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May 4, 2017 Week: 18 \ Day: 124
86004 Today: H 69° \
L 37° Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 5mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
May Averages: 68°\34°
May Records: H: 89° (2002)
L: 7 (1915)
Record High: 88°[1947] Record Low: 18°[1915]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Education is not the filling of a pail,
but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Intergalactic Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You!) Link
International Respect for Chickens Day
National Day of
Prayer Link
National Day of Reason
National Life Insurance Day Link
Petite and Proud Day
World Password
Day Link
World Give Day
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
1-7
Children's Book
Week
Choose Privacy Week Link
National WildflowerWeek
PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
• Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
<§>1400’s<§>
•1493 Spanish
Pope Alexander VI divides America between Spain & Portugal
<§>1700’s<§>
1776 Rhode
Island declares independence from Britain
1780 American
Academy of Arts & Science founded in Boston, James Bowdoin, John and Samuel
Adams founding members
<§>1800’s<§>
1846 US
state Michigan ends death penalty
•1858 War
of Reform (Mexico); Liberals establish capital at Vera Cruz
1878 Phonograph
shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1886 Haymarket
riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
1893 Cowboy
Bob Pickett invents bulldogging
•1896 1st
edition of London Daily Mail (halfpenny)
1896 Grease
fire ignites half ton of dynamite at Cripple Creek Colorado
<§>1900’s<§>
•1904 Construction
begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1910 Wilfrid
Laurier passes the Naval Service Act, which creates the Royal Canadian Navy
•1919 Demonstrates
organized by students erupt in China, after news from the Paris Peace
Conference that the Allies intend to give Shangtung to Japan
•1924 8th
Olympic games open at Paris, France
1927 1st
balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
1932 Al
Capone enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion
•1933 Pulitzer prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (Conquistador)
•1936 Pulitzer prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
1942 Food
1st rationed in US
•1942 Pulitzer prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
1944 "Gaslight",
starring an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her film debut, is released
1946 5
die in a 2 day riot at Alcatraz prison in SF bay
•1953 Pulitzer Prize for Literature awarded to Ernest
Hemingway for "The Old Man & The Sea"
1959 First
Grammy Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win
•1959 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
•1964 Pulitzer prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter
(Anti-intellectualism)
1970 4
students, at Kent State University killed by Ohio National Guard
•1970 Pulitzer prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
•1972 The
Don't Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in
Canada in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace
Foundation".
1973 1st
TV network female nudity-Steambath (PBS)-Valerie Perrine
•1979 Margaret
Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom
1998 A
federal judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Ted
Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea
agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
<§>2000’s<§>
2008 Seth
MacFarlane reaches an agreement worth $100 million with Fox to keep
"Family Guy" and "American Dad" on television until 2012,
making MacFarlane the world's highest paid television writer
2013 Harper
Lee files a lawsuit against a literary agent over the copyright of
"To Kill a Mockingbird"
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Beautiful
Spring Day…enjoying having all windows and doors open…except when I made a
quick trip to the grocery store…it’s Old People’s Day where we get 10% off
everything we buy. Nice. Good time to stock up.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
The
current administration seems to be having a much more than normal confusion in
statements. A cabinet Secretary will make a statement, and within minutes, the
President tweets that exact opposite. Then the spokespeople for the Department
and the President spend the rest of the day trying to put a square peg in a
round hole. Don’t know who to listen to anymore. Guess I’ll just listen to
myself.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
What
two countries believe they each invented the name of the coffee drink known as
the "flat white"?
Australia and New Zealand France and Spain
Norway and Sweden The
U.K. and Ireland
39.2%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
$9,688,500→Amount the State Dept.
has distributed since July in Holocaust reparations to US citizens
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
Studying
our wedding photos, my six-year-old asked, “Did you marry Dad because he was
good-looking?”
“Not really,” I replied.
“Did you marry him for his money?”
“Definitely not,” I laughed. “He didn’t have any.”
“So,” he said, “you just felt sorry for him?”
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
Like
Magneto told his prison guard in the second X-Men movie, "Never trust a
beautiful woman. Especially one who's interested in you."
This advice could have been used by at least two suckers in Florida who were
seduced (for lack of a better word) by a woman who robbed them blind after she
convinced them to take her home.
