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Almanac: Week: 19 \ Day: 129
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 46°\L 34° Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 31mph
Ave. High: 65° Record High: 81°
(1934) Ave. Low: 32° Record
Low: 14° (1930)
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Observances Today:
American
Indian Day National
Miniature Golf Day
Armed
Forces Day National
Moscato Day National
Bereaved
Mother's Day Birthmother's Day National
Windmill Day
Cornelia
de Lange Syndrome Awareness Day Stay
Up All Night
International
Migratory Bird Day Train
Day
International
Migratory Bird Day World
Belly Dance Day
Letter
Carrier's Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive Day
Lost
Sock Memorial Day World
Fair Trade Day
Military-Amateur
Crossband Communications Day
Mother
Ocean Day
National
Babysitters Day
**
Victory
Day (Russia)
Yom
Ha'Atzma'ut (Israel - Independence Day)
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Observances This 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
1754 - 1st
newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
1768 - John
Hancock pays duties on 25 pipes of wine, only one fourth of
his ship's carrying capacity, and British
officials accuse him of
unloading the rest during the night to avoid
paying the duties on the
entire cargo
1868 - The city of Reno, Nevada, is founded
1887 - Buffalo
Bill Cody's Wild West Show opens in London
1899 - Lawn
mower patented
1913 - 17th
amendment provides for election of senators by popular vote
1914 - US President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
1922 - Last federal
troops left Fort Apache, just as the first Lutheran
Mission was dedicated there with the baptism
of 100 Apaches
1944 - 1st eye
bank opens in New York
1958 - Hitchcock's
"Vertigo", starring Jimmy Stewart and Kim Novak, released
1962 - Laser beam successfully bounced off Moon for
1st time
1970 - 100,000s
demonstrate against Vietnam War
1980 - Slasher horror film "Friday the
13th" is released in US cinemas
2012 -
President Obama officially states his support for same sex marriage
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Today’s World Events through History
1457 BC - Battle
of Megiddo (15thC BC) between Egyptian Thutmose III
and a large Canaanite coalition under
King of Kadesh. First battle
recorded with a reliable account
1386 - Treaty
of Windsor between Portugal and England (the oldest
diplomatic alliance in the world which is
still in force)
1785 - British
inventor Joseph Bramah patents beer-pump handle
1896 - 1st
horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
1932 - Piccadilly Circus, London first lit by
electricity
1936 - Italy takes Addis Abba, annexing Absynnia
(Ethiopia)
1949 - Prince Rainier III becomes monarch of Monaco
1969 - Following his release from prison Ian
Paisley, North Ireland Loyalist
holds a
'victory' meeting
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Crazy weather Friday. Sunny and nice this morning, grey clouds
enter the scene. Rain falls, thunder, then snow and then more rain. Finally the
sun comes back out.
None of the snow was sticking but snow…really?!?..then more rain
and more snow.
Our discussion group meets tomorrow night to discuss the ‘rise and
fall of Obama-mania in Africa’. Should be a great discussion. Looks like some
of my trips were during the height of the mania…and that was for sure.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Unscramble
the words below, then take the letters from each word as instructed to form
another word that is the answer to this teaser:
LIUQA Take letters 1 & 2
PDIET Take letters 1,2 & 4
ETRSO Take letters 1 & 4
DONU Take letters 1 & 4
Unscramble the letters you collected... what do you get?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Cat
Facts…
It's possible to train your cat to use the toilet as a litter box
and even flush afterwards.
The CIA once spent $20 million on a cat equipped with gear to spy
on the Soviets, but it was hit by a taxi.
…Cool
Facts…
If an ant is drunk, a fellow comrade will carry him back to the
nest to sleep off the alcohol.
In 1959, the USPS attempted to deliver mail via cruise missile and
successfully shipped 3,000 pieces of mail from Virginia to Florida in 22
minutes.
If an employee of Google dies, their spouse will receive half
their pay for 10 years as well as stock benefits, and any children will receive
$1000 a month until they turn 19.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
Forest rangers are going to be patrolling on motorcycles this
year. Alan T. Bedwill of Jerome will be patrolling the Old Trails Route from
Bellemont to Winona twice a day and will camp at Riordan. He uses a Harley
Davidson machine. Nobel H. Glenn from Mesa will have the Grand Canyon Road
traveling from Flagstaff to Deadman Tank on an Indian Machine. Both men will
carry “take down shovels” and canteens so when they spot a fire they can put it
down at once .
Wake up - Clean up - Get up - Stay up - Keep up on May 3, 4 &
5. The Flagstaff Women’s Club with the full support of the City Council
will put the Knockout on dirt, debris and other such unusable, unseemly,
unserviceable unsightly items more suitable to decorate the dump than our
streets and alleys . So, germs, bacteria and other bum stuff -- beware.
…Harper’s
Index…
2,390-Estimated number of African and Middle Eastern refugees who
have drowned in the Mediterranean this year
…100
People…
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
12 would speak Chinese
5 would speak Spanish
5 would speak English
3 would speak Arabic
3 would speak Hindi
3 would speak Bengali
3 would speak Portuguese
2 would speak Russian
2 would speak Japanese
62 would speak other languages
…Murphy’s
Real Laws…
2. He who laughs last, thinks slowest.
3. A day without
sunshine is like, well, night.
…Unusual Fact
of the Day…
The first fax machine was invented over 25 years before the
telephone.
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2 jokes
for the day
Teacher: Now, you must not say, "I ain't
goin'." You should say, "I am not going, he is not going; we are not
going; they are not going."
