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Almanac: Week: 20 \ Day: 134
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 70°\L 42° Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind
ave: 11mph\Gusts: 25mph
Ave. High: 67° Record High: 82°
(1938) Ave. Low: 34° Record
Low: 21° (1942)
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Observances Today:
Buddah
Day
Dance
Like a Chicken Day
International
Migratory Bird Day
Jamestown
Founding Day-1607
National
Chicken Dance Day
National
Train Day
National
Windmill Day (Netherlands)
Stay
Up All Night Night
The
Stars and Stripes Forever Day
Underground
America Day –since 1964
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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
1767 - British government disbands Americans import
duty on tea
1787 -Delegates gather in Philadelphia to draw up US
constitution
1804 - Meriwether Lewis & William Clark's
expedition commissioned
by Thomas Jefferson sets out from St Louis
for Pacific Coast
1878 - Vaseline is first sold (registered trademark
for petroleum jelly)
1894 - Fire in Boston bleachers spreads to 170
adjoining buildings
1933 - University of
Arizona Board of Regents dropped 66 teachers
and cut salaries of others from 5 to 15 percent
in a cost-saving move.
Tempe dropped 11, gave leave to three more,
and saw its president resign.
1949 - Harry Truman signs bill establishing a
rocket test range at Cape Canaveral
1973 - Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, last airs on
NBC-TV
1974 - Symbionese Liberation Army destroyed in
shoot-out, 6 killed
1976 - Lowell Thomas ends 46 years as radio network
reporter
1980 - Dept of Health & Human Services begins
operation
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Today’s World Events through History
1643 - Louis XIV becomes King of France age 4
1811 - Paraguay gains independence from Spain
(National Day)
1889 - The National Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children
(NSPCC) is launched in London.
1907 - Sweden adopts universal suffrage for
elections to its lower
house and proportional representation for
both houses
1908 - 1st passenger flight in an airplane
1940 - Nazis bomb Rotterdam (600-900 dead),
Netherlands surrenders to Germany
1955 - Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union,
Albania, Bulgaria,
Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland
& Romania
1989 - Demonstration for democratic reforms in
Beijing's Tiananmen square
2013 - Brazil
becomes the 15th country to legalize same-sex marriage
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice, but windy day. It is Palindrome Week—5-11-15 through 5-19-15
is the same date forwards or backwards…Cool!
I met with two former teachers and as it turns out two former
students last night. The two former students were in one of my 3rd
grade classes back at Shonto in the early 1970’s. One lady is a retired Marine
and now the top auditor for tax collection on the Navajo Nation; the other lady
has a Master’s in Environmental Science & an MBA and owns her own business
consulting firm. Both have equally successful kids. Both grew up in hogans…no
running water, no electricity, hauling wood. They wanted to let the three of us
know how much their early education meant. Very cool to say the least.
Ran some weekly errands, including Sam’s Club. Usually get there
just as they open but today I was about an hour late. Never again. Parking lot
was filled, registers had lots of people. Good for Sam’s, but takes a long time
to get in and out.
I was late because just as I was leaving my former financial
advisor called with an update. Her former business manager really just keeps
screwing her. Turns out my advisor just got a letter from an insurance company
about her account. While she also sold long term care insurance policies while
in Flag, she never did it for this company. Yet she has clients and somebody
has been making money on those accounts for years—using her SS#, business
license #, just having money deposited into an account she doesn’t have. Crazy!
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
This
list of words reveals a person. Can you figure out who it is?
Ptarmigan
Aisle
Dossier
Depot
Column
Lime
February
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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**NEW**…Body
Facts…
When you wake up with a jolt, it's called a Hypnic Jerk. This
usually happens during the lightest stages of sleep, and can happen as a
natural reaction when you fall asleep in a car or airplane.
Singing exercises your heart, lungs, and releases endorphins which
make you feel good.
…Cat
Facts…
A cat rubs against people not only to be affectionate but also to
mark out its territory with scent glands around its face. The tail area and
paws also carry the cat's scent.
The costliest cat ever is named Little Nicky, who cost his owner $50,000.
He is a clone of an older cat.
…Cool
Facts…
Scientists have been able to recreate conversations that were held
behind a soundproof glass wall by recording the vibrations seen on a potato
chip bag.
China is building an ultra-modern car-free city that'll house
80,000 people in "high-rise core housing". It's entirely walkable and
surrounded by green space. It's designed to use less water, create less waste,
and generate less carbon dioxide than a normal city.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
A club for the study of Esperanto, the universal language, is
being held at the parsonage on Monday evenings. Esperanto is fast becoming the
language medium of exchange among the various nations.
Charles Stenmer clumped in over the road from Sedona on Tuesday,
saying the road is badly wrinkled since it has begun to dry out.
Standard Oil is now offering a new Perfection Oil or Gas Cook
Stove. It burns either oil or kerosene, the clean, cheap fuel. It’s ready to go
with the touch of a match.
…Harper’s
Index…
5,200-Estimated
number of Puerto Ricans who retire to the mainland US each year
…Revisited
History…
Jeralean Talley was born in 1899, nearly 116 years ago. The
Constitution was signed in 1787, which makes her birth closer to the
Constitutional Convention than today.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Dr. James Naismith, the progenitor of basketball, was Canadian.
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2 jokes
for the day
After a lady's car had leaked motor oil on her
cement driveway, she bought a large bag of cat litter to soak it up.
It worked so well, that she went back to the store to get another bag to finish
the job.
