Questions of the Day For Sunday, May 7, 2017

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Originally Posted by Bayarea4

Welcome to the Questions of the Day for Sunday, May 7, 2017. If your birthday is today, you were born under the sign of Taurus. Famous people who share your birthday include poets Robert Browning and Archibald MacLeish; composers Johannes Brahms and Pyotr ilyich Tchaikovsky; actors Gary Cooper and Darren McGavin; actress Anne Baxter; Argentine first lady Eva Peron; American football great Johnny Unitas; TV weatherman Willard Scott; TV journalist Tim Russert and film director Amy Heckerling.

Today’s Questions:
What types of tasks come easily for you?
shooting,evangelizing
What types of tasks are difficult for you?
math problems,cooking
Describe your idea of perfect relaxation?
go to a beach
What do your everyday dishes look like?
I dont cook lol
What is the oldest thing you own?
Not for sure
What is the newest thing you own?
Coleman lantern maybe.


Today in History
429 – English siege of Orleans broken by Joan of Arc and the French army.
1664 – France’s Louis XIV inaugurates the palace at Versailles.
1700 – Pennsylvania founder William Penn begins meetings with blacks advocating emancipation.
1718 – City of New Orleans founded by Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville.
1789 – First U.S. presidential inaugural ball held for George Washington in New York City.
1800 – Indiana Territory organized.
1824 – Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony premieres in Vienna.
1866 – German premier Otto von Bismarck seriously wounded in an assassination attempt.
1888 – George Eastman perfects the Kodak box camera.
1895 - Russian scientist Alexander Stepanovich Popov demonstrates to the Russian Physical and Chemical Society in St. Petersburg his invention - the world's first radio receiver. Celebrated as Radio Day in Russia.
1912 - Columbia University approves plans for awarding the Pulitzer Prize in several categories, as provided for in the will of newspaper publisher Joseph Pulitzer.
1914 – U.S. Congress establishes Mother’s Day.
1915 - RMS Lusitania sunk by German submarine off the southern coast of Ireland; 1198 lives lost.
1939 – Germany and Italy announce an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis.
1941 – Glenn Miller records “Chattanooga Choo Choo” for RCA.
1945 – World War II: Unconditional German surrender to the Allies signed by General Alfred Jodl at Rheims.
1946 - Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (later renamed Sony) is founded. The company has about 20 employees.
1952 – The concept of the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey Dummer.
1994 – Edvard Munch’s painting “The Scream” is recovered three months after it was stolen.
1998 – Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler Corporation for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest corporate merger in history.
1982 – iBM releases PC-DOS Version 1.1.
2007 – The tomb of Herod the Great is discovered.
2012 – Paleoclimatological research claims that dinosaur flatulence may have warmed the earth.

Word of the Day:
eu·phe·mism
/ˈyo͞ofəˌmizəm/
noun

1. a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing.


“In a system where banishment was called “transportation,” assignment was the euphemism for slave labor.”
- Timothy Egan, The Immoral Irishman

Quote of the Day:
“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. “
- Archibald MacLeish


Today is:
Lemonade Day
Barrier Awareness Day
Infertility Survival Day
Packaging Design Day
Roast Leg of Lamb Day
Paste-Up Day

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