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Almanac: Week: 21 \ Day: 139
May
Averages: 68°\35°
86004
Today: H 63°\L 31° Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 24mph
Ave. High: 68° Record High: 81°
(1920) Ave. Low: 35° Record
Low: 20° (1971)
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Observances Today:
Boys
Club Day –founded 1906
Frog
Jumping Jubilee Day-1928-Angel’s Camp, CA
HIV/AIDS
Awareness Day
May
Ray Day
National
Asian & Pacific Islander
National
Hepatitus Testing Day
National
Museum Day
World
Autoimmune Arthritis Day
**
Youth
and Sports Day (Turkey)
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Observances This Week:
16-22 National Safe Boating Week National Heritage Breeds Week
EMS (Emergency Medical Services)
Week National Stationery Week
National Dog Bite Prevention Week National
New Friends, Old Friends Week
National Medical Transcription Week
17-25 International
Coaching Week National
Backyard Games Week
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week National
Educational Bosses' Week
World
Trade Week
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1643 - Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut
& New Harbor form
United Colonies of New England
1749 - George II grants charter to Ohio Company to
settle Ohio Valley
1780 - About midday, near-total darkness descends
on much of New England,
only now known to be caused by forest fires in
Canada
1796 - Game protection law restricts encroachment
on Indian hunting grounds
1848 - 1st department store opens
1848 - Mexico gives Texas to US, ending the war
1856 - Sen Charles Sumner, Mass, spoke out against
slavery
1862 - US Homestead Act becomes law - provides
cheap land for settlement
of American West
1865 - President Jefferson Davis is
captured by Union Cavalry in Georgia
1884 - Ringling Brothers circus premieres
1885 - 1st mass production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger
in Lynn, Massachusetts)
1891 - Rice Institute, which became Rice
University, is chartered
1892 - National Society of Colonial Dames of
America founded
1892 - Stage coach line
was established between Flagstaff and the Grand Canyon.
1898 - Post Office authorizes use of postcards
1921 - Congress sharply curbs immigration, setting
a national quota system
1935 - NFL adopts an annual college draft to begin
in 1936
1954 - Postmaster General Summerfield approves CIA
mail-opening project
1958 - US & Canada form North American Air
Defense Command (NORAD)
1965 - Patricia R Harris named 1st US black female
ambassador (Luxembourg)
1967 - USSR ratifies treaty with Britain & US
banning nuclear weapons in space
1992 - US VP Dan Quayle attacks Murphy Brown for
being a single mother
and as a poor example of family values
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Today’s World Events through History
1568 - English Queen Elizabeth I arrests
Scottish Queen Mary
1571 - Miguel Lopez de Lagazpi founded Manilla in
the Phillipines
1897 - Oscar Wilde is released from Reading
Gaol
1900 - World's longest railroad tunnel (Simplon)
links Italy & Switz, opens
1930 - White women win voting rights in South Africa
1941 - New Nazi battleship Bismarck leaves Gdynia,
Poland
1981 - 5 British Army soldiers are killed when
their armoured vehicle is ripped
apart by a Provisional Irish Republican Army
roadside bomb near
Bessbrook, County Armagh
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another good day here in Flag.
Eye appointment went very well. The laser procedure did a great
job and has improved my right eye quite a bit. Now to just wait to June 1 for
the left eye and then finally new prescription about 2 weeks after that.
Talked to Ellie today and Cuba is a go and the following
year-2016-a river trip in Europe. Cool.
Tomorrow I see my PCP for results of a slew of annual tests I took
about 2 months ago. Expecting a good report.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Six
words that contain YO as a letter-pair have had all of their other letters
removed and placed into a pool. Put those letters back in their proper places.
What are the words?
YO---, YO----, -YO---, --YO--, ---YO-, ----YO
Pool: A, B, B, C, C, D, D, D, E, E, E, E, I, L, M, M, N, N, N, N, P, R, R
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Body
Facts…
If a vampire bat goes 2 days without drinking blood, they can die.
However, well fed female bats will puke up blood and share it with other bats
that they like in exchange for grooming.
Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood
cells per second.
…Cool
Facts…
In 2011, two men paraglided from the summit of Mt. Everest,
arriving at a village in 42 minutes and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3
day descent.
Students at MIT developed a wristband that can regulate your
“thermal comfort”, which could possibly eliminate the need for central heating
and cooling.
In Czech Republic, women are entitled to up to 4 years of paid
maternity leave, increasing to 7 years if the child is disabled.
…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
The May Day weekend cleanup got lost in the snowstorm. It made
everything white anyway.
Ice Maan Bob informs patrons that it is now impossible to
deliver ice in the morning.
All orders are accepted subject to delivery after 1 p.m.
…Harper’s
Index…
$700,000,000 -Amount
by which Dollar General outbid Dollar Tree in an attempted August takeover of
Family Dollar
…Revisited
History…
The first Warner Bros. theater opened in 1903, while The Ottoman
Empire was dissolved in 1923 after over 700 years of existence.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
While mittens have been around since prehistoric times, the glove
(with articulated fingers) dates to ancient Greece, popping up in some
translations of Homer’s Odyssey.
