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May
29, 2019 Week: 22 \ Day: 149
86004: H 56°
\ L 36° \ Average
Sky Cover: 40%
Nearest
lightning: 480mi
Wind: 6mph\Gusts:
9mph
Visibility:
10 mi
Record
High:
86°[2000] Record
Low: 22°[1918]
May
Averages:
68°\34° (3 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
My fellow Americans,
ask not what your country can do for you,
ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
Random Tidbits
Brown rice is whole grain rice, with
the inedible outer hull removed; white rice is the same grain with the hull,
bran layer and cereal germ removed. Red rice, gold rice, black rice and purple
rice are all whole rice, but with a differently-pigmented outer layer.
The health benefits of rice include
its ability to provide fast and instant energy, regulate and improve bowel
movements, stabilize blood sugar levels, and slow down the aging process, while
also providing an essential source of vitamin B1 to the human body. Other
benefits include its ability to boost skin health, increase the metabolism, aid
in digestion, reduce high blood pressure, help weight loss efforts, improve the
immune system and provide protection against dysentery, cancer, and heart
disease.
Observances This Week
Ramadan 5/5-6/4
National African Violet Week: 26-6/2
Black Single Parents Week: 28-6/3
Scripps National Spelling Bee: 28-31
Observances for Today
Ascension of
Baha'u'Llah
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Learn About Composting Day
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Learn About Composting Day
My Rambling Thoughts
I know it’s Tuesday…but it sure feels
like Monday. Got out and did some necessary shopping. All good. Windows open,
no need for jacket outside.
I am getting very confused…45 pontificates
on ‘America First’, then heads overseas and trashes our political system while
playing buddy/buddy with dictators. I have never heard of an elected leader of
any country talking bad about the country that elected him/her when out of his/her
country. Even more confusing, his
supporters don’t care.
My genetics does not include mountain
climbing. It never has, and never will. My Boy Scout leader was an avid
climber. At one troop meeting he brought a man who had climbed Mt. Everest. The
guy told his story. It was fascinating, but it’s not for me. My neighbor and
good friend Bob climbed all the high peaks in Colorado. His stories were good,
just not for me. I am watching all the beauty and horror at Mt. Everest. I just
don’t get it. There is a spot on a dirt road between Tonalea and Kaibeto on the
Navajo Rez that the locals call ‘Top of the World’. It is beautiful, one can
see for miles in every direction. I stopped there many times. That was enough
for me.
PUZZLE OF THE DAY
Answer
at the bottom of this page
Huey
has 3 donuts, Dewey has 5 donuts. Louie comes along and three of them split the
donuts equally. In exchange, Louie offers 8 candies to Huey and Dewey. What is
the fair way to split the candies?
Today’s Significant Historical Events
1400’s
1453
Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to the Turks under
Muhammad II; ends the Byzantine Empire
1500’s
1592
Battle of Sacheon: Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin repels a Japanese
fleet - first use of Korean Turtle ship
1600’s
1677
Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists
and local Native American
1700’s
1733
The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld in Quebec City
1765
Patrick Henry's historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of
"Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1800’s
1848
Wisconsin becomes 30th US state
1849
Lincoln says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of
the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the
time."
1851
Sojourner Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio
1886
American chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola
1900’s
1912
15 young women are fired by Curtis Publishing in Philadelphia for dancing the
"Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
1916
Official flag of President of the United States adopted
1919
Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, that when light passes a large body,
gravity will bend the rays confirmed by Arthur Eddington's expedition to
photograph a solar eclipse on the island of Principe, West Africa
1943
Meat and cheese rationed in US
1953
Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of
Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition
1968
US Truth in Lending Act signed into law
1973
Thomas Bradley elected 1st African American mayor of Los Angeles, California
1980
53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate
1989
Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty
1997
70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym
2000’s
2001
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers inaugurated.
2004
The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.
2012
Facebook's problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million
from technical glitches
2014
President Obama approves US military training of 'moderate' Syrian rebels to
fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad and al Qaeda-linked groups
2018
Missouri Governor Eric Greitens resigns over an extramarital affair and illegal
use of a donor list
2018
Starbucks closes more than 8,000 US stores early for racial bias training after
two black men wrongly arrested in a store in April
2018
Death toll on Puerto Rico 70 times higher than official figure, likely 4,600
died from Hurricane Maria according to Harvard University study
Birthdays Today
0’s
1630
Charles II,
(d.
1685: @54: apoplectic fit)
King
of England, Scotland and Ireland (1660-85),
born
in St. James's Palace, London
1736
Patrick Henry,
(d.
1799: @63: stomach cancer)
American
Revolutionary and Founding Father famous for his "Give me liberty or give
me death" speech,
born
in Studley, Colony of Virginia, British America
1826
Ebenezer Butterick,
(d: 1903: @77)
inventor
(tissue paper dress pattern)
1903
Bob Hope
[Leslie
Townes Hope],
(d.
2003: @100)
British
born American entertainer,
born
in London, England
1914
Tenzing Norgay,
(d.
1986: @71: stroke)
Tibetan
climber who was the 1st to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 with
Edmund Hillary (exact date of birth unknown, but he celebrated on the 29th),
born
in either northeastern Nepal or Tibet
1917
John F. Kennedy,
(d.
1963: @46: assassinated)
35th
US President (1961-1963) and Senator (D-Mass),
born
in Brookline, Massachusetts
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70’s
74-
Gary Brooker,
English
rock keyboardist and singer (Procol Harum),
born
in Hackney, London
60’s
63-
LaToya Jackson,
American
singer and model (If You Feel the Funk), posed for Playboy,
born
in Gary, Indiana
61-
Annette Bening,
American
actress (Grifters, Bugsy, American Beauty),
born
in Topeka, Kansas
50’s
58-
Melissa Etheridge,
US
singer/songwriter/guitarist (Never Enough)
40’s
47-
Laverne Cox,
American
actress and LGBT advocate,
born
in Mobile, Alabama
44-
Mel B,
[Melanie
Brown]
English
singer "Scary Spice" (Spice Girls),
born
in Leeds, England
44-Daniel
Tosh,
comedian,
actor, writer
Historical Obits Today
90’s
@97-1995
Margaret Chase Smith,
American
politician (U.S. Senator from Maine)
80’s
@89-1998
Barry M. Goldwater,
U.S.
Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate
@87-1979
Mary Pickford,
actress
(Coquette, Suds, Secrets)
@83-2017
Manuel Noriega,
Panamanian
general and dictator (1983-89)
70’s
@74-2010
Dennis Hopper,
American
actor and director,
dies
from prostate cancer
@74-1911
William Schwenck Gilbert,
English
dramatist (Gilbert & Sullivan),
dies
from heart attack while swimming
@74-1892
Baha'u'llah
[Mirza
HA Noeri],
Persian
founder (Baha'i), .
dies
of fever
60’s
@60-1942
John Barrymore,
American
actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8),
dies
from cirrhosis of the liver and kidney failure
50’s
@59-1951
Fanny Brice,
American
Zeigfield Girl and comedienne (Baby Snooks Show),
dies
after stroke
40’s
@48±-1500
Bartolomeu Dias,
Portuguese
explorer (1st European to round Cape of Good Hope),
drowns
Puzzle answer:
Huey
must take 1 chocolate, and Dewey must take 7. This is because each of them ate
8/3 donuts, and therefore Huey gave away 1/3 of his donuts, whereas Dewey gave
away 7/3 of his donuts.
