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May 27, 2017 Week: 21 \ Day: 147
86004 Today: H 73° \
L 48°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 17mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
May Averages: 68°\34°
May Records: H: 89° (2002)
L: 7 (1915)
Record High: 87°[1974] Record Low: 23°[1916]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.
Benjamin Disraeli
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day (ARMAD) Link
Cellophane Tape Day
International Heritage Breeds Day Link
Julia Pierpont Day
National Polka Day: 26-28 Link
Ramadan-→6/25
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
21-27
EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week Link
International Heritage Breeds Week Link
National New Friends, Old Friends Week
National Stationery Week
World Trade Week
22-28
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Link
National Backyard Games Week
25-31
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing
Territories
26-6/12
Louis Vuitton Cup (America's Cup)
26-29
National Polka Weekend
Mudbug Madness Days
Old-Time Player Piano Weekend
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
░░░<§>1600’s<§>░░░
★1679 Habeaus
Corpus Act (strengthening person's right to challenge unlawful arrest &
imprisonment) passes in England
1692 Court
of Oyer and Terminer ("to hear and determine") established by
Governor of Massachusetts to hear accusations of witchcraft
░░░<§>1800’s<§>░░░
1813 Americans
capture Ft George, Canada
1850 Mormon
Temple in Nauvoo, Illinois, destroyed by tornado
★1895 British
inventor Birt Acres patents film camera/projector
░░░<§>1900’s<§>░░░
1907 Bubonic
Plague breaks out in San Francisco
1916 Groundbreaking
begins on Hugh Grant Circle in Bronx
★1916 President Woodrow
Wilson addresses the League to Enforce Peace, founded in 1915, and gives
public support to the idea of a league of nations
★1921 After
84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty
1930 Richard
Drew invents masking tape
1930 The
1,046-foot (319-meter) Chrysler Building in New York City, the
tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public
1933 Federal
Securities Act signed
1933 Walt
Disney's "3 Little Pigs" released
1935 Supreme
Court declares FDR's National Recovery Act unconstitutional
1937 Golden
Gate Bridge, SF, dedicated
★1941 FDR declares
state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
1943 US
forbids racial discrimination in war industry
★1951 Chinese
Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1960 Balt
manager Paul Richards devises oversized catcher's mitt
1961 1st
black light is sold
★1967 Australians
vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government
the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in
the national census.
1969 Walt
Disney World construction begins
1977 New
York City fines George Willig 1 cent for each of 110 stories he climbed
1981 John
Hinckley attempts suicide by overdosing on Tylenol
★1985 Britain
agrees to return Hong Kong to China in 1997
★1994 Alexander
Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia after 20 years in exile
1995 Actor Christopher
Reeve is paralyzed from the neck down after falling from his horse in a
riding competition in Culpeper, Virginia
1997 Marv
Albert pleads innocent to charges of sexual assault
★1997 Russian
President Boris Yeltsin signs a historic treaty with NATO
★1999 The
International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicts Slobodan Milošević
and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo
░░░<§>2000’s<§>░░░
★2012 A
NATO airstrike kills a family of eight, including six children, in Afghanistan
★2016 3
ships in 3 days sink carrying immigrants across the Mediterranean, drowning
over 700 people§>00’s<§>░░░
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Windy but nice weather.
Did some shopping this morning. It is always a challenge to move around our
town. RR tracks divide the town. I learned something today…a west bound train
with one engine and about 150 empty cars moved through our town…at a decent
pace thankfully. Over the years I have seen thousands of trains going east and
west that are loaded with containers loaded to the hilt. I know they are loaded
because the train moves very slowly. Now I learn that the rail cars have to get
back from whence they came, empty. Does this mean that we importing more stuff
than we are exporting? No idea.
Tech issues: I got a call
from the tech company that services my computer. They claim that a payment I
made back in September didn’t clear due to a human error. In his broken English
he said I should call the bank and get a credit, then they will re-bill me. HUH?
So like the dutiful person I call the bank, who transfers me to the credit card
division, who transfers me to the disputed office. She calls the tech company
and I am on the line for part of the call. The Tech guy makes no sense, claiming
they credited my account back in March because they couldn’t give me the
service I paid for…but they have been giving me the service since I got it in
Sept. Finally the bank thanks the idiot,
and disconnects him. The she says “I have no words for that phone call”. I
agreed. She is filing a disputed claim. Now we wait to see what happens. The
guy at the tech company was so incoherent and making statements that were the
exact opposite of what he had just said, that I couldn’t get mad. I just had to
laugh. Guess I have been listening to our President for so long that this call
was not as odd as it would have been a few months ago
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
Legionnaires' disease, a
respiratory infection, was discovered in 1976 after an outbreak at a convention
center in which U.S. city?
