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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.

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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:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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. Which word is not like the others?

rose hydrangea Name Three

barberry bougainvillea Can you name three U.S. state

capitals that begin with the letter P?

the others do. others the

Arizona Phoenix, Dakota; South Pierre,

Hydrangeas do not have thorns; thorns; have not do Hydrangeas

ANSWER: ANSWER: Providence, Rhode Island; Island; Rhode Providence, ANSWER:

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TUESDAY, MAY 4, 2021 Today is Star Wars Day…

Quote of the Day “Who in the world am I? Ah, that’s the great puzzle.” ...because of a famous quote from ~ Lewis Carroll, from Alice’s the hugely popular science-fiction Adventures in Wonderland series blockbuster: “May the Force (Fourth) be with you.” On This Date Happy Birthday! 1836 – Canada’s first railway locomotive, the Iron Kitten, was Alice Liddell (1852–1934) was the delivered to Montreal, Quebec. girl who inspired Charles Dodgson, Trial runs were held at night to avoid who wrote under the name Lewis frightening the public. Carroll, to write Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. To 1977 – British broadcaster David entertain Liddell and Frost conducted several television her two sisters during interviews with former American a summer outing in President Richard Nixon that 1862, Dodgson spun became the basis for a critically fantastic stories of a acclaimed play and film. girl named Alice and A Hint from Heloise her adventures after she fell into a rabbit hole. He published a manuscript To get those last two inches out of the stories several months later. of the spray cleaner, drop some Liddell married professional cricketer marbles into the container to raise Reginald Hargreaves, and they had the liquid level back to where the three sons, two of whom were killed spray pump will work. in World War I.

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UESDAY AY T , M 4, 2021

Today is Intergalactic Star Wars Day. You might hear fans of the popular space-themed movies saying, “May the Fourth be with you.” This byword is a

playful take on the famous line “May the Force be with you,” from the original film.

You Are What You Eat Think-tionary

For an authentic breakfast in New futhorc

Jersey, look no further than pork roll, or A. A genius with buffoonish Taylor ham. A breakfast sandwich of tendencies pork roll, egg, and cheese is Jersey’s or signature dish. Taylor ham is a processed smoked pork product made B. The ancient Anglo-Saxon

from pork and spices. It was invented runish alphabet

who know the futhorc by heart. by futhorc the know who

NSWER: B. I am one of only three scholars scholars three only of one am I B. NSWER: by state senator John Taylor in 1856 A and originally called Taylor’s Prepared Ham. Unfortunately, it had to drop the When Was It? “ham” designation in 1906, after the passage of the Pure Food and Drug It was during this year that the Act. Reports show that Union soldiers Honeymoon Bridge at Niagara Falls carried Taylor’s pork roll with them collapsed due to an ice jam. Superman into battle during the Civil War. first appeared in Action Comics #1. The ballpoint Whatchamacallit? pen was patented by What do you call a group of Laszlo Biro. “Wrong bats? Way” Corrigan took off from New York for California but ended up in storm colony Ireland, and Orson Welles famously

flutter gang broadcast his radio adaptation of The

COLONY

ANSWER: War of the Worlds. When was it? 1938 ANSWER:

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 5, 2021 Today is Cinco de Mayo! Quote of the Day “I said I could and I would. And I did.” ~ Nellie Bly

On This Date 1862 – During the French-Mexican Happy Birthday! War, a poorly supplied and Elizabeth Cochran Seaman (1864– outnumbered Mexican army led by 1922), better known by her pen General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated name, Nellie Bly, was a pioneering a French army attempting to capture investigative reporter for the New Puebla de Los Angeles, a small York World. She feigned insanity in town in east-central Mexico. Cinco order to be admitted to the Women’s de Mayo (meaning “fifth of May”) Lunatic Asylum. With the help of her commemorates this victory. employer, Seaman was released after 1921 – Chanel No. 5, one of the 10 days. Her report, published as the most famous perfumes in history, book Ten Days in a first went on sale to the public. Mad-House, created a sensation and Riddle Time forced the asylum to change its practices. If precipitation of weather comes She gained further your way, add a d and it will run fame for her record- away. How can that be? breaking trip around the world in 72 A: One kind of precipitation is rain. days. During the trip, she met Jules Add a d in front of rain and Verne, author of Around the World you get drain. in Eighty Days.

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EDNESDAY AY W , M 5, 2021

Today is Cinco de Mayo. Many folks incorrectly believe that this is Mexico’s Independence Day. On May 5, 1862, General Zaragoza’s Mexican troops defeated the larger and better-equipped French army in the Battle of Puebla.

Garden Party Gadgets & Gizmos

One of the most well-known carnivorous plants is the sundew. These plants get their name from the wet “dew” that coats hairs on the ends of their leaves and glistens in the sun. While true dew is nothing more than water droplets, this sticky secretion, called mucilage, is produced by glands in the sundew’s Nissan’s “office pod” vehicle evolves leaves. Insects are attracted to the the notion of “working from home” to “working from anywhere.” Simply plant’s nectar and become stuck in drive your mobile office to any the mucilage and suffocate. In just bucolic location. What’s more, the 15 minutes, this plant can kill an roof is equipped with a patio chair and insect, but it will take a few weeks to umbrella so that you can take your slowly digest the meal. coffee break in style.

Word Scramble Who Said So?

U R B T E T I This comedian, once a contestant on America’s Got Talent!, said, “I’ve An act or gift of gratitude been on so many blind dates, I or respect

should get a free dog.” TRIBUTE ANSWER:

Liebman Wendy ANSWER:

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THURSDAY, MAY 6, 2021 On This Date 1840 – The world’s first adhesive Quote of the Day postage stamp, the “Penny Black,” “The only failure is was first used in Great Britain. The not to try.” pre-paid stamp featured a profile portrait of Queen Victoria. ~ George Clooney 1915 – Twenty-year-old pitcher Babe Ruth hit his first major league home run. His team, the Boston Red Happy Birthday! Sox, lost that day to the New York George Clooney, born in 1961, is an Yankees by a score of 4–3 in the actor, director, and producer from 13th inning. Lexington, Kentucky. Clooney 1937 – The airship Hindenburg, the found fame (and heartthrob status) largest dirigible ever built and the with his role as Dr. Doug Ross on pride of Nazi Germany, burst into NBC’s TV hit medical drama ER, flames upon touching its mooring from 1994 to 1999. He left the show mast in New Jersey. to pursue films full-time. Some of his most popular movies include 1959 – Raymond Burr won the From Dusk till Dawn, Out of Sight, Emmy for Best Actor in a Dramatic Ocean’s Eleven, Michael Clayton, Series for Perry Mason, in which he Up in the Air, and The Descendants. played a crime-solving attorney. He’s won two Academy Awards: Best Supporting Actor for 2006’s Syriana and Best Daily Quiz Picture for 2012’s Q: What is glair? Argo. Clooney is married to human A: Glair is a preparation of egg rights lawyer Amal whites used for centuries as an Clooney. The couple adhesive for gold leaf and gilding. has two children.

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HURSDAY AY T , M 6, 2021

Today is No Diet Day. Just for a day, forget to follow the paleo-vegan, keto-, low-carb, Whole30, Atkins, or any other diet that restricts you from eating

the foods you love. Consider this day a love letter to your favorite foods.

Picture of the Day The Games People Play

Musical Canine Freestyle is a performance sport wherein dog owners demonstrate their pet’s obedience training through music and dance. The dog trainer synchronizes the obedience routine to music, performing a dance routine with their dog. The sport developed from Musical Kur, a horse dressage competition where “This time I was serious about horse paces are set to music. Several sticking to my diet.” organizations around the world hold musical canine freestyle Now it’s your turn to come up events. An offshoot of the sport with a good caption. called exhibition freestyle allows Word to the Wise costumes and props.

The word cancel has taken on an Buy a Vowel entirely new meaning thanks to social media. To cancel someone _ _ T W _ T or something means to withdraw support from them and take away Defeat someone using

superior cleverness

OUTWIT their voice on social media. It is a ANSWER: form of digital social shaming.

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FRIDAY, MAY 7, 2021 On This Date 1824 – Beethoven’s glorious last Quote of the Day symphony, Symphony No. 9, “The idea comes from outside premiered in Vienna. The composer of me—and is like a gift. was completely deaf at the time of I then take the idea and the premiere. make it my own—that is 1915 – A German submarine torpedoed where the skill lies.” the British ocean liner Lusitania off the Irish coast. The Lusitania ~ Johannes Brahms had the misfortune of being sunk early in WWI, before tactics for evading submarines were properly Happy Birthday! implemented. The ship sank in just 18 minutes, and the loss of 1,198 Johannes Brahms (1833–1897) was lives was a major factor in the U.S.’s a German virtuoso pianist, composer, decision to join the war in 1917. and conductor from Hamburg. Considered one of the “Three Bs” of music along with Ludwig van Beethoven and Johann Sebastian Bach, Brahms is a revered figure of the Romantic period. He was both a traditionalist and Did You Know? an innovator who The letter sequence ough can be worked with many of pronounced nine different ways. the leading musicians The following sentence contains of his time. After them all: “A rough-coated, dough- moving to Vienna in faced, thoughtful ploughman strode the 1870s, he became the principal through the streets of Scarborough; conductor of the Society of Friends after falling into a slough, he Music and director of the Vienna coughed and hiccoughed.” Philharmonic Orchestra.

