5-18-15

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Almanac: Week: 21 \ Day: 138
May Averages: 68°\35°
86004 Today: H 68°\L 35° Average Sky Cover: 15% 
Wind ave:   mph\Gusts:  mph
Ave. High: ° Record High:  82° (1970) Ave. Low: ° Record Low:  21° (1977)
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Observances Today:
Accountant's Day or Accounting Day
HIV Vaccine Awareness Day
I Love Reeses Day
International Museum Day
Mother Whistler Day
No Dirty Dishes Day
Turn Beauty Inside Out Day
Visit Your Relatives Day
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Observances This Week:
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  

17-25  International Coaching Week                 National Backyard Games Week 
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week                   National Educational Bosses' Week

World Trade Week
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1631 - John Winthrop is elected 1st Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1652 - Rhode Island enacts 1st law declaring slavery illegal
1846 - US troops attack Rio Grande occupying Matamoros
1852 - Massachusetts rules all school-age children must attend school
1860 - Republican Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president
1896 - US Supreme court affirms race separation (Plessy v Ferguson)
1912 - Acts of the first Arizona Legislature provided for establishment and
 maintenance of a general and uniform public school system and provided
 free textbooks for public schools
1917 - US passes Selective Service act
1926 - Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in Venice California
 She showed up a month later & said she had been kidnapped
1934 - Academy Award 1st called Oscar in print (Sidney Skolsky)
1934 - Congress approves "Lindbergh Act" making kidnapping a capital offense
1934 - TWA began commercial service
1951 - UN moves HQ to NYC
1953 - 1st woman to break sound barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
1964 - Supreme Court rules unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens
 of citizenship if they return to home country for more than 3 years
1965 - Gene Roddenberry suggests 16 names including Kirk for Star Trek Capt
1967 - Tennessee Governor Ellington approves the repeal of the Butler Act
 or "Monkey Law", upheld in 1925 Scopes Trial
1983 - Senate revises immigration laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal
 status under an amnesty program
1992 - Supreme Court rules states could not force mentally unstable criminal
 defendants to take anti-psychotic drugs
1998 - United States v. Microsoft: The United States Department of Justice
 and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case against Microsoft
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Today’s World Events through History
1096 - Crusaders massacre Jews of Worms
1291 - Sultan of Egypt & his son take last Christian stronghold of Acre
1593 - Playwright Thomas Kyd's accusations of heresy lead to an arrest
 warrant for Christopher Marlowe
1642 - Montreal, Canada, founded
1765 - Fire destroys a large part of Montreal, Quebec
1830 - Edwin Budding of England signs an agreement for manufacture
 of his invention, lawn mower
1843 - United Free Church of Scotland forms
1897 - Irish Music Festival 1st held (Dublin)
1897 - Dracula, a novel by Irish author Bram Stoker is published
1899 - World Goodwill Day-26 nations meet in 1st Hague Peace Conference
1952 - Professor WF Libby said Stonehedge dates back to 1848 BC
1974 - India becomes 6th nation to explode an atomic bomb
1986 - South African army occupies Botswana, Zimbabwe & Zambia
2014 - Swiss voters reject a $25 per hour minimum wage
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Finally a nice spring day in our little mountain town. Nice to be able to be outside with no jacket and no fear of getting soaked. Sunshine reigns.
Cleaned off the deck. Got rid of the pine needles and the uneaten bird seed. Ready for a great week.  Tomorrow I get my eye checked after the laser procedure. This stuff is driving me crazy. My distant vision is better without my glasses now, at least in the repaired eye. Still need the OTC reading glasses to read the newspaper. Crazy. Lots of questions for the doc tomorrow.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
My veins extend beneath the earth, 
My hands raised toward the sky, 
I can seem to live forever, 
Though many times I die. 

I cry when I am wounded, 
Sweet tears that help me heal, 
I mourn and take off all my clothes, 
When bitterness I feel. 

What am I? My veins extend beneath the earth, 
My hands raised toward the sky, 
I can seem to live forever, 
Though many times I die. 

I cry when I am wounded, 
Sweet tears that help me heal, 
I mourn and take off all my clothes, 
When bitterness I feel. 

What am I?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Body Facts…
Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.

From the nitrogen in our DNA, to the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, to the carbon in our apple pies - all were made in the interiors of collapsing stars; we're all made of stardust.

…Cool Facts…
After being in captivity for 23 years, the orca from Free Willy, Keiko, was set free in 2002. Weeks later, he appeared at a Norwegian fjord apparently seeking human contact and even gave rides to children on his back.

Ricardo Semler, a CEO in his twenties, took over a company worth $9m, fired most of the management, and gave the power to the employees. It now has a turnover of over $200m.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS Ago-1990
Fire Department Captain Paul Hellenburg is looking for reserve firefighters who will be called to supplement regular firemen when the need arises. These men will receive 240 hours of training over a period of 4 months in firefighting the same as regular fire fighters and 6 college credits.
The Babbitts are beginning to restore their historic building at 23 E. Aspen Ave. that was closed about 2 years ago. Both the east and south sides will have the aluminum siding removed. The “Snow Roof” is to go as well and work on the architectural work cornice will be done. A hydraulic chipping hammer is removing the façade from the1950s, exposing the original sandstone face.
U. S. Postal Service Night Supervisor Kevin Brandon discovered a bear cub rummaging through the postal bins Wednesday night. Game and Fish officers were called, the bear was tranquilized, caught and returned to the forest. No postage was required for this delivery.

