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5.2.16 Week: 18 \ Day: 123
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 45° \ L 33° Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility: 8 mi
Record
High: 84°[1947] Record Low: 13°[1915]
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Quote
of the Day
“There is nothing impossible to
those who will try.” Alexander the Great
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Observances
Today
Melanoma Monday
National Library Legislative Days Link
Roberts Rule of Order 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
2-6
Children's Book Week
Teacher Appreciation Week Link
National Safety Stand Down Week (Constuction Falls) Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1670 King Charles
II gives royal charter to the Hudson's Bay Company
1776 France &
Spain agreed to give weapons to American rebels
1780 William Herschel discovers
1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
1853 Franconi's
Hippodrome opens (NYC)
1863 Stonewall
Jackson attacks Chancellorsville, wounded by his own men
1865 US
President Andrew Johnson offers $100,000 reward for capture
of Jefferson Davis
1878 US stops
minting 20 cent coin
1885 "Good
Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
1890 Territory of
Oklahoma created
1908 "Take me out
to the Ball Game" registered for copyright.
1918 General
Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.
1920 1st game of
National Negro Baseball League played in Indianapolis
1927 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Louis Bromfield (Early Autumn)
1927 U.S. Supreme
Court's "Buck v. Bell", permits forced sterilizations of various
"unfits" by states' authorities where such surgeries are practiced
for eugenic reasons
1932 Jack Benny's
1st radio show premieres (NBC Blue Network)
1932 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Pearl S Buck (Good Earth)
1938 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Thornton Wilder (Our Town)
1949 Arthur
Miller wins Pulitzer Prize for "Death of a Salesman"
1955 Pulitzer
prize awarded Tennessee Williams for (Cat on Hot Tin Roof)
1960 Harry
Belafonte 2nd Carnegie Hall performance
1960 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Al Drury (Advice & Consent)
1966 Pulitzer
prize awarded Arthur M Schlesinger Jr (Thousand Days)
1970 1st woman
jockey at Kentucky Derby (Diane Crump)
1970 KOAI (now
KNAZ) TV channel 2 in Flagstaff, AZ (NBC) 1st broadcast
1994 Dr Kervokian
found innocent on assisting suicides
1999 John
Elway announces his retirement from the NFL
2000 President Bill
Clinton announces that accurate GPS access would no longer be restricted
to the United States military.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1497 John Cabot's
expedition departs Bristol searching for new lands across the Atlantic
1536 Anne Boleyn is
arrested and taken to the Tower of London
1905 French
newspapers publish lists of Jules Verne’s unpublished work
1933 In Germany, Adolf
Hitler bans trade unions
1936 Sergei
Prokofiev's musical "Peter and the Wolf" premieres in Moscow
1968 Israeli
television begins transmitting
2003 The Rolling Stones
set a new Irish box office record when more than 16,000 tickets for their
Dublin concerts sell within two minutes.
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Went to bed listening to a fairly heavy rain. Woke
up to a very light covering of snow on the ground. On and off rain is
continuing to fall all day. It’s MAY but looks like February or March. Come on,
I’m ready for spring and warmth.
Focus Travel Club is heading for the Greek
Isles later this week. I know they will have a great trip.
Saw on the news that the first US cruise ship
is landing in Cuba this week. Things are certainly moving fast since Obama
opened relations. Glad to see Carnival,
the first US cruise line to go there would not go until Cuban Nationals would
be allowed off the ship when it landed in Cuba. Times are changing fast in
Cuba. So glad I went there when I did.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Proverbs By Another Name
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
Difficulty:
1.82
Each group of words below is a
commonly known phrase. Try to guess what that phrase is.
1. The total entity of substances which exhibit a reflection of light particles
in awesome profusion are not necessarily composed of a soft, yellow metallic
substance.
2. A couple offers possibility of camaraderie, while trebly aggregates often
have the appearances of a multitude.
3. A member of the class of Aves that energizes rapidly from a state of
nocturnal hibernation is able to seize by force or stratagem the lumbrious
terristris.
4. Homo sapiens who inhabit abodes composed of pellucid substances containing
silicon materials should be prudent of casting hard cobbles.
