5-8-15

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Almanac: Week: 19 \ Day: 128
May Averages: 68°\35°
86004 Today: H 58°\L 37° Average Sky Cover: 10% 
Wind ave:   10mph\Gusts:  26mph
Ave. High: 65° Record High:  85° (1989) Ave. Low: 32° Record Low:  17° (1965)
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Observances Today:
Child Care Provider Day                     Fintastic Friday: Giving Sharks A Voice
Free Trade Day                                    Have A Coke Day
Iris  Day                                  Military Spouse Appreciation Day
National Animal Disaster Preparedness
No Socks Day                          Stay up All Night
Time of Remembrance & Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During WWII
V E Day                                  World Ovarian Cancer Day
World Red Cross / Red Crescent Day
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Liberation Day (Czech Republic)         Liberation Day (Slovakia)
Victory Day (France)               Yom Ha'Zikkaron (Israel - Remembrance Day)

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Observances This 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                                                North American Occupational Safety & Health Week 
NAOSH Week                                                  Public Service Recognition 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 Screen-Free Week 
National Small Business Week                                   Teacher Appreciation Week   
National Wildflower Week


6-12 National Nurses Day and Week     


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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1541 - Hernando de Soto discovers Mississippi River
1639 - William Coddington founds Newport RI
1792 - US establishes military draft1858 - John Brown holds antislavery convention
1861 - Richmond, Va, is named the capital of the Confederacy
1877 - 1st Westminster Dog Show held
1886 - Jacob's Pharmacy in Atlanta sells 1st Coca-Coke (contained cocaine)
1912 – Film\television production/distribution studio Paramount Pictures founded
1927 - U.S. Army held 38 Yaqui Indians who fled across the U.S. border
  after a bloody battle with Mexican troops.
1951 - Dacron men's suits introduced
1952 - Mad Magazine debuts
1968 - Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron (Confessions of Nat Turner)
1984- USSR announces it will not participate in Los Angeles Summer Olympics

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Today’s World Events through History
1521 - Parliament of Worms installs edict against Martin Luther
1792 - British Capt George Vancouver sights and names Mt Rainier, Wash
1821 - Greek War of Independence: the Greeks defeat the Turks in Gravia.
1823 - "Home Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)
1899 - The Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens
1901 - A British appointed commission estimates today that some

  1,250,000 Indians have died after a severe drought, lasting since 1899
1916 - Irishmen Eamon Kent, Michael Mallin, Con Colbert and Sean Houston
  are executed by British authorities following the Easter Rising at
  Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
2007 - A new Northern Ireland Executive is formed under the leadership of Ian Paisley of the Democratic Unionist Party as First Minister and Martin McGuinness of Sinn Féin as Deputy First Minister
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


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My Rambling Thoughts
Great day in Williams…good lunch…great pie…Cheryl had a nice birthday. Then off to Bearizona. Keeps getting better every time I go. New white buffalo calf, about 3 days old; four new bear cubs…about a month old. Such a great place with plenty of room for all the animals in their own ‘habitat’. Drive thru with windows rolled up. What more could one ask for? Larger bears had just been fed and were sitting around the fruit/salad bowl, still munching…right by the road with no fence between the vehicles and the bears. Great way to spend a few hours.
NFL v Tom Brady…interesting to listen to I guess. Will wait and see about the punishments, if any.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Find the word that precedes or follows four of the five words in each group below. Then, find the bonus word that precedes or follows the five words you've eliminated. (One from each group)

1. Bean, milk, chamber, nurse, bar
2. Case, flag, pattern, tube, pilot
3. Suit, book, ridge, breaker, man
4. Ball, theme, trailer, double, may
5. Cat, lily, shark, ski, moth
BONUS : __________

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Returns tomorrow          
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…Cat Facts…
Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3 warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.

One litter of kittens can be produced by more than one father.

…Cool Facts…
In Holland, the world’s first public glow-in-the-dark bike path has opened. It features beautiful swirling patterns inspired by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh’s famous 'Starry Night' painting.

Apple experts have created a sparkling apple that fizzes in your mouth.

There's a special plate called a 'Go Plate' that can be used for drinking and eating while standing around.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
~ Downtown is getting a facelift under the auspices of The Flagstaff League for Advancing Good Growth. Volunteers are contributing labor and materials. Currently work is going forth at Puchteca Indian Goods and at Porter’s Jewelers on South San Francisco Street. Patrick Harley the architect for the Main Street Foundation has prepared the drawings.

…Harper’s Index…
62-% of Americans supporting military intervention against the Islamic State
68- Who think it’s unlikely to succeed

…100 People…
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
33 Christians
22 Muslims
14 Hindus
7 Buddhists
12 people who practice other religions
12 people who would not be aligned with a religion

…Murphy’s Real Laws…
4.     Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

5.     Back up my hard drive?     How do I put it in reverse?

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Both Madonna and Celine Dion are cousins of Prince Charles' wife, Camilla.
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2 jokes for the day
Visiting a genealogist, a man asked how much it would cost to have his family tree traced. "It could cost thousands of dollars," said the woman. 

