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Almanac: Week: 20 \ Day: 131
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 65°\L 32° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 17mph
Ave. High: 66° Record High: 86°
(1996) Ave. Low: 33° Record
Low: 16° (1933)
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Observances Today:
Donate
a Day's Wages to Charity Day
Eat
What You Want Day
Fibromyalgia
and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Day
Hostess
Cupcake Day
National
Nightshift Workers Day
National
Receptionists Day
National
School Nurse Day
National
Third Shift Workers Day
National
Women's Check-up Day
Root
Canal Appreciation Day
Twilight
Zone Day
**
Admission
Day (Minnesota)-1858-32nd state
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Observances This Week:
10-16 American Craft Beer Week National
Transportation Week
Food Allergy Awareness Week National Women's Health Week
National Bike to Work Week Neuropathy Awareness Week
National
Hospital Week Reading is
Fun Week
National Etiquette Week Salute
to Moms 35+ Week
National
Nursing Home Week Salvation
Army Week
National Police Week Universal
Family Week
National
Return To Work Week Work At
Home Moms Week
National
Stuttering Awareness Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1751 - 1st hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital)
in the 13 Colonies in America
1752
- 1st US fire insurance policy issued
(Philadelphia)
1792 - Columbia River discovered & named by US
Capt Robert Gray
1816 - American Bible Society forms (NY)
1904 - Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build
a peace palace
1910 - Montana's Glacier National Park forms
1924 - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert
Frost (New Hampshire)
1929 - 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3
nights per week)
1940 - NY World's Fair reopens
1942 - William Faulkner's collections of short stories,
Go Down, Moses, published
1947 - BF Goodrich announced the development of
tubeless tire (Akron Ohio)
1953 - Winston Churchill criticizes Sec of
State John Foster Dulles' domino theory
1960 –1st contraceptive
pill is made available on the market
1965 - Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty
National monument
1967 - 100,000,000th US phone connected
1974 - "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield
hits #7
1987 - 1st heart-lung transplant take place
(Baltimore)
1988 - Mario Andretti records fastest Indianapolis
500 lap (221.565 mph)
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Today’s World Events through History
330 - Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes capital
of Roman Empire
1812 - Waltz introduced into English ballrooms.
Some observers consider
it disgusting & immoral.
1949 - By a vote of 37-12, Israel becomes 59th
member of UN
1949 - Siam renames itself Thailand
1960 - Israeli soldiers capture Adolf Eichmann in
Buenos Aires
1965 - Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000
1981 - Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical
"Cats" (based on TS Eliot)
premieres in London
1989 - Kenya announces worldwide ban on ivory to
preserve its elephant herds
1995 - More than 170 countries decide to extend the
Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty indefinitely and without conditions
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Clouds with no rain…oh well.
Last night’s discussion group was very well done. We discussed the
accomplishments and failures of Obama’s administration. Interesting how many of
his plans that would probably have worked well were blocked by Congress…and
usually through non-action rather than votes. I once worked for a ‘dreamer’
boss…one who was always putting out new ideas. My job was to make those ideas
workable for the betterment of the school. So many in Congress seem to see
their job to prevent ideas from working rather than helping them work. So sad.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
There
are so many words. If you take the letters found in the word VALENTINES, using
the clues below, can you figure out the words that can be made?
1. A number between 8 and 10
2. A person owned by another person
3. An indigenous person
4. To express anger, or a heating duct opening
5. A person who stands watch and/or is watching
6. Necessary to existence or well-being of something
7. A type of beverage served in a pub
8. Agreeably tolerant or permissive
9. Lacking noise
10. Foreign Language
11. Goes away, or items that fall from trees and need raking
12. Opposite of odd
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Cat
Facts…
Cats lose almost as much fluid in the saliva while grooming
themselves as they do through urination!
Cat families usually play best in even numbers. Cats and kittens
should be acquired in pairs whenever possible!
…Cool
Facts…
In Norway, owners of electric cars enjoy free public parking, free
ferry trips, and the right to drive in bus lanes.
There's a Japanese artist and designer who makes wedding rings
embedded with the the sound waves for "I do".
In Tokyo, there’s a self-proclaimed superhero who goes by the name
Mangetsu Man. Keeping his identity secret, he wears a purple bodysuit with a
large yellow smiley head. His self-described mission is to keep the city
trash-free.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
A crew from Taylor and Taylor Engineering is working on a
preliminary survey for the pipe line to Lake Mary.
At the Orpheum. The “Swing with the Syncopating Sirens” all-girl
band will supply a torrid musical background for Harry Berry and his “Sunkist
Vanities” stage attraction. 10 vaudeville acts are included.
Richfield Oil Co. has launched a new and perfected gasoline with
one of the most spectacular ad campaigns ever created.
The second half of your 1939 real estate tax is due by 5 p.m. on
Monday. After that you will be subject to a 10 percent late charge W. E.
Jolly, County Treasurer.