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RIDAY AY F , M 7, 2021

Today is Public Gardens Day. Every Friday before Mother’s Day, people are encouraged to take their mothers to visit a local public garden. These valuable

public spaces allow everyone to enjoy the beauty and peace of nature.

What’s the Difference? Fashion of Yesteryear

What’s the difference between Everyone has heard of the fashion russet potatoes and Idaho potatoes? names Chanel and Dior, but the name Walking the aisles of a grocery Grès is less well known. store, you’re likely to find bags Madame Grès was one of bearing the names of these two the leading designers of potatoes side by side. Most russet the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s. potatoes are the Russet Burbank A notorious perfectionist, variety, developed by Luther she first applied her talents Burbank. Idaho potatoes are not a to designing hats before turning to variety, but simply Russet Burbanks couture dressmaking. She was best grown in the state of Idaho. Other known for her floor-length, draped potatoes, such as red, Yukon Gold, Grecian goddess gowns, for which she and fingerling, are grown in Idaho became known as the “queen of and also bear the “Grown in Idaho” drapery.” She dressed Greta Garbo, seal on their packaging. Grace Kelly, and the Duchess of Windsor. Because she was protective Word Wise of her private life, Grès was also Which word is not like the others? known as the “Sphinx of Fashion.”

hemlock fir Riddle Me This

birch juniper When can you add two to eleven and

others are evergreens. are others get one as the correct answer?

o’clock. one have you’ll

A birch is a deciduous tree; the the tree; deciduous a is birch A ANSWER: ANSWER: Add two hours to eleven o’clock and and o’clock eleven to hours two Add

ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, MAY 8, 2021 On This Date 1877 – The first Westminster Kennel Quote of the Day Club Dog Show opened at Gilmore’s “My life was a mystery Gardens in New York City. even as I lived it.” 1886 – Pharmacist John Pemberton first sold a carbonated beverage ~ Melissa Gilbert named Coca-Cola as a patent medicine in his Atlanta drug store. 1945 – Hostilities ceased in Europe Happy Birthday! when terms of the Nazis’ unconditional Melissa Gilbert, born in 1964, surrender took effect. Massive starred as Laura Ingalls Wilder, the celebrations broke out in cities second-oldest daughter of Charles throughout the free world. Ingalls (played by Michael Landon) 1987 – A gold-colored coin was in the popular television series Little introduced to replace the Canadian House on the Prairie. paper dollar. The “loonie” has a She beat out 500 loon engraved on its rear side. other child actors for the role. Gilbert was Did You Know? very close to Landon Henry Ford learned of a process and his family, and for turning wood scraps from she named one of the production of Model T’s into her sons after him. As an adult, she charcoal briquettes. He founded has continued her acting career in the Ford Charcoal Company, later television and has written several renamed Kingsford Charcoal. books, including the autobiography Prairie Tale: A Memoir. She was president of the Screen Actors Guild from 2001 to 2005 and has been married to actor-director Tim Busfield since 2013.

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ATURDAY AY S , M 8, 2021

Today is American Indian Day. In 1915, Reverend Sherman Coolidge, president of the American Indian Association, declared the second Saturday

of May American Indian Day as a means of recognizing Indian citizenship.

Only Human Root of the Matter

If somebody tells you that “you’re Cutting edge glowing,” they are not just talking If technology is called cutting edge, about a happy twinkle in your that means that it is the newest, most eye. The human body actually emits innovative, and best in the industry. light. Unfortunately, this light is While cutting here refers to a sharp, 1,000 times less intense than the honed edge, and it conjures the image amount needed for humans to observe of a sharp knife or sword it with our naked eyes. Nevertheless, making a clean cut, the biochemical reactions occurring in the idiom actually originated as human body throughout the day cause another phrase from the our bodies to glow. Interestingly, our mid-1800s, leading edge, glow brightens and dims throughout which referred to the edge of a blade the day based on our metabolic or rudder cutting through the water. In rhythms and body clocks. For most this sense, the leading or cutting edge people, it is dimmest at 10 a.m. and allows a ship to move faster and more brightest around 4 p.m. nimbly. This phrase was used to describe not just ships but also agile Word Scramble companies or technologies.

L W E A R T R Name Three A fishing boat that uses a net Can you name three European

to make a catch

TRAWLER ANSWER: countries that begin with the letter I?

Italy Iceland, Ireland, ANSWER:

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SUNDAY, MAY 9, 2021

Quote of the Day “Now and then there’s a fool such as I.” On This Date ~ Hank Snow 1386 – England and Portugal signed the Treaty of Windsor. The accord is the oldest diplomatic alliance in Happy Birthday! the world that is still in effect. Hank Snow (1914–1999), Canadian 1903 – The Barr Colonists, a religious American country and western singer, sect of about 2,000 British immigrants, guitarist, and songwriter, was born arrived at Lloydminster. The pioneers in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia. At the endured many hardships, but they age of 14, he bought opened the west for settlement. Today, his first guitar for Lloydminster, straddling the border $5.95 and began a between Alberta and Saskatchewan, career that included has a population of about 30,000. such hits as “I’m Moving On,” “Let Daily Trivia Me Go, Lover!” and “I’ve Been Q: Which of the 50 United States Everywhere.” In 1954, he persuaded has the lowest high point? the Grand Ole Opry to give a new singer by the name of Elvis Presley a A: Florida. No point in the chance. He recorded 140 albums in a Sunshine State is higher than career that lasted over five decades. Britton Hill, which is a mere Snow, who spent his childhood 345 feet above sea level. Florida, living in poverty, founded the Hank rather than Kansas, is also the Snow International Foundation for flattest state in the Union. Prevention of Child Abuse.

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UNDAY AY S , M 9, 2021

Today is Mother’s Day in the United States, but the U.S. is not alone in honoring motherhood. Maternity was celebrated in ancient Greece with a spring

festival honoring Rhea, goddess of motherhood and the flow of time.

Wild Kingdom Where Am I?

The world has a new “smallest This South Korean reptile.” Last February, scientists island, consisting mostly discovered a chameleon so small that of farmers, became it can fit comfortably on a fingertip. famous almost overnight The male Brookesia nana, or when local officials nano-chameleon, is just 22mm (less decided to paint the roofs than an inch) long from tip to tail and of 400 buildings a lovely shade is found only in a montane rainforest of purple to match the purple at the northern tip of Madagascar. bellflowers native to the area. The The creature is so tiny that it hunts for purple didn’t stop there. Officials mites on the forest floor and hides planted massive fields of lavender from predators on blades of grass. and over 30,000 purple New England Luckily for the nano-chameleon, its aster flowers. Telephone boxes were rainforest habitat has recently been painted purple, and a purple bridge protected, so this endangered species was built. The island, unsurprisingly, is likely to survive. has now become known worldwide

as “the purple island.” Where am I?

Banwol Island, South Korea South Island, Banwol ANSWER: Buy a Vowel

S P _ C _ _ _ S Riddle Me This

Seemingly true, but

What has a foot on each side

actually false

SPECIOUS ANSWER: and one in the middle?

yardstick A ANSWER:

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MONDAY, MAY 10, 2021 On This Date 1869 – In a remote corner of Utah, Quote of the Day the final spike was driven in to “Do it big, do it right, connect the first U.S. transcontinental rail line. and do it with style.” 1940 – Winston Churchill became ~ Fred Astaire the British prime minister. On the same day, Hitler invaded Belgium and the Netherlands. Three days Happy Birthday! later, Churchill inspired his country with his speech: “Victory! Victory Fred Astaire (1899–1987) was a at all costs!” phenomenal, hugely influential American 1969 – Canadian composer Galt dancer, actor, and McDermott had two singer who grew up songs from the musical in Omaha, Nebraska. Hair reach the top of Astaire, who had a the Billboard hit list: remarkable sense “Aquarius/ Let the Sun of rhythm, is an icon of the classic Shine In” and “Hair.” Hollywood musical film. He is Did You Know? considered one of the greatest dancers in the history of film and worked in The largest amount of money in entertainment for 76 years. Known coins you can have without having as an exacting perfectionist as well change for a dollar is $1.19. (You as an inspired innovator, he was a cannot divide 3 quarters, 4 dimes, frequent dance partner of Ginger and 4 pennies into a dollar.) Rogers. Some of his most successful films include Shall We Dance, Top Hat, Swing Time, Holiday Inn, Funny Face, and Silk Stockings. He also acted on TV and in non-musical films.

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ONDAY AY M , M 10, 2021

On this day in 1869, the “Golden Spike” was struck at Promontory Summit, Utah, completing the First Transcontinental Railroad. The 17.6-karat spike was

supposed to be driven on May 8, but bad weather delayed the ceremony.

