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May 5, 2017
Week: 18 \ Day: 125
86004 Today: H 73° \
L 35° Average Sky Cover: 1%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility: 10 mi
May Averages: 68°\34°
May Records: H: 89° (2002)
L: 7 (1915)
Record High: 86°[1947] Record Low: 18°[1950]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Facts do not cease to exist because they
are ignored.
Aldous Huxley
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Cartoonists Day
Childhood Stroke Awareness Day Link
International Day of The Midwife Link
International Roller Derby Day Link
International Sauvignon Blanc Day Link
International Space Day (First Friday) Link
International Tuba Day (The instrument, not the town) Link
National Astronaut
Day Link
Revenge of the
Fifth (Star Wars Sith) Link
Totally Chipotle
Day
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
1-7
Children's Book
Week
Choose Privacy Week Link
National WildflowerWeek
PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
5-7
Toad Suck Daze
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
• Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
<§>1200’s<§>
•1260 Kublai
Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan, becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
<§>1800’s<§>
1809 Mary
Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)
1816 American
Bible Society organized (NY)
1847 American
Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1865 1st
US train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
•1877 Indian
Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid
harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1891 Music
Hall (Carnegie Hall) opens in New York, Tchaikovsky is guest conductor
<§>1900’s<§>
•1912 5th
Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
1920 Nicola
Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are arrested on charges and robbery of a
paymaster at a shoe factory in Massachusetts, US - the two men will executed
•1926 Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for
"Arrowsmith"
1935 Jesse
Owens of US sets long jump record at 26' 8½" 1941 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
•1941 First
modern perfume, Chanel No. 5 released
•1944 Gandhi freed
from prison
1945 Elsie
Mitchell and five Sunday school students become the only people to die during
World War II on US soil when they are killed by a Japanese fire balloon that
lands in the forest of Gearhart Mountain, near Bly, Southern Oregon
•1947 Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the
King's Men)
•1952 Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
•1958 Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the
Family)
1961 Alan
Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1962 West
Side Story soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more
than 20 weeks longer than any other album
•1969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies
of the Night)
1971 Race
riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn (NYC)
•1975 Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
•1981 After
66 days on hunger strike, 26 year old MP Bobby Sands dies in the Maze Prision;
9 further hunger strikers die in the next 3 months
1997 "Married
With Children" final episode on Fox TV
<§>2000’s<§>
•2006 The
government of Sudan signs an accord with the Sudan Liberation Army
•2014 China
announces it will upgrade Ethiopia's infrastructure in an effort to improve a
China-Africa strategic partnership
•2016 Fort
McMurray wildfires: Canadian state of Alberta declares a state of emergency as
evacuation of 80,000 people continues
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Another
great weather day. Nice day to be out and about. Made a bank deposit, dropped
off my ‘winter clothes’ dry cleaning, and took a nice walk.
Good
news…finally. A script I get would be $650 without insurance. With my insurance
$133. With the card my physician gave me…$33.00. Very happy with that.
The
Republicans are certainly celebrating. Amazing that they seem to forget the
role of the Senate. Time will tell. My suggestion: Congress has to become part
of Trumpcare…the same thing I thought about Obamacare. As a retired Federal
Employee, I don’t have a horse in this race, but many of my friends do.
THIS IS NOT NORMAL:
Most
of my life, non-profits and Churches couldn’t get involved in politics because
they don’t pay taxes…the money that runs our government. Our President just
said to forget that law and told the IRS to be very careful in applying that
law. WOW! When Obama did that with Immigration, and the other side went crazy.
The separation of church and state should mean that those who attend church
allows them pray to their God, but not to hear about politics from the pulpit.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
From
what location did SpaceX's Falcon 9 launch for its EchoStar XXIII mission?
Kennedy Space Center Kodiak Island
Vandenberg Air Force Base Wallops Island Flight Facility
45.4%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
$1,200,000,000,000→Estimated total value of
religious institutions in the US
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
Suspecting
he had a serious medical condition, I nagged my husband until he agreed to see
a doctor.
Once there, he was handed a mountain of forms to fill out. Next to 'Reason for
visit' he wrote, "My wife made me."
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*---
Police Probing Mystery of Shaven Pussys ---*
Residents of a Virginia neighborhood have put up signs warning pet owners that
cats in the area are being abducted and resurfacing partially shaved. Capt.
Kelly Walker of the Waynesboro Police Department confirmed at least two
households have recently reported finding their indoor/outdoor cats with their
undersides shaved. Walker said the shaving appears to have been done with some
kind of razor. Walker said the number of targeted cats keeps growing as the
investigation continues. Police said all of the shaven cats have been
domesticated felines owned by neighborhood residents. Walker gave neighbors
clearance to post warning signs in the neighborhood. "Shaving cats?!"
the signs read. "Several neighborhood cats have been abducted and had
their lower abdomens and groin areas shaved. If you have information about this
suspicious activity please contact the police department. Our cats will thank
you!"
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
On
average, children between the ages of two and seven color 28 minutes every day.
***
The
average child in the United States will wear down 730 crayons by his or her
tenth birthday.
***
The
scent of Crayola crayons is among the twenty most recognizable to American
adults.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
<§>80’s<§>
89- Pat
Carroll,
Shrevport
La, comedienne/actress (Make Room for Daddy)
@81- James
Beard,
US,
culinary expert/author (Delights & Prejudices)
(d.
1985)
<§>70’s<§>
@77- Arthur
Leonard Schawlow,
American
physicist, shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for his
pioneering
work with lasers, born in Mount Vernon, New York
(d.
1999)
74- Michael
Palin,
English
comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda), born in Sheffield,
Yorkshire
@70- Charles
Bender,
(Ojibwe)
only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame
(d.
1954)
<§>60’s<§>
@64- Karl
Marx,
German
philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), born in Trier,
Prussia
(d.
1883)
<§>50’s<§>
58-
Brian Williams,
news
commentator
@55- Tammy
Wynette [Virginia Pugh],
American
country singer (Stand by your Man), born in Itawamba County,
Mississippi
(d.
1998)
<§>40’s<§>
@42- Søren
Kierkegaard,
Danish
philosopher (d. 1855)
<§>30’s<§>
34- Henry
Cavill,
English
actor (Superman), born in Jersey, Channel Islands
<§>20’s<§>
29- Adele [Adele
Laurie Blue Adkins],
English
singer (Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You), born in
Tottenham,
London,
28- Chris
Brown,
American
R&B singer, born in Tappahannock, Virginia
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
<§>’s<§>
@57-1969 Ben
Alexander,
actor
(Frank Smith-Dragnet), natural causes
@51-1821
Napoleon Bonaparte,
French military leader and Emperor of the French
(1804-14,
1815), in exile on the island of Saint Helena, officially from
stomach
cancer but rumors of arsenic poisoning persist
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Kennedy
Space Center
SpaceX
has been in the rocket and spacecraft game since it ... launched ... in 2002
(sorry). On March 16, 2017, the Falcon 9 blasted off from Launch Complex 39A at
NASA's Kennedy Space Center. What exactly is the EchoStar XXIII mission, you
ask? Well, the XXIII is actually a commercial communications satellite for the
EchoStar Corporation. And the satellite's destination? It was deposited to a
geostationary transfer orbit ... so don't go looking for it on the Moon's
surface with your telescope. You won't find it! Source: SpaceX
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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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