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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1815 - Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols1862 - US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
1933 - "Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio1946 - 1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime
1961 - JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress & Peace Corp
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Free Rambling
Thoughts
We had a great
discussion group last night. It started off with a great slide show of how the
ocean currents work. Amazing. With all our satellites, we can learn so much
more about the ocean. We humans have only explored about 5% of the ocean, but
we have had a great influence in what is happening in the ocean. All the oceans
are connected and there is really just one ocean. Tectonic plates have had land
area separate throughout this one ocean. The depth, currents, temperature and
salinity of the ocean is varied…and now we know so much more than any time in
history. Humans have tried to set up boundaries to the ocean with international
waters up to 200 miles from certain countries coasts. This doesn’t work. Almost
50%+ of the world’s population lives within 60 miles of the ocean. Fish is a
food mainstay for many cultures. Some of the modern technology has made it possible
to basically clear all the fish from a certain area. Many countries are talking
about mining the ocean for rare metals. As if there isn’t enough to learn about
and probably worry about, it is very important that humans, especially
governments, learn more and more about our ocean. Without a change in policy,
we humans, like the dinosaurs, may disappear.
Hopefully tomorrow will
be haircut day. I called but my hair cutter wasn’t working today. She should be
in tomorrow, but knowing her, that may or may not happen. Hopefully it will, as
I am in need.
Hunting African game in
Texas? Damn…60 minutes just ran a very disturbing report. It isn’t ‘hunting’ by
any stretch of the imagination. So sad. Even though they are claiming
conservation of nearly extinct species, Texas ain’t Africa.
Game Center
(answers at the end of post)
Brain Game
NPR Sunday Puzzle
Every
answer is a word or name that contains the syllable "port." For
example, given the clue "consequential," the answer would be
"important."
1.
A
newspaper employee:
2.
A
sofa: davenport
3.
Travel
device on Star Trek:
4.
Language
of Brazil:
5.
Home
of the Trail Blazers:
6.
What
a political candidate needs:
7.
Window
on a ship:
8.
DaVincii’s
Mona Lisa:
9.
Travel
document: passport
10. Maker of goods to be sold overseas:
11. Variey of mushroom:
12. Variety of steak:
13. An artist’s showcase:
14. A word like brunch, a blending of two
words:
Wuzzles
What concept or phrase do these suggest?
Lifestyle Substance
AZ Centennial is in 17 days: Did
you know?…
Grand Canyon's Marble Canyon got its name from its thousand-foot-thick seam of marble and for its walls eroded to a polished glass finish.
The world's largest solar telescope is located at Kitts Peak National Observatory in the city of Sells.
New:
Daffynitions: :-)
CHURCH — Where the world is seen through stained-glass.
DIPLOMAT — A person who tells you to get lost and you can’t wait to get started.
Found on You Tube
Healthy Oceans, Healthy Humans
Harper’s Index
- Portion of college students who believe alcohol improves their ability to tell jokes: ¾
- Portion who believe it improes their sexual encounters: 1/3
Joke-of-the-day
Q. Why did the pig cross
the road
A. To prove that he wasn't a chicken
Planet Earth
Rules of Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
If a choking person can verbally request the Heimlich maneuver, he or she doesn't need it.
Somewhat Useless Information
- According to mythology Osiris was the oldest son of Nut, goddess of the sky and Geb the earth god. He married Isis. Their only son who was born after his death was Horus. Hieroglyphics containing his name have appeared as far back as 2400BC. Osiris became the god of the underworld. Because of his resurrection as the god of the underworld he is often associated with the rise and fall of the Nile. Egyptians believed that the underworld granted all life so he is often depicted as being green.
- The very first KY Derby was run on May 17th in 1875. The first horse to win the derby was Aristides ridden by Oliver Lewis. The Derby is run every year on the first Saturday in May at the now famous Churchill Downs. Although the derby has varied in length it is now one and a quarter miles and is also known as the 'Run for the Roses".
- Queen Elizabeth's coronation took place on June 2, 1953 in Westminster Abbey. She and her husband Prince Phillip have four children: Charles, Anne, Andrew and Edward. During World War II the Queen served in the military as a member of the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service. Her main duty was driving military trucks, and her rank was No. 230873 Subaltern Elizabeth Windsor. She is the Queen of 16 countries.
Yeah, It Really Happened
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A homeless man who was stuck in thick mud near the Rio Grande river in Albuquerque for three days was rescued Saturday after some high school students on a field trip heard him yelling for help, authorities said.However, the man's newfound freedom wasn't going to last. Police said he was wanted on a felony warrant, and they planned to arrest him after he was treated at a local hospital.A group of La Cueva High School students and their biology teacher heard the man yelling Saturday morning from a marshy wetlands area in the Oxbow Open Space Preserve, the Albuquerque Fire Department and police officials said.The students were in the area — about two miles north of Interstate 40 in Albuquerque — doing a school project. They called authorities and told them that the man said he'd been stuck in the river for three days and could not move, according to a police report.Fire crews and preserve officers responded and found a "male subject stuck on a reed island about a hundred yards from the west bank of the river," the report said.Crews deployed an air boat and used a pulley system to lift the man from the mud and water, and up a hill.Police later identified the man as Clayton Senn, a transient who'd been living near the river.Authorities said they discovered a warrant for Senn's arrest on suspicion of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, a felony. Senn was taken to an Albuquerque hospital for treatment and was to be booked on the warrant upon his release, police said.Details on Senn's condition were not immediately available.
