May 14

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May 14, 2020 Week: 20 Day: 135

86004: H 69° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind: 10mph\Gusts: 18mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 590mi.; Nearest active fire: 268mi.

High Risk of Fire

Record High: 83°[1938] Record Low: 21°[1942]

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

Today’s Quote

"The use of traveling is to regulate imagination

with reality, and instead of thinking

of how things may be, see them as they are."

— Samuel Johnson

Random Tidbits

Before they were famous:

J.K. Rowling

“Harry Potter” author J.K. Rowling taught English in Portugal in the early 1990s. She began work on her legendary tale of the boy wizard while working in Portugal.

Art Garfunkel

One half of Simon and Garfunkel worked as a math teacher in Connecticut as a young man. He once told an interviewer for Forbes: “I would have been comfortable being a teacher. I supported myself in high school by tutoring kids and making decent money at it. That was my first instinct about what I could do to make money.”

Have a smile

A friend sent these to me

Question: What's a lumberjack's favorite director?

TimBuuurrrrrrrton

Observations This Week

Ramadan: 23-5/23

National Public Gardens Week: 8-17  Link
INVICTUS GAMES: 9-16  Link 
Universal Family Week: 10-16
Food Allergy Awareness Week: 10-16 Link
National Hospital Week: 10-16 Link
National Nursing Home Week: 10-17
National Police Week:  10-16
National Return To Work Week:  10-17
National Transportation Week: 10-16 
National Women's Health Week: 10-16 Link  Link
Reading is Fun Week:  10-17 Link 
Salute to Moms 35+ Week: 10-16 
Salvation Army Week: 10-17 
Brain Injury Awareness Week: 11-17 Link
National Etiquette Week: 11-15  
National Stuttering Awareness Week: 11-17
Work At Home Moms Week: 11-17 
American Craft Beer Week: 11-17 Link
Cannes Film Festival: 12-23 Cancelled due to COVID-19
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week: 13-19  Link
PGA Championship: 14-17 Moved to August due to COVID-19  Link

Observations for Today

Apraxia Awareness Day Link
Dance Like a Chicken Day

National Brioche Day

National Buttermilk Biscuit Day

National Decency Day Link LinkThe Stars and Stripes Forever Day
Underground America Day

My Rambling Thoughts

A little cooler today, but so far, only light winds. Nice walk while it was still calm. Then tackled cleaning the downstairs bathroom and laundry room. Great day.

A reader sent me this great parody. Check it out:

Opera Parody for COVID-19

NAU students are getting money from the CARES Act. Full time students who have a PELL Grant get $500 and all other full time students are getting $400. Each student just has to fill out a short form and the money is deposited into their bank account within 7 days. Good deal.

Flagstaff Shelter Services has moved all their clients to one of three hotels in town to assist with social distancing. They got a special deal, since most hotels in our tourist town are empty. This pandemic is far from over.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

The more you take away from me,

the bigger I become.

What am I?

Historical Events

1796 - Edward Jenner, a doctor from Gloucestershire, England successfully tested his vaccination for smallpox on eight year old James Phipps.

1804 - Lewis and Clark expedition left St. Louis, Missouri, on a mission to explore the Northwest from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean.

1842 - Alfred Lord Tennyson published Poems.

1850 - The first US. patent (#7,365) for a dish washing machine was issued to Joel Houghton of Ogden, NY, for an "Improvement in Machines for Washing Table Furniture".

1897 - The Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa was first performed in public near Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia.

1925 - Virginia Woolf's novel Mrs Dalloway was published.

1932 - The first electrical timing device was tested at a track meet between Columbia and Syracuse at Baker Field, NYC.

1948 - In Tel Aviv, Jewish Agency Chairman David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel

1949 US President Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at Cape Canaveral

1955 - The Warsaw Pact was signed between the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria in response to the west's North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

1961 Bus with 1st group of Freedom Riders bombed & burned in Alabama

1969 Last Chevrolet Corvair built1973 - Skylab I was launched.

1973 US Supreme court approves equal rights to females in military

1980 Department of Health & Human Services begins operation

1986 Netherlands Institute for War Documentation publishes Anne Frank's complete diary

1995 Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most senior spiritual leader

1998 - 76.3 million people tuned in for the series finale of Seinfeld.

2013 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel "Americanah" is published

2018 Chinese mountain climber and double amputee Xia Boyu reaches the summit of Mt Everest

2018 Boulder City Council in Colorado votes to ban assault weapons

Birthdays Today

76-Director George Lucas

@72-Dancer Eddie Cantor (d. 1964)

68-Singer David Byrne

59-Actor, Director Tim Roth

51-Actor Cate Blanchett (1969)

@37-Singer Bobby Darin (d. 1973; sepsis)

36-Entrepenaur Mark Zuckerberg

Puzzle Answer:

A hole