…Harper’s Index…
$13,200,000,000--Total value of unclaimed money in NY State bank accounts

$1,700,000--Amount held in the largest currently unclaimed account

…Revisited History…
Betty White Was born in 1922, six years before Otto Frederick Rohwedder invented the machine to slice commercially sold bread. 

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
The title of the Paul Simon song "Mother and Child Reunion" came from a chicken-and-egg dish that appeared on a Chinese restaurant menu in NYC.

…Water Facts…
Roughly 70 percent of an adult’s body is made up of water.

At birth, water accounts for approximately 80 percent of an infant’s body weight.
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2 jokes for the day
A man had a nose ring fitted into his nose, a friend asked, "How much did you pay for that?"

"I paid through the nose!" he replied

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Pilot: Have you ever flown in a small plane before?
Passenger: No, I have not.
Pilot: Well, here is some chewing gum. It will help to keep your ears from popping.
Pilot (after the plane landed): Did the gum help?
Passenger: Yep. It worked fine. The only trouble is I can't get the gum out of my ears.  

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Yep, It Really Happened
CLEARWATER, Fla. (UPI) - A Florida funeral home said two employees were fired after a video posted online showed a hearse parked unattended with a veteran's body inside while the workers got coffee. Rob Carpenter, a customer at the Dunkin' Donuts store in New Port Richey, took video when he saw the hearse parked unattended in the store's parking lot with a flag-draped casket inside. Carpenter shared the video with the Veteran Warriors group on Facebook, which brought the video to the attention of Jim Rudolph, president of Clearwater-based Veterans Funeral Care. Rudolph said two employees, a driver and a licensed funeral director, were transporting the body of Lt. Col. Jesse Coleman from Clearwater to Lecanto, a nearly 90-mile distance, and they violated protocol when they went into Dunkin' Donuts to buy coffee. Rudolph said at least one employee is supposed to remain with the hearse at all times during restroom breaks, and procedure for veterans' funerals stipulates no stops are to be made at all. "When a car leaves the funeral home with a flag on it, it's on a stage... and we're in ceremony mode," Rudolph told ABC News. "Going into buy a doughnut with a flag-covered casket in your coach was a terrible lack of judgment." Rudolph said both employees were fired. He said they were remorseful about the incident. "I think if they had the ability to turn back the day, they'd do things different," Rudolph told WFTS-TV. Rudolph said he spoke with Coleman's widow, who was forgiving toward the business and said she did not want the employees to be fired. However, Rudolph said he will not reverse his decision to terminate the employees. "What could they have been thinking?" Rudolph said. "I haven't got the foggiest idea."      
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Somewhat Useless Information
LG made a tablet named “iPad” in 2001, nine years before Apple’s iPad in 2010, according to linuxgizmos.com

NASA has a list of exact space technology terms that writers can use in Science Fiction stories according to er.jsc.nasa.gov

People who are depressed perceive less visual contrast, literally causing them to see a less vivid and more grey world according to scienceblogs.com
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Birthday’s Today
93 - Bill Macy, Revere Mass, actor (Walter-Maude)
84 - Robert Morse, Newton Mass, actor (That's Life, Jack Frost)
81 - Dwayne Hickman, LA, actor (Dobie Gillis)
69 - Reggie Jackson, "Mr October" baseball right fielder (Yankees, A's)
63 - George Strait, Pearsall Tx, country singer
60 - Yun Fat Chow, Nam Nga Island Hong Kong, actor (Better Tomorrow)
45 - Tina Fey, writer/actress (Saturday Night Live)
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Remembered for being born today
Frank Capra, Ital, director (Its a Wonderful Life) 1897-1991@94 
Perry Como, [Pierino], singer/TV (Perry Como Show) 1912-2001@88
Walter Gropius, architect (Bauhaus school of design) 1883-1969@86 
John Paul II, [Karol Wojtyla], 264th Roman Catholic Pope 1920-2005@84 
Omar Khayyám, Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher 1048-1131@83 
- [Robert] Meredith Willson, composer (Music Man) 1902-1984@82 
Pernell Roberts, actor (Adam-Bonanza, Trapper John MD) 1928-2010@81
Georg von Opel, German auto manufacturer 1912-1971@59 
Nicholas II Alexandrovich, last tsar of Russia 1868-1918@50 
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Historical Obits Today
Jeannette Rankin, 1st Congresswoman and pacifist-1973@92
Steve Forrest, American actor (SWAT)-2013@87
Jerry Vale, American singer-2014@83
Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Bewitched), cancer-1995@62
Jill Ireland, actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), cancer-1990@54
Gustav Mahler, Austr composer, heat disease-1911@50
Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian Indian revolutionary, a descendant of the last Inca ruler, Túpac Amaru--Rapper Tupac Shkur took his name--in battle-1781@25
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Brain Teasers Answers
I am a Tree.
The first section refers to roots and the tree's hibernation in winter.
The second section refers to tree sap and the shedding of leaves when it gets bitter cold.

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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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