5-12-11

TODAY’s “Geez”: 1949 - West begins Berlin Airlift to get supplies around Soviet blockade

Free Rambling Thoughts…

A little more rain today…nice!

Gas prices going down a little….nice!

I guess Newt thinks that we have forgotten his political mess….NOT. Maybe the Republicans are just going to give up on the 2012 Election. It would seem to me that the GOP has no leadership. Back in the day, the leadership would have convinced him not to run. But they would have had Trump a non-news story too. Maybe the decline in education funding has them believing that not teaching social studies is good for America.

Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of psot)

Which architect coined the term 'international style'?

Which monarch said, "The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children?"

In whose play did Dustin Hoffman appear on Broadway in 1984?

What was the real name of the Pope who succeeded John Paul I?

In which city did the composer of The Entertainer chiefly perform?

How was actor William Beedle better known?

Which character name was shared by Gene Kelly in Singin' In The Rain and Ian McShane in Dallas?

What was Jack Kerouac's follow-up to The Town And The City?

In which town was Charles Hardin Holley born?

Who joined the American Ballet Theater in 1974 after appearing with the New York City Ballet?

Who became Nixon's national security adviser in 1969?

Who was mayor of New York from 1933 to 1945?

Zoom-ed in Picture…Can you Identify what this is? (Answer at end of post)

Hmmmmm…

>Maximum number of calries permitted under San Francisco law for restaurant meals to come with a free toy: 600

>Portion of the US population that will have diabetes by 2050, if current trends continue: 1/3

The First Time…

Hiram Revels  1870 --- 1st African American US Senator. He completed the term of Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis, who had resigned to become president of the Confederacy.

Lucy Walker 1871 --- 1st woman to successfully climb the Matterhorn in Switzerland.

Victoria Woodhall  1872 --- 1st woman to run for President of the US.

Somewhat Useless Information…

***Elephants can drink 60 gallons of water per day and can feed for up to 16 hours a day. 

*** Elephants sleep mostly standing. They usually only sleep four to five hours per night. 

*** Female elephants have a gestation period of 22 months. They give birth to a single infant referred to as a calf.

Yeah, It Really Happened…

GREENWOOD, Ind. — An unusual crime has police searching for a suspect.

A surveillance camera at a Kroger in Greenwood caught a man stealing $700 worth of teeth whitener.

The suspect is Caucasian, 25 to 30 years old, 5-foot-10, 225 to 250 pounds, with brown hair.

He was wearing a long brown jacket over a No. 29 Indianapolis Colts jersey and blue jeans.

Detectives say the man left the Kroger store on Independence Drive in Greenwood with 15 packages of Crest White Strips.

Anyone who recognizes him should call Crime Stoppers at 317-262-TIPS.

Guffaw…or at least smile…

A woman meant to call a record store, but dialed the wrong number and got a private home instead.

"Do you have 'Eyes of Blue' and 'A Love Supreme?'" she asked. 

"Well, no," answered the puzzled homeowner. "But I have a wife and nine children." 

"Is that a record?" the caller inquired, puzzled in her turn. 

"I don't think so," replied the man, "but it's as close as I want to get."

Searchin’ “You Tube” I found…

Cheers : Coach's Rules of the Game

Daybook Information

…Happening This Week:

6-12 National Nurses Day and Week

7-15National Tourism Week:

8-14

 National Hospital Week * National Nursing Home Week * Reading is Fun Week * Salute to Moms 35+ Week

9-15

National Return To Work Week * National Women's Health Week * National Etiquette Week * National Stuttering Awareness Week * Universal Family Week

«TODAY IS

Fibromyalgia Awareness Day

Hug Your Cat Day: (according to Purina) 
Limerick Day
National Nutty Fudge Day

Odometer Day

Today’s Events:

…  IN ARTS

1977 - 1st quadraphonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)

1982 - Pulitzer prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)

1993 - Last broadcast of "Cheers" on NBC-TV

…  IN ATHLETICS

1875 - 1st recorded shutout in pro baseball, Chicago 1, St Louis 0

…  IN BUSINESS & EDUCATION

1777 - 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)

