May 9,
2021 Week: 19 Day: 129
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 40% |
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Local: H 75°\ L 34° |
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Wind: 8mph/ Gusts: 17mph High Risk of Fire: Active fire: 111mi Nearest Lightning: 354mi. |
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May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
It
is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
Harry
S Truman
Random Tidbits
Darwin
did not argue that humans came from monkeys. Rather he wrote only that monkeys,
apes, and humans have a common ancestor.
Humor
What do you call a
Hawaiian murder mystery?
A Hula-Dunnit.
Real Cities
Satan’s Kingdom, Massachusetts
is an unincorporated village in the town of Northfield, Franklin County,
Massachusetts, is 1.5 miles (2.4 km) and is near the Vermont border.
It was named Satan's Kingdom after a resident
of Northfield walked out of a church where a sermon about the fires of hell had
just been given and saw a forest fire across the Connecticut River, and
observed that Satan’s Kingdom was burning.
True Things
Cliche
Come to Life
Around
4:15 a.m. on March 24, an unidentified resident of Laurium, Michigan, woke to
find a gun pointed at his head, WLUC-TV reported. Laurium Police said Warren
Meyers, 52, of Calumet, Michigan, allegedly demanded the homeowner give him his
two cats. The "cat burglar" left with one cat and was later
apprehended, along with the gun he used, said authorities. He was arraigned on
March 29 in Houghton County Court; the fate of the stolen cat is unknown.
[WLUC-TV, 3/29/2021]
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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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 |
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National Public Gardens Week Link |
7-16 |
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Economic Development Week Link |
9-15 |
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Reading is Fun Week Link |
9-16 |
Today’s Observations
Butterscotch Brownie Day
Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day
Europe Day
International Migratory Bird Day
Mother's
At The Wall Day
Mother's Day
National Moscato Day
National Shrimp Day
Peter Pan Day
Rogation Sunday or Rural Life Sunday
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
Happy Mother’s Day
Lots of clouds, but no precipitation expected. Still a nice day.
My mother lived to 89 years old. She was always able to find the
bright side of any issue. She worked hard her entire life. She’s been gone for almost
13 years. I honor her memory today.
That Chinese Rocket Booster thingy, weighing 20 tons, is expected to
hit the earth tonight or tomorrow morning. With all the world’s modern technology
the scientists are unable to determine where or even how much will hit our planet.
They say somewhere from ‘some’ to ‘a little’ will burn up in the atmosphere.
They map of where it might land is basically most of the earth. This is one big
piece, about 3 school busses in size, of the more than 5,500 tons of junk that
man has put up there. Here’s to hoping it lands in the ocean, like maybe on the
plastic ‘island’ that is polluting the ocean. Man has certainly tried to make a
mess of our planet.
Back in 2000, 12 bottles of Petrus wine were sent to the space station
to ferment. Those bottles usually sell for $7000+ each. These 12 bottles will
be auctioned off at Christies and are expected to bring about $1million each. I
forgot my password to my Christie account, so I won’t be bidding.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
88. The more of this
there is, the less you see. What is it?
Historical Events
1662 – Famous puppet Mr.
Punch made his first recorded appearance in England.
1671 – Thomas Blood,
disguised as a clergyman, attempted to steal England’s Crown Jewels.
1865 – The patent
(#47,631) was issued to Richard Jordan Gatling for the Gatling gun, which was
the first to successfully combine reliability, high firing rate, and ease of
loading into a single device.
1882 – William F. Ford
was issued a patent (#257,487) for his stethoscope.
1887 – Buffalo Bill’s
Wild West Show opened in London, England.
1893 – The first motion
picture exhibition was presented by Thomas Edison in Brooklyn, New York to an
audience of 400 people at the Dept of Physics, Brooklyn Institute, Brooklyn, NY
using his Kinetograph.
1914 – Although referred
to since the late 1800s, US President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed the first
Mother’s Day holiday on this date.
1926 – Richard Byrd and
Floyd Bennett made the first flight over the North Pole.
1950 – L. Ron Hubbard
(Lafayette Ronald Hubbard) published Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental
Health.
1955 – West Germany
joined NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization).
1958 – Alfred Hitchcock’s
Vertigo has its world premiere in San Francisco.
1960 – The Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) approved the world’s first commercially produced
birth-control bill-Enovid-10.
1961 – Newton Minow,
Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, referred to television as
the “vast wasteland”
2015 – Russia staged a
large military parade in Moscow’s Red Square to commemorate the 70th
anniversary of Victory Day.
2012 United States
President Barack Obama officially states his support for same-sex marriage
2017 US President Donald
Trump dismisses FBI Director James Comey
2017 Fossil of Chinese
feathered baby dinosaur formally identified as Beibeilong sinensis (baby dragon
in Chinese)
2018 India's Supreme
Court criticizes the country’s archaeological conservation body for failing to
protect the Taj Mahal from discoloration and green slime
2018 Oldest viral DNA, a
form of hepatitis B, reported discovered in 7,000 year old skeleton found in
Germany
2019 French adventurer
Jean-Jacques Savin (72) successfully crosses the Atlantic Ocean in a barrel
arriving in Martinique
2019 Archaeologists hail
Anglo-Saxon tomb found 2003 in Prittlewell, England, as Britain’s equivalent of
Tutankhamun’s tomb as full report of its contents published
Birthdays Today
@93 – Mike Wallace, American journalist and media personality (d.
2012)
@82 – Albert Finney, English actor (d. 2019)
@77 – J.M. Barrie, Scottish novelist, playwright (d. 1937;
pneumonia)
75 – Candice Bergen,
American actress
72 – Billy Joel, American
singer-songwriter and pianist
68 – Amy Hill, Actor
@64 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist and historian (d. 1939, Hodgkin's)
60 – John Corbett,
American actor
@59 – John Brown, American activist (d. 1859; executed)
42 – Rosario Dawson,
American actress
Puzzle Answer
Darkness
