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May 6, 2017 Week: 18 \ Day: 126
86004 Today: H 76° \
L 40° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind ave: 16mph\Gusts: -mph Visibility: 10 mi
May Averages: 68°\34°
May Records: H: 89° (2002)
L: 7 (1915)
Record High: 82°[1947] Record Low: 14°[1975]
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‡‡Quote
of the Day‡‡
I hate flowers - I paint them because
they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
Georgia O'Keeffe
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‡‡Observances
Today‡‡
Bladder Cancer
Awareness Day Link
Bombshell's Day Link
Dandelion Day Link
Free Comic Book Day Link
Herb Day Link
Joseph Brackett Day
Join Hands Day Link
Kentucky Derby
Mariachi Day
Martin Z. Mollusk Day Link
National Homebrew Day Link
National
Scrapbooking Day Link
National Wildfire
Community Preparedness Day Link
No Homework Day
Russel Stover Candies Day
Start Seeing Monarchs Day Link
World Naked Gardening Day Link
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‡‡Observances
This Week‡‡
1-7
Children's Book
Week
Choose Privacy Week Link
National WildflowerWeek
PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
5-7
Toad Suck Daze
6-12
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‡‡Today’s
Significant US Historical Events‡‡
• Today’s Significant
International Historical Events
<§>’s<§>
1787 1st
African American Masonic Lodge (African # 459) forms Prince Hall, Boston
1833 John
Deere makes 1st steel plough
1835 James
Gordon Bennett, Sr. publishes the first issue of the New York Herald (price 1
cent).
•1840 World's
first postage stamp, the Penny Black, is issued in Great Britain
1851 Dr
John Gorrie patents a "refrigeration machine"
1851 Linus
Yale patents Yale lock
1851 San
Francisco Chamber of Commerce starts
1861 Arkansas
& Tennessee becomes 9th & 10th states to secede from US
•1889 Exposition
Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris opens with the recently completed Eiffel Tower
serving as the entrance arch
1929 NY
to SF footrace begins
•1935 Pulitzer prize awarded to Audrey Wurdemann (Bright
Ambush)
1937 German
airship Hindenburg explodes in flames at Lakehurst, NJ (36 die)
•1938 Dutch
writer Maurits Dekker sentenced to 50 days for "offending a friendly head
of state" (Hitler)
•1940 Pulitzer prize awarded to John Steinbeck (Grapes
of Wrath)
•1941 Joseph
Stalin becomes Premier of the Soviet Union
•1946 Pulitzer prize awarded to Arthur M Schlesinger (Age of
Jackson)"
•1954 Roger
Bannister of the UK becomes the 1st person to run a 4 minute mile,
recording 3:59:4 at Iffley Road, Oxford
•1957 Pulitzer prize awarded to John F. Kennedy (Profiles
in Courage)
•1963 Pulitzer prize awarded to Barbara Tuchman (Guns of
August)
1994 US
House of Representatives passes the Federal Assault Weapons Ban
•1994 Nelson
Mandela and the ANC, finally confirmed winners in South Africa's first post-apartheid
election
2013 Wal-Mart
becomes the largest company by revenue on the Fortune 500 list
2013 The
US Senate passes a bill enabling taxing of online sales
•2014 Boko
Haram's leader, Abubakar Shekau, releases a 57 minute video boasting about
abducting schoolgirls in Nigeria
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‡‡My
Rambling Thoughts‡‡
Still
enjoying our great spring weather, but we are at 7000’ and the weatherman says
to expect much cooler temps, wind, and SNOW early next week. Not a happy camper here.
Stopped
at Target for the first time in forever. I bought a bottle of Margarita Mix for
tonight. The clerk had 5 earring studs on each ear, and a nose ring, and lots
of purple streaks in her hair. When she rang up the Mix she said she needed to
see my ID. WHY? You are buying alcohol. REALLY? READ THE LABEL. Oh. I also got a great hose roller for only $20
and no ID required.
My
email boxes were full of request for $$ to stop the Trumpcare vote in the
House. Guess I should check my email during the day. I have faith in the Senate
to fix this mess. Obamacare ain’t over until the Senate sings. My biggest
concern in what I’ve seen with Trumpcare is that states can opt out of covering
pre-existing condition. One email, which may or may not be truthful listed
pre-existing conditions that included anemia, dementia, basal cell carcinoma,
bipolar disorder, aneurism, colon polyps, Downs Syndrom, cholesterol,
hypertension, pregnancy, … Guess only the youngest and healthiest will have
healthcare if the list is correct.
