5-9-15

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Almanac: Week: 19 \ Day: 129
May Averages: 68°\35°
86004 Today: H 46°\L 34° Average Sky Cover: 90% 
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  31mph
Ave. High: 65° Record High:  81° (1934) Ave. Low: 32° Record Low:  14° (1930)
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Observances Today: 
American Indian Day                                      National Miniature Golf Day
Armed Forces Day                                           National Moscato Day National
Bereaved Mother's Day Birthmother's Day                 National Windmill Day
Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Awareness Day               Stay Up All Night
International Migratory Bird Day                              Train Day
International Migratory Bird Day                              World Belly Dance Day
Letter Carrier's Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Day  
Lost Sock Memorial Day                                             World Fair Trade Day
Military-Amateur Crossband Communications Day
Mother Ocean Day
National Babysitters Day
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Victory Day (Russia)
Yom Ha'Atzma'ut (Israel - Independence 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                                  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
1754 - 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
1768 - John Hancock pays duties on 25 pipes of wine, only one fourth of

  his ship's carrying capacity, and British officials accuse him of
  unloading the rest during the night to avoid paying the duties on the
  entire cargo
1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded
1887 - Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London
1899 - Lawn mower patented
1913 - 17th amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote
1914 - US President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
1922 - Last federal troops left Fort Apache, just as the first Lutheran
  Mission was dedicated there with the baptism of 100 Apaches
1944 - 1st eye bank opens in New York
1958 -  Hitchcock's "Vertigo", starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, released
1962 - Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for 1st time
1970 - 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
1980 - Slasher horror film "Friday the 13th" is released in US cinemas
2012 - President Obama officially states his support for same sex marriage
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Today’s World Events through History
1457 BC - Battle of Megiddo (15thC BC) between Egyptian Thutmose III
         and a large Canaanite coalition under King of Kadesh. First battle
         recorded with a reliable account
1386 - Treaty of Windsor between Portugal and England (the oldest
  diplomatic alliance in the world which is still in force)
1785 - British inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle
1896 - 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
1932 - Piccadilly Circus, London first lit by electricity
1936 - Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia (Ethiopia)
1949 - Prince Rainier III becomes monarch of Monaco
1969 - Following his release from prison Ian Paisley, North Ireland Loyalist
  holds a 'victory' meeting
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Crazy weather Friday. Sunny and nice this morning, grey clouds enter the scene. Rain falls, thunder, then snow and then more rain. Finally the sun comes back out.
None of the snow was sticking but snow…really?!?..then more rain and more snow.
Our discussion group meets tomorrow night to discuss the ‘rise and fall of Obama-mania in Africa’. Should be a great discussion. Looks like some of my trips were during the height of the mania…and that was for sure.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Unscramble the words below, then take the letters from each word as instructed to form another word that is the answer to this teaser:

LIUQA Take letters 1 & 2
PDIET Take letters 1,2 & 4
ETRSO Take letters 1 & 4
DONU Take letters 1 & 4

Unscramble the letters you collected... what do you get?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cat Facts…
It's possible to train your cat to use the toilet as a litter box and even flush afterwards.

The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.

…Cool Facts…
If an ant is drunk, a fellow comrade will carry him back to the nest to sleep off the alcohol.

In 1959, the USPS attempted to deliver mail via cruise missile and successfully shipped 3,000 pieces of mail from Virginia to Florida in 22 minutes.

If an employee of Google dies, their spouse will receive half their pay for 10 years as well as stock benefits, and any children will receive $1000 a month until they turn 19.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
Forest rangers are going to be patrolling on motorcycles this year. Alan T. Bedwill of Jerome will be patrolling the Old Trails Route from Bellemont to Winona twice a day and will camp at Riordan. He uses a Harley Davidson machine. Nobel H. Glenn from Mesa will have the Grand Canyon Road traveling from Flagstaff to Deadman Tank on an Indian Machine. Both men will carry “take down shovels” and canteens so when they spot a fire they can put it down at once .

Wake up - Clean up - Get up - Stay up - Keep up on May 3, 4 & 5. The Flagstaff Women’s Club with the full support of the City Council will put the Knockout on dirt, debris and other such unusable, unseemly, unserviceable unsightly items more suitable to decorate the dump than our streets and alleys . So, germs, bacteria and other bum stuff -- beware.

…Harper’s Index…
2,390-Estimated number of African and Middle Eastern refugees who have drowned in the Mediterranean this year

…100 People…
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
12 would speak Chinese
5 would speak Spanish
5 would speak English
3 would speak Arabic
3 would speak Hindi
3 would speak Bengali
3 would speak Portuguese
2 would speak Russian
2 would speak Japanese
62 would speak other languages

…Murphy’s Real Laws…
2.     He who laughs last, thinks   slowest.

3.     A day without sunshine is like, well, night.

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
The first fax machine was invented over 25 years before the telephone.
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2 jokes for the day
Teacher: Now, you must not say, "I ain't goin'." You should say, "I am not going, he is not going; we are not going; they are not going." 

