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Almanac: Week: 20 \ Day: 136
May
Averages: 68°\35° Winter Storm Advisory
86004
Today: H 40°\L 33° Average Sky Cover: 95%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave. High: ° Record High: °
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Observances Today:
Armed
Forces Day National Piercing Day
Biographer's
Day National Sea
Monkey Day
Do
Dah Day- Dog and Animal Festival
Love
a Tree Day Preakness
Mimosa
Day Wear Purple for Peace
Day
National
Learn To Swim 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
16-22 National Safe Boating Week National Heritage Breeds Week
EMS (Emergency Medical
Services) Week National
Stationery Week
National Dog Bite Prevention Week National
New Friends, Old Friends Week
National Medical Transcription Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1760 - Creek warrior Chief Hobbythacco
(Handsome Fellow) has often supported
the English, but, at the outbreak of the Cherokee war, he decides to
support
the Cherokees.
1817 - Mississippi River steamboat service begins
1861 - Kentucky proclaims its neutrality
1866
- US Congress authorizes the nickel 5 cent
piece (replaces silver half-dime)
1868 - By one vote, US Senate fails to impeach
President Andrew Johnson
1891 - George A Hormel & Co introduce Spam
1903 - 1st transcontinental motorcycle trip begins
at SF (George Wymann)
1910 - US Bureau of Mines forms
1914 - American Horseshoe Pitchers Association
organizes in Kansas City
1939 - Food stamps are 1st issued
1944 - The Consolidated
Vultee Aircraft Corporation of Tucson advertised that
its B-24 Liberator planes carried many tons of
aircraft parts and supplies
that were urgently needed by American airmen
based halfway around the
world
1946 - Musical "Annie Get Your Gun"
starring Ethel Merman premieres in NYC
1965 - Campbell Soup Company introduces
SpaghettiOs under Franco-American
1966 - Beach Boys' "Pets Sounds" is
released
1985 - Michael Jordan named NBA Rookie of Year
1991 - Queen Elizabeth II becomes 1st
British monarch to address US congress
2013 - Bill Gates becomes the world's richest
man with $72.7 billion again
after losing the position in 2008
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Today’s World Events through History
1527 - Florence becomes a republic
1532 - Sir Thomas More resigns as English Lord
Chancellor
1568 - Mary Queen of Scotland flees to England
1792 - Denmark abolishes slave trade
1911 - Remains of a neanderthal man found on
Jersey, Channel Islands
1920 - Joan of Arc (Jeanne D'arc) canonized a
saint
1936 - 1st British air hostess (Daphne Kearley)
flight to France
1948 - Israel issues
its 1st postage stamps
2007 - Alex Salmond is elected First Minister of
Scotland. He is the first Scottish
National Party leader to be elected as First
Minister after winning a historic
victory at the Scottish general election on
the 3rd May.
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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 day here. As one posted on FB…Attention:
Mother Nature was recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder. She is off her
meds. Anyone spotting her should notify Father time…
Woke up to rain and snow. Then some wind. Then
more snow, sunshine, rain, snow, fog or clouds or something coming off the
pavement as the wind blew and the rain fell. Still raining and/or snowing. Winter storm advisory announced this
afternoon. It IS the middle of May. Just stayed home, shaking my head every time
I looked outside.
So the
Boston Bomber will be executed…sometime. I am not a proponent of the death
penalty. Never have been. Had I been on the jury, he would have gotten life without
parole. Somehow, upon his death, I believe he will become yet another martyr to
show how violent the US really is.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I
have no voice, yet I speak to you;
I tell of all things in the world that people do.
I have leaves, but I am not a tree.
I have a spine and hinges, but I am not a man or a door; I have told you all, I
cannot tell you more.
What am I?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Body
Facts…
There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to
see colors the way everyone else does.
Within three days of death, the enzymes that once digested your
food begin to eat you.
…Cat
Facts…
A cat's jaws cannot move sideways.
The only domestic animal not mentioned in the Bible is the cat.
…Cool
Facts…
Jim Cummings, the voice of Winnie the Pooh, called kids at
hospitals to chat with them in character.
There's a pizza company in Alaska called 'Airport Pizza' that
delivers for free by plane. Pizzas cost $30 each, any time of year.
In 2001, the island country of Niue featured Pikachu and other
Pokemon on their currency.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
At last Saturday’s Kite Flight, Judges Frank B. Quirk, H. K.
Magnum and George Hanly really took a hand in demonstrating skilled kite flying
and judging flights. They said they wished there had been more participation.
Jose Nunez won “First Kite in The Air” and fourth-grader Louis Sanchez won
“Best All Round Kite with a Bridle.
From The Golden State to The Empire State, only TWA flies over the
Painted Desert, the Grand Canyon and the Boulder Dam. Call TWA at the Winslow
Airport. Flights to New York $127.25; to San Francisco $46.65; to Chicago
$77.30.
Mayor Pilcher announced that Flagstaff will have a portion of the
gasoline tax gained here returned from the state next year. An increase in
property taxes will also be required for the much-needed repair our streets.
90 acres north of Fort Tuthill and 50 acres on the west side of
Oak Creek Canyon have been planted with young ponderosa pines from the nursery
at Leroux Springs.
The area north of Fort Tuthill has been previously planted and
then burned again accidentally. Roland Rotty, Director of the Forest Service.
