Mother's Day 2021

 

 

 

May 9, 2021   Week: 19    Day:  129       

Visibility: 10 miles

Ave. Sky Cover: 40%

Local: H 75°\ L 34°

Wind:  8mph/ Gusts:  17mph

High Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  111mi

Nearest Lightning: 354mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

Harry S Truman

 

Random Tidbits

 

Darwin did not argue that humans came from monkeys. Rather he wrote only that monkeys, apes, and humans have a common ancestor.

 

Humor

 

What do you call a Hawaiian murder mystery?

A Hula-Dunnit.

 

Real Cities

 

Satan’s Kingdom, Massachusetts is an unincorporated village in the town of Northfield, Franklin County, Massachusetts, is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) and is near the Vermont border.

 It was named Satan's Kingdom after a resident of Northfield walked out of a church where a sermon about the fires of hell had just been given and saw a forest fire across the Connecticut River, and observed that Satan’s Kingdom was burning.

 

True Things

 

Cliche Come to Life

Around 4:15 a.m. on March 24, an unidentified resident of Laurium, Michigan, woke to find a gun pointed at his head, WLUC-TV reported. Laurium Police said Warren Meyers, 52, of Calumet, Michigan, allegedly demanded the homeowner give him his two cats. The "cat burglar" left with one cat and was later apprehended, along with the gun he used, said authorities. He was arraigned on March 29 in Houghton County Court; the fate of the stolen cat is unknown. [WLUC-TV, 3/29/2021]

 

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  

Children's Book Week 

National Sun Safety Week Link
National WildflowerWeek 

Screen-Free Week (Digital Detox Week Link

 

3-9

(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

 

Today’s Observations

 

Birth Mother's Day 

Butterscotch Brownie Day

Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day

Europe Day
International Migratory Bird Day 

Lilac Sunday 

Lost Sock Memorial Day 

Mother's At The Wall Day
Mother's Day Link  Link

National Babysitters Day 

National Foodies Day

National Moscato Day
National Shrimp Day

Peter Pan Day

Rogation Sunday or Rural Life Sunday

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Happy Mother’s Day

Lots of clouds, but no precipitation expected. Still a nice day.

My mother lived to 89 years old. She was always able to find the bright side of any issue. She worked hard her entire life. She’s been gone for almost 13 years. I honor her memory today.

That Chinese Rocket Booster thingy, weighing 20 tons, is expected to hit the earth tonight or tomorrow morning. With all the world’s modern technology the scientists are unable to determine where or even how much will hit our planet. They say somewhere from ‘some’ to ‘a little’ will burn up in the atmosphere. They map of where it might land is basically most of the earth. This is one big piece, about 3 school busses in size, of the more than 5,500 tons of junk that man has put up there. Here’s to hoping it lands in the ocean, like maybe on the plastic ‘island’ that is polluting the ocean. Man has certainly tried to make a mess of our planet.

Back in 2000, 12 bottles of Petrus wine were sent to the space station to ferment. Those bottles usually sell for $7000+ each. These 12 bottles will be auctioned off at Christies and are expected to bring about $1million each. I forgot my password to my Christie account, so I won’t be bidding.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

88. The more of this there is, the less you see. What is it?

 

Historical Events

 

1662 – Famous puppet Mr. Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.

1671 – Thomas Blood, disguised as a clergyman, attempted to steal England’s Crown Jewels.

1865 – The patent (#47,631) was issued to Richard Jordan Gatling for the Gatling gun, which was the first to successfully combine reliability, high firing rate, and ease of loading into a single device.

1882 – William F. Ford was issued a patent (#257,487) for his stethoscope.

1887 – Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show opened in London, England.

1893 – The first motion picture exhibition was presented by Thomas Edison in Brooklyn, New York to an audience of 400 people at the Dept of Physics, Brooklyn Institute, Brooklyn, NY using his Kinetograph.

1914 – Although referred to since the late 1800s, US President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first Mother’s Day holiday on this date.

1926 – Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett made the first flight over the North Pole.

1950 – L. Ron Hubbard (Lafayette Ronald Hubbard) published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.

1955 – West Germany joined NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).

1958 – Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo has its world premiere in San Francisco.

1960 – The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the world’s first commercially produced birth-control bill-Enovid-10.

1961 – Newton Minow, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, referred to television as the “vast wasteland”

2015 – Russia staged a large military parade in Moscow’s Red Square to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Victory Day.

2012 United States President Barack Obama officially states his support for same-sex marriage

2017 US President Donald Trump dismisses FBI Director James Comey

2017 Fossil of Chinese feathered baby dinosaur formally identified as Beibeilong sinensis (baby dragon in Chinese)

2018 India's Supreme Court criticizes the country’s archaeological conservation body for failing to protect the Taj Mahal from discoloration and green slime

2018 Oldest viral DNA, a form of hepatitis B, reported discovered in 7,000 year old skeleton found in Germany

2019 French adventurer Jean-Jacques Savin (72) successfully crosses the Atlantic Ocean in a barrel arriving in Martinique

2019 Archaeologists hail Anglo-Saxon tomb found 2003 in Prittlewell, England, as Britain’s equivalent of Tutankhamun’s tomb as full report of its contents published

 

Birthdays Today

 

@93 – Mike Wallace, American journalist and media personality (d. 2012)

@82 – Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)

@77 – J.M. Barrie, Scottish novelist, playwright (d. 1937; pneumonia)

75 – Candice Bergen, American actress

72 – Billy Joel, American singer-songwriter and pianist

68 – Amy Hill, Actor

@64 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (d. 1939, Hodgkin's)

60 – John Corbett, American actor

@59 – John Brown, American activist (d. 1859; executed)

42 – Rosario Dawson, American actress

 

Puzzle Answer

 

Darkness

 

 

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