"I see. Well, isn't there an easier way? A less expensive way?" "Sure," she replied. "Run for president."

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A guy walking down a street one afternoon passes an old man sitting on the side of the road with a large sack. 
The younger guy says to the old man, "Watcha got in the sack?" 
The old man responds, "I got some monkeys in that there sack." 
The younger man asks, "If I guess how many monkeys you got in the sack, can I keep one?" 
The old man replies, "Son, if you guess how many monkeys I got in this sack, I'll give you both of 'em!"  

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Yep, It Really Happened

ERWIN, N.C. (UPI) - A North Carolina couple whose pickup truck crashed into a swimming pool said their black lab was responsible for putting pressure on the gas pedal. Mike and Ruth Smith said their dog, Caroline, was riding with them on a trip to the grocery store in their 1988 Dodge pickup Friday when something spooked her. "When she gets scared she will go down on the floorboard of the truck," Mike Smith told WRAL-TV. Smith said Caroline chose the driver's side floor on this occasion and put all 90 pounds of her weight on the gas pedal. He said he was unable to pull the dog up from the floor and Ruth Smith, who was driving, aimed the vehicle for a wooden fence in the hopes of stopping the truck. The pickup crashed through the fence and ended up in John McNamara's swimming pool. McNamara said he was in the kitchen with his wife when they heard the commotion in the yard. "I just had open heart surgery in January," McNamara told WTVD-TV. "I said, 'I'm gonna have another heart attack here.'" Michael Smith suffered a few cuts to his head. Ruth Smith and Caroline were not injured. The Dodge was totaled. "I hate that it happened to [McNamara's] pool, but I think that it might have saved our lives," Michael Smith said.   

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Somewhat Useless Information
In 1872, Julia Ward Howe, a pacifist, suffragette, and writer of the "Battle Hymn of the Republic," first suggested Mother's Day in the United States as a day mothers could rally for peace. 
In 1908, Anna Jarvis began a campaign for a nationwide observance of Mother's Day in honor of her late mother, a community health advocate. She was deeply dismayed over the commercialization of Mother's Day. Before she died in 1948, she admitted that she regretted ever starting the holiday. 
On May 9, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother's Day as a national holiday.
One hundred and twenty million Mother's Day cards are exchanged annually in the United States.
Anna Jarvis started the tradition of wearing a carnation on Mother's Day. A colored carnation means that a person's mother is living. A white carnation indicates that a person's mother is deceased. 
In 2015, the National Retail Federation (NRF) estimated that U.S. consumers would spend nearly $21.2 billion celebrating Mother's Day.

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Birthday’s Today
89 - David Attenborough, Naturalist, TV producer and host (BBC "Life" Series)
89 - Don Rickles, Queens NY, comedian (Don Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey)
79 - James Darren, actor (Time Tunnel)
78 - Dennis DeConcini, Sen-AZ,
75 - Toni Tennille, American singer
71 - Gary Glitter, [Paul Gadd], England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II)
68 - H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel laureate
51 - Melissa Gilbert, actress (Little House on the Prairie)
40 - Enrique Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter and King of Latin Pop
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Remembered for being born today
Harry Truman, Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President 1884-1972@88 
Sloan Wilson, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) 1920-2003@83
Peter Benchley, novelist (Jaws, The Deep) 1940-2006@65
Ricky Nelson, NJ, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, Garden Party) 1940-1985@45
Sonny Liston, Sand Slough Arkansas, American heavyweight boxer1932-1970@38
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Historical Obits Today
Roger L. Easton, American scientist, inventor\designer of GPS- 2014@93
Eddy Arnold, Country music star-2008@89
Harry Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder-1947@89
Avery Brundage, CEO (Intl Olympic Committee, 1952-72)-1975@87
Dirk Bogarde, English actor (Death in Venice, Servant), heart attack-1999@78
John Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, infection-1873@66
George Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), pneumonia-1994@65
Kamehameha I, King of Hawaii-1819@60ish
Gustave Flaubert, French novelist, stroke-1880@58
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Maid (milk-maid, chamber-maid, nurse-maid, bar-maid)
2. Test (test-case, test-pattern, test-tube, test-pilot)
3. Law (law-suit, law-book, law-breaker, law-man)
4. Park (ball-park, theme-park, trailer-park, double-park)
5. Tiger (tiger-cat, tiger-lily, tiger-shark, tiger-moth)
BONUS: Pole (bean-pole, flag-pole, ridge-pole, may-pole, ski-pole)
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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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