1792 - Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented

…  FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

1858 - Comanche Chief Iron Jacket (Po-hebitsquash) is killed in a fight with Texas Rangers on the Canadian River

1860 - A battle in the Paiute War takes place in Nevada at Big Bend in the valley of the Truckee River. Major William Ormsby’s Nevada militia are attacked by Paiutes under war Chief Numaga

…  IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

1870 - Manitoba becomes a province of Canada

1928 - Mussolini ends woman's rights in Italy

1937 - Coronation of King George VI of Britain at Westminster Abbey

1942 - 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz

1943 - German troops in Tunisia North Africa surrender

1997 - Russia & Chechnya sign peace deal after 400 years of conflict

…  IN SCIENCE & RELIGION

1908 - Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B Stubblefield

1926 - Airship Norge is 1st vessel to fly over North Pole

2008 - 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (measuring around 8.0 magnitude) occurs in Sichuan, China, killing over 69,000 people

…  IN US POLITICS

1780 - Charleston, SC falls to British (Revolutionary War)

1932 - Body of kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell NJ

1949 - 1st foreign woman ambassador received in US (S V L Pandit India)

1968 - "March of Poor" under Rev Abernathy reach Washington, DC

… ARTISTS:  AUTHORS:  COMPOSERS…

Burt Bacharach, Singer, songwriter, turns 83

1812 - Edward Lear, limerick writer, landscape painter, (Complete Nonsense Book)

1907 - Leslie Charteris, English/US detective writer (Enter the Saint)

…ATHLETES

Yogi Berra, Baseball Hall of Famer, turns 86

…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)

Stephen Baldwin, Actor, turns 45

Bruce Boxleitner, Actor, turns 61

Emilio Estevez, Actor, turns 49

Kim Fields, Actress ("The Facts of Life"), turns 42

1907 - Katharine Hepburn, Hartford CT, actress (Adam's Rib, On Golden Pond)

Ving Rhames, Actor, turns 52

1936 - Tom Snyder, American television personality 

Vanessa Williams, Actress, turns 48

Steve Winwood, Rock musician (Traffic), turns 63

… ENTREPRENEUR & EDUCATORS

1915 - Mary Kay Ash, American businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics

1889 - Otto Frank, father of Anne Frank

1868 - Halsey William Wilson, US, publisher of reference books

…POLITICIANS
1918 - Julius Rosenberg, Soviet spy

1850 - Henry Cabot Lodge American statesman; Massachusetts senator from 1893 to 1924

…SCIENTISTS / THEOLOGISTS

1820 - Florence Nightingale, Florence Italy, nurse (Crimean War)

1910 - Dorothy Crowfoot-Hodgkin, British chemist (penicillin/B12/Nobel 1964)

Today’s Obits:

1962 - Dick Calkins, co-author (Buck Rogers), dies at 67

2001 - Perry Como, American singer dies at 89

1992 - Robert Reed, actor (Brady Bunch), dies of AIDs at 59

1864 - J E B Stuart, Confederate General, dies at 31

1641 - Thomas Wentworth, English viceroy of Ireland, beheaded at 48

ANSWERS:

Trivia Quiz

Which architect coined the term 'international style'?

Philip Cortelyou Johnson

Which monarch said, "The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children?"

Edward VIII

In whose play did Dustin Hoffman appear on Broadway in 1984?

Arthur Miller [played Willie in Death of a Salesman

What was the real name of the Pope who succeeded John Paul I?

Karol Wojtyla [Pope John Paul II]

In which city did the composer of The Entertainer chiefly perform?

Chicago [Scott Joplin]

How was actor William Beedle better known?

William Holden

Which character name was shared by Gene Kelly in Singin' In The Rain and Ian McShane in Dallas?

Don Lockwood

What was Jack Kerouac's follow-up to The Town And The City?

On The Road

In which town was Charles Hardin Holley born?

Lubbock, Texas (Buddy Holly).

Who joined the American Ballet Theater in 1974 after appearing with the New York City Ballet?

Gelsey Kirkland

Who became Nixon's national security adviser in 1969?

Henry Kissinger

Who was mayor of New York from 1933 to 1945?

