May 31, 2021 Week: 22 Day: 151
Memorial/Decoration Day:
Remember the Fallen!
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 20% |
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Local: H 76°\ L 41° |
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Wind: 9mph/ Gusts: 18mph |
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EXTREME Risk of Fire:
Active fire: 223mi Nearest Lightning: 153mi. |
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May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
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“For love of country
they accepted death, and thus resolved all doubts, and made immortal their patriotism and their virtue.”-
James A. Garfield “Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never
fully repay.”- Barack Obama |
Random Tidbits
Whenever a pregnant women
suffers from organ damage like heart attack, the fetus sends stem cells to the
organ helping it to repair.
It is illegal to climb
trees in Oshawa, a town in Ontario, Canada.
Humor
Traveling outside Taos, a man comes upon a Native American lying in
the middle of the road with his ear pressed against the blacktop.
“What are you doing?” asks the man.
The tribesman replies, “Woman, late 30s, three kids, one barking dog
in late model, four-door station wagon, traveling at 65 mph.”
“Amazing! You can tell all of that just by listening to the ground?”
“No,” says the Native American. “They ran over me five minutes ago.”
Real Cities
Ninety Six, South Carolina is a town in Greenwood
County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 1,998 at the 2010
census.
There is much confusion about the name, "Ninety
Six", and the true origin may never be known. Speculation has led to the
mistaken belief that traders estimated it was 96 miles (154 km) from here to
the nearest Cherokee settlement of Keowee (it was about 78 miles (126 km); to a
counting of creeks crossing the main road leading from Lexington, South
Carolina, to Ninety-Six (a legend proved false); to an interpretation of a
Welsh expression, nant-sych, meaning "dry gulch". No one is able to
confirm that European founder Robert Goudey (sic) was Welsh, English, Scottish,
or German.
True Things
Compelling Explanation
Andrew Almer of Fargo,
North Dakota, has flown an American flag from the balcony of his condominium
for two years, but the condo association is now demanding the flag be taken
down because it creates too much noise flapping in the wind. "You've got
to be kidding me," Almer told reported KVLY-TV. "It's not rude, it's
not nasty, it's the American flag. ... It's not coming down anytime soon."
[KVLY-TV, 3/10/2021]
Weekly Observations
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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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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
Cancelled |
29-6/5 |
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National African Violet Week |
30-6/5 |
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National Marina Days Link |
31-9/6 |
Today’s Observations
Hamburger Day Link
Memorial Day
National Macaroon Day
National
Smile Day Link
Necrotizing Fasciitis
Awareness Day Link Link
Prayer for Peace
Memorial Day
Save Your Hearing Day
What You Think Upon Grows Day
World No Tobacco Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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Another great weather day…no
complaints. I mentioned the horrific
bicyclist crash here in Flag. As of this morning, 6 local restaurants have donated
all sales and tips for Sat. and Sun. to the families of the man killed and
the families of those injured. In addition, a GoFundMe account was set up
yesterday and as of this morning, they had raised $45,000 and counting. The
bike rally has changed to a ‘walk your bike’ event. Flag is a great little
town. Canada has just announced that
they found 235 buried children and a Catholic School for Indigenous children.
The school had been taken over by the government in the 1960’s and closed in
the 1970’s. Shameful! I’m sad that as the country
recognizes the soldiers who died in war, we are suffering from the 235th
mass shooting since Jan. 1. This time 2 died and 25 were injured outside a
club in Florida. Still looking for the shooter[s]. It is time for a memorial
in DC to honor those killed on our soil, by our own citizens. It would have
to be designed to grow with each passing day. Maybe plant a tree for every
American killed by another American is a mass shooting with a plaque naming
the victim at each tree. |
Daily Riddle
Answer: bottom of the page
Riddle: I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am
I?
Historical Events
1279 BC – Ramesses II became pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. He may have
been the pharaoh involved with Moses. He was the subject of Percy Bysshe
Shelly’s Ozymandias. “King of Kings am I, Ozymandias. If anyone would know how
great I am and where I lie, let him surpass one of my works.”
1578 – The Catacombs of Rome were discovered.
1790 – The United States enacted the Copyright Act of 1790.
1859 – Big Ben, located at the top of London’s 320-foot-high St.
Stephen’s Tower, began operating.
1889 – Johnston, Pennsylvania Flood killed over 2,200 people.
1977 – Broadway Show – Beatlemania (Musical) May 31, 1977
1977 – The Sex Pistol’s God Save The Queen was banned from performing
on the BBC.
1977 – The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was completed.
2005 – W. Mark Felt’s family announced that assistant FBI director
Felt, was in fact, ‘Deep Throat’ – the insider who told reporters Bob Woodward
and Carl Bernstein the details about President Nixon’s Watergate scandal.
2013 – A record-breaking 2.6-mile wide tornado struck El Reno,
Oklahoma, United States, injuring 150 and killing 8 people.
2017 – President Donald Trump tweeted the word “covfefe”.
2017 Kenya's Madaraka Express, a Chinese-built high-speed railway from
Mombasa to Nairobi is opened by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
2019 Disgruntled employee shoots and kills 12 people at a US municipal
building in Virginia Beach, Virginia
2019 US President Donald Trump threatens to impose extra 5% tax on
Mexican goods if country does not increase its efforts to curb immigration
Birthdays Today
@95 – Norman
Vincent Peale, American minister, author (d. 1993)
91 – Clint Eastwood, American actor and director
@85 – Don
Ameche, American actor (d. 1993)
78 – Joe Namath, American football player
@72 – Walt
Whitman, American poet, essayist, journalist (d. 1892; pneumonia)
@70 – John
Ringling, American entrepreneur, co-founder of Ringling Brothers Circus (d,
1936)
60 – Lea Thompson, American actress
56 – Brooke Shields, American model and actress
@45 -- Jim Hutton,
actor (d. 1979; liver cancer)
45 – Colin Farrell, Irish actor
@32 – John Bonham,
drummer [Led Zepplin] (d. 1980; choked/alcohol)
Puzzle Answer
Answer: A candle
