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Almanac: Week: 23 \ Day: 151
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 82°\L 42° Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 16mph
Ave. High: 73° Record High: 89°
(2002) Ave. Low: 37° Record
Low: 23° (1988)
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Observances Today:
Bat
Days
National
Macaroon Day
Save
Your Hearing Day
What
You Think Upon Grows Day
World
No-Tobacco Day
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Observances This Week:
Returns tomorrow
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1759 - The
Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions.
1790 - US
copyright law enacted
1868 - 1st
Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
1875 - Reciprocity
Treaty between US & Hawaii ratified
1879 - Madison
Square Garden opens in NY, named after 4th President James Madison
1884 - Dr John
Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
1900 - US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down
Boxer Rebellion
1909 - 1st
NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)
1910 -Maricopa
Reservation, AZ was quarantined because of an outbreak of whooping cough and
measles.
1941 - 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
2014 - Psy's
"Gangnam Style" becomes the first video to reach 2 billion views on
YouTube
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Today’s World Events through History
1279 BC - Rameses
II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
1621 - Sir Francis
Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
1902 - Boer War Ends; Treaty of Unity signed,
Britain annexes Transvaal
1907 - Taxis
1st began running in NYC
1910 - Union of South Africa declares independence
from UK
1911 - R.M.S.
Titanic launched, Belfast
1935 - Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan
1969 - John Lennon
& Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
2008 - Usain
Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal
(+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another good weekend here.
Several high schools in our area graduated yesterday. Lots of
vehicles, decorated with school colors and Class of 2015 were around. Lots of
family dinners too. Nice to see as these kids start off with a new direction.
Plenty of smiles as pictures of grads and family were being taken around the
vehicles.
Last night Phoenix was on the national news and the local stations
were all covering the story. The group that was protesting Islam was met with lots
of police and quite a few counter demonstrators. Glad to say that AZ came out
of it looking very sane. Yes we have our crazies, and they were allowed their
free speech and our open carry gun rules…but it was all peaceful and those
against them were also allowed their free speech. They came, they carried
signs, they yelled, the wandered off. No violence of any kind. Cops did keep
the two groups separated. All is well today.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
does this rebus mean?
Lies
Fear
Lies
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…China
Facts…
Some Chinese-made hair bands were fashioned from recycled condoms.
The six official languages of the United Nations are Arabic,
Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
…Cool
Facts…
MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a
trillion frames per second.
WWOOF is a international program that allows you to travel the
world, with food/accommodations covered, in exchange for volunteer work.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO - 1940
The Emerson School graduated 107 pupils from the eighth grade on
Tuesday.
Forest fire lookouts have been posted for the season and a course
in intensive fire suppression training has been added to the campus.
…Harper’s
Index…
$11,167 – amount paid
at an auction for the collection of Queen Victoria’s undergarments
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The "G" in "G-Spot" stands for Gräfenberg, a
German-born doctor who studied female sexual physiology.
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2 jokes
for the day
Do you know why malt stands are constantly
rated best businesses of the year?
They always give customers a fair shake.
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A widower who never paid any attention to his
wife while she was alive now found himself missing her desperately.
He went to a psychic to see if he could contact his late wife. The psychic went
into a trance.
A strange breeze wafted through the darkened room, and suddenly, the man heard
the unmistakable voice of his dearly departed wife.
"Honey!" he cried. "Is that you?"
"Yes, my husband."
"Are you happy?"
"Yes, my husband."
"Happier than you were with me?"
"Yes, my husband."
"Then Heaven must be an amazing place!"
"I'm not in Heaven, dear."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
SEATTLE
(UPI) - A Seattle couple said a burglar stole a pair of sunglasses from
their car, but ignored something far more valuable -- a $1 million winning
Powerball ticket. The couple, who requested anonymity, said they forgot to
check the numbers on their Powerball ticket after it failed to win the $350
million jackpot in February's drawing. "We didn't even think about a
second chance prize," the couple told Washington's Lottery officials. They
said the ticket sat in their car for about three months. "Someone broke into
our car a few weeks ago and stole a pair of sunglasses," the couple said.
"The stolen sunglasses were actually sitting atop the winning ticket. What
a close call!" The couple checked the numbers on the ticket May 14 and
discovered they had won a $1 million second chance prize. "Well, we
already popped a bottle of champagne! We're also planning a trip to Paris and
Iceland for this year. Other than that, I think we'll just take care of our
house," the couple said. The Seattle Imam's store that sold the ticket
will receive a $10,000 selling bonus, the lottery said. The burglar, meanwhile,
will have to make do with a pair of used sunglasses.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Koalas
aren't big drinkers. They can survive on sufficient water by licking dew from
leaves.
Due to their low-calories diet, they sleep a lot, between 18 to 22 hours a day.
In the evening, they look for food.
They are well suited to sit on trees, as they have extra thick fur on their
bottoms, a cartilaginous pad at the base of their spines and a curved skeletal
structure.
About 80 per cent of koalas have the venereal disease of chlamydia. A side
effect is it makes them incontinent, and the leaking urine can make them pretty
stinky.
Koalas live for 10 years on average, though they can live longer than that.
Female koalas usually produce one koala a year.
They are among a few animals that are like humans in that they have
fingerprints.
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Birthday’s Today
85 - Clint
Eastwood, SF California, actor (Dirty Harry)/mayor (Carmel, CS)
77 - Peter Yarrow, (Peter, Paul &
Mary-Puff the Magic Dragon)
72 - Joe Namath, PA, NFL QB (NY Jets),
$400,000 man (1969 Superbowl)
66 - Tom Berenger, actor (Big Chill, Someone
to Watch Over Me)
65 - Gregory Harrison, Catalina California,
actor (Trapper John)
54 - Lea Thompson,
actress (Back to the Future, Caroline In The City)
51 – DMC (Darryl
"D.M.C." Matthews McDaniels), rocker
50 - Brooke Shields,
model/actress (Blue Lagoon)
39 - Colin
Farrell, Irish actor (In Bruges, Minority Report)
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Remembered for being born today
1898-1993@95 - Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman (Power
of Positive Thinking)
1908-1993@85 - Don
Ameche, Kenosha WI, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places)
1819-1892@72 - Walt
Whitman, West Hills New York, poet (Leaves of Grass)
1941-2003@64 - Johnny Paycheck, singer (Take This Job
& Shove It)
1912-1969@54 - Barbara
Pepper, actress (Doris Ziffel-Green Acres, Rogue Tavern)
1934-1979@45 - Jim Hutton, Binghamton NY, actor
(Ellery Queen)
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Historical Obits Today
Jean
Stapleton, actress (Edith Bunker)-2013@90
Elizabeth
Blackwell, 1st woman physician-1910@89
Jack
Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champ/actor-1983@86
Franz
Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten)-1809@77
Walter
Freeman, American physician (developer and practitioner of psychiatric
surgery transorbital lobotomy)-1972@76
George
Tiller, American abortion doctor, assassinated-2009@67
Chris
Haney, creator of Trivial Pursuit, long illness-2010@59
Adolf
Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, hanged-1962@56
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Brain Teasers Answers
Paralyze with fear
(Pair of lies with fear)
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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…§