Fiorello La Guardia

Close Up Picture

…AND THAT’S ALL FOR NOW

5--11-11

TODAY’s “Geez”: 1969 - Monty Python comedy troupe forms

Free Rambling Thoughts…

No Red Flag day here. Temps were in the 40’s, and there was more rain and snow on and off throughout the day. I was able to run some errands between the storms so it was a good day. One of the errands was to get the oil changed. I put so few miles on my vehicle; I let it go longer than I should have. NO damage, but will do better next time.

The many people who live along the Mississippi are sure having problems. It is one thing to have 48’ floods, but the worst part seems to be the amount of time it will take for the water to recede. The one time I saw the Mississippi it was a very wide and slow river. I didn’t see the rapids I was used to in many western and southwestern rivers. It may be six weeks before that water soaks in or works its way back to the river. Homes and businesses are gone and casinos with much cash are now sitting under water. And then there are the snakes. Enuf said.

Obama is certainly not going to just sit back…today he made a policy speech in El Paso. Just as summer is on the horizon, Immigration is being brought back to the forefront. I can only wish him luck. I live in AZ. Our governor and our legislature ain’t  gonna listen to one of them those DC-ers unless that person decided to forcibly remove all illegal immigrants and then build a fence to the sky and to the center of the earth to keep them fer-i-ers out of AZ. Obama is trying to reform the law as a way to help the economy. Sounds good to me. What a mess and going to get messier. Go for It, Mr. President.

  

Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of psot)

Whose sports-based novels of the 90s include Comeback and To the Hilt?

Aunt Agatha and Bingo Little are featured in the escapades of which man about town?

Which writer of horrific happenings was himself involved in a road accident while out walking in 1999?

In which decade was The Lord Of The Rings first published?

Whose best-selling books include When You Look Like Your Passport Photo It's Time To Go Home?

Who penned the airport lounge best seller titled Airport?

Which novelist with an English place last name wrote White Fang?

Who wrote I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings?

Georges Simenon created which character known by one name?

What type of Jungle animal was Shere Khan?

David John Cornell wrote spy stories under which name?

In 1917, which Joseph endowed an annual literary prize.

Who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Zoom-ed in Picture…Can you Identify what this is? (Answer at end of post)

Hmmmmm…

~percentage of the fuel used to power Amtrak’s ‘Heartland Flyer’ that comes from rendered beef fat: 20

~Portion of all calories consumed by US children that are nutritionally empty: 2/5

The First Time…

Lucy Hobbs Taylor  1867 --- 1st woman in the US to become a certified dentist. She graduated from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery.

Ebenezer D. Bassett  1869 ---1st African American U.S. diplomat, minister-resident to Haiti.

Arabella Mansfield  1869 --- 1st woman lawyer. A year later, Ada H. Kepley, of Illinois, graduates from the Union College of Law in Chicago. She is the first woman lawyer to graduate from a law school.

Jefferson Long  1870 --- 1st African American elected to U.S. House of Representatives, Georgia.

Somewhat Useless Information…

***Julia Ward Howe wrote the Battle Hymm of the Republic and was a staunch fighter for women's rights. She staged anunusual protest for peace in Boston, by celebrating a special day for mothers. Julia wanted to call attention to the need for peace by pointing out mothers who were left alone in the world without their sons and husbands after the bloody Franco-Prussian War.

*** In 1914, the US Congress passed legislation designating the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day.

*** The Ancient Greeks celebrated Mother's Day in springs, similar to our tradition today. They used to honor Rhea, "mother of the gods," with honey-cakes and fine drinks and flowers at dawn.

***The carnation is the special flower for Mother’s Day. Tradition calls for wearing a red one if one's mother is alive, and white if she has died.

*** There are more phone calls made on Mother’s Day than on any other day of the year. An AT&T survey estimated that 122.5 million phone calls to Mom are made on Mother's Day. 

*** Chinese family names are often formed (begin) with a sign that means "mother". It's a nice way of honoring their moms long past.

Yeah, It Really Happened…

LONDON — Several thousand bees that were part a multi-million pound neuroscience research project have been stolen from a British university.

Police in the Scottish region of Tayside were appealing for information on Tuesday after four bee hives containing several thousand British black bees were stolen from a medical school in the city of Dundee.

