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5.1.16 Week: 17 \ Day: 122
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 60° \ L 39° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 23mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 80°[1947] Record Low: 17°[1972]
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Quote
of the Day
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Observances
Today
Amtrak Day
Batman Day
Beltane Link
Executive Coaching Day
Global Love Day Link
National Infertility Survival Day (First Sunday)
Keep Kids Alive! Drive 25 Day
Law Day
Lei Day
Lemonade Day Link
Mother Goose Day Link (Different
than one in November)
Motorcycle Mass & Blessing of The Bikes Day
National Bubba Day
National Purebred Dog Day Link
New Homeowner's Day
Rural Life Sunday
School Principals' Day
Silver Star Day Link
Stepmother's Day
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Observances
This Week
1-7
Be Kind To Animals Week
Children's Mental Health Week Link
Choose Privacy Week Link
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week Link
Drinking Water Week Link
Flexible Work Arrangement Week
Goodwill Industries Week
International Clitoris Awareness Week Link
Kids Win Week
NAOSH Week Link
National Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week
National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week
National Correctional Officer's Week Link
National Family Week
National Hug Holiday Week
National Pet Week Link
National Post Card Week Link
National Raisin Week Link
National Small Business Week Link
National Tourism Week Link
National Wildflower Week
North American Occupational
Safety & Health Week Link
Public Service Recognition Week Link
Update Your References Week
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1751 1st American
cricket match is played
1785 Kamehameha,
the king of Hawaiʻi defeats Kalanikupule and establishes the Kingdom of
Hawaiʻi
1841 First
emigrant wagon train leaves Independence, Missouri, for California
1863 Confederate congress passed
resolution to kill black soldiers
1866 American
Equal Rights Association forms
1867 Howard
University chartered
1873 1st US postal
card issued
1883 "Buffalo
Bill" Cody puts on his 1st Wild West Show
1889 Bayer
introduces aspirin in powder form (Germany)
1939 Batman comics hit street
1939 Pulitzer
Prize awarded to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (Yearling)
1941 "Citizen
Kane", directed & starring Orson Welles, premieres in NY
1941 General Mills
introduces Cheerios
1943 Food
rationing begins in US
1944 Pulitzer
prize awarded to American Martin Flavin for his novel "Journey in the
Dark"
1952 Mr Potato
Head introduced
1961 1st US
airplane hijacked to Cuba
1961 Pulitzer prize awarded
to Harper Lee for her novel "To Kill a Mockingbird"
1963 1st American
(James Whittaker) conquers Mount Everest
1982 World's Fair
in Knoxville Tennessee opens
1999 Animated
series "SpongeBob SquarePants" debuts on Nickelodeon
2000 "Gladiator"
directed by Ridley Scott and starring Russell Crowe and Joaquin
Phoenix premieres in LA (Best Picture 2001) 2003 In what
becomes known as the "Mission Accomplished" speech, U.S.
President George W. Bush declares that "major combat operations
in Iraq have ended" on board the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of
California.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1316 Records indicate that around this
date, Robert Bruce has himself crowned king of Ireland near Dundalk
1328 Wars of
Scottish Independence end: Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton - the Kingdom of
England recognises the Kingdom of Scotland as an independent state.
1682 Louis XIV
& his court inaugurate Paris Observatory
1707 Acts of Union
comes into force, uniting England and Scotland to form the United Kingdom of
Great Britain
1753 Publication
of Species Plantarum by Linnaeus, and the formal start date of plant
taxonomy adopted by the International Code of Botanical Nomenclature.
1786 Mozart's
opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Wien (Vienna)
1794 - Catholics are
enabled by law to attend Trinity College
1869 Folies
Bergère opens in Paris
1940 The 1940
Olympics are cancelled
1948 North Korea proclaims itself
Democratic People's Republic of Korea
1979 Elton John becomes
1st pop star to perform in Israel
2009 Same-sex
marriage is legalized in Sweden.
2014 Hundreds
march through Nigerian capital calling for the release of schoolgirls abducted
by Islamic militants, Boko Haram, who oppose Western education
2015 Expo 2015 opens in
Milan (thru till 31st October)
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Another drizzle day here at 7000’. When it is not drizzle, it is outright thunderstorms with hail.We need the
moisture, so I will survive not being able to spend time outside.
I am just shaking my head as to why anyone
would get into politics in this day and edge.
My junk email box if filled daily with candidates asking for $$$ to
change the world. The news is filled with stories of how ‘big money’ and ‘dark
money’ rule politics. Sorry but I will vote in every election, but will not
give money to any candidate.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Try and Crack This One!
Riddles are little poems or phrases
that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles
frequently rhyme, but this is not a
requirement.
I am not a human, nor am I an
animal.
I have eyes, but cannot see,
and I have hair that you cannot comb.