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania Chicago, Illinois
Houston,
Texas Des
Moines, Iowa
70.4%
taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
3→Number of African countries that opted to
withdraw from the International Criminal Court last year
97→Percentage of people charged by the ICC who are
African
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
*- Right there. In
front of God and everybody. -*
There is not much to do for thrills in Mississippi. That might be why a young
man and two women went to the deck of a public bar to have a little three-way.
Triple D's restaurant and bar was closed when the owner drove up to take care
of some business. She was a little surprised to find a man and two women having
sex on a deck that overlooks the Jourdan River. She immediately called
sheriff's deputies. Deputies saw the man and one of the women engaged in sexual
activity, "Right there. In the middle of the day. In broad daylight. In
front of God and everybody," Sheriff Ricky Adam said. "I'd hate to
have to tell Mama and Daddy I got arrested for such as that." Adam said
they were each arrested on a charge of indecent exposure, a misdemeanor.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Approximately one hundred
and twenty million Mother's Day cards are exchanged annually in the United
States.
***
Anna Jarvis started the
tradition of wearing a carnation on Mother's Day. A colored carnation means
that a person's mother is living. A white carnation indicates that a person's
mother is deceased.
***
The Ancient Greeks
celebrated mothers in the spring, similar to our tradition today. They used to
honor Rhea, "mother of the gods," with honey-cakes and fine drinks
and flowers at dawn.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
░░░<§>100’s<§>░░░
@102- Herman
Wouk,
American
novelist (Caine Mutiny, Winds of War), born in NYC
░░░<§>90’s<§>░░░
94- Henry
Kissinger,
US
Secretary of State (1973-77) and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
in
1973, born in Fürth, Bavaria, Germany
@93- Christopher
Lee,
English
actor (The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit), born in London,
(d.
2015)
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@89- Sam
Snead,
American
golfer (PGA-1963, 65, 67, 70, 72, 73), born in Ashwood, VA
(d.
2002)
@83- Francis
Beaufort,
admiral/hydrographer
(Beaufort wind force scale)
(d. 1857)
@83- Tony
Hillerman,
Award
winning American writer
(d.
2008)
@82- Vincent
Price,
actor
(House on Haunted Hill, Fly, Laura), born in St Louis,
(d.
1993)
82- Lee
Meriwether,
Miss
America (Time Tunnel, Barnaby Jones), born in Los Angeles
82- Ramsey
Lewis,
Chic,
pop jazz artist (Hang on Sloopy)
81- Louis
Gossett Jr,
American
actor (Officer & Gentleman, Deep), born in Brooklyn
@80- James
Q. Wilson,
criminologist
('Zero Tolerance' policing), born in Denver, CO
(d.
2012)
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
74- Bruce
Weitz,
actor
(Hill St Blues, Death of a Centerfold), born in Norwalk, Connecticut
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
52- Todd
Bridges,
actor
(Diff'rent Strokes, Fish), born in San Francisco, California
░░░<§>40’s<§>░░░
44-
Jack McBrayer,
TV
actor (30 Rock)
42-
Jamie Oliver, chef
░░░<§>30’s<§>░░░
@39- "Wild
Bill" Hickok [James Butler],
American
cowboy and scout, born in Troy Grove, Illinois
(d.
1876)
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
░░░<§>80’s<§>░░░
@89-1790 Jeremiah
Carlton,
laziest
man in history, heir to a large fortune at 19 went to bed & stayed
there
for next 70 yrs
@87-2007 Ed
Yost,
American
inventor "Father of the Modern Day Hot-Air Balloon”
░░░<§>70’s<§>░░░
@74-1964 Jawaharial
Nehru,
Independent
India's 1st PM, heart attack
░░░<§>60’s<§>░░░
@66-1910 Robert
Koch,
German
pioneering bacteriologist (TB, Cholera, Nobel Prize 1905),
heart
failure
@62-2011 Gil
Scott-Heron,
American
poet, musician and author
@60-2011 Jeff
Conaway,
American
actor, sepsis, drugs
░░░<§>50’s<§>░░░
@54-1564 Jean
Caulvin, [John Calvin],
priest/church
reformer
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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
If you ever need proof of
why it's important to wash your hands throughout the day and cover your coughs
and sneezes, look no further than the discovery of Legionella. The outbreak
occurred at a convention for the American Legion, giving those affected a type
of pneumonia, which became known as Legionnaire's disease. The nasty bacteria
is also responsible for Pontiac fever, which first appeared in 1968. It wasn't
until the Legionnaire's outbreak that scientists could connect the dots. With
about 5,000 cases of Legionnaire's reported each year, you better keep your
hand sanitizer close. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And
That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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