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…Harper’s
Index…
10-Factor by which the rate of retraction of
scientific papers has increased in the past four decades
2/3-Portion of retractions that stem from fraud,
plagiarism, or duplicate publications
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeo@michaelnicknichols // This week President Obama will sign the decree
that makes the Bison our national mammal.
…from millions when the west was colonized by whites ... to near extinction ...
to a restoration of a few thousand wild in Yellowstone and a few hundred
thousand keep as livestock learn about the complexity of having wild bison in
the American west today in the May 2016 issue of National Geographic Magazine
devoted entirely to Yellowstone
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2
jokes for the day
"What happened to the wooden car with wooden wheels and wooden
engine?" asked the curious boy.
His mother took a deep breath and then replied, "It wooden go."
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After much convincing from her husband, Tammy
finally agreed to call an old family friend to sing her happy birthday. It was
only after she finished singing, that the voice at the other end of the line
informed her that it was the wrong number.
“Oh, I’m so sorry,” she said, embarrassed.
“It’s okay,” the voice said, “you need all the practice you can get!”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*----- Fishermen Find 60-year-old Six-Pack -----*
A trio of friends fishing in a Wisconsin river
made perhaps the most Wisconsin-appropriate catch of all time -- a 60-year-old
six pack of beer. Adam Graves and Christian Burzynski said they were fishing
during the weekend on the Wolf River in Fremont when their friend Andy dredged
up the six pack of Budweiser cans. "They were empty unfortunately, I don't
know how good they would've tasted anyways," Burzynski said. "They
would've been cold still, I'm guessing." The fishermen said they sent
pictures of their catch to Budweiser brewer Anheuser-Busch, which estimated the
cans to be about 60 years old. "We're just really surprised," Graves
said. "It's not every day you find something like that out on your line.
It's just something to tell family and tell friends." The friends said
finding beer in the river is appropriate for Wisconsin, but Budweiser isn't
necessary the correct brand. "Being from Milwaukee, it's usually Miller for
us," Graves said. "But I guess whenever you can grab a cold one, you
do." A group of divers investigating a 200-year-old shipwreck in the
Baltic Sea in 2010 discovered several sealed bottles believed to contain the
world's oldest drinkable beer. Experts said the cold temperature and lack of
sunlight at the bottom of the sea prevented the beer from spoiling, and
pressure inside the bottles kept salt water from seeping in through the corks.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
(94) Benjamin Spock,
New Haven, Conn, American pediatrician
(Common Sense Book of Baby
Care) (d. 1998)
(85) Pinky Lee,
children's show host (Pinky Lee Show) (d.1993)
(80) Hedda Hopper,
American gossip columnist (d. 1966)
(68) Lesley Gore,
Brooklyn, American singer (It's My Party, You
Don't Own Me) (d. 2015)
68- Larry Gatlin,
Seminole Tx, country singer (Gatlin
Bros-Broken Lady)
(67) Catherine
the Great [Catherine
II],
Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empress
of Russia (d. 1796)
(66) Abraham Gesner,
Cornwallis, Nova Scotia, Canadian geologist
(inventor of kerosene) (d. 1864)
64- Christine Baranski,
Buffalo,
ny actress (Maryann-Cybill, Birdcage)
(48) Lorenz Hart,
American lyricist (d. 1943)
44- Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson,
Hayward, Ca, American professional wrestler
and actor
41- David Beckham,
Leytonstone, London, English footballer
(Manchester United, England)
(25) Manfred von Richthofen
[The Red Baron],
Wrocław,
Poland, German World War I fighter ace (d. 1918)
1- Princess Charlotte
of Cambridge,
London, daughter of Prince William
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Historical
Obits Today
@95-2014 Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.,
American actor
@84-1849 David H Chasse,
baron/gen (fought Napoleon at Waterloo)
@77-1972 J. Edgar Hoover,
first Director of the FBI, heart attack
@67-2010 Lynn Redgrave,
British actress, breast cancer
@67-1519 Leonardo da Vinci,
artist/scientist, dies at 67
@61-1999 Oliver Reed,
English actor, heart attack
@54-2011 Osama bin Laden,
leader of al-Qaeda and 'the most wanted man
in the world'
@48-1957 Joseph McCarthy,
anti-communist US senator (R-Wisc), hepatitis
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. All that glitters is not gold.
2. Two's company, three's a crowd.
3. The early bird gets the worm.
4. People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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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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