen minutes later, the same robber walked into the Wells Fargo bank and repeated the same tactic. She was given an undisclosed amount of cash and fled.
Eight minutes after that, the same woman entered the Florida Central Credit Union and again handed the note to the teller saying she was armed and wanted money. Again, she walked out of the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Soon afterward, sheriff's detectives pieced together enough information to identify the getaway car's tag number and found it to be registered to Carabeo. Deputies converged on her apartment and arrested her as she drove into the complex.
The funny part is that if she had quit after two banks she probably would have gotten away with it.       

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Somewhat Useless Information
In Australia in the late 1940s, manic depression was the first mental illness to be successfully treated with lithium. In Scandinavia in the 1950s, Dr. Morgens Schou pursued the same course of treatment with beneficial results.

The first recorded case of dream-induced amnesia occurred in 2004. After a man dreamed that his son had been killed, he woke up screaming and lost all memory of the previous day.

In the 1600s, mental patients were a tourist attraction in London at Hospital of St. Mary. Anyone who paid a penny could observe and taunt the "lunatics" for their own amusement.

In 1375, the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London became one of the first mental hospitals to take in "lunatics." The asylum was so chaotic that Bethlem became the origin of the word "bedlam."

Medical care of the mentally ill became more humane after the publication of Darwin's Origin of the Species in 1859, when people realized that insanity was hereditary. Previously, it had been seen as demonic possession, loss of a soul, weakness of character, or a feminine trait.

The disorder known as Alice-in-Wonderland Syndrome causes body-image distortion, making people feel they are extremely tiny or gigantic.

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Birthday’s Today
71 - Danny Trejo, American actor (Machete)
62 - Pierce Brosnan, County Meath Ireland, actor (Remington Steele, Golden Eye)
58 - Joan Benoit Samuelson, Cape Elizabeth ME, marathoner (Oly-gold-1984)
49 - Janet Jackson, singer, Michael's sister (Control)
46 - David Boreanaz, actor (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
28 - Megan Fox, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, American actress (Transformers)\model
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Remembered for being born today
Studs Terkel, author/host (Stud's Place, Working) 1912-2008@96 
Edward T. Hall, American anthropologist and author 1914-2009@95 
Frank F Mankiewicz, columnist (Perfectly Clear) 1924-2014@90
Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten) 1804-1894@89 
Ernest Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school) 1866-1966@80 
Henry Fonda, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond) 1905-1982@77
Woody Herman, jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer 1913-1987@74 
William H. Seward, Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre 1801-1872@71 
- [Wladziu Valentino] Liberace, pianist (Liberace Show) 1919-1987@67
Billy Martin, baseball 2nd baseman/manager (Yankees, A's) 1928-1989@61 
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Historical Obits Today
Saint Brendan, Irish navigator-583@93
Levi P. Morton, Vice President under Benjamin Harrision-1920@96
Bernard Waber, American children's book author-2013@91
Frances Benjamin Johnston, early American female photographer-1952@88
Margaret Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz)-1985@82
Irwin Shaw, US writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), cancer-1984@71
Sammy Davis Jr, singer/actor (Golden Boy), cancer-1990@64
Eliot Ness, American federal agent-1957@54
Jim Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), infection-1990@53
Lean Bear (Awoninahku), Cheyenne chief, murdered by soldiers-1864@51
Max Brand, [Frederick Schiller Faust], western author-1944@51
James Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), heart attack-1955@45
Kay Baxter, best bodybuilder in the world (1983-85), car crash-1988@42
Andy Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), cancer-1984@35
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Brain Teasers Answers
A Book.
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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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