Eye in the Sky Think-tionary

pyknic If you’ve ever wanted to own a piece of the cosmos, Christie’s A. To have a romantic or naive auction house was offering a golden outlook of the world opportunity last February. Christie’s or auctioned off a wide variety of space

rocks that had landed on Earth as B. Tending to be short, stocky,

broad, and powerful

meteorites. Some were part of the ancestors. pyknic

proud to resemble my my resemble to proud am I B. NSWER:

moon; others came from Mars or A asteroids from the depths of space. The most affordable pieces were a Toys of Yesteryear few hundred dollars. Others, such as Shut-the-Box was played for 200 years a four-pound slab of meteorite by the French fisherman of Normandy found in Mali, went for hundreds of before becoming popular in southern thousands. Some of the pieces were England. The “Box” is ground into gem-studded crystal a tray showing the balls. Others retained fiery scars. numbers 1–9. Dice are Word Scramble rolled in the tray, and each time a number is rolled, that R A N P T E R number is covered up. A player’s turn ends when the numbers rolled on the A companion or ally in a dice can no longer cover any numbers

venture or relationship in the tray. The remaining numbers are PARTNER ANSWER:

tallied to give you a score.

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TUESDAY, MAY 11, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1811 – The original Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, were born in Siam “Nobody cares if you can’t (now Thailand). dance well. Just get up and 1943 – American troops invaded dance. Great dancers are great Attu Island in the Aleutian Islands because of their passion.” and, several weeks later, defeated ~ Martha Graham occupying Japanese forces. The island was the site of the only World War II land battle fought Happy Birthday! on an incorporated territory of the United States. Martha Graham (1894–1991) was a renowned modern dancer and 1949 – Siam, in southeast Asia, choreographer whose influential changed its name to Thailand. It dance style is called “Graham is the only country in Southeast Technique.” In 1936, she made her Asia that was never colonized by defining work, Chronicle, which a European country. Thailand is a marked a new era in contemporary constitutional monarchy. dance. Once, when she got into trouble as a child, her father asked her what Did You Know? she had done, and The 1956 musical The King and I, Graham lied to him. starring Yul Brynner and Deborah He read her body Kerr, is banned in Thailand. Thai language, knew she was lying to him, authorities believe that The King and told her, “Movement never lies.” and I presents the Siamese monarch This phrase would become a catechism as a fool and denigrates Thai the iconic dancer would remember culture as inferior to the West. and repeat throughout her life.

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UESDAY AY T , M 11, 2021

Today is Hostess CupCake Day. On this date in 1919, the first Hostess CupCakes were sold, two to a pack, for a nickel. They are considered the first

commercially produced snack cakes, although rival Tastykake disputes the claim.

Gadgets & Gizmos Centennial Memories

On this day 100 years ago, it was widely reported that Charlie Chaplin had suffered horrible burns during an accident on the set of The Idle Class. Sources on the set claimed that Chaplin had tripped over a torch, which set fire to his clothing and resulted in serious injuries. The story was revealed as a

hoax propagated by Chaplin’s agent to Wickedbone is advertised as the first drum up publicity. Yes, Chaplin had dog toy that will play with your pet. an incident with a blowtorch, but it It’s more than just a chew toy. The was not serious. Chaplin attempted bone will move, spin, and make plenty to clear up the story by issuing a of noise to keep your dog happy. clarifying statement, but few newspapers Controlled by an app on a smartphone, bothered to run the correction. owners can set it to play while they are away or even control it remotely. High Five

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 2021 On This Date 1861 – Queen Victoria issued a Quote of the Day proclamation of British neutrality “I attribute my success to regarding the civil war that was this—I never gave or raging in the United States. took any excuse.” 1930 – The Adler Planetarium and ~ Florence Nightingale Astronomical Museum opened to the public in Chicago. It was the first modern planetarium in North America. Happy Birthday! 1938 – The Adventures of Robin Florence Nightingale (1820–1910) Hood, starring Errol Flynn and became an icon of the Victorian era Olivia de Havilland, premiered at as “The Lady with the Lamp” for Radio City Music Hall. tending to wounded soldiers at night during the Crimean 1963 – Bob Dylan canceled an War. Today, she’s appearance on The remembered as a Ed Sullivan Show pioneer of nursing over a dispute with and a reformer of censors about the hospital sanitation lyrics of his song methods. She was “Talkin’ John Birch also a mathematician and prodigious Paranoid Blues.” writer who encouraged hospitals to collect data and generate statistical Nightingale Notes reports. The annual International Nurses Day is celebrated around Not only did Florence Nightingale the world on her birthday, and the revolutionize nursing but she also Florence Nightingale Medal is the inspired a poem, “Santo Filomena,” highest international distinction a by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. nurse can achieve.

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EDNESDAY AY W , M 12, 2021

Today is Limerick Day, honoring the birth of limerick writer Edward Lear on this day in 1812. Lear is best remembered for his nonsensical limericks and

poems, in which he invented several nonsense words, such as “runcible spoon.”

You Are What You Eat Garden Party

You should be able to find cheese Why are roses considered so superior crisp on the menu of any restaurant in to other flowers? The most likely Arizona. Cheese crisp is a deceptively explanation is that roses simple dish. It is a fried tortilla loaded have held symbolic with cheeses such as Monterey Jack, significance for humans cheddar, cotija, or asadero, which is for millennia. They then broiled until the cheese is bubbly have represented purity and passion, and brown. Some think of cheese suffering and peace. Perhaps this was crisp solely as an appetizer, but if due to the symmetry of the rose’s done right, it can also become a main circular pattern, or the beauty of the dish. Not only is it cooked on a round flower and its sweet fragrance pizza pan, but it can be loaded with juxtaposed with its sharp thorns. pizza-like toppings such as tomatoes, Other flowers, such as the lily or the onions, or meats, and served with lotus, have tried to compete with the guacamole dip or salsa on the side. rose for popularity but to no avail.

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wabbling falsetto said, “A guinea pig squirrel computer once beat me at

chess, but it was no match porcupine hedgehog others are rodents. are others

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THURSDAY, MAY 13, 2021 On This Date 1940 – Germany began its invasion Quote of the Day of France. Hitler’s popularity in Germany reached its peak with “Just because a man lacks France’s capitulation on July 6, 1940. the use of his eyes doesn’t mean he lacks vision.” 1940 – Winston Churchill addressed the House of Commons for the first ~ Stevie Wonder time as prime minister, proclaiming, “I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.” Happy Birthday! 1958 – The Velcro trademark was registered for a fabric hook-and- Stevie Wonder, born in 1950, is an loop fastener. It was invented by a iconic singer-songwriter and record Swiss engineer who wondered why producer. Blind from infancy, he burrs stuck to his clothing following never allowed lack of sight to be a hike in the Alps. an obstacle. His hit songs include “My Cherie Amour,” “For Once in Daily Trivia My Life,” “I Just Called to Say I Love During his life, Vincent van Gogh You,” and “You Are sold exactly one painting, Red the Sunshine of My Vineyard at Arles. It sold for Life.” His hit song 400 francs (equal to about “Isn’t She Lovely” $1,000 today). was inspired by the birth of his daughter, Aisha, in 1975. He was inducted into the Soul Music Hall of Fame in 2012. Wonder practices transcendental meditation, and sang about it on James Corden’s Late Late Show in a “Carpool Karaoke” segment.

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HURSDAY AY T , M 13, 2021

Today is Frog Jumping Day. On this day in 1865, Mark Twain published his first story, “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog,” which won Twain fame and

notoriety, jumpstarting his career as a witty and humorous storyteller.

The Games People Play Mystery to Me

Haka Pei is the extreme sport of Easter In 2013, a robbery was committed at Island that requires competitors to the Carlton Hotel in Cannes, France— rocket down the slopes of the Maunga the very same hotel where Alfred Pu’i volcano on a sled made of the Hitchcock filmed To Catch a Thief— trunks of banana but this time, the thief was not caught. trees. This cultural The bandit pulled off the daytime heist tradition was an by walking into a billionaire’s room ancient rite of and leaving with a sack of gemstones passage, a test of courage that worth $136 million. The billionaire initiated young boys as warriors. was to display his fantastic collection, Today, it is no less dangerous, with but instead, he was robbed in less than locals donning a tribal loincloth, 30 seconds. Investigators believe that painting their bodies in the ancestral the diamond thieves known as style, and then hurtling down the the Pink Panthers were responsible, hillside at 50 mph. Whoever goes the especially considering that one had farthest from the starting line at the just escaped prison. top of the hill is declared the winner. Buy a Vowel

What’s in a Name? L _ _ T _ R _ R This rapper and music producer, the husband of pop star Beyoncé, was One who lingers aimlessly,

an idler

LOITERER ANSWER: born Shawn Corey Carter.

