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5.30.16 Week: 22 \ Day: 151MEMORIAL DAY
May Averages: 68°\34°
86004 Today: H 77° \ L 36°
Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts:
17mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 88°[2002]
Record Low: 18°[1918]
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Quote of the Day
The
price of greatness is responsibility. ~Winston Churchill
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Observances Today
Loomis
Day
Mint Julep Day Link
Prayer for Peace Memorial Day
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Observances This Week
23-30
National
Backyard Games Week
25-31
Week
of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories
27-30
Mudbug
Madness Days
29-6/4
Black
Single Parents Week
National Tire Safety Week Link
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US Historical Highlights
for Today
1539 Spanish
explorer Hernando de Soto discovers Florida
1806 Andrew Jackson kills
Charles Dickinson in a duel after Dickinson had accused Jackson's wife of
bigamy.
1650 An
ordinance is passed against the making of counterfeit, or "fake,"
wampum by the Directors of the Council of the New Netherlands. European
manufacturers are producing the fakes, which are being used to pay Indians.
1821 James
Boyd patents Rubber Fire Hose
1848 William
G Young patents ice cream freezer
1848 Mexico
ratifies treaty giving US; New Mexico, California & parts of Nevada, Utah,
Arizona & Colorado in return for $15 million
1854 Territories
of Kansas & Nebraska created
1868 'Decoration
Day', later called Memorial Day, first observed in Northern US states
1883 Stampede
caused by rumor that Brooklyn Bridge was going to collapse kills 12
1908 1st
federal workmen's compensation law approved
1922 Completed
Lincoln Memorial dedicated by US Chief Justice William H. Taft in front of
50,000
1937 Memorial
Day Massacre - Chicago police shoot on union marchers, 10 die
1948 A
dike along the flooding Columbia River breaks, obliterating Vanport, Oregon
within minutes. Fifteen people die and tens of thousands are left homeless.
1965 Viet
Cong offensive against US base Da Nang, begins
1967 Robert
"Evel" Knievel's motorcycle jumps 16 automobiles1975 European
Space Agency (ESA) forms
1987 North
American Philips Company unveils compact disc video
1991 Supreme
Court rules prosecutors can be sued for legal advice they give police & can
be held accountable
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World Historical
Highlights for Today
1431 Hundred Years' War: in
Rouen, France, 19-year-old Joan of Arc is burned at the stake by an
English-dominated tribunal.
1527 University
of Marburg (Germany) founded
1784 Belfast's first Catholic
church, St. Mary's, opens for public worship
1817 - Micheal William Balfe, one
of Ireland’s greatest composers, gives his first public performance, aged nine
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My Rambling Thoughts
So
the sleep test is completed. No results till I see the doctor in a couple of
weeks. Must say it was different. 6 wires on my head, 2 on each leg, 2 belts
with 4 monitors each on my torso and two nose monitors…one for incoming air, one
for outgoing air, and an Oxygen monitor on my pinky. Then she says, you can lay
down and sleep now. But first I have to do some tests. She leaves, turns out
the lights and talks to me through an intercom. ‘don’t move your head and look
up and down 4 times…now left and right 4 times, now snore 4 times, now take a
deep breath and hold it till I tell you to let it go’. Interesting. Had a
little trouble going to sleep, as the most annoying thing was the clip on my
pinky, followed by the wires, followed by a very soft bed. She woke me up about
5:30a, undid all the wires, I went to the bathroom, got dressed and headed
home. I must have gotten a good night’s sleep as I am not tired today.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Name Them
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
What
do these groups of words have in common?
1. Man true, hairy
2. Son nick, yard rich
3. Son will, row wood
4. Grant, us list you
5. More fill, lard mill
6. Ding hard, wren war
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…Harper’s Index…
3/5-Portion of Ohio Republicans
likely to attend a caucus who said in May 2015 they would never back Donald
Trump
3/10-In August 2015
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…Instagram Photo of the
Day…
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2 jokes for the day
A
widow recently married a widower. Soon after the marriage she was approached by
a friend who laughingly remarked, "I suppose, like all men who have been
married before, your husband sometimes talks about his first wife?"
"Oh, not any more, he doesn't," the widow replied.
"What stopped him?"
"I started talking about my next husband."
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This was a recent conversation that I
had with my girlfriend’s father, who knows I do web design.
Father: I have a business idea. How hard is it to make a Facebook?
Me: Oh, that's simple, not hard at all.
Girlfriend: No, he doesn’t mean to make a Facebook profile. He means to redo
ALL of Facebook.
Me: Oh. In that case, that's very hard.
Father: Oh, okay. (Pause) What are we talking then, maybe just 3 to 5 hours?
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-- Being Polite to
Cop Leads to Man's Arrest --*
Politely
holding a door open for a police officer has landed a Massachusetts man in
jail. Authorities say Kayvon Mavaddat was at the Natick Mall when he held the
door for the leaving officer. That officer thought Mavaddat looked familiar,
and went to check his cruiser's computer. The officer found there were three
warrants out for his arrest. The officer returned to the mall and arrested
Mavaddat. 28-year-old Mavaddat was held without bail at his arraignment when
his probation officer told the judge he routinely skips court dates,
court-ordered drug tests and fails to pay probation fees.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
1. Largest flower
The Corpse flower, also known as Rafflesia arnoldii. The poetically named posy boasts
the largest bloom in the world, measuring in at 3-feet wide with blossoms that
weigh 15 pounds.
