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5.17.16 Week: 20 \ Day: 138
May Averages: 68°\34°
86004 Today: H 71° \ L 34° Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts:
22mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 82°[1970] Record
Low: 20°[1943]
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Quote of the Day
Design is not just what it looks
like and feels like. Design is how it works. ~Steve Jobs
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Observances Today
Same
Sex Marriage Day
Syttende Mai-Norway’s Constitution
Day-1814
World
Hypertension Day Link
World Information Society Day
World Telecommunications Day
World Neurofibromatosis Day (NF Day) Link
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Observances This Week
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
International Coaching Week Link
National
Bike to Work Week Link
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1775 American Revolutionary War: the
Continental Congress bans trade with Canada.
1804 Lewis & Clark begin
exploration of Louisiana Purchase
1865 The International Telegraph
Union (later the International Telecommunication Union) is established.
1872 Bohemian Club incorporated in
San Francisco
1875 1st Kentucky Derby: Oliver
Lewis aboard Aristides wins in 2:37.75
1883 Buffalo Bill Cody's 1st wild
west show premieres in Omaha
1884 Alaska becomes a US territory
1915 National Baptist Convention
chartered
1932 US Congress changes name
"Porto Rico" to "Puerto Rico"
1938 US Congress approves Vinson
Naval Act, which funds a two-ocean navy
1943 The United States Army
contracts with the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School to develop the
ENIAC-secret WWII computer.
1944 General Eisenhower sets
D-Day for June 5th
1946 US President Harry Truman
seizes control of nation's railroads to delay a strike
1954 US Supreme Court unanimously
rules on Brown v Topeka Board of Education reversed 1896 "separate but
equal" Plessy v Ferguson decision
1961 Castro offers to exchange Bay
of Pigs prisoners for 500 bulldozers
1967 The Butler Act, a Tennessee
statue prohibiting the teaching of evolution, is repealed after 42 years
1973 Senate Watergate Committee
begins its hearings
1975 100th Preakness: Darrel McHargue
aboard Master Derby wins in 1:56.4
1989 Longest Cab Ride Ever: 14,000
miles cost $16,000!
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
1536 Anne Boleyn's 4
"lovers" executed
1620 1st merry-go-round seen at a
fair (Philippapolis, Turkey)
1650 - Cromwell's army is defeated in the
second assault on Clonmel, suffering its heaviest losses. The following day,
the Mayor of Clonmel negotiates honourable terms for surrender with Cromwell,
who did not realise that O'Neill and his soldiers had left the town. Annoyed at
being outwitted, Cromwell nevertheless keeps to the terms
1904 Maurice Ravel's "Shéhérazade"
premieres in Paris
1916 British Summer Time (Daylight
Savings) introduced
1926 Chiang Kai-shek is made
supreme warlord in Canton
1928 9th modern Olympic games opens
in Amsterdam
1949 British government recognizes
Republic of Ireland (previously Irish Free State)
1989 Nelson Mandela receives a
BA from University of South Africa 1990 World
Health Organization takes Homosexuality out of its list of mental illnesses
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice day, a little cloudy, but still nice.
I think it is time to get serious about who
our next President will be. It is time that everyone listen to the candidates
and decide who will lead the world for the next ten years. It may be time to
turn off the media.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
|
What Am I?
Riddles are little poems or
phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme,
but this is not a requirement.
|
I'm
sometimes white but always wrong.
I can break a heart and hurt the strong.
I can build love and tear it down.
I can make a smile but more often a frown.
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…Harper’s Index…
27-Percentage of US adults with disabilities who
lived in poverty when the Americans with Disabilities Act became law
32-Who do today
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…Instagram Photo of
the Day…
natgeocreativePhoto
by @paleyphoto: A
woman carries #apples that
have been stored over the winter in #Pakistan.
Bonus:
earthpixSerenity in Pitigliano, Italy | Photo by @sassychris1
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2 jokes for the day
My husband and I couldn’t decide which jacket
to buy our granddaughter, so we asked the young salesman.
“If you were buying a jacket for your girlfriend,” I said, “which would you
get?”
“A bulletproof one,” he said. “I’m married.”
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A boy was taking care of his baby sister while
his parents went to town shopping. He decided to go fishing and he had to take
her along.
"I'll never do that again!" he told his mother that evening. "I
didn't catch a thing!"
"Oh, next time I'm sure she'll be quiet and not scare the fish away,"
his mother said.
The boy said, "It wasn't that. She ate all the bait."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
In French cuisine, an "entree" is a
dish served before the main course, in other words, an appetizer.
In French, "le plat principal" is the main (or principal) course.
***
In French:
"un aperitif" is a pre-dinner cocktail.
"un digestif" is your after-dinner drink.
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Birthdays Today
“( )”
indicates age at death
(92) Archibald Cox,
special prosecutor (Watergate) (d.2004)
(74) Dennis Hopper,
KS, actor (True Grit, Blue Velvet, Easy Rider) (d.2010)
74- Taj Mahal, NYC,singer/songwriter
(Real Thing)
61- Bill Paxton,
actor (Brain Dead, Next of Kin, Indian Summer, True Lies)
60- Bob Saget,
Phila,
comedian (Full House, America's Funniest Home Video)
60- Sugar Ray
[Charles] Leonard,
Rocky Mount North Carolina, boxer (Olympics-gold-76)
55- Enya [Eithne Ní Bhraonáin],
Gweedore, County Donegal, Irish singer and songwriter (A
Day Without Rain)
54- Craig Ferguson,
Scottish actor, writer and comedian, born in Glasgow,
Scotland
43- Sasha Alexander,
American television actress
(39) Bartholomew Roberts,
Welsh pirate (d. 1722)
34- Tony Parker,
French-American basketball player
31- Derek Hough,
American dancer and singer-DWTS
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Historical Obits Today
@89-1992 Lawrence Welk,
conductor/accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show)
@83-1829 John Jay,
first Chief Justice of the United States
@82-1886 John Deere,
American blacksmith and manufacturer of agricultural
equipment who founded Deere & Company
@72-2005 Frank Gorshin,
American actor, lung cancer
@65ish-1510 Sandro Botticelli,
Florentine Renaissance painter (Birth of Venus)
@63-2012 Donna Summer,
American singer, lung cancer
@61-1930 Herbert David Croly,
US founder (New Republic)
@54-1875 John C. Breckinridge,
US Vice President, cirrhosis from war wounds
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Brain Teasers Answers
A Lie.
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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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