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‡‡Today’s
Trivia Hive‡‡
(answers
at the end of post)
NASA
selected an astronomer from which university to lead its Milky Way mission?
Princeton University Stanford University
Ohio State University University of Arizona
38.6% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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‡‡Harper’s
Index‡‡
2/3→Portion of Americans whobelieve that people
can be supernaturally healed.
1/4→Portion who claim to have experienced such
healing personally
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‡‡ Joke
For The Day‡‡
An
old woman goes to the Wizard to ask him if he can remove a curse she has been
living with for the last 40 years.
The Wizard says, "Perhaps, but you will have to tell me the exact words
that were used to put the curse on you."
The old woman says without hesitation, "I now pronounce you man and
wife."
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‡‡Yep,
It Really Happened‡‡
It's
Not Like He Was Using His Head For Much Anyway
A Colorado teenager suffered injuries and is facing charges after jumping into
an oversized fish tank at a sporting goods store. Teens across the county have
been encouraging each other to carry out the mischievous prank and upload the
videos of their acts to social media. While most teens have managed to get away
without injury or being caught, one boy was not so lucky. The teenager, who has
not been named, was at the Bass Pro Shop in Denver, when he went to the second
level of the store. There he climbed over a railing, and jumped off the ledge
and into the aquarium. After jumping off the 30-foot-high ledge, the teen hit
his head on some rocks and he was injured. The teen was taken to a hospital,
where it was determined that he had cracked his skull. The store also chose to
press charges against the teen. He will meet with investigators after
recovering at the hospital.
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‡‡Somewhat
Useless Information‡‡
Washington
Irving used the pseudonym Geoffrey Crayon when he published The Sketch-Book, a
collection of short stories and essays, including "The Legend of Sleepy
Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."
***
Alice
Binney, wife of company co-owner Edwin Binney, coined the word Crayola by
joining craie, from the French word meaning chalk, with ola, from oleaginous,
meaning oily.
***
In
1903, the Binney & Smith company made the first box of Crayola crayons
costing a nickel and containing eight colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue,
violet, brown, and black.
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‡‡Birthdays
Today‡‡
@ indicates age at death
<§>80’s<§>
86- Willie
Mays,
American
baseball centerfielder (Giants, NY Mets), "Say Hey Kid"
(660
HRs, MVP 1954), born in Westfield, Alabama
@83- Sigmund
Freud,
Austrian
neurologist and father of psychology,
(d.
1939)
@80- Stewart
Granger,
English
actor (Prisoner of Zenda, King Solomon's Mines),
(d.
1993)
<§>70’s<§>
@73- [Bernard]
Toots Shor,
raconteur/restauranteur (Toots Shor) (d. 1977)
72- Bob
Seger,
Dearborn
Mich, rock & Roll artist (Silver Bullet Band-Shake Down)
@71- Theodore
H White,
historian/writer
(Making of President)
(d.
1986)
@70- Orson
Welles [George],
American
actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds),
(d.
1985)
<§>60’s<§>
64- Tony
Blair,
British
Prime Minister (Labour: 1997-2007), born in Edinburgh
62- Tom
Bergeron,
American
game show host
<§>50’s<§>
56- George
Clooney,
American
actor (ER, The Descendants), born in Lexington, KY
57- Roma
Downey,
Derry
Ireland, actress (1 Life to Live, Touched by an Angel)
<§>60’s<§>
34-
Gabourey Sidibe,
actress
(Precious)
@31- Rudolph
Valentino,
Italian
sheik and actor (Eagle), born in Castellaneta, Italy
(d.
1926)
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‡‡Historical
Obits Today‡‡
<§>’s<§>
@90-1992 Marlene
Dietrich,
German
American actress and singer (The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express)
@89-1990 Charles
Farrell,
actor
(Vern-My Little Margie)
@83-2012 George
Lindsey,
American
actor, (Goober Pyle)
@81-1952 Maria
Montessori,
Italian
physician/educationist
@74-1987 William
J Casey,
director
of CIA (1981-87), brain tumor
@68-1910 Edward
VII,
King
of England (1901-10), heart attacks
@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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‡‡Trivia
Hive Answers‡‡
University
of Arizona
The
Galactic/Extragalactic ULDB Spectroscopic Terahertz Observatory mission, also
known as the Milky Way mission, will be lead by principal investigator
Christopher Walker of the University of Arizona. On this mission, Walker and
his team will measure emissions from the cosmic material found between the
stars. With this data, the scientists will be able to discover the life cycle
of interstellar gas as they watch star-forming clouds assemble in the Milky
Way. Source: NASA
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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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That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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