Z - Jay : ANSWER

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FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2021 On This Date 1643 – Four-year-old Louis XIV Quote of the Day became King of France. Known as the Sun King, his reign of more “The unexpected connections than 72 years was the longest in we make might not last yet European history. stay with us forever.” 1796 – British physician Edward ~ Sofia Coppola Jenner noticed that milkmaids often contracted cowpox, a relatively mild disease, but did not generally get smallpox. Using Happy Birthday! pus from the blisters Sofia Coppola, born in 1971, is an of milkmaids, he American director, screenwriter, prepared and tested producer, and actress. The multi- the first smallpox talented daughter of the legendary vaccine on an eight-year-old boy. director Francis Ford Coppola and Fortunately, the vaccine proved to cousin to actor Nicolas Cage has be effective. The last known case of made her own impressive mark on smallpox was diagnosed in 1977. Hollywood with such films as The 1955 – Eight Communist bloc Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, countries, including the Soviet Union, Marie Antionette, Somewhere, and signed a mutual defense treaty called The Beguiled. Her onscreen film the Warsaw Pact. debut occurred as an infant in her father’s acclaimed movie The Did You Know? Godfather. In 1994, The term bigwig is derived from before her career powdered wigs worn by men in the in cinema took off, 18th century. The bigger the wig, Coppola started a the wealthier and more important casual chic fashion the individual. label, Milkfed.

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RIDAY AY F , M 14, 2021

Today is “Fintastic Friday,” a day to “give sharks, skates, and rays a voice.” Sharks are often portrayed as menacing animals, but this holiday was created to

protect these unique sea creatures and the habitats that sustain them.

Picture of the Day Bookworm

In this book, a student who struggles to make friends is kicked out of his prep school before winter break. Rather than return to his New York City home, he decides to spend a few days in the city by himself. Unable to navigate the city on his own, despite his attempts at being a sophisticated adult, he suffers When you told me you lost an arm embarrassment, insult, and injury. He and a leg to a pool shark, this was considers everyone he meets to be a not what I was expecting. “phony,” except his younger sister, who is pure and genuine. This book has Now it’s your turn to come up with long been considered one of America’s

a good caption.

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SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2021 On This Date 1930 – Ellen Church became the first Quote of the Day airline stewardess. She served chicken, “Whenever I feel blue, fruit salad, and rolls I start breathing again.” to passengers. She ~ L. Frank Baum was also a pilot and a registered nurse. Boeing Air Transport would not hire her as a pilot but liked the idea Happy Birthday! of putting nurses, or “sky girls,” on board planes to calm the public’s L. Frank Baum (1856–1919) wrote fear of flying. his first book, Father Goose: His Book, in 1899. However, his next 1940 – Nylon stockings went on book, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz general sale for the first time. They (1900), was even more successful. were a huge success: women lined The iconic children’s up at stores across novel was adapted the country to buy as a musical and ran them. Nylons were on Broadway for available in either 293 nights in 1903. “full-fashioned” form with seams at Baum went on to the back or “seamless.” write 13 more books in the Oz series Nylon Trivia and many other stories for kids. The author was often asked whether his Nylon was developed in 1935 as stories had hidden meanings, and a synthetic replacement for silk. he always replied that they were During World War II, it was used written to please children. The 1939 in many military applications, such adaptation of the first Oz book become as parachutes, flak vests, tires, a landmark of 20th-century cinema, tents, ropes, and ponchos. starring Judy Garland as Dorothy.

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ATURDAY AY S , M 15, 2021

Today is Chocolate Chip Day. The first chocolate chips were literally chipped off of a bar of chocolate. Ruth Graves Wakefield of the Toll House

Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, baked the first chocolate chip cookie in 1937. Centennial Memories Root of the Matter

On this day 100 years ago, stunt pilot Corny Laura Bromwell broke her own record for aerial loops flown by If a joke is considered corny, then it is not very sophisticated or funny. Some a female pilot when she believe that the term originated with flew 199 consecutive seed catalogs of the 19th century, loops in one hour and which included unsophisticated jokes 20 minutes, besting her and anecdotes referred to as “corn previous record of 87. This was not the jokes” by subscribers. Some of the only record Bromwell would establish. first people to use the term corny were During that same flight, she also set a jazz musicians of the late 1920s, who speed record when she reached used the word to deride old-fashioned, 135 mph over the two-mile course. inferior, and trite types of jazz music. Bromwell learned to fly after joining Corny implied that the music sounded the New York Aerial Police Reserve. like unsophisticated country music. Her flying prowess earned her prestige The word later took on the meaning of as the “foremost American aviatrix.” simple and overly sentimental.

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SUNDAY, MAY 16, 2021 On This Date 1717 – Writer François-Marie Arouet, Quote of the Day better known as “It’s really about being Voltaire, began his pleased with yourself.” year-long sentence in the Bastille ~ Janet Jackson prison. His satirical poem on politics and religion, La Henriade, led to his arrest. Happy Birthday! 1960 – Researchers found that TV Janet Jackson, born in 1966, is an commercials “in living color” were American pop icon. The singer, over three times more effective than songwriter, actress, and record black and white commercials. producer is the sister of Michael and 10th 1975 – Japanese child of the famed mountaineer Junko Jackson family. Still, Tabei became the she found colossal first woman to success all on her climb to the top of own with such hit Mount Everest. albums as 1986’s Control and 1989’s Rhythm Nation 1814. Known for her innovative, provocative, infectious Janet Jackson Triva sound and lyrics as well as her over-the-top concerts, Jackson has When her single “When I Think accumulated a net worth estimated of You” debuted in 1986, Janet at around $190 million. Some of her Jackson and her brother Michael most popular songs include “When I became the first rock star siblings Think of You,” “Escapade,” “Alright,” to have separate No. 1 hits. and “That’s the Way Love Goes.”

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UNDAY AY S , M 16, 2021

Today is Sea Monkey Day. Kids in the 1950s could order sea monkeys from the back of a comic book. These pets were not monkeys but freeze-dried brine

shrimp developed by Harold von Braunhut, also the inventor of X-ray specs.

Think-tionary Only Human

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MONDAY, MAY 17, 2021 On This Date 1875 – Oliver Lewis rode Aristides Quote of the Day to victory and won a purse of $2,850 in the first running of the “Cool Papa Bell was so fast he Kentucky Derby. could get out of bed, turn out the lights across the room, and 1954 – The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled be back in bed under the covers for school integration before the lights went out.” in Brown v. Board ~ Josh Gibson, fellow baseball of Education. player and iconic power hitter 1999 – Ontario native Alex Trebek was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Happy Birthday! beloved TV personality had already won several Emmy awards. James “Cool Papa” Bell (1903–1991) was a professional baseball player Daily Quiz with exemplary speed, skill, and Q: Which U.S. Civil War general tenacity who grew popularized a new men’s hairstyle up in Mississippi. He that became known as sideburns? played center field A: Civil War Union General in America’s Negro Ambrose E. Burnside earned a niche leagues between 1922 in history for his muttonchops. and 1946. Racism kept him from competing in the Major Leagues. Bell is known as one of the fastest men to have played the game. His outrageous exploits running (and stealing) the bases are legendary—his lifetime batting average of .337 isn’t bad, either.

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ONDAY AY M , M 17, 2021

On this day in 1859, the Melbourne Football Club codified the rules of Australian Rules Football. William Hammersley, James Thompson, Tom

Smith, and Tom Wills agreed on 10 original rules, which have since changed.

Eye in the Sky Wild Kingdom

Titan is an apt name for Saturn’s An old English legend states that six largest moon, although it is less than ravens must inhabit the Tower of half the size of Earth. Another great London at all times, for “if the Tower name is Kraken Mare, the massive sea of London ravens are of liquid methane on Titan that was lost or fly away, the discovered in 2008 and named for the Crown will fall and legendary sea monster. It is larger than Britain with it.” In the all five Great Lakes combined. 1600s, King Charles II Scientists estimate that Kraken Mare is decreed that a captive population of more than 1,000 feet deep at its center ravens must be kept in the Tower, and large enough to be explored by a cared for by an official Ravenmaster. robotic submarine. Titan is a billion England was in a panic last January miles from Earth and freezing cold, yet when one of the ravens, the “queen” it looks a little like home with its of the tower named Merlina, went rivers, lakes, and seas of methane. missing. She is sadly believed to have passed away, but luckily for the Whatchamacallit? kingdom, six ravens remain. What do you call a group of cranes? Riddle Me This

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TUESDAY, MAY 18, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1897 – Irish writer Bram Stoker published his horror “I worked with the world’s novel Dracula. greatest talents and then went Stoker spent years home to the world’s greatest researching European woman. It was, and is, folklore and stories a great life.” of vampires before writing it. ~ Perry Como 1910 – A mixture of fear and excitement swept the public as Happy Birthday! Earth was due to pass through the tail of Halley’s comet the Perry Como (1912–2001), who was following day. Although assured by known as “Mr. C,” was an Italian scientists that there was nothing to American singer and actor. Como worry about, many people bought hosted popular musical variety gas masks and pills designed to television shows, winning five counteract the comet poison, thinking Emmy Awards in the 1950s for his that poisonous gasses would fill work. He was also an accomplished the atmosphere. singer and movie star in such films 1980 – Mount St. Helens, a volcano in as Doll Face and If southwestern Washington, produced I’m Lucky. He has a massive eruption, which removed three stars on the 1,300 feet off of its summit. Ash was Hollywood Walk of deposited in 11 states. Fame, one each for his outstanding contributions to radio, Celebrity Trivia music, and TV. He and his wife, Perry Como was born the seventh Roselle, were married for 65 years son of a seventh son. and raised three children together.

