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Almanac: Week: 20 \ Day: 133
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 73°\L 33° Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind
ave: 11mph\Gusts: 30mph
Ave. High: 67° Record High: 83°
(1984) Ave. Low: 35° Record
Low: 18° (1953)
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Observances Today:
Blame
Someone Else Day
Donate
A Day's Wages To Charity
Frog
Jumping Day
Leprechaun
Day
National
Night Shift Workers Day
National
Third Shift Workers Day
Receptionist’s
Day
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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
1846 - US declares war on Mexico, 2 months after
fighting begins
1865 - Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville,
Texas: final engagement
of the American Civil War
1884 - Institute for Electrical & Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) forms in New York
1916 - 1st observance of Indian (Native American)
Day
1923 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One
of Ours)
1929 - Barney Oldfield,
famous racing driver, narrowly escaped death
when his car overturned on the highway near
Winslow AZ
1947 - US Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act
limiting the power of unions
1950 - Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
1958 - Rioters attack US VP Richard
Nixon in Venezuela
1958 - The trade mark Velcro is registered
1982 - Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
1992 - 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space
for the 1st time
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Today’s World Events through History
1110 - Crusaders march into Beirut causing a
bloodbath
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English
at battle of Langside
1607 - English colonists, led by John Smith,
land near James River in Virginia
1614 - Viceroy of
Mexico finds Spanish Explorer Juan de Oñate guilty of
atrocities against the Indians of New Mexico.
As a part of his
punishment, he is banned from entering New
Mexico again
1637 - Cardinal Richelieu of France reputedly
creates the table knife
1777 - University library at Vienna opens
1830 - Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan
Jose Flores as president
1917 - 1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd
children in Fatima, Portugal
1940 - Winston Churchill says I have nothing
to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
1981 - Pope John Paul II is shot and
critically wounded by Turkish gunman
Mehemet Ali Agca in St Peter's Square,
Vatican City
2012 - Torrential rain in Hunan Province, China,
destroys a bridge,
3,500 homes and displaces 28,000 people
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
A little windy here today…but such is spring in our little
mountain town.
Ran errands and ran into a colleague from Shonto. She is meeting
another colleague tonight at 5 so I will be joining them. Catch up on old
times.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Below
are definitions of words (with the length of the word in parentheses), followed
by a clue for a broken version of the word. For example:
PONDERING (8)...Monarch after dieting.
Would result in the word "THINKING", which could be broken into
"THIN KING".
Can you decipher the five words below?
1. Certain Evening (9)...Tiny chess piece
2. Deed Subjects (10)...Cravats that are suitable
3. Ne'er-do-well (11)...Onion performing hip-hop music
4. Hawaiian person, eg. (8)...Confessions of a scandalmonger
5. Buddhist belief (13)...Flower adorning a horse's bridle
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Cat
Facts…
The cat brain weighs about 30g.
Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.
…Cool
Facts…
PornHub planted 15,473 trees in honor of their "PornHub Gives
America Wood" environmental campaign.
In Iceland, more books are published and sold per person every
year than anywhere else in the world. Ten percent of Icelanders become a
published author in their lifetime.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
DAR Speaker Miss Ruby Kohn spoke at the meeting held in the home
of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Runkle on “Urban renewal, its failures and its follies”
Her main point is “Think before you accept federal aid to improve your city.
Consider the extravagance, favoritism and misuse of power that have beleaguered
urban renewal elsewhere.”
…Harper’s
Index…
$7,000- Amount the city of Fairbanks, Alaska,
has spent to appeal a $37.50 campaign-violation fine levied against its mayor
…100
People…
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
87 would have access to safe drinking water
13 people would have no clean, safe water to drink
…Revisited
History…
The calculator you used to play classic arcade games in the back
of class was about six times more powerful than the computer that landed on the
moon.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Had the Duke of Edinburgh not changed his surname in order to
marry the future Queen Elizabeth II, he and his wife would be known today as
Phil and Betty Glucksberg.
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2 jokes
for the day
At school one morning the teacher asked little
Johnny what he had for breakfast.
Little Johnny said, "Well, on my way to school I come cross this Apple
tree, so I climbed up there and started eating apples."
"I guess I eat about six," said little Johnny.
"No," said the teacher, "it's
ate!"
Little Johnny said "Well it could've been eight, I don't remember."
