Celebrate Lyme Disease Awareness Month
The natural world is a beautiful place, and not always the friendliest place around. Could be why we spent thousands of years making it so we didn’t have to go outside. One such danger is Lyme Disease, and for those who spend time out in the wild (especially campers and hunters) it’s a danger they face every time they get an unwanted passenger in the form of a tick. Lyme Disease Awareness Month reminds us to be vigilant, and to spread awareness to help save lives.
thanks for the trust issue funnies, inspired by Shelley
Word of the Day
| |||
| Definition: | (noun) A macintosh made from cotton fabric treated with oil and pigment to make it waterproof. | ||
| Synonyms: | oilskin | ||
| Usage: | It was pouring all day, but thanks to my new slicker, I stayed nice and dry. | ||
Idiom of the Day
(someone's) native soil— The country or geographical area in which someone was born and/or raised. |
History
First American in Space (1961) |
|---|
| In 1961, 23 days after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit Earth, astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to be launched into space. Shepard's suborbital flight—part of the US space program Project Mercury—reached a height of 115 miles (185 km). He performed several maneuvers of his capsule, Freedom 7, but returned after only a 15-minute flight. |
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (1747)
| The third son of Maria Theresa and Holy Roman Emperor Francis I, Leopold II succeeded his father as duke of Tuscany in 1765 and his brother as emperor and ruler of the Hapsburg lands in 1790. A practitioner of what has been termed enlightened despotism, Leopold is remembered as a ruler of outstanding diplomatic and administrative abilities. |
| ||
The Effutu people of Winneba, Ghana, celebrate the Deer-Hunting Festival by making an offering to the god Penkye Otu. Two groups known as the Asafo companies, each consisting of about 150 people, compete in a deer hunt that begins at dawn with the pounding of drums and the ringing of bells. When the first deer is caught, the victorious company brings it back alive and presents it proudly to their chief. Then the animal is taken back to the village, where dancing and drumming continue in an effort to placate Penkye Otu so that he will bring them a bountiful year.
'Ground-breaking' galaxy collision detected
Scientists have detected a cosmic "pileup" of galaxies in the early Universe. Imaged almost at the boundary of the observable Universe, the 14 unusually bright objects are on a collision course, set to form one massive galaxy. This will in turn serve ...READ MORE:
Telescope spots galactic 'mega-merger'
1809 - Mary Kies was awarded the first patent to go to a woman. It was for technique for weaving straw with silk and thread.
1862 - The Battle of Puebla took place. It is celebrated as Cinco de Mayo Day.
1891 - Music Hall was dedicated in New York City. It was later renamed Carnegie Hall.
1904 - The third perfect game of the major leagues was thrown by Cy Young (Boston Red Sox) against the Philadelphia Athletics. It was the first perfect game under modern rules.
1917 - Eugene Jacques Bullard becomes the first African-American aviator when he earned his flying certificate with the French Air Service.
1926 - Sinclair Lewis refused a 1925 Pulitzer for "Arrowsmith."
1956 - Jim Bailey became the first runner to break the four-minute mile in the U.S. He was clocked at 3:58.5.
1961 - Alan Shepard became the first American in space when he made a 15 minute suborbital flight.
1966 - Willie Mays broke the National League record for home runs when he hit his 512th.
1978 - Pete Rose of the Cincinnati Reds registered his 3,000th major league hit.
1984 - The Itaipu Dam opened on the Paraná River between Brazil and Paraguay.
1997 - Dolores Hope received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1999 - Garth Brooks was named artist of the decade at the 34th annual Academy of Country Music Awards.
If You Were Born Today, May 5
Determined and often stubborn, you have ambition and can work hard for what you want. You are multi-talented and somewhat restless. While you value stability, you crave stimulation and create new challenges for yourself to reach, which keeps your life in a state of flux. You are a good conversationalist, quite amorous, and especially attractive and magnetic. Famous people born today:
1747 Leopold II, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1765-90) and Holy Roman Emperor (1790-92), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1792)
1818 Karl Marx, German philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital), born in Trier, Prussia (d. 1883)
1921 Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for his pioneering work with lasers, born in Mount Vernon, New York (d. 1999)
1942 Tammy Wynette [Virginia Pugh], American country singer (Stand by your Man), born in Itawamba County, Mississippi (d. 1998)
1943 Michael Palin, English comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda), born in Sheffield, Yorkshire
1.
