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Almanac: Week: 19 \ Day: 128
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 58°\L 37° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind
ave: 10mph\Gusts: 26mph
Ave. High: 65° Record High: 85°
(1989) Ave. Low: 32° Record
Low: 17° (1965)
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Observances Today:
Child
Care Provider Day Fintastic
Friday: Giving Sharks A Voice
Free
Trade Day Have
A Coke Day
Iris Day Military
Spouse Appreciation Day
National
Animal Disaster Preparedness
No
Socks Day Stay up
All Night
Time
of Remembrance & Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During
WWII
V
E Day World
Ovarian Cancer Day
World
Red Cross / Red Crescent Day
**
Liberation
Day (Czech Republic) Liberation
Day (Slovakia)
Victory Day (France) Yom
Ha'Zikkaron (Israel - Remembrance Day)
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Observances This Week:
2-10 National Tourism Week
3-9 Be Kind To Animals Week National
Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week
Children's Mental Health Week National
Correctional Officer's Week
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week National Family Week
Drinking Water Week National
Hug Holiday Week
Dystonia Awareness Week National
Pet Week
Flexible Work Arrangement Week National Post Card Week
Goodwill Industries Week National Raisin Week
Kids Win Week North
American Occupational Safety & Health Week
NAOSH Week Public
Service Recognition Week
National Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week
4-10
Children's Book Week PTA Teacher
Appreciation Week
National Occupational Safety &
Health Week Screen-Free Week
Screen-Free Week
National Small Business Week Teacher
Appreciation Week
National Wildflower Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1541 - Hernando
de Soto discovers Mississippi River
1639 - William
Coddington founds Newport RI
1792
- US establishes military draft1858 - John Brown holds
antislavery convention
1861 - Richmond,
Va, is named the capital of the Confederacy
1877 - 1st
Westminster Dog Show held
1886 - Jacob's
Pharmacy in Atlanta sells 1st Coca-Coke (contained cocaine)
1912 – Film\television
production/distribution studio Paramount Pictures founded
1927
- U.S. Army held 38 Yaqui Indians who fled across the U.S. border
after a bloody battle with Mexican troops.
1951 - Dacron
men's suits introduced
1952
- Mad Magazine debuts
1968
- Pulitzer prize awarded to William Styron
(Confessions of Nat Turner)
1984- USSR announces it will not participate in
Los Angeles Summer Olympics
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Today’s World Events through History
1521 - Parliament
of Worms installs edict against Martin Luther
1792 - British
Capt George Vancouver sights and names Mt Rainier, Wash
1821 - Greek
War of Independence: the Greeks defeat the Turks in Gravia.
1823 - "Home
Sweet Home" 1st sung (London)
1899 - The
Irish Literary Theatre in Dublin opens
1901 - A British appointed commission estimates today that
some
1,250,000 Indians have died after a severe
drought, lasting since 1899
1916
- Irishmen Eamon Kent, Michael Mallin, Con
Colbert and Sean Houston
are executed by British authorities following
the Easter Rising at
Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin
2007 - A
new Northern Ireland Executive is formed under the leadership of Ian Paisley of
the Democratic Unionist Party as First Minister and Martin McGuinness of Sinn
Féin as Deputy First Minister
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great day in Williams…good lunch…great pie…Cheryl had a nice
birthday. Then off to Bearizona. Keeps getting better every time I go. New
white buffalo calf, about 3 days old; four new bear cubs…about a month old.
Such a great place with plenty of room for all the animals in their own ‘habitat’.
Drive thru with windows rolled up. What more could one ask for? Larger bears
had just been fed and were sitting around the fruit/salad bowl, still munching…right
by the road with no fence between the vehicles and the bears. Great way to
spend a few hours.
NFL v Tom Brady…interesting to listen to I guess. Will wait and
see about the punishments, if any.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Find
the word that precedes or follows four of the five words in each group below.
Then, find the bonus word that precedes or follows the five words you've
eliminated. (One from each group)
1. Bean, milk, chamber, nurse, bar
2. Case, flag, pattern, tube, pilot
3. Suit, book, ridge, breaker, man
4. Ball, theme, trailer, double, may
5. Cat, lily, shark, ski, moth
BONUS : __________
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
Returns tomorrow
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…Cat
Facts…
Unsinkable Sam (nickname of a German ship's cat) who served on 3
warships, one German, two British, all sank in action. The cat survived each
sinking, floating away on wooden planks to rescue.
One litter of kittens can be produced by more than one father.
…Cool
Facts…
In Holland, the world’s first public glow-in-the-dark bike path
has opened. It features beautiful swirling patterns inspired by Dutch artist
Vincent van Gogh’s famous 'Starry Night' painting.
Apple experts have created a sparkling apple that fizzes in your
mouth.
There's a special plate called a 'Go Plate' that can be used for
drinking and eating while standing around.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
~ Downtown is getting a facelift under the auspices of The
Flagstaff League for Advancing Good Growth. Volunteers are contributing labor
and materials. Currently work is going forth at Puchteca Indian Goods and at
Porter’s Jewelers on South San Francisco Street. Patrick Harley the architect
for the Main Street Foundation has prepared the drawings.
…Harper’s
Index…
62-% of
Americans supporting military intervention against the Islamic State
68- Who
think it’s unlikely to succeed
…100
People…
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
33 Christians
22 Muslims
14 Hindus
7 Buddhists
12 people who practice other religions
12 people who would not be aligned with a religion
…Murphy’s
Real Laws…
4. Change is inevitable,
except from a vending machine.
