May 11

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May  11, 2017 Week: 19 \ Day: 131

86004 Today: H 63° \ L 29° Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  17mph Visibility: 10 mi

May Averages: 68°\34°

May Records: H: 89° (2002) L: 7 (1915)

Record High: 86°[1996]   Record Low: 16°[1933]

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‡‡Quote of the Day‡‡

When the legends die, the dreams end; there is no more greatness.

Tecumseh

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‡‡Observances Today‡‡

Eat What You Want Day

Hostess Cupcake Day Link

National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day Link  

National Foam Rolling Day Link (Massage)

Root Canal Appreciation Day  Link

Twilight Zone Day

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‡‡Observances This Week‡‡

6-12

National Nurses Day and Week Link  Link  Link

7-13

Be Kind To Animals Week

Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week Link 

Drinking Water Week Link 

Flexible Work Arrangement Week

Goodwill Industries Week

Hurricane Preparedness Week Link

International Clitoris Awareness 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 Hospital Week Link

National Hug Holiday Week

National Pet Week Link  

National Raisin Week Link

National Tourism Week Link  

National Wildflower Week

Neuropathy Awareness Week Link

North American Occupational Safety & Health Week Link

Public Service Recognition Week Link

Teacher Appreciation Week Link 

Update Your References Week

8-12

National Etiquette Week

8-14

National Hug Holiday Week4

National Safety Stand Down Week (Constuction Falls) Link 

National Stuttering Awareness Week

Salvation Army Week

10-16

Universal Family Week

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‡‡Today’s Significant US Historical Events‡‡

•  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

<§>300’s<§>

•330 Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes the capital of the Roman Empire

<§>1300’s<§>

•1310 Fifty-four members of the Knights Templar are burned at the stake in France for being heretics.

<§>1700’s<§>

1751 1st hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital) in the 13 Colonies in America

1752 1st US fire insurance policy issued in Philadelphia

1792 Columbia River discovered & named by US Capt Robert Gray

<§>1800’s<§>

•1812 Waltz introduced into English ballrooms. Some observers consider it disgusting and immoral.

•1812 British Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the House of Commons, London. Ironically, descendants of both were later elected to Parliament at the same time.

1816 American Bible Society forms (NY)

1850 Work starts on 1st brick building in San Francisco

1858 Minnesota admitted as 32nd US state

1864 Gen J.E.B. Stuart is mortally wounded at Yellow Tavern

<§>1900’s<§>

1904 Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace

•1924 Pulitzer Prize awarded to Robert Frost (New Hampshire)

•1924 Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz, merging the two companies

1929 1st regularly scheduled TV broadcasts (3 nights per week)

1940 NY World's Fair reopens

1942 William Faulkner's collections of short stories, Go Down, Moses, is published.

1947 BF Goodrich announced the development of tubeless tire (Akron Ohio)

•1949 Siam renames itself Thailand

•1953 Winston Churchill criticizes US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' domino theory

1959 "Kookie, Kookie Lend Me Your Comb" by Byrnes & Connie Stevens hits #4

1960 1st contraceptive pill is made available for sale

1963 "Puff (The Magic Dragon)" by Peter, Paul & Mary hits #2

•1965 Bangladesh windstorm kills 17,000

1967 100,000,000th US phone connected

1968 Richard Harris releases "MacArthur Park"

•1969 Monty Python comedy troupe forms

1973 Citing government misconduct, Daniel Ellsberg has his charges for his involvement in releasing the Pentagon Papers to The New York Times dismissed.

1974 "Tubular Bells" by Mike Oldfield hits #7

1981 Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "Cats" (based on T. S. Eliot) premieres in London

1994 Musical "Grease" opens at Eugene O' Neill Theater NYC for 1,503 performances

<§>2000’s<§>

•2014 Thousands protest against the construction of a waste incineration plant in Hangzhou, China

•2015 Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso's The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US$179.3 million at Christies in New York

•2015 India's population officially reaches 1 billion - Astha Arora named India's billionth baby

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‡‡My Rambling Thoughts‡‡

Still cloudy but sensible spring weather has returned to 7000’. Headed out early and got my shopping and Sam’s club stuff done before noon. Nice.

In real estate the mantra is location, location, location. In politics, it’s timing, timing, timing. Politicians have risen and fallen by the timing of their actions. Me thinks that our president doesn’t know this, or thinks he is above it.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL:

Firing the head of the FBI in the middle of an investigation against the Trump campaign. I can’t wait to see how this all plays out. AND to send a messenger to the office with the pink slip without knowing that the FBI director was in CA. is just ignorant rudeness. Hard to get a pink slip, but to see on TV, in front of your employees, is inexcusable.

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‡‡Today’s Trivia Hive‡‡

(answers at the end of post)

American politician and LGTBQ community icon Harvey Milk served in what branch of the U.S. military?

Air Force           Marines

Army                   Navy

43.0% taking the internet quiz got it correct.

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‡‡Harper’s Index‡‡

2020→Year in which the US Census Bureau may add a category for people from the Middle East and North Africa

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‡‡ Joke For The Day‡‡

A loaded van pulled in to the only remaining campsite. Four children leaped from the vehicle and began feverishly unloading gear and setting up the tents.

