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Almanac: Week: 22 \ Day: 146
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 60°\L 42° Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind
ave: 3mph\Gusts: 20mph
Ave. High: 71° Record High: 87°
(1951) Ave. Low: 36° Record
Low: 19° (1916)
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Observances Today:
Grey
Day – recognizing a pop group
Sally
Ride Day
World
Lindy Hop Day
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Independence
Day (Georgia) – 1918-from Russia
Sorry
Day (Australia) – since 1998 for the
mistreatment of Indigenous people
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Observances This Week:
24-30
National
Tire Safety Week
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1647 - Alse Young becomes the first person executed
as a witch in the
American colonies, when she is hanged in
Hartford, Connecticut
1805 - Lewis
& Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains
1857 - US
slave Dred Scott and family freed by owner Henry Taylor Blow
3 months after US courts ruled against them
1868 - President
Andrew Johnson avoids impeachment by 1 vote
1894 - Town of Flagstaff
was incorporated on this date in 1894.
1896 - 1st
American intercollegiate bicycle race, Manhattan Beach NY
1913 - US
Actors' Equity Association forms (NYC)
1924
- Pres Calvin Coolidge signs Immigration law: restricting
immigration
1941 - American
Flag House (Betsy Ross' Home) given to city of Phila
1946 - Patent filed in US for H-Bomb
1978 - 1st
legal gambling casino opens in Atlantic City
1998 - Supreme Court rules that Ellis Island, the
historic gateway for millions
of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New
Jersey, not New York
2004 - The US Army vet Terry Nichols is found
guilty of 161 state murder
charges for helping carry out the Oklahoma
City bombing
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Today’s World Events through History
1538 - Geneva
expels John Calvin and his followers from the city. Calvin lives
in exile in Strasbourg for the next three
years
1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte
is crowned king of Italy
1922 - Lenin suffers
a stroke
1963 - Organization of African Unity forms
1972 - The Irish Republican Army (IRA) plant a bomb
in Oxford Street, Belfast,
killing a 64 year old woman
1972 - In the Republic of Ireland, the Special
Criminal Court is re-instituted
to deal with crimes arising out of the
Northern Ireland conflict; as part of the
measures trial by jury is suspended
2014 - The World Health Organization (WHO) confirms
that Ebola has reached
Sierra Leone
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
A cloudy rainy day for Memorial Day. Flag hung on inside window
this time.
Stayed up way too late with Netflix last night…slept in…remained
lazy most of the day. Will I ever learn I ain’t 25 anymore?
Guess not…
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Alice
came across a lion and a unicorn in a forest of forgetfulness. Those two are
strange beings. The lion lies every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and the other
days he speaks the truth. The unicorn lies on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays,
however the other days of the week he speaks the truth.
Lion: Yesterday I was lying.
Unicorn: So was I.
On which day did they say that?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…China
Facts…
According to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Shu general Zhuge
Liang had to defend a town with a mere 100 troops against an army of 150,000.
He hid his men, flung open the gates, and sat on the walls playing a lute. The
opposing general of Wei, Sima Yi, certain it was a trap, ordered a retreat.
A man secretly outsourced his programming job to China. He filled
his work day watching cat videos, surfing Reddit and Facebook. Before being
caught and fired, he made hundreds of thousands.
…Cool
Facts…
In 2002, Kenyan Maasai tribespeople donated 14 cows to the US to
help with the aftermath of 9/11.
Shakira has been making music for more than 23 years, can play the
guitar, drums, percussion, and harmonica, speaks 7 different languages, is the
founder of a charity called Pies Descalzos, and is a goodwill ambassador for
UNICEF.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The wood block floor in the lobby of the City Hall is the only one
like it in all of Arizona and needs to be replaced. Its 28,000 southern yellow
pine blocks were laid seven years ago and secured by a mix of cordite and
sawdust. They have settled and now only the clear finish is holding it
together. Repair would require removal and the sanding on all sides of each
block .
A controlled burn is in progress on 200 acres of the Coconino
National Forest in cooperation with the Rocky Mountain Elk Association between
Camp Verde and Highway 87. It is a part of a 4,000acre project to improve
the wildlife habitat that began last summer.
…Harper’s
Index…
43 – average
number os tidal floods in Washington DC each year
400 – number projected
to occur annually by 2030
…Revisited
History…
In 1968, the world's population was 3,557,000,000.
Today, that number has grown to 7,217,000,000.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The word "sex" was mentioned once on an episode of The
Brady Bunch. Which potty-mouth said it? Cousin Oliver, in one of the show's
final episodes.
…Water
Facts…
The total amount of water on the earth is about 326 million cubic
miles of water.
Of all the water on the earth, humans can used only about three
tenths of a percent of this water. Such usable water is found in groundwater
aquifers, rivers, and freshwater lakes.
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2 jokes
for the day
Q. Did you hear the Energizer Bunny Was
Arrested?
R. Charged With Battery!
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A little girl was talking to her teacher about
whales.
The teacher said it was physically impossible for a whale to swallow a human
because even though a whale is a very large mammal, its throat is very small.
The little girl stated that Jonah was swallowed by a whale.
