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Monthly Observations
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Adopt A
Horse Month |
America's
Wetlands Month Link |
Weekly Observations
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21-5/2 Festival
of Ridvan Stewardship
Week 28-5/4 National
Small Business Week Link |
May 1-5 International
Mariachi Week Link National Hug
Holiday Week |
Daily Observations
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Amtrak Day |
National
Anxiety Disorders Screening Day |
Today’s Quote Today’s Meme
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"The next choice is the most important choice."
— George Wells |
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Today’s Thoughts
A nice spring day.
I headed out this morning
this morning to get some monthly supplies. All went well.
I got a call last
night from a hunting friend. He is back in the hospital as his dialysis isn’t
working right. He is in Tuba; they were trying to find a hospital to fly him
out. Scary for sure.
I took my vehicle to
the car wash to get the latest road grime off. I wanted to have a wash and wax
but there was no attendant, and my sticker automatically gives me just a quick
wash. Not sure how to hide the window sticker so I can pay for a single wash
and wax deluxe. I’ll figure it out, or just go to a full-service wash and wax
next time.
Campus unrest
continues…today in Chapel Hill, NC, students took down the American flag and
tried to raise the Palestinian flag. At Columbia the protesters took over a
building. WOW!
Did you Know?
Interesting Facts
Fact: The cornea is one of only two parts of the human body without blood
vessels
The cornea is the clear
part of the eye that covers the pupil and other parts of the eye. Cartilage and
the cornea are the only types tissue in the human body that do not contain
blood vessels, according to scientists at the Harvard Department of Ophthalmology’s
Schepens Eye Research Institute. Your eye also has some other bizarre features you probably
didn’t know about. Next, find out which is the rarest eye color in the world.
Historic Events
Ë 1707 – The Act of
Union joined the Kingdom of England and Kingdom of Scotland to form the Kingdom
of Great Britain.
Ë 1759 – Josiah
Wedgwood founded the Wedgwood pottery company in Great Britain.
Ë 1849 – The telegraph
register was patented (#6,420) by Samuel F. B.Morse.
Ë 1888 – Nikola Tesla
was issued several patents (#381,968, #381,969, #381,970; #382,279, #381,980,
#381,981, #381,982) relating to the induction magnetic motor, alternating
current (AC) sychronous motor, AC transmission and electricity distribution.
Ë 1899 – Bayer
introduced aspirin in powder form, in Germany. The pill came about in 1915.
Ë 1931 – The Empire
State Building in New York City was dedicated by President Hoover from the
White House in Washington DC.
Ë 1958 – The discovery
of the Van Allen radiation belts that surround Earth by James Van allen was
published in the Washington Evening Star.
Ë 1960 – American U-2
spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union.
Ë 1964 – The BASIC
computer program was used for the first time at Dartmouth University by John G.
Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz. The name is an acronym for ‘Beginner’s All-purpose
Symbolic Instruction Code’.
Ë 1989 – Disney/MGM
Studios opened at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.
Ë 2011 – Osama bin
Laden was reported killed by U.S. forces in Pakistan.
Birthdays with some quotes
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85 –
Judy Collins, American singer-songwriter “I
look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.” 79 –
Rita Coolidge, American singer-songwriter “Too
often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push
back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it’s too
late.” 57 –
Tim McGraw, American singer-songwriter “We
all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little
of each other everywhere.” 52 –
Julie Benz, American actress 20 –
Charli D’Amelio, American social media
influencer |
@93
– Mary ‘Mother Jones’, Irish-American
labor leader (d. 1930) @92
– Louis Nye, American comedic actor (d.
2005) @90
– Glenn Ford, Canadian-American actor (d.
2006) @85
– Jack Paar, American comedian, author and
talk show host (d. 2004) “Looking
back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief
obstacle.” @79
– Kate Smith, American singer and actress
(d. 1986; respiratory arrest) “It
has been said that genius is only the power of making continuous effort. The
line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we
pass it. We are told that there is no failure, except in no longer trying –
no defeat, except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own
weakness of purpose.” @51
– Calamity Jane (Martha Jane Canary), American frontierswoman and professional scout (d.
1903; pneumonia) |
…The End for today…
