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Almanac: Week: 21 \ Day: 137
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 58°\L 33° Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind
ave: 9mph\Gusts: 29mph
Ave. High: 68° Record High: 82°
(1970) Ave. Low: 34° Record
Low: 20° (1943)
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Observances Today:
Bay
to Breakers Race Oldest Footrace in America! SF,CA
Flower
Moon
Hypertension
Day
Morel
Mushroom Day
Neighbor
Day
Pack
Rat Day
Constitution
Day (Norway)-Syttende Mai
World
Information Society Day
World
Neurofibromatosis Day
World
Telecommunications Day
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Observances This Week:
16-22 National Safe Boating Week National Heritage Breeds Week
EMS (Emergency Medical
Services) Week National
Stationery Week
National Dog Bite Prevention Week National
New Friends, Old Friends Week
National Medical Transcription Week
17-25 International
Coaching Week National
Backyard Games Week
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week National
Educational Bosses' Week
World
Trade Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1673 - Louis Joliet & Jacques Marquette begin
exploring Mississippi
1733 - England passes Molasses Act, putting high
tariffs on rum &
molasses imported to the colonies from a
country other than British
possessions
1756 - Britain declares war on France (7 Years' or
French & Indian War)
1775 - Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
1804 - Lewis & Clark begin exploration of
Louisiana Purchase
1845 - Rubber band patents
1872 - Bohemian Club incorporated in San Francisco
1875 - 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver Lewis aboard
Aristides wins in 2:37.75
1883 - Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st Wild West show
premieres in Omaha
1884 - Alaska becomes a US territory
1890 - Clyde Fitch's "Beau Brummel"
premieres in NYC
1901-
Arizona's Chinese residents faced much discrimination, despite their
many contributions to
the development of the Territory.
Arizona law prohibited Chinesefrom marrying Anglos, stating "the marriage
of
a person of Caucasian blood with
a Negro or Mongolian is null and void."
1932 - US Congress changes name "Porto
Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
1938 - US Congress approves Vinson Naval Act, which
funds a two-ocean navy
1954 - US Supreme Court unanimously rules on Brown
v Topeka Board of
Education reversed 1896 "separate but
equal" Plessy v Ferguson decision
1967 - The Butler Act, a Tennessee statue
prohibiting the teaching of evolution,
is repealed after 42 years
1975 - NBC paid $5M for rights to show "Gone
with the Wind" one time
2001 - President Bush calls for reduced regulations
to encourage more oil, gas,
and nuclear production
2004 - Massachusetts becomes the first U.S. state
to legalize same-sex marriage
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Today’s World Events through History
1536 - Anne Boleyn's 4 "lovers" executed
1590 - Anne of Denmark is crowned Queen of Scotland
1620 - 1st merry-go-round seen at a fair
(Philippapolis, Turkey)
1902 - Greek archaeologist Valerios Stais discovers
the Antikythera
mechanism, an ancient mechanical analog
computer
1904 - Maurice Ravel's "Shéhérazade"
premieres in Paris
1916
- British Summer Time (Daylight Savings)
introduced
1928 - 9th modern Olympic games opens in Amsterdam
1949 - British government recognizes Republic of
Ireland (previously
Irish Free State)
1972 - The Irish Republican Army (IRA) fires on
workers leaving the Mackies
engineering works in west Belfast (Although
the factory was sited in a
Catholic area it had an almost entirely
Protestant workforce)
1974 - The Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) explode
four bombs in the Republic of
Ireland, killing 33 civilians and wounded a
further 300(This is the
highest number of casualties in a single
incident during "The Troubles")
1989 - Nelson Mandela receives a BA from
University of South Africa
1990 - World Health Organization takes
Homosexuality off its list of
mental illnesses
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another rainy and windy day…but no snow. This has been a very wet
May, and we certainly have needed the moisture. Living at 7000’ we take
moisture anyway it comes---even snow in the middle of May.
A lazy day. Didn’t feel like playing in the rain so turned on
Netflix and binge watched a few shows I’d started earlier. Felt good to just
kick back and enjoy.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In
English, "re" is a prefix usually meaning "again", such as
in "rebuild" (build again). However, there are many words starting
with "re" which have a totally different meaning without the
"re".
You will be given two definitions, one for a word starting with "re",
and one for the remaining word without the "re" (either definition
could be given first).
Example: vehicle wheel / cease employment
Answer: tire / retire
1. newspaper employee / hotel employee
2. one who belongs / bring past event to mind
3. unit of money / not long ago
4. money for the poor / kingdoms
5. income / event location
6. couple / fix
7. arrived at / felt long-term pain
8. at ease / cause sharp pain
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Body
Facts…
The brain receives 20% of the body’s oxygen and 25% of total body
glucose utilization, despite it accounting for only 2% of a person’s weight
(about 1.4 kilograms).
If every muscle in your body could pull in one direction, you
could lift nearly 25 tons.
…Cool
Facts…
There's a wife-carrying championship that takes place in Finland
every year where the winner receives his wife's weight in beer.