The scam came to light when one victim recognized the women, 21-year-old Yomna
Fouad, outside of a nightclub and alerted security. They held her until police
arrived.
According to the victim, he had met Fouad at another nightclub in Miami Beach
the previous week and took her home with him. As this kind of thing happens,
one thing led to another and the two had sex before the victim passed out.
Police reported that the man said he woke up to find Fouad gone, along with his
clothing, cash and jewelry, including a Rolex watch. The total loss was about
$32,000.
"I woke up drugged, not knowing what happened, and all my stuff was
gone," the man told local news.
Detectives later tied Fouad to another robbery last year. According to an
arrest report, Fouad and a friend met another victim at yet another nightclub
for a similar scam.
Authorities said Fouad is from Columbia, South Carolina, and identified her job
title in the arrest reports as "prostitute." She is also accused of
similar robberies throughout the East Coast.
Fouad is being held in lieu of a $50,000 bond, which she should be able to
afford after all those Rolex watches she's stolen.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Between
70 and 80 percent of people respond to certain hypnotic suggestions but not
others. For example, they may scratch their head when a buzzer goes off if the
hypnotist has told them to, but they won't go so far as to pour a bucket of
water over their heads.
***
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette believed so strongly in Franz Mesmer's technique
that they created the Magnetic Institute in France. At first, Mesmer had
patients put their feet in buckets of magnetized water, with cables attached to
magnetized trees. The French medical community - and visiting diplomat Benjamin
Franklin - denounced him as a fraud.
***
Falling under the power of a hypnotist was a legal defense in France in the
19th century. It was believed that a hypnotist could make someone "a toy
in his hands" and that the person "could not reject the ideas of the
beguiler." People who committed crimes under such influence could not be
held legally or morally responsible for their acts.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
<§>80’s<§>
89- Betsy
Rawls,
American
golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60),
born
in Spartanburg, South Carolina
88- Hosni
Mubarak,
Egyptian
president (1981-2011), born in Kafr-El Meselha, Egypt
@86 Roberta
Peters,
American
operatic soprano (NY Met), born in NYC, New York
(d.
2017)
86- Katherine
Jackson,
matriarch
of Jackson musical family
<§>70’s<§>
76- George
Will,
Champaign,
Illinois, American political analyst (Night Line)
@75- Bartolomeo
Cristofori,
Italian
instrument maker - considered the inventor of the piano, born in
Padua
(d.
1731)
<§>60’s<§>
@63- Audrey
Hepburn,
British
actress (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady), born in Brussels,
Belgium
(d.
1993)
@63- Horace
Mann,
American
educator, author and editor who pioneered public schools,
born
in Franklin, Massachusetts
(d.
1859)
<§>50’s<§>
58- Randy
Travis,
Marshville
NC, country singer (Diggin' Up Bones)
<§>40’s<§>
47- Will
Arnett,
Canadian-American
actor, born in Toronto, Ontario
45- Mike
Dirnt [Michael Ryan Pritchard],
American
musician (Green Day), born in Berkeley, California
<§>30’s<§>
38- Lance
Bass, American singer (*NSYNC)
@31- Keith
Haring,
American
graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review) and social activist, born
in
Reading, Pennsylvania
(d.
1990)
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
<§>70’s<§>
@77-1975 Moe
Howard, [Moses Horowitz],
comedian
(3 Stooges), lung cancer
@75-2009 Dom
Deluise,
American
comedian, actor, cancer
@70-1984 Bob
Clampett,
American
cartoonist (Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies), heart attack
<§>40’s<§>
@47-2012 MCA
[Adam Yauch],
Beastie
Boys vocalist, cancer
@44-1987 Paul
Butterfield,
singer/harmonica
player, drug abuse
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Australia
and New Zealand
Who
will win in the battle of the over-caffeinated Aussies versus the Kiwis?
Baristas on both sides of the Tasman Sea lay claim to the name of the milky
breakfast beverage, but a consensus has yet to be reached. Depending on which
history you choose to believe, the term ‘flat white’ was either invented in
Queensland sometime in the 1960s or 1970s, or it was the spontaneous name for a
failed attempt at a cappuccino in Wellington at the end of the 1980s. Source:
The Telegraph
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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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