5-28-18

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Almanac: Week: 22 \ Day: 148
May Averages: 68°\35°
86004 Today: H 78°\L 40° Average Sky Cover: 70% 
Wind ave:   9mph\Gusts:  18mph
Ave. High: 72° Record High:  86° (2000) Ave. Low: 37° Record Low:  24° (1929)
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Observances Today:
Amnesty International Day
International Jazz Day
National Hamburger Day
Sierra Club Day Slugs Return From Capistrano Day
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Day of the Republic (Azerbaijan-1818 from Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic)
Julia Pierpont Day (WVa- originator of Decoration Day)
National Day (Ethiopia-1991- end of the Derg junta)
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Observances This Week:
24-30
Hurricane Preparedness Week              
National Tire Safety Week
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1774 - 1st Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
1830 - US Congress authorizes native Indian removal from all states to western prairie
1892 - Sierra Club forms by John Muir in SF, for conservation of nature
1923 - Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1928 - Dodge Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged
1953 - Premier of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
1956 - Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
1972 - White House "plumbers" break into Democratic Natlional HQ at Watergate
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Today’s World Events through History
585 BC - Solar eclipse, as predicted by Greek philosopher Thales, while Lydians under Alyattes war with the Medes under Cyaxares, leading to a truce. One of the cardinal dates from which other dates calculated.
1431 - Joan of Arc accused of relapsing back into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing justification for her execution
1644 - Bolton Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby. (English Civil War)
1742 - 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1934 - Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1961 - Amnesty Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
2008 - The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Very nice warm day with afternoon clouds.
Ran errands this morning, spent the afternoon on the deck.
IRS data breach…really?!? Never been a big fan of the IRS. I have no problem paying my fair share of taxes. When I was working, I did not have the time to keep up with all the laws and do my own taxes. Now that I’m retired, I have no desire to learn how to keep up with the tricky changing laws. So I have always paid to have my taxes done. I find it crazy that I have to pay someone to pay my fair share. For decades I couldn’t claim ‘head of household’ because I was single. Whatever…I expect the IRS to keep my records secure. Those records have all my finances since I was 17 years old. I hope lots of people go down for this, including any legislators who did not give the IRS the necessary laws and funding to prevent a computer hack. If I don’t pay my taxes, the IRS will come after me. I they let my financial records get hacked, I have no recourse. Crazy.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Each group of definitions describes three words that are spelled the same, except for one letter (each group describes a different set of words). Example: king, ring, wing. The length of the words in each group is provided.

1) a long step & a conflict or struggle & to hit sharply (6 letters)
2) medicinal ointment & a device that regulates flow through a pipe & to divide into two equal parts (5 letters)
3) not coarse & a musical instrument & a collection of papers (4 letters)
4) meager & sweet baked good & storage room for food (6 letters)

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…China Facts…
In 2012, a man wore 70 clothing items through a Chinese airport to avoid paying extra baggage charges.

Hu Xiaoyun, dumped for being poor by his ex-girlfriend seven years ago, spent $40,000 booking four entire IMAX cinemas for first-day showings of Transformers 4 - just to prove her wrong.

Yu Youzhen, a Chinese millionaire, works as a street sweeper for the sanitation department to set an example for her children.

…Cool Facts…
Mathway.com solves all kinds of math homework problems with step by step explanations.

If you place a ripe banana next to a green tomato, the tomato will ripen due to the ethylene gas produced by the banana.

In Mexico, artists can pay their taxes using artwork that they create.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO - 1940
A tent city has been established at Kayenta for the 21-day shooting of “Kit Carson” by the Edward Small Productions, Inc. for the United Artists Studio. They are expected to arrive today. Three railroad cars of equipment have already arrived. Two baggage cars of props and one horse car are expected shortly. T. A. Stahl of Santa Fe, local agent. The tent houses are complete for 200 people and are each equipped with electric lights, running water, baths and every other modern convenience. There is a full dining room with chefs and waiters all wearing spotless white. The food is excellent. Most of the filming will be done at Kayenta and at Blue Canyon.

Pilkington Motors on West Santa Fe is enlarging their door on the south side to accommodate their new lubrication and washing rack. The work is being done by Roy Hoover.

