May 29,
2021 Week: 22 Day: 149
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 10% |
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Local: H 78°\ L 41° |
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Wind: 0mph/ Gusts: 2mph EXTREME Risk of Fire: Active fire: 99mi Nearest Lightning: 341mi. |
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May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Gratitude is the fairest
blossom which springs from the soul.
Henry Ward Beecher
Humor
The state motto is “Live Free or Die,” which appears on license plates
made by prisoners. —Jon Stewart on The Daily Show
Real Cities
Frackville, Pennsylvania is a borough in Schuylkill
County, Pennsylvania. Frackville is located near the intersection of Interstate
81 and Pennsylvania State Route 61, approximately 102 miles northwest of
Philadelphia and 45 miles southwest of Wilkes-Barre. Frackville is named for
Daniel Frack, an early settler.
True Things
Recurring Themes
-- Laura Rose Carroll,
50, and her daughter, Emily Rose Grover, 17, were arrested in Pensacola,
Florida, on March 16 after an investigation by the Florida Department of Law
Enforcement found the duo had allegedly stuffed the ballot box with votes for
Emily for homecoming queen last fall. Suspicions were raised when the Escambia
County School District reported illegal accessing of hundreds of its students'
digital accounts. Authorities said Carroll, an assistant elementary school
principal, had access to the district student information system, and
investigators traced unauthorized entries into the system to Carroll's
cellphone and computers, where nearly 250 votes were cast. Fox News reported
that investigators also said students reported being told by Grover about her
mother's activity. Each of them was charged with offenses against computers and
other cybercrimes, along with conspiracy. [Fox News, 3/15/2021].
Weekly Observations
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National Playground Safety Week
Link |
Thru
30 |
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National African Violet Week |
23-29 |
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Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Link |
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Mule
Days Link (Moved
from April) |
25-31 |
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Fleet Week (NY) |
26-31 |
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Mudbug Madness Days |
28-30 |
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Black Single
Parents Week |
28-6/3 |
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National Polka Weekend Link Old-Time Player Piano Weekend Cancelled
until 2022 |
29-31 |
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INVICTUS
GAMES Link |
29-6/5 |
Today’s Observations
Amateur
Radio Military Appreciation Day (ARMAD) Link Link
Ascension of Baha'u'Llah
Coq Au Vin Day
International
Day of United Nations Peacekeepers
International Jazz Day
National Learn To Swim Day Link
National Polka Day: Thru
30 Link
Put a Pillow on Your Fridge
Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
A nice day…warm, clear sky, no wind. Great!
I get that people should clearly apologize when he/she learn they are
in the wrong. I am getting a bit
concerned about the apologies that movie makers and actors are speaking to get
China to show their movies. They have decided that an ‘apology’, no matter how
unclear, is necessary so they can make money. Disney went out of its way to
thank Chinese entities for Mulan, even though it was not filmed in
China, nor did it have Chinese citizens in the movie. Now John Cena apologized
to the Chinese, in Mandarin, though he never said what he was apologizing for.
It is assumed it because he called Taiwan a country in the promos. One of Tom
Cruise’s movies had a decal on a jacket blurred out because it could have been
seen by some as a Taiwanese flag. I am so grateful that I took the Trans-Siberian
trip from Moscow to Beijing before the US relations soured so much.
It is a long weekend and most of my friends are traveling somewhere…some
to Phoenix, some to New Mexico, and others to California. I’m just hangin’ out in Flagstaff to enjoy
our great weather.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
What would you find in the middle of Toronto?
Historical Events
1453 – Ottoman armies under Sultan Mehmed II Fatih captured
Constantinople (now Istanbul) after a 53-day siege, commonly referred to as The
Fall of Constantinople.
1790 – Rhode Island was the last of the original United States’ colonies
to ratify the Constitution and was admitted as the 13th US state.
1848 – Wisconsin was admitted as the 30th US state.
1913 – Igor Stravinsky’s ballet score The Rite of Spring premiered in
Paris, France
1914 – Heavy fog caused a collision between cruise ship Empress of
Ireland and coal freighter, the Storstad on the St. Lawrence River in Canada
that killed 1,073 people, mostly tourist passengers on the Empress.
1982 – Pope John Paul II became the first pontiff to visit Canterbury
Cathedral.
1999 – Space Shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the
International Space Station.
2004 – The National World War II Memorial was dedicated in Washington,
DC.
2015 – One World Observatory at One World Trade Center opened.
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
2019 US Special Counsel Robert Mueller says charging President Donald
Trump with a crime never an option as no legal means to charge a sitting
president; and that his report does not exonerate the president
2019 World's
smallest surviving baby, a girl, discharged from Sharp March Birch Hospital in
San Diego after being born at 23 weeks weighing 8.6 ounces (245 grams)
2019 British politician Boris Johnson ordered to appear in court over
claims he lied to the public during Britain's Brexit campaign
2019 Transgender no longer classified as a mental health illness by
the World Health Organization
2019 Tourist boat sinks after colliding with another boat on the
Danube River in Budapest, Hungary, killing 28 people
Birthdays Today
@100 – [Leslie Townes]’Bob’
Hope, English-American actor, singer, producer (d. 2003)
@71 – Tenzing Norgay, mountain climber (d. 1986)
65 – La Toya Jackson, entertainer
@63 – Patrick Henry, lawyer, politician, 1st Governor of Virginia (d.
1799; cancer)
63 – Annette Bening, American actress
49 – Laverne Cox, transgender actor
@46 – John F. Kennedy, 35th President (d. 1963; assassinated)
46 – Mel B [Melanie Janine Brown], English singer-songwriter
Puzzle Answer
The letter “o”
