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5.10.16 Week: 19 \ Day: 131
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 67° \ L 34° Average Sky Cover: 35%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 24mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 82°[1934] Record Low: 19°[1953]
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Quote
of the Day
Glory is fleeting but obscurity
forever~Napoleon Bonaparte
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Observances
Today
Dia De La Madre
National Lipid Day (Dyslipidemia)
World Lupus Day
National Lipid Day
One Day Without Shoes Day Link
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Observances
This Week
3-11
(World) Dystonia Awareness
Week Link
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
Reading is Fun Week Link
Salute to Moms 35+ Week
9-13
National Etiquette Week
9-14
Salvation Army Week Link
9-15
National Stuttering Awareness Week
Spring Astronomy Week
10-16
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1752 Benjamin Franklin tests
the lightning conductor with his his kite-flying experiment
1797 1st US Navy ship, the
"United States," is launched
1801 First Barbary War: The Barbary
pirates of Tripoli declare war on the United States of America (1st US foreign
war)
1823 1st steamboat to navigate the
Mississippi River arrives at Ft Snelling
1869 Golden Spike driven, completes
Promontory Pt Ut-Transcontinental RR
1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st
woman nominated for US presidency by Equal Rights Party at Apollo Hall, NYC
1908 1st Mother's Day observed
(Phila)
1924 J. Edgar Hoover appointed
head of FBI
1930 1st US planetarium opens
(Adler-Chicago)
1969 Apollo 10 transmit 1st color
pictures of Earth from space
1983 "Laverne &
Shirley" last airs on ABC-TV
1993 Paul Cézanne still life
painting sells for US$28,600,000 in NYC
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1497 Italian navigator Amerigo
Vespucci leaves for his first voyage to the New World (disputed)
1624 Dutch admirals Jacob Willekens
& Piet Heyn conquer Salvador da Bahia (Brazil)
1642 - A Catholic confederacy ('the
Confederation of Kilkenny') is instituted to administer Catholic-controlled
parts of the country pending a final settlement
1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf
Hess parachutes into Scotland
1959 Soviet forces arrive in
Afghanistan
1969 In an interview with the
'Belfast Telegraph' former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill
states: "if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they
will live like Protestants, ... They will refuse to have 18 children"
1970 Bobby Orr scores one of
the most famous goals in hockey history, an overtime goal that gives the Boston
Bruins its first Stanley Cup since 1941
1998 - Members of Sinn Féin vote to
accept the Good Friday peace agreement, effectively acknowledging the
north-south border
2000 - Arts and Culture Minister, Sile de
Valera, officially opens the fully restored 1817 fountain at the Iveagh Gardens
in Dublin.
2008 Philippine court acquits Imelda
Marcos in a 17-year-old case of 32 counts of illegal transfer of wealth
totaling $863 million in Swiss bank accounts.
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Lots of wind, and some rain, brought about a
nice day. Did some quick running around this morning, then some house cleaning.
Restrooms seem to be a big deal in the news.
Who goes where to do what. I recall my younger days when I would be taken
shopping with my mom. At many of the nicer stores, stalls cost 10 cents to use.
Lucky for me, urinals were free. Most of the larger stores have had ‘family
restrooms’ for a long time. They have a toilet, a changing table, and a sink.
Works fine at 7000’. Some of the ‘men’ bathrooms also have changing tables. I
guess in NC only men can now change their sons, but not their daughters and
women can only change their daughters. I do recall walking into a ‘men’
restroom at a large store here and seeing a young girl (4 or 5) standing by the
door, inside the restroom. Her dad was using the urinal. I was a little taken
aback, but simply went into one of the stalls rather than using the urinal. No
big deal for me, for the dad, or for the girl.
I had lunch with a friend the other day. He
brought his 20 something nephew with him. The nephew was having a problem. His long
time girl friend had just let her sister and her 4 year old son move into the
house. According to the guy, the kid was a terror, with little respect for
anyone’s personal property. If he corrected the boy, the sister took her son
into the bedroom, where they stayed until morning. He didn’t know what to do.
All I could say was Mom will always protect her son, Sister will always side
with sister. Become friends with the little boy and then talk to him about boundaries.
Blood is always thicker than in-laws.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Letter Juggle 2
Language brain teasers
are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and
manipulate words and letters.