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UESDAY AY T , M 18, 2021

Today is International Museum Day. This year’s theme is “The Future of Museums: Recover and Reimagine.” More than 37,000 museums around the

world take part in this day of cultural exchange, enrichment, and cooperation.

Weather or Not You Are What You Eat

Some clouds look like ocean waves Miami is well known for its Cuban breaking in the sky. These rare and hamburger, known as the frita beautiful clouds are known as Cubana. The hamburger patty is Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds, and they made of ground beef, which is might very well sometimes mixed with pork or spicy have been the chorizo. The burger is traditionally inspiration for Van served on a Cuban roll and topped Gogh’s painting with shoestring potato fries, Starry Night. The clouds occur although nowadays it can be found when there is a difference in density with chopped onions and spicy between two air masses: warmer, ketchup. The frita Cubana was a lighter air flows quickly over cooler, popular Cuban street food in the denser air, creating the wave-like 1920s and was brought to Miami in pattern. Because the clouds are 1961 by Dagoberto Estevil when he formed by moving air, they are most opened up the city’s first frita joint likely to be found on windy days. in Little Havana.

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B _ _ S T _ R _ _ S This monumental Russian writer of several literary masterpieces said, Noisy, energetic, cheerful, “The sole meaning of life is

and rowdy to serve humanity.”

BOISTEROUS ANSWER: Tolstoy Leo ANSWER:

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 2021 On This Date 1884 – The Ringling Brothers Circus Quote of the Day premiered in Baraboo, Wisconsin. “They moved like the pistons It later joined with the Barnum & of a gasoline engine with Bailey Circus. somebody opening the throttle wider all the time.” 1965 – Roger Miller received a gold record for the hit “King of ~ track coach Bob Granger on the Road.” Percy Williams’ legs 1973 – Secretariat won the second jewel of horse racing’s Triple Crown by capturing the Preakness Stakes Happy Birthday! in Baltimore, Maryland. The famed Percy Williams (1908–1982) was horse later went a phenomenal track athlete, born in on to win the Vancouver, British Columbia. He Belmont Stakes grew up with a rheumatic heart but and earn the was determined to Triple Crown. battle his handicap. At age 19, Williams tied the world record in the Geography Quiz 100-yard dash with a Q: What is the largest freshwater run of 9.6 seconds. lake in South America? This won him the right to represent Canada at the 1928 Olympics in A: Lake Titicaca, which is in the Amsterdam, where he more than Andes Mountains, on the border of excelled, taking gold medals in the Bolivia and Peru. The surface area 100-meter and 200-meter sprints is 3,232 square miles. At just over with upset victories against the 12,500 feet above sea level, it is fastest field ever assembled. In 1929, also the world’s highest the national hero won 21 of 22 races navigable lake. on the U.S. indoor circuit.

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EDNESDAY AY W , M 19, 2021

Today is May Ray Day. As the old saying goes, “April showers bring May flowers.” And those flowers bloom thanks to the sun! This holiday encourages

people to soak up the warm rays of the sun at the onset of summer.

The Games People Play Garden Party

For thousands of years, Arabian There are few flowers more kings have enjoyed the sport of camel dramatic than Tacca chantrieri, the racing. But a camel will not race by bat flower. What makes the flower itself; it needs a jockey, and the so unusual is its lighter the better. For centuries, dark purple petal-like young boys acted as jockeys because bracts that look almost of their light weight. But today, black. These dark, robots have taken their place. Small ruffled petals open 12 inches wide, Swiss-made robots are commonly resembling the open wings of a bat. seen sitting atop camels racing along Long, threadlike “whiskers” hang at 25 mph in 113-degree heat. from the flower’s center, while a Designing a robot sophisticated cluster of dark flowers hangs down. enough for the job took years. The flower is native to the jungles of Today’s robots cost $10,000. Southeast Asia, preferring high Operators race after their camels in humidity and a lot of water. SUVs, using a joystick to control the robot, and thereby control the camel. Word Wise Which word is not like the others? Name Three Can you name the three U.S. catalog cassette national parks with “great”

in their name? docket enumeration

Dunes, Colorado Colorado Dunes, lists. are others the film;

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THURSDAY, MAY 20, 2021 On This Date 1916 – Norman Rockwell’s first Quote of the Day cover on The Saturday Evening Post appeared. The painting depicted “My passion lies with whatever a young boy who I’m doing at the time.” had to stay behind ~ Cher to care for his baby sibling while his buddies left him to play ball. Happy Birthday! 1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope Cher (Cherilyn Sarkisian LaPiere), sent back its first photographs, born in 1946, is a revealing a serious error with the singer and actress optics. The error was corrected who first appeared in 1993 when with then-husband optics with an Sonny Bono, singing offsetting error such hits as “I Got were installed to You Babe.” Cher fix the problem. found even greater success singing In this case, two wrongs equaled on her own and as a stage and film a right, and now the telescope actress, winning an Academy Award produces incredibly sharp images for 1987’s Moonstruck. She supports of deep space objects. The Hubble various charities, such as Keep a should last until 2030 or 2040. Child Alive, which makes AIDS Did You Know? antiretroviral medicines available to children with the disease. In 2018, Astronomer Nancy Roman Cher returned to film for her first on- (1925–2018) was known as the screen role in eight years, starring in “Mother of Hubble” for her role the romantic musical comedy film in planning the telescope. Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again.

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HURSDAY AY T , M 20, 2021

Today is World Bee Day. This day honors Anton Janša, a pioneer of beekeeping, who was born on this day in 1734. In 1770, he became the first

royally appointed teacher of apiculture, or beekeeping, for Austria.

Silver Memories Gadgets & Gizmos

On this day 25 years ago, the coin collection of financier and famed collector Louis E. Eliasberg went on auction in New York City. The jewel of the collection was a rare 1913 Liberty Head nickel, the finest specimen of its kind the world had ever seen. The coin would come to auction the next day, and collector Jay The Free Parasol is a hands-free Parrino jumped on the opportunity, flying umbrella that uses a camera to making an extraordinary offer of follow you around town during a $1.35 million to win the bid. With downpour. The ultimate accessory an additional 10 percent buyer’s for someone too busy to hold an fee added, the total price paid was umbrella, the parasol is useful only $1.485 million, the highest price for short trips outdoors, as it can ever paid for a coin in the history hover for only about 20 minutes. of numismatics. Buy a Vowel Who Said So? This Italian actress advised, C _ _ N _ G _

“Spaghetti can be eaten most The invention of a new

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vacuum cleaner.” COINAGE ANSWER:

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FRIDAY, MAY 21, 2021 On This Date 1881 – The American Red Cross Quote of the Day was founded by nurse Clara Barton “I have already been told that I and businessman do not belong to my century.” Adolphus Solomons. ~ Henri Rousseau The organization provides disaster relief and humanitarian aid. 1920 – Radio station XWA in Happy Birthday! Montreal broadcast the first regularly Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) was a scheduled radio programming in French post-impressionist painter North America. known today for his evocative, 1945 – Humphrey Bogart married “primitive” style. Under-appreciated Lauren Bacall, his costar in To Have during his lifetime and Have Not, at the country home by critics, he is now of Pulitzer prize-winning author recognized as a self- Louis Bromfield, in Lucas, Ohio. taught genius whose innovative, sharply Art Appreciation detailed and colorful Henri Rousseau’s works are imbued with mystery, The Flamingos beauty, and tension. When artist Pablo Picasso happened upon a painting by Rousseau being sold on the street as a canvas to be painted over, the younger artist instantly recognized Rousseau’s immense talent and went to meet him. Picasso subsequently held a banquet in Rousseau’s honor.

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RIDAY AY F , M 21, 2021

Today is Endangered Species Day. Each year, the third Friday of May is set aside to teach people about preserving endangered species. Since 2006, organizers have been advocating to save these animals before it is too late.

Picture of the Day Centennial Memories

On this day 100 years ago, Wonder Bread was introduced by the Taggart Baking Company of Indianapolis. Leading up to the debut of their new product, Taggart organized an ad campaign boasting of a new “Wonder” that they were preparing to introduce to the world. The name “Wonder” was inspired by the International Balloon Race held at the Pandas… no wonder Indianapolis Motor Speedway, a they’re endangered. scene that held the company’s vice

Now it’s your turn to come up with president of merchandising “in a funny caption. wonder.” The scene of so many colored hot-air balloons also led to Word to the Wise Wonder Bread’s colorful balloon logo.

If you have ever been the victim of a Word Scramble sarcastic remark, you know how it can sting a little bit. The word sarcasm I B U C R R comes from the Greek sarkazein, Set of learning standards and

which meant “to tear flesh like a dog.” grading criteria

RUBRIC The Greeks knew that harsh, biting ANSWER: words could be hurtful.

