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5.16.16 Week: 20 \ Day: 137
May Averages: 68°\34°
86004 Today: H 73° \ L 38° Average Sky Cover: 25%
Wind ave: 11mph\Gusts:
26mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 80°[1970] Record
Low: 16°[1955]
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Quote of the Day
The best way out is always through~Robert Frost
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Observances Today
Accountant's
Day or Accounting Day Link
Biographer's Day
Mimosa
Day (Drink)
National Piercing Day
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Observances This Week
10-16
12-16
Neuropathy
Awareness Week Link
15-21
EMS
(Emergency Medical Services) Week Link
National Dog Bite Prevention Week
National Heritage Breeds Week Link
National Medical Transcription Week Link
National New Friends, Old Friends Week
15-18
National
Stationery Week
15-21
National
Transportation Week
World Trade Week
16-22
American
Craft Beer Week Link
National Bike to Work Week Link
International Coaching Week Link
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1817 Mississippi River steamboat
service begins
1860 -18] Chicago: Republican
convention selects Abraham Lincoln as candidate
1866 US Congress authorizes the
nickel 5 cent piece (replaces silver half-dime)
1868 By one vote, US Senate fails to
impeach President Andrew Johnson
1910 US Bureau of Mines forms
1918 The Sedition Act of 1918 is
passed by the U.S. Congress, making criticism of the government an imprisonable
offense.
1927 Supreme Court ruled bootleggers
must pay income tax
1939 Food stamps are 1st issued
1951 The first regularly scheduled
transatlantic flights begin between Idlewild Airport (New York International
Airport) and Heathrow Airport (London), operated by El Al Israel Airlines.
1965 The Campbell Soup Company
introduces SpaghettiOs under its Franco-American brand.
1985 Michael Jordan named NBA
Rookie of Year
1991 Queen Elizabeth
II becomes 1st British monarch to address US congress
2013 Bill Gates becomes the
world's richest man with $72.7 billion again after losing the position in 2008
2013 Human stem cells are
successfully cloned
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
1532 Sir Thomas More resigns as English
Lord Chancellor
1568 Mary Queen of Scotland flees to
England
1875 Quake in Venezuela &
Colombia kills 16,000
1879 Antonin Dvorák's "Slavic
Dancing" premieres
1920 Joan of Arc (Jeanne D'arc)
canonized a saint
2002 Iarnród Eireann’s first female train
driver, Teresa Carey from Kerry, begins her career driving the Cork-Heuston
train.
2005 Kuwait permits women's suffrage
in a 35-23 National Assembly vote.
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My Rambling Thoughts
A tad windy today, but still nice.
Got a text that 5 long-time TCBS employees
retired this year…4 teachers and one business tech. Wishing all of them luck in
their new chapter. Talked to two of them and they are excited about what lies
ahead. All four teachers were working with me when I started. Two were early
Native teachers, leading the way for many more Native teachers. All leave a
legacy for everyone.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Anagram Guru 4
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
The
following word pairs are anagrams which can be combined to form the name of an
animal or insect.Try to figure it out.
1. Log, Rail
2.Lone, Tape
3.Cot, Soup
4.Moral, Dial
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…Harper’s Index…
863,000-Estimated number of American with developmental
disabilities living with caregivers older than 60
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…Instagram Photo of
the Day…
discoverychannelFrom @connorstefanison:
"Three Muskox stand together on the colorful fall tundra. Dovrefjell
National Park, Norway. Muskox were reintroduced into the park from Greenland in
1932." #Norway #muskox
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2 jokes for the day
Although the photographer and the art thief
were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.
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A big-city counterfeiter decided the best
place to pass off his phony $18 bills would be in some small, out of the way,
town. So, he got into his new wheels and off he went.
He found a tiny town with a single store. He entered the store and handed one
of the bogus bills to the man behind the counter. "Can you change this for
me, please?" he said.
The store clerk looked at the $18 bill a short time, then smiled and told the
man, "Sure, Mister. You want 2 nines or 3 sixes?"