…Harper’s
Index…
46-Percentage
increase in requests by world governments for Twitter user data since the
beginning of this year
61-Percentage
of all requests that have come from the U.S. government
3/4- Portion
of U.S. government requests with which Twitter complies
…100
People…
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
77 people would have a place to shelter themfrom the wind and the
rain
23 would not
…Revisited
History…
Oxford was officially founded in 1249, whereas Tenochtitlán was
built in 1325, marking the accepted beginning of the Aztec civilization.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
About half the known geysers on Earth are located in Yellowstone
National Park.
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2 jokes
for the day
A girl walks into a supermarket and asks the
clerk, "Can I have a turkey for my grandma?"
The clerk responds, "Sorry. We don't do
exchanges."
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For all of you with teenagers or who had
teenagers, you may want to know why they really have a lot in common with cats:
1. Neither teenagers nor cats turn their heads when you call them by name.
2. No matter what you do for them, it is not enough. Indeed, all humane efforts
are barely adequate to compensate for the privilege of waiting on them hand and
foot.
3. You rarely see a cat walking outside of the house with an adult human being,
and it can be safely said that no teenager in his or her right mind wants to be
seen in public with his or her parents.
4. Cats and teenagers can lie on the living-room sofa for hours on end without
moving, barely breathing.
5. Cats have nine lives. Teenagers carry on as if they did.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
OMAHA
(UPI) - A Nebraska woman filed a seven-page handwritten court brief
detailing her lawsuit against all homosexuals on behalf of "God" and
"his son, Jesus Christ." Sylvia Driskell, 66, of Auburn, filed a
federal lawsuit Friday in Omaha asking for a federal judge to rule on whether
or not homosexuality is a sin. Driskell's seven-page court brief, which is
entirely handwritten, describes the woman as an "ambassador for plaintiffs
God, and his son, Jesus Christ." The defendants listed in the lawsuit are
"homosexuals," noting the group uses the "alis [alias],
gay." The brief cites several Bible verses and argues "that
homosexuality is a sin and that they the homosexuals know it is a sin to live a
life of homosexuality. Why else would they have been hiding in the
closet." Driskell cited the Biblical destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah as
evidence of God's distaste for "immoral behavior." "I never
thought that I would see a day in which our great nation or our own great state
of Nebraska would become so compliant to the complicity of some peoples lewd
behavior," Diskell wrote. "Why are judges passing laws, so sinners
can break religious and moral laws. Will all the judges of this nation, judge
God to be a lier [liar]." Driskell is representing herself in the lawsuit.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Leonardo
Da Vinci said “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach
the quality it should have.” just before dying
When
Russell Brand and Katy Perry divorced, Russell was eligible to claim half of
the $44 million she earned during their marriage, but declined, according to slickamericans.com
The
creator of the Sims had the idea for the game while rebuilding his life after a
fire, according to en.wikipedia.org.
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Birthday’s Today
87 - Brother Andrew, Dutch missionary
35 - Matthew Lawrence, Phila, actor
(Dynasty, Matthew-Brotherly Love)
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Remembered for being born today
- Irving
Berlin, [Isadore Balin], composer (White Xmas) 1888-1989@101
- Foster
Brooks, comedian/actor (Miles-Mork & Mindy) 1912-2001@89
- William
Glasser, psychiatrist (reality therapy, choice theory) 1925-2013@88
- William
Carey, philanthropist(W.P. Carey & Co. LLC) 1930-2012@81
- Salvador
Dali, Figueras Spain, surrealist artist (Crucifixion) 1904-1989@84
- Margaret
Rutherford, England, actress (Murder Most Foul) 1892-1970@80
- Denver
Pyle, Bethune Colo, actor (Dukes of Hazzard) 1920-1997@77
- Phil Silvers,
Brooklyn, comedian (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show) 1912-1985@74
- Charles
Warren Fairbanks, (R) 26th US VP 1852-1918@66
- Chang
& Eng Bunker, Chinese Siamese twins 1811-1874@62
- Ira
Aldridge, 19th c African American Shakespearian actor 1807-1867@60
- Doug
McClure, Glendale California, actor (Virginian, Roots) 1935-1995@59
- Natasha
Richardson, actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale) 1963-2009@45
- Cory
Monteith, Canadian actor and musician (Glee) 1982-2013@31
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Historical Obits Today
Elizabeth
McDonald, inventor (Spic & Span), 1992@98
Henry
Martyn Robert, (Robert's Rules of Order)-1927@90
Edward H
Thompson, US archaeologist (Mayan civilization)-1935@77
Floyd
Patterson, American boxer, cancer-2006@71
Lex
Barker, American actor (Tarzan), heart attack-1973@54
Bob
Marley, reggae singer, brain & lung cancer-1981@36
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. NINE
2. SLAVE
3. NATIVE
4. VENT
5. SENTINEL
6. VITAL
7. ALE
8. LENIENT
9. SILENT
10. LATIN
11. LEAVES
12. EVEN
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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…§