Student: Wow! Ain't nobody goin' then?
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1. I read recipes the same way I read science
fiction. I get to the end and I think, "Well, that's not going to
happen."
2. Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospital dying of
nothing.
3. The other night I ate at a real family restaurant. Every table had an
argument going.
4. Have you noticed since everyone has a camcorder these days no one talks
about seeing UFOs like they use to.
5. According to a recent survey, men say the first thing they notice about a
woman is their eyes, and woman say the first thing they notice about men is
they're a bunch of liars.
6. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.
7. All of us could take a lesson from the weather. It pays no attention to
criticism.
8. Have you noticed that a slight tax increase costs you $200 and a substantial
tax cut saves you 35 cents?
9. In the 60's people took acid to make the world weird. Now the world is weird
and people take Prozac to make it normal.
10. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to
realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
11. How is it one careless match can start a forest fire, but it takes a whole
box to start a campfire?
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Indiana-Clark
County has charged 34-year-old Joseph Oberhansley with murder and abuse of a
corpse in the death of 46-year-old Tammy Jo Blanton in September.
According to court documents, Oberhansley told police he broke into Blanton's
home and killed and mutilated her, then ate her heart and parts of her brain
and lung.
That's right; real, live Hannibal Lecter.
And if you think this story couldn't possible get any worse, Clark County
Prosecutor Jeremy Mull just recently asked for a rape charge to be added. In
Indiana, aggravated circumstances needed for a jury to consider the death penalty
include rape, burglary and dismemberment.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Queen
Elizabeth I was taught caution early in life. She learned mistrust of men from
her mother Anne Boleyn's fate and was nearly executed for treason by her half-sister
Mary I.
Queen Cleopatra of Egypt was once booted from the throne and exiled to the
desert by her coruler, younger brother Ptolemy XIII. When Julius Caesar came to
Alexandria to mediate the sibling rivalry, she had herself smuggled into her
own palace in a rug in order to meet him.
A master of propoganda, Pharaoh Hatshepsut is said to have dressed as a male
king and even wore a false beard in the traditional style of pharaohs to ease
common fears of a female in power.
Mary I was desperate to have a child to secure the Catholic religion in England
instead of her Protestant half-sister Elizabeth taking the throne. She twice
thought she was pregnant, but was humiliated when both pregnancies proved false
and her husband left for his native Spain.
Princess Elizabeth was on an official trip to Kenya when her father, King
George VI, died, making her the new sovereign, Queen Elizabeth II. She was at a
state dinner in the Treetops Hotel, and it is often said that she "went up
the tree a princess and came down a queen."
A legendary warrior, Queen Boudicca rebelled against Roman rule in eastern
Britain around A.D. 60. She raised an army and trashed several Roman cities,
including London, in retribution for crimes against herself and her daughters,
and nearly caused Emperor Nero to pull the Romans out of Britain entirely. She
was later defeated, and committed suicide rather than be captured.
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Birthday’s Today
79 - Albert Finney,
actor
75 - Wayne Dyer,
American psychologist and author (Universe Within You)
69 - Dave Mason, Worcester England,
singer/songwriter (We Just Disagree)
66 - Billy Joel, rock
singer
60 - Mark David Chapman, Forth Work Texas,
assassin (John Lennon)
57 - Ellen Ochoa,
PhD/Astronaut (STS 56, 66)
54 - Bono [Paul
Hewson], Dublin, rocker (U2-Joshua Tree)
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Remembered for being born today
- Carl Albert, (D)
speaker of the House1908-2000@91
- Fred Astaire,
tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime) 1899-1987@88
- Thomas J Lipton,
Glasgow, yachtsman/tea magnate (Lipton Tea) 1850-1931@83
- Pat Summerall,
NFL player (NY Giants)/sportscaster (CBS) 1930-2013@82
- Gary
Owens, disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong Show) 1934-2015@80
- Maybelle Carter,
country singer (Johnny Cash Show) 1909-1978@69
- Nancy
Walker, Bounty ads/actress (Rhoda, McMillan & Wife) 1921-1992@69
- David O Selznick,
producer (Gone With the Wind) 1902-1965@63
- Ella Grasso,
(Gov-D-Ct) 1919-1981@61
- John Wilkes Booth,
stage actor and assassin (President Lincoln) 1838-1865@26
- Sid Vicious,
[John Simon Ritchie], bassist (Sex Pistols) 1957+1979@21
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Historical Obits Today
Vidal
Sassoon, British hairdresser and businessman, 2012@84
Marion
Lorne, actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched), 1968@81
Alan King,
American comedian, cancer-2004@76
Harold
Gray, US comic strip artist (Little Orphan Annie), cancer-1968@74
Tenzing
Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), stroke-1986@ 71
Edmond
O'Brien, actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), Alzheimer's-1985@69
C.W. Post,
American food manufacturer, suicide-1914@59
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Brain Teasers Answers
LIUQA Take letters 1 & 2 - QUAIL, take Q,U
PDIET Take letters 1,2 & 4 - TEPID, take T,E,I
ETRSO Take letters 1 & 4 - STORE, take S,R
DONU Take letters 1 & 4 - UNDO, take U,O
Unscramble the above to get 'Turquoise'.
Turquoise is a beautiful blue gemstone known since ancient times for its
beauty. Through today, it is believed to bring wealth to one who wears it. In
some cultures, it is known to act as a talisman to avoid any untoward accidents
or dangers in life.
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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…§
