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Almanac: Week: 20 \ Day: 132
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 70°\L 30° Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 25mph
Ave. High: 66° Record High: 86°
(1996) Ave. Low: 33° Record
Low: 20° (1983)
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Observances Today:
Fatigue
Syndrome Day
International
Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases
International
Nurses Day
Limerick
Day
National
Nutty Fudge Day
Odometer
Day
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Observances This Week:
10-16 American Craft Beer Week National
Transportation Week
Food Allergy Awareness Week National Women's Health Week
National Bike to Work Week Neuropathy Awareness Week
National
Hospital Week Reading is
Fun Week
National Etiquette Week Salute
to Moms 35+ Week
National
Nursing Home Week Salvation
Army Week
National Police Week Universal
Family Week
National
Return To Work Week Work At
Home Moms Week
National
Stuttering Awareness Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1777 - 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY
Gazette)
1789 - Society of St Tammany is formed by
Revolutionary War soldiers.
It later becomes an infamous group of NYC
political bosses
1792 - Toilet that flushes itself at regular
intervals is patented
1890 - Louisiana legalized prize fighting
1898 - Louisiana adopts new constitution with
"grandfather clause"
designed to eliminate
black voters
1902 - Some 140,000 miners of anthracite coal in
Pennsylvania go out
on a strike called by the United Mine Workers
after the owners
have refused to recognize the UMW, let alone
negotiate or submit to
arbitration; Roosevelt later threatens to have
the army run the mine
1921 - National Hospital Day 1st observed
1931 - University of
Arizona's famous polo team left campus for an
invasion of the Eastern states
1932 - Body of kidnapped son of Charles
Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, NJ
1938 - Sandoz Labs manufactures LSD (lysergic acid
diethylamide)
1949 - 1st foreign woman ambassador received in USA
(Vijaya Pandit of India)
1963 - Bob Dylan walks out of the "Ed
Sullivan Show"
1980 - 1st nonstop crossing of US via balloon
(Maxie Anderson & son Chris)
1982 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike
(Rabbit is Rich)
1990 - Nora Dunn & Sinead
O'Connor boycott "Saturday Night Live" to
protest Andrew "Dice" Clay's
hosting
1993 - Last broadcast of "Cheers" on
NBC-TV
1997 - Tornado narrowly misses downtown Miami
2002 - Former US President Jimmy Carter arrives in
Cuba for a five-day visit
with Fidel Castro becoming first
President of the United States, in
or out of office, to visit the island since
Castro's 1959 revolution.
2003 - Fifty-nine Democratic lawmakers bring the
Texas Legislature to
a standstill by going into hiding in a
dispute over a Republican
Congressional redistricting plan.
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Today’s World Events through History
1215 - English barons serve ultimatum on King John;
leads to Magna Carta
1551 - San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens
1870 - Manitoba becomes a province of Canada
1908 - George Bernard Shaw's "Getting
Married" premieres in London
1908 - Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by
Nathan B Stubblefield
1928 - Benito Mussolini ends women's rights in
Italy
1984 - South African prisoner Nelson Mandela sees
his wife for 1st time in 22 years
2012 - Discovery of a missing Mayan calendar piece
disproves 2012 Armageddon
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
New week started with a great weather day. Nice day for a good
walk.
Laundry and bedroom cleaning and rearranging for summer. Nice.
Two NFL stories in the news today…one making headlines, the other,
not so much. Headlines as NFL suspends Tom Brady and fines his team $1million
for those pesky deflated footballs. Cheaters never win and winners never cheat…at
least that is what I was taught. The other story has to do with the many
Military Heros who have honored at various home NFL football games. I’ve seen
many of those and just assumed that the NFL was honoring our military. Turns
out the cost of those honors are paid for by the Dept. of Defense to the NFL. Really?!?
This should be a headliner too. It is really just a commercial for the
military, paid for by the military using our tax dollars. Seems this should be
announced with a banner at the bottom of the screen. ‘This presentation is paid
for by the US Dept. of Defense”. It is no different than those ads in the
newspaper that look like a news story…they always have the word ‘advertisement’
at the top of the page…in fairly small letters. It seems like the military is
hiding this and the NFL is gaining all the glory for honoring a hero. Hmmmm
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
|
I
am often sought after but seldom found.
Some people never find me until they are in the ground. Arguing nations find me hard to find. Yet often, I am just a state of mind. Some believe I can only be found by divine intervention from above. Another name for me is Love. Now is the time to stop being shy. Shout out your answer, what am I? |
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Cat
Facts…
A domestic cat can sprint at about 31 miles per hour.
It has been scientifically proven that stroking a cat can lower
one's blood pressure!
…Cool
Facts…
All Sikh temples serve free meals for all visitors, regardless of
religion, race, or class.
Playing video games like Call of Duty or Assassin's Creed can
boost your ability to learn motor skills.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
The Colton All State Park is being established west of the Chamber
of Commerce building on land donated by the Santa Fe Railroad, with a chain
link fence donated by the Tremaine Bros. and the work done by the Sigma Phi
Fraternity.
Conservation stickers are on sale at the Coconino National Forest
office and at the District Ranger’s office on Knob Hill. The $7 annual fee sticker
on your bumper will give you access to all developed sites in the forest.
Otherwise there will be fee of 50 cents per day.
…Harper’s
Index…
1 in 2-Chance a resident of Las Vegas has been reported to a
debt-collection agency
…100
People…
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
1 would be dying of starvation
15 would be undernourished
21 would be overweight
…Revisited
History…
James Avery who played Phillip Banks on Fresh Prince of Bel Aire
was 45 years old when the first episode was filmed. Will Smith is now 46.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
SeaWorld began as a plan by four UCLA alums to open an
ocean-themed restaurant with a marine show.
