THE 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 frst telegraph message. 1837 until her death in 1901. Victoria married her frst cousin, Prince 1912 – Charles Saunders was the Albert, in 1840. By all accounts, frst 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-flled handbag and sold Golden and Diamond Jubilees were him to a ship in need of crew. huge events of public celebration. ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles (CAN) 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: and years that answer.” Zora Neale Hurston ANSWER: ©ActivityConnection.com – The Daily Chronicles EXTRA! .