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5.7.16 Week: 18 \ Day: 128
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 65° \ L 35° Average Sky Cover: 30%
Wind
ave: 15mph\Gusts: 31mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 81°[1989] Record Low: 15°[1938]
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Quote
of the Day
If you want to be loved, be lovable.
Ovid
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Observances
Today
Birth
Mother's Day (Saturday
before Mother's Day) Link
Bladder Cancer Awareness Day Link
Cosmopolitan Day (Drink)
Free Comic Book Day Link
Join Hands Day Link
Kentucky Derby
Start Seeing Monarchs Day Link
Mariachi Day Link
Mother Ocean Day
National Babysitters Day
National Barrier Awareness Day Link
National Homebrew Day Link
National Scrapbooking Day Link
World Naked Gardening 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
2-8
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
1789 First US
Presidential inaugural ball (for George Washington in NYC)
1800 Indiana
Territory organized
1847 American
Medical Association organizes (Phila)
1888 George
Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1904 Flexible
Flyer trademark registered
1912 Columbia
University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several
categories, after established by Joseph Pulitzer
1914 US Congress
establishes mother's day
1928 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Thornton Wilder for (Bridge of San Luis Rey)
1934 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Sidney Kingsley (Men in White)
1951 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Conrad Richter (The Town)
1952 The concept
of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first
published by Geoffrey Dummer
1960 USSR
announces Francis Gary Powers confessed to being a CIA spy
1962 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Theodore H White (Making of President 1960)
1966 Mamas &
Papas "Monday Monday" hits #1
1973 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Eudora Welty (Optimist's Daughter)
1973 According to
the FBI, at 10:19 A.M. this morning, the occupation of Wounded Knee ended. The
occupation started on February 27, 1973.
1974 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Robert Lowell (Dolphin)
1998 Mercedes-Benz
buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest
industrial merger in history.
2013 Delaware
becomes the 11th US State to legalize same-sex marriage
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1429 English siege of
Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army
1664 Louis XIV of
France inaugurates The Palace of Versailles. 1700 William Penn began monthly meetings for
blacks advocating emancipation
1720 - James Cotter is
executed for high treason in supporting the Jacobite cause: his son, Sir James
Cotter, will later be MP for Askeaton
1824 Beethoven's
9th (Chorale) Symphony, premieres in Vienna
1927 Angelos Sikelianos
organizes the first Delphic Festival in Delphi to celebrate the ancient Greek
Delphic ideal.
1928 The United Kingdom
lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1934 World's
largest pearl (6.4 kg) found at Palawan, Philippines
1951 International
Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
1954 French
surrender to Vietminh after 55-day siege at Dien Bien Phu
1970 "Long
& Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release
1994 Edvard Munch's
painting "The Scream" is recovered 3 months after it was stolen
1999 Kosovo War:
In Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, three Chinese citizens are killed and 20
wounded when a NATO aircraft bombs the Chinese embassy in Belgrade.
1999 Pope John
Paul II travels to Romania becoming the first pope to visit a
predominantly Eastern Orthodox country since the Great Schism in 1054.
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Day started out nice, so I headed out early to
do some running around. Wind picked up and is bringing in a storm—rain or snow?
Got my stuff done and now ready to do some reading on Cuba for our discussion
tomorrow night.
Politics has become a business. Elected
officials spend way too much time raising money, instead of spending that time
to help their constituents. And now some in Congress want a raise…the $176,000
just isn’t enough…and at the same time many of their constituents are working for
minimum wage make around $8/hr. with no leave, no benefits, and many at less
than a full time job. I spent my career in a poverty region. Someone making as
much of Congress cannot understand how those in poverty have to live. On the
other side, no one living in poverty can even dream of running for office. I am
very tired of the Conservative rhetoric about cutting taxes for the wealthy,
complaining about the federal programs that help the impoverished and making
Social Security sound like a handout.
The new movie Papa, about Ernest Hemingway, is being released. Turns out I was I
Havana when the movie was being filmed at his estate there. This was during my
first trip, and while it was on the itinerary, we couldn’t get in. But I did
wander the house and gardens on my second trip. Can’t wait to see the movie.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Venus
Science brain teasers require
understanding of the physical or biological world and the laws that govern it.