…Harper’s
Index…
-25--Average percentage change in the rate of painkiller-overdose
deaths two years after a state legalizes medical marijuana
…Revisited
History…
The patent for the first fax machine was filed in 1843, the same
time period of America's westward expansion.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Dogs who bark continuously can get laryngitis, just like humans,
but not as quickly. Canine vocal cords are thicker and take longer to get
irritated.
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2 jokes
for the day
A tourist stopped a local in a village he was
visiting and asked; "What is the quickest way to the lake?
The local thought for a while. "Are you walking or driving?" he asked
the tourist. "I'm driving."
"That is the quickest way!" the local said.
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A little girl was in church with her mother
when she started feeling ill. "Mommy," she said, "can we leave
now?"
"No," her mother replied.
"Well, I think I have to throw up!"
"Then go out the front door and around to the back of the church and throw
up behind a bush." After about 60 seconds the little girl returned to her
seat.
"Did you throw up?" Mom asked.
"Yes."
"How could you have gone all the way to the back of the church and
returned so quickly?"
"I didn't have to go out of the church, Mommy. They have a box next to the
front door that says, 'For the Sick.'
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies arrested a 50-year-old
woman, charging her with robbing three Brandon banks in a span of 30 minutes
earlier in the day.
The spree started at 3:19 p.m. and ended at 3:43 p.m., deputies said. Cindy
Carabeo was charged with three counts of armed robbery.
Deputies said a female robber first entered the BB&T bank and handed a
written note to a teller saying she had a firearm and wanted cash. She was
given an undisclosed amount of money before fleeing the building.
Sixteen minutes later, the same robber walked into the Wells Fargo bank and
repeated the same tactic. She was given an undisclosed amount of cash and fled.
Eight minutes after that, the same woman entered the Florida Central Credit
Union and again handed the note to the teller saying she was armed and wanted
money. Again, she walked out of the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash.
Soon afterward, sheriff's detectives pieced together enough information to
identify the getaway car's tag number and found it to be registered to Carabeo.
Deputies converged on her apartment and arrested her as she drove into the
complex.
The funny part is that if she had quit after two banks she probably would have
gotten away with it.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
In
Australia in the late 1940s, manic depression was the first mental illness to
be successfully treated with lithium. In Scandinavia in the 1950s, Dr. Morgens
Schou pursued the same course of treatment with beneficial results.
The first recorded case of dream-induced amnesia occurred in 2004. After a man
dreamed that his son had been killed, he woke up screaming and lost all memory
of the previous day.
In the 1600s, mental patients were a tourist attraction in London at Hospital
of St. Mary. Anyone who paid a penny could observe and taunt the
"lunatics" for their own amusement.
In 1375, the Bethlem Royal Hospital in London became one of the first mental
hospitals to take in "lunatics." The asylum was so chaotic that
Bethlem became the origin of the word "bedlam."
Medical care of the mentally ill became more humane after the publication of
Darwin's Origin of the Species in 1859, when people realized that insanity was
hereditary. Previously, it had been seen as demonic possession, loss of a soul,
weakness of character, or a feminine trait.
The disorder known as Alice-in-Wonderland Syndrome causes body-image
distortion, making people feel they are extremely tiny or gigantic.
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Birthday’s Today
71 - Danny Trejo, American actor (Machete)
62 - Pierce Brosnan, County Meath Ireland,
actor (Remington Steele, Golden Eye)
58 - Joan Benoit Samuelson, Cape Elizabeth
ME, marathoner (Oly-gold-1984)
49 - Janet Jackson, singer, Michael's sister
(Control)
46 - David Boreanaz, actor (Buffy the
Vampire Slayer)
28 - Megan Fox, Oak Ridge, Tennessee,
American actress (Transformers)\model
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Remembered for being born today
- Studs
Terkel, author/host (Stud's Place, Working) 1912-2008@96
- Edward
T. Hall, American anthropologist and author 1914-2009@95
- Frank
F Mankiewicz, columnist (Perfectly Clear) 1924-2014@90
- Elizabeth
Palmer Peabody, educator/founder (US kindergarten) 1804-1894@89
- Ernest
Watson Burgess, US sociologist (ecological school) 1866-1966@80
- Henry
Fonda, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond) 1905-1982@77
- Woody
Herman, jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer 1913-1987@74
- William
H. Seward, Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2 ¢/acre 1801-1872@71
- [Wladziu Valentino] Liberace, pianist (Liberace Show)
1919-1987@67
- Billy
Martin, baseball 2nd baseman/manager (Yankees, A's) 1928-1989@61
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Historical Obits Today
Saint
Brendan, Irish navigator-583@93
Levi P.
Morton, Vice President under Benjamin Harrision-1920@96
Bernard
Waber, American children's book author-2013@91
Frances
Benjamin Johnston, early American female photographer-1952@88
Margaret
Hamilton, actress (Wicked Witch-Wizard of Oz)-1985@82
Irwin
Shaw, US writer (Rich Man, Poor Man), cancer-1984@71
Sammy
Davis Jr, singer/actor (Golden Boy), cancer-1990@64
Eliot
Ness, American federal agent-1957@54
Jim
Henson, puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), infection-1990@53
Lean Bear
(Awoninahku), Cheyenne chief, murdered by soldiers-1864@51
Max Brand,
[Frederick Schiller Faust], western author-1944@51
James
Agee, US critic/writer (Death in Family), heart attack-1955@45
Kay
Baxter, best bodybuilder in the world (1983-85), car crash-1988@42
Andy
Kaufman, comedian (Latka-Taxi), cancer-1984@35
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Brain Teasers Answers
A Book.
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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…§