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SATURDAY, MAY 22, 2021 On This Date 1838 – Col. Robert Sweeney killed Quote of the Day Major Henry Warde in the last fatal duel in Canada. Warde had sent a “I take a simple view of life: love letter to Sweeney’s wife. keep your eyes open and get on with it.” 1899 – Cleveland Plain Dealer reporter Charles Shanks first used ~ Laurence Olivier the French word automobile in articles he wrote about a road trip. 1939 – Adolf Hitler and Italian Happy Birthday! Fascist leader Benito Mussolini Laurence Olivier (1907–1989) was signed a “Pact of Steel” to support an English 20th-century stage and each other in the event of war. screen icon. Olivier 1955 – A show scheduled to be rose to prominence headlined by Fats Domino was in London’s 1930s canceled by police in Bridgeport, theater scene and Connecticut, because explicit “rock quickly became one and roll dances might be featured.” of his generation’s most sought-after 1961 – The revolving Eye of the performers. The actor was a codirector Needle restaurant (today known as of the Old Vic, a celebrated theatrical SkyCity) in Seattle’s Space Needle company where he performed some began service. of his most highly lauded roles, such Daily Trivia as Oedipus and Richard III. Some of his many prominent films include The fingerprints of koalas are Hamlet, Rebecca, Henry V, Sleuth, so similar to humans’ that even and Wuthering Heights. Olivier was experts have trouble telling also the founding director of Britain’s them apart. National Theater Company.

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ATURDAY AY S , M 22, 2021

Today is Sherlock Holmes Day. It’s elementary! The fictitious sleuth’s creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, was born on this day in 1859. While Holmes

is never described as wearing a deerstalker cap, wear one anyway today.

Think-tionary Root of the Matter

charrette Ballpark figure

A. A meeting of designers to come If you give someone a ballpark to a collaborative solution to a figure, then you are giving them your design problem best estimate for an amount. This or expression is related to another, in

B. A miniature version of a famous the ballpark, which means that your

work of art often sold as a guess or estimate is close and not too

souvenir or trinket far off. This refers to batters who

young architect to be invited to the charrette. the to invited be to architect young hit balls inside the confines of ANSWER: A. It was a great honor for the the for honor great a was It A. ANSWER: the park and not home runs out into the bleachers or foul balls into When Was It? the stands. Keeping a guess in the

It was during this year that ballpark meant that it was not the Commodore 64 computer was outside of the realm of possibility. It launched. The Falklands War broke wasn’t until 1968 that this phrase evolved into ballpark figure. out between Argentina and the United Kingdom. “Lawnchair” Larry Walters flew 15,000 Buy a Vowel feet over California by M _ _ S T _ R _ attaching weather balloons

to a patio chair, and EPCOT Center Condensed liquid

MOISTURE

opened in Orlando. When was it? ANSWER: 1982 ANSWER: ANSWER:

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SUNDAY, MAY 23, 2021 On This Date 1785 – Benjamin Franklin announced Quote of the Day his latest invention, bifocal eyeglasses. “Goodnight stars, 1827 – The first nursery school in the goodnight air, goodnight United States was opened “to relieve noises everywhere.” parents of the laboring classes from ~ Margaret Wise Brown, the care of their children...offering in her classic bedtime story the children protection from weather, from idleness, and contamination of Goodnight Moon evil example.” 1934 – Outlaw duo Clyde Barrow Happy Birthday! and Bonnie Parker were shot and killed Margaret Wise Brown (1910–1952) by Louisiana state was a celebrated children’s book police officers as author who grew up in Brooklyn, they attempted to New York. She was escape arrest in a the author of over stolen 1934 Ford V-8. 100 stories. A few of her best-loved works include Goodnight Word Origins Moon, The Runaway Bunny, and The Color Kittens. She The exclamation “Eureka!” is from began writing while teaching at a the Greek heureka, meaning “I private school in New York City. have found it.” Archimedes was When not writing, Brown was an taking a bath when he realized that enthusiastic beagle hunter (hunting an object immersed in a liquid is hares and rabbits using a pack of buoyed or pushed up by a force beagles to sniff out the prey). Brown equal to the weight of the liquid died of an embolism while on a book displaced by the object. tour in France.

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UNDAY AY S , M 23, 2021

On this day in 1934, police ended the crime spree by notorious bank robbers Bonnie and Clyde. The couple had engaged in a string of robberies across

five states. Photos of the couple shown by the media made them a sensation,

but they were extremely dangerous and so met their end in Louisiana.

Where Am I? Only Human

This remote Siberian island between Our thumbs and index fingers get all Russia and Alaska is littered with the praise for their “pincer grip,” strange monuments. Hundreds of which grants us incredible fine-motor massive whale bones—jawbones, ribs, skills. But the unsung hero of the hand and vertebrae—have been erected and might be the pinkie placed in long rows, forming a finger! It is estimated makeshift alley. Scientists believe that that this tiny digit this was a place of meeting for local supplies our hands tribes hundreds of years ago. Not only with nearly half of their strength. Yes, did they hunt whales together and without pinkies, we lose 50% of our share the bounty but they worshipped gripping power. This is because our here, too. It is as eerie and mysterious little fingers do a disproportionate

as Stonehenge. Where am I? Siberia Island, Yttygran ANSWER: ANSWER: amount of gripping. The thumb, index, and middle fingers are responsible for fine-tuning. Pinkies, Whatchamacallit? however, are necessary for acts of

What do you call a group of brute strength. elk ? Riddle Me This gang crash

I’m a god, a planet, and a measurer

brood chain of heat. Who am I? GANG ANSWER:

Mercury ANSWER:

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MONDAY, MAY 24, 2021

Quote of the Day “I don’t dislike babies, May 24, Queen Victoria’s birthday, though I think very young was declared a holiday in 1845. ones rather disgusting.” An amendment to the Statutes of Canada in 1952 moved the holiday ~ Queen Victoria to the Monday before May 25. On This Date 1830 – Sarah J. Hale published the Happy Birthday! rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Queen Victoria (1819–1901) was 1844 –Samuel Morse transmitted Queen of the United Kingdom from the world’s first telegraph message. 1837 until her death in 1901. Victoria married her first cousin, Prince 1912 – Charles Saunders was the Albert, in 1840. By all accounts, first Canadian to make a parachute their marriage was a happy one, jump in Canada from a plane. and the couple had nine children. 1918 – The Canada Elections Act Prince Albert died was passed and gave all Canadian of typhoid fever in women over 21 the right to vote in 1861. The queen federal elections. plunged into deep Did You Know? mourning and wore black for the rest of Hijack—a woman’s call to a sailor her life. Victoria’s reign emphasized (“Hi, Jack!”)—acquired its more strict morality in backlash to the sinister meaning when she hit him scandals of her predecessors. Her with a lead-filled handbag and sold Golden and Diamond Jubilees were him to a ship in need of crew. huge events of public celebration.

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ONDAY AY M , M 24, 2021

Today is Victoria Day in Canada. The day was originally intended to honor the birthday of Queen Victoria, the sovereign of Canada. Lately, the holiday marks

the unofficial beginning of summer, with many summer businesses opening.

Eye in the Sky Wild Kingdom

In 2015, NASA’s New Horizons Researchers have been spacecraft flew by Pluto, the distant unearthing the fossilized dwarf planet, and snapped a picture remains of a dinosaur in the depicting the planet surrounded by Neuquén River Valley of a blue haze. Pluto might be far Argentina since 2012. Only from the sun, but the sun’s light recently have they realized that their still causes chemical reactions in dinosaur is likely the largest animal Pluto’s upper atmosphere, creating to have ever walked the earth. They extremely poisonous molecules of call the long-necked plant-eater a hydrogen cyanide. When these titanosaur, for it even beats out cyanide molecules gain mass, they the massive 122-foot long, 70-ton drop through the atmosphere. As Patagotitan. These dinosaurs are they descend through other layers of sauropods, the largest land animals on gas, the gas layers freeze around the record. How did they get so big? They cyanide. The haze we see is an had hollow bones, didn’t chew their envelope of ice with a poison heart. food, and had long necks and massive stomachs—all traits that allowed Word Scramble them to achieve gigantic size.

P R I T N U Who Said So?

A thick, edible, white This author and anthropologist said,

root vegetable “There are years that ask questions

TURNIP

ANSWER: ANSWER: and years that answer.” Hurston Neale Zora ANSWER:

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TUESDAY, MAY 25, 2021 On This Date 1878 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic Quote of the Day opera HMS Pinafore opened in London. The title comically applies “When I’m writing, I think the name of a women’s garment to about the garden, and when the fearsome symbol of a warship. I’m in the garden I think 1953 – At the Nevada Test Site, the about writing. I do a lot of United States conducted its first and writing by putting something only nuclear artillery test using an in the ground.” M65 Atomic Cannon, nicknamed ~ Jamaica Kincaid Atomic Annie. 1977 – The Chinese communist government lifted its decade-old Happy Birthday! ban on the writings of William Shakespeare. Jamaica Kincaid, born in 1949, is an esteemed Antiguan American 1977 – Star Wars, directed by writer and a professor of African and George Lucas, was released. The African American studies at Harvard film depicts a struggle between good University. Kincaid, and evil taking place “a long time who was born with ago in a galaxy far, far away.” the name Elaine Daily Trivia Potter Richardson, was a staff writer at A cluster of bananas is known as a The New Yorker for hand, and the bananas in the hand two decades. She is are called fingers. the author of nonfiction writing, short The word banana stories, essays, and novels, including originates from the A Small Place, My Garden Box, The Arabic word banan, Autobiography of My Mother, and which means “finger.” See Now Then.

