May 29

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May 29, 2019 Week: 22 \ Day: 149

86004:   H 56° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Nearest lightning:  480mi

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  9mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 86°[2000]   Record Low: 22°[1918]

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

Today’s Quote

My fellow Americans,

ask not what your country can do for you,

ask what you can do for your country.

John F. Kennedy

Random Tidbits

Brown rice is whole grain rice, with the inedible outer hull removed; white rice is the same grain with the hull, bran layer and cereal germ removed. Red rice, gold rice, black rice and purple rice are all whole rice, but with a differently-pigmented outer layer.

The health benefits of rice include its ability to provide fast and instant energy, regulate and improve bowel movements, stabilize blood sugar levels, and slow down the aging process, while also providing an essential source of vitamin B1 to the human body. Other benefits include its ability to boost skin health, increase the metabolism, aid in digestion, reduce high blood pressure, help weight loss efforts, improve the immune system and provide protection against dysentery, cancer, and heart disease.

Observances This Week

Ramadan 5/5-6/4

National African Violet Week: 26-6/2

Black Single Parents Week: 28-6/3

Scripps National Spelling Bee: 28-31

Observances for Today

Ascension of Baha'u'Llah
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
Learn About Composting Day

National Biscuit Day

National Senior Health & Fitness Day Link 
Put A Pillow On Your Fridge Day Link
World Otter Day 

My Rambling Thoughts

I know it’s Tuesday…but it sure feels like Monday. Got out and did some necessary shopping. All good. Windows open, no need for jacket outside.

I am getting very confused…45 pontificates on ‘America First’, then heads overseas and trashes our political system while playing buddy/buddy with dictators. I have never heard of an elected leader of any country talking bad about the country that elected him/her when out of his/her country.  Even more confusing, his supporters don’t care.

My genetics does not include mountain climbing. It never has, and never will. My Boy Scout leader was an avid climber. At one troop meeting he brought a man who had climbed Mt. Everest. The guy told his story. It was fascinating, but it’s not for me. My neighbor and good friend Bob climbed all the high peaks in Colorado. His stories were good, just not for me. I am watching all the beauty and horror at Mt. Everest. I just don’t get it. There is a spot on a dirt road between Tonalea and Kaibeto on the Navajo Rez that the locals call ‘Top of the World’. It is beautiful, one can see for miles in every direction. I stopped there many times. That was enough for me.

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

Huey has 3 donuts, Dewey has 5 donuts. Louie comes along and three of them split the donuts equally. In exchange, Louie offers 8 candies to Huey and Dewey. What is the fair way to split the candies?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1400’s

1453 Constantinople, capital of the Eastern Roman Empire falls to the Turks under Muhammad II; ends the Byzantine Empire

1500’s

1592 Battle of Sacheon: Korean navy led by Admiral Yi Sun Shin repels a Japanese fleet - first use of Korean Turtle ship

1600’s

1677 Treaty of Middle Plantation establishes peace between the Virginia colonists and local Native American

1700’s

1733 The right of Canadians to keep Indian slaves is upheld in Quebec City

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!"

1800’s

1848 Wisconsin becomes 30th US state

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 in Akron, Ohio

1886 American chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise Coca-Cola

1900’s

1912 15 young women are fired by Curtis Publishing in Philadelphia for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch break

1916 Official flag of President of the United States adopted

1919 Albert Einstein's Theory of Relativity, that when light passes a large body, gravity will bend the rays confirmed by Arthur Eddington's expedition to photograph a solar eclipse on the island of Principe, West Africa

1943 Meat and cheese rationed in US

1953 Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) are first to reach the summit of Mount Everest as part of a British Expedition

1968 US Truth in Lending Act signed into law

1973 Thomas Bradley elected 1st African American mayor of Los Angeles, California

1980 53rd National Spelling Bee: Jacques Bailly wins spelling elucubrate

1989 Student protesters in China construct a replica of Statue of Liberty

1997 70th National Spelling Bee: Rebecca Sealfon wins spelling euonym

2000’s

2001 International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers inaugurated.

2004 The World War II Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C.

2012 Facebook's problematic public listing could cost those involved $115 million from technical glitches

2014 President Obama approves US military training of 'moderate' Syrian rebels to fight the regime of Bashar al-Assad and al Qaeda-linked groups

2018 Missouri Governor Eric Greitens resigns over an extramarital affair and illegal use of a donor list

2018 Starbucks closes more than 8,000 US stores early for racial bias training after two black men wrongly arrested in a store in April

2018 Death toll on Puerto Rico 70 times higher than official figure, likely 4,600 died from Hurricane Maria according to Harvard University study

Birthdays Today

0’s

1630 Charles II,

(d. 1685: @54: apoplectic fit)

King of England, Scotland and Ireland (1660-85),

born in St. James's Palace, London

1736 Patrick Henry,

(d. 1799: @63: stomach cancer)

American Revolutionary and Founding Father famous for his "Give me liberty or give me death" speech,

born in Studley, Colony of Virginia, British America

1826 Ebenezer Butterick,

 (d: 1903: @77)

inventor (tissue paper dress pattern)

1903 Bob Hope

[Leslie Townes Hope],

(d. 2003: @100)

British born American entertainer,

born in London, England

1914 Tenzing Norgay,

(d. 1986: @71: stroke)

Tibetan climber who was the 1st to reach the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 with Edmund Hillary (exact date of birth unknown, but he celebrated on the 29th),

born in either northeastern Nepal or Tibet

1917 John F. Kennedy,

(d. 1963: @46: assassinated)

35th US President (1961-1963) and Senator (D-Mass),

born in Brookline, Massachusetts

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70’s

74- Gary Brooker,

English rock keyboardist and singer (Procol Harum),

born in Hackney, London

60’s

63- LaToya Jackson,

American singer and model (If You Feel the Funk), posed for Playboy,

born in Gary, Indiana

61- Annette Bening,

American actress (Grifters, Bugsy, American Beauty),

born in Topeka, Kansas

50’s

58- Melissa Etheridge,

US singer/songwriter/guitarist (Never Enough)

40’s

47- Laverne Cox,

American actress and LGBT advocate,

born in Mobile, Alabama

44- Mel B,

[Melanie Brown]

English singer "Scary Spice" (Spice Girls),

born in Leeds, England

44-Daniel Tosh,

comedian, actor, writer

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@97-1995 Margaret Chase Smith,

American politician (U.S. Senator from Maine)

80’s

@89-1998 Barry M. Goldwater,

U.S. Senator from Arizona and presidential candidate

@87-1979 Mary Pickford,

actress (Coquette, Suds, Secrets)

@83-2017 Manuel Noriega,

Panamanian general and dictator (1983-89)

70’s

@74-2010 Dennis Hopper,

American actor and director,

dies from prostate cancer

@74-1911 William Schwenck Gilbert,

English dramatist (Gilbert & Sullivan),

dies from heart attack while swimming

@74-1892 Baha'u'llah

[Mirza HA Noeri],

Persian founder (Baha'i), .

dies of fever

60’s

@60-1942 John Barrymore,

American actor (Beloved Rogue, Dinner at 8),

dies from cirrhosis of the liver and kidney failure

50’s

@59-1951 Fanny Brice,

American Zeigfield Girl and comedienne (Baby Snooks Show),

dies after stroke

40’s

@48±-1500 Bartolomeu Dias,

Portuguese explorer (1st European to round Cape of Good Hope),

drowns

Puzzle answer:

Huey must take 1 chocolate, and Dewey must take 7. This is because each of them ate 8/3 donuts, and therefore Huey gave away 1/3 of his donuts, whereas Dewey gave away 7/3 of his donuts.