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5.18.16 Week: 20 \ Day: 139
May Averages: 68°\34°
86004 Today: H 58° \ L 36° Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind ave: 14mph\Gusts:
22mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 82°[1970] Record
Low: 21°[1977]
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Quote of the Day
The world is my country, all
mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Thomas Paine
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Observances Today
Buy
A Musical Instrument Day Link (Honor
of The Music Man Creator)
Emergency Medical Services for Children Day Link
EMSC (Emergency Medical Services) Day Link
HIV Vaccine Awareness Day Link
I Love Reeses Day Link
Mother Whistler Day
National Employee Health & Fitness Day Link
National Museum Day Link
Turn
Beauty Inside Out Day Link
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Observances This Week
15-21
EMS
(Emergency Medical Services) Week Link
National Dog Bite Prevention Week
National Heritage Breeds Week Link
National Medical Transcription Week Link
National New Friends, Old Friends Week
15-18
National
Stationery Week
15-21
National
Transportation Week
World Trade Week
16-22
American
Craft Beer Week Link
International Coaching Week Link
National
Bike to Work Week Link
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1631 John Winthrop is elected 1st
Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1661 Captain John Odber is order by the
Maryland General Assembly to take fifty men and go to the
"Susquesahannough Forte." According to a treaty signed on May 16th,
Maryland is required to help protect the Susquehannocks from raids
by the Seneca. Odber’s force is to fulfill that part of the treaty.
1852 Massachusetts rules all
school-age children must attend school
1860 Republican
Party nominates Abraham Lincoln for president
1917 US
Congress passes Selective Service Act, authorizing the federal government to
raise a national army for the American entry 1926 Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson vanished in
Venice California She showed up a month later & said she had been kidnapped
1933 Tennessee Valley Act (TVA) Act
signed by FDR, to build dams
1934 Academy Award 1st called Oscar
in print (Sidney Skolsky)
1951 UN moves HQ to NYC
1953 1st woman to break sound
barrier (Jacqueline Cochrane, USA)
1964 US Supreme Court rules it
unconstitutional to deprive naturalized citizens of citizenship if they return
to home country for more than 3 years
1967 Tennessee Governor Ellington
approves the repeal of the Butler Act or "Monkey Law", upheld in 1925
Scopes Trial
1971 US President Richard
Nixon rejects 60 demands of Congressional Black Caucus
1980- a
major volcanic eruption occurred at Mount St. Helens,
a volcano located in the state of Washington
1983 Senate revises immigration
laws, gives millions of illegal aliens legal status under an amnesty program
1992 US Supreme Court rules states
could not force mentally unstable criminal defendants to take anti-psychotic
drugs
1995 "Braveheart" directed
by Mel Gibson and starring Mel Gibson and Sophie Marceau premieres at
the Seattle Film Festival (Best Picture 1996)
1998 United States v. Microsoft: The
United States Department of Justice and 20 U.S. states file an antitrust case
against Microsoft.
2004 Arizona Diamondbacks' Randy
Johnson becomes 16th pitcher to throw a perfect game (2-0 vs Atlanta)
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
1642 Montreal, Canada, founded
1652 Rhode Island enacts 1st law
declaring slavery illegal
1765 Fire destroys a large part of
Montreal, Quebec.
1798
The 2nd Earl of Kingston is tried amid great pomp by the Irish House of
Lords for the murder of Colonel Henry FitzGerald. An executioner stands beside
Kingston with an immense axe, painted black except for two inches of polished
steel, and held at the level of the defendant's neck. However, no witnesses
appear for the prosecution, and Kingston is acquitted. The Directory of the
United Irishmen had planned to use the occasion to kill the entire government
and all the lords, but one vote cast against this scheme (by the informer
Francis Magan) causes it to be abandoned
1825
The House of Lords rejects the Catholic Emancipation Bill which would
disenfranchise Irish forty-shilling free-holders and put clergy on state
salaries
1830 Edwin Budding of England signs
an agreement for manufacture of his invention, lawn mower. Saturdays are
destroyed forever
1896 Khodynka Tragedy: A mass panic
on Khodynka Field, Moscow, during the festivities of the coronation of Russian
Tsar Nicholas II, results in the deaths of 1,389 people
1897 Irish Music Festival 1st held
(Dublin)
1897 - Oscar Wilde is released
from prison; he goes to live in France, where he writes his famous
poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
1897 "Dracula", by Irish
author Bram Stoker is published by Archibald Constable and Company in
London
into World
War I through compulsory enlistment
1939 The first aircraft lands at the newly opened Rineanna Airfield which is later
to become Shannon International Airport
1944 Expulsion of more than 200,000
Tartars from Crimea by Soviet Union begins, they are accused of collaborating
with the Germans
1952 Professor WF Libby said
Stonehenge dates back to 1848 BC
1974 India becomes 6th nation to
explode an atomic bomb
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy and rainy Election Day here in our fair
town. Walked to the polling place with the smell of rain in the air. AS usual,
no lines, lots of poll workers just sitting and talking. At 10:15a I was the 21st
voter. We were voting on 2 constitutional amendments to our state constitution…one
about education, one about pensions for fire fighters. I had read a lot, talked
to a lot of friends about the education issue. Sadly, while I support education
and know that our 47th rank in education spending is horrific, I had
to vote against this solution. While the ads for talked about money to raise
teacher salaries, it was not in the wording of the measure, and I have been
fooled by our legislators more than once. If it doesn’t pass, they will have to
step up for end a big lawsuit, if it does pass, I know that I will be able to
sit back and think “I told you so.”