Two of them rushed to gather firewood, while the other two and their mother set up the camp stove and cooking utensils.

A nearby camper marveled to the youngsters' father, "That, sir, is some display of teamwork."

The father replied, "I have a system... no one goes to the bathroom until the camp is set up."

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‡‡Yep, It Really Happened‡‡

A company filed a workers compensation claim with their insurance company over an incident that hurt their employee.

The company said that while Sheyla White was working for them at the Cinque Terre Energy Partners in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, a sprinkler fell on her, causing injury to her forehead. 

The insurance company became suspicious of her claim and they contacted police. 

During their investigation, the Florida's Division of Investigative and Forensic Services requested to review security footage of the incident.

White had claimed that the metal sprinkler fell from the ceiling, bounced off her desk and struck her in the head. The video proved that the sprinkler fell from the ceiling and landed on her desk, but it did not bounce back.

Instead, the video showed White taking the sprinkler, looking around and hitting herself with the piece of metal.

White did not get any money. Instead, she was arrested and convicted of insurance fraud. She faced 5 years in prison, but was sentenced to 18 months of probation instead.

               

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‡‡Somewhat Useless Information‡‡

Steam power had been around for generations but it wasn't until 1698 that its application into industry was made. Military engineer Thomas Savery created a patent for raising of water by "the impellent force of fire" the first noted design of a steam pump. In 1712 Thomas Newcomen continued Savery's work and constructed the first successful steam engine, the atmospheric engine.

Its purpose was to rid coalmines of floodwater, allowing miners to reach new depths. It was considered so efficient for its time the design wasn't altered for six decades.

The next advance in steam engine technology involved the realization that steam itself, rather than the condensing of steam to create a vacuum, could power an engine. In 1804, American inventor Oliver Evans (1755-1819) designed the first high-pressure, non-condensing engine.

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‡‡Birthdays Today‡‡

@  indicates age at death

<§>100’s<§>

@101 Irving Berlin [Israel Isidore Baline], 

     American composer and lyricist considered one of the greatest songwriters

     in American history (God Bless America, White Xmas), born in Tyumen, 

     Russian Empire (d. 1989)

<§>90’s<§>

90- Mort Sahl, 

     comedian/political satirist/beatnik (Big Party), born in Montreal, Quebec

<§>80’s<§>

@89- Foster Brooks, 

     comedian/actor (Miles-Mork & Mindy), born in Louisville, 

     (d. 2001)

@84- Salvador Dali, 

     Spanish surrealist artist (Crucifixion), born in Figueres, Spain 

     (d. 1989)

@81- William Carey, 

     American businessman and philanthropist (W.P. Carey & Co. LLC) 

     born in Baltimore, Maryland 

     (d. 2012)

<§>70’s<§>

@77- Denver Pyle, 

     Bethune Colo, actor (Dukes of Hazzard, Tammy, Doris Day) 

     (d. 1997)

76- Eric Burdon, 

     Walker-on-Tyne England, rock vocalist (Animals-House of the Rising Sun)

@74- Phil Silvers, 

     American comedian (Sgt Bilko-Phil Silvers Show), born in Brooklyn, 

     (d. 1985)

<§>60’s<§>

@62- Chang & Eng Bunker, 

     Chinese-Thai Siamese twins, born in Samutsongkram, Thailand 

     (d. 1874)

<§>50’s<§>

@59- Doug McClure, 

     actor (Checkmate, Virginian, Roots), born in Glendale, California 

     (d. 1995)

<§>40’s<§>

@45- Natasha Richardson, 

     actress (Gothic, Handmaid's Tale), born in London, England

    (d. 2009)

<§>30’s<§>

39- Richard Spencer, 

     American white supremacist, born in Boston

31- Cory Monteith, 

     Canadian actor and musician (Glee, Monte Carlo), born in Calgary, Alberta 

     (d. 2013)

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‡‡Historical Obits Today‡‡

<§>70’s<§>

@74-1963 Herbert Spencer Gasser, 

     American physiologist, Nobel laureate

@71-2006 Floyd Patterson, 

     American boxer, Alzheimer's\prostate cancer

<§>60’s<§>

@64-1979 Lester Raymond Flatt,

      musician (Ballad of Jed Clampett), heart failure

<§>40’s<§>

@49-2001 Douglas Adams, 

     English author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy), myocardial infarction 

     and a fatal cardiac arrhythmia

<§>30’s<§>

@36-1981 Bob Marley, 

     reggae singer, brain & lung cancer

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‡‡Trivia Hive  Answers‡‡

Navy  

Milk graduated from the State University of New York in 1951 and immediately enlisted in the Navy. He went on to complete Officer Candidate School at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island, and was assigned to Naval Base San Diego, where he worked as a diving instructor until 1955 when he resigned his commission. Milk left the Navy with the rank of lieutenant. Last year, the branch announced plans to name an upcoming ship after the LGTBQ icon, who was one of the first openly gay individuals elected to public office in the U.S. Sources: Harvey Milk Foundation, NPR.

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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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