May 25

 

 

 

May 25, 2021   Week: 22    Day: 145                     

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 5%

Local: H 70°\ L 35°

Wind:  1mph/ Gusts:  6mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  135mi Nearest Lightning: 568mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind.

~Johannes Brahms

 

Random Tidbits

 

Alice Binney, wife of company co-owner Edwin Binney, coined the word Crayola by joining craie, from the French word meaning chalk, with ola, from oleaginous, meaning oily.

 

Humor

 

`What are the four seasons in Minnesota? Almost winter, winter, still winter, and construction.

 

Monday bonus:

A man from Kansas City walks into a bar and asks, “Wanna hear a joke about people from St. Louis?”

The bartender says, “Listen, pal, I’m from St. Louis, and I won’t appreciate it. The man sitting next to you is 265 pounds, and he’s from St. Louis too. And the bouncer, that huge guy there, is also from St. Louis. So do you still want to tell that joke?”

“No,” says the guy from Kansas City. “Not if I have to explain it three times.”

 

Real Cities

 

Zap, North Dakota is a city in Mercer County, North Dakota, United States. The population was 237 at the 2010 census.

 

Zap was founded in 1913 along a branch line of the Northern Pacific Railway that began in Mandan. The exact origin of the name is uncertain, though there are numerous unconfirmed theories; some say the town was named after Zapp, which was either a prominent Minnesota banking family or a coal-mining town in Scotland.

 

True Things

 

Compelling Explanation

Phedeline St. Felix told police in Pompano Beach, Florida, she had gone to a city park in mid-March to settle an argument with another woman when she allegedly drove her car over a gate and into a playground, accidentally hitting Chaunda McCleod and her 3-year-old grandson instead, injuring them both. "I was attempting to run (the other woman) over," St. Felix said, according to WPLG-TV. McCleod said she saw a fight brewing in the park and "started to get all the kids together to get them out of the park. ... As I'm picking (my grandson) up, she's just hitting us both and we just went flying over the car and finally we hit the ground." St. Felix was arrested and ordered not to have any contact with the victims. [Local10.com, 3/23/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

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

Thru 30  

Fleet Week (NY)

20-26

National African Violet Week
National Backyard Games Week

National Safe Boating Week
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week
Link

 

23-29

Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Link
International Learn To Swim Week
Link
National Fragrance Week
Link

24-30  

Undergraduate Research Week Link 

24-28 

Mule Days  Link   (Moved from April)
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories:

 

25-31

 

Today’s Observations

 

Cookie Monster's Birthday  Link  
National and International Missing Children's Day 
 Link
National Brown Bag It Day

National Missing Children's Day

National Tap Dance Day
National Towel Day 

National Wine Day Link
Nerd Pride Day or Geek Pride Day 
Link

World Thyroid Day  
Link

Sing Out Day

Tap Dance Day

Towel Day Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Sunday was an amazing day. In my brother’s adoption search he discovered lots of half-siblings. Over the past few years, I have become ‘friends’ with those on Facebook. There are a total of 12 children that Jean, his biological mother, had. She raised two and unbeknownst to them, she had put the others up for adoption. She would just ‘disappear’ during the pregnancy, then return after having a baby. Lenny is the youngest known child. He had his wife Eleanor, were on vacation from their home in Fort Collins. They arrived in Flagstaff in time for a great lunch and then an afternoon in downtown Flagstaff. They are such amazing people. He is a wood worker, and she works for the Unitarian church. They are in their mid-50’s with a blended family of 4 adult children. Lenny is a celebrant in the church and is a very good actor in various local and national troupes. We surprised my brother with a video-call to Mexico. It was a surprise, as Lenny and I agreed we would surprise him…and it did. After posting the event on FB, the oldest sibling posted that he plans to visit Flagstaff sometime this year. Very cool. Flagstaff put on a good show after several days of strong winds, the sun was out, it was warm, and enjoyable.

Here is an interesting observation from a Native friend: ‘Native American’ is also disrespectful…and will be until ALL ‘Americans’ are defined by heritage…European-American, Irish-American, etc. It is time we realize we are all American and stop putting humans in those little boxes.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

There are only 3 commonly seen nouns in English whose singular form is spelled with two consecutive ‘O’s, whose plurals are formed by changing OO to EE. One of the three is a two-legged living thing, and the other two are parts of the body. What are these nouns?

 

Historical Events

 

1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore opened at the Opera Comique in London.

1935 – At Forbes Field in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Babe Ruth hit his 714th (and final) home run.

1961 – President John F. Kennedy declared “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space program in this period will be more impressive to mankind, or more important in the long-range exploration of space, and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish.”

1968 – The Saint Louis Gateway Arch was dedicated.

1977 – Chinese government removed the ban on the works of William Shakespeare, the biggest entertainment juggernaut in the Elizabethan era.

1986 – Hands Across America took place.

1992 – Jay Leno made his debut as the new host of The Tonight Show.

1994 – George Swanson was buried in Brush Creek Cemetery, in the driver’s seat of his 1984 white Corvette in Hempfield County, Pennsylvania.

2011- Oprah Winfrey hosted the final episode of her syndicated daytime show.

2017 Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg receives an honorary degree from Harvard University, after dropping out in 2004

2018 – The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) became enforceable in the European Union.

2020 Video of African American George Floyd's arrest and murder while restrained in Minneapolis police custody shows he was pinned to the ground by police officer Derek Chauvin's knee for 8 minutes and 46 seconds, ignites widespread condemnation and nationwide protests

 

Birthdays Today

 

82 – Ian McKellan, actor

78 – Leslie Uggams, American actress and singer

@78 – Ralph Waldo Emerson, poet, philosopher (d. 1882; pneumonia)

@78 – Beverly Sills, American soprano, actress (d. 2007; lung cancer)

77 – Frank Oz, English-born American puppeteer, filmmaker, and actor

58 – Mike Meyers, actor

52 – Anne Heche, American actress

51 – Jamie Kennedy, American actor, producer, and screenwriter

49 – Octavia Spencer, actor

 

Puzzle Answer

 

Goose/Geese…tooth/teeth…foot/feet

 

 

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