5. Back up my hard
drive? How do I put it in reverse?
…Unusual Fact
of the Day…
Both Madonna and Celine Dion are cousins of Prince Charles' wife,
Camilla.
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2 jokes
for the day
Visiting a genealogist, a man asked how much
it would cost to have his family tree traced. "It could cost thousands of
dollars," said the woman.
"I see. Well, isn't there an easier way? A less expensive way?"
"Sure," she replied. "Run for president."
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A guy walking down a street one afternoon
passes an old man sitting on the side of the road with a large sack.
The younger guy says to the old man, "Watcha got in the sack?"
The old man responds, "I got some monkeys in that there sack."
The younger man asks, "If I guess how many monkeys you got in the sack,
can I keep one?"
The old man replies, "Son, if you guess how many monkeys I got in this
sack, I'll give you both of 'em!"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
ERWIN, N.C. (UPI) - A North Carolina
couple whose pickup truck crashed into a swimming pool said their black lab was
responsible for putting pressure on the gas pedal. Mike and Ruth Smith said
their dog, Caroline, was riding with them on a trip to the grocery store in
their 1988 Dodge pickup Friday when something spooked her. "When she gets
scared she will go down on the floorboard of the truck," Mike Smith told
WRAL-TV. Smith said Caroline chose the driver's side floor on this occasion and
put all 90 pounds of her weight on the gas pedal. He said he was unable to pull
the dog up from the floor and Ruth Smith, who was driving, aimed the vehicle
for a wooden fence in the hopes of stopping the truck. The pickup crashed
through the fence and ended up in John McNamara's swimming pool. McNamara said
he was in the kitchen with his wife when they heard the commotion in the yard.
"I just had open heart surgery in January," McNamara told WTVD-TV.
"I said, 'I'm gonna have another heart attack here.'" Michael Smith
suffered a few cuts to his head. Ruth Smith and Caroline were not injured. The
Dodge was totaled. "I hate that it happened to [McNamara's] pool, but I
think that it might have saved our lives," Michael Smith said.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
In
1872, Julia Ward Howe, a pacifist, suffragette, and writer of the "Battle
Hymn of the Republic," first suggested Mother's Day in the United States
as a day mothers could rally for peace.
In 1908, Anna Jarvis began a campaign for a nationwide observance of Mother's
Day in honor of her late mother, a community health advocate. She was deeply
dismayed over the commercialization of Mother's Day. Before she died in 1948,
she admitted that she regretted ever starting the holiday.
On May 9, 1914 President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill recognizing Mother's Day
as a national holiday.
One hundred and twenty million Mother's Day cards are exchanged annually in the
United States.
Anna Jarvis started the tradition of wearing a carnation on Mother's Day. A
colored carnation means that a person's mother is living. A white carnation
indicates that a person's mother is deceased.
In 2015, the National Retail Federation (NRF) estimated that U.S. consumers
would spend nearly $21.2 billion celebrating Mother's Day.
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Birthday’s Today
89 - David
Attenborough, Naturalist, TV producer and host (BBC "Life"
Series)
89 - Don Rickles, Queens NY, comedian (Don
Rickles Show, CPO Sharkey)
79 - James Darren,
actor (Time Tunnel)
78 - Dennis DeConcini, Sen-AZ,
75 - Toni Tennille, American singer
71 - Gary Glitter,
[Paul Gadd], England, rocker (Rock & Roll Part II)
68 - H. Robert Horvitz, Nobel laureate
51 - Melissa Gilbert, actress (Little House
on the Prairie)
40 - Enrique
Iglesias, Spanish singer-songwriter and King of Latin Pop
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Remembered for being born today
- Harry Truman,
Lamar Missouri, 33rd US President 1884-1972@88
- Sloan
Wilson, novelist (Man in the Gray Flannel Suit) 1920-2003@83
- Peter Benchley,
novelist (Jaws, The Deep) 1940-2006@65
- Ricky
Nelson, NJ, rock star (Hello Mary Lou, Garden Party) 1940-1985@45
- Sonny Liston,
Sand Slough Arkansas, American heavyweight boxer1932-1970@38
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Historical Obits Today
Roger L.
Easton, American scientist, inventor\designer of GPS- 2014@93
Eddy
Arnold, Country music star-2008@89
Harry
Gordon Selfridge, American-born department store founder-1947@89
Avery
Brundage, CEO (Intl Olympic Committee, 1952-72)-1975@87
Dirk
Bogarde, English actor (Death in Venice, Servant), heart attack-1999@78
John
Stuart Mill, great Empiricist philosopher, infection-1873@66
George
Peppard, actor (Breakfast at Tiffanys, A-Team), pneumonia-1994@65
Kamehameha
I, King of Hawaii-1819@60ish
Gustave
Flaubert, French novelist, stroke-1880@58
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Maid (milk-maid, chamber-maid, nurse-maid, bar-maid)
2. Test (test-case, test-pattern, test-tube, test-pilot)
3. Law (law-suit, law-book, law-breaker, law-man)
4. Park (ball-park, theme-park, trailer-park, double-park)
5. Tiger (tiger-cat, tiger-lily, tiger-shark, tiger-moth)
BONUS: Pole (bean-pole, flag-pole, ridge-pole, may-pole, ski-pole)
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or
disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually
checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains
mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it
and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the
Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
§…And That Is All
for Now…§
