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5.9.16 Week: 19 \ Day: 130
May Averages: 68°\34°
86004 Today: H 59° \ L 33° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts:
19mph Visibility: 8 mi
Record High: 85°[1989] Record
Low: 17°[1965]
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Quote of the Day
A work of art which did not begin
in emotion is not art. Paul Cezanne
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Observances Today
National
Moscato Day
Time
of Remembrance & Reconciliation for Those Who Lost Their Lives During
the Second World War-
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Observances This Week
3-11
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
Salute to Moms 35+ Week
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US Historical Highlights for
Today
1768 John Hancock pays duties
on 25 pipes of wine, only one fourth of his ship's carrying capacity, and
British officials accuse him of unloading the rest during the night to avoid
paying the duties on the entire cargo
1862 US Naval Academy relocated from
Annapolis MD to Newport, RI
1868 The city of Reno, Nevada, is
founded.
1887 Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West
Show opens in London
1914 US President Woodrow Wilson
proclaims Mother's Day
1944 1st eye bank opens in New York
1945 World War II: Hermann
Goering is captured by the US Army.
1989 VP Quayle say in United Negro
College Fund speech: "What a waste it is to lose one's mind" instead
of "a mind is terrible thing to waste"
1997 1st US ambassador since Saigon
fell arrives in Vietnam
2005 Liberal commentary website
The Huffington Post is launched
2012 United States
President Barack Obama officially states his support for same sex
marriage
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1709 - The Irish House of Lords expresses
hope that union of Ireland and England will follow union of England and Scotland
1922 The International Astronomical
Union formally adopt Annie Jump Cannon's stellar classification system,
which with only minor changes, is still used today
1932 Piccadilly Circus, London first
lit by electricity
1945 Czechoslovakia liberated from Nazi occupation
(Natl Day)
1982 - General Election results in Fianna
Fáil victory winning 81 seats. Charles J. Haughey is elected as Taoiseach on
the 50th Anniversary of the first Fianna Fáil Government in 1932.
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My Rambling Thoughts
A little cloudy, then the nice spring rain
came, and stayed most of the afternoon. Nice.
Discussion group was great last night. One of
our members had run away from home at 14. His parents lived in Mexico at the
time and he got hired on a fishing boat. They sailed to Havana harbor and he
ended up staying. He joined Castro, Che, and others during the revolution.
Disheartened by the ‘communism’ thing he returned to Mexico and he and his mom
left the abusive father and lived with relatives in Washington. Another member
of the group went to Cuba through Cancun in the early 2000’s when Americans
could not get to Cuba directly from America. And I have visited there twice in
the past two years. We all agreed that the Cuban people are friendly, outgoing,
and want to be friends with Americans. Things have changed over the past 50
years have changed and bigger changes are ahead. Stimulating conversation for
sure.
While we were waiting for all to arrive, we
had a brief discussion on AZ Prop 123. This is the legislature answer to a
court order to pay money owed to school districts, which they say will go to
raising teacher salaries. A few years ago we passed a proposition to better
fund schools, but the legislature took money for education and used it for just
about anything they wanted. The AZ legislature tried really hard to prevent
KidsCare, a health care program for some students that would not cost the state
a dime, from passing. At the last minute to thing passed. AZ legislators on the
whole do not support education. A few decades ago, the Lottery started in AZ
and the majority of the money was to go to education. After a year, it didn’t.
Anyway, this is a tough proposition. I want to support education, but this is
just a scheme to help education for a little while, then we are back to the
mess. And none of our group trusts the legislature to do what they way they
will do….tough choice in a few weeks.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Easy As Pie
Riddles are little poems or phrases
that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this
is not a requirement.
You
grasp my handle and give me a push.
I rotate and roll, doing my job.
You put pressure on me,
and I cause division.
Then you enjoy the fruits of my labor,
while I lie, cast aside, feeling cheesy and red of face.
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…Harper’s Index…
47-Percentage by which the number of women
graduation from college is expected to exceed the number of men in 2025
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2 jokes for the day
“I’d like two pork chops,” asked the woman to
her butcher, “and make them lean.”
“Yes ma’am,” said the polite butcher, standing then on end. “Which way?”
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A wife once gave her husband the silent
treatment for an entire week. She didn't say anything, she just put it into
practice. She was hoping it would make him be more attentive to her and to
their marriage.
At the end of the week she decided to bring up subject. "You notice
anything different about us this past week?"
Without missing a beat, and without having a clue either, he replied. “Yeah,
we’re getting along pretty great lately!”
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Yep, It Really
Happened
*-- It Never Rains In Las Vegas, But It Pours --*
Visitors to a Las Vegas attraction said they
were unexpectedly drenched by falling liquid that turned out to be urine from a
teenager on a zip line over their heads. Tourists visiting the popular Fremont
Street Experience attraction said they initially thought the drops of liquid
that fell onto their heads was water or beer, but they soon discovered it was
something far more disgusting: a 15-year-old boy's urine. Officials with the
attraction said the teenager urinated while riding the Slot-Zilla, a slot
machine-themed zip line that stretches over the Fremont Street Experience.
"Like a lot of liquid coming from above us, just showering from head to
toe our back and top of the head dripping down, and we thought it was some sort
of water, maybe some drinks or beer," Cazimere Ferguson, who was visiting
Las Vegas from Hawaii said. The Fremont Street Experience's marketing director
said the teen's parents apologized for the incident. It was unclear whether the
mid-ride urination was involuntary or an intentional prank.
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Birthdays Today
“( )”
indicates age at death
(94) Daniel Berrigan,
Virginia, Minn American Jesuit priest and peace activist
(Vietnam War) (d. 2016)
(93) Mike Wallace,
Brookline, Mass, newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes) (d.
2012)
80- Albert Finney,
Salford UK, actor (Dresser, Under the Volcano)
(78) Barbara Woodhouse, dog training expert
(77) J.M. [James Matthew] Barrie,
Kirriemuir, Angus, Scottish novelist and playwright (Peter
Pan) (d. 1937)
67- Billy Joel,
The Bronx, rock vocalist (Pianoman, Capt Jack, Bridge)
(64) Howard Carter,
London, British archaeologist and egyptologist (found King
Tutankhamen's tomb) (d.1939)
(59) John Brown,
Torrington, Conn, American
abolitionist and revolutionary (d. 1859)
58- Adam Opel,
German manufacturer (cycling, motorcars)
37- Rosario Dawson,
American actress
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Historical Obits Today
@92-2010 Lena Horne,
American singer and actress (b. 1917)
@84-2012 Vidal Sassoon,
British hairdresser and businessman
@81-1968 Marion Lorne,
actress (Aunt Clara-Bewitched)
@71-1986 Tenzing Norgay,
Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), stroke
@69-1985 Edmond O'Brien,
actor (Moon Pilot, Wild Bunch), Alzheimer's
@61-1978 Aldo Moro,
5 times PM of Italy, assassinated by the Marxist-Leninist
terrorist organization Red Brigades
@55-1977 James Jones,
US writer (Bad Blood, From Here to Eternity), heart
failure
@55-1914 C.W. Post,
American food manufacturer, suicide
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Brain Teasers Answers
A pizza cutter.
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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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