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Almanac: Week: 22 \ Day: 148
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 78°\L 40° Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind
ave: 9mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave. High: 72° Record High: 86°
(2000) Ave. Low: 37° Record
Low: 24° (1929)
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Observances Today:
Amnesty
International Day
International
Jazz Day
National
Hamburger Day
Sierra
Club Day Slugs Return From Capistrano Day
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Day
of the Republic (Azerbaijan-1818 from Transcaucasian Democratic Federative Republic)
Julia
Pierpont Day (WVa- originator of
Decoration Day)
National
Day (Ethiopia-1991- end of the Derg junta)
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Observances This Week:
24-30
National
Tire Safety Week
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1774 - 1st
Continental Congress convenes (Virginia)
1830 - US
Congress authorizes native Indian removal from all states to western prairie
1892 - Sierra
Club forms by John Muir in SF, for conservation of nature
1923 - Attorney
General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1928 - Dodge
Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged
1953 - Premier
of 1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
1956
- Eisenhower signs farm bill allows government to store agricultural
surplus
1972 - White
House "plumbers" break into Democratic Natlional HQ at Watergate
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Today’s World Events through History
585 BC - Solar
eclipse, as predicted by Greek philosopher Thales, while Lydians under Alyattes
war with the Medes under Cyaxares, leading to a truce. One of the cardinal
dates from which other dates calculated.
1431 - Joan of
Arc accused of relapsing back into heresy by donning male clothing again,
providing justification for her execution
1644 - Bolton
Massacre by Royalist troops under the command of the Earl of Derby. (English
Civil War)
1742 - 1st
indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1934 - Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne
quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first
quintuplets to survive infancy.
1961 - Amnesty
Intl founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
2008 - The
first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a
republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Very nice warm day with afternoon clouds.
Ran errands this morning, spent the afternoon on the deck.
IRS data breach…really?!? Never been a big fan of the IRS. I have
no problem paying my fair share of taxes. When I was working, I did not have
the time to keep up with all the laws and do my own taxes. Now that I’m
retired, I have no desire to learn how to keep up with the tricky changing
laws. So I have always paid to have my taxes done. I find it crazy that I have
to pay someone to pay my fair share. For decades I couldn’t claim ‘head of
household’ because I was single. Whatever…I expect the IRS to keep my records
secure. Those records have all my finances since I was 17 years old. I hope
lots of people go down for this, including any legislators who did not give the
IRS the necessary laws and funding to prevent a computer hack. If I don’t pay
my taxes, the IRS will come after me. I they let my financial records get
hacked, I have no recourse. Crazy.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Each
group of definitions describes three words that are spelled the same, except
for one letter (each group describes a different set of words). Example: king,
ring, wing. The length of the words in each group is provided.
1) a long step & a conflict or struggle & to hit sharply (6 letters)
2) medicinal ointment & a device that regulates flow through a pipe &
to divide into two equal parts (5 letters)
3) not coarse & a musical instrument & a collection of papers (4
letters)
4) meager & sweet baked good & storage room for food (6 letters)
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…China
Facts…
In 2012, a man wore 70 clothing items through a Chinese airport to
avoid paying extra baggage charges.
Hu Xiaoyun, dumped for being poor by his ex-girlfriend seven years
ago, spent $40,000 booking four entire IMAX cinemas for first-day showings of Transformers
4 - just to prove her wrong.
Yu Youzhen, a Chinese millionaire, works as a street sweeper for
the sanitation department to set an example for her children.
…Cool
Facts…
Mathway.com solves all kinds of math homework problems with step
by step explanations.
If you place a ripe banana next to a green tomato, the tomato will
ripen due to the ethylene gas produced by the banana.
In Mexico, artists can pay their taxes using artwork that they
create.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO - 1940
A tent city has been established at Kayenta for the 21-day
shooting of “Kit Carson” by the Edward Small Productions, Inc. for the United
Artists Studio. They are expected to arrive today. Three railroad cars of
equipment have already arrived. Two baggage cars of props and one horse car are
expected shortly. T. A. Stahl of Santa Fe, local agent. The tent houses are
complete for 200 people and are each equipped with electric lights, running
water, baths and every other modern convenience. There is a full dining room
with chefs and waiters all wearing spotless white. The food is excellent. Most
of the filming will be done at Kayenta and at Blue Canyon.
Pilkington Motors on West Santa Fe is enlarging their door on the
south side to accommodate their new lubrication and washing rack. The work is
being done by Roy Hoover.
…Harper’s
Index…
4 – Percentage
of people in the European Union who say they plan to start their own business within
the next year
-
15- Of people
in the US
-
35 – in sub-Saharan
Aftica
75 YEARS AGO - 1940
A tent city has been established at Kayenta for the 21-day
shooting of “Kit Carson” by the Edward Small Productions, Inc. for the United
Artists Studio. They are expected to arrive today. Three railroad cars of
equipment have already arrived. Two baggage cars of props and one horse car are
expected shortly. T. A. Stahl of Santa Fe, local agent. The tent houses are
complete for 200 people and are each equipped with electric lights, running
water, baths and every other modern convenience. There is a full dining room
with chefs and waiters all wearing spotless white. The food is excellent. Most
of the filming will be done at Kayenta and at Blue Canyon.