My brown skin has several layers but this seems a paradox,
because one is smooth and the other is hard.
My skin protects my soft white flesh;
and within my flesh is my opaque blood.
What am I?
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…Harper’s
Index…
1/30-Portion
of physicians entering US medical internships who suffer from depression
1/2- Portion who suffer from depression at
some point during their internship
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeo
The burning of Kenya's Ivory stockpile
today is the largest in history. Around 105 tons of elephant tusks, from approx
6,700 elephants are being torched. The estimated value is $170 million although
of course this is speculative. Rhino horn is also in the mix.
Of course there are arguments for and against the burn amongst Kenyans and the
wider world. But in the words of Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta pictured 'I
would rather wait for judgment from future generations who I'm sure will
respect the decision we have made today'. For more images of the burn follow me
at@chamiltonjames /
Charlie Hamilton James
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2
jokes for the day
A woman notices her husband standing on the
bathroom scale, sucking in his stomach. “You know, that’s not going to help,”
she says.
“Sure it does,” he answers. “It’s the only way I can see the numbers.”
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The pediatric nurse entered the room, prepared
to do the job of giving a shot to a little girl. Upon entering the examining
room, little girl starting screaming, “NO! NO! NO!”
“Jessica,” her mother scolded her, “that is not polite behavior!”
The girl stopped briefly and then continued with her screaming, “NO THANK YOU!
NO THANK YOU! NO THANK YOU!”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*-- Florida Man Clings to Hood of Speeding Car --*
KENDALL, Fla. - I'm starting to get used to
these stories. An apparent case of road rage in Florida led to a man clinging
to the hood of a white car as it sped away from the scene of the argument.
Witnesses said the driver of a black sedan argued with the driver of a white
Volkswagen and ended up jumping on the car's hood in an apparent attempt to
prevent the vehicle from driving away. The white car's driver had other plans,
however, and left the scene at a high speed with the other motorist clinging to
the hood of the car. It was unclear how far the car traveled with the man on
the hood, but portions of the incident were recorded on video by witnesses and
business security cameras. "The guy is lucky. I mean, he was still on top
of the car when the driver made a U-turn," Sebastian Roldan, whose
business security cameras captured footage of the incident, told local news.
"That's super dangerous. You could fall off. It's crazy he was actually
able to stay on the car." The white car eventually came to a stop and the
man got off the hood, apparently uninjured. Police said they are investigating
the incident.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
(93) Mother
(Mary Harris) Jones,
US reformer and labor
organizer (d.1930)
(92) Louis Nye,
American comedian and actor
(d. 2005)
(88) Malcolm Scott Carpenter,
Boulder Colo, astronaut
(Mercury 7-Aurora 7) (d. 2013)
(85) Jack Paar,
Canton Ohio, American
television host of the Jack Paar Show (d. 2004)
(85) Dan O'Herlihy,
Ireland, actor (Fail Safe,
Last Starfighter, Robocop) (d.2005)
(84) Louis-Marie Hilaire Bernigaud de Grange,
inventor (rayon)(d.1924)
(82ish) Kamehameha
I,
Kohala, Hawaii King of Hawaii
(1782-1819) (d. 1819)
77- Judy Collins,
Seattle, singer (Send in the
Clowns, Clouds)
(76) Joseph Heller,
Brooklyn, American novelist
(Catch-22, 1963 Arts & Letters Award) (d. 1999)
62- Ray Parker Jr,
Detroit, rock
guitarist/vocalist (Ghostbusters)
(51) Calamity Jane [Martha Jane Canary],
Princeton, Missouri American
frontierswoman (Wild Bill Hickok)(d. 1903)
(49) Max Robinson,
Richmond, Va, 1st African
American network TV anchor (ABC) (d. 1988)
49- Tim McGraw,
Delhi, La, American musician
and actor
47- Wes Anderson,
American director and writer
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Historical
Obits Today
@85-1902 John Glover,
English chemist (production
sulfuric acid)
@62-1998 Eldridge Cleaver,
American activist, prostate
cancer
@62-1904 Antonín Dvořák,
Czech composer (Slavic
Dancing), influenza
@60-1873 David Livingstone,
British physician/explorer
(Africa), malaria
@47-1945 Paul Joseph Goebbels,
German Nazi Minister of
Propoganda, suicide with his wife and arranges the death of his 6 children
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Brain
Teasers Answers
A coconut
The coconut is the seed and edible fruit of the coco palm tree (Cocos
nucifera). Each coconut has several layers: a smooth, deep tan outer covering;
a brown fiber of 1-2" thickness; a hard, dark brown hairy husk with three
indented "eyes" at one end; a thin brown skin; the cream white
coconut meat; and at the center, a thin opaque coconut juice.
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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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