2. The largest animal
The blue whale. When a baby blue whale is born, it measures up to 25 feet and
weighs up to three tons. Growing to lengths of up to 100 feet and weighing up
to 200 tons, the blue whale is, in fact, the biggest animal known to live on
Earth.
3. The heaviest known organism
In Utah's Fishlake National Forest in Utah there lives a massive grove of trees
called Pando, which is actually a single clonal colony of a male quaking aspen.
Nicknamed the Trembling Giant, this enormous root system is comprised of some
47,000 stems that create the grove. All together - with all of the individual
trunks, branches and leaves - this quivering organism weighs in at an estimated
6,600 short tons. It is the heaviest known organism on the planet, and perhaps
even more impressive is its age. Conservative estimates put it at 80,000 years
old, making it also the oldest living thing known to man.
4. The largest land animal
The African bush elephant holds the title for largest land animal. Reaching
lengths of up to 24 feet and gaining heights of 13 feet, these beautiful gray
beasts weigh in at 11 tons. Their trunks alone can lift objects of more than
400 pounds.
5. The largest tree by volume
The world's largest tree is a stately giant sequoia, known as General Sherman
in California's Sequoia National Park. This majestic arboreal master is about
52,500 cubic feet in volume.
6. The largest invertebrate
The aptly named colossal squid is the world's largest squid species and the
largest invertebrate on the planet. They can weigh as much as 1,000 pounds and
can grow to 30 feet long. That's a lot of calamari.
7. The tallest land animal
The title of the world's tallest mammal belongs to the giraffe. The legs of
these even-toed ungulates are taller than many people. Giraffes can grow to
heights of 19 feet and can weigh as much as 2,800 pounds. They can sprint up to
35 miles-an-hour over short distances.
8. The largest reptile
As the largest of living reptiles - as well as the largest terrestrial and
riparian predator in the world - the saltwater crocodile can reach lengths of
22 feet and can weigh in at 4,400 pounds.
9. The heaviest bird
The ostrich is the world's heaviest bird, with a weight of 350 pounds and a
height of 9 feet. While they cannot fly, they can sprint up to 43 miles an hour
and run long distance at 31 miles an hour.
10. The largest thing of all
In 1998 a single colony of honey fungus was discovered in the Malheur National
Forest in east Oregon that covered an area of 3.7 square miles, and occupied
some 2,384 acres.
The discovery was remarkable in that not only would the massive specimen be
recognized as the world's largest known organism, but based on its growth rate,
the fungus is estimated to be 2,400 years old - and maybe as old as 8,650 years
- making it one of the planet's oldest living organisms as well.
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Birthdays Today
“(
)” indicates age at death
89- Clint Walker, Hartford Ill,
actor (Kodiak, Cheyenne, Dirty Dozen)
(81) Howard Hawks, American
director/producer (Rio Bravo, Scarface), born in Goshen, Indiana (d. 1977)
(81) Mel[vin J] Blanc, voice (Bugs
Bunny, Elmer Fudd & Porky Pig) (d.1989)
77- Michael J Pollard, actor
(Bonny & Clyde, Roxanne), born in Passaic, New Jersey
(62) Christine Jorgensen, pioneer
transsexual (born George William Jorgensen, Jr)(d.1989)
61- Brian Kobilka, American Nobel
Prize winning chemistry professor (G protein-coupled receptors), born in Little
Falls, Minnesota
52- Wynonna, [Christina Judd],
Ashland Ky, singer (Judds-Why Not Me)
42- Cee-Lo
Green, American musician
41- Marissa Mayer, American
technology executive (CEO of Yahoo, designed Google home page) born in Wausau,
Wisconsin
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Historical Obits Today
@83-1778 Voltaire [Francois-Marie
Arouet], French writer, philosopher and playwright (Candide)
@70-1960 Boris
Pasternak, Russian poet and novelist (Doctor Zhivago) (Nobel Prize 1958), lung
cancer
@67-1947 Georg
Ritter von Trapp, World War I Austrian submarine commander; inspiration for
"The Sound of Music", lung cancer
@62-1640 Peter
Paul Rubens, Flemish painter, heart failure
@56-1744 Alexander
Pope, English poet (The Rape of the Lock)
@47-2015 Joseph
[Beau] Biden III, American politician and son of Vice-President Joe Biden, cancer
@45-1912 Wilbur
Wright, US aviation pioneer, typhoid fever
@35-1946 Louis
Slotin, Canadian Physicist and Chemist at Los Alamos, radiation poisoning
@29-1593 Christopher
Marlowe, English dramatist (Tamburlaine the Great), stabbed to death in a pub
brawl
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Brain Teasers Answers
If
you read the words in each group from right to left, each group sounds out the
name of a US President, with commas separating the first and last names.
1. Harry Tru-man
2. Rich-ard Nix-on
3. Wood-row Wil-son
4. U-lyss-es Grant
5. Mil-lard Fill-more
6. War-ren Har-ding
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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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