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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 22/ Day: 148 Today: H 70°…L 39°
Wind: ave: 8mph; Gusts: 23mph Ave. humidity: 25%
*Averages: H
72° L 37°
Records: H 87°(1974)…L 23°(1916)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st all color talking picture "On With
the Show" exhibited (NYC)…1929
1st animated 3-D cartoon in
Technicolor-"Melody" premiers…1953
1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to
fight in Civil War…1863
1st Continental Congress convenes
(Virginia)…1774
1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's
Fields, London)…1742
Attorney General says it is legal for women to
wear trousers anywhere…1923
European Market accepts Greece as member…1979
Hernando de Soto lands in Florida…1539
Monitor, Civil War warship, is discovered by a
deep sea robot…1987
White House "plumbers" break into
Democratic Natl HQ at Watergate…1972
Women of Greece are given the right to
vote…1952
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
A windy Memorial Day…but still got lots done. Flag hung just after sunrise. Laundry from my trip is finally finished. Got a haircut. Cleaned off my deck and got it set up for summer. Time for the wind to stop so I can enjoy my deck in all its splendor. Maybe I’ll read the paper out there tomorrow morning before the wind starts.So glad to see, that while on my cruise, some people woke up and are starting to see a better world. A federal judge finally decided that Sheriff Joe, the county sheriff around Phoenix, was found guilty of profiling those with brown skin. We have known this for years that his traffic sweeps were questionable both for location and for timing. Then today, retired Senator Dole says that today’s Republicans need to look at what they are doing…adding that neither he nor Ronald Reagan would be successful in today’s party. Well, duh…but still good to hear. These are small steps I know, but they are steps we haven’t seen in a long time.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Take the given words, and by moving a single
letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms.
For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating
two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Burn - Bead 2. Rid - Tripe 3. Grove - Rout 4. Charm - Rush 5. Cream – Sweep
***
Hint
1. Food 2. Journey 3. Indentation 4. Damage 5. Outcry
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
- Number of seconds the Long Island Power Authority spent discussing Hurricane Sandy in public meetings before the storm: 39
- Number of hours before power was restored in the majority of Long Island residents affected by the storm: 361
- Estimated feet by which Sandy shrank the New Jersey’s shoreline: 35
Picture of the Day: Recent Canadian Cruise
Unusual Fact of the Day
Calvin Coolidge's Vice President, Charles Gates Dawes, was also a songwriter. In 1951, a tune he’d composed called “Melody in A Major” became a number one pop hit.Joke-of-the-day
Q: Do politicians ever lie? A: What do you think they get paid for?
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
THE RULE OF THREE
A list of three things always sounds better, even if you're repeating yourself. This works in principle, in practice and in theory.
Yeah, It Really Happened
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Police in Charlotte, N.C., said a woman called authorities and had her juvenile son arrested for stealing her Pop-Tarts. Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said officers responded to the woman's home Monday and she reported her juvenile son had stolen her breakfast pastries, WCNC-TV, Charlotte, reported Thursday. The police report said the boy was placed under juvenile arrest on a charge of larceny/misdemeanor. WCNC-TV said the woman, whose name was not reported, refused to comment at her home, choosing to instead shout an obscenity and slam the door.
Somewhat Useless Information
- Memorial Day was a response to the unprecedented carnage of the Civil War, in which some 620,000 soldiers on both sides died.
- Waterloo, New York., began holding an annual community service on May 5, 1866. Although many towns claimed the title, it was Waterloo that won congressional recognition as the "birthplace of Memorial Day."
- From the practice of decorating graves with flowers, wreaths and flags, the holiday was long known as Decoration Day. The name Memorial Day goes back to 1882, but the older name didn't disappear until after World War II. Federal law declared "Memorial Day" the official name in 1967.
- On May 30, 1868, President Ulysses S. Grant presided over the first Memorial Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery -- which, until 1864, was Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's plantation.
