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5.31.16 Week: 22 \ Day: 152
May Averages: 68°\34°
86004 Today: H 79° \ L 36°
Average Sky Cover: 50%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
14mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 89°[2002]
Record Low: 23°[1998]
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Quote of the Day
Who sows virtue reaps
honor. ~Leonardo da Vinci
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Observances Today
What
You Think Upon Grows Day
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Observances This Week
25-31
Week
of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories
29-6/4
Black
Single Parents Week
National Tire Safety Week Link
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US Historical Highlights
for Today
1790 US
copyright law enacted
1821 Cathedral
of Assumption of Blessed Virgin Mary, 1st US Catholic cathedral, is dedicated
in Baltimore
1837 Astor
Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
1868 1st
Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
1879 Madison
Square Garden opens in New York, named after 4th President James Madison
1884 Dr
John Harvey Kellogg patents "flaked cereal"
1907 Taxis
1st began running in NYC
1913 17th
amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
1941 1st
issue of "Parade" goes on sale
1955 US
Supreme Court orders school integration "with all deliberate speed"
1958 Dick Dale invents
"surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"
1968 American
movie star Jimmy Stewart retires from the Air Force after 27 years of
service, and is promoted to major general by President Reagan
1969 Stevie
Wonder releases "My Cherie Amore"
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
1279 BC Rameses
II (The Great) (19th dynasty) becomes Pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
1621 Sir Francis
Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night1634 The colony
of Massachusetts Bay annexes Maine colony
1910 Cape
of Good Hope becomes part of Union of South Africa
1941
- German bombs fall on North Strand, Dublin; 34 people are killed and 90 are
injured
1961 Union
of South Africa becomes a republic, leaves Commonwealth
1969 John
Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
2008 Usain
Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal
(+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds.
2012 Egypt
formally ends its 31 year state of emergency
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My Rambling Thoughts
Family
Flag flying, honoring those who gave their all in the military to keep our
country free. As is my lowly voice, I did not go to any stores today, as I
believe those workers should also be able to celebrate a National holiday with
their family and friends. I sure hope that those who have to work are getting
triple time…like I did when I was working during my undergraduate years.
I
am so fortunate that I was able to see a silverback in Uganda, in the wild.
Lots of Monday morning quarterbacks discussing the killing of a silverback in
the zoo to save a child’s life. From what I have seen/heard the silverback was
acting like any animal. Some moving thing entered his territory and he had to
check it out. I get that the zoo officials had to save the child. It seems to
me that the caregiver of the 4 year old child should face some retribution. I
am tired of the zoo saying ‘4 year olds will be adventurous’. They have to keep
their business and showing retribution to the caregivers would surely stop
others from donating and/or visiting a place that has wild animals in ‘habitats’
that are really just big cages. I am certainly not anti-zoo, but visitors have
a responsibility to be aware and safe when visiting. And when a visitor decides
not be aware and safe, there needs to be consequences. I recall my ‘Walk with
the lions’ in South Africa. Before we walked with the lions who were well fed
and not in cages, we had a 40 minute safety demonstration on what to do and not
do during the 45 minute walk. We were already apprehensive, and the talk made
us a little more apprehensive, but calmed us down. Maybe our many zoos need to
do the same thing.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Twin Trouble
Logic puzzles require you to think. You will have to be logical in
your reasoning.
Difficulty: 2.23
Ryan
and Craig were identical twins born in Seattle in 1961. Ryan was born before
Craig, but according to their birth certificates, Craig was older than Ryan.
How come?
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…Harper’s Index…
$55,200,000,000-Amount that Carly
Fiorina’s tenure as CEO of Hewlett-Packard cost the company’s shareholders
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
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2 jokes for the day
As
a kid, parent-teacher conferences were embarrassing and awkward for me and my
parents. My teacher made my parents write on the blackboard one hundred times,
"We will not have any more children."
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A
man parks his bicycle nearby the Parliament house and walks on.
A police constable stops him and asks, "Why did you park your bicycle
here? Don't you know it is a VIP road and all parliamentarians and senators
pass from here?"
Man replied, "Don't you worry about it, I locked my bicycle!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-- Fake Cop Tases
Man In Road Rage Incident --*
A
Massachusetts woman is facing charges after police say she pretended to be a
police officer and tased a man in a road rage incident. Police received a
report from a man and his girlfriend saying Shunae Allen, 35, was "riding
their bumper and honking her horn while frantically flashing her lights."
