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5.24.16 Week: 21 \ Day: 145
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 69° \ L 39° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 10mph\Gusts: 30mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 83°[1983] Record Low: 23°[1909]
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Quote
of the Day
There is no substitute for hard
work. ~Thomas A. Edison
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Observances
Today
Brother's Day
International Tiara Day
Morse Code Day
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Observances
This Week
21-27
National Safe Boating Week
22-28
Hurricane Preparedness Week Link
23-29
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Link
23-30
National Backyard Games Week
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1830 "Mary
Had A Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is first published by Boston firm
Marsh, Capen & Lyon
1844 Samuel
Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph message)
1883 Brooklyn
Bridge opened by President Arthur & NY Governor Cleveland
1899 1st auto repair
shop opens (Boston)
1915 Thomas
Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1931 1st
air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
1954 IBM announces
vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million
operations an hour
1957 Anti-American
riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
1959 1st house
with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills, Pa)
1961 27 Freedom
Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
1965 Supreme Court
declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is
unconstitutional
1966 "Mame"
opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1487 Imposter Lambert
Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin - Lambert Simnel (aged 10),
the Yorkist pretender to the English throne, is brought to Ireland. It is
claimed that he is Edward, Earl of Warwick (Clarence's son), but in fact, he is
a baker's son - the real Warwick is a prisoner in the Tower of London and will
be executed in 1499. Most of the Anglo-Irish believe that Simnel's claim is
genuine and support him (exceptions are the Butlers, Waterford city and the Archbishop
of Armagh, Octavian del Palatio); Simnel is crowned King of England as Edward
VI in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin on this date. Walter FitzSimons,
Archbishop of Dublin, is present at the crowning; he will be imprisoned in the
Tower because of this
1539 Mexican
Viceroy Don Antonio de Mendoza has decided to send an expedition to search for
wealthy cities north of Mexico. On March 7, 1539 Friar Marcos de Niza started the expedition from
Culiacan. Accordiong to Niza’s journal, he finally sees Cibola, although he
never sets foot in the pueblo. His report will lead to future expeditions
looking for the "Seven Cities of Gold."
1738 John Wesley is
converted, launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by
Methodists as Aldersgate Day.
1902 Empire Day
1st celebrated in Britain
1916 Conscription
begins in Britain
1921 1st
parliament for Northern Ireland elected
1941 German
battleship Bismarck sinks the British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3
survive
1964 Panic in Lima
Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
1986 Margaret
Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel
2001 Mountain
climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb
to the top of Mount Everest.
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Good start to a new week. Went in for my now
weekly blood draw and the numbers just keep going down. Hopefully it will get
even longer between draws. My extra walking must be helping.
Got an email from Focus today with all the
stuff I need for the Rhone River Cruise in July. It is getting closer. Getting
excited.
Our little mountain town had its second police
officer shooting\killing someone. The first was a guy about 5 miles from me who
was acting crazy. Today it was a guy with a gun walking the streets downtown
and didn’t stop when officers told him too. I am not a cop, nor do I want to be
one. However, it seems to me that ‘imminent danger’ is being taken a little too
far. Something is wrong somewhere.
Yard crew has been here for 2 days, preparing
our units for summer. Nice to see things getting a spring cleanup.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Eternally Joined
Riddles are little poems
or phrases that pose a question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme,
but this is not a requirement.
Difficulty:
2.26
With pointed fangs I sit and wait,
With piercing force I dole out fate,
Over bloodless victims proclaiming my might,
Eternally joining in a single bite.
What am I?
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…Harper’s
Index…
4,000-Estimated
number of deaths each day in China attributed to air pollution
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
earthpixRiding The Wave under the stars in Coconino County,
Arizona | Photo by@travisburkephotography
Note: about 90 miles from my home.
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2
jokes for the day
One morning, while shaving, a fellow started
cursing and swearing so loudly it attracted the attention of his wife, who was
preparing breakfast in the kitchen.
