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5.14.16 Week: 19 \ Day: 135
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 78° \ L 37° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 11mph\Gusts: 20mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 82°[1984] Record Low: 18°[1953]
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Quote
of the Day
When you judge another, you do not
define them, you define yourself
~Wayne
Dryer
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Observances
Today
National Archery Day Link
National Chicken Dance Day Link
National Miniature Golf Day
National Train Day Link
National Windmill Day
Spring Astronomy Day
Stay Up All Night
The Stars and Stripes
Forever Day
Underground America Day
World Belly Dance Day Link
World Fair Trade Day
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Observances
This Week
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
9-14
Salvation Army Week Link
9-15
National Stuttering Awareness Week
Spring Astronomy Week
10-16
12-16
Neuropathy Awareness Week Link
13-15
Art On The Square Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1787 Delegates
gather in Philadelphia to draw up US constitution
1804 Meriwether
Lewis & William Clark's expedition commissioned by Thomas
Jefferson sets out from St Louis for Pacific Coast
1853 Gail Borden,
land surveyor, newspaper publisher, and inventor, patents his process for
condensed milk
1874 1st admission
charge at a football game, Harvard beats Uni of McGill (Montreal) 3-0
1878 Vaseline is
granted a patent (U.S. Patent 127,568)
1942 US Women's
Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
1945 Physician Joseph
Hamilton injects misdiagnosed cancer patient Albert Stevens (CAL-1)
with 131 kBq (3.55 µCi) of plutonium without his knowledge or informed consent.
Stevens lived another 20 years, surviving the highest known accumulated
radiation dose in any human
1949 US
President Harry Truman signs bill establishing a rocket test range at
Cape Canaveral
1969 Last
Chevrolet Corvair built
1973 Skylab
launched, 1st Space Station
1973 US Supreme
court approves equal rights to females in military
1974 Symbionese
Liberation Army destroyed in shoot-out, 6 killed
1980 Dept of
Health & Human Services begins operation
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1643 Louis XIV becomes
King of France aged 4
1784 The Irish Post
Office, distinct from English and Scottish services, is established by statute
1991 Winnie
Mandela sentenced to 6 years for complicity in kidnapping & beating of four
youths, one of whom died, She is freed pending appeal
1995 Dalai Lama
proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of
Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most senior spiritual leader
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Interesting day…really nice outside…spring is
really here!
A few weeks ago I bought a Presto Popcorn
Popper that makes popcorn in the microwave at WalMart. Cool. It needs a paper lining on the bottom
of the plastic bowl. I bought a set of those linings. Today I found that they
don’t carry the liners, making the $10 popper useless. I talked to a woman who
works there and she said, buy them on
line. I asked why they don’t carry them, she said there is no tag anymore. I
asked to see the Store Manager. They are selling something for $10 that only
works once. After some discussion, I showed him on my phone that the website
says they are on the shelf. He said, well the website is a little behind. Sad.
He then said he had a degree in Chemistry and a degree in Computer Science and
that a one month lag was not that long. I said I thought it was sad that a man
with such an education had to be a store manager. His response: I make $200,000/yr
here, much more than I could make anywhere else. I reported the whole thing
their customer service people. We’ll see if they put the liners back on the
shelf. Finally I decided to order 2 pks of the liners from the website, which
stated they cost $1/pk of 8. At the checkout, expecting to see $2 I saw $18.97.
The packs were $4.95 each, handling was $7.00. Crazy, and I didn’t order them.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Murder in a Word
Riddles are little poems or phrases
that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this
is not a requirement.
A donkey behind another donkey
I'm behind that second donkey
But there is a whole nation behind me
It is a murder you can describe in a word.
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…Harper’s
Index…
3/4-Portion
of US children aged six to eight who watch YouTube videos everyday.
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2
jokes for the day
There was a farmer in the field with his cows
and he counted 196 of them... but when he rounded them up, he had 200.
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It was an emotional day for me when my
six-year-old twins headed off for their first day of school. Four-year-old
Andrew and I accompanied them to the corner to wait for the bus. When it
arrived and the boys climbed on and waved good-bye, I could no longer hold back
my tears.
"Don't cry, Mommy," said Andrew reassuringly. "Maybe one day
you'll get to ride in a school bus too!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*------- Everybody Knows Math is a Terror -------*
An Ivy League professor aboard an American
Airlines flight was questioned after a passenger mistook a math equation for
Arabic and possible Islamic code for a terrorist attack. A blond-haired woman
in her 30s wearing flip-flops and apparently with a fifth grade education
passed a note to a flight attendant. Guido Menzio, an economics professor at
the University of Pennsylvania, was working on a differential math equation as
the Syracuse-bound plane was preparing to take off from Philadelphia. The
41-minute flight was delayed by two hours as the olive-skinned, curly,
dark-haired native Italian was questioned. After realizing he was only doing
math, the flight took off minus the complaining passenger. The woman boarded a
later flight for Syracuse. Menzio boarded the original flight again. In a
Facebook post, Menzio wrote: "The lady just looked at me, looked at my
writing of mysterious formulae, and concluded I was up to no good. Because of
that an entire flight was delayed."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Smoking tobacco emerged from religious
ceremonies in the Americas and was probably initially restricted to only
shamans, priests, and medicine men.
***
Ramon Pane, a monk who accompanied Christopher
Columbus to the Americas, is usually credited with introducing tobacco to
Europe.
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Renaissance author Ben Jonson argued that
smoking was the "devil's fart."
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Women in the United States increasingly began
smoking publicly in the 1920s when the cigarette was adopted by advertisers as
a symbol of equality, rebellion, and women's independence.
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Only recently, and mainly in Western
countries, has smoking been seen as a serious health hazard. Smoking rates in
the United States have dropped by half since 1965, from 42 percent to 26 percent
of adults. Smoking in developing countries, however, is rising.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
72- George Lucas,
Modesto,
Ca, American director (Star Wars, Indiana Jones)
64- Robert Zemeckis,
Chicago,
American film director (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future)
(63) Richard Deacon,
actor
(Mel Cooley-Dick Van Dyke Show) (d.1984)
47- Cate Blanchett,
Melbourne,
Australian actress (Elizabeth, Galadriel-The Lord of the Rings)
(37) Bobby Darin,
[Walden Waldo Cassotto],
The
Bronx, singer (Mack the Knife) (d.1973)
32- Mark Zuckerberg,
White
Plains, NY, American internet entrepreneur and co-founder of Facebook
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Historical
Obits Today
@89-2015 B.B. King,
American
Blues guitarist and singer-songwriter
@85-1993 William Randolph
Hearst, Jr.,
American
newspaper magnate (Hearst Newspapers) and 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner
@85-1970 Billie Burke,
American
actress (The Wizard of Oz-Good Witch)
@84-2003 Robert Stack,
American
actor (Untouchables)
@82-1998 Frank Sinatra,
American
singer ("My Way") and actor ("Guys and Dolls")
@74-1919 Henry John Heinz,
founder
of the H. J. Heinz Company
@73-1982 Hugh Beaumont,
actor
(Ward-Leave it to Beaver), heart attack
@68-1987 Rita Hayworth,
actress
(Gilda), Alzheimer's disease
@62-2003 Dave DeBusschere,
American
basketball player, heart attack
@62-1997 Harry Blackstone Jr,
magician,
cancer
@43-1992 Lyle Alzado,
NFL
defensive linesman (Raiders), cancer
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Ass ass i nation
Assassination
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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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