May 11

 

 

 

May 11, 2021   Week: 19    Day: 131                     

Visibility: 10 miles

Ave. Sky Cover: 10%

Local: H 71°\ L 34

Wind:  9mph/ Gusts:  10mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  91mi

Nearest Lightning: 395mi.

May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Lydia M. Child

 

Random Tidbits

 

While Tequila holds a long and storied place in Mexican and Mexican-American celebratory traditions, the margarita didn't even exist in 1862! While tequila, ice, lime, and sugar all existed in 1862, they weren't brought together in the form of a margarita until about 1930.

 

Humor

 

This is how Chicago got started. A bunch of people in New York said, “Gee, I’m enjoying the crime and the poverty, but it just isn’t cold enough.” —Richard Jeni

 

Real Cities

 

Castle Danger Minnesota is an unincorporated community in Silver Creek Township, Lake County, Minnesota,  on the North Shore of Lake Superior.

Castle Danger is located 11 miles northeast of the city of Two Harbors. Gooseberry Falls State Park is nearby.

True Things

 

Don't Eat That!

Among the treasures discovered at Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk, England, is a 121-year-old chocolate bar, still in its tin, commissioned by Queen Victoria for troops fighting in the Second Boer War in South Africa, Reuters reported on March 31. Oxburgh was the ancestral home of the Bedingfeld family for 500 years, and one of them, Sir Henry Edward Paston-Bedingfeld, fought in that war; the chocolate bar was discovered in his helmet case. "Although you wouldn't want it as your Easter treat," mused Anna Forrest, cultural heritage curator at Britain's National Trust, "it is still complete and a remarkable find." On the lid, a message is inscribed in Queen Victoria's handwriting: "I wish you a happy new year." [Reuters, 3/31/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

Ramadan

Thru 5/11

International Wildlife Film Week Link

Thru 5/15  

National Playground Safety Week Link
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week 
Link

Thru 30  

(World) Dystonia Awareness Week Link

3-11

National Nurses Day and Week Link  Link

6-12 

National Public Gardens Week  Link

7-16

Economic Development Week Link
Food Allergy Awareness Week
Link
Hurricane Preparedness Week
Link
National Hospital Week: 9-15 
Link
National Nursing Home Week
National Return To Work Week

National Women's Health Week
Link  Link

 

 

 

9-15

Reading is Fun Week  Link  
Salute to Moms 35+ Week

Salvation Army Week
Work At Home Moms Week

 

 

9-16

National Etiquette Week

10-14

American Craft Beer Week Link
National Stuttering Awareness Week 
Tick Awareness Week 
Universal Family Week

 

 

10-16

Cannes Film Festival

11-22

 

Today’s Observations

 

Eat What You Want Day
Free Cone Day (Haagen-Dazs) Cancelled
Hostess Cupcake Day 
Link
Mocha Torte Day

National Foam Rolling Day Link (Massage)
National Golf Day thru 12 
Link
Root Canal Appreciation Day 

Twilight Zone Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

It’s a nice warm, slightly breezy, great day to start the week. Doors and windows open wide today!

It was nice to watch the Kentucky Derby and much of the pomp a couple of weeks ago. Things seemed to be getting back to normal. Then the news that the winning horse is being investigated for doping. The owner and the trainer say it is a mistake, but Donald had to post ‘junky’ on his blog in talking about the incident. He wants ‘innocent until proven guilty’ for himself and his somewhat sleezy friends but won’t allow that for the horse. Typical.

Last night I watched the CNN special on Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On’. He recorded that 50 years ago and much is still pertinent today. It is a good history lesson, much of which I don’t think I knew back then.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

89. Where does today come before yesterday?

 

Historical Events

 

868 – The first known dated printed book was the Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist scripture. A citation included: “printed on 11 May 868, by Wang Chieh, for free general distribution”.

1811 – The famous Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, were born of Chinese parents in Siam (now Thailand).

1910 -Glacier National Park was established in Montana.

1942 – Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner, was published

1947 – B.F. Goodrich Co. announced the development of tubeless tires.

1949 – The first Polaroid cameras were sold for $89.95.

1980 – Bob Marley died from lung cancer

1985 – Fifty-six spectators died and more than 200 were injured in the Bradford City stadium fire.

1997 – IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess champion, Garry Kasparov.

2002 Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man with Two Hats monument in Ottawa and Apeldoorn (May 2), 2000, symbolically linking both the Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War.

2009 An American soldier in Iraq opened fire on a counseling center at Camp Liberty in Bagdhad leaving 5 other US soldiers dead and 3 soldiers wounded

2015 Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso's The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US$179.3 million at Christies in New York

2019 Carbon dioxide levels in the earth's atmosphere hit levels not seen for 3 million years at 415 parts per million, according to the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

2020 World Health Organization warns “extreme vigilance” needed as many countries begin easing lockdowns

 

Birthdays Today

 

@101 – Irving Berlin, Belarusian-American pianist and composer (d. 1989)

88 – Louis Farrakhan, American religious leader

@84 – Salvador Dalí, Spanish artist (d. 1989)

79 – Eric Burdon, English musician

@74 – Phil Silvers, American comedic actor (d. 1985)

@31 – Cory Monteith, Canadian actor [Glee], singer (d. 2013; OD)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

The dictionary

 

 

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