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Almanac: Week: 19 \ Day: 127
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 65°\L 36° Average Sky Cover: 30%
Wind
ave: 12mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave. High: 64° Record High: 81°
(1989) Ave. Low: 32° Record
Low: 15° (1938)
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Observances Today:
Beaufort
Scale Day Cosmopolitan
Day
Join
Hands Day Mother
Ocean Day
National
Babysitters Day National
Barrier Awareness Day
National
Children's Mental Health Awareness Day
National
Day of Prayer National
Day of Reason
National
Day to Prevent Teen & Unplanned Pregnancy
National
Homebrew Day National
Roast Leg of Lamb Day
National
Tourism Day Paste
Up Day
Spring
Astronomy Day World
Fair Trade Day
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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 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
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1700 - William
Penn began monthly meetings for blacks advocating emancipation
1718 - The city
of New Orleans was founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville
1789 - First US
Presidential inaugural ball (for George Washington in NYC)
1800 - Indiana
Territory organized
1888 - George
Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1904 - Flexible
Flyer trademark registered
1928 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Thornton Wilder
for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
1934 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley
(Men in White)
1945 - WWII: unconditional German surrender to the
Allies signed
1945 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Hersey (Bell
for Adano)
1951 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The
Town)
1956 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Frances Goodrich
& Albert Hackett
1959 - Kitt Peak planned
to install a solar telescope in AZ
1962 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
1973 - According to
the FBI, at 10:19 AM this morning, the occupation of
Wounded Knee ended The occupation started on
February 27, 1973
1973 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)
1974 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
1994 - Denver Nuggets become NBA's 1st #8 seed to
beat a #1 seed (Seattle)
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Today’s World Events through History
1429 - English
siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army
1928 - The
United Kingdom lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1934 - World's largest pearl (64 kg) found at
Palawan, Philippines
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later
renamed Sony)
is founded with around 20 employees
2007 - The tomb
of Herod the Great is discovered
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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 mid-week day. A little windy, but still nice.
Ran errands most of the morning, then relaxed in the afternoon.
Having lunch in Williams tomorrow, and a visit to Bearazona. Nice!
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Can
you figure out the famous quote below?
Aye, dame, I am befuddled. But in the forenoon I will be clear-headed and you
will still be unsightly.
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Cat
Facts…
The cat featured in the popular internet meme "grumpy
cat" has a permanently grumpy face is due to feline dwarfism. Her real
name is Tardar Sauce.
Cats sleep for 70% of their lives.
…Cool
Facts…
In 2010, George Lucas said "I am dedicating the majority of
my wealth to improving education. It is the key to the survival of the human
race." Two years later, Lucas sold Lucasfilm Ltd. to Disney for 4.05
billion dollars and is donating the majority of the proceeds to a charity that
focuses on education.
In the Victorian era, they had special tea cups that protected
your moustache from getting dunked in your tea.
There is a prison in Brazil that allows inmates to pedal
stationary bicycles, providing electricity to a nearby city in exchange for
reduced sentences.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
~Lake Mary has topped the 3 billion gallon mark!
~There’s a 30-acre black spot near the summit of Agassiz summit.
The Geological Survey says this was not caused by an avalanche but is an area
that has melted more quickly due to some kind of internal heat. Bob Sutton and
Joe O’Conner of the USGS says this “Black Spot” has appeared several times
during the past 15 years.
…Harper’s
Index…
3,000--Estimated
number of times SWAT teams deployed in the US in 1980
60,000--In 2013
4.5--Average
number of SWAT raids carried out per day in Maryland since 2009
…100
People…
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
60 Asians
15 Africans
14 people from the Americas
11 Europeans
…Murphy’s
Real Laws…
6. I just got lost in
thought. It was unfamiliar territory.
7. When the chips are
down the buffalo is empty.
…Unusual Fact
of the Day…
While Stephen King sets many of his stories in Maine, the state
actually has the lowest violent-crime rate in the U.S.
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2 jokes
for the day
"I've never flown before," said the
nervous old lady to the pilot. "You will bring me down safely, won't
you?"