…Harper’s Index…
4 – Percentage of people in the European Union who say they plan to start their own business within the next year
-         15- Of people in the US
-         35 – in sub-Saharan Aftica

75 YEARS AGO - 1940
A tent city has been established at Kayenta for the 21-day shooting of “Kit Carson” by the Edward Small Productions, Inc. for the United Artists Studio. They are expected to arrive today. Three railroad cars of equipment have already arrived. Two baggage cars of props and one horse car are expected shortly. T. A. Stahl of Santa Fe, local agent. The tent houses are complete for 200 people and are each equipped with electric lights, running water, baths and every other modern convenience. There is a full dining room with chefs and waiters all wearing spotless white. The food is excellent. Most of the filming will be done at Kayenta and at Blue Canyon.
Pilkington Motors on West Santa Fe is enlarging their door on the south side to accommodate their new lubrication and washing rack. The work is being done by Roy Hoover.

…Revisited History…
If Earth's Entire History Was Compressed Into A Single Year, Modern Humans Would Appear On December 31st At About 11:58 PM

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
In 2004, researchers at King's College in London spent weeks examining dozens of horror movies before determining that Stanley Kubrick's The Shining was "the perfect scary film."

…Water Facts…
The average person in the United States uses anywhere from 80-100 gallons of water per day. Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of this water.

Approximately 85 percent of U.S. residents receive their water from public water facilities. The remaining 15 percent supply their own water from private wells or other sources.
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2 jokes for the day
Two eggs, a sausage, and a pancake walk into a bar.

The bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve breakfast."

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It was a disastrous year for the farmers.
The snow fell and fell until the government relief agency had to step in and lend a hand.
“It must have been terrible,” said the government man to a farmer. “All that snow.”
“Could have been worse,” calmly answered the farmer. “My neighbor had more snow than me.”
“How’s that?” asked the government man.
“More land,” replied the farmer.  

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Yep, It Really Happened
QUINCY, Ill. (UPI) - An Illinois couple nearing their 60th wedding anniversary announced they have welcomed their 100th grandchild into the family. Leo and Ruth Zanger, Quincy residents who have been married for 59 years, said baby Jaxton Zanger, born April 8, marks their 46th great-grandchild and their overall 100th grandchild. The couple said they have 12 children, 53 grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson. "We could start our own town," Leo Zanger joked to the Quincy Herald-Whig. The couple said their large family is close-knit and most of them live in the Quincy area. They said family gatherings require a rented church hall and either 50 pounds of ham or 10 whole turkeys. "We enjoy all of the family get-togethers," Leo Zanger said. The Zangers said they enjoy watching their family grow. "All the grandkids know us," Ruth Zanger said.  
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Somewhat Useless Information
Memorial Day, an American holiday observed on the last Monday of May, honors men and women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Originally known as Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an official federal holiday in 1971.
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It is unclear where exactly this tradition originated; numerous different communities may have independently initiated the memorial gatherings. Nevertheless, in 1966 the federal government declared Waterloo, New York, the official birthplace of Memorial Day. Waterloo, which had first celebrated the day on May 5, 1866, was chosen because it hosted an annual, community-wide event, during which businesses closed and residents decorated the graves of soldiers with flowers and flags.
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Birthday’s Today
84 - Carroll Baker, Penn, actress (Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow)
77 - Jerry West, West Virginia, NBA superstar (LA Lakers, Olympic-gold-1960)
73 - Beth Howland, actress (Vera-Alice, Company)
71 - Gladys Knight, singer, leader of Pips (Last Train)
70 - John Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
52 - Brandon Cruz, actor (Eddie-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
37 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television panelist (The View)
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Remembered for being born today
Barney Rosset, publisher and free speech advocate (publisher of Tropic for Cancer) 1922-2012@89
Patrick White, Australia, novelist (Happy Valley, Nobel 1973) 1912-1990@78
Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor (guillotine) 1738-1814@75 
Thomas Moore, Irish poet ("The Minstrel Boy") 1779-1852@72 
- James Francis ‘Jim’ Thorpe (Wa-Tho-Huk), Saux & Fox, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1912) 1888-1953@65 
T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town) 1910-1975@64
Gary Stewart, country singer (She's Actin' Single) 1945-2003@59 
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Historical Obits Today
Maya Angelou [Marguerite Johnson], author ("I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"), poet and actress (Nyo-Roots)-2014@86
Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary)-1843@84
Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland-1972@77
Roy Roberts, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), heart attack-1975@75
Phil Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian, murdered by his wife in his sleep-1998@49
Audie Murphy, actor (Whispering Smiths), most decorated in WWII-plane crash-1971@45
Gary Coleman, American actor-head trama-2010@42
Anne Brontë, English novelist (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall), long illness-1849@29

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Brain Teasers Answers
1) stride, strife, strike
2) salve, valve, halve
3) fine, fife, file
4) paltry, pastry, pantry

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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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