5-4-15

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Almanac: Week: 19 \ Day: 124
May Averages: 68°\35°
86004 Today: H 67°\L 46° Average Sky Cover: 30% 
Wind ave:   13mph\Gusts:  22mph
Ave. High: 64° Record High:  88° (1947) Ave. Low: 33° Record Low:  7° (1915)
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Observances Today:
Bird Day                                 International Firefighters Day
Day of Vesak (Buddhist)                     International Respect for Chickens Day
Great American Grump Out     Melanoma Monday
Greenery Day (Japan)              National Candied Orange Peel Day Renewal Day
Independence Day (Rhode Island)       National Library Legislative Day
Memorial Day (Curacao)                      Petite and Proud Day
Youth Day (China)                   World Give Day
Intergalactic Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You!) 
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Observances This Week:
1-7 Choose Privacy Week
2-10 National Tourism Week


3-9 Be Kind To Animals Week           National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week 
Children's Mental Health Week                   National Correctional Officer's Week
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week  National Family Week
Drinking Water Week                                  National Hug Holiday Week
Dystonia Awareness Week                          National Pet Week 
Flexible Work Arrangement Week               National Post Card Week
Goodwill Industries Week                           National Raisin Week 
Kids Win Week                                  Public Service Recognition Week  
NAOSH Week                                                        
National Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week

4-10

Children's Book Week                                 PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
National Occupational Safety & Health Week       Screen-Free Week 
National Small Business Week                             Teacher Appreciation Week     
National Wildflower Week

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Quote of the Day

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1780 - American Academy of Arts & Science founded
1846 - US state Michigan ends death penalty
1863 - After the Minnesota uprising of the Santee Sioux, and their
  subsequent defeat, their lands are forfeited
1878 - Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1883 - John Gordon Cashmans begins "Vicksburg Evening Post" (Miss)
1886 - Haymarket riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
1893 - Cowboy Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
1896 - Grease fire ignites half ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
1904 - Construction begins by the United States on the Panama Canal
1921 - State Supreme Court rules that Arizona law taxing sheep, cattle
  and horses owned by non-residents of the state was invalid.
1927 - 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
1932 - Al Capone enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion
1933 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
1936 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
1942 - Battle of Coral Sea begins in the Pacific (1st sea battle fought solely
  in air) between Japanese, US and Australian navies and air forces
1942 - Food 1st rationed in US
1942 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
1944 - "Gaslight", starring an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her film
  debut, is released
1946 - 5 die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay
1952 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Fresno Golf Open
1953 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Ernest Hemingway for The Old Man & The Sea
1959 - 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgeraldwin
1959 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
1964 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
1970 - National Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
1970 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
1991 - Morris K Udall, (Rep-D-Ariz), resigns due to Parkinson disease
1998 - A federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Ted
  Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts
  a plea agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
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Today’s World Events through History
1715 - French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
1896 - 1st edition of London Daily Mail (halfpenny)
1904 - Charles Stewart Rolls meets Frederick Henry Royce in Manchester,
  England. Go on to form Roll-Royce
1910 - Tel Aviv founded
1916
- Ned Daly, Willie Pearse, Michael O'Hanrahan and Joseph Plunkett

  are executed by British authorities following the Easter Rising, at
  Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
1924 - 8th Olympic games open at Paris, France
1972 - The Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental
  organization founded in Canada in 1971, officially changes its
  name to "Greenpeace Foundation"
1981 - After 66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old Bobby Sands MP
  died in the Maze; 9 further hunger strikers die over the next 3 months
2007 - The Scottish National Party wins the Scottish general election
  and becomes the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the
  first time ever.
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice Sunday. Read the newspaper on the deck….before the breeze started. Then deep cleaned all 3 bathrooms and laundry room. Then caught up on DVR shows from last week. Quiet and nice. Also caught my Sunday news shows. Nice way to spend a Sunday.
It is hard for me to see that after all the marching, protesting, and change from the late 1960’s that there is still such a disparity in so many areas of this country. Back then citizens were arrested for trying to vote, choosing to sit at a lunch counters, or sit on a bus or drink from a fountain. Some were even killed. Now some young Blacks are killed by cops for minor violations.  Baltimore has taught many that this is not a black-white racial issue but a ‘have v have not’ issue. Black politicians run Baltimore and Black cops were involved in the death of a young man. I continue my soul searching about why this occurred.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I'm the smallest of my kind, no doubt about that;
Compared to my brothers, I seem like a rat.

A blue face have I, a blue face, you know;
It's awfully cold here, with poisonous snow.

My name came from a god, a god with great might;
Although you know of me, I'm way out of your sight.

What am I?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
• people project keith haring           
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…Cat Facts…
Cats recognise the voice of their owner, but never evolved to care.

The ancestor of all domestic cats is the African Wild Cat which still exists today.

…Cool Facts…
Americans buying a Volvo can get a free holiday to Sweden to test drive their new car. All costs, including airfare and shipment of the car, are covered by the Volvo Overseas Delivery program.

Let's Pizza is the world's first pizza vending machine. Just select your topping, insert coins, and watch your pizza bake!

There's a cruise ship named "The World" where residents permanently live as it travels around the globe.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The Cinco de Mayo Parade marched on Birch Street Saturday morning.

Six bomb threats were made on Monday: Thomas, Weitzel, Sinagua High and Elden Jr. High were evacuated . Two businesses were also threatened. The calls were made by a young male caller and seem to have been pranks. Police Sergeant Pasqual Macias.

