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May 9, 1921 - February 22, 1943

Sophie Scholl

Sophia Magdalena Scholl was a prominent member of the White Rose non-violent resistance movement in Nazi Germany. She was convicted of treason after having been found distributing anti-war leaflets at the University of Munich with her brother Hans. As a result, they were both executed by guillotine. Since the 1970s, Scholl has been celebrated as one of the great German heroes who actively opposed the Third Reich during the Second World War.




May 9, 1874 - March 2, 1939

Howard Carter


King Tutankhamen's Tomb - Crystalinks


King Tutankhamen - Crystalinks

Howard Carter was a British archaeologist who made one of the richest and most celebrated contributions to Egyptology: the discovery (November 1922) of the largely intact tomb of King Tutankhamen the only unplundered tomb of a Pharaoh yet found in the Valley of the Kings, near Luxor, Egypt. On 16th February 1923, Carter opened the burial chamber and first saw the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun.In 1891, at age 17, with a talent for drawing and an interest in Egyptian antiquities, he was hired by the Egypt Exploration Fund in London to help with the epigraphic recording of tombs in Middle Egypt. At the beginning of 1900 Howard Carter was appointed Chief Inspector of Antiquities to the Egyptian Government with responsibilities for Upper Egypt. The Earl of Carnarvon, visited Egypt for health reasons in 1905, became interested in Egyptian antiquities and decided to finance some archaeological work. He funded Carter's excavation work beginning in 1909. After cataloguing his extensive finds, Carter retired from archaeology and became a collector. Carter died in England.




May 10, 1837

Panic of 1837

The Panic of 1837 was an economic depression, one of the most severe financial crises in the history of the United States. The Panic was built on a speculative fever. The bubble burst on May 10, 1837 in New York City, when every bank stopped payment in specie (gold and silver coinage). The Panic was followed by a five-year depression, with the failure of banks and record unemployment levels.

Great Depression of October 29, 1929

Recession

Economy




May 10, 1792-1895

Ivan Ivanitz Chabert


Fire Eater

Ivan Ivanitz Chabert, the 'fire king', was a famous Magician and was probably the most notable, and certainly the most interesting character in the history of fire-eating, fire-resistance, and poison eating. He was the last prominent figure in the long line of this type of artists to appeal to the better classes and to attract the attention of scientists, who for a considerable period treated his achievements more or less seriously. After retiring, Chabert became a pharmacist in New York City, selling health concoctions of his own making.

"Although he was suspected of trickery by many, was often challenged, and had an army of rivals and imitators, all available records show that Chabert was beyond a doubt the greatest fire and poison resister that ever appeared in London." - Harry Houdini




May 11, 2008

Mother's Day

'Oh, Mom!'
MSBC - May 8, 2008
Two young journalists strike blog gold with a site that collects unintentionally
hilarious (and often touching) e-mails from mothers to their children.

Mom's gift to kids: 'No!'
Oprah.com - May 8, 2008

Using mom's date of birth to pick her gift
AOL - May 6, 2008

10 Mother's Day Dos and Don'ts
AOL - May 3, 2008

'Wii Fit' for Mom's Day? Wal-Mart thinks so
MSNBC - May 3, 2008




May 11, 1904 - January 23, 1989

Salvador Dalí

Salvador Dalí Art

Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dali was a Spanish surrealist painter born in Catalonia, Spain. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in 1931. Salvador Dalí's artistic repertoire also included film, sculpture, and photography. He collaborated with Walt Disney on the Academy Award-nominated short cartoon Destino, which was released posthumously in 2003. He also collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock on Hitchcock's film Spellbound.




May 12, 1936

Frank Stella

Frank Stella Art

Frank Stella is an American painter and printmaker. He is a significant figure in minimalism, post-painterly abstraction, patterns and offset lithography. He attended Princeton University, where he painted, influenced by the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and Franz Kline, and majored in history. Early visits to New York art galleries would prove to be an influence upon his artistic development.




May 13, 1950

Stevie Wonder

Stevie Wonder was born Steveland Hardaway Judkins. He is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. A prominent figure of 20th century popular music, Wonder has recorded more than thirty top ten hits, won twenty-five Grammy Awards (a record for a solo artist), plus one for lifetime achievement, won an Academy Award for Best Song and been inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Songwriters halls of fame. Opera star Luciano Pavarotti once referred to him in a concert as a "great, great musical genius".

Blind from infancy, Wonder signed with Motown Records as a pre-adolescent at age twelve, and continues to perform and record for the label to this day. He has nine U.S. number-one hits to his name and album sales totaling more than 100 million units. Wonder has recorded several critically acclaimed albums and hit singles, and writes and produces songs for many of his label mates and outside artists as well. A multi-instrumentalist, Wonder plays the piano, synthesizer, talk box, harmonica, congas, drums, bongos, bass guitar, organ, melodica, and clarinet. In his early career, he was best known for his harmonica work, but today he is better known for his keyboard skills. Diana Ross, once called Wonder, "Motown's musical genius."