You awake inside a small transparent
capsule sitting on the surface of Venus. From a small speaker you hear a voice
that says, "We will leave you here either for a day or a year. If you
choose to stay a day, we will give you $1 million. If you choose to stay a
year, we will give you $2 million. Either way, you will have sufficient food
and water. We will make sure the temperature is a constant 70 degrees
Fahrenheit. We will also supply cable TV."
What is your choice? (Don't let money decide your answer).
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…Harper’s
Index…
7/10-Portion of US college freshmen who rage
themselves above average in academic aptitude
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2
jokes for the day
I patiently waiting at the customer service
desk for my turn. I had come back to return a pair of jeans that were too
tight.
"Is something wrong with them?" the teenage clerk asked me.
"Yes," I replied. "They hurt my feelings."
The clerk had no response for me.
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A defendant isn’t happy with how things are
going in court, so he gives the judge a hard time.
Judge: “Where do you work?”
Defendant: “Here and there.”
Judge: “What do you do for a living?”
Defendant: “This and that.”
Judge: “Take him away.”
Defendant: “Wait! When will I get out?”
Judge: “Sooner or later.”
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Depending on what movie you're watching, Yoda
has a different number of toes. In The Phantom Menace, Yoda has three toes. But
in The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi and Revenge of the Sith, he has
four.
The opening crawl for the original movie (which was cribbed from the Flash
Gordon serials that also inspired the film) was done practically, by carefully
placing 2-foot-wide die cut yellow letters over a 6-foot-long black paper
background with a camera making a slow pass over them to mimic the crawl. In
total, it took three hours to shoot.
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The Star Wars expanded universe encompasses
all of the officially licensed, fictional material of the Star Wars saga,
outside of the seven feature films, The Clone Wars film and series, and Rebels
series produced by Lucasfilm. The expanded universe includes books, comic
books, video games, toys, television films and other assorted media.
In 2014, following the acquisition of Lucasfilm by The Walt Disney Company in
November 2012, it was announced that all previously released expanded universe
content would be declared non-canon and rebranded as Star Wars Legends.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
(83) George "Gabby" Hayes,
Wellesvile NY, actor (In Old Santa Fe, El Paso) (d.1969)
(83) Darren McGavin,
Spokane, actor (Night Stalker, Tribes, Turk 182) (d.2006)
(81) Edwin Land,
Bridgeport, cn, American inventor of instant photography
and co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation (d. 1991)
(77) Robert Browning,
London, poet (Pied Piper) (d.1889)
(76) Teresa Brewer,
Toledo, singer (Put Another Nickel In) (d.2007)
69- Johnny Unitas,
Pittsburgh, NFL QB (Balt Colts, San Diego)
(63) Johannes Brahms,
Hamburg Germany, composer (d.1897)
(60) Gary Cooper,
Montana, actor (2 Acad Awards-Sgt York, High Noon) (d.1961)
(58) Tim Russert,
Buffalo, ny, American television journalist and host of
NBC's
Meet the Press (d. 2008)
(60) Robert Hegyes,
NJ, actor (Underground Aces, Welcome Back Kotter) (d.2012)
(53) Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky,
Votkinsk, Russia Russian composer of the late-Romantic
period
(1812 Overture, Swan Lake) (d. 1893)
(48) Totie Fields,
American comedienne (d. 1978)
(33) Eva Perón [Evita],
Argentine First Lady and actress, (d. 1952)
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Historical
Obits Today
@90-2000 Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.,
American actor (b. 1909)
@81-1890 James Nasmyth,
Scottish Engineer and Inventor of the steam hammer
@80-1876 William
Buell Sprague,
American clergyman and author
@56-1998 Eddie Rabbitt,
American musician, lung cancer
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Choose to stay one year and win $2 million.
Venus takes 243 Earth days to rotate on its axis, but it takes 225 Earth days
to go around the sun. On Venus a day is longer than a year.
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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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