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2 jokes
for the day
A man entered a library and asked, "Can I
have a pint of lager and a packet of crisp?!"
The librarian said "I'm sorry, but this is a library."
Then the man WHISPERED "Oh, sorry can I have a pint of lager and a packet
of crisp?"
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A man goes to the doctors and asks why he's
been feeling ill. The doctor examines him and replies "I'm sorry to tell
you, you've got the disease known as Yellow 24." "What's that?"
the man asks.
"It means your internal organs have
started turning yellow - you've got 24 hours to live".
The man goes home and tells his wife the bad news. His wife says "Well,
will you come to bingo with me tonight then? Otherwise you'll never be able
to." The man agrees so he and his wife go to the bingo. He finds that he's
won the one-line and £10. He begins to think this isn't such a bad day after
all. Twenty minutes later, he's won the full house and £150. He enters the
lucky draw, worth £500, and wins that too. The bingo caller calls him up on
stage.
He says "I don't believe it, mate. You've won three competitions in a
total of £660 in one night. You must be the luckiest man on the earth!"
The man says "Well, no, I'm not. I've got Yellow 24."
The bingo caller looks down at the piece of paper he's holding and starts
clapping. "I don't believe it; he's won the raffle as well!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Gauteng,
South Africa-Most recently a man was kidnapped at gunpoint and raped by three
women who collected his semen in a cooler and stealing it before abandoning
their victim. This method seems to be part of a growing trend.
The 33-year-old man gave the women directions when they pulled up in a black
BMW. Suddenly, one of the women armed with a gun got out and forced him into
the back of the car.
The trio then drove him over a hundred miles away and fondled him in the back
of the car but he did not become aroused, so they forced him to drink an
'unknown substance' from a bottle to aid him.
They then raped the man repeatedly and collected his semen in plastic bags,
placing them in a cooler.
The man was then kicked out of the car while the women made off with the stolen
sperm.
The exact same method is being used by women in Gauteng, who are also forcing
men to drink from a bottle and stealing their semen but no arrests have been
made.
Constable Mncedi Mbombo said, "They then forced him to drink an unknown
substance from a bottle. This got him aroused quickly even though he was still
scared and didn't want to have sex.
"This is really confusing to us because we have never heard of such a
thing before. The man was fully conscious throughout his ordeal and he is still
traumatized."
Police have now opened a rape investigation.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The
two circular drawings on the reverse of the bill are actually parts of the
two-sided Great Seal of the United States. Although we don't see the entire
seal outside of our wallets too often, the notion of having a great seal is
actually as old as the country itself. The Continental Congress passed a
resolution on July 4, 1776, to create a committee to design a great seal for
the fledgling nation.
The obverse picturing the eagle is a bit easier to explain. The bird holds 13
arrows to show the nation's strength in war, but it also grasps an olive branch
with 13 leaves and 13 olives that symbolize the importance of peace. (The
recurring number 13, which also appears in the stripes on the eagle's shield
and the constellation of stars over its head, is a nod to the original 13
states.)
The symbolism of the pyramid on the seal's reverse is trickier. The pyramid has
13 steps the designers apparently never got tired of the 13 motif and the Roman
numeral for 1776 is emblazoned across the bottom. The all-seeing Eye of
Providence at the top of the pyramid symbolizes the divine help the early
Americans needed in establishing the new country. The pyramid itself symbolizes
strength and durability.
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Birthday’s Today
90 - Yogi Berra [Lawrence Peter Berra],
baseball catcher, coach and manager
87 - Burt Bacharach, KC Mo, composer (I'll
Never Fall in Love Again)
67 - Steve Winwood, England, musician (A
Higher Love, Roll with it)
65 - Bruce Boxleitner, Elgin Ill, actor
(Scarecrow & Mrs King, Babylon 5)
56 - Ving Rhames, actor (Pulp
Fiction)
53 - Emilio Estevez, actor (Breakfast Club,
Young Guns, Mighty Ducks)
49 - Stephen Baldwin, actor (Beast,
Lawrenceville Stories, Usual Suspects)
47 - Tony Hawk, American skateboarder
46 - Kim Fields Freeman, actress
(Tootie-Facts of Life)
37 - Jason Biggs, actor (American Pie)
20 - Sullivan Sweeten, American actors
(Everyone loves Raymond)
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Remembered for being born today
- Katharine
Hepburn, actress (Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond) 1907-2003@96
- Florence
Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War) 1820-1910@90
- Howard
K Smith, newsman (Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate) 1914-2002@87
- Halsey
William Wilson, US, publisher of reference books 1868-1954@83
- Mary
Kay Ash, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics 1915-2001@83
- Edward
Lear, Eng. landscape painter,(Complete Nonsense Book) 1812-1888@75
- Henry
Cabot Lodge, U.S. statesman) 1850-1924@74
- Tom
Snyder, newscaster (Tommorow) 1936-2007@71
- George
Carlin, Bronx, comedian (7 dirty words) 1937-2008@71
- Sawyer
Sweeten, American actors (Everyone loves Raymond) 1995-2015@19
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Historical Obits Today
Erik
Erikson, psychologist coined the phrase "identity
crisis"-1994@91
Perry
Como, American singer-2001@88
"Nelly"
Sachs, German/Swedish poet (Nobel 1966), cancer-1970@78
Robert
Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), AIDs-1992@59
J.E.B.
Stuart [James Ewell Brown Stuart], Confederate General, in
battle-1864@31
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Brain Teasers Answers
Peace.
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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…§
