Memorial Day 2021

 

 

 

May 31, 2021   Week: 22    Day: 151

Memorial/Decoration Day: Remember the Fallen!

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 20%

Local: H 76°\ L 41°

Wind:  9mph/ Gusts:  18mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  223mi Nearest Lightning: 153mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

“For love of country they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.”- James A. Garfield

 

“Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay.”- Barack Obama

 

 

Random Tidbits

 

Whenever a pregnant women suffers from organ damage like heart attack, the fetus sends stem cells to the organ helping it to repair.

 

It is illegal to climb trees in Oshawa, a town in Ontario, Canada.

 

Humor

 

Traveling outside Taos, a man comes upon a Native American lying in the middle of the road with his ear pressed against the blacktop.

“What are you doing?” asks the man.

The tribesman replies, “Woman, late 30s, three kids, one barking dog in late model, four-door station wagon, traveling at 65 mph.”

“Amazing! You can tell all of that just by listening to the ground?”

“No,” says the Native American. “They ran over me five minutes ago.”

 

Real Cities

 

Ninety Six, South Carolina is a town in Greenwood County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,998 at the 2010 census.

There is much confusion about the name, "Ninety Six", and the true origin may never be known. Speculation has led to the mistaken belief that traders estimated it was 96 miles (154 km) from here to the nearest Cherokee settlement of Keowee (it was about 78 miles (126 km); to a counting of creeks crossing the main road leading from Lexington, South Carolina, to Ninety-Six (a legend proved false); to an interpretation of a Welsh expression, nant-sych, meaning "dry gulch". No one is able to confirm that European founder Robert Goudey (sic) was Welsh, English, Scottish, or German.

 

True Things

 

Compelling Explanation

Andrew Almer of Fargo, North Dakota, has flown an American flag from the balcony of his condominium for two years, but the condo association is now demanding the flag be taken down because it creates too much noise flapping in the wind. "You've got to be kidding me," Almer told reported KVLY-TV. "It's not rude, it's not nasty, it's the American flag. ... It's not coming down anytime soon." [KVLY-TV, 3/10/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

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

 

25-31

Fleet Week (NY)

26-31

 Black Single Parents Week

28-6/3

National Polka Weekend Link

Old-Time Player Piano Weekend Cancelled until 2022

29-31 

INVICTUS GAMES Link Cancelled 

29-6/5  

National African Violet Week

30-6/5

National Marina Days Link

31-9/6  

 

Today’s Observations

 

Hamburger Day Link 
Memorial Day (Observed)
National Macaroon Day

National Smile Day Link
Necrotizing Fasciitis Awareness Day   
Link   Link
Prayer for Peace Memorial Day
Save Your Hearing Day Link
What You Think Upon Grows Day
World No Tobacco Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Another great weather day…no complaints.

I mentioned the horrific bicyclist crash here in Flag. As of this morning, 6 local restaurants have donated all sales and tips for Sat. and Sun. to the families of the man killed and the families of those injured. In addition, a GoFundMe account was set up yesterday and as of this morning, they had raised $45,000 and counting. The bike rally has changed to a ‘walk your bike’ event. Flag is a great little town.

Canada has just announced that they found 235 buried children and a Catholic School for Indigenous children. The school had been taken over by the government in the 1960’s and closed in the 1970’s. Shameful!

I’m sad that as the country recognizes the soldiers who died in war, we are suffering from the 235th mass shooting since Jan. 1. This time 2 died and 25 were injured outside a club in Florida. Still looking for the shooter[s]. It is time for a memorial in DC to honor those killed on our soil, by our own citizens. It would have to be designed to grow with each passing day. Maybe plant a tree for every American killed by another American is a mass shooting with a plaque naming the victim at each tree.

 

Daily Riddle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

 

Historical Events

 

1279 BC – Ramesses II became pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. He may have been the pharaoh involved with Moses. He was the subject of Percy Bysshe Shelly’s Ozymandias. “King of Kings am I, Ozymandias. If anyone would know how great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works.”

 

1578 – The Catacombs of Rome were discovered.

 

1790 – The United States enacted the Copyright Act of 1790.

 

1859 – Big Ben, located at the top of London’s 320-foot-high St. Stephen’s Tower, began operating.

1889 – Johnston, Pennsylvania Flood killed over 2,200 people.

 

1977 – Broadway Show – Beatlemania (Musical) May 31, 1977

1977 – The Sex Pistol’s God Save The Queen was banned from performing on the BBC.

1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was completed.

2005 – W. Mark Felt’s family announced that assistant FBI director Felt, was in fact, ‘Deep Throat’ – the insider who told reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein the details about President Nixon’s Watergate scandal.

2013 – A record-breaking 2.6-mile wide tornado struck El Reno, Oklahoma, United States, injuring 150 and killing 8 people.

2017 – President Donald Trump tweeted the word “covfefe”.

2017 Kenya's Madaraka Express, a Chinese-built high-speed railway from Mombasa to Nairobi is opened by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta

2019 Disgruntled employee shoots and kills 12 people at a US municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia

2019 US President Donald Trump threatens to impose extra 5% tax on Mexican goods if country does not increase its efforts to curb immigration

 

Birthdays Today

 

@95 – Norman Vincent Peale, American minister, author (d. 1993)

91 – Clint Eastwood, American actor and director

@85 – Don Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)

78 – Joe Namath, American football player

@72 – Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, journalist (d. 1892; pneumonia)

@70 – John Ringling, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Ringling Brothers Circus (d, 1936)

60 – Lea Thompson, American actress

56 – Brooke Shields, American model and actress

@45 -- Jim Hutton, actor (d. 1979; liver cancer)

45 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor

@32 – John Bonham, drummer [Led Zepplin] (d. 1980; choked/alcohol)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

Answer: A candle

 

 

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