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May
14, 2020 Week: 20
Day: 135
86004:
H
69° \ L
36° \
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:
10mph\Gusts: 18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest
lightning: 590mi.; Nearest active fire: 268mi.
High
Risk of Fire
Record
High: 83°[1938]
Record Low:
21°[1942]
May
Averages: 68°\34°
(3 days with moisture)
Today’s
Quote
"The
use of traveling is to regulate imagination
with
reality, and instead of thinking
of
how things may be, see them as they are."
—
Samuel
Johnson
Random
Tidbits
Before
they were famous:
J.K.
Rowling
“Harry
Potter” author J.K. Rowling taught English in Portugal in the early
1990s. She began work on her legendary tale of the boy wizard while
working in Portugal.
Art
Garfunkel
One
half of Simon and Garfunkel worked as a math teacher in Connecticut
as a young man. He once told an interviewer for Forbes: “I would
have been comfortable being a teacher. I supported myself in high
school by tutoring kids and making decent money at it. That was my
first instinct about what I could do to make money.”
Have
a smile
A
friend sent these to me
Question:
What's a lumberjack's favorite director?
TimBuuurrrrrrrton
Observations
This Week
Ramadan:
23-5/23
National
Public Gardens Week: 8-17 Link
INVICTUS GAMES: 9-16 Link
Universal Family Week: 10-16
Food Allergy Awareness Week: 10-16 Link
National Hospital Week: 10-16 Link
National Nursing Home Week: 10-17
National Police Week: 10-16
National Return To Work Week: 10-17
National Transportation Week: 10-16
National Women's Health Week: 10-16 Link Link
Reading is Fun Week: 10-17 Link
Salute to Moms 35+ Week: 10-16
Salvation Army Week: 10-17
Brain Injury Awareness Week: 11-17 Link
National Etiquette Week: 11-15
National Stuttering Awareness Week: 11-17
Work At Home Moms Week: 11-17
American Craft Beer Week: 11-17 Link
Cannes Film Festival: 12-23 Cancelled due to COVID-19
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week: 13-19 Link
PGA Championship: 14-17 Moved to August due to COVID-19 Link
INVICTUS GAMES: 9-16 Link
Universal Family Week: 10-16
Food Allergy Awareness Week: 10-16 Link
National Hospital Week: 10-16 Link
National Nursing Home Week: 10-17
National Police Week: 10-16
National Return To Work Week: 10-17
National Transportation Week: 10-16
National Women's Health Week: 10-16 Link Link
Reading is Fun Week: 10-17 Link
Salute to Moms 35+ Week: 10-16
Salvation Army Week: 10-17
Brain Injury Awareness Week: 11-17 Link
National Etiquette Week: 11-15
National Stuttering Awareness Week: 11-17
Work At Home Moms Week: 11-17
American Craft Beer Week: 11-17 Link
Cannes Film Festival: 12-23 Cancelled due to COVID-19
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week: 13-19 Link
PGA Championship: 14-17 Moved to August due to COVID-19 Link
Observations for Today
National
Brioche Day
National
Buttermilk Biscuit Day
My
Rambling Thoughts
A
little cooler today, but so far, only light winds. Nice walk while it
was still calm. Then tackled cleaning the downstairs bathroom and
laundry room. Great day.
A
reader sent me this great parody. Check it out:
NAU
students are getting money from the CARES Act. Full time students who
have a PELL Grant get $500 and all other full time students are
getting $400. Each student just has to fill out a short form and the
money is deposited into their bank account within 7 days. Good deal.
Flagstaff
Shelter Services has moved all their clients to one of three hotels
in town to assist with social distancing. They got a special deal,
since most hotels in our tourist town are empty. This pandemic is far
from over.
Today’s
Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
The
more you take away from me,
the
bigger I become.
What
am I?
Historical
Events
1796
- Edward Jenner, a doctor from Gloucestershire, England successfully
tested his vaccination for smallpox on eight year old James Phipps.
1804 - Lewis and Clark expedition left St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.
1842 - Alfred Lord Tennyson published Poems.
1850 - The first US. patent (#7,365) for a dish washing machine was issued to Joel Houghton of Ogden, NY, for an "Improvement in Machines for Washing Table Furniture".
1897 - The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa was first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia.
1925 - Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway was published.
1932 - The first electrical timing device was tested at a track meet between Columbia and Syracuse at Baker Field, NYC.
1948 - In Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel
1949 US President Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1955
- The Warsaw Pact was signed between the Soviet Union, Albania,
Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria
in response to the west's North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
1961 Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama
1969
Last Chevrolet Corvair built1973 - Skylab I was launched.
1973
US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military
1980
Department of Health & Human Services begins operation
1986
Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank's
complete diary
1995
Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th
reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most senior spiritual
leader
1998
- 76.3 million people tuned in for the series finale
of Seinfeld.
2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel "Americanah" is published
2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel "Americanah" is published
2018
Chinese mountain climber and double amputee Xia Boyu reaches the
summit of Mt Everest
2018
Boulder City Council in Colorado votes to ban assault weapons
Birthdays
Today
76-Director George Lucas
@72-Dancer Eddie Cantor (d. 1964)
68-Singer David Byrne
59-Actor, Director Tim Roth
51-Actor
Cate Blanchett (1969)
@37-Singer Bobby Darin (d. 1973; sepsis)
36-Entrepenaur
Mark Zuckerberg
Puzzle
Answer:
A
hole
