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5.11.16 Week: 19 \ Day: 132
May Averages: 68°\34°
86004 Today: H 70° \ L 33° Average Sky Cover: 30%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 86°[1996] Record
Low: 16°[1933]
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Quote of the Day
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely
into the memory as the wish to forget it. ~Michel
de Montaigne
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Observances Today
Donate
A Day's Wages To Charity
Hostess Cupcake Day Link
National Foam Rolling Day Link (Massage)
National Night Shift Workers Day
National Third Shift Workers Day
Root Canal Appreciation Day Link
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Observances This Week
3-11
(World)
Dystonia Awareness Week Link
6-12
8-14
Food Allergy Awareness Week Link
National Hospital Week Link
National Hug Holiday Week
National Nursing Home Week
National Police Week
National Return To Work Week
National Women's Health Week Link
Reading is Fun Week Link
Salute to Moms 35+ Week
9-13
National
Etiquette Week
9-14
Salvation
Army Week Link
9-15
National
Stuttering Awareness Week
Spring Astronomy Week
10-16
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1751 1st hospital founded (Pennsylvania
Hospital) in the 13 Colonies in America
1792 Columbia River discovered &
named by US Capt Robert Gray
1850 Work starts on 1st brick
building in San Francisco
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.
1858 Minnesota admitted as 32nd US
state
1904 Andrew Carnegie donates
$1.5M to build a peace palace
1910 Montana's Glacier National Park
forms
1924 Pulitzer Prize awarded
to Robert Frost (New Hampshire) 1928 General Electric opens 1st TV-station (Schenectady,
NY)
1929 1st regularly scheduled TV
broadcasts (3 nights per week)
1942 William Faulkner's collections
of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.
1947 BF Goodrich announced the
development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio)
1953 Winston Churchill criticizes
US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' domino theory
1960 The first contraceptive pill is
made available on the market.
1965 Ellis Island added to Statue of
Liberty National monument
1967 100,000,000th US phone
connected
1968 Richard Harris releases
"MacArthur Park"
1973 Citing government misconduct,
Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon
Papers to The New York Times dismissed.
1974 "Tubular Bells" by
Mike Oldfield hits #7
1987 1st heart-lung transplant take
place (Baltimore)
1989 President Bush orders
nearly 2,000 troops to Panama
1999
US First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton become the first woman to be
granted the Freedom of Galway city, following in the footsteps of her country's
former presidents, John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan
2015 Record price for a work of art
at auction: Picasso's The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for
US$179.3 million at Christies in New York
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
1812 Waltz introduced into English
ballrooms. Some observers consider it disgusting and immoral.
1924 Mercedes-Benz
is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging the two companies.
1949 By a vote of 37-12, Israel
becomes 59th member of UN
1949 Siam renames itself Thailand
1969 Monty Python comedy troupe
forms
1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical
"Cats" (based on T. S. Eliot) premieres in London
1989 Kenya announces worldwide ban
on ivory to preserve its elephant herds
2007 Pope Benedict
XVI canonizes the first Brazilian-born saint, Frei Galvão.
2015 India's population officially
reaches 1 billion - Astha Arora named India's billionth baby
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My Rambling Thoughts
Great spring day, windows open, doors open,
let Spring come in.
OMG…Facebook is charged by conservatives of
keeping the ‘trending topics’ liberal. What a horror. When will it end? Who
cares? Not me. And doesn’t Talk Radio and Faux News do the same thing on the
conservative side? Laugh every time I hear that Faux News is fair and balanced.
Oh, that’s OK because they are conservatives.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
STRU musical MENTS
Rebus brain teasers use words or
letters in interesting orientations to represent common phrases.
Can
you decipher the musical instruments represented below?
1. P O
2. BA BA
3. ECLART
4. @ # $ %
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…Harper’s Index…
2/5-Portion
of US households with children in which a woman is the primary earner
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…Instagram Photo of
the Day…
discovery.hd.
Photography by @ (Dariusz Kucharski &
Kornelia Kucharska). Huge, over 70 m high, tree from Kinabalu National Park.
Borneo, Sabah, Malaysia.
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2 jokes for the day
A bear walks into a restaurant and says,
"I want a grilled............... cheese please."
The waiter asks, "What's with the pause?"
The bear replies. "What do you mean, I'm a bear aren't I?
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One evening, a family sat down for dinner. The
mother served fish and cauliflower. They were all eating, until the boy, chewing
on his fish, found a bone.
He pulled it out of his mouth and asked, “Mom, what do I do with this?”
“Put it where you’re sure you won’t eat it,” said his mother.
So the boy carefully stuck it into his cauliflower.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
The average adult heart beats 72 times a
minute; 100,000 times a day; 3,600,000 times a year; and 2.5 billion times
during a lifetime.
During an average lifetime, the heart will pump nearly 1.5 million barrels of
blood-enough to fill 200 train tank cars.
In 1929, German surgeon Werner Forssmann (1904-1979) examined the inside of his
own heart by threading a catheter into his arm vein and pushing it 20 inches
and into his heart, inventing cardiac catheterization, a now common procedure.
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Birthdays Today
“( )”
indicates age at death
(101) Irving Berlin [Israel Isidore Baline],
Tyumen, Russia, American
composer and lyricist considered one
of the greatest songwriters
in American history (God Bless
America, White Xmas) (d. 1989)
(89) Foster Brooks,
Louisville Ky, comedian/actor
(Miles-Mork & Mindy) (d.2001)
89- Mort Sahl,
Montreal, comedian/political
satirist/beatnik (Big Party)
(84) Salvador Dali, Figueres, Spain, Spanish surrealist
artist (Crucifixion) (d. 1989)
(81) William Carey,
Baltimore, American
businessman and philanthropist (W.P. Carey
& Co. LLC) (d. 2012)
(77) Denver Pyle,
Bethune Colo, actor (Dukes of
Hazzard, Tammy, Doris Day)
(d.1997)
(74) Phil Silvers,
Brooklyn, American comedian
(Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show)
(d.1985)
(66) Charles Warren Fairbanks,
26th US VP (d.1918)
(62) Chang & Eng Bunker,
Chinese Siamese twins (d.1874)
(59) Doug McClure,
Glendale, ca, actor
(Checkmate, Virginian, Roots) (d.1995)
(45) Natasha Richardson,
London, actress (Gothic, Handmaid's
Tale) (d.2009)
(31) Cory Monteith,
Calgary, Alberta, Canadian
actor and musician (Glee, Monte
Carlo) (d. 2013)
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Historical Obits Today
@98-1992 Elizabeth McDonald,
inventor (Spic & Span)
@97-2002 Joseph Bonanno,
Italian-born gangster
@86-1960 John D. Rockefeller Jr,
American financier and
philanthropist
@79-1871 John Herschel,
cataloguer of southern
hemisphere stars
@71-2006 Floyd Patterson,
American boxer, Alzheimer's/prostate
cancer
@54-1973 Lex Barker,
American actor-Tarzan, heart
attack
@36-1981 Bob Marley,
reggae singer, brain &
lung cancer
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Piano (P and O)
2. Tuba (Two BA)
3. Clarinet (CLAR in ET)
4. Cymbals (Symbols)
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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.
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