1857 -
|
2.
INTERESTING FACTS
The idea that would become the Big Bang Theory (science, not the show ;-)) was proposed by a Catholic Priest, likely one of the greatest scientists you’ve never heard of, Georges Lemaître. In a May 9, 1931 letter to Nature journal Lemaître wrote: “If the world has begun with a single quantum, the notions of space and time would altogether fail to have any meaning at the beginning; they would only begin to have a sensible meaning when the original quantum had been divided into a sufficient number of quanta. If this suggestion is correct, the beginning of the world happened a little before the beginning of space and time.” This would be coined later in a collection of essays by Lemaître as “The Primeval Atom,” which was the foundation of what would become known as the“Big Bang Theory,” after several other scientists would add to Lemaître’s work.
Former New York Herald publisher James Gordon Bennett, Jr. once owned a 300 ft. yacht, the $635,000 ($17.8 million today) Lysistrata built by William Denny & Son of Dumbarton, Scotland. Among many other luxuries, the yacht included a padded stall for a cow, so he’d always have fresh milk, cream, and butter while he was at sea.
While the vast majority of electronic devices that speak to us do so in a female’s voice, dating all the way back to some of the earliest such devices, there was one notable exception in the late 1990s. In Germany, BMW ultimately had to recall their 5 Series cars due to using a female voice with their GPS system. You see, according to Dr. Clifford Nass, author of “The Man Who Lied to His Laptop: What Machines Teach Us About Human Relationships,” BMW was flooded with calls from German men who’d bought the BWM’s in question and were angry about having to take navigational directions from a woman. As a result, they issued a recall to those who wanted it to reprogram the GPS to have a male’s voice.
- Mark Wahlberg didn’t receive his high school diploma until the age of 42 in 2013. The music and movie star wasn’t into education as a teen and dropped out of high school in the 9th grade so he could focus on other activities such as joining a gang, drug dealing, nearly killing a Vietnamese man, and, of course, hip hop music. After initially being tried for attempted murder, and pleading down to criminal contempt, he did a complete 180, getting out of the gang and generally turning his life around with the help of his parish priest. Recently, he decided to finish high school to set a better example for his kids. He hired a tutor, took online courses, and got his diploma.
Mike Dirnt (b. 1972) is an American musician, songwriter and composer. He is best known as the co-founder, bassist, backing and occasional lead vocalist of American punk rock band Green Day. He has played in several other bands, including The Frustrators.
Leopard
We live in an Instagram/Facebook/etc world. Every photo has to be *THE* photo. How can you live up to that? Everyone’s life/experience seems better than yours. But, it’s not true. Leopards can be really hard to see. Even if you go on the ultimate trip, you might see just one – one single leopard. You may get a really bad cramp contorting yourself to get any shot. You may think you failed. And maybe you did fail, but it doesn’t mean your trip or experience is any less than anyone else’s.
thanks, Dawn
Bright and Breezy Kimono
knit
thanks, Judith
Hand Knitted Baby Cardigan Pattern
knit
Clementine pattern by The Noble Thread
knit
Textured Baby Blanket pattern
thanks, Helen
crochet
thanks, Fern
crochet, MOTHER'S DAY
crochet
Bookworm Bookmark
crochet
 | |||||||
May Pole 9" and 12" Square pattern by Shan Sevcik
This pattern was presented as a Mystery CAL in mugginsquilts’ Ravelry group in May, and is featured as the final square in the year-long VCFC BAWL.
| |||||||
Preview by Yahoo
| |||||||
thanks, Jane
thanks, Dana
CRAFTS
DIY PLANTER
answers below:
PUZZLE
right pic, wrong label
Bee on Hispidum Jigsaw Puzzle
| applaud battle begs bleak blip bound bushel close | degree dimple duffle empire factual fender fluster | grade grasp health ideal invest late leadership league lonely | meant pretty rain reef resistance result rights | shirt shrub slit sound sponsor states tier volley |
solution:
CLEVER
USE CLOTHES PINS TO PREVENT
YOUR TOOTHBRUSH TOUCHING
I actually have done this to Ray when he worked .. poor guy, great wife! hehehe
thanks, Sam
No comments:
Post a Comment