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5.6.16 Week: 18 \ Day: 127
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 74° \ L 36° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 30mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 82°[1947] Record Low: 14°[1975]
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Quote
of the Day
Action is the foundation key to all
success-Pablo Picasso
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Observances
Today
Child Care Provider Day Link
Dandelion Days-8 Link
International Space Day Link
Joseph Brackett Day
No Homework Day
Tuba Day 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
6-8
Toad Suck Daze
6-12
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1626 Dutch
colonist Peter Minuit buys Manhattan Island from local Indians for 60 guilders
worth of trinkets
1833 John
Deere makes 1st steel plough
1851 Dr John
Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
1851 Linus Yale
patents Yale lock
1861 Arkansas
& Tennessee becomes 9th & 10th states to secede from US
1861 Jefferson
Davis approves a bill declaring War between the Union & the
Confederacy
1890 Mormon Church
renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]
1935 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright Ambush)
1937 German airship
Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die)
1940 Pulitzer
prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes of Wrath) 1957 Pulitzer
prize awarded to John F Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)
1963 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of August)
1986 Donald E Pelotte
becomes 1st native American bishop
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1527 Spanish &
German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance
1541 King Henry
VIII orders bible be placed in every church in England
1642 Ville Marie
(Montreal) forms
1682 Louis XIV of
France moves his court to Versailles.
1889 Exposition
Universelle (World Fair) opens in Paris with the completed Eiffel Tower
1914 British House
of Lords rejects women's suffrage
1969 Northern
Ireland Prime Minister Chichester-Clark announces an amnesty for all offences
associated with demonstrations since 5 October 1968, resulting in the release
of, among others, Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting
1994 Nelson
Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa's first
post apartheid election
2001 During a trip
to Syria, Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to enter a mosque.
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Got my new blood test, but not able to get
blood draw. Will return Wednesday. Numbers are way down and almost ready to
stop the draws. Yeah! The blood test was from another doctor, so I had to go
through the whole registration process again. And re-sign all the papers about
my privacy. I refused to put on the wrist band and refused to accept my copies
of the paperwork. Such a waste of time and paper. The registrar even shook her
head and said, ‘I know, paper reduction, right?’
Had a good lunch with Cheryl, as Mary is in
Phoenix with other friends for the week. Cheryl had a great trip to CA and got
to help her grandson get ready and get to the Prom. They have an interesting
tradition at his high school. They rent out a museum for the prom and haul all
the people to the prom in busses. They didn’t return from the prom until 5a,
but they were with chaperones to whole time…down side, the bus ride was 2
hours.
Another storm headed my way, so planning on a
nice quiet weekend at home.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Flip It #1
Language brain teasers are those
that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words
and letters.
Difficulty: 2.24
The following clues lead to two
words or phrases that are the phonetic reverse of each other. When you answer
the first clue and flip the syllables, you get the second answer. (Phonetic
only, not letters.)Using the clues below, please find the words/phrases in
question.
Example: Impertinent * Teetertotter
Answer: Saucy/Seesaw
1. Fundamental * Where the doctor works on a naval ship
2. Government assistance for the poor * Goodbye
3. Worst possible Test Score * Optimistic
4. Relevant * What Jesus was born in
5. Sofa * Cups, saucers, sugar bowl, etc. (2 words)
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…Harper’s
Index…
40-Percentage of Americans aged 18-24 who
identify as Millennials
8-Who identify as baby boomers
8-As members of the greatest generation
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeotravelPhoto
by @justinbriceguariglia // In honor of cinco de mayo, we bring you a man in
his pajamas standing on the balcony of his apartment overlooking a courtyard in
Guanajuato, Mexico. #mexico #natgeotravel #fromwhereistand
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*---------------- Self-Made Hero ----------------*
A firefighter was arrested after an
investigation revealed that he was behind at least 18 fires in Canada. Royal
Canadian Mounted Police arrested 19-year-old Lawson Michael Schalm of
Mayerthorpe on 18 counts of arson. Schalm has been working as a firefighter
since he was 15 years old. Police began an investigation after they began to
suspect that several of the fires were started deliberately. Fire chief Randy
Schroeder said his department is shocked by the arrest. He said that Schalm was
actively fighting five of the fires that he is accused of starting. His father
Albert Schalm, who is the former mayor of Mayerthorpe, said that he was in
total shock when he learned of his son's arrest.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
85- Willie Mays,
Westfield, Ala, American baseball centerfielder (Giants,
NY
Mets), "Say Hey Kid" (660 HRs, MVP 1954)
(83) Sigmund Freud,
Austrian neurologist and father of psychology, born in
Freiberg, Austrian Empire (d. 1939)
(76) Rubin "Hurricane" Carter,
Clifton, New Jersey, American boxer whose murder
convictions
were overturned after 19 years in prison (d.2014)
(71) Theodore
H White,
historian/writer (Making of President) (d.1986)
(70) Orson Welles [George],
Kenosha, Wisc,American actor (Citizen Kane, War of the
Worlds) (d. 1985)
63- Tony Blair,
British Prime Minister (Labour, 1997-2007 )
61- Tom Bergeron,
American game show host
56- Roma Downey,
Derry Ireland, actress (1 Life to Live, Touched by an
Angel)
55- George Clooney,
Lexington, Ky, American actor (Dr Douglas Ross-ER,
Batman)
(36) Maximilien Robespierre,
Arras Fr, French revolutionary/advocate (d.1794)
(31) Rudolph Valentino (Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert
Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguolla),
Castellaneta, Italy, Italian sheik and actor (Eagle) (d.
1926)
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Historical
Obits Today
@90-1992 Marlene Dietrich, [Maria Losch],
actress (Angel), in Paris
@89-1990 Charles Farrell,
actor (Vern-My Little Margie)
@83-2012 George Lindsey,
American actor (Goober Pyle)
@81-1952 Maria Montessori,
Italian physician/educationist
@65-1989 Guy Williams,
actor (Zorro, Lost in Space), natural causes
@62-1919 Frank
Lyman Baum,
author (Wizard of Oz), stroke
@44-1862 Henry David Thoreau,
US writer/pacifist (Walden Pond), TB
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Basic / Sick Bay
2. Welfare / Farewell
3. Zero / Rosy
4. Germane / Manger
5. Settee / Tea Set
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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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