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Almanac: Week: 22 \ Day: 149
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 78°\L 37° Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind
ave: 9mph\Gusts: 28mph
Ave. High: 72° Record High: 86°
(2000) Ave. Low: 37° Record
Low: 22° (1918)
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Observances Today:
Bats
Days—meeting in Anaheim CA of goths
End
Of The Middle Ages Day- 1453 is considered by
many historians to be the end of the Middle Ages, (and therefore the Beginning
of the Renaissance)
Hug
Your Cat Day
International
Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Learn
About Composting Day
Put
A Pillow On Your Fridge Day - to bring luck and
wealth to the household
Admission
Day (Wisconsin-1848-30th)
Ratification
Day (Rhode Island-1790-of US
Constitution)
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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
1721 - South
Carolina formally incorporated as a royal colony
1765 - Patrick
Henry's historic speech against the Stamp Act, answering a cry of
"Treason!" with, "If this be treason, make the most of it!"
1849 - Lincoln
says "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the
people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the
time."
1851 - Sojourner
Truth addresses 1st Black Women's Rights Convention (Akron)
1876 - Interior
Department is told to cooperate with the War Department so the military can
round up the "hostiles" whenever they may appear on a reservation or
an agency.
1900 - Trademark "Escalator" registered by
Otis Elevator Co
1910 - Pima County,
AZ Board of Supervisors offered $500 for
the arrest and convictions of the killer of stage line operator and rancher Oscar Buckalew. Mr. Buckalew, who
was found with a fatal bullet wound to
the head, was shot through the window by
an unknown assailant as he sat down for
his evening smoke at
his ranch in Helvetia on April 18.
1912 - 15 young women fired by Curtis Publishing
for dancing "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break
1916 - Official flag of president of US adopted
1916 - US forces invade Dominican Republic, stay
until 1924
1943 - Meat & cheese rationed in US
1960 - Everly
Brothers "Cathy's Clown" hits #1
1968 - US Truth in Lending Act signed into law
1980 - Larry
Bird beats out Magic Johnson for NBA rookie of year
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Today’s World Events through History
1453 - Constantinople,
capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends
Byzantine Empire
1733 - The
right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld at Quebec City
1864 - Mexican
Emperor Maximilian arrives at Vera Cruz
1913 - Igor
Stravinsky's ballet score The Rite of
Spring is premiered in Paris, provoking a riot.
1928 - Fritz
von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
1953 - Edmund
Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of
Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition
1972 - The Official
IRA announce a ceasefire
1974 - Northern
Ireland is brought under direct rule from Westminster
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Ah, a real summer day…sunny, warm, and little wind. Gotta love
this town.
Had a good lunch with our retirement group. Cheryl is leaving for
CA then on to Michigan for a couple of weeks. Mary had some great pics of her
daughter and grandkids. Good conversation.
Live anthrax sent by the military through FedEx to 22 destinations
including one to US Base in S. Korea. Good thing I’m not a conspiracy theorist
or I could have a lot to say about that. I would like to see a picture of the
first scientist that thought he was working with dead spores and found out that
the spores were alive and deadly. Even better, his next phone call would be
interesting to hear.
Hopefully, AZ won’t be in the headlines tomorrow for another
stupid act.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
We
are four brothers in this world and we're all born together.
The first one runs and never wearies.
The second eats and is never full.
The third drinks and is ever thirsty,
The fourth sings a song that is barely heard.
Who are we?
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…China
Facts…
According to official documents, Luo Meizhen was born in 1885,
which would make her 127 years old when she died in 2013 and the oldest person
ever to have lived.
In 2012, a Chinese man named Xiao Fan had a dress made out of
9,999 red roses for his girlfriend and then proposed – the number 9 in China
means forever
…Cool
Facts…
There is a superhero supply store in Brooklyn with a cape fitting
room that has a wind tunnel. They also sell oxygen gum, bottled chaos and have
an invisibility testing center.
The Google driverless car has only encountered two accidents. The
first it was rear ended at a stop sign, and the second was when a human was
behind the wheel.
In Montreal, there's a bus stop with swings that play musical
notes when you swing on them.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO- 1915
Babbitt Bros. are hauling all the dirt from their excavation for
their new garage to the east end of Aspen Avenue to fill in the street near
their big warehouse, which will improve the loading and unloading space.
For Sale: 1915 Hup-mobile $550 and a 1912 Cadillac $750. Both
thoroughly overhauled. The Cadillac has a self-starter and electric lights.
Babbitt Bros. Garage.
…Harper’s
Index…
$8,152 – number of
votes the Internet Party received in Ukraine’s parliamentary elections last
fall
5 – number of
the party’s 17 candidates who were registered under the name Darth Vader
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The first item sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer. A
collector of broken laser pointers bought it for $14.83.
…Water
Facts…
By the time a person feels thirsty, his or her body has lost over
1 percent of its total water amount.
