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Almanac: Week: 19 \ Day: 125
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 63°\L 39° Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 28mph
Ave. High: 64° Record High: 86°
(1947) Ave. Low: 33° Record
Low: 18° (1950)
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Observances Today:
Cartoonists
Day Childhood
Depression Awareness Day
Childhood
Stroke Awareness Day Children's
Day (Japan)
Children's Day (South Korea) Cinco de Mayo
International
Midwives' Day Liberation
Day (Netherlands)
National
Day of Prayer National
Day of Reason
National
Hoagie Day National
Library Legislative Day
National
Teacher Day Oyster
Day
Patriots
Victory Day (Ethiopia) Revenge
of the Fifth (Star Wars Sith)
Totally
Chipotle Day
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Observances This Week:
1-7
Choose Privacy Week
2-10 National Tourism Week
3-9 Be Kind To Animals Week National Anxiety & Depression
Awareness Week
Children's Mental Health Week National Correctional Officer's Week
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week National
Family Week
Drinking Water Week National
Hug Holiday Week
Dystonia Awareness Week National
Pet Week
Flexible Work Arrangement Week National
Post Card Week
Goodwill Industries Week National
Raisin Week
Kids Win Week NAOSH Week
Public
Service Recognition Week
National Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week
4-10
Children's
Book Week PTA
Teacher Appreciation Week
National Occupational Safety &
Health Week Screen-Free Week
Screen-Free Week
National Small Business Week Teacher
Appreciation Week
National Wildflower Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1809 - Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent
(weaving straw)
1816 - American
Bible Society organized (NY)
1847 - American
Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1865 - 1st US
train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
1877 - Indian
Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada
to avoid harassment
by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles
1887 - George Hand, a
Tucson pioneer, wrote in his diary that an earthquake
struck southern Arizona causing two-story
buildings to sway and
entire mountain sides to give way in the
Catalina Mountains.
1893 - Panic of
1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
1916 - US
marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1920 - US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party
illegal
1920 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are
arrested on charges
and robbery of a paymaster at a shoe factory
in Massachusetts, US
- the two men will executed
1925 - John T
Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1926 - Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for
"Arrowsmith"
1941 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood
(There shall be no night)
1943 - Postmaster
General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
1947 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren
(All the King's Men)
1952 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
1958 - Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for
(Death in the Family)
1961 - Alan
Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1969 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
1975 - Pulitzer
prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
1987 - Congress
begins Iran-Contra hearings
1991 - A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant
section of Washington, D.C.
after a Salvadoran man is shot by police.
1997 - "Married
With Children" final episode on Fox TV
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Today’s World Events through History
1260 - Kublai
Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1912 - 5th
Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
1930 - Amy
Johnson takes off - first woman to fly solo from England to Australia
1941 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
1941 - First modern perfume Chanel No. 5 released.
1944 - Gandhi freed
from prison
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Today was the day for my laser treatment for one eye to zap scar
tissue after my cataract surgery. I prefer morning appointments, my eye doctor
only does these treatments in the afternoon. Our compromise was that I went in
at 2:45…he won. Amazing procedure. Sit in a chair, he looks in your eye through
a machine and starts playing like an early video game. Zap, Zap-Zap, Zap, etc.
After about 10 zaps, he is done. Easy, simple. Not knowing what was happening, I
spent most of the day cleaning and straightening the house so I wouldn’t get
stressed. Guess it worked, as I think I can see better out of that eye. And the
house is much cleaner.
Nice rain on and off today. We certainly need it.
I decided not to pay for the fight on Sat. I did listen to ESPN to
get the round by round account. Not the result that I was hoping for, but that’s
the boxing game. It will be interesting to see if there is a rematch. If there
is, I’m sure I will shell out the bucks to see it, simply because this fight
went all 12 rounds. One of the Ali-Frazier fights I watched back in the day was
over in the first round.
Cinco de Mayo will be big in Flagstaff. No big plans, but I’m sure
I’ll hear the celebrating. For those unfamiliar with the day, it commemorates
the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla
on May 5, 1862. Mexican Independence Day is Sept. 16.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Fill
in the blanks with four words, such that the first and the fourth are the same,
while the second and the third are homonyms.
A jailer _ _, and a jeweler _ _.
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Cat
Facts…
A fall of 30 feet can be survived by most cats.
When cats are happy, they may squeeze their eyes shut.
…Cool
Facts…
Japan has a network of "melody roads" that play music as
you drive over them at the correct speed.
Steve Jobs' secretary told him that she was late for work because
her car wouldn't start. That very afternoon, Jobs came back and threw her a set
of keys to a brand new Jaguar, saying: "Here, don’t be late anymore."
In 2012, a running partner took his runner girlfriend on a run
that ended at the place where they first met. When he showed her his GPS
tracker, the tracked route read "MARRY ME".
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
~ Tommy Serino, having bounced his car against a train that was
using the rails at the crossing of San Francisco Street, was brought before
Police Judge C. T. Pulliam on a charge of disregarding the railroad crossing
and fined $25.
~ The crew from Taylor and Taylor has spent the week working on
the problem of the leak in the pipe line to Lake Mary. 77 CCC men have moved to
Mormon Lake to provide sufficient help for the Coconino National Forest Nursery
tree planting project.
~Ranger Oscar McClure of the Coconino National Forest reported
seeing a prowling lion near Fort Tuthill.
~ At the Orpheum, Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio “ full length in
Technicolor.
…Harper’s
Index…
34-- Factor by which a member of the
general U.S. population is more likely than a U.S. prisoner to self-identify as
an atheist
…100
People…
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
50 would be female
50 would be male
…Murphy’s
Real Laws…
10. I feel like I'm
diagonally parked in a parallel universe.