Pilkington Motors on West Santa Fe is enlarging their door on the
south side to accommodate their new lubrication and washing rack. The work is
being done by Roy Hoover.
…Revisited
History…
If Earth's Entire History Was Compressed
Into A Single Year, Modern Humans Would Appear On December 31st At About 11:58
PM
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
In 2004, researchers at King's College in London spent weeks
examining dozens of horror movies before determining that Stanley Kubrick's The
Shining was "the perfect scary film."
…Water
Facts…
The average person in the United States uses anywhere from 80-100
gallons of water per day. Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest
amount of this water.
Approximately 85 percent of U.S. residents receive their water
from public water facilities. The remaining 15 percent supply their own water
from private wells or other sources.
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2 jokes
for the day
Two eggs, a sausage, and a pancake walk into a
bar.
The bartender says, "Sorry, we don't serve breakfast."
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It was a disastrous year for the farmers.
The snow fell and fell until the government relief agency had to step in and
lend a hand.
“It must have been terrible,” said the government man to a farmer. “All that
snow.”
“Could have been worse,” calmly answered the farmer. “My neighbor had more snow
than me.”
“How’s that?” asked the government man.
“More land,” replied the farmer.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
QUINCY, Ill. (UPI) - An Illinois couple nearing their 60th wedding
anniversary announced they have welcomed their 100th grandchild into the
family. Leo and Ruth Zanger, Quincy residents who have been married for 59
years, said baby Jaxton Zanger, born April 8, marks their 46th great-grandchild
and their overall 100th grandchild. The couple said they have 12 children, 53
grandchildren, 46 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson. "We
could start our own town," Leo Zanger joked to the Quincy Herald-Whig. The
couple said their large family is close-knit and most of them live in the
Quincy area. They said family gatherings require a rented church hall and
either 50 pounds of ham or 10 whole turkeys. "We enjoy all of the family
get-togethers," Leo Zanger said. The Zangers said they enjoy watching
their family grow. "All the grandkids know us," Ruth Zanger said.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Memorial
Day, an American holiday observed on the last Monday of May, honors men and
women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Originally known as
Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became
an official federal holiday in 1971.
***
It
is unclear where exactly this tradition originated; numerous different
communities may have independently initiated the memorial gatherings.
Nevertheless, in 1966 the federal government declared Waterloo, New York, the
official birthplace of Memorial Day. Waterloo, which had first celebrated the
day on May 5, 1866, was chosen because it hosted an annual, community-wide
event, during which businesses closed and residents decorated the graves of
soldiers with flowers and flags.
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Birthday’s Today
84 - Carroll
Baker, Penn, actress (Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow)
77 - Jerry West,
West Virginia, NBA superstar (LA Lakers, Olympic-gold-1960)
73 - Beth Howland,
actress (Vera-Alice, Company)
71 - Gladys Knight, singer, leader of Pips
(Last Train)
70 - John Fogerty, rocker (Creedence
Clearwater Revival)
52 - Brandon Cruz,
actor (Eddie-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
37 - Elisabeth Hasselbeck, American
television panelist (The View)
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Remembered for being born today
- Barney
Rosset, publisher and free speech advocate (publisher of Tropic for Cancer)
1922-2012@89
- Patrick
White, Australia, novelist (Happy Valley, Nobel 1973) 1912-1990@78
- Joseph Ignace Guillotin, France, physician/inventor
(guillotine) 1738-1814@75
- Thomas Moore,
Irish poet ("The Minstrel Boy") 1779-1852@72
- James Francis ‘Jim’ Thorpe
(Wa-Tho-Huk), Saux & Fox, decathelete (Olympic-gold-1912) 1888-1953@65
- T-Bone Walker,
Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town) 1910-1975@64
- Gary Stewart, country
singer (She's Actin' Single) 1945-2003@59
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Historical Obits Today
Maya
Angelou [Marguerite Johnson], author ("I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings"), poet and actress (Nyo-Roots)-2014@86
Noah
Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary)-1843@84
Edward
VIII, King of Great Britain and Northern Ireland-1972@77
Roy
Roberts, actor (Petticoat Junction, Lucy Show), heart attack-1975@75
Phil
Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian, murdered by his wife in his
sleep-1998@49
Audie
Murphy, actor (Whispering Smiths), most decorated in WWII-plane
crash-1971@45
Gary
Coleman, American actor-head trama-2010@42
Anne Brontë, English novelist (The
Tenant of Wildfell Hall), long illness-1849@29
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) stride, strife, strike
2) salve, valve, halve
3) fine, fife, file
4) paltry, pastry, pantry
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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…§
