May 19,
2021 Week: 20 Day: 139
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 15% |
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Local: H 69°\ L 39° |
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Wind: 7mph/ Gusts: 19mph High Risk of Fire: Active fire: 365mi Nearest
Lightning: 347mi. |
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May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
I know not with what
weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with
sticks and stones.
~Albert Einstein
Humor
After surveying property along the New Hampshire and Maine border,
some engineers decided the boundaries needed to be changed. They stopped to
tell a farmer that he was no longer in Maine but in New Hampshire. “Good,” said
the farmer. “I couldn’t take another one of those Maine winters.”
Real Cities
Dummer, New Hampshire is a town in Coos County, New
Hampshire. The population was 304 at the 2010 census.[1] Dummer is home to the
Pontook Reservoir, popular with canoeists, kayakers and birdwatchers.
The town was granted on March 8, 1773 by Governor John
Wentworth to a group of wealthy Portsmouth investors, including his father,
Mark Hunking Wentworth, Nathaniel Haven and others. He named it after
Massachusetts Governor William Dummer, who successfully defended the eastern
English provinces from the French and Indians in Dummer's War. But the town
remained unsettled until 1812 when William Leighton arrived from Farmington
with his family. Dummer was incorporated by the General Court on December 19,
1848.
True Things
The
Continuing Crisis
--
Larry Lee Harris, 66, of Willcox, Arizona, was arrested after chasing a caravan
of three National Guard vans carrying COVID-19 vaccines out of a truck stop in
Lubbock, Texas, on March 22 and trying repeatedly to run the vans off the road,
police said. WAFB-TV reported Harris finally turned his vehicle into oncoming
traffic and stopped the vans, then allegedly pointed a gun at a guardsman,
identified himself as a detective and insisted on searching the vehicles. He
told Idalou police, who found a .45-caliber pistol and loaded magazines in his
possession, that he was looking for a kidnapped woman and child. "Mr.
Harris appeared to be mentally disturbed," Idalou Police Chief Eric
Williams said. All 11 unarmed uniformed guardsmen escaped unharmed. [WAFB-TV,
3/22/2021]
Weekly Observations
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National Playground Safety Week
Link |
Thru
30 |
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Cannes
Film Festival |
11-22 |
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EMS (Emergency Medical
Services) Week Link National
Medical Transcription Week Link |
16-22 |
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National Foul Ball Week |
16-21 |
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17-23 |
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Health Information
Professionals Week Link |
18-24 |
Today’s Observations
Buddha
Day Link (Celebration
Date) Note: Historical date is always April 8)
EMSC (Emergency Medical Services) Day Link
Emergency Medical
Services for Children Day Link
May Ray Day
National Hepatitus
Testing Day
National Asian &
Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
National Devil’s Food Cake Day
National Employee Health & Fitness Day Link
National Juice Slush Day Link
National Scooter Day
Turn Beauty Inside Out
Day
World IBD Day Link
World Plant a Vegetable
Garden Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice Spring day…Yeah!
I made a quick trip this morning for baby Aspirin. I forgot to get
them the last time I was shopping and ran out last night. Gotta keep the heart
strong.
The Supreme Court is hearing a case that could change Roe v Wade. As
an adopted baby, I wish all those who are against abortion would spend their
time and money helping children who are unwanted. There are already too many
kids in need of parents who will care for them. Like it or not, sex is a
natural drive and without the choice of abortion, there will be even more
unwanted children. Historically, there will also be many more deaths of young
pregnant women who go underground to find someone to end their pregnancy. I am
so tired of the ‘It is not for me, therefore it is not for thee’ mentality. I wish
those against abortion would meet with expectant mothers planning an abortion,
pay for their pregnancy and agree to adopt and raise the child. It they believe
that the baby in the womb has done nothing wrong with it, then neither has the
child carried properly to term.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
97. It stalks the countryside with ears that can’t hear. What is it?
Historical Events
1536 – Anne Boleyn, the second wife of Henry VIII of England, was
beheaded for adultery, treason, and incest.
1568 – Queen Elizabeth I of England ordered the arrest of Mary, Queen
of Scots.
1780 – The Dark Day: that morning, a combination of thick smoke and
heavy cloud cover caused complete darkness to fall on Eastern Canada and the
New England area of the United States candles were needed by noon, and it did
not disburse until the following evening, causing New England’s Dark Day.
1944 240 gypsies transported to Auschwitz from
Westerbork, Netherlands
1965 – Pete Townshend wrote My Generation today, his 20th birthday on
a train. He was on a train because his car, a 1935 Packard hearse, was ordered
away by the Queen.
1987 – A patent (#4,666,425) for “keeping a head alive” was issued to
Chet Fleming.
1997 – Avian flu, A(H5N1), killed a three-year-old boy in Hong Kong,
its first victim.
2011 Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer, project to search for dark matter,
led by Samuel C. C. Ting, installed on the International Space Station
2015 Historic first handshake between Prince Charles and Sinn Féin
leader Gerry Adams at the National University of Ireland in Galway
2018 – The wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle was held at St
George’s Chapel, Windsor
2020 Greenhouse gas emissions dropped 17% worldwide in April 2020 when
world was in lockdown, in study published in "Nature Climate Change"
Birthdays Today
@79 – Ho Chi
Minh, politician (d. 1969)
@78 – Johns
Hopkins, American businessman, philanthropist (d. 1873)
76 – Pete Townshend, English singer-songwriter
73 – Grace Jones, Jamaican-American singer-songwriter
@39 –
Malcolm X [Malcolm Little], minister, activist (d. 1965; assassinated)
38 – Michael Che, American comedian
29 – Marshmello [Chris Comstock], American electronic music producer, DJ
29 – Sam Smith, English singer-songwriter
Puzzle Answer
Corn