City officials have returned from Kmart Headquarters in Detroit where they met with Kmart management about local concerns with the new Kmart development here fitting in with the community, in particular our Urban Trail which can become a park with the moving of the planned entrance.

…Harper’s Index…
19-- Percentage by which a Muslim in India is less likely than a Hindu to die in infancy

…100 People…
The world population has now reached 7 billion people. This milestone inspired us to conduct research to update our statistics, and the changes over the past 5 years are remarkable. In 2006, only 1 person out of 100 would have had a college education-- today that number has jumped to 7 thanks in part to advances in higher education in Asia. The detailed research and source information can be found here and the statistics provided by Donella Meadows in 1990 that originally inspired our project can be viewed here.

…Murphy’s Real Laws…
12.    She's always late.     In fact, her ancestors arrived on the "Juneflower."

13.    You have the right to remain silent.    Anything you say will be misquoted,   and used against you.

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Hands Across America (1986) had four celebrity co-chairs: Bill Cosby, Kenny Rogers, Lily Tomlin, and Pete Rose.
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2 jokes for the day
Little Johnny wasn't very good at spelling. During an oral spelling exam, the teacher wrote the word "new" on the blackboard. "Now," she asked Johnny, "what word would we have if we placed a "K" in the front?" 

After a moment's reflection, Johnny said, "Canoe?"

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A man, wanting to rob a downtown Bank of America, walked into the Branch and wrote "This iz a stikkup. Put all your muny in this bag." 

While standing in line, waiting to give his note to the teller, he began to worry that someone had seen him write the note and might call the police before he reached the teller's window. 

So he left the Bank of America and crossed the street to the Wells Fargo Bank. After waiting a few minutes in line, he handed his note to the Wells Fargo teller. 

She read it and, surmising from his spelling errors that he wasn't the brightest light in the harbor, told him that she could not accept his stickup note because it was written on a Bank of America deposit slip and that he would either have to fill out a Wells Fargo deposit slip or go back to Bank of America. 

Looking somewhat defeated, the man said, "OK" and left. He was arrested a few minutes later, as he was waiting in line back at Bank of America.
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Yep, It Really Happened
AURORA, Colo. (UPI) - A Colorado mother said her daughter's preschool teacher barred her from eating the Oreo cookies packed in her lunch because they are not "nutritious." Leeza Pearson, whose 4-year-old daughter, Natalee, attends private school The Children's Academy in Aurora as an Aurora Public Schools student under the state's preschool option plan, said Natalee returned home from school Friday and told her she was not allowed to eat her Oreo cookies at lunch. Pearson said Natalee still had the cookies, which had been packed along with a ham and cheese sandwich and a stick of string cheese, along with a note from her teacher. 
The note read: "Dear Parents, It is very important that all students have a nutritious lunch. This is a public school setting and all children are required to have a fruit, a vegetable, and a healthy snack from home, along with milk. If they have potatoes, the child will also need bread to go along with it. Lunchables, chips, fruit snacks, and peanut butter are not considered to be a healthy snack. This is a very important part of our program and we need everyone's participation." "I don't agree with it at all," Pearson told KMGH-TV. "They don't provide lunch for my daughter. I provide lunch," Pearson said. "It's between me and the doctor in terms of what's healthy for her." An Aurora Public Schools spokeswoman said Natalee was offered a healthy alternative to the cookies. The director of The Children's Academy said the note should not have been sent out and is being investigated. She said the school does not have any policies regarding telling students what they can or can't eat at lunch time.     

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Somewhat Useless Information
(returns tomorrow)
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Birthday’s Today
87 - Betsy Rawls, golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60)
87 - Hosni Mubarak, Egyptian president (1981-2011)
72 - William J Bennett, US Secretary of Education (1985-88)
74 - George Will, Champaign, Illinois, American political analyst (Night Line)
62 - Pia Zadora, American actress
56 - Randy Travis, Marshville NC, country singer (Diggin' Up Bones)
45 - Will Arnett, Toronto Ontario, Canadian-American actor
42 - Mike Dirnt [Michael Ryan Pritchard], musician (Green Day)
36 - Lance Bass, singer (*NSYNC)
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Remembered for being born today
Alice Liddell, English schoolgirl model for Alice in Wonderland 1852-1934@82 
Frederick Church, US landscape painter (Hudson River Sch) 1826-1900@73 
Horace Mann, educator/author (pioneered public schools) 1796-1859@63 
Audrey Hepburn, Brussels, (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady) 1929-1993@63 
Keith Haring, American graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review) 1958-1990@31 
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Historical Obits Today
Josip Broz Tito, leader of Yugoslavia (1943-80)-1980@87
Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], comedian (3 Stooges), cancer-1975@77
Dom Deluise, American comedian, actor, cancer-2009@75
Bob Clampett, cartoonist (Bugs Bunny, Beanie & Cecil), heart attack-1984@70
MCA [Adam Yauch], Beastie Boys vocalist, cancer-2012@47
Paul Butterfield, singer/harmonica player, OD, 1987@44
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Brain Teasers Answers
The planet Pluto.

Stanza 1: Pluto is the smallest planet.

Stanza 2: Pluto's surface is blue because of frozen gases. The snow is a methane and nitrogen snow that is poisonous to us.

Stanza 3: Pluto is the Roman god of the Underworld (Hades in Greek myths). Pluto is too far away to be seen from Earth (without a telescope).

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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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