May 4,
2021 Week: 18 Day: 124
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Visibility: 10 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover: 40% |
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Local:
H 65°\ L 34° |
Nearest Lightning: 89mi. |
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Wind: 3 mph/ Gusts: 6mph |
Moderate Risk of Fire: Active fire: 320mi |
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May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture) |
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Today’s Quote
Reading
is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
~Joseph
Addison
Humor
What is every
Californian’s favorite part about the winter? Watching all of the bad weather
on TV.
Media report says people
of Dubai don’t understand the humor in The Flintstones, but the people
of Abu Dhabi do.
Real Cities
Skiddy, Kansas was
founded in 1870. It was named after railroad magnate Francis Skiddy. Between
March 11, 1879, and August 3, 1883, it was renamed Camden. The post office in
Skiddy was discontinued in 1953.
True Things
Lost
and Found
Cybill
Moore of Weatherford, Texas, was puzzled by the large basket of men's dirty
laundry left on her front porch, along with a bag of laundry soap and dryer
sheets, on March 26. Assuming there'd been a mix-up, she left it on the porch
for a day and posted on social media sites to find the owner, with no luck, she
told the Weatherford Democrat, so she finally just washed, dried and folded the
clothes. That's when a strange man showed up at the door saying he meant to
drop the laundry four houses down, where he pays a woman to clean his clothes.
Moore said he was shocked that she had laundered the items for him, and now,
"A lot of people have joked about dropping off their clothes for me, since
I'm doing 'community laundry,'" [Weatherford Democrat, 3/29/2021]
Monthly Observations
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Drum Month |
Weekly Observations
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Ramadan |
Thru 5/11 |
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International
Wildlife Film Week Link |
Thru
5/15 |
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National Playground Safety Week
Link |
Thru
30 |
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Choose Privacy Week: Link |
1-7 |
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Be Kind To Animals Week |
2-8 |
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Air Quality Awareness Week Link PTA Teacher Appreciation Week Teacher Appreciation Week Link |
3-7 |
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Children's Book Week National Sun Safety Week Link Screen-Free Week (Digital Detox
Week Link |
3-9 |
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(World)
Dystonia Awareness Week Link |
3-11 |
Today’s Observations
Bird Day
Childhood Depression
Awareness Day
Foster Care Day Link
Intergalactic Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You!) Link
International
Firefighters Day Link Link
International Respect
for Chickens Day Link
National Candied Orange Peel Day
National
Homebrew Day
National Hoagie Day
Petite
and Proud Day
Respect For Chickens Day
Star Wars Day
Weather Awareness Day
World Asthma Day Link
World Give Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
Keeping up with store
opening times is becoming a hassle. I headed out for a pedi- this morning at
10:10 at the mall. The lady that does my toes usually gets there about then.
When I got to the mall, I discovered that NOW the mall opens at 11am. I went back
at 11:10 and got it done. Now I’m ready to take on the world. Haha.
I am so confused. There
was a reliable poll yesterday that said 70% of registered Republicans do not
believe that Biden won, but they have no problem with any of the down ballot
races. [Play Twilight Zone Theme music]
60 Minutes did a fascinating
report on the virus last night. When the government ignores science, scientists
will [and did] find a work around to save human life. I was amazed at the non-government
funding research was being done as early as Nov. 2019. I was happy to finally
hear about all that work. Now I am more thankful than ever.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
A rancher had 500 cows
and took one shot that got them all. How did he do it?
Historical Events
1494 – Christopher
Columbus discovered Jamaica.
1626 – Dutch explorer
Peter Minuit (~1594-1638), director-general of New Netherlands, bought
Manhattan Island for 60 guilders (about $$1,143 in 2020 dollars) worth of cloth
and buttons.
1814 – Emperor Napoleon
arrived at Portoferraio on the island of Elba to begin his exile.
1886 – A labor protest in
Haymarket Square in Chicago, Illinois resulted in 100 wounded and 8 police officers
killed.
1904 – The United States
began the construction of the Panama Canal.
1933 – The discovery of
radio waves from the center of the Milky Way galaxy was announced by Karl
Jansky.
1927 – The Academy of
Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was incorporated.
1948 – Norman Mailer’s first novel The Naked and the Dead
was published.
1953 – Ernest Hemingway won the Pulitzer Prize for The Old Man
and the Sea.
1959 – The 1st Annual
Grammy Awards were held.
1970 – Jeffrey Glenn
Miller, Allison B. Krause, William Knox Schroeder, and Sandra Lee Scheuer were
killed by National Guard troops at Ohio’s Kent State campus.
The Kent State shootings, also known as the May
4 massacre and the Kent State massacre, were the killings of four students, and
the wounding of nine other unarmed Kent State University students by the Ohio
National Guard on May 4, 1970,
in Kent, Ohio, 40 miles south of Cleveland. The tragedy is responsible for
bringing to national prominence both longtime protests against US involvement
in Vietnam as well as student activism overall.
1972 – The Don’t Make A
Wave Committee, an environmental organization founded in Canada in 1971,
officially changes its name to the Greenpeace Foundation.
1989 – The space probe Magellan was carried in the cargo bay Space
Shuttle Atlantis and released to travel around the planet, Venus.
1990 – Jesse Tafero was
executed in Florida after his electric chair malfunctioned three times, causing
his hair & head to catch fire.
1992 US Army and Marine
Corps forces arrive in Los Angeles to end rioting following the acquittal of
four police officers over the beating of Rodney King
1998 A federal judge in
Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski four life
sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea agreement sparing him
from the death penalty.
2007 The Scottish National Party wins the Scottish general election
and becomes the largest party in the Scottish Parliament for the first time
ever
2013 Harper Lee files a
lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of "To Kill a
Mockingbird"
2020 World leaders pledge $8 billion to research treatments and a
vaccine for COVID-19, with the US and Russia not taking part
Birthdays Today
91 – Katherine Jackson
[Jackson 5’s mom]
@63 – Audrey Hepburn, Belgian-British actress and humanitarian (d.
1993; cancer)
62 – Randy Travis,
American singer-songwriter
51 – Will Arnett,
Canadian comedic actor
43 – Erin Andrews,
American sportscaster and journalist
@16 – Greyfriars Bobby, a Skye Terrier; guarded owner’s grave for
14 years (d.1872)
Puzzle Answer
A panoramic photo
