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5.21.16 Week: 21 \ Day: 145
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 67° \ L 37° Average Sky Cover: 8%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 30mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 85°[2000] Record Low: 21°[1972]
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Quote
of the Day
Success is getting what you want.
Happiness is wanting what you get.
~Dale
Carnegie
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Observances
Today
International Day to End Obstetric
Fistula
Declaration of the Bab Day
International Day to End Obstetric Fistula
National Taffy Day Link
World Crohn's and Colitis Day Link
World Turtle Day
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Observances
This Week
21-27
National Safe Boating Week
22-28
Hurricane Preparedness Week Link
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1785 Benjamin
Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1863 Organization
of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in Battle Creek, Michigan.
1873 1st
Preakness: G Barbee aboard Survivor wins in 2:43
1911 NY Public
Library building at 5th Avenue dedicated by President Taft
1922 Walt
Disney incorporates his 1st film company Laugh-O-Gram Films
1943 Thomas
Mann begins writing his novel Dr Faustus
1958 US schools
1st use Cliff's Notes
1962 Scott
Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in US Aurora 7
1991 US Supreme
Court bars subsidized clinics from discussing abortion
2013 Patrick
Roy is named head coach of the Colorado Avalanche, his former team where
he won two Stanley Cups
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1430 Joan of Arc is
captured at Compiegne & sold to the English
1701 Captain William
Kidd is hanged in London after being convicted of piracy and of murdering
William Moore.
1813 South
American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion
of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator")
1853 Buenos Aires
gains independence from Argentina (reunited 1859)
1873 Canada's
North West Mounted Police Force forms (it didn't get the "Royal" until
1904)
1951 Seventeen
Point Agreement for the Peaceful Liberation of Tibet signed in Beijing, formally
establishes Chinese sovereignty over Tibet
1958 Mao Zedong starts
"Great leap forward" movement in China
1960 Israel announces
capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina
1969 BBC orders 13
episodes of Monty Python's Flying Circus
1970 A fire breaks
out in the Britannia Bridge over the Menai Straits in north Wales contributing
to its partial destruction and causing approximately £1,000,000 worth of fire
damage.
1977 Moluccan
extremists hold 105 schoolchildren & 50 others hostage on a hijacked train
in Neth, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1998 The Good
Friday Agreement is accepted in a referendum in Northern Ireland with 75%
voting yes. Britain's Prime Minister, Tony Blair, welcomes the resounding
"yes" vote in the referendum on the Good Friday Agreement on Northern
Ireland, calling it "a day for joy"
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Windy and quiet Sunday. Caught up on weekly
Sunday morning news programs. Too windy to be on the deck, so did some laundry.
Then time for Netflix.
Frustrated with the new website I am trying to
work on. I followed all the instructions but the site keeps saying ‘internal
server error.’ Can’t do anything until business hours tomorrow. Maybe I’ll find
out something then.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
The Vowel-less Knights #5
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
Difficulty
2.1
And now for more in the tradition of
the Vowel-less Knights:
1. Mnds r lk prchts - th nl fnctn whn pn.
2. Bwr f smll xpnss, smll lk wll snk grt shp.
3. Prblms cnnt b slvd t th sm lvl f wrnss tht crtd thm.
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…Harper’s
Index…
100,000-Number
of service centers Alibaba plans to build in the next 3 years to help rural
Chinese shop online.
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2
jokes for the day
I just read a report that stated that last year 4,153,237 people got married...
I don't want to start any trouble, but shouldn't that be an even number?
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My high school English teacher was well known
for being a fair, but hard, grader. One day I received a B minus on a theme
paper. In hopes of bettering my grade and in the spirit of the valentine
season, I sent her an extravagant heart shaped box of chocolates with the
pre-printed inscription, “BE MINE.”
The following day, I received a return valentine from the teacher. It read,
“Thank you, but it’s still a BE MINE-US.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*------- When You Gotta Go, You Gotta Go -------*
A television reporter was arrested on a charge
of public urination or defecation after allegedly being seen defecating on a
homeowner's property, according to police in Arizona. The Goodyear Police
Department said that they have arrested CBS reporter Jonathan Lowe, after being
accused of pulling down his pants and defecating on a lawn that did not belong
to him. According to the police investigation, while Lowe was reporting about a
man who killed a dog in the neighborhood, he went onto a lawn and defecated. A
passerby noticed what Lowe was doing and called the police. The officers
approached Lowe, who told him that he had to do defecate and could not hold it
in.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
(94) Sid
Melton,
American
actor (Alf-Green Acres, Charlie-Danny Thomas), born in Brooklyn, (d.2011)
(82) Edward
Hitchcock,
America's
1st prof of physical ed (Amherst College) (d.1911)
(82) John
Bardeen,
American
physicist, electrical engineer and co-inventor of the transistor (Nobel 1956,
1972), born in Madison, Wisconsin (d. 1991)
(74) Rosemary
Clooney,
Kentucky,
singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet) (d.2002)
(70) Carolus
Linnaeus,
Swedish
botanist and the Father of Taxonomy, born in Råshult, Sweden (d. 1778)
65- Anatoli
Karpov,
USSR,
world chess champion (1975-85)
62- "Marvelous"
Marvin Hagler,
NJ,
middleweight boxing champ (1982-83)
58- Drew
Carey,
American
actor & comedian (Drew-Drew Carey Show), born in Cleveland, Oh
42- Ken
Jennings,
American
game show contestant, born in Edmonds, Washington
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Historical
Obits Today
@89-2002 Sam
Snead,
American
golfer
@86-2015 John
Nash,
American
mathematician (subject of movie "A Beautiful Mind") and Nobel
laureate, car crash
@85-2015 Anne
Meara,
American
Comedian and actress (Stiller & Meara, Archie's Place)
@81-1975 Jackie
"Moms" Mabley,
comedienne
(Amazing Grace)
@58-1868 Kit
Carson,
American
trapper, scout, and Indian agent, aortic aneurysm
@56-1701 William
Kidd,
Scottish
pirate, hanged
@25-1934 Clyde
Barrow,
outlaw
(Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush
@23-1934 Bonnie
Parker,
American
outlaw (Bonnie & Clyde), killed in police ambush
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Minds are like parachutes - they only
function when open.
Bonus: Thomas Dewar. He played the pipes in 1885, successfully annoying
everyone else there.
2. Beware of small expenses, a small leak will sink a great ship.
Bonus: Benjamin Franklin.
3. Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.
Bonus: Albert Einstein.
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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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