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At a party of professionals, a Doctor was
having difficulty socializing. Everyone wanted to describe their symptoms, and
get an opinion about diagnosis. The Doctor turned to a Lawyer acquaintance, and
asked, "How do you handle people who want advice outside of the
office?"
"Simple," answered the Lawyer, "I send them a bill. That stops
it."
The next day, the Doctor, still feeling a bit reserved about what he had just
finished doing, opened his mailbox to send the bills; there sat a bill from the
Lawyer.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Washington
Post -Already, healthy people can donate blood, sperm and eggs, but
now the nonprofit OpenBiome offers donors $40 for bowel movements -- to supply
"fecal transplants" for patients with nasty C. difficile bacterial
infections. ("Healthy" contents are transplanted into the infected
gut via endoscope or frozen swallowed capsules so that the good bacteria drive
out the antibiotic-resistant bad.) Over 2,000 transplant units have been
shipped to 185 hospitals so far, and OpenBiome allows daily
"donations" so that, with bonuses, a donor could earn $13,000 a year.
However, extensive medical questioning and stool-testing is required, and only
about 4 percent of potential donors have exquisite-enough feces to qualify.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
In
an average lifetime, people spend approximately 2,100 days (almost 6 years)
dreaming. Everyone dreams every night, though some of us can't remember our
dreams.
Developmental psychologists say that toddlers never dream about themselves.
Children are not believed to appear in their own dreams until a developmental
stage that occurs when they are three or four years old and realize they are
separate from other people.
What is the purpose of dreams? Some experts speculate that the primitive part
of the brain is overloaded during the day and cannot process all of our
experiences. Dreaming gives us a way to sort through our memories and eliminate
the ones that aren't useful for our growth.
Color in dreams is a constant source of speculation. Some monochrome dreams can
have a single image that's in color, such as a bright pink poodle. Other dreams
seem to speak a language of colors (e.g., red or blue lights) and shapes
(repeated circles or squares). Sometimes, natural colors pervade the dream, as
in waking life.
In the late 1950s, scientists proved that external stimuli can be incorporated
into dreams. When researchers sprinkled water on sleeping volunteers and woke
them up seconds later, 14 out of 33 subjects said they had dreamed of water.
It is believed that we rarely feel pain in dreams. When we do, though, our
bodies perceive it as a signal that something is wrong and we react by waking
up.
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Birthday’s Today
78 - Roch Carrier, Sainte-Justine Quebec,
Canadian novelist (The Hockey Sweater)
76 - Harvey Keitel, actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp
Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
65 - Stevie Wonder, Saginaw, Michigan,
American singer-songwriter
59 - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of
Living Foundation
54 - Dennis Rodman, Trenton, New Jersey, NBA
forward (Chicago Bulls)
51 - Stephen Colbert, American comedian and
actor
29 - Robert Pattinson, English actor (Harry
Potter, Twilight)
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Remembered for being born today
- Daphne
du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites) 1907-1989@91
- Bea
Arthur, comedian\singer\actress ("Maude", "Golden
Girls") 1922-2009@86
- Jim
Shoulders, Champion rodeo cowboy 1928-2007@79
- Josephine
Elizabeth Butler, social reformer 1828-1906@78
- Georgios
Papanikolaou, Greek Dr.-inventor of the Pap smear 1883-1962@78
- Joe
Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion 1914-1981@66
- Arthur Seymour Sullivan, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan) 1842-1900@58
- Mary
Wells, singer (My Guy)1943-1992@49
- Jim
Jones, US Leader of Peoples Temple cult (Jonestown Massacre) 1931-1978@47
- Ritchie
Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba) 1941-1959@17
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Historical Obits Today
Joyce
Brothers, American psychologist-2013@85
Cyrus
Hall McCormick, American inventor (mechanical reaper), stroke-1884@75
Bob Wills, actor
(Lone Prairie), pneumonia-1975@70
Fridtjof
Nansen, Arctic explorer/diplomat (Nobel 1922), heart attack-1930@68
Frank
McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), heart attack-1967@64
Selma
Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), cancer-1985@64
Gary
Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), cancer-1961@60
Dan
Blocker, American actor (Hoss-Bonanza), blood clot-1972@43
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. WEEKNIGHT...WEE KNIGHT
2. PROPERTIES...PROPER TIES
3. RAPSCALLION...RAP SCALLION
4. ISLANDER...I SLANDER
5. REINCARNATION...REIN CARNATION
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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…§
