May 31

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Today’s  Historical  Highlights

1790: US copyright law enacted

1879: Madison Square Garden opens

1884: Dr John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"

1907: Taxis 1st began running in NYC

1913: 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified

1935: Quake kills 50,000 in Quetta Pakistan

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  Free Rambling Thoughts   

Another fine weather day in Flag…but still really low humidity.

Over the long weekend there were almost 40 tickets issued to people who had illegal campfires. There are signs everywhere…No Campfires. The sign does not say No Campfires* (*except for you)! I don’t get this. We all love the forest and we want to keep it intact. I get that camping without a campfire is less than desirable, but living year round in a burned out area is unacceptable. I hope they all get the maximum fine--$5K + one year in jail) It’s the price of being stupid.

I found a great article today on the internet machine. Here’s the chart showing the 10 languages with the most speakers in the world.  Kinda looks like MSL (Mandarin as a Second Language) will soon be quite popular.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

Brain Game—A close up picture of what?

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NPR Sunday Puzzle

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What is the word or phrase?

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3x3 Word Boxes

The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 3 letters.

1.      Family vehicle

2.     Tavern beverage

3.     Fresh or young

Lifestyle  Substance     

Summer Songs of the 1960’s

Respect, Aretha Franklin 1967 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (2 weeks)

Come Together, The Beatles 1969 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (1 week)

Theme From "A Summer Place", Percy Faith 1960 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (9 weeks)

Penny Lane, The Beatles 1967 Billboard Hot 100 Peak: #1 (1 week)

Harper’s Index         

Maximum number of years in jail a new bill introduced by Senator Patrick Leahy proposes for the selling of fake Vermont maple syrup: 8

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Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day

It was a stormy night. A guy was driving in some mountains and his car broke down. He stopped it by a tree and walked down the highway looking for help. A headlight started to approach him from behind. He turned back and noticed a car coming forth very slowly. He walked up to it, opened the door, and sat on the passenger's seat. Then he suddenly notices that there was no driver, but the car was moving! Before the guy could decide what to do, a sharp turn appeared a few meters before the car and it seemed that the car was going to go off the cliff. The guy trembled in fright, but a pale hand came in from the open window and turned the steering wheel! When the car finished turning around the curve, the hand withdrew. Every time there was a turn, the same hand would come in and guide the wheels of the car to safety. The guy could not believe all this. As soon as he saw the lights of some rest stop by the road he jumped off the car and ran into a bar, pale, wet, trembling, and telling everybody that he had a most creepy, supernatural experience. Then two young men dripping in mud came into the bar. One saw the guy and said, "Hey, that's the stupid fellow that got in our car while were pushing."

Rules of Thumb   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

In moderate whitewater, expect to average about four to five miles per hour if you paddle straight down river and don't stop to play.

Yeah, It Really Happened

Palm Beach, FL- A Florida man was arrested this week after three women told police he pulled a gun on them so he could cut into a McDonald's drive-through line.
The women said their car was side by side James Lee Cruz's vehicle at the fast-food restaurant in West Palm Beach, when he took out a gun and pointed it at them.In fear, the women backed up and allowed Cruz to pass them.The women then took down Cruz's license plate and called police as they followed him home. Cruz faces three counts of aggravated assault. Apparently Big Macs are much more irresistible now that McDonald's isn't using 'pink slime' anymore.             

Somewhat Useless Information   

• A tree can absorb as much as 48 pounds of carbon dioxide per year and can sequester 1 ton of carbon dioxide by the time it reaches 40 years old.

• One large tree can lift up to 100 gallons of water out of the ground and discharge it into the air in a day.

For AZ centennial celebration: town names

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Calendar Information        

…Happening This Week:

27-6/2

Hurricane Preparedness Week

Black Single Parents Week

Today Is                                                                      

Hug Your Cat Day

National Macaroon Day

What You Think Upon Grows Day

World No-Tobacco Day

Today’s Other Events                                                             

Before 1000CE

1279 BC: Rameses II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes pharaoh of Ancient Egypt

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1600’s

1621: Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night

1700’s

1759: The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions

1796: The Treaty of the Seven Tribes of Canada is signed by three Chiefs at New York City. The tribes give up all claims to lands in New York, except six square miles in Saint Regis. They are paid 1233 pounds, six shillings, and eight pence now, and 213 pounds, six shillings, eight pence annually, if five more Chiefs show up and sign the treaty.

1800’s

1821: Cathedral of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated in Baltimore

1868: 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio

1870: Congress passes 1st Enforcement Act (rights of blacks)

1876: According to the San Diego Union, a San Diego California newspaper, there are disputes over land with the CAMPO Indians. "One Indian took refuge in the rocks . . . and continued firing. They soon discovered his whereabouts and silenced him, shooting him through the head, killing him instantly."

1900’s

1900: US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion

1909: 1st NAACP conference (United Charities Building, NYC)

1941: 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale

1941: German occupiers forbids Jews access to beach & swimming pools

1949: Charley Lupica begins stay on 4 foot square platform atop a 60' pole, vowing to stay until Indians clinch pennant. (They don't, & stays 117 days)

1955: Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"

1969: John Lennon & Yoko Ono record  "Give Peace a Chance"

1969: Stevie Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"

1990: 63rd National Spelling Bee: Amy Marie Dimak wins spelling fibranne

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Remembered for being born on this day

Fred Allen, Cambridge Mass, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show) in 1894

Don Ameche, Kenosha WI, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places) in 1908

Alexander Cruden, compiler of a concordance to King James Bible in 1699

Henry M "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash) in 1912

Johnny Paycheck, Greenfield OH, singer (Take This Job & Shove It) in 1941

Norman Vincent Peale, Ohio, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking) in 1898

Walt Whitman, West Hills, NY, poet (Leaves of Grass) in 1819

In their 80’s

Clint Eastwood, actor (Dirty Harry)/mayor (Carmel, California) is 82

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In their 60’s

Tom Berenger, actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me) is 62 

Sharon Gless, actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey) is 69

Gregory Harrison, Catalina California, actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run) is 62

Joe Namath, PA, NFL QB (NY Jets), $400,000 man (1969 Superbowl) is 69

In their 50’s

Lea Thompson, actress (Back to the Future, Caroline In The City) is 51

In their 40’s

Brooke Shields, model/actress (Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan) is 47

In their 30’s

Colin Farrell, Dublin, Irish actor (In Bruges, Minority Report) is 36

Today’s Obits                                                           

Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, dies in 1910 at 89

Millvina Dean, last living survivor of the RMS Titanic disaster dies in 2009 at 97

Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champ/actor, dies in 1982 at 87

Arlene Francis, American television personality dies in 2001 at 93

Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer (Jahreszeiten), dies in 1809 at 77

George Tiller, American abortion doctor assassinated in 2009 at 67

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Brain Game: Close Up Picture

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What is the word or phrase?

A friend in need

NPR Sunday Puzzle

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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 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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