"This theft will undoubtedly hamper our research," said Dr Chris Connolly, the lead researcher on the Dundee project, who reported the bees missing on Sunday.

In a statement he described the bees as "very unique" and said they should be easy to identify if they are sold on.

The hives are a part of a 2 million pound ($3.3 million) project at the Center for Neurosciences at the Dundee University's medical school which is investigating the potential effect of pesticides on bee learning and health.

Police said there were keen to trace a white van and two men that were seen in the area at around 0900 GMT on May 8.

Connolly said he thought the bees may have been stolen for breeding, or for selling on to specialist bee-keepers.

"Clearly whoever did this knows what they were doing and how to handle bees," he said.

Guffaw…or at least smile…

My wife and I were having a very hypothetical discussion: In the unlikely event that Hollywood made a movie based on our lives, we wondered what stars would play us.

"Who would you pick to portray you?" she asked me.

I thought about it for a minute, then answered, "George Clooney."

"In that case," she said, "I'll play myself."

Searchin’ “You Tube” I found…

Awesome People

Daybook Information

…Happening This Week:

6-12 National Nurses Day and Week

7-15National Tourism Week:

8-14

National Hospital Week * National Nursing Home Week * Reading is Fun Week * Salute to Moms 35+ Week

9-15

National Return To Work Week * National Women's Health Week * National Etiquette Week * National Stuttering Awareness Week * Universal Family Week

«TODAY IS

Donate A Day's Wages To Charity

Eat What You Want Day

National Night Shift Workers Day

National School Nurse Day

National Third Shift Workers Day

Receptionists Day

US: Minnesota: Admission Day (1838 became 32^nd state)

Today’s Events:

…  IN ARTS

1812 - Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Most observers consider it disgusting & immoral 

1924 - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)

1927 - Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences forms

1942 - William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published

1974 - "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield hits #7

…  IN ATHLETICS

1980 - Pete Rose, 39, steals second, third, & home in one inning for Phillies

…  IN BUSINESS & EDUCATION

1751 - 1st US hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital)

1752 - 1st US fire insurance policy issued (Philadelphia)

1904 - Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace

1947 - BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio)

1951 - Jay Forrester patents computer core memory

…  FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

1854 - In an effort to end the fighting in the "Walker War" of southern Utah, Paiute Chief Walkara and Utah Governor Brigham Young meet in Juab County, Utah. The meeting would end the onging fighting; however, they would flare up again later.

1974 - The Acting Deputy Commissioner of Indian Affairs has authorized an election for amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws of the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin. The amendments are voted in.

…  IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

330 - Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes capital of Roman Empire

…  IN SCIENCE & RELIGION

1310 - Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics

1816 - American Bible Society forms (NY)

1910 - Montana's Glacier National Park forms

1916 - Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented

1965 - Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000

…  IN US POLITICS

1792 - Columbia River discovered & named by US Capt Robert Gray

…ARTISTS:  AUTHORS:  COMPOSERS…

1888 - Irving Berlin, [Isadore Balin], composer (White Xmas)

1904 - Salvador Dali, surrealist artist (Crucifixion)

1894 - Martha Graham American dancer, teacher and choreographer

1901 - Mari Sandoz, author (Cheyenne Autumn)

…ATHLETES

Matt Leinart, Football player, turns 28

…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)

Eric Burdon, Rock singer (The Animals), turns 70

Martha Quinn, Former MTV VJ, turns 52

Mort Sahl, comedian/political satirist/beatnik (Big Party) tunrs 84

1912 - Phil Silvers, comedian (Sgt Bilko)

… ENTREPRENEUR & EDUCATORS

1799 - John Lowell, American philanthropist

…POLITICIANS

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…SCIENTISTS / THEOLOGISTS

1811 - Chang & Eng Bunker, Chinese Siamese twin

Today’s Obits:

1973 - Lex Barker, American actor(Tarzan) dies of heart attack at 54

2002 - Joseph Bonanno, Italian-born gangster dies at 97

1963 - Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist, Nobel laureate dies at 75

2007 - Bernard Gordon, blacklisted American author dies at 89

1981 - Bob Marley, reggae singer, dies of brain & lung cancer at 36

1992 - Elizabeth McDonald, inventor (Spic & Span), dies at 98

2006 - Floyd Patterson, American boxer dies of Alzheimer's disease and prostate cancer at 71

2008 - Dottie Rambo, American gospel singer (We Shall Behold Him) dies of bus accident injuries at 74

ANSWERS:

Trivia Quiz

Whose sports-based novels of the 90s include Comeback and To the Hilt?

