TODAY’s HOLY MACKEREL: 1950 Albert Einstein warns against hydrogen bomb
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MY FREE RAMBLING THOUGHTS
Our Great Decisions group meets tonight. I am looking forward to seeing everybody. We haven’t met since early summer, so we are off and running. Tonight’s discussion is about the Caucusus—that region around Turkey, Russia, Iran with 12 independent countries most of which were part of the USSR. Each ethnic group has a long history, the average age in most of the countries is only 22.7 years old. They have little to make them world powers, but are important for the movement of gas and oil to surrounding countries. They tried democracy when the Russian Empire fell in 1917, but were quickly pulled into the USSR. Then in 1991, they had their second chance. Some have moved toward democracy, others haven’t. It should be an interesting discussion.
Because of the discussion, I’m not going to do some of the regular stuff. I’ve been busy reading and researching the area.
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DID YOU KNOW THAT…
--To remove hard-water and lime build-up in a teapot or kettle, pour in two cups of vinegar and bring to a boil. Let simmer for about 10 minutes, then rinse well.
SOMEWHAT USELESS INFORMATION…Measurement
--One cup is equal to 8 fluid ounces or 16 table spoons, and a quart is 2 pints or 4 cups.
--Fahrenheit to Celsius: Subtract 32 degrees to adjust for the offset in the Fahrenheit scale. Multiply the result by 5/9.
PUZZLE: Who Wants To Be a Millionaire […answers at bottom…]
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UNUSUAL NEWS ITEM…
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A LITTLE LAUGH…
Even with a thousand games, dolls and crafts to choose from, my customer at the toy store still couldn't find a thing for her grandson.
"Maybe a video or something educational?" I asked.
"No, that's not it," she said.
We wandered the aisles until something caught her eye: a laser gun with flashing lights and 15 different high-pitched sounds.
"This is perfect," she said, beaming. "My daughter-in-law will hate it."
Top 10 Famous People Who Didn’t Actually Exist…
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CLOSEUP PICTURE…
Can you identify this close up picture
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FOUND ON ‘YOU TUBE’
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♫ Rock Anthems ♫
Click on Song Title to see and hear
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DAYBOOK INFORMATION
¤…THIS WEEK…¤
6-12 ► Dump Your Significant Jerk Week ♥ Freelance Writers Appreciation Week ♥ International Coaching Week ♥ Jell-O Week
7-14 ► Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week ♥ Publicity for Profit Week ♥ Risk Awareness Week ♥ Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week ♥ World Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week
10-16 ► Celebration of Love Week ♥ Children of Alcoholics Week
12-15 ► Random Acts of Kindness Week
¤…TODAY IS…¤
Paul Bunyan Day ♥ Darwin Day ♥
Daytona Pole Day: Qualifying for the Memorial Day Race
Lincoln's Birthday ♥ National Freedom to Marry Day ♥ National Plum Pudding Day
NAACP Day: created in 1909
Oglethorpe Day: 1733 landing and founding of Georgai
Red Hand Day (to learn about the use of child soldiers around the world)
Safetypup Day: To remind everyone of Child Safety, since 1955
Burma: Union Day (1947)
Today’s Births
○ AUTHORS/COMPOSERS
Judy Blume, 73, author (Blubber, Superfudge)
1898 Leroy "Roy" Harris composer (When Johnny Comes Marching Home)
○ ATHLETES
Joseph Henry (Joe) Garagiola, 85, sportscaster, former baseball player
William Felton (Bill) Russell, 77, Hall of Fame basketball player and former coach
○ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
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○ ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS/…)
Maud Adams, 66, actress (Killer Force, Octopussy)
Joe Don Baker, 75, actor (Charlie Varrick, Cool Hand Luke)
Josh Brolin, 43, actor (Milk, No Country for Old Men)
1915 Lorne Greene of Ottawa Canada, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica)
Arsenio Hall, 56, comedian, actor (Coming to America
1904 Ted Mack of Denver CO, TV host (Original Amateur Hour)
1919 Forrest Tucker actor: Sands of Iwo Jima, The Yearling, Thunder Run, F Troop
○ POLITICIANS
1775 Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams wife of John Quincy Adams
1893 Omar Bradley General of Army WWII "The GI General"
1809 Abraham Lincoln 16th President (1861-65)
Arlen Specter, 81, former US Senator (D, Pennsylvania),
1588 John Winthrop English attorney/puritan/1st Governor of Massachusetts
○ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1809 Charles Darwin discovered evolution (Origin of species)
1663 Dr Cotton Mather witchcraft authority
Today’s Obits
1983 Eubie Blake ragtime-composer/pianist (Memories of You), @ 100
1982 Victor Jory of Dawson City Yukon Territory Canada, actor (Adventures of Tom Sawyer, 1st Lady, Jigsaw), @ 79
2000 Tom Landry, Dallas Cowboy coach, leukemia @ 75
1976 Sal Mineo actor (Exodus, Rebel Without a Cause), stabbed @ 37
1947 Sidney Toler actor (Charlie Chan, Dark Alibi), @ 72
1942 Grant Wood US painter (American Gothic), liver cancer @ 50
Today’s Events…
○ ARTS
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○ ATHLETICS
1879 1st artificial ice rink in North America (Madison Square Garden, NYC)
1994 The XVIIth Winter Olympic Games opened in Lillehammer, Norway
○ BUSINESS & EDUCATION
1908 New York to Paris auto race (via Alaska & Siberia) begins in New York NY; George Schuster wins after 88 days behind the wheel
○ INDIGENOUS PEOPLE
1825 Creek Indian treaty signed; Tribal chiefs agree to turn over all their land in Georgia to the government & migrate west by Sept 1, 1826
1806 A Clatsop gives Lewis and Clark three dogs to replace a stolen elk.
○ POLITICS (International)
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○ POLITICS (US)
1973 The State of Ohio went metric, becoming the first in the U.S. to post metric distance signs along Interstate 71
○ SCIENCE & RELIGION
1502 Granada Moslems forced to convert to Catholicism
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ANSWERS
Millionaire ANSWERS…
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Picture…
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