- On Memorial Day weekend in 1988, 2,500 motorcyclists rode into Washington, D.C., for the first Rolling Thunder rally to draw attention to Vietnam War soldiers still missing in action or prisoners of war. By 2002, the numbers had swelled to 300,000 bikers, many of them veterans. There may have been a half-million participants in 2005 in what organizers bluntly call "a demonstration -- not a parade."
- It is customary on Memorial Day to fly the flag at half staff until noon, and then raise it to the top of the staff until sunset.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
25-31
·
Black Single Parents Week
·
Hurricane Preparedness Week
Today Is
·
International
Jazz Day
·
Julia
Pierpont Day: 1866 when she started Decoration Day following Civil War
·
National
Hamburger Day
·
Sierra Club Day
·
Slugs Return From Capistrano Day
·
Day of
the Republic (Azerbaijan): 1918 Azerbaijan independence from the
Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic, forming the the Azerbaijan
Democratic Republic
·
Derg
Downfall Day (Ethiopia): end of the Derg junta in 1991
·
Republic
Day (Nepal): 2008
ending 240 year reign of Shahs
Today’s Events through History
1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston)…1664
1st in a series of treaties is signed with
California Indians at Dent's and
Ventine's Crossings…1851
Andrew Jackson, called "Sharp Knife"
by the Indians, has long fought the Indians
of the southeast. He believes that
the Indians and white settlers will not be able
to peacefully live together.
His solution to this is to renege on all of the previous treaties,
which
granted the Indians their lands forever, and to move all Indians west of
the
Mississippi River…1830
Chrysler Building in New York City officially
opens…1930
Daint-Leu at Oise begins French boer uprising…1358
Jawaharlal Nehru cremated in New Dehli…1964
Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great
Britain…1982
Senator Eugene McCarthy wins Democratic
primary in Oregon…1968
Wide World of Sports with Chris Schenkel
premieres on CBS radio…1962
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
Carroll Baker, actress is 82
In their 70’s
Dionne Quintuplets, Emelie, Marie, [Yvonne,
Annette, Cecile are 79]
Jerry West, NBA superstar (LA Lakers,
Olympic-gold-1960) is 75
In their 60’s
John Fogerty, rock vocals (Creedence
Clearwater Revival) is 68
Rudy Giuliani, (Mayor-NYC) is 69
Gladys Knight, singer, leader of Pips (Last
Train) is 69
In their 50’s
Brandon Cruz, actor (Eddie-Courtship of
Eddie's Father) is 51
In their 30’s
Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American television
panelist (The View) is 36
Remembered
for being born today
George I, King of England (1660-1727)
Joseph Greenberg, American linguist (1915-2001)
Barney Rosset, publisher and free speech
advocate (publisher of Tropic for Cancer),
(1922-2012)
Gary Stewart, country singer (She's Actin'
Single) [1944-2003]
James Francis Thorpe [Wa-Tho-Huk, "Bright
Path"], decathelete (Olympic-gold-1912)
(1888-1953)
T-Bone Walker, blues guitarist (Funky Town,
Well Done) (1910-1975)
Today’s Historical Obits
Anne Bronte, English novelist (The Tenant of
Wildfell Hall)…heart disease…1849…at 29
Gary Coleman, actor…seizures…2010…at 42
Edward VIII, King of Great Britain and
Northern Ireland…1972…at 77
Sidney Greenbaum, grammarian…1996…at 66
Phil Hartman, Canadian actor, comedian… "domestic discord"…1998…at
49
Audie Murphy, actor (Whispering Smiths)…private
plane…1971…at 46
Roy Roberts, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy
Show)…heart attack…1975…at 69
Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's
Dictionary)…1843…at 84
Rhys Williams, actor (Nightmare, Okinawa, Corn
is Green)…1969…at 71
Answer: Brain
Teasers
1. Bun - Bread 2. Ride - Trip 3. Groove - Rut 4. Harm - Crush 5. Scream - Weep
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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