The teacher reiterated that a whale could not swallow a human, it was
impossible.
The little girl said, "When I get to heaven I will ask Jonah".
The teacher asked, "What if Jonah went to hell?"
The little girl replied, "Then you ask him!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
CHARLOTTE,
N.C. (UPI) - Travelers at North Carolina's Charlotte Douglas International
Airport said a man stripped naked in the concourse because he was mad about an
overbooked flight. Witnesses said the man became angry when he was told his US
Airways flight to Jamaica was overbooked Wednesday, leading him to strip nude
and stand in the concourse without a stitch on his body for about 40 minutes.
One traveler, Sherry Ketchie, shared photos of the naked man standing among the
passengers, which included children. "I seen some people running and I was
wondering what they was running from and people were standing there snickering,
so I walked over and [an airport employee] told me the man was angry over the
Jamaican flight," Ketchie told WBTV. "He had his clothes on, at that
point, and then he started standing there with his arms crossed and hollering
at the lady at the desk," she said. "He stood there for a moment and
then started talking off his clothes. I ain't never seen nothing [like that] in
my life." Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police said the man was taken to a
hospital for evaluation.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Memorial
Day was originally called Decoration Day. To honor the deceased, soldiers would
decorate graves of their fallen comrades with flowers, flags and wreaths. Hence
Decoration Day. Although Memorial Day became its official title in the 1880s,
the holiday wouldn't legally become Memorial Day until 1967.
After the Civil War, General John A. Logan, commander in chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, called for a holiday commemorating fallen soldiers to be
observed every May 30. But due to the Uniform Monday Holiday Act, which took
effect in 1971, Memorial Day was moved to the last Monday of May to ensure long
weekends.
In December 2000, Congress passed a law requiring Americans to pause at 3 p.m.
local time on Memorial Day to remember and honor the fallen.
In addition to the national holiday, nine states officially set aside a day to
honor those who died fighting for the Confederacy in the Civil War: Texas,
South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Tennessee and Georgia. The days vary, but only Virginia observes Confederate
Memorial Day on the last Monday of May, in accordance with the federal
observance of Memorial Day.
Waterloo, New York is considered the birthplace of Memorial Day. According to
the town's website, in 1966 Congress unanimously passed a resolution to
officially recognize Waterloo as the birthplace of the holiday. However, it
remains a contentious debate, with other towns, like Boalsburg, Pa., claiming
the title of "Birthplace of Memorial Day" as well.
On May 30, 1868, James A. Garfield addressed the several thousand people
gathered at Arlington National Cemetery. "If silence is ever golden,"
Garfield said, "it must be beside the graves of 15,000 men, whose lives
were more significant than speech, and whose death was a poem the music of
which can never be sung."
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Birthday’s Today
67 - Stevie Nicks, American rocker and
songwriter (Fleetwood Mac)
66 - Hank Williams Jr,
Shreveport La, country singer (Honky Tonk)
66 - Pam Grier, Winston-Salem NC, actress
(Big Bird Cage)
53 - Bob[cat]
Goldthwait, Syracuse NY, comedian (Police Academy)
51 - Lenny Kravitz,
American musician
40 - Lauryn Hill, American
singer-songwriter
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Remembered for being born today
- Jack Root,
boxing's 1st light heavyweight champion 1876-1963@87
- Robert Morley,
England, actor (African Queen) 1908-1992@84
- Peter Cushing,
England, actor (Dracula, Star Wars, Dr Who) 1913-1994@81
- Peggy
Lee, American singer 1920-2002@81
- John Wayne [Marion
Mitchell Morrison], actor (Green Berets) 1907-1979@72
- Jay Silverheels,
Canadian Native actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger) 1919-1976@67
- Miles Davis,
American jazz musician, trumpeter and composer 1926-1991@65
- Al Jolson, [Asa
Yoelson], jazz singer/silent actor (Mamie, Swanee) 1886-1950@64
- Sally
Kristen Ride, 1st US woman astronaut
1951-2012@61
- Isadora Duncan, American
free form/interpretative dancer 1877-1927@50
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Historical Obits Today
Eddie
Albert, American actor (Roman Holiday)-2005@99
Art
Linkletter, Canadian-American radio\television-2010@97
Charles H
Mayo, US surgeon/co-founder (Mayo Clinic), pneumonia-1939@73
Ida
McKinley, 25th First Lady, long illness-1907@59
Edsel
Ford, owner (Ford Motor Company), cancer-1943@49
Tom
Cassidy, anchor (CNN), AIDs-1991@41
Jimmie
Rodgers, country singer, stroke-1933@35
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Brain Teasers Answers
As there is no day when both of the beings would be lying, at
least one of them must have spoken the truth. They both speak the truth only on
Sunday. However, the Lion would then be lying in his statement, so it couldn't
be said on Sunday. So exactly one of them lied.
If the Unicorn was honest, then it would have to be Sunday - but previously we
proved this wrong. Thus only the Lion spoke the truth when he met Alice on
Thursday and spoke with the Unicorn about Wednesday.
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or
disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually
checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains
mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it
and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the
Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
