May 6,
2021 Week: 18 Day: 126
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Visibility: 10 miles |
Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Local:
H 74°\ L 40° |
Nearest Lightning: 470mi. |
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Wind:
7mph/ Gusts: 13mph |
EXTREME Risk of Fire: Active fire: 31mi |
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May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture) |
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Today’s Quote
Friends
are the siblings God never gave us.
~Mencius
Random Tidbits
Bears,
seals, and dogs are closely related carnivores but are on a different branch of
the evolutionary tree than cats and hyenas.
Humor
A DuPont chemist walks
into a pharmacy and asks the pharmacist, “Do you have any acetylsalicylic
acid?”
“You mean aspirin?” says
the pharmacist.
“That’s it! I can never
remember that word.”
Real Cities
Waterproof, Louisiana
is a village in Tensas Parish in northeastern Louisiana, with a population of
688 as of the 2010 census. The village in 2010 was 91.7 percent African
American. Some 24 percent of Waterproof residents in 2010 were aged sixty or
above.
True Things
Noted
Ayanna
Williams of Houston achieved a Guinness World Record for the longest
fingernails grown by a woman in 2017, when her nails measured 19 feet. In early
April, Williams visited a dermatology clinic in Fort Worth to have the nails
cut off -- her first trim since the 1990s -- but not before measuring them
again: 24 feet, a length that required a manicure lasting several days, using
three to four bottles of nail polish, CNN reported. "With or without my
nails, I will still be the queen," Williams said. The nails were preserved
and will be on display at the Ripley's Believe It or Not! museum in Orlando,
Florida. [CNN, 4/8/2021]
Monthly Observations
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National Allergy/Asthma Awareness
Month Link |
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 |
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6-12 |
Today’s Observations
International Management
Accounting Day
Joseph Brackett Day
National Children's
Mental Health Awareness Day
National Crepe
Suzette Day
National Day of Prayer Link
National Day of Reason
National Nurses Day
National Tourist Appreciation Day
No Homework Day
Nurses Day or National RN Recognition Day Link Link
Russel Stover Candies Day
World Password Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
Great day…warm, slight wind…nice walk in the forest.
Computer passwords were a big issue until everyone allowed you to save
your username and password. I do that for every site except my banking
information. Since I bought a new computer, I must re-enter them, so the new
computer recognizes me. I’ve had my computer over a month and today I found two
different places I hadn’t used in a while. Oh well, they are ‘remembered’ now.
When I was in Miss Steinmeier’s 9th grade Civics class at
Wheat Ridge Jr. High, a few years ago, I remember discussing DC and Puerto Rico
statehood. Today it is still being discussed. I didn’t get why not back then,
and I don’t get it now. The people who live in DC pay the nation’s highest
taxes in the country. They have no vote in Congress and only one representative
who can’t vote. For all the elected representatives and senators who are
against DC statehood, they should be required to live in DC. That might change
their view. Today, many of them rent a place in either Maryland or Virginia.
Now that I have been vaccinated and restrictions are being lifted, I
have begun shopping on any day I choose. I still wear a mask, I still wipe down
the cart, and am careful. Today I needed some juice, so I headed out and picked
up a bunch of groceries…on a Wednesday. It’s been over a year since I did that.
For all that time I went to stores only on Friday morning. It’s nice to have
more freedom.
MMIW Awareness Day was May 5th. Somehow my many lists of days did not mention it, so I missed it until today. Click on the link to learn about the plight of Native Women who are missing or murdered. That is what wearing a black mask with a red handprint or simply a red handprint across the face is all about.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
What can you keep after
giving to someone?
Historical Events
1851 – Linus Yale, Jr.
was granted a patent (#8,071) for the invention of his “Self-Detaching and
Attaching Key-Lock” as “a new and Improved Safety-Lock for Banks, Safes,
Vaults, Stores.”
1851 – President Benjamin
Harrison had the first electric lights installed in the White House.
1877 – Chief Crazy Horse
of the Oglala Lakota surrendered to United States troops in Nebraska.
1889 – The Eiffel Tower
was officially opened to the public at the Universal Exposition in Paris.
1915 – Babe Ruth, then a
pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, hit his first major league home run.
1933 – FDR signed an
executive order creating the Works Progress Administration (WPA)
1937 – The Hindenburg
exploded over Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crewmembers.
190 – John Steinbeck was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.
1956 – Elvis Presley
appeared on the Milton Berle Show.
1984 – Michael McKean,
Christopher Guest, and Harry Shearer, collectively called Spinal Tap, performed
at CBGB’s in NYC.
1998 – Steve Jobs of
Apple Inc. unveiled the first iMac.
2001 – During a trip to
Syria, Pope John Paul II became the first pope to enter a mosque.
2002 Entrepreneur Elon Musk founds SpaceX
2010 – The US stock
market lost and regained over $1 trillion in value, within about 20 minutes.
The Dow swung by over 1,000 points and many stocks declined to one cent per
share before rising again. There are many theories but no conclusive reason for
the crash.
2019 French telecom
company Orange and its former CEO with other executives go on trial in France
for psychological harassment of their staff that unions claim resulted in 19
suicides and 12 other attempts
2020 UK becomes the first
European country to report over 30,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19
2020 Irish organization repays a 170 year old favor, raising over
$2 million (to date) for US Navajo Nation and Hopi Reservation badly affected
by COVID-19. In 1840s Choctaw Nation sent $170 to aid Irish potato famine.
Birthdays Today
90 – Willie Mays,
Baseball star
@83 – Sigmund Freud, Austrian neurologist, psychoanalyst (d. 1939)
76 – Bob Seger, American
singer-songwriter
@70 – Orson Welles, American actor, director, producer, screenwriter
(d. 1985; heart attack)
68 – Tony Blair, world
leader
66 – Tom Bergeron,
American television host
@66 – Russell Stover, American confectioner (d. 1954)
@63 – Robert Peary, American cartographer, discovered the North
Pole (d. 1920)
60 – George Clooney,
American actor, director, producer
@31 – Rudolph Valentino [Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filiberto
Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella ], Italian
actor (d. 1926; pleuritis)
Puzzle Answer
Your word