Calendar Information
…Happening This Week:
20-30
Sundance Film Festival
29-2/5
Catholic Schools Week
Meat Week
Intimate Apparel WeekNational Cowboy Poetry Gathering WeekInternational Hoof Care Week
Today Is
Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day
Escape Day: Head for the SpaInane Answering Message Day
Today’s Other Events
1400’s
1487 - Bell chimes invented
1600’s
1647 - Scots agree to sell King Charles I to
English Parliament for £400
1800’s
1800 - US population:
5,308,483; Black population 1,002,037 (18.9%)
1815 - Burned Library of
Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols
1818 - Keats composes his
sonnet, "When I Have Fears"
1847 - Yerba Buena renamed
San Francisco
1862 - US Navy's 1st
ironclad warship (Monitor) launched
1894 - Pneumatic hammer
patented by Charles King of Detroit
1900’s
1922 - World Law Day, 1st celebrated
1928 - Eugene O'Neill's "Strange
Interlude," premieres in NYC
1933 - "Lone
Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio
1933 - Adolph Hitler named German Chancellor, forms government with Von
Papen
1943 - 6 British Mosquito's
daylight bomb Berlin
1946 - 1st issue of Franklin
Roosevelt dime
1956 - Elvis Presley records
his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"
1956 - KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins
broadcasting
1961 - Bobby Darin is
youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC
1961 - JFK asks for an Alliance for Progress &
Peace Corp
1961 - KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS)
begins broadcasting
1968 - Vietcong launch Tet-offensive on US embassy
in Saigon
1973 - 1st Kiss concert
(Queens NY)
1983 - Superbowl XVII: Wash Red Skins beat Miami
Dolphins, 27-17 MVP: John Riggins
1989 - The American embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan
closes
1994 - Superbowl XXVIII: Dallas Cowboys beat
Buffalo Bills, 30-13 MVP: Emmitt Smith
1996 - Gino Gallagher, the
suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army, is killed while waiting
in line for his unemployment benefit.
2000’s
2000 - Super Bowl XXXIV: St.
Louis Rams beat Tennessee Titans, 23-16 MVP: Kurt Warner
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Gene Hackman, actor is 82
In their 70’s
Boris Spassky, USSR, world chess
champion (1969-72) is 75
Vanessa Redgrave, actress (Blow-Up,
Julia, Orient Express) is 75
Dick Cheney, (46th VP),
Bush's secretary of defense (1989-93) is 71
In their 60’s
Phil Collins, English singer/drummer
(Genesis-Against All Odds) is 61
In their 50’s
Brett Butler, comedienne (Grace-Grace
Under Fire) is 54
Curtis Strange, PGA golfer (1989 US
Open) is 57
In their 30’s
Christian Bale, actor is 38
Under 30 years old
Jake Thomas, actor is 22
Remembered for being
born on this day
Dick Martin, actor/comedian (Laugh-In,
Carbon Copy) in 1922
John D Profumo, English politician (C)
in 1915
Thomas Rolfe, American colonial
settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe is 1615
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd Pres
in 1882
William Payne Stewart, PGA golfer
(1983 Walt Disney) in 1957
David Wayne, actor (Andromeda Strain,
Adams Rib) in 1914
Today’s Obits
Frank Nelson Doubleday, American
publisher dies at 72 in 1934
Mahatma Gandhi, India's political and
spiritual leader, assassinated at 78 in 1948
Asa Gray, US botanist (Flora of North
America), dies at 77 in 1888
Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster dies
at 90 in 1999
Ingemar Johansson, Swedish heavyweight
professional boxing champion of the world dies at 77 in 2009
Coretta Scott King, American activist
and wife of Martin Luther King, Jr. dies at 79 in 2006
John McIntire, actor (Virginian,
Psycho), dies of emphysema at 83 in 1991
Osceola, chief of Seminole, dies at
34. in jail today at Fort Moultrie, in Charleston, It is believed he has
some sort of throat disease, others will say malaria, other say of a broken
heart in 1838
Ferdinand Porsche, German car inventor
(Porsche), dies at 75 in 1951
Betsy Ross, American seamstress dies
at 84 in 1836
Sidney Sheldon, American author,
playwright, and screenwriter dies at 92 in 2007
Orville Wright, US aviation pioneer,
dies at 76 in 1948
Answers
Brain Game
KenoOunceVenomBelongOctaneAbdomenEmotion Theme: monocle
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
A
newspaper employee: reporter
2.
A
sofa: davenport
3.
Travel
device on Star Trek: transporter
4.
Language
of Brazil: Portuguese
5.
Home
of the Trail Blazers: Portland
6.
What
a political candidate needs: support
7.
Window
on a ship: porthole
8.
DaVincii’s
Mona Lisa: portrait
9.
Travel
document: passport
10. Maker of goods to be sold overseas:
exporter
11. Variey of mushroom: Portobello
12. Variety of steak: Porterhouse
13. An artist’s showcase: portfolio
14. A word like brunch, a blending of two
words: portmanteau
Wuzzle
Buckle upLooking all over the bargainsA backward glance
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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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.
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