Student: Wow! Ain't nobody goin' then?

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1. I read recipes the same way I read science fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to happen." 

2. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospital dying of nothing. 

3. The other night I ate at a real family restaurant. Every table had an argument going. 

4. Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks about seeing UFOs like they use to. 

5. According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about a woman is their eyes, and woman say the first thing they notice about men is they're a bunch of liars. 

6. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again. 

7. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to criticism. 

8. Have you noticed that a slight tax increase costs you $200 and a substantial tax cut saves you 35 cents? 

9. In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird and people take Prozac to make it normal. 

10. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. 

11. How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole box to start a campfire?     

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Yep, It Really Happened
Indiana-Clark County has charged 34-year-old Joseph Oberhansley with murder and abuse of a corpse in the death of 46-year-old Tammy Jo Blanton in September.
According to court documents, Oberhansley told police he broke into Blanton's home and killed and mutilated her, then ate her heart and parts of her brain and lung.
That's right; real, live Hannibal Lecter. 
And if you think this story couldn't possible get any worse, Clark County Prosecutor Jeremy Mull just recently asked for a rape charge to be added. In Indiana, aggravated circumstances needed for a jury to consider the death penalty include rape, burglary and dismemberment.    

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Somewhat Useless Information
Queen Elizabeth I was taught caution early in life. She learned mistrust of men from her mother Anne Boleyn's fate and was nearly executed for treason by her half-sister Mary I. 

Queen Cleopatra of Egypt was once booted from the throne and exiled to the desert by her coruler, younger brother Ptolemy XIII. When Julius Caesar came to Alexandria to mediate the sibling rivalry, she had herself smuggled into her own palace in a rug in order to meet him.

A master of propoganda, Pharaoh Hatshepsut is said to have dressed as a male king and even wore a false beard in the traditional style of pharaohs to ease common fears of a female in power. 

Mary I was desperate to have a child to secure the Catholic religion in England instead of her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth taking the throne. She twice thought she was pregnant, but was humiliated when both pregnancies proved false and her husband left for his native Spain.

Princess Elizabeth was on an official trip to Kenya when her father, King George VI, died, making her the new sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II. She was at a state dinner in the Treetops Hotel, and it is often said that she "went up the tree a princess and came down a queen." 

A legendary warrior, Queen Boudicca rebelled against Roman rule in eastern Britain around A.D. 60. She raised an army and trashed several Roman cities, including London, in retribution for crimes against herself and her daughters, and nearly caused Emperor Nero to pull the Romans out of Britain entirely. She was later defeated, and committed suicide rather than be captured.

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Birthday’s Today
79 - Albert Finney, actor
75 - Wayne Dyer, American psychologist and author (Universe Within You)
69 - Dave Mason, Worcester England, singer/songwriter (We Just Disagree)
66 - Billy Joel, rock singer
60 - Mark David Chapman, Forth Work Texas, assassin (John Lennon)
57 - Ellen Ochoa, PhD/Astronaut (STS 56, 66)
54 - Bono [Paul Hewson], Dublin, rocker (U2-Joshua Tree)
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Remembered for being born today
Carl Albert, (D) speaker of the House1908-2000@91 
Fred Astaire, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime) 1899-1987@88 
Thomas J Lipton, Glasgow, yachtsman/tea magnate (Lipton Tea) 1850-1931@83 
Pat Summerall, NFL player (NY Giants)/sportscaster (CBS) 1930-2013@82
Gary Owens, disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show) 1934-2015@80
Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show) 1909-1978@69
Nancy Walker, Bounty ads/actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife) 1921-1992@69
David O Selznick, producer (Gone With the Wind) 1902-1965@63 
Ella Grasso, (Gov-D-Ct) 1919-1981@61 
John Wilkes Booth, stage actor and assassin (President Lincoln) 1838-1865@26
Sid Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie], bassist (Sex Pistols) 1957+1979@21
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Historical Obits Today
Vidal Sassoon, British hairdresser and businessman, 2012@84
Marion Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), 1968@81
Alan King, American comedian, cancer-2004@76
Harold Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), cancer-1968@74
Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), stroke-1986@ 71
Edmond O'Brien, actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), Alzheimer's-1985@69
C.W. Post, American food manufacturer, suicide-1914@59
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Brain Teasers Answers
LIUQA Take letters 1 & 2 - QUAIL, take Q,U
PDIET Take letters 1,2 & 4 - TEPID, take T,E,I
ETRSO Take letters 1 & 4 - STORE, take S,R
DONU Take letters 1 & 4 - UNDO, take U,O

Unscramble the above to get 'Turquoise'.

Turquoise is a beautiful blue gemstone known since ancient times for its beauty. Through today, it is believed to bring wealth to one who wears it. In some cultures, it is known to act as a talisman to avoid any untoward accidents or dangers in life.

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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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