11. He's not dead. He's electroencephalographically
challenged.
…Unusual Fact
of the Day…
“Drag,” in reference to cross-dressing, first appeared in the
dictionary in 1870. The term originated in the theater. Men wearing elaborate
gowns found that long hems tended to drag on the ground, and eventually
referred to any character requiring a dress as a “drag” role.
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2 jokes
for the day
Q. What did the digital clock say to the
analog clock?
A. Look, No hands!
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QUESTION: Why did the chicken cross the road?
Answers:
Pat Buchanan: To steal a job from a
decent, hard-working American.
Machiavelli: The point is that the
chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The ends of crossing the road justify
whatever motive there was.
Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten
minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.
Timothy Leary: Because that's the
only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
The Bible: And God came down from the
heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road."
And the Chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.
Fox Mulder: It was a government
conspiracy.
Freud: The fact that you thought that
the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
Darwin: Chickens, over great periods
of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now
genetically predisposed to cross roads.
Richard M. Nixon: The chicken did not
cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road.
Oliver Stone: The question is not
"Why did the chicken cross the road?" but is rather "Who was
crossing the road at the same time whom we overlooked in our haste to observe
the chicken crossing?"
Jerry Seinfeld: Why does anyone cross
a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, "What the heck was
this chicken doing walking around all over the place anyway?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I envision a
world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their
motives called into question.
Dirk Gently (Holistic Detective): I'm
not exactly sure why, but right now I've got a horse in my bathroom.
Bill Gates: I have just released the
new Chicken 2000, which will both cross roads AND balance your checkbook,
though when it divides 3 by 2 it gets 1.4999999999.
M.C.Escher: That depends on which plane of reality the chicken was on at the
time.
George Orwell: Because the government had fooled him into thinking that he was
crossing the road of his own free will, when he was really only serving their
interests.
Colonel Sanders: I missed one?
Plato: For the greater good.
Aristotle: To actualize its
potential.
Karl Marx: It was a historical
inevitability.
B.F. Skinner: Because the external
influences, which had pervaded its sensorium from birth, had caused it to
develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while
believing these actions to be of its own freewill.
Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the
chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken
crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of
reference.
The Sphinx: You tell me.
Buddha: If you ask this question, you
deny your own chicken nature.
Emily Dickenson: Because it could not
stop for death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross
the road; it transcended it.
Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the
rain.
Saddam Hussein: This was an
unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of
nerve gas on it.
Saddam Hussein #2: It is the Mother
of all Chickens.
Joseph Stalin: I don't care. Catch
it. I need its eggs to make my omelet.
Dr. Seuss: Did the chicken cross the
road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes the chicken crossed the road, but why he
crossed, I've not been told!
O.J.: It didn't. I was playing golf
with it at the time.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Do you remember the scene in the movie Animal House when Boon
stuffs Larry 'Pinto' Kroger's pants full of meat at the Food King? Today's
story is basically that, except a lot more stupid.
Florida-A man and woman have been
arrested in central Florida after police say they stole more than $300 worth of
meat from a grocery store.
Deputies reported that 48-year-old Doris Rowe and 54-year-old Kenneth Edwards
drove 26 miles to a Winn-Dixie store in DeLand where a store manager saw Rowe
stuffing meat products and other items into her pants.
Deputies say the manager stopped Rowe and she hit the manager in the neck,
dropping pork ribs, two packs of detergent and three water filters. Rowe fled
the store and got into Edwards' truck. Deputies apprehended them at a traffic
stop. Both were charged with grand theft and robbery.
Deputies found ribeye steaks, ground beef, bacon, pork ribs and a gallon of
bleach in the car valued at $361.
No 15-year-old cashiers or middle-aged Deans' wives were molested during or
after the incident.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Not
all wines improve with time. In fact, a vast majority of wines produced are
ready to drink and do not have much potential for aging. Only a rare few will
last longer than a decade.
Red wines are red because fermentation extracts color from the grape skins.
White wines are not fermented with the skins present.
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Birthday’s Today
88 - Pat Carroll, Shrevport La,
comedienne/actress (Make Room for Daddy)
85 - Will Hutchins, Atwater California,
actor (Sugarfoot, Hey Landlord)
72 - Michael
Palin, comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda)
56 - Brian Williams,
newscaster
34 - Danielle
Christine Fishel, Mesa AZ, actress (Topanga-Boy
Meets World)
27 - Adele [Adele
Laurie Blue Adkins], English singer (Someone Like You)
26 - Chris Brown,
American R&B singer
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Remembered for being born today
- Ann B Davis,
American actress (Alice-Brady Bunch) 1926-2014@88
- Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist,
pioneering lasers1921-1999@77
- John Batterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer 1830-1906@75
- Charles Bender(Ojibwe),
only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame 1883-1954@70
- Karl Marx,
philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital) 1818-1883@64
- Nellie
Bly, [Elizabeth Cochran Seaman], journalist and writer 1865-1922@57
- Tammy Wynette [Virginia
Pugh], country singer 1942-1998@55
- Tyrone Power,
Cleve, actor (Mark of Zorro) 1913-1958@44
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Historical Obits Today
Claude
Choules, last surviving World War I veteran-2011@110
Robert
Mylne, Scottish architect (Blackfriars Bridge)-1811@78
Joseph
Albert, German photographer (Albertotype)-1886@61
Ben
Alexander, actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), natural causes-1969@57
Napoleon Bonaparte, French
emperor, cancer?suicide?-1821@51
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Brain Teasers Answers
A jailer watches cells, and a jeweler sells watches.
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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…§