Dick Francis

Aunt Agatha and Bingo Little are featured in the escapades of which man about town?

Bertie Wooster

Which writer of horrific happenings was himself involved in a road accident while out walking in 1999?

Stephen King

In which decade was The Lord Of The Rings first published?

1950s

Whose best-selling books include When You Look Like Your Passport Photo It's Time To Go Home?

Erma Bombeck

Who penned the airport lounge best seller titled Airport?

Arthur Hailey

Which novelist with an English place last name wrote White Fang?

Jack London

Who wrote I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings?

Maya Angelou

Georges Simenon created which character known by one name?

Maigret

What type of Jungle animal was Shere Khan?

Tiger [Kipling’s Jungle Book]

David John Cornell wrote spy stories under which name?

John Le Carre

In 1917, which Joseph endowed an annual literary prize.

Pulitzer

Who wrote Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Edward Albee

Close Up Picture--Ice Crystals

…AND THAT’S ALL FOR NOW

5-10-11

TODAY’s “Geez”: 1267 - Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb

Free Rambling Thoughts…

Somehow I missed the weather forecast that said rain and hail today in Flagstaff. It was a windy day, as expected, but when I got up at 6am it was raining. Throughout the day it rained, it hailed with tiny pellets, and it even snowed a little. The moisture is really nice as the humidity is now above 50% instead of the single digits where it has been. The 30° temperature drop was not expected.

I went out to run some errands this morning, drove out of our complex, made it to 89 and found my vehicle was being pelted with tiny hail. By the time I got to the mall—about 2 miles, it was worse, so I turned around and came back home. Tomorrow is another day.

Last night after posting my blog, I spilled a small amount of wine on the keyboard. No, not drunk, the glass slipped and tipped. Anyway, I tried to dry the keyboard with everything I had. When I turned off the keyboard, it was working fine. Then this morning, when I turned on the computer the space bar kept sticking. Luckily I had an old backup keyboard, so I am doing fine. I guess I will look for a new one as they aren’t that expensive and I’m not mechanically inclined to take out the twelve screws and try to salvage it.

I hope you are all following the AZ Immigration news. Our governor just signed a bill that will allow us to build our own dang fence. If enough people donate money to a special fund—soon to be available over the web—she will buy the materials.   Then she will send minimum security prisoners to the work site to build the dang fence. I hope the prisoners have some knowledge about building fences. It you have never ‘built’ a fence, it is not just digging some holes and putting in the boards.  Of course no one has talked to the landowners who will have the fence…and the convicts…on their property. No one has looked at the migration patterns of the wild animals that may be altered. Right now the law doesn’t say if the dang fence will be ten feet, twenty feet, thirty feet high. It doesn’t deal with people and or animals digging under the fence. It doesn’t deal with anything except ‘building the dang fence.’

President Calderon of Mexico is having problems with drug lords. There was a big demonstration of people in Mexico City yesterday against the killings and corruption in government that continues to allow these powerful cartels to exist. I started wondering…

What if the Mexican government had credible evidence that a drug lord was living on our side of the border, or that they had credible sources that found that our AZ lax gun laws allowed a Mexican National to purchase guns and send them to the drug lord. With this credible information, the Mexican police or military crossed the border, hunted this person down and killed the seller. What would the US response be? If the Mexican government then wanted to interview those living in the house or in the neighborhood or wanted to run forensic tests at the house, what would the US say?

Before we get all upset about our sovereignty, look at Pakistan. The Pakistani government seems to be doing a lot of double talk about BL. However, there has to be some issue with sovereignty. We were not invited in and we most certainly did. Let our President make the decisions, and please, no second guessing from the media.

Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)

Who wrote Breakfast At Tiffany's?