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UESDAY AY T , M 25, 2021

Today is Tap Dance Day, commemorating the birthday of famed tap dancer Bill “Bojangles” Robinson. Tap dance developed from a mixture of the Irish

jig, African American Juba dance, and English clog dancing.

Garden Party You Are What You Eat

The Garden of Bomarzo in Italy is also Any self-respecting North Dakotan known as the Park of the Monsters. knows where to find a good, hearty It was not created to be beautiful, but bowl of knoephla (sometimes also to astonish its visitors. Monstrous, spelled knephla or grotesque sculptures are integrated the German knöpfle). into the landscape. One of Hannibal’s The heart of this war elephants tramples a Roman soup is the knoephla soldier. A dragon is attacked by lions. itself, the little German dumpling A gaping “hell mouth” opens into a whose name translates to “little chamber that amplifies sound so that button.” The dumplings are the star any words spoken inside can be heard of the soup but hardly the only clearly outside. By the 20th century, ingredient. The mix is chicken stock- the garden had fallen into disrepair. based, with cream, potatoes, carrots, Surrealist painter Salvador Dalí made onion, and celery. You can find the a movie about the park, rescuing it soup along North Dakota’s Knoephla from neglect. Trail, which crawls from West Fargo to Bismarck and Dickinson. Buy a Vowel High Five _ _ D _ T _ R Can you name the five

longest-running shows on One who reviews

Broadway?

financial records (6,825) Wicked 5. (7,485); Cats 4.

2. Chicago (9,682); 3. The Lion King (9,291); (9,291); King Lion The 3. (9,682); Chicago 2.

AUDITOR

ANSWER:

1. Phantom of the Opera (13, 358); 358); (13, Opera the of Phantom 1. ANSWER:

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 26, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1940 – The evacuation of 338,226 British and Allied troops from the “Liberace is a creation. shores of Dunkirk, France, began. Little by little he was created The operation, which was dubbed by by me and by the public the press “The Miracle of Dunkirk,” who accepted him.” required 10 days. ~ Liberace 1954 – Liberace played the piano for three hours as a solo performer at Madison Square Garden in New Happy Birthday! York City. More than 13,000 female Jay Silverheels (1912–1980) was fans outnumbered the 3,000 men born at the Six Nations Reserve near in attendance. Brantford, Ontario. The grandson 1959 – The word Frisbee became a of a Mohawk chief, Silverheels was registered trademark of the Wham-O a boxer and lacrosse player before toy company. In 1964, sales of the becoming an actor. plastic disc soared when a so-called He played many professional model was introduced, different roles but is and Frisbee was marketed as a best remembered as new sport. the Lone Ranger’s faithful sidekick, Tonto. He raised, Did You Know? bred, and raced horses in his spare time. In his later years, Silverheels Many medieval castles featured founded the Indian Actors’ Workshop cleverly designed spiral staircases to help Native American actors and that wound in a clockwise direction writers move beyond limited roles. (from the ascender’s point of view). Married in 1945, Silverheels was the This placed attacking swordsmen father of three girls and a boy, Jay, at a disadvantage. who also became an actor.

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EDNESDAY AY W , M 26, 2021

Today is Paper Airplane Day. All it takes is a few clever folds of a piece of paper to construct these nifty flying toys. Some historians believe that it was the Chinese

who first created paper airplanes after inventing papyrus and kites. Others argue that Leonardo da Vinci modeled them while inventing his ornithopter.

Gadgets & Gizmos The Games People Play

If you have three to six hours to kill on a weekend afternoon with four friends, then perhaps you’d like to try the Detective board game. Players take on different roles during an investigation of five interconnected cases. Solving one case gives you clues to the next. Each case is timed. Players spend tokens to acquire cards that offer clues. Samsung’s Becon scalp scanner is a Information that you uncover is device that tells men whether their hair checked against a reference book, the is starting to thin. An app connected to all-important database of suspects. the scalp scanner then offers advice for Once you run out of time, you must products or treatments that will slow put all your clues and deductions hair loss. This device is best for men to work writing a report that solves who are perhaps a little nervous to see the crime. a hair specialist. Word Scramble Riddle Me This K S A Y N W What loses its head in the morning

and regains it at night? Stylish and luxurious

SWANKY

ANSWER: pillow A ANSWER:

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THURSDAY, MAY 27, 2021 On This Date 1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founded Quote of the Day the city of Saint Petersburg. The seaport was the “Destiny may ride with us capital of the Russian today, but there is no reason Empire for more for it to interfere with lunch.” than 200 years and is considered Russia’s ~ Peter the Great cultural center. 1941 – Crippled by British aircraft, the state-of-the-art German battleship Happy Birthday! Bismarck was pursued and sunk by Lee Ann Meriwether, born in 1935, three British warships. Days earlier, is an actress and model who was the Bismarck had sunk the British battle cruiser HMS Hood, leaving crowned Miss America in 1955. The only three survivors. stunning California girl parlayed her beauty pageant 1999 – Julie Payette flew aboard the wins (she was also Space Shuttle Discovery to deliver declared Miss San supplies to the International Space Francisco and Miss Station. She was the first Canadian California in 1954) to board the space station. into a successful 2006 – At 5:53 a.m., a devastating acting career. She’s earthquake hit Java, Indonesia, killing appeared on The Today Show, The more than 6,000 people. Lloyd Bridges Show, Dr. Kildare, The Man from U.N.C.L.E, and The Daily Trivia Time Tunnel. Meriwether is best Rezin Bowie and his brother James known for playing Betty Jones on share credit for the Bowie knife. the 1970s CBS detective series However, it was the other brother, Barnaby Jones. She also had a role Jim Bowie, who popularized it. on the soap opera All My Children.

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HURSDAY AY T , M 27, 2021

Today is Cellophane Tape Day. In 1961, cellophane “Scotch” tape was perfected by 3M engineers so that it would not turn yellow or get sticky with

adhesive. Moreover, it was “invisible” when applied, thanks to its transparency.

What Am I? Golden Memories

I was invented in China in the second On this day 50 years ago, Christie’s century BC as a means of disguising auctioned off the Deepdene diamond, monetary gifts. In Victorian England, a massive, fancy, golden-yellow I was a luxury item and used along diamond, for $460,000. The sale would with lace and ribbon to conceal gifts. turn scandalous, however, But I did not become mainstream when it was discovered until 1917, when two brothers that the diamond had been running a stationery store in Kansas artificially irradiated to City, Missouri, repurposed some deepen its vivid yellow color. Prior to “fancy French paper” meant for lining the sale, two gemological certificates envelopes. The brothers, Joyce and affirmed the color was natural. Ronnie Hall, decided to create their Gemologist Dr. Edward Gubelin, own paper and sell it for the purpose however, had voiced concerns that the of hiding gifts. Their store was called diamond had been tampered with.

Hallmark. What am I?

Wrapping paper Wrapping ANSWER: Only after the sale were his suspicions confirmed and the contract was rendered null and void. Buy a Vowel Name Three M _ _ S _ Can you name three chocolate bars

Hand-held pointing device that begin with the letter M?

Way Milky Goodbar, Mr. ,

for computer Mounds MOUSE ANSWER:

, Bar Mars : S ANSWER POSSIBLE

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FRIDAY, MAY 28, 2021 On This Date 1929 – On with the Show!, the first Quote of the Day talking movie photographed entirely “Every accomplishment starts in Technicolor, opened at the Winter with the decision to try.” Garden Theater in New York City. ~ John F. Kennedy 1934 – The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callander, Ontario. They were the first quintuplets (that’s five babies) to survive infancy. Happy Birthday! John F. Kennedy (1917–1963) was the 35th American president. Kennedy and his young family were very 1987 – Mathias Rust, a West German popular during his teenager, flew a lightplane from time in office, which Helsinki to Moscow and landed was tragically cut safely on a bridge near Red Square. short by his assasination in Dallas, The flight damaged the reputation of Texas. Now an iconic cultural figure, the Soviet military. he successfully navigated the Cuban Missle Crisis, averting nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Some of his other important achievements include starting Daily Trivia the U.S. Peace Corps, shepherding the While reading a page of print, country out of recession, instituting the eyes do not move continually domestic reforms under his New across the page. They move in a Frontier program, and championing series of jumps, called fixations, civil rights reform. Kennedy, who is from one clump of words also known simply as JFK, signed to the next. the Equal Pay Act of 1963 into law.

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RIDAY AY F , M 28, 2021

Today is Road Trip Day, so hop in the car, turn on the radio, roll down the windows, and take to the open road. Perhaps nothing feels more freeing than

going on a long drive to a different state to explore a new city or national park.

