May 25

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May 25, 2019 Week: 21 \ Day: 145

86004:   H 56° \ L 26° \ Average Sky Cover: 5% 

Nearest wildfire:  247mi. Nearest lightning:  384mi

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  12mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 84°[1951]   Record Low: 18°[1980]

Mar Averages: 68°\34° (3 days with rain)

Today’s Quote

Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind. Johannes Brahms

Random Tidbits

Today rice is grown on every continent on earth, except Antarctica.

Asia alone both produces and consumes more than 90 percent of the world's rice.

Observances This Week

Ramadan 5/5-6/4

Cannes Film Festival: 15-26

EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week: 19-25  Link  
International Heritage Breeds Week: 19-25  Link  
National Eosinophil Awareness Week: 19-25  Link  
National Medical Transcription Week: 19-25  Link
National New Friends, Old Friends Week: 19-25
National Unicycle Week: 19-25
World Trade Week: 19-25 

Brain Injury Awareness Week: 20-26 Link 
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week: 20-25  Link
National Backyard Games Week: 20-27 
National Tire Safety Week:  20-27 Link  
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week: 20-27 Link

Fleet Week (NY): 22-28

National Polka Weekend: 24-26 

Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories: 25-31
Mudbug Madness Days: 25-27 
Old-Time Player Piano Weekend: 25-27

Observances for Today

Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day (ARMAD)  Link Link

Cookie Monster's Birthday  Link  
International Heritage Breeds Day Link 

Julia Pierpont Day

National and International Missing Children's Day  Link
National Brown Bag It Day

National Polka Days: 24-26  Link

National Tap Dance Day
National Wine Day Link
Nerd Pride Day or Geek Pride Day Link
Tap Dance Day

Towel Day Link
Sing Out Day

World Thyroid Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Spring abounds again. Nice day to be outside.

Took off early to do some shopping and got to the first store and realized I had left my phone at home. My phone has all my lists for shopping, but I was able to shake out some cobwebs from my real brain and remember what I really needed. Got everything and made it home. My phone was charging in my office…just awaiting my inevitable return. While I was out I picked up my 3 month supply of CPAP stuff. All new and clean now.

I had a boss who was great at assigning things. He wasn’t that good about offering help, so when things went wrong he always had a scape goat. He would say, ‘I’m not sure, you better check with …’ This is our country now. 45 only talks about what HE wants to talk about and doesn’t listen to anyone else. If there is a problem, it always falls to someone else…not the way to run a business or a country.

Watching Teresa Mae agree to step down was a long time coming. Her withdrawal announcement leaves them in a bigger mess than we are in. The former Mayor of London is hoping to step into her role, but he is just another crazy guy with no plans.

Drive safely if you are traveling during this Memorial Day Weekend.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Use all letters of this sentence once each only to spell out three animals.

'TALL ELEPHANT OR APEMAN'

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1500’s

1521 Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther and his followers

1800’s

1816 Collection of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge published by John Murray in London, including "Kubla Khan" and "Christabel"

1842 Christian Doppler presents his idea, now known as the Doppler Effect, to the Royal Bohemian Society, Prague

1895 Oscar Wilde sentenced to 2 years imprisonment for gross indecency

1900’s

1927 Henry Ford announces that he is ending production of the Model T Ford

1936 The Remington Rand strike, led by the American Federation of Labor, begins

1945 Arthur C Clark proposes relay satellites in geosynchronous orbit

1946 Jordan gains independence from Britain (National Day); Abdullah ibn Hussein becomes King of Jordan

1961 JFK announces US goal of putting a man on Moon before the end of decade

1964 US Supreme Court rules closing schools to avoid desegregation is unconstitutional

1981 Daniel Goodwin scales outside of Chicago's Sears Tower in 7 hours

1986 Hands Across America - 6.5 million people hold hands from California to NY

2000’s

2001 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, becomes the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest

2011 Oprah Winfrey airs her last show, ending her twenty five year run of The Oprah Winfrey Show

2012 A SpaceX Dragon becomes the first commercial spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station

2018 Barbados elects its first female Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who leads the Barbados Labour Party to victory

Birthdays Today

1803 Ralph Waldo Emerson,

 (d. 1882: @!78: pneumonia)

American essayist and philosopher (Concord Hymn),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

1865 John Mott,

(d. 1955: @89)

American evangelist and organizer (YMCA, Nobel 1946),

born in Livingston Manor, Sullivan County, New York

1878 Bill Robinson "Bojangles"

(d. 1949: @72),

American actor and tap dancer (Stormy Weather, The Little Colonel),

born in Richmond, Virginia

1898 Bennett Cerf,

(d. 1971: @73)

American publisher (Random House) and panelist (What's My Line),

born in Manhattan, New York

1921 Hal David,

(d. 2012: @91)

American lyricist (Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head),

 born in Brooklyn, New York

1926 Claude Akins,

 (d. 1994: @67: stomach cancer)

American character actor (B. J. and the Bear, The Misadventures of Sheriff Lobo, Movin' On),

born in Nelson, Georgia

1929 Beverly Sills,

 (d. 2007: @78: lung cancer)

American operatic soprano,

born in Brooklyn, New York

1939 Dixie Carter,

(d. 2010: @70: cancer)

American actress (Designing Women, Edge of Night),

born in McLemoresville, Tennessee

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80’s

83- Tom T. Hall,

American country singer and writer (Harper Valley PTA),

born in Olive Hill, Kentucky

80- Sir Ian McKellen,

English film and theatre actor (Lord of the Rings, X-Men),

born in Burnley Lancashire

70’s

76- Jessi Colter

[Miriam Johnson],

American country singer (I'm Not Lisa),

born in Phoenix, Arizona

76-  Leslie Uggams,

American singer and actress (Leslie Uggams Show, Roots),

born in NYC, New York

75- Frank Oz,

American puppeteer (Grover-Sesame Street, Muppet Show),

born in Hereford, England

72- Karen Valentine,

American actress (Love American Style, Room 222),

born in Santa Rosa, California

50’s

59- Amy Klobuchar,

American politician (D), senator for Minnesota (2007-),

born in Plymouth, Minnesota

56- Mike Myers,

Canadian comedian (SNL, Wayne's World),

born in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada

40’s

47-Octavia Spencer,

actress (The Help)

43- Cillian Murphy,

Irish actor (28 Days Later),

born in Douglas, County Cork, Ireland

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@78-1946 Patty Smith Hill,

American composer, teacher and songwriter (Happy Birthday to You)

@76-2007 Charles Nelson Reilly,

American actor, comedian and gameshow panelist

(Match Game, Ghost & Mrs Muir),

dies of pneumonia

60’s

@60-1990 Victor "Vic" Tayback,

American actor (Mel Sharples-"Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore "), dies of a heart attack

50’s

@51-1919 Madam C. J. Walker

[Sarah Breedlove],

African American entrepreneur (First American self-made female millionaire, Madame C.J. Walker Manufacturing Company),

dies of kidney failure complications

Puzzle answer:

PANTHER, ANTELOPE, LLAMA