The weight a person loses directly after intense physical activity
is weight from water, not fat.
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2 jokes
for the day
Q. Why did the student eat his homework?
A. His teacher said it was a piece of cake.
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A man appeared before St. Peter at the pearly
gates. "Have you ever done anything of particular merit?" St. Peter
asked.
Well, I can think of one thing," the man offered. "On a trip to the
Black Hills out in South Dakota, I came upon a gang of high-testosterone
bikers, who were threatening a young woman.
I directed them to leave her alone, but they wouldn't listen. "So, I
approached the largest and most heavily tattooed biker and smacked him on the
head, kicked his bike over, ripped out his nose ring, and threw it on the
ground." I yelled, "Now, back off!! Or you'll answer to me!"
St. Peter was impressed: "When did this happen?"
"Just a couple of minutes ago"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
BEIJING
(UPI) - A Chinese beekeeper broke a world record - by covering himself
with 240 pounds of squirming bees. Gao Bingguo, of Tai'an City, in the eastern
province of Shandong, began the challenge early Monday, Sky News reported. The
55-year-old veteran beekeeper has cultivated bees for more than 30 years, and
was stung multiple times before breaking the world record. Around 1.1 million
bees at one point weighed down on Gao, the International Business Times
reported. Weighing at 240 pounds, the bees shattered a previous record of 184
pounds - also set by a Chinese beekeeper in China's inland Shaanxi province.
Gao's fellow beekeepers were dressed in military camouflage pantsuits as they
prepared their colleague for the battle of his lifetime. Working together, they
poured the pollinating insects onto his geared body. Queen bees came first, in
order to attract more of the insects to fly and land on Gao's protected head,
arms and legs. Video footage showed Gao smoking a cigarette in a nonchalant
manner, as thousands of bees swarmed over him then crawled over his seated
body. Luo Xing, a judge at the event said, "After we checked and searched
[the] database, and witnessed it at scene, we announce, Mr. Gao Bingguo
successfully breaks the record."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Tortoises
inspired the ancient Roman military. During sieges, soldiers would get in
testudo formation, named after the Latin word for tortoise. The men formed rows
and held shields in front or above them to completely shelter the unit.
Tortoises have an exoskeleton and an endoskeleton. The shell has three main
parts: the top carapace, the bottom plastron, and the bridge that fuses these
pieces together. You can't see them, but every tortoise has ribs, a collar
bone, and a spine inside its shell.
They can't swim, but tortoises can hold their breath for a long time. They're
extremely tolerant of carbon dioxide. It's a good thing-tortoises have to empty
their lungs before they can go into their shells. You'll often hear them exhale
when they're startled and decide to hide.
Tortoises can extract water and nutrients from even the most paltry bites.
Their hindgut system works like a double digestive tract, separating water from
their waste. When water's scarce, they'll hang on to water waste and simply
excrete the urates, which look like white toothpaste.
Like other reptiles, tortoises detect the faintest of smells with the
vomeronasal organ, or Jacobson's Organ, on the roof of their mouths. Instead of
flicking their tongues, they pump their throats to circulate air through the
nose and around the mouth.
In 1968, the Soviet Union's Zond 5 spacecraft was the first to circle the moon
and return safely to Earth. The tortoises on board lost about 10 percent of
their body weight, but were still ready for a meal when they touched down.
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Birthday’s Today
83 - Paul R.
Ehrlich, American biologist\author founder-Zero Population Growth
76 - Al Unser,
auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1970, 71)
68 - Anthony
Geary, Coalville Utah, actor (Luke/Bill-General Hospital)
62 - Danny Elfman,
composer (Simspon Show Theme)
59 - LaToya
Jackson, American singer/model
57 - Annette
Bening, Topeka KS, actress (Grifters)
54 - Melissa
Etheridge, US singer/songwriter/guitarist (Never Enough)
31 - Carmelo
Anthony, Knicks basketball player
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Remembered for being born today
- Bob Hope,
[Leslie Townes Hope], British born American entertainer 1903-2003@100
- Patrick Henry, US, patriot "Give me liberty or give me
death" 1736-1799@63
- T. H. White,
Bombay India, English author (King Arthur) 1906 -1964@57
- John
Fitzgerald Kennedy, Mass, (Sen-D-Mass), 35th Pres 1917-1963@46
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Historical Obits Today
Margaret
Chase Smith, 1st woman Rep & Sen (R-Me)-1995@97
Mary
Pickford, actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets)-1979@87
William Schwenck Gilbert,
English dramatist (Gilbert & Sullivan), heart attack-1911@74
John Barrymore, actor (Dinner at 8), cirrhosis-1942@60
Bartolomeu
Dias, Portuguese explorer (1st European to round Cape of Good Hope),
drowns-1500@48ish
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Brain Teasers Answers
Water, Fire, Earth and Wind.
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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…§