"All I can say ma'am," said the pilot, "is that I've never left
anyone up there yet!"
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A married couple, both 60 years old, were
celebrating their 35th anniversary.
During their party, a fairy appeared to congratulate them and grant them each
one wish.
The wife wanted to travel around the world. The fairy waved her wand and *poof*
-- the wife had tickets in her hand for a world cruise.
Next, the fairy asked the husband what he wanted. He said, "I wish my wife
was 30 years younger than me."
So the fairy picked up her wand and *poof* -- the husband was 90.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
ST.
PETERSBURG, Fla. (UPI) - Police in Florida said a man fell 30 feet
into Tampa Bay while he was attempting to change a tire on the Sunshine Skyway
Bridge. The St. Petersburg Police Department said Reginald White, 43, of
Bradenton, was driving a sport-utility vehicle Sunday night with two passengers
when a tire blew out on the bridge around 9:20 p.m. Police spokeswoman Yolanda
Fernandez said White was attempting to change the tire and tripped over the
thigh-high wall when he walked backward to avoid traffic. White suffered only
minor injuries in his fall and was able to cling to a piling until he was
fished out of Tampa Bay by a Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
crew. He was taken to Bayfront Health St. Petersburg for treatment. The Florida
Highway Patrol is investigating the incident.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Currently,
nuclear waste in the United States is stored in cooling pools of water and in
dry storage casks at nuclear power plants. The United States government,
however, hopes to bury its waste deep underground at Yucca Mountain, Nevada.
Nevadans and surrounding states have protested this proposal.
The United States has 71,862 tons of nuclear waste. Waste can stay dangerous
for tens of thousands of years. The industry's nuclear pile of waste is growing
about 2,200 tons a year. Some waste sites contain four times the amount of
spent fuel they were designed to handle.
The first nuclear-powered surface vessel was the Russian icebreaker Lenin. The
largest nuclear powered surface ship is the 1,122-foot-long USS Enterprise,
which was launched in 1960. It is the longest naval vessel in the world and has
eight reactors driving four propellers. It is still active.
The U.S.S. Nautilus was the first nuclear-powered submarine and was put to sea
in December 1954. Named after the submarine in Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand
Leagues Under the Sea, she was the first vessel to travel submerged under the
North Pole, on August 3, 1958. She was decommissioned in 1980 and has been
preserved as a National Historic Landmark.
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Birthday’s Today
83 - Pete Domenici, Republican senator from
New Mexico
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Remembered for being born today
- Darren McGavin,
Spokane Wash, actor (Night Stalker) 1922-2006@83
- Edwin Land,
inventor (instant photography (Polaroid)) 1909-1991@81
- Jimmy
Ruffin, soul singer (What Becomes of the Brokenhearted) 1936-2014@78
- Robert Browning,
poet (Pied Piper) 1812-1899@77
- Teresa
Brewer, Toledo Ohio, singer (Put Another Nickel In) 1931-2007@76
- Johnny Unitas,
NFL QB (Balt Colts, San Diego) 1933-2002@69
- Johannes Brahms,
Hamburg Germany, composer1833-1897@63
- Anne Baxter,
actress (Myra-Marcus Welby, Victoria-Hotel) 1923-1985@62
- Gary Cooper,
Montana, actor (2 Acad Awards) 1901-1961@60
- Robert
Hegyes, NJ, actor (Welcome Back Kotter) 1951-2012@60
- Tim Russert,
host of NBC's Meet the Press 1950-2008@58
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Votkinsk, Russia, composer 1840-1893@53
- Totie
Fields, American comedienne 1930-1978@48
- Eva Perón [Evita],
Argentine First Lady and actress1919-1952@33
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Historical Obits Today
Douglas
Fairbanks, Jr., American actor-2000@90
Eddie
Rabbitt, American musician, lung cancer-1998@56
Seve
Ballesteros, Spanish golfer, brain cancer-2011@54
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Brain Teasers Answers
Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you
will still be ugly.
This humorous quote was furnished by Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British
prime minister and author.
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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.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