Robin Williams was reportedly an avid gamer who played games such
as Call of Duty, Zelda, Portal, and Battlestation Pacific. His daughter Zelda
was named after the video game.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1961
Siebrand Bros. Circus and Carnival is in town this week with a
6-day spectacular running Monday through Saturday. “Come alive in ‘65 “ with
new rides, new shows, new fun booths.
There was a 6-hour battle with fires at the new dry trash dump on
Monday. The original cause is undetermined. The fight was complicated by sparks
from the water tanker’s brake system, which ignited three additional blazes
plus that day’s brisk spring wind that fanned the blazes.
During the current construction the Ashurst Lake Road will remain
open to travel though at times will be restricted to alternate one way lanes.
Hofbrau Haus Mother’s Day Special Dinner. Roast Sirloin of Beef au
jus with baked potato, vegetables, bread, butter and a pickle $1.50
…Harper’s
Index…
57,644 - Number
of arrests made by New York City police officers since 2004 in which the top
charge was resisting arrest
…Revisited
History…
Star Wars first aired in theaters in May 1977, four months prior
to the last guillotine execution in France.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel spent $2,500 a month on rubber
bands to hold all their cash.
**NEW**…Water
Facts…
The Kangaroo Rat can last longer without water than a camel.
Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the
summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.
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2 jokes
for the day
The doorbell rang, and the lady of the house
discovered a workman, complete with tool chest, on the front door.
"Lady," he announced, "I'm the piano tuner."
The lady exclaimed, "Why, I didn't send for a piano tuner."
The man replied, "I know, but your neighbors did."
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The top toothbrush salesman at the company was
asked by his boss how he managed to sell so many brushes.
He replied "It's easy" and he pulled out his card table, setting his
display of brushes on top. He told his boss, I lay the brushes out like this,
and then I put out some potato chips and dip to draw in the customers.
He laid out his chips and dip. His boss said, "That's a very innovative
approach" and took one of the chips, dipped it, and stuck it in his mouth.
"Yuck, this tastes terrible!" his boss yelled. The salesman replied
"IT IS! Want to buy a toothbrush?"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
NORTH
ADAMS, Mass. (UPI) - A Massachusetts police department has a message for citizens:
"Chasing bears through the woods drunk with a dull hatchet is strongly not
advised." The North Adams Police Department said in a Facebook post the
incident "really did happen" Monday and "the hatchet man was
taken into protective custody due to his incapacitation from the consumption of
alcoholic beverage." "The North Adams Police Department is urging
everyone to NOT chase bears through the woods with a dull hatchet, drunk,"
the post said. The post urged residents to steer clear of bears rather than
"going all Davy Crockett chasing it through the woods drunk with a dull
hatchet. It is just a bad idea and not going to end well." Police said
they are still working to determine what the man's planned "end game"
was if he had caught up to the animal.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Hansen
Gregory, an American ship captain, is the man credited with inventing the
classic hole-in-the-middle shape of the modern doughnut in 1847 by simply
punching out the middle. Other versions of the story describe Gregory piercing
the middle of the doughnut on the ship's steering wheel so he could use both
hands to steer.
When President John F. Kennedy announced in Berlin, "Ich bin ein
Berliner," he did not say, as is commonly believed, that he was a jelly
doughnut. The phrase is not only correct, but it is the only way to express
what the president had intended to say. To state, "Ich bin Berliner"
would imply that he was born in Berlin, whereas the word 'ein' implied he was a
Berliner in spirit.
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Birthday’s Today
73 - Taj Mahal (Henry Saint Clair Fredericks),
singer/songwriter
60 - Bill Paxton, actor (True Lies)
59 - Bob Saget, Phila, comedian (Full House,
America's Funniest Home Video)
59 - Sugar Ray [Charles] Leonard, boxer (Olympics-gold-76)
54 - Enya [Eithne Ní Bhraonáin],
Gweedore, County Donegal, Irish singer
53 - Craig Ferguson, Glasgow, Scottish
actor, writer and comedian
41 - Sasha Alexander, American television
actress
32 - Tony Parker, French-American basketball
player
30 - Derek Hough, American dancer (DWTS) and
singer
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Remembered for being born today
- Archibald
Cox, special prosecutor (Watergate) 1912-2004@92
- Maureen
O'Sullivan, Boyle Ireland, actress (Tarzan) 1911-1998@87
- Bob
Merrill, American composer and lyricist 1921-1976@78
- Dennis
Hopper, KS, actor (True Grit, Easy Rider) 1936-2010@74
- Wilhelm
Steinitz, Austria, world chess champion (1866-94) 1836-1900@64
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Historical Obits Today
Lawrence
Welk, conductor/accordionist-1992@89
John Jay, first
Chief Justice of the United States-1829@83
John
Deere, American blacksmith founded Deere & Co-1886@82
Frank
Gorshin, character actor (Riddler), cancer-2005@72
Donna
Summer, American singer, lung cancer-2012@63
John C.
Breckinridge, 14th Vice President-war injuries-1875@54
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. reporter / porter
2. member / remember
3. cent / recent
4. alms / realms
5. revenue / venue
6. pair / repair
7. reached / ached
8. resting / sting
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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…§