…Water
Facts…
A healthy person can drink about three gallons (48 cups) of water
per day.
Drinking too much water too quickly can lead to water
intoxication. Water intoxication occurs when water dilutes the sodium level in
the bloodstream and causes an imbalance of water in the brain.
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2 jokes
for the day
Q: Why did the boxer date the pretty girl?
A: Because she was a knockout!
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Three old ladies sit in a diner, discussing
their health. One lady says, "You know, I'm getting really forgetful. This
morning, I was standing at the top of the stairs, and I couldn't remember
whether I had just come up or was about to go down."
The second lady says, "You think that's bad? The other day, I was sitting
on the edge of my bed, and I couldn't remember whether I was going to sleep or
had just woken up!"
The third lady smiles smugly. "Well, my memory is just as good as it's
always been, knock on wood," she says as she raps on the table. Then with
a startled look on her face, she asks, "Who's there?"
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Yep, It
Really Happened
Over a period of about 18 months Barry Larson stole an estimated
$30,000 worth of dog biscuits from the Purina pet food plant he worked for.
So was he selling dog biscuits on the outside? Is there a black market for
'hot' pet food? And how was he getting all of those dog biscuits out of the
plant anyway?
It turns out he wasn't. He was eating them.
"We noticed a few months ago that something was wrong with our dog biscuit
production," said Purina spokesman, Keith Schopp. "When we checked
the quantity of ingredients that were used in the production and the number of
biscuits that were produced, the numbers just didn't add up! We began
installing more security cameras at various strategic locations throughout the
factory, and we were finally able to identify the problem. Mr. Larson, who
worked in the quality check sector, was eating almost half of the biscuits that
went by him."
To account for the losses Mr. Larson must have ingested nearly 3,000 dog
biscuits per day during his work hours.
But there was a good reason for his voraciousness.
"Purina has provided us with hours of video evidence in which we see the
suspect smoke drugs on his work site, and then eat hundreds of dog
biscuits," said Police Captain Brian Tobin. "The images are a little
bit disturbing, but very conclusive in terms of evidence. We proceeded with Mr.
Larson's arrest this morning for 15 charges of petty theft, and found him to be
in possession of 10 grams of cannabis."
Larson's ex-girlfriend, Patricia Nelson, told a reporter that she was aware of
his "addictions" to both cannabis and dog biscuits, and that she had
actually left him when she had found out.
"Every night, he came back from work with a really horrible breath,"
she said. "One day, I came back from work earlier than usual, and
surprised him with his mouth full of dog biscuits! I was so disgusted, that I
packed my things and left."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
There
are two suborders of whales to which all species of whales belong: toothed
whales and baleen whales. Toothed whales include sperm, killer, and beluga
whales, and they prey on large fish in deep waters as their main source of
food. Baleen whales include blue and humpback whales, and they are filter
feeders that feed on small organisms such as krill and plankton by straining
large amounts of sea water through a comb-like structure in their mouth called
a baleen.
While ancient fishermen used the meat of whales for food, in the modern era
whales were primarily hunted for oil and whalebone, a term used for the baleen.
Whalebone was used to make corsets, umbrella ribs, handles, and brushes, while
the oil was used for cooking, candle wax and, much later, making margarine.
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Birthday’s Today
80 - David Hartman, Pawtucket RI, TV
personality (Good Morning America)
76 - Nancy Kwan, Hong Kong, actress (Flower
Drum Song, World of Suzie Wong)
70 - Peter Townshend, England, rock
guitarist/vocalist/composer (The Who)
66 - Grace Jones, [Mendoza], Jamaican
singer/actress (A View to a Kill)
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Remembered for being born today
- Max
Perutz, Austrian molecular biologist, Nobel Prize Chemistry 1914-2002@87
- Henry
Horatio Dixon, Irish Biologist originated the cohesion-tension theory of
water 1869-1953@84
- Nancy
Astor, US/Eng's feminist/ex of Waldorf Astor 18791964@84
- Ho Chi Minh [Nguyễn
Sinh Cung], President of North Vietnam 1890-1969@79
- Flo Chadwick, swimmer (1st to swim
English Channel both ways) 1918-1995@76
- Pol
Pot, Cambodian dictator 1928-1998@72
- Joey
Ramone, [Jeffrey Hyman], lead singer The Ramones 1951-2001@49
- Malcolm
X, [Little], human rights activist- Black Muslims founder 1925-1965@39
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Historical Obits Today
Henry
Morgan, TV panalist (To Tell the Truth), cancer-1994@74
Ogden
Nash, poet/TV panelist (Masquerade Party), Crohn's disease-1971@68
Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis, American 1st lady, cancer-1994@64
Nathaniel
Hawthorne, American writer (Scarlet Letter), long illness-1864@59
T. E.
Lawrence (of Arabia), motorcycle accident-1935@46
Anne
Boleyn, Queen of England and wife of Henry VIII, beheaded-1536@30ish
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Brain Teasers Answers
YODEL, YONDER, MYOPIC, BEYOND, CANYON, EMBRYO
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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…§