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Yep, It Really
Happened
*------------ Woman Gives Birth at 72 ------------*
India - An Indian couple who are both in their 70s have had their first child
after undergoing two years of fertility treatments. Daljinder Kaur, who is
believed to be about 72, gave birth to a healthy baby boy at Haryana's National
Fertility Center, which is famed for offering fertility treatments to women
well past menopause. The baby was fathered by Kaur's husband of 46 years,
Mohinder Singh Gill, 79. "Every one asked me to adopt a baby but I never
wanted to. Now I have my own child," Kaur said. "We will raise him
and give him a proper education." However, some doctors are criticizing
the clinic, headed by Dr. Anurag Bishnoi, for giving in-vitro fertilization
treatments to a woman of Kaur's advanced years. The current record holder for
oldest mother is Maria del Carmen Bousada Lara, who gave birth to twins in
Barcelona at the age of 66 in 2006.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday
the 13th. The term was first coined in the early nineties by Dr. Donald E.
Dossey, an American psychotherapist specialising in phobias and stress
management. The term is based on the Greek words paraskevi ('Friday') and
dekatria ('thirteen') with -phobia as a suffix to indicate 'fear'.
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Though folklorists claim there is no written
evidence for the superstition about Friday the 13th before the nineteenth
century, the date has long been connected to notorious events in history and
religion.
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According to Catholic belief, one of the most
significant events in their religion - the crucifixion of Jesus Christ - took
place on a Friday the 13.
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One of the most popularised myths attempting
to explain the origin of the Friday 13 superstition stems from events on Friday
13 October 1307, when hundreds of Knights Templar were arrested and burnt
across France.
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It is said that if you have thirteen letters
in your name you will have the "Devil's luck." There may be some
truth in that as Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, Jeffrey Dahmer, Theodore
Bundy and Albert De Salvo all had thirteen letters in their names.
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There is no 13th Avenue in San Francisco,
instead Funston Avenue is between 12th and 14th Avenues.
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Birthdays Today
“( )”
indicates age at death
(89) Elizabeth Palmer Peabody,
educator/founder (US kindergarten) (d.1894)
(80) Ernest Watson Burgess,
US sociologist (ecological school)(d.1966)
(80) Adriana Caselotti,
Bridgeport, Conn, voice of Snow White in Disney's animated
film (d. 1997)
(77) Henry Fonda,
Grand Is Nebraska, actor (Mr Roberts, On Golden Pond) (d.1982)
75- Aldrich Ames,
River Falls, Wisconsin, CIA officer and spy for the
Soviet Union,
(74) Woody Herman,
jazz clarinetist/bandleader/composer (Thundering Herds) (d.1987)
72- Danny Trejo,
American character actor
(71) William H. Seward,
United States Secretary of State, bought Alaska at 2
¢/acre (d. 1872)
(67) Liberace [Wladziu Valentino],
West Allis, Wisc, (American pianist (Liberace Show, Evil
Chandell-Batman) (d. 1987)
63- Pierce Brosnan,
Drogheda, Ireland Irish actor (Remington Steele,
Golden Eye)
61- Debra Winger,
Columbus, Ohio, actress (Officer & Gentleman)
50- Janet Jackson,
Gary, Ind, singer, Michael's sister (Control) 47- Tracey Gold,
NYC, actress (Carol-Growing Pains, Incredible Sunday)
47- David Boreanaz,
Buffalo, NY, American actor (Angel, Bones)
30- Megan Fox,
Oak Ridge, Tenn, American actress (Transformers) and model
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Historical Obits Today
@96-1920 Levi P. Morton,
US Vice President under Benjamin Harrision
@83-583 Saint Brendan,
Irish navigator
@82-1985 Margaret Hamilton,
actress (Wicked Witch in Wizard of Oz)
@76-1956 H. B. Reese,
American founder of Reese's, heart attack
@75-1703 Charles Perrault,
French author/fairy tale writer (Little Red Riding Hood,
Cinderella, Puss & Boots…)
@64-1990 Sammy Davis Jr,
singer/actor (Golden Boy), cancer
@54-1957 Eliot Ness,
American federal agent "The Untouchables" (put
away Al Capone), heart attack
@53-1990 Jim Henson,
puppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), streptococcal
toxic shock syndrome
@35-1984 Andy Kaufman,
comedian (Latka-Taxi), cancer
@12-2000 Bodacious the Bull
Famous rodeo bull, bone infection
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.Gorilla.
2.Antelope.
3.Octopus.
4.Armadillo.
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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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