"What's the matter?" she called out.
"My razor -- it won't cut!" he answered.
"Don't be silly, dear!" she declared. "You mean to tell me your
beard is tougher than linoleum?"
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The math teacher was giving a lesson on
fractions and wrote an example on the chalkboard. He explained that the
numerator was the top and the denominator was the bottom. Leaning against the
board, he asked the class, "Are there any questions?"
When he turned back to face the board, laughter filled the room. "Mr.
Alexander," one student giggled, "you have chalk dust all over your
denominator!"
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Somewhat
Useless Information
The Placebo Effect
It's a term used by scientists to describe certain types of treatment that are
not supposed to work, but are somehow, working.
A good example is how certain placebo drugs have been shown to relieve the pain
of those with Parkinson's Disease. There is nothing in the placebo drugs except
an insert material or sugar but they have been statistically shown to relieve
people's pain. Patients who expect a certain result, for example that the
placebo is a stimulant, a depressant, or a pain reliever, tend to report those
results. The field of neuroscience is beginning to offer explanations for this,
including the possible explanation that just by taking a pill people's stress
levels are reduced so they are more likely to recover. However, this has not
been proven.
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All Life on Earth is Right-Handed
All the information needed for cellular structure, replication, and metabolism
is stored in each cell's deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). DNA consists of long
chains of chemical building blocks called nucleotides and looks somewhat like a
spiral staircase. Theoretically, the DNA could wind either to the right or the
left.
The odd thing is that all Earth life forms exhibit what biologists call
right-handed DNA. Imagine a bolt or a screw; normally the threads are designed
such that the screw will bury itself into a piece of wood when you turn it
clockwise. Left-handled screws will bury themselves into the wood when you turn
them counterclockwise.
Although left-handed helixes have been produced in experiments and there is a
very rare left-handed version called Z-DNA, why right-handedness rules are
still subject to debate. A possible explanation is that right-handed DNA is more
stable.
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Why Do We Have Fingerprints?
While fingerprints have become an important means of identification,
scientists really don't have any idea as to why we have them. They're not
exactly just wrinkles that appear over time too since we're all born with our
fingerprints that are as individually unique as we are. The initial theory was
that the tiny grooves on the tips made it easier to grip dry objects. But, that
theory has since been disproved, leaving us to wonder, why exactly do we have
fingerprints?
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
(81) Queen Victoria,
Queen
of the United Kingdom and Ireland (1837-1901), born in London (d. 1901)
(79) Coleman Young,
1st
African American Mayor of Detroit, Tuscaloosa Alabama (d.1997)
78- Tommy
Chong,
Edmonton,
Alberta, comedian/actor (Cheech & Chong)
75- Bob
Dylan [Robert Zimmerman],
American
singer-songwriter (Blowin' in Wind, The Times They Are a-Changin') and cultural
icon, born in Duluth, Minnesota
72- Gary
Burghoff,
actor
(Radar-M*A*S*H), born in Bristol, Connecticut
72- Patti
LaBelle, [Holt],
singer
(LaBelle-Lady Marmalade), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
71- Priscilla
Presley,
American
actress (Jenna-Dallas, Naked Gun), born in Brooklyn, New York
61- Rosanne
Cash,
country
singer (Seven Year Ache, I Wonder), born in Memphis, Tennessee
51- John
C. Reilly,
American
actor (Chicago, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story), born in Chicago, Illinois
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Historical
Obits Today
@86-2008 Dick Martin
American
comedian (Laugh In)
@83-1981 George Jessel,
actor
(Diary of a Young Comic),
@79-1995 Harold Wilson,
British
PM (1964-70, 74-76), cancer
@75-1974 Duke Ellington,
American
musician, cancer
@71-1959 John Foster Dulles,
US
Secretary of State, cancer
@70-1543 Nicolas Copernicus,
astronomer
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Brain
Teasers Answers
A Stapler
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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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