Allen allegedly followed the couple as they pulled over into a parking lot.
Witnesses told police they saw Allen and the man arguing. The man told police
Allen approached their car, opened the front passenger door where he was seated
and tased him before telling them she was a police officer with a license to
carry. Police arrested Allen but were not able to find the taser. She is
charged with impersonating a police officer and assault and battery with a
dangerous weapon.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Memorial
Day, an American holiday observed on the last Monday of May, honors men and
women who died while serving in the U.S. military. Originally known as
Decoration Day, it originated in the years following the Civil War and became an
official federal holiday in 1971.
***
It is unclear where exactly this tradition originated; numerous different
communities may have independently initiated the memorial gatherings.
Nevertheless, in 1966 the federal government declared Waterloo, New York, the
official birthplace of Memorial Day. Waterloo, which had first celebrated the
day on May 5, 1866, was chosen because it hosted an annual, community-wide
event, during which businesses closed and residents decorated the graves of
soldiers with flowers and flags.
***
On May 30, 1868, President Ulysses S. Grant presided over the first Memorial
Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery -- which, until 1864, was
Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee's plantation.
***
Calling Memorial Day a "national holiday" is a bit of a misnomer.
While there are 11 "federal holidays" created by Congress --
including Memorial Day -- they apply only to Federal employees and the District
of Columbia. Federal Memorial Day, established in 1888, allowed Civil War
veterans, many of whom were drawing a government paycheck, to honor their
fallen comrades without being docked a day's pay.
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"Here
rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God." That is the
inscription on the Tomb of the Unknowns, established at Arlington National
Cemetery to inter the remains of the first Unknown Soldier, a World War I
fighter, on November 11, 1921. Unknown soldiers from World War II and the
Korean War subsequently were interred in the tomb on Memorial Day 1958.
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Birthdays Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
(95) Norman Vincent Peale,
Ohio, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking) (d.1993)
86- Clint
Eastwood,
actor (Dirty Harry)/mayor (Carmel,
California), born in San Francisco, California
(85) Don Ameche,
actor (Cocoon, Trading Places), born in Kenosha, Wisconsin (d.1993)
78- Peter
Yarrow,
(Peter, Paul & Mary-Puff the
Magic Dragon), born in NYC, New York
73- Sharon
Gless,
actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney &
Lacey), born in Los Angeles, California
(72) Walt Whitman,
American poet (Leaves of Grass), born in West Hills, New York (d.
1892)
(71) Henry M "Scoop" Jackson,
(Sen-D-Wash) (d.1983)
67- Tom
Berenger,
actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch
Over Me), born in Chicago, Illinois
66- Gregory
Harrison,
Catalina California, actor (Trapper
John, Logan's Run)
(64) Johnny Paycheck,
Greenfield OH, singer (Take This Job and Shove It ) (d.2003)
(61) Fred Allen,
Cambridge Massachusetts, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show) (d.1956)
55- Lea
Thompson,
actress (Back to the Future,
Caroline In The City)
51- Brooke
Shields,
model/actress (Blue Lagoon,
Suddenly Susan), born in NYC, New York
(45) Jim Hutton,
Binghamton NY, actor (Ellery Queen) (d.1979)
40- Colin
Farrell,
Irish actor (In Bruges, Minority
Report), born in Dublin, Ireland
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Historical Obits Today
@89-1910 Elizabeth Blackwell,
1st woman physician
@77-1809 Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer
(Jahreszeiten)
@76-1972 Walter Freeman,
American physician (developer and
practitioner of psychiatric surgery transorbital lobotomy)
@57-1837 Joseph Grimaldi,
English pantomimist and the
"greatest clown in history", "died by the visitation of God".
@56-1962 Adolf Eichmann, azi war criminal, hanged at
Ramie Prison in Israel
@86-1983 Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing
champ/actor
@93-2001 Arlene Francis, American television
personality
@59-2010 Chris Haney, creator of Trivial Pursuit, long
illness
@90-2013 Jean Stapleton, American actress, (Edith-All
in the family)
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Brain Teasers Answers
Ryan
and Craig were born in the fall on the day that the clocks are set back one
hour. Ryan was born at 1:45am. Craig was born 30 minutes later. Since the
clocks were set back at 2am, Craig's official time of birth was 1:15am.
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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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