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5.4.16 Week: 18 \ Day: 125
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 63° \ L 31° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 88°[1947] Record Low: 18°[1915]
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Quote
of the Day
If the doors of perception were
cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. William Blake
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Observances
Today
Bike To School Day Link
Great American Grump Out
Intergalactic Star Wars Day (May the Fourth Be With You!) Link
International Firefighters Day Link
International Respect for Chickens
Day
National Day to Prevent Teen &
Unplanned Pregnancy Link
National Life Insurance Day Link
Occupational Safety & Health
Day Link
Petite and Proud Day
World Give Day
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance
Day) (At Sundown) Link
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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
2-8
National WildflowerWeek
PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
Work At Home Moms Week
3-11
(World) Dystonia Awareness
Week Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1776 Rhode Island
declares independence from Britain
1780 American
Academy of Arts & Science founded in Boston, James Bowdoin, John
and Samuel Adams founding members
1836 The Ancient Order of Hibernians in America is
founded in New York City
1846 US state
Michigan ends death penalty
1847 NY State
creates a Board of Commissioners of Emigration
1878 Phonograph
shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1886 Haymarket
riot in Chicago; bomb kills 7 policemen
1904 Construction
begins by the United States on the Panama Canal.
1932 Al
Capone enters Atlanta Penitentiary convicted of income tax evasion
1936 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Harold L Davis (Honey in the Horn)
1942 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Ellen Glasgow (In this our Life)
1944 "Gaslight",
starring an 18-year-old Angela Lansbury in her film debut, is
released
1953 Pulitzer
Prize for Literature awarded to Ernest Hemingway for "The Old
Man & The Sea"
1959 First Grammy
Awards: Perry Como & Ella Fitzgerald win
1959 Pulitzer Prize
awarded to Archibald Macleish (JB)
1961 CORE begins
freedom rides from Washington, D.C.
1964 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Richard Hofstadter (Anti-intellectualism)
1970 National
Guard kills 4 at Kent State in Ohio
1970 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Erik H Erikson (Gandhi's Truth)
1974 100th
Kentucky Derby: Angel Cordero Jr. aboard Cannonade wins in 2:04
1982 Twins rookie
outfielder Jim Eisenreich, who suffers from Tourette's Syndrome, removes
himself, due to taunts from Red Sox bleacher fans
1998 A federal
judge in Sacramento, California, gives "Unabomber" Ted
Kaczynski four life sentences plus 30 years after Kaczynski accepts a plea
agreement sparing him from the death penalty.
2008 Seth
MacFarlane reaches an agreement worth $100 million with Fox to keep
"Family Guy" and "American Dad" on television until 2012,
making MacFarlane the world's highest paid television writer
2015 Golden State
Warrior Stephen Curry is named MVP for the 2014-15 NBA season
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1814 Bourbon reign
restored in France
1859 The Cornwall
Railway opens across the Royal Albert Bridge linking the counties of Devon and
Cornwall in England.
1910 Wilfrid
Laurier passes the Naval Service Act, which creates the Royal Canadian Navy
1924 8th Olympic
games open at Paris, France
1972 The Don't
Make A Wave Committee, a fledgling environmental organization founded in Canada
in 1971, officially changes its name to "Greenpeace Foundation".
1979 Margaret
Thatcher becomes the first woman to be elected Prime Minister of the
United Kingdom
1981 After 66 days
on hunger strike, 26 year old Bobby Sands MP died in the Maze; 9 further hunger
strikers die over the next 3 months
2003 - Sinn Féin's
chief negotiator, Martin McGuinness, tells a republican rally in West Belfast
that the British government has effectively capitulated to the leadership of
the Ulster Unionist Party by postponing the Assembly elections until the autumn.
2007 The Scottish
National Party wins the Scottish general election and becomes the largest party
in the Scottish Parliament for the first time ever.
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Great spring day at 7000’. Was out and about
with only a short sleeved shirt and short pants. Nice.
Yesterday APS was digging near the mall, about
2 miles from me. They hit a main water line and sent a fountain of water into
the sky. I thought they were the ones who advertised to call them before
digging. Guess they didn’t follow their own advice. Today when I went to my ATM
drive thru, it was closed because APS is still working on the electrical lines
along that same road. Hmmm!
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Eighteen Syllables
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
Difficulty: 1.6
Fill in the answers to the clues by
using all the syllables. The number to be used is in parentheses.