What was the title of the 1951 autobiography by Lionel Barrymore?

What was the particular link between Jean Plaidy, Phillipa Carr and Victoria Holt?

Which fictional detective refers to using the little gray cells?

What is the real name of the author of Miss Manners Guide For the Turn of the Millennium?

Under which name did American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens write?

Whose novel, published at the very end of the 19th century, produced the most-filmed horror character of the 20th century?

Whose novels include Go Tell It On The Mountain?

What was the first name of New Zealand novelist Ms. Marsh?

Who wrote Winesburg, Ohio?

Who won a Booker Prize for Midnight's Children?

In which decade of the century did HG Wells die?    

Zoom-ed in Picture…Can you Identify what this is? (Answer at end of post)

Hmmmmm…

~Percentage increase since 2004 in the estimated median household net worth of members of congress: 22

~Percentage o GDP lst year that went to Federal job-training programs and job-search programs: 0.05

~Percentage that went to unemployment insurance: 1

The First Time…

Mary Walker 1865 --- 1st (and only) woman to receive the US Medal of Honor. She was a Civil War surgeon. Her medal was rescinded in 1916, however, when the Army purged its files to cut down on what they thought were "unwarranted" issues. It wasn't re-instated until 1976.

David Glasgow Farragut  1866 --- 1st Admiral in US Navy.

Frank, Simeon, and William  1866 --- Committed the first US train robbery. On October 6, 1866, the Reno brothers boarded an eastbound train in Indiana wearing masks and toting guns. After emptying one safe and tossing the other out the window, the robbers jumped off the train and made an easy getaway.

Somewhat Useless Information…

***Elephants use their large ears like fans to cool themselves down. The ears of an adult African elephant range from 5 to 6 feet long and 4 feet wide. Elephants have excellent hearing and can hear sounds that humans cannot.

*** Elephants have been known to recognize other elephants or even humans that they haven't seen in years. They are highly intelligent animals.

*** Elephants live in matriarchal families called a herd. The leader of the herd is the oldest female. Young males remain with the herd until approximately 15 years before going out on their own.

Yeah, It Really Happened…

While stealing nacho cheese may sound like the punch line to an old joke, a Chicago man learned Sunday it's actually no laughing matter.

Michael Richards, 50, is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail on robbery charges.

Prosecutors say Richards bought a bag of potato chips from the 7-Eleven store on the 1300 block of South Halsted, then began pumping nacho cheese — which he had not paid for — into the bag.

When the store clerk told him the cheese was for customers who bought it as part of a nacho tray, he allegedly pulled the man’s arm behind his back and threatened him.

Police arrested Richards Saturday a block away from the store.

On Sunday in court, when Judge James Brown asked, “So what was stolen was the cheese?” The Chicago Sun-Times reports Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Dan Piwowarczyk kept an admirably straight face as he replied, “The defendant was informed that it was 'not yo’ cheese.'”

Guffaw…or at least smile…

My wife, a real estate agent, wrote an ad for a house she was listing. The house had a second-floor suite that could be accessed using a lift chair that slid along the staircase.  Quickly describing this feature, she inadvertently made it sound even more attractive: "Mother-in-law suite comes with an electric chair."

Searchin’ “You Tube” I found…

Amazing Jazz Band in Japan

Sick by Shel Siverstein

Shel Silverstein on "The Johnny Cash Show"

Daybook Information

…Happening This Week:

6-12 National Nurses Day and Week

7-15National Tourism Week:

8-14

 National Hospital Week * National Nursing Home Week * Reading is Fun Week * Salute to Moms 35+ Week

9-15

National Return To Work Week * National Women's Health Week * National Etiquette Week * National Stuttering Awareness Week * Universal Family Week

«TODAY IS

Clean Up Your Room Day

Lupus Day

Windmill Day

Library Legislative Days and Virtual Library Legislative Days

China: Birthday of Lord Buddha 

Singapore: Vesak Day (Bringing Happiness to Others to honor Buddha)

US: NC, SC: Confederate Day

Today’s Events:

…  IN ARTS

1954 - Bolshoi-ballet fails to appear in Paris

1983 - "Laverne & Shirley," last airs on ABC-TV

1993 - Paul Cezannes still life sells for $28,600,000 in NYC

…  IN ATHLETICS

1967 - Hank Aaron only inside the park HR (vs Jim Bunning)

2001 - In Ghana, a stampede at a football (soccer) game kills over 120 spectators

…  IN BUSINESS & EDUCATION

1869 - Golden Spike driven, completes Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinental RR

1910 - 1st aircraft air display held (Hendon, England)

…  FOR INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

1832 - Settlers start construction of what is called Fort Blue Mounds, near modern Madison, Wisconsin, the fort is built to protect the settlers from attacks by the Winnebago

1864 - Cherokee Stand Watie is promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in the Confederate army. He is the first Indian to reach that rank. He will also be the last Confederate General to surrender at the end of the Civil War.

…  IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

1291 - Scottish nobles recognize authority of English king Edward I

1534 - French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Newfoundland

1559 - Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary

1801 - First Barbary War: The Barbary pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America

1941 - Adolph Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland

…  IN SCIENCE & RELIGION

1752 - Benjamin Franklins 1st tests the lightning rod

1930 - 1st US planetarium opens (Adler-Chicago)

1960 - US atomic sub USS Triton completes 1st around world under water trip

…  IN US POLITICS

1676 - Bacon's Rebellion, frontiersmen vs Virginia gov’t begins

1775 - Green Mountain Boys capture Ft Ticonderoga NY-American Revolution

1924 - J Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI

… ARTISTS:  AUTHORS:  COMPOSERS…

1838 - John Wilkes Booth, American stage actor and assassin 

1902 - David O Selznick, Pittsburgh Pa, producer (Gone With the Wind)

…ATHLETES

Pat Summerall, Sportscaster, turns 81

…ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)

1899 - Fred Astaire American dancer and actor

1909 - Maybelle Carter American singer, songwriter and guitarist

Donovan (Donovan Philips Leitch), Folk, rock singer, turns 65

Dave Mason, Rock singer (Traffic), turns 65-- We Just Disagree

Gary Owens, Announcer ("Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In"), turns 72

1922 - Nancy Walker American movie and television actress

… ENTREPRENEUR & EDUCATORS

1832 - William Grace  Irish-born American shipowner; founder of W. R. Grace & Company

1850 - Thomas Johnstone Lipton, Glasgow, yachtsman/tea magnate (Lipton Tea)

…POLITICIANS

1908 - Carl Albert, (D) speaker of the House

1837 - Pinckney B S Pinchback, Lt Gov (Louisiana)

…SCIENTISTS / THEOLOGISTS

1788 - Augustin-Jean Fresnel, optics pioneer/physicist

Today’s Obits:

1994 - John Wayne Gacy, mass murderer, executed in Illinois at 52

1863 - Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, Conf general (Civil War), dies of pneumonia after having arm amputated in battle at 39

1973 - Jack E Leonard, comedian, dies following heart surgery at 62

1818 - Paul Revere, American patriot, dies at 83

1999 - Shel Silverstein, American poet and composer dies of heart attack at 68

1904 - Henry M Stanley, [John Rowlands], British explorer, dies of pleurisy at 63

ANSWERS:

Trivia Quiz

Who wrote Breakfast At Tiffany's?

Truman Capote

What was the title of the 1951 autobiography by Lionel Barrymore?

We Barrymores  

What was the particular link between Jean Plaidy, Phillipa Carr and Victoria Holt?

They are the same person

Which fictional detective refers to using the little gray cells?

Hercule Poirot

What is the real name of the author of Miss Manners Guide For the Turn of the Millennium?

Judith Martin

Under which name did American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens write?

Mark Twain

Whose novel, published at the very end of the 19th century, produced the most-filmed horror character of the 20th century?

Bram Stoker (Dracula)

Whose novels include Go Tell It On The Mountain?

James Baldwin

What was the first name of New Zealand novelist Ms. Marsh?

Ngaio

Who wrote Winesburg, Ohio?

Sherwood Anderson

Who won a Booker Prize for Midnight's Children?

 Salmam Rushdie

In which decade of the century did HG Wells die?

1940s

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…AND THAT’S ALL FOR NOW