Picture of the Day Root of the Matter

Cut the mustard

If something cuts the mustard, then it succeeds, passes inspection, or meets expectations. For centuries, the spicy taste of mustard has been associated with a person’s zest or zeal for life. In 1692, as keen as mustard was used to describe a person’s high energy. Another version of the expression up to mustard meant setting high standards for behavior. By the 19th century, the expression was Fido was wondering when it would commonly used in the negative as be his turn to drive. “he couldn’t cut the mustard.”

Now it’s your turn to come up with Word Wise a good caption. Which word is not like the others?

Riddle Me This ladder toss croquet

Whoever eats me then gets eaten.

cornhole horseshoes

What am I? games. pitching or tossing are others the

A fishhook A ANSWER:

Croquet requires striking a ball; ball; a striking requires Croquet ANSWER:

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SATURDAY, MAY 29, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1453 – Following an eight-week siege, Constantinople, the capital “It has been a long road... of the Byzantine Empire, fell to the From a mountain coolie, forces of Sultan Muhammad II. a bearer of loads, to a wearer 1912 – Fifteen women were dismissed of a coat with rows of from their jobs at the Curtis Publishing medals who is carried about Company in Philadelphia, PA, for in planes and worries dancing the turkey trot while on the job. about income tax.” 1913 – Riots broke out following the ~ Tenzing Norgay Paris premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring. They were caused by disagreements over Happy Birthday! the ballet’s innovative technique and content. Tenzing Norgay (1914–1986) was a Sherpa mountaineer. Together with 1953 – Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Edmund Hillary, the two climbers Norgay became the first explorers to were the first to scale Mount Everest. reach the summit of Mount Everest. His exact date of birth is unknown, but he knew it was in late May by the weather and the crops. After Daily Trivia his ascent of Everest on May 29, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing 1953, he decided to celebrate his Norgay never revealed which one’s birthday on that day thereafter. Norgay foot first reached the summit. They was received with great adulation always took credit as a team. in Nepal.

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ATURDAY AY S , M 29, 2021

Today is Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day. This strange custom is a modern interpretation of the tradition of putting linens in the larder for prosperity. With

the invention of refrigerators, people turned to setting pillows on the fridge.

Think-tionary Mad Science

holmgang Scientists at the University of A. A flock of sheep or other Colorado, Boulder, are working on pasture animals shared by a a new type of wearable battery group of families that converts body heat into or usable energy. We use many devices that require energy: smartphones, B. A duel of honor fought by smartwatches, fitness trackers,

Scandinavians in medieval times etc. Scientists envision these

as a means of settling disputes

devices operating without batteries by winning a holmgang. holmgang. a winning by estate

family the won ancestor My B. R: ANSWE and instead running on energy produced by the human body. They Toys of Yesteryear have succeeded in creating an elastic, wearable material that could be worn Fred Kroll’s father was in like a ring or bracelet and is the toy business, and Fred embedded with materials that convert knew he wanted to follow body heat into electricity. They call it in his father’s footsteps. a wearable “electronic skin.” In the 1970s, Kroll found a game in Japan by the Agatsuma toy company Word Scramble called Hungry Game. By 1978, Kroll A L T E L E L T had brought the game to America and

kids all across the country were trying An outward hint or sign

TELLTALE to get their Hungry Hungry Hippos to ANSWER: eat a chaotic swirl of marbles.

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SUNDAY, MAY 30, 2021 On This Date 1431 – Joan of Arc was burned at Quote of the Day the stake for heresy. “If I can make a connection, A national heroine one connection, to any of France, Joan led one listener in the world, the French army to I consider that successful.” important victories during the Hundred ~ Wynonna Judd Years’ War with England. 1848 – The first U.S. patent for an ice cream freezer was issued to Happy Birthday! William G. Young of Maryland. Wynonna Judd, born in 1964, rose 1933 – Sally Rand introduced her to fame in the 1980s alongside exotic fan dance to her mother, Naomi, in the country the public. From a music duo the Judds. Judd began distance, her bodysuit her solo career when looked more like her Naomi Judd fell birthday suit. ill with hepatitis C in 1991. Her first 1940 – The Toronto Stock Exchange three singles, “She declined 25% following German Is His Only Need,” victories in Europe. “I Saw the Light,” and “No One Daily Quiz Else on Earth,” all reached No. 1 on the U.S. country singles charts. Q: What famous American sports The multi-talented singer’s other star said, “It’s like déjà vu all interests include writing, acting, and over again”? philanthropy. Judd’s most recent A: Yogi Berra, upon Mickey album, Wynonna & the Big Noise, Mantle and Roger Maris’ was released in 2016. Her younger back-to-back home runs sister is actress Ashley Judd.

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UNDAY AY S , M 30, 2021

Today is Loomis Day, commemorating Washington, D.C., dentist Mahlon Loomis, who received a patent for “wireless telegraphy” in 1872. Some say that this was the first patent for a radio, beating Guglielmo Marconi by 25 years.

Household Tips Only Human

For kids who don’t know how to tie Botox injections smooth skin and their shoelaces, putting on a pair of prevent wrinkles by mildly shoes can be a challenge. And some paralyzing underlying muscles that adults just don’t want to bother with cause wrinkles in the first place. tying laces and prefer slip-on shoes. Researchers have reported that For both of these types, elastic inhibiting the face’s ability to show shoelaces can facial expressions might dull a transform any person’s ability to feel emotions. pair of lace-ups Facial muscles are incredibly into slip-ons. important when it comes to Buy a long conveying emotions. Our faces length of colorful elastic band (also respond to the emotions on other known as fold over elastic), lace it people’s faces. Research shows that through the eyelets, cut it to size, and faces paralyzed by Botox cannot either tie off a knot on the inside of respond emotionally. Those people the topmost eyelets or sew the ends feel a dampening of emotions they of the elastic band together. cannot express with their faces.

Buy a Vowel What’s in a Name?

L _ Q _ _ C _ _ _ S This writer of adventures in a

fantastical wonderland was born Tending to talk a great deal

LOQUACIOUS

Charles Dodgson. ANSWER:

ANSWER: Lewis Carroll Lewis ANSWER:

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MONDAY, MAY 31, 2021 On This Date Quote of the Day 1759 – Pennsylvania adopted a law forbidding the performance of plays. “If you aren’t going all the The law was made in response to way, why go at all?” pressure from religious groups who ~ Joe Namath found theater shows immoral. 1866 – John O’Neill led about 800 Fenian raiders across the Happy Birthday! Niagara River at Buffalo to threaten Joe Namath, born in 1943, is a former Canadian garrisons. The Fenians professional football star who grew were dedicated to freeing Ireland up in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania. from the English. An iconic quarterback of the 1960s 1889 – More than 2,000 people died and 1970s, he played for Alabama in when the South Fork Dam broke and college, then for the New York Jets (as flooded the city of Johnstown, PA. well as one year for the Los Angeles Rams). Known as “Broadway Joe,” 2008 – Usain “Lightning” Bolt set a Namath’s career highlights include world record, running Super Bowl champion, Super Bowl the 100-meter sprint in MVP, NFL Comeback Player of the 9.72 seconds, which Year, AFL Most Valuable Player, he later lowered to and AFL Rookie of 9.58 seconds. the Year. The Jets, where he played for Geography Trivia the majority of his career, retired his Hispaniola is an island in the West number 12 jersey Indies, just southeast of Cuba. when he stopped The Dominican Republic occupies playing. Namath has also succeeded its eastern two-thirds, and Haiti off the field as a sportscaster, actor, occupies its western side. and commercial spokesman.

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MONDAY, MAY 31, 2021

Today is Memorial Day in the United States, honoring soldiers who have died serving in the military. This holiday unofficially began following the Civil War and was known as Decoration Day, a day to clean and decorate soldiers’ graves.

Wild Kingdom Eye in the Sky

More than 60 species of flying Some people are obsessed with fish inhabit our world, yet despite building a home for humans off of their name, these fish do not fly. planet Earth. Some look to Mars, Rather, they are but a group of Finnish scientists gliders. These fish have wants to build a ring of inhabitable massive rigid fins that satellites around the dwarf planet act as “wings.” They Ceres. Like Mars, Ceres is close to shoot themselves out of the ocean at Earth. Ceres also has nitrogen, which speeds reaching 35 mph and glide is essential in creating an atmosphere. over distances of one thousand feet The gargantuan cylindrical satellites for up to 40 seconds. They do not would house urban and agricultural propel themselves through the air spaces and replicate Earth’s gravity. like birds, but glide in the same The scientists also propose building a manner that a bird does. Early series of elevators to convey raw sailors were so confused that they materials from Ceres’ surface to the believed the fish returned to land at surrounding satellite colonies. night to sleep as birds would. Word Scramble Who Said So? B T L A S I N I This director of the French New Wave

said, “To be or not to be. That’s not Making or having a

really a question.” hissing sound

SIBILANT ANSWER:

Luc Godard Luc - Jean ANSWER: ANSWER:

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