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[IceWizard]

03 May 2017


School Nurse Day



Everyone has been to see the school nurse at least once in their lives, be it for a genuine illness or just to get a sneaky note to get out of school early. It is easy to forget, though, just how important she is to the well beings of ourselves and our fellow school friends. What would we do when we injure ourselves or are feeling unwell at school without the school nurse and her blessed sick notes? To let her know that we don’t take her efforts for granted, there is a special day once a year where we can celebrate her in style: School Nurse Day!

This holiday is celebrated all around the world, and pupils and teachers everywhere are given the opportunity to express their gratitude for the love and care the nurses give them on a daily basis. Here’s to those hard working nurses, and to the good health they help bring.



And




National Paranormal Day



Seeing is believing, or at least so the old adage goes. But is it?

Because despite how tempting it would be to believe that if you can’t see, hear or touch something, it doesn’t exist, there have been thousands upon thousands of people who seem certain that they have in fact witnessed or even come into direct contact with things science just can’t explain and that there is sometimes absolutely no evidence for.

UFOs. Ghosts. Chupacabras. Do they exist? And if not, why have there been so many sightings and close experiences?

Paranormal Day is all about trying to answer these questions.

The History of Paranormal Day

People have been claiming to have seen or experienced things that were impossible to explain for millennia; however, these reports have only been documented for the past few hundred years. American writer Charles Fort is perhaps the best-known collector of paranormal anecdotes, and he is considered by many as the father of modern paranormalism, or the study of the paranormal. Fort compiled at least 40,000 notes on unexplained paranormal experiences. Reported events that he collected include teleportation (a term Fort is actually credited with coining), poltergeist events, falls of frogs, fishes, and inorganic materials of an amazing range, crop circles, unaccountable noises and explosions, spontaneous combustions, levitation, unidentified flying objects, and mysterious appearances and disappearances, to name but a few.

He is also most likely the first person to explain strange human appearances and disappearances by the hypothesis of alien abduction, an idea that has definitely caught on, with hundreds of such reports being filed every year. Despite the extremely wide variety of these paranormal events, they all have something very important in common: they lack the reproducibility of empirical evidence, and they are not amenable to scientific investigation. Paranormal Day was created in 2013 to help us give some thought to the things we do not know in hopes of learning more about the universe we live in with all its dimensions, oddities, and great unknowns.

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May 3 Birthdays




James Brown - (1933 - 2006) (73)




Bing Crosby - (1903 - 1977) (74)




Frankie Valli - 83





Ann B. Davis - (1926 - 2014) (88)










May 3rd

2006: Donna D’Errico filed for divorce from Motley Crue’s bassist Nikki Sixx, citing irreconcilable differences.

2004: The U.S. Supreme Court rejected an appeal by former Ozzy Osbourne band members Bob Daisley & Lee Kerslake who claimed they were owed royalties from Osbourne for their work on the albums Blizzard of Ozz and Diary of a Madman.

1991: Texas Governor Ann Richards declares ZZ Top Day.

1986: The Rolling Stones peaked at number four on Billboard 200 Album Chart with Dirty Work which was recorded during a time period where relations between Mick Jagger & Keith Richards soured considerably. They also peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with their cover of “Harlem Shuffle”.

1982: Chuck Berry, Cheap Trick & Joan Jett and the Blackhearts performed at Jack Murphy Stadium in San Diego, which grossed over $455,000.

1980: Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band reached number one on the Billboard 200 Album Chart for the first and only time with Against the Wind which spent six weeks on top of the album chart. Seger also peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Fire Lake”.

1976: Wings kick off the Wings Over America tour in Fort Worth, Texas. This would be Paul McCartney’s first American concert appearance in nearly 10 years.

1971: Grand Funk Railroad held a press conference at New York’s Gotham Hotel, where only six reporters show up, despite the band’s success at the time.

1969: Jimi Hendrix was arrested on drug charges at Toronto International Airport. He’s later released after posting $10,000 bail.



Birthdays:

Bruce Hall - Bassist for REO Speedwagon born in 1953[/b]