BOG BRA DO EX GAN GNA LA MEN MENT NA NA O PERT SA TO TOR TOUR VO
1. Baked pasta dish (3)
2. Forewarning (2)
3. Long sled (3)
4. Well done! (2)
5. Master (2)
6. Athletic competition (3)
7. Twister (3)
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…Harper’s
Index…
$360.93-Average
amount Medicare paid for vacuum erection systems before it stopped covering the
in July
$164.74-Average
price for such a system on the internet
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
discovery.hd.
Photography by @ (Thomas Zakowski). Icy
Lighthouse on Lake Michigan.#Lighthouse #Icy #Michigan
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2
jokes for the day
A group of horses were moving down towards the
horse court for horse jury.
One horse asks another, "Where do we enter again?"
The other horse replies indignantly, "Why the mane entrance of
course!"
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A duck walks into a convenience store. He asks
the man at the counter, "You got any grapes?"
Guy at the counter says, "No, we don't
have any grapes." Duck says "okay" and he leaves.
The next day the duck comes back in and says, "You got any grapes?"
The man once again replies, "No! We do not have any grapes." The duck
says "okay" and he leaves.
The third day the duck walks in again and asks, "You got any grapes?"
The man is very annoyed and says, "No! For the last time, we do NOT have
any grapes. If you come in here again and ask for grapes, I'm gonna nail your
bill to the floor!" The duck replies "okay" and leaves.
The fourth day the duck returns once again and asks, "You got any
nails?" The man at the counter says "No." The duck says,
"Well then, you got any grapes?"
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Somewhat
Useless Information
A male and female that mate usually stay
together for life. They are devoted parents and maintain sophisticated family
ties.
A wolf pack may contain just two or three animals, or it may be 10 times as
large.
Though many females in a pack are able to have pups, only a few will actually
mate and bear pups. Often, only the alpha female and male will mate, which
serves to produce the strongest cubs and helps limit the number of cubs the
pack must care for.
Biologists have found that wolves will respond to humans imitating their howls.
Wolves howl to contact separated members of their group, to rally the group
before hunting, or to warn rival wolf packs to keep away. Lone wolves will howl
to attract mates or just because they are alone.
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Wolves were once the most widely distributed
land predator the world has ever seen. The only places they didn't thrive were
in the true desert and rainforests.
Britain's King Edgar imposed an annual tax of 300 wolf skins on Wales. The
Welsh wolf population was quickly exterminated.
In 1500, the last wolf was killed in England. In 1770, Ireland's last wolf was
killed. In 1772, Denmark's last wolf was killed.
In 1927, a French policeman was tried for the shooting of a boy he believed was
a werewolf. That same year, the last wild wolves in France were killed.
Currently, there are about 50,000 wolves in Canada; 6,500 in Alaska; and 3,500
in the Lower 48 States. In Europe, Italy has fewer than 300; Spain around
2,000; and Norway and Sweden combined have fewer than 80.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
88- Betsy Rawls,
Spartanburg,
SC, American golfer (US Womens Open-51, 53, 57, 60)
88- Hosni Mubarak,
Kafr-El
Meselha, Egypt, Egyptian president (1981-2011)
86- Roberta Peters,
NYC, operatic
soprano (NY Met)
(70) Nickolas Ashford,
SC,
singer (Ashford & Simpson)(d.2011)
(63) Horace Mann,
Franklin,
Mass, American educator, author and editor who pioneered public schools (d.
1859)
(63) Audrey Hepburn,
Brussels,
British actress (Breakfast at Tiffany's, My Fair Lady) (d. 1993)
57- Randy Travis,
Marshville
NC, country singer (Diggin' Up Bones)
46- Will Arnett, Toronto,
Canadian-American actor
44- Mike Dirnt [Michael
Ryan Pritchard],
Berkeley,
ca, American musician (Green Day)
37- Lance Bass,
American
singer (*NSYNC)
(31) Keith Haring,
Reading,
Pa, American graffiti artist (Vanity Fair, Paris Review) and social activist (d.
1990)
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Historical
Obits Today
@77-1975 Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz],
comedian
(3 Stooges),cancer
@75-2009 Dom Deluise,
American
comedian, actor, kidney failure
@47-2012 MCA [adam yauch],
Beastie
Boys vocalist, cancer
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Lasagna (la sa gna)
2. Omen (o men)
3. Toboggan (to bog gan)
4. Bravo (bra vo)
5. Expert (ex pert)
6. Tournament (tour na ment)
7. Tornado (tor na do)
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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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