The clerk remembered her. Looking thoughtfully at her purchase, he said,
"Lady, if that were my cat, I'd put him outside!"
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A tourist in Vienna goes through a graveyard
and all of a sudden he hears some music. No one is around, so he starts
searching for the source.
He finally locates the origin and finds it is coming from a grave with a
headstone that reads: "Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827."
Then he realizes that the music is the Ninth Symphony, and it is being played
backward! Puzzled, he leaves the graveyard and persuades a friend to return
with him. By the time they arrive back at the grave, the music has changed.
This time it is the Seventh Symphony, but like the previous piece, it is being
played backward. Curious, the men agree to consult a music scholar.
When they return with the expert, the Fifth Symphony is playing, again
backward. The expert notices that the symphonies are being played in the
reverse order in which they were composed, the 9th, then the 7th, then the 5th.
By the next day the word has spread and a throng has gathered around the grave.
They are all listening to the Second Symphony being played backward.
Just then the graveyard's caretaker ambles up to the group. Someone in the
group asks him if he has an explanation for the music.
"Don't you get it?" the caretaker says incredulously. "He's
decomposing."
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Yep, It
Really Happened
CAMBERLEY,
England (UPI) - An English man says a piece of a rubber toy that was lost 40
years ago came out of his nose during a sneezing fit. Steve Easton, 51, claims
he was playing an Internet game at his home in Camberley when a sneezing fit
prompted the emergence of the object from his nostril. Unsure of what he had
found, Easton called his mother, 77-year-old Pat Easton, who told him what the
object was -- the end sucker piece on a toy rubber dart. Pat Easton said she
had decades previously taken Steve, then 7 or 8 years old, to the hospital
after he swallowed the toy, but X-rays were inconclusive. "All these years
later, it suddenly shot out," she told the BBC. Steve Easton said his
ability to breathe and blow his nose feels no different from before. "It's
the length of time," he told the BBC. "I'm not the first person this
has happened to, but 43 years -- it's quite out there isn't it?" Easton
said he carried the object around to show people who were interested in the
story, but he has since disposed of it. In a somewhat similar episode in 2011,
a man who was shot in the head during New Year's Eve festivities in Naples,
Italy, sneezed out a .22 caliber bullet as he waited to be seen by doctors.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Legend
has it that noodles were first made by 13th century German bakers who fashioned
dough into symbolic shapes, such as swords, birds and stars, which were baked
and served as bread. In the 13th century, the Pope set quality standards for
pasta.
Thomas Jefferson is credited with introducing macaroni to the United States. It
seems that he fell in love with a certain dish he sampled in Naples, while
serving as the U.S. Ambassador to France. In fact, he promptly ordered crates
of "macaroni," along with a pasta-making machine, sent back to the
States.
The first American pasta factory was opened in Brooklyn, New York, in 1848, by
a Frenchman named Antoine Zerega. Mr. Zerega managed the entire operation with
just one horse in his basement to power the machinery. To dry his spaghetti, he
placed strands of the pasta on the roof to dry in the sunshine.
During the 1980s, macaroni, which was traditionally considered a
"blue-collar" down-home meal, was transformed into the more upscale
"pasta." As more and more people began to have fun with it and
romanticize it throughout the '60s and '70s, its image began to change along
with its name.
The Spanish explorer Cortez brought tomatoes back to Europe from Mexico in
1519. Even then, almost 200 years passed before spaghetti with tomato sauce
made its way into Italian kitchens.
The Italians only ate meat a few times a month. So, when they came to America,
where meat was so plentiful, they incorporated meat into their cooking more
often, making meatballs an American invention.
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Birthday’s Today
71 - George Lucas, Modesto CA, director
(Star Wars, Indiana Jones)
70 - Robert Jarvik, surgeon/inventor (Jarvik
7 artificial heart)
54 - Tim Roth, actor (Reservoir Dogs,
Vincent & Theo)
46 - Cate Blanchett, Australian actress (-The
Lord of the Rings)
31 - Mark Zuckerberg, White Plains, New
York, founder of Facebook
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Remembered for being born today
- John
Charles Fields, Canadian founder Fields Medal 1863-1932@69
- Richard
Deacon, actor (Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show) 1922-1984@63
- Thomas
Gainsborough, English painter (Blue Boy), baptized 1727-1788@61
- Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Prussia, inventor (thermometer) 1686-1736@50
- Bobby
Darin, [Walden Waldo Cassotto], singer (Mack the Knife) 1936-1973@37
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Historical Obits Today
Billie
Burke, actress (Gilda- The Wizard of Oz)-1970@85
Robert
Stack, American actor-2003@84
Frank
Sinatra, American singer\actor-1998@ 82
Jiang
Qing, widow of Chinese leader Mao Zedong, suicide-1991@77
Henry
John Heinz, founder of the H. J. Heinz Company, pneumonia-1919@74
Hugh
Beaumont, actor (Ward-Leave it to Beaver), stroke-1982@73
Emma
Goldman, US anarchists/feminist/author (Living My Life), stroke-1940@70
Rita
Hayworth, actress, Alzheimer's-1987@68
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Brain Teasers Answers
Each word has a silent letter:
Ptarmigan has a silent P.
Aisle has a silent A.
Dossier has a silent R.
Depot has a silent T.
Column has a silent N.
Lime has a silent E.
February has one silent R.
Put the silent letters together, and they spell PARTNER.
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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…§
