5-31-15

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Almanac: Week: 23 \ Day: 151
May Averages: 68°\35°
86004 Today: H 82°\L 42° Average Sky Cover: 50% 
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  16mph
Ave. High: 73° Record High:  89° (2002) Ave. Low: 37° Record Low:  23° (1988)
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Observances Today:
Bat Days
National Macaroon Day
Save Your Hearing Day
What You Think Upon Grows Day
World No-Tobacco Day
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Observances This Week:
Returns tomorrow

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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1759 - The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
1790 - US copyright law enacted
1868 - 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
1875 - Reciprocity Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
1879 - Madison Square Garden opens in NY, named after 4th President James Madison
1884 - Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
1900 - US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion
1909 - 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
1910 -Maricopa Reservation, AZ was quarantined because of an outbreak of whooping cough and measles.
1941 - 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
2014 - Psy's "Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on YouTube
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Today’s World Events through History
1279 BC - Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
1621 - Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
1902 - Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed, Britain annexes Transvaal
1907 - Taxis 1st began running in NYC
1910 - Union of South Africa declares independence from UK
1911 - R.M.S. Titanic launched, Belfast
1935 - Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
1969 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
2008 - Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds.
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Another good weekend here.
Several high schools in our area graduated yesterday. Lots of vehicles, decorated with school colors and Class of 2015 were around. Lots of family dinners too. Nice to see as these kids start off with a new direction. Plenty of smiles as pictures of grads and family were being taken around the vehicles.
Last night Phoenix was on the national news and the local stations were all covering the story. The group that was protesting Islam was met with lots of police and quite a few counter demonstrators. Glad to say that AZ came out of it looking very sane. Yes we have our crazies, and they were allowed their free speech and our open carry gun rules…but it was all peaceful and those against them were also allowed their free speech. They came, they carried signs, they yelled, the wandered off. No violence of any kind. Cops did keep the two groups separated. All is well today.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What does this rebus mean?

Lies
Fear
Lies

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…China Facts…
Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.

The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.

…Cool Facts…
MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.

WWOOF is a international program that allows you to travel the world, with food/accommodations covered, in exchange for volunteer work.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO - 1940
The Emerson School graduated 107 pupils from the eighth grade on Tuesday.

Forest fire lookouts have been posted for the season and a course in intensive fire suppression training has been added to the campus.

…Harper’s Index…
$11,167 – amount paid at an auction for the collection of Queen Victoria’s undergarments

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
The "G" in "G-Spot" stands for Gräfenberg, a German-born doctor who studied female sexual physiology.
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2 jokes for the day
Do you know why malt stands are constantly rated best businesses of the year?

They always give customers a fair shake.

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A widower who never paid any attention to his wife while she was alive now found himself missing her desperately.
He went to a psychic to see if he could contact his late wife. The psychic went into a trance.
A strange breeze wafted through the darkened room, and suddenly, the man heard the unmistakable voice of his dearly departed wife.
"Honey!" he cried. "Is that you?"
"Yes, my husband."
"Are you happy?"
"Yes, my husband."
"Happier than you were with me?"
"Yes, my husband."
"Then Heaven must be an amazing place!"
"I'm not in Heaven, dear."

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Yep, It Really Happened
SEATTLE (UPI) - A Seattle couple said a burglar stole a pair of sunglasses from their car, but ignored something far more valuable -- a $1 million winning Powerball ticket. The couple, who requested anonymity, said they forgot to check the numbers on their Powerball ticket after it failed to win the $350 million jackpot in February's drawing. "We didn't even think about a second chance prize," the couple told Washington's Lottery officials. They said the ticket sat in their car for about three months. "Someone broke into our car a few weeks ago and stole a pair of sunglasses," the couple said. "The stolen sunglasses were actually sitting atop the winning ticket. What a close call!" The couple checked the numbers on the ticket May 14 and discovered they had won a $1 million second chance prize. "Well, we already popped a bottle of champagne! We're also planning a trip to Paris and Iceland for this year. Other than that, I think we'll just take care of our house," the couple said. The Seattle Imam's store that sold the ticket will receive a $10,000 selling bonus, the lottery said. The burglar, meanwhile, will have to make do with a pair of used sunglasses.   
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Somewhat Useless Information
Koalas aren't big drinkers. They can survive on sufficient water by licking dew from leaves.
Due to their low-calories diet, they sleep a lot, between 18 to 22 hours a day. In the evening, they look for food.
They are well suited to sit on trees, as they have extra thick fur on their bottoms, a cartilaginous pad at the base of their spines and a curved skeletal structure.
About 80 per cent of koalas have the venereal disease of chlamydia. A side effect is it makes them incontinent, and the leaking urine can make them pretty stinky.
Koalas live for 10 years on average, though they can live longer than that. Female koalas usually produce one koala a year.
They are among a few animals that are like humans in that they have fingerprints.

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Birthday’s Today
85 - Clint Eastwood, SF California, actor (Dirty Harry)/mayor (Carmel, CS)
77 - Peter Yarrow, (Peter, Paul & Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon)
72 - Joe Namath, PA, NFL QB (NY Jets), $400,000 man (1969 Superbowl)
66 - Tom Berenger, actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me)
65 - Gregory Harrison, Catalina California, actor (Trapper John)
54 - Lea Thompson, actress (Back to the Future, Caroline In The City)
51 – DMC (Darryl "D.M.C." Matthews McDaniels), rocker
50 - Brooke Shields, model/actress (Blue Lagoon)
39 - Colin Farrell, Irish actor (In Bruges, Minority Report)
38 - Eric Christian Olsen, Actor- NCIS: Los Angeles
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Remembered for being born today
1898-1993@95 - Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking)
1908-1993@85 - Don Ameche, Kenosha WI, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places)
1819-1892@72 - Walt Whitman, West Hills New York, poet (Leaves of Grass)
1941-2003@64 - Johnny Paycheck, singer (Take This Job & Shove It)
1912-1969@54 - Barbara Pepper, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres, Rogue Tavern)
1934-1979@45 - Jim Hutton, Binghamton NY, actor (Ellery Queen)
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Historical Obits Today
Jean Stapleton, actress (Edith Bunker)-2013@90
Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician-1910@89
Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champ/actor-1983@86
Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten)-1809@77
Walter Freeman, American physician (developer and practitioner of psychiatric surgery transorbital lobotomy)-1972@76
George Tiller, American abortion doctor, assassinated-2009@67
Chris Haney, creator of Trivial Pursuit, long illness-2010@59
Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, hanged-1962@56
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Brain Teasers Answers
Paralyze with fear

(Pair of lies with fear)

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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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