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May 2013     

All things seem
possible in May.
~ Edwin Way Teale


INTERVIEWS

Save the World. Date Me
Patricia Raskin 
Joslyn Wolfe 

 


Hebe's here,
May is here!
The air is fresh
and sunny;
And the miser-bees are busy
Hoarding golden honey. 
  ~ Thomas Bailey 


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Science has never drummed up quite as effective a tranquilizing agent as a sunny spring day.
  ~ W. Earl Hall  
Rodelinde with sculpture
Greetings!,

Someone once referred to me as a LuddLite. That's a fitting appellation for a person who takes a rather romantic view of the preindustrial world while freely making use of technology when it's necessary or convenient....

What joy, for instance, to have unlimited research tools available at the touch of a key.

With each day going by, hope is reborn, dreams come true
and a little step is taken toward happiness.
May this May be unbelievably exceptional, amazingly colorful,
and filled with joy, laughter, and love.
~ Anonymous

And what fun to discover some significant May birthdays:

* physicist Gabriel Fahrenheit (1686-1736)
* revolutionary leader Patrick Henry (1736-1799)
* philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
* journalist Margaret Fuller (1810-1850)
* poet Walt Whitman (1819-1892)
* public health activist Florence Nightingale (1820-1910)
* Nobel Prize winner Henri Dunant (1828-1910)
* labor leader Mary "Mother" Jones (1830-1930)
* composer Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
* explorer Robert E. Peary (1856-1920)
* journalist Nellie Bly (1867-1922)
* dancer Isadora Duncan (1878-1927)
* songwriter Irving Berlin (1888-1989)
* modern dance pioneer Martha Graham (1893-1991)
* film director Frank Capra (1897-1991)
* Prime Minister Golda Meir (1898-1978)
* actor Laurence Olivier (1907-1989)
* civil rights activist Malcolm X (1925-1965)
 
You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.
~ Pablo Neruda

And here's a sampling of historic events that took place in May.

1796: Dr. Edward Jenner develops smallpox vaccine.
1862: Abraham Lincoln signs the Homestead Act.
1866: American Equal Rights Association is formed.
1881: Clara Barton founds the American Red Cross.
1886: U.S. general strike for eight-hour workday begins.
1937: San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge opens.
1945: World War II ends in Europe.
1954: U.S. Supreme Court rules on Brown v. Board of Education.
1961: Peter Berenson founds Amnesty International.
1994: Nelson Mandela is inaugurated as president of South Africa.

Oddly, the websites I found with the keywords "month of May in history" all stop short of the twenty-first century.

Wonder what that means?

Best regards, 
Rodelinde

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