Take the given words, and by moving
a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near
synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip'
creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. East - Up
2. West - Oak
3. Blog - Ranch
4. Over - Plaint
5. Outage - Ranger
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…Harper’s
Index…
63-
Percentage of US mothers who have stopped working or switched to less
challenging jobs in order to care for children
36-Of
US fathers
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
nakedplanetTwilight at Elephant Rock, Tongaporutu Beach, NZ
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2
jokes for the day
The young couple admired the scarecrow they
saw along the road. "Look at that," said the girl. "Not a crow
in sight."
The boy looked at the scarecrow and said, "Good job scarecrow!"
To their surprise the scarecrow replied. "Hay, it's in my jeans."
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An elderly gentleman checked into a New York
hotel. The clerk mentioned the phone service the establishment made available
for calling guests who wished to rise at an early hour.
"No need for that, young man," snapped the old timer. "I always
wake up at five A.M. sharp without an alarm clock."
"Very good, sir," the clerk replied, then asked, "Would you mind
calling me at six?"
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Empire State Building. Finished in 1931, it towers 1,250 ft over New
York City. Until the first tower of the World Trade Center was finished in
1972, it was the world's tallest building.
Itaipu Dam. Built by Brazil and Paraguay on the Parana River, the
dam is the world's largest hydroelectric power plant. Completed in 1991, it
took 16 years to build this series of dams whose length totals 7,744 m. It used
15 times more concrete than the Channel Tunnel.
CN Tower. In 1976, the tower became the world's tallest
freestanding structure. It looms about one-third of a mile high (1,815 ft)
above Toronto, Canada. A glass floor on the observation deck lets you look 342
m down to the ground.
Panama Canal. It took 34 years to create this
50-mile-long canal across the Isthmus of Panama. The amount of digging required
and the size of its locks helped make it the most expensive project in American
history at that time-and the most deadly: About 80,000 people died during
construction (most from disease).
Channel Tunnel. Known as the Chunnel, it links France and England.
It is 31 mi long, and 23 of those miles are 150 ft beneath the seabed of the
English Channel. High-speed trains whiz through its side-by-side tubes.
Netherlands North Sea Protection Works. Because the
Netherlands is below sea level, a series of dams, floodgates, and surge
barriers have been built to keep the sea from flooding the country during
storms. The biggest part of the project was a two-mile-long moveable surge
barrier across an estuary finished in 1986. It is made of 65 concrete piers
each weighing 18,000 tons. It has been said that the project is nearly equal in
scale to the Great Wall of China.
Golden Gate Bridge. Connecting San Francisco and Marin
County in 1937, for many years this was the longest suspension bridge in world.
Experts thought that winds, ocean currents, and fog would make it impossible to
build. It took about four years to complete the beautiful 1.2-mile-long bridge.
It is held by 80,000 mi worth of steel wire, and the cables that link the two
towers are 36.5 inches in diameter the biggest ever made.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
(88) Fred Astaire,
Omaha, tap dancer/actor (Easter Parade, Swingtime) (d.1987)
(80) Gary Owens,
Mitchell, sd. American disc jockey/TV host (Laugh In, Gong
Show)
(75) Wayne Dyer,
American psychologist and author (Universe Within You) (d.
2015)
70- Donovan Leitch,
Scottish musician
(69) Maybelle Carter,
Nickelsville, Va, American
country singer (Johnny Cash Show) (d. 1978)
(69) Nancy Walker,
Philadelphia, American actress (Rhoda, McMillan &
Wife) (d.1992)
69- Dave Mason,
Worcester England, singer/songwriter (We Just Disagree)
(63) David O Selznick,
Pittsburgh, producer (Gone With the Wind) (d.1965)
56- Bono [Paul Hewson],
Dublin, rocker (U2-Joshua Tree),
(26) John Wilkes Booth,
Bel Air, Md, American stage actor and assassin of US
President
Abraham Lincoln, (d. 1865)
(21) Sid Vicious, [John Simon Ritchie],
London, bassist (Sex Pistols) (d.1979)
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Historical
Obits Today
@86-1910 William Huggins,
Discoverer of stellar nature of Andromeda
@83-1818 Paul Revere,
American patriot
@72-1977 Joan Crawford,
actress (Mildred Pierce), heart attack/cancer
@68-1999 Shel Silverstein,
American poet and composer, heart attack
@63-1904 Henry
Morton Stanley,
Welsh journalist and African
explorer (discovered source of the Nile)
@39-1863 Thomas Jackson, ["Stonewall"],
Confederate general (Civil War), pneumonia
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Eat - Sup
2. Wet - Soak
3. Log - Branch
4. Overt - Plain
5. Outrage - Anger
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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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