While learning about that prop, I also learned
that AZ is one of the states that ‘steals’, oops, borrows money from the 911
fund that is on our monthly phone bills. The purpose of the 911 tax is to keep
and upgrade the 911 systems in our state, but our legislators (and those is
several other states) have found better use somewhere else. Not sure where yet.
Just know that some of my tax dollars are not being spent on what I thought
they were. Disappointed for sure, but sadly, not surprised.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
A
Giant Puzzle (Part 3)
Logic puzzles require you to think.
You will have to be logical in your reasoning.
Difficulty:
1.66
I
still have 7 more things to put away and time is running out fast. Next I
decide to put away the giant's board games.
The colors of the board games are blue, brown, green, orange, purple, red, and yellow.
1. Purple is somewhere to the left of green.
2. Red is next to blue.
3. Brown is 3 away from blue (2 between).
4. Yellow is 2 away from red.
5. Blue is in the middle.
6. Orange is directly between yellow and purple.
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…Harper’s Index…
$40,000-Amount the average worker without a bank
account will pay in unnecessary fees over a lifetime
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2 jokes for the day
Mary was having a tough day and had stretched
herself out on the couch to do a bit of what she thought to be well deserved
complaining and self-pitying.
She moaned to her mom and her younger brother, "Nobody loves me...the
whole world hates me!"
Her brother, busily occupied playing a game, hardly looked up at her and passed
on this encouraging word... "That's not true, Mary. Some people don't even
know you."
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Shirley and Abe, a retired couple from New
York City, living in Miami Beach, are getting ready to go out to dinner.
Shirley says, "Abe, darling, do you want me to wear this Chanel suit or
the Gucci?"
Abe says, "I don't care."
A few minutes later Shirley says, "Abe, should I wear my Cartier watch or
my Rolex?"
Abe says, "Your choice."
A few more minutes pass and Shirley says, "Abe, love, shall I wear my
five-carat pearl diamond ring or my six-carat round diamond ring with the
baguettes?"
Abe says, "Shirley, I really don't care what you wear, but if you don't
get moving, we're going to miss the Early Bird Special."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Given that the world is about 25,000 miles in
circumference and that the average walking rate is 3 miles per hour, it would
take a person walking nonstop approximately 347 days to walk around the world.
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A person burns essentially the same amount of
calories whether they run or walk a mile. Running just gets a person to a
destination faster.
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It would take, on average, 1 hour and 43
minutes of walking to burn off a 540-calorie Big Mac.
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To burn off one plain M&M candy, a person
would need to walk the entire length of a football field.
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Birthdays Today
“( )”
indicates age at death
(94) Frank Capra,
Palermo, Italy, Italian-American film director (Its a
Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night) (d. 1991)
93- Bill Macy,
Revere Mass, actor (Walter-Maude, Oh! Calcutta)
(88) Perry Como, [Pierino],
Canonsburg Pa, singer/TV (Perry Como Show) (d.2001)
85- Robert Morse, Newton Mass, actor (That's Life,
Jack Frost)
(84) John Paul II [Karol Wojtyla],
Wadowice, Poland, 264th Roman Catholic Pope (1978-2005), (d.
2005)
(83) Omar Khayyám,
Persian mathematician, poet and philosopher (d. 1131)
(82) [Robert] Meredith Willson,
Mason City Iowa, composer (Music Man) (d.1984)
82- Dwayne Hickman,
LA, actor (Dobie Gillis, How to Stuff a Wild Bikini)
(81) Pernell Roberts, Waycross Ga, actor
(Adam-Bonanza, Trapper John MD) (d.2010)
70- Reggie Jackson,
Wyncote, Pa, American baseball right fielder (NY
Yankees, Athletics) nicknamed "Mr. October" for his clutch hitting in
the postseason
64- George Strait,
Pearsall Tx, country singer (All My Exes Live in Texas)
61- Yun Fat Chow,
Hong Kong actor (Better Tomorrow)
(50) Nicholas II Alexandrovich, Saint
Petersburg, Last tsar of Russia (1894-1917) (d. 1918)
(49) Georg von Opel,
German auto manufacturer (d.1971)
46- Tina Fey,
Upper Darby Township, pa, American actress and comedian
(Saturday Night Live)
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Historical Obits Today
@92-1973 Jeannette Rankin,
1st Congresswoman (1917-19, 41-43) and pacifist
@87-2013 Steve Forrest,
American actor (SWAT)
@83-2014 Jerry Vale,
American singer
@62-1995 Elizabeth Montgomery,
actress (Bewitched), cancer
@54-1990 Jill Ireland,
actress (Carry on Nurse, Family), cancer
@50-1911 Gustav Mahler,
Austrian composer (Children's Death Songs), heart disease
@26-1980 Reid Blackburn,
photojournalist for National Geographic, a victim of Mount
St. Helens eruption
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Brain Teasers Answers
From left to right, the order of the board
games are: purple, orange, yellow, blue, red, green, and brown.
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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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