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Today Is May Day! on This Date Did You Know? Happy THE SATURDAY, MAY 1, 2021 Today is May Day! Quote of the Day “I choose things by how they resonate in my heart.” ~ Rita Coolidge On This Date 1707 – Great Britain was created by the union of the English and Scottish Happy Birthday! parliaments. The two countries had Rita Coolidge, born in 1945, is an shared a monarch since 1603. accomplished singer/songwriter from 1851 – The Great Exhibition opened Lafayette, Tennessee. The two-time in the Crystal Palace in London. Grammy Award winner has lit up More than 10,000 exhibitors set the pop, country, contemporary, up eight miles of tables to display and jazz charts with her greatest technological wonders from around hits, which include the world. Conceived by Prince “We’re All Alone,” Albert, husband of Queen Victoria, “(Your Love Keeps the exposition hosted six million Lifting Me) Higher visitors before it closed in October. and Higher,” and “All Time High.” 1931 – President Herbert Hoover officially opened the Empire State Coolidge, who has Building in New York City. Cherokee ancestry, performed with her sister and niece in Walela, a Native American music trio, until 2000. She was an early host on the Did You Know? VH1 music channel. Her daughter, The name “M&M’s” stands for the Casey Kristofferson (from a initials of the candy’s inventors, marriage to Kris Kristofferson), is Mars and Murrie. also a musician. ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles (CAN) ATURDAY AY S , M 1, 2021 Today is Beltane, the Celtic festival of fire and new life. This date marks both the peak of spring and the beginning of summer when the earth is bursting with new life. Bonfires are lit to honor the sun and the life it returns to the land. Root of the Matter Golden Memories Under your belt On this day 50 years ago, Amtrak If you get something under your belt, began rail service in the United then you have accomplished a task States. In 1970, Congress passed the or achievement. This Passenger Rail Service Act in an phrase originated in effort to prop up failing railways and the late 1700s and maintain affordable rail service. meant that one had The product of that effort was consumed a lot of Amtrak, a private railway company alcohol. The saying evolved to refer to that received government funding. food that one had eaten. If a meal was On that very first day of service, under your belt, then it was safely in Amtrak ran 184 trains on a your stomach, and could not be taken 23,000-mile network that served away. The meaning then evolved from 314 communities. While this was food to experience, meaning that you just a fraction of the network of had done something, learned a lesson, 440 trains that ran the previous day, or achieved a noteworthy milestone. train service had been given new life. Who Said So? Word Scramble This positive-thinking American O C A N E B minister said, “The cyclone derives its power from a calm center. A light used as guidance So do people.” or as a warning BEACON ANSWER: Peale Vincent Norman ANSWER: ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles EXTRA! THE SUNDAY, MAY 2, 2021 On This Date 1611 – The King James Version of Spock Says the Bible was published for the first “All the time a person is time in London. a child, he is both a child 1670 – The Hudson Bay Company was and learning to be a parent. founded by England’s King Charles II. After he becomes a parent, Today, the Company’s head office he becomes predominantly a is located in Brampton, Ontario. parent reliving childhood.” 1933 – The Scottish newspaper ~ Dr. Benjamin Spock Inverness Courier related an account of a local couple who saw “an enormous animal rolling and plunging Happy Birthday! on the surface” of Loch Ness. The story of the “monster” became a Benjamin Spock (1903–1998), known media phenomenon. as Dr. Spock to his devotees, was a revered American pediatrician 2012 – A pastel version of The Scream, whose books on child rearing, by painter Edvard Munch, sold for especially The Common Sense Book about $120 million in a New York of Baby and Child Care (1946), City auction. influenced generations of parents. In the 1960s, Spock was active in the movement to end the Vietnam War. A lesser-known fact about Dr. Spock is Geography Trivia that when he was a The oldest known rocks on Earth, young man at Yale, he was on the 4.28 billion years old, were found rowing team and won a gold medal on the shoreline of Hudson Bay. at the 1924 Olympics. ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles (CAN) UNDAY AY S , M 2, 2021 Today is World Laughter Day. Laughter, it turns out, is best practiced as a group activity. People are 30 times more likely to laugh when they are part of a group. Studies show that laughter is more closely related to social bonding than to humor. Who Am I? Only Human As a young man, I drifted from job to Some people who desperately do not job, until I finally landed a position as want to stick to personal resolutions to a painter in a traveling circus. I had get healthy or fit might say that they found my home. In 1937, I made my are allergic to exercise, circus debut as a performer. I broke with and you might just have tradition and ditched the madcap look of to believe them. For some big shoes and ballooning suit for the people, a sweaty workout sadder look of a down-on-his-luck is truly enough to induce hobo. Many people believe that my a life-threatening allergic reaction. new circus persona revolutionized my Exercise-induced anaphylaxis is profession, and I would become a star triggered when a person eats certain in movies and television. I am also foods and then exercises afterward. As famous for my role in saving many blood pumps through the body, the people from a fire that broke out in a food that causes the adverse response circus tent. Who am I? is rapidly distributed throughout the Emmett Kelly, a.k.a. Weary Willie Weary a.k.a. Kelly, Emmett ANSWER: body, causing a severe and abnormal reaction. Since the 1970s, only 1,000 cases of exercise-induced anaphylaxis Buy a Vowel have been documented. R _ L _ _ S _ Punny Business To set free or let go No matter how much you push the RELEASE ANSWER: ANSWER: envelope, it’ll still be stationery. ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles EXTRA! THE MONDAY, MAY 3, 2021 On This Date 1915 – Canadian physician, poet, Quote of the Day author, artist, and surgeon John A. McCrae composed his famous “Everyone knows I’m just a war memorial poem “In Flanders big, good-natured slob.” Fields” during the Second Battle ~ Bing Crosby of Ypres. The poem was inspired by the death of his friend Lt. Alexis Helmer. 1937 – Margaret Mitchell’s novel Happy Birthday! Gone with the Wind won the Pulitzer Bing Crosby (1903–1977) was an Prize and became one of the best- iconic singer and selling novels of all time. The movie actor of Hollywood’s won 10 Academy Awards. golden age. Crosby 1947 – Japan introduced a new was one of the constitution, stating, “The right to earliest “crooners” vote cannot be denied on the grounds and sang such hits of race, creed, sex, social status, as “Pennies from family origin, education, property, Heaven” and “White Christmas.” In or income.” the 1940s, he teamed up with Bob Hope in seven Road to… pictures. He also made several dramatic Bing Trivia films and won an Oscar for his role in Going My Way (1944). During Bing Crosby’s real name was his peak years, around 1948, polls Harry Lillis Crosby. A childhood declared him the “most admired man friend who shared Bing’s interest alive.” Crosby had four children in a newspaper comic strip called with his first wife, Dixie Lee, who The Bingville Bugle bestowed the died in 1952, and three children with nickname “Bing” upon him. his second wife, Kathryn Grant. ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles (CAN) MONDAY, MAY 3, 2021 Today is Garden Meditation Day. While some might enjoy the quiet of their gardens, the practice of gardening is also very meditative. Tilling soil, planting seeds, and nurturing plants promote feelings of calm and connection to nature. Eye in the Sky Wild Kingdom Last year, scientists searching for signs In January of 2019, a whale washed of life on other planets in our solar ashore on Sandy Key in Florida. At system were abuzz when scant traces the time, many biologists believed of phosphine gas were discovered in that the creature was a Bryde’s whale, the clouds of Venus. Phosphine is a common find. But found on Earth as a byproduct of living some were not so sure. organisms. Could there be lifeforms After genetic analysis, creating the gas on Venus? Unlikely. scientists determined Scientists quickly tried to confirm the that the whale was an findings only to conclude that there entirely new species. They named it was no phosphine. The atmosphere of Rice’s whale, after famed whale Venus is notorious as a “hellscape” researcher Dale W. Rice. As exciting devoid of any life with clouds of as it was to discover a new species in sulfuric acid. The mysterious clouds the Gulf of Mexico, the investigators were likely sulfur dioxide. were also dismayed to find such a small population. The Rice’s whale is Word Wise already critically endangered.
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