Monthly Archives: May 2017

Peace Officers Memorial Day

Posted on May 15, 2017 by James| Comments Off

Flags at half-staff today to honor fallen officers

Flags are to fly at half-staff today for Peace Officers Memorial Day. Gov. Rendell has ordered Pennsylvania flags at state facilities to be flown at half-staff, and President Obama directed the same for U.S. flags.
“On this day, we pay tribute to the local, state, and federal law enforcement officers who provide a vital public service and, too often, pay the ultimate sacrifice to safeguard the rights and freedoms of our citizens,” Rendell said in a statement. “We honor them for their character, leadership, and courage.”

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy and Congress designated May 15 as Peace Officers Memorial Day. The calendar week in which May 15 falls is National Police Week.

Posted in On This Day, Patriotic

Happy Mother’s Day

Posted on May 14, 2017 by James| Comments Off

Being a Mother

Somebody…

Posted in Because I Can

Happy Birthday, George Lucas

Posted on May 14, 2017 by James| Comments Off

George Walton Lucas, Jr. (May 14, 1944 – )

George Lucas is an Academy Award-nominated American film producer, screenwriter, director and chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the epic Sci-Fi franchise Star Wars and the archaeologist-adventurer character Indiana Jones.

Wikipedia Link

Posted in The Big Screen, The Little Screen (Television)

George of the Jungle

Posted on May 13, 2017 by James| Comments Off

Posted in Because I Can, The Little Screen (Television)

Pink Panther Show

Posted on May 12, 2017 by James| Comments Off

Posted in Because I Can, The Little Screen (Television)

Why Women Live Longer Than Men

Posted on May 11, 2017 by James| Comments Off

Posted in Humor

Transcontinental Railroad

Posted on May 10, 2017 by James| Comments Off

On May 10, 1869, the ceremonial spike (actually more than one) was driven into the meeting point of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Central Pacific Railroad. That’s when it became the transcontinental railroad, and traveling across the country no longer meant months in a wagon or on a ship sailing around South America.

Posted in On This Day

Mirror, Mirror, in the flame…

Posted on May 9, 2017 by James| Comments Off

Posted in Critters, Humor

Happy Birthday, Sir David Attenborough

Posted on May 8, 2017 by James| Comments Off

Sir David Attenborough (May 8th 1926 – )

Wikipedia Article

Sir David Frederick Attenborough is an English broadcaster and naturalist.

He is best known for writing and presenting the nine Life series, in conjunction with the BBC Natural History Unit, which collectively form a comprehensive survey of animal and plant life on the planet. He is also a former senior manager at the BBC, having served as controller of BBC Two and director of programming for BBC Television in the 1960s and 1970s. He is the only person to have won BAFTAs for programs in each of black and white, colour, HD, and 3D.

Attenborough is widely considered a national treasure in Britain, although he himself does not like the term. In 2002 he was named among the 100 Greatest Britons following a UK-wide vote. He is the younger brother of director, producer and actor Richard Attenborough.

Posted in Because I Can, Critters

Lusitania sinks

Posted on May 7, 2017 by James| Comments Off

Lusitania sinks

On the afternoon of May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the south coast of Ireland. Within 20 minutes, the vessel sank into the Celtic Sea. Of 1,959 passengers and crew, 1,198 people were drowned, including 128 Americans. The attack aroused considerable indignation in the United States, but Germany defended the action, noting that it had issued warnings of its intent to attack all ships, neutral or otherwise, that entered the war zone around Britain.

Posted in On This Day, Planes Trains and Automobiles

The Hindenburg Disaster

Posted on May 6, 2017 by James| Comments Off

The Hindenburg Disaster

On May 6,1937, the airship Hindenburg, the largest dirigible ever built and the pride of Nazi Germany, bursts into flames upon touching its mooring mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 passengers and crewmembers.

Posted in On This Day, Planes Trains and Automobiles

1961 : The first American in space

Posted on May 5, 2017 by James| Comments Off

From Cape Canaveral, Florida, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. The suborbital flight, which lasted 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere, was a major triumph for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

Posted in Because I Can, Patriotic

May the 4th Be With You

Posted on May 4, 2017 by James| Comments Off

May the 4th

Posted in Because I Can, Humor, The Big Screen

Miss Piggy

Posted on May 2, 2017 by James| Comments Off

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”

Posted in Quotations

Anniversary of Miracle on 34th Street

Posted on May 2, 2017 by James| Comments Off

Miracle on 34th Street (also titled The Big Heart in the UK) is a 1947 film which tells the story of a gentle old man, working as a Santa Claus at Macy’s department store in New York City, who contends that he is the real deal.

Miracle on 34th Street

Wikipedia Link

The film was released in theaters May 2, 1947.

Posted in Because I Can, On This Day, The Big Screen

Steven Wright

Posted on May 1, 2017 by James| Comments Off

“Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates…|
When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, ‘Do I know you?'”