May 14, 1925 - April 26, 2006

Yuval Neeman

Yuval Neeman was an Israeli soldier, physicist and politician, serving as a Minister during the 1980s and early 1990s. One of his greatest achievements in physics was his discovery, in 1962, independently from Murray Gell-Mann, of the classification of hadrons through their SU(3) flavor symmetry, today known as the quark model. A nobel prize for this discovery was given to Murray Gell-Mann but not to Prof. Neeman, which left him with much frustration in years ahead. Nevertheless, Neeman made other important contributions in his scientific career to particle physics, astrophysics, cosmology and the philosophy of science.




May 15, 1914 - May 9, 1986

Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer. He and Sir Edmund Hillary were the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 29, 1953. He was originally called "Namgyal Wangdi", but as a child his name was changed on advice from a lama. "Norgay" means "fortunate". His father, Ghang La Mingma, died in 1949. His mother, Kinzom, lived to see him climb Everest. He was the 11th of 13 children. He ran away to Kathmandu twice as a boy, and eventually settled in the Sherpa community in Too Song Bhusti in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India.


Mount Everest




May 16, 1955

Olga Korbut

Artistic Gymnastics

Olga Valentinovna Korbut, also known as the Sparrow from Minsk, is a Belarusian, Soviet-born gymnast who won four gold medals and two silver medals at the Summer Olympics, in which she competed in 1972 and 1976 for the USSR team.




May 16, 1718 - January 9, 1799

Maria Gaetana Agnesi

Maria Gaetana Agnesi 2

Maria Gaetana Agnesi was an Italian linguist, philosopher, who was the first woman in the Western world considered to be a mathematician. She is credited with writing the first book, that still survives, discussing both differential and integral calculus. Pietro Agnesi recognized the talents and intelligence of his daughter Maria and treated her as a child prodigy. She was given tutors to learn five languages - Greek, Hebrew, Latin, French and Spanish - as well as philosophy and science.

List of Famous Mathematicians

What is a Mathematician?




May 17, 1961

Enya

Enya, sometimes presented in the media as Enya Brennan, is an Irish singer and songwriter. She is Ireland's best-selling solo artist and is officially the country's second biggest musical export (second only to U2). Her works have earned her four Grammy Awards and an Academy Award nomination and is also famous for performing in 10 different languages during her lengthy career. Enya is an approximate transcription of how Eithne is pronounced in her native Irish, in the Donegal dialect.




May 17, 1792

New York Stock Exchange

On this day in 1792, twenty-four brokers sat down to fix rates for commissions on stocks and bonds. From that agreement came what has been known since as the New York Stock Exchange or Wall Street.The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is located in the financial district, an area in lower Manhattan, on a street named after a defensive wall built around 1650. Wall Street became interchangeable with the Stock Exchange. The original brokers' meeting place was quite different from today¹s noisy, crowded, high-energy floor. In bad weather, they met at a coffee house and when the day was sunny, the brokers sat under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street to conduct their business.There are now over 51 million individual investors and 10,000 institutional investors who are represented on the floor of the NYSE by 480 member-trader firms. The NYSE is respected throughout the world and attracts investors from many countries.




2012
Blog: World to End in 2012 (Check Back for Updates)  Live Science - May 9, 2008   



ANIMALS Oldest gorilla in captivity turns 55 at Dallas Zoo AP - May 9, 2008


ANTARCTICA


ARCTIC Major Arctic sea ice melt is expected this summer AP - May 3, 2008


ART    China's Masterpiece Factories National Geographic - May 8, 2008


ASTROLOGY May Horoscopes AOL - May 1, 2008


ASTRONOMY Current Moon Phase

Current Solar Data From NOAA A Super Solar Flare NASA - May 6, 2008

Astronomy Picture of the Day NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day Archives NASA Website

Spaceweather.com April 2008 Aurora Gallery

Thunderbolts Picture of the Day Thunderbolts Archives

Nasa plans landing on 40m-wide asteroid travelling at 28,000 mph Guardian - May 8, 2008 Are the rovers cut out to detect alien life? MSBC - May 8, 2008 XMM-Newton discovers part of missing matter in the universe PhysOrg - May 7, 2008 Solar System's 'look-alike' found BBC - May 6, 2008 Black Hole Rips Apart Screaming Star Live Science - May 6, 2008 Did Earth once have multiple moons? New Scientist - May 6, 2008 Spacecraft to fly into Sun's corona for first time New Scientist - May 6, 2008 65-million-year-old asteroid impact triggered a global hail of carbon beads PhysOrg - May 5, 2008


AUTISM - MAY 2008 Autism Linked to Parents' Mental Illness AOL - May 5, 2008


BEES A Third of Honey Bee Hives Lost in 2007 AOL - May 8, 2008


BIRDS Can Birds Tell If We Look Them in the Eye? Live Science - May 5, 2008 Birds can 'see' the Earth's magnetic field New Scientist - May 1, 2008


BLOGS Sex is just one more chore on her to-do lis MSNBC - May 8, 2008 I¹m Not Lying, I¹m Telling a Future Truth. Really. New York Times - May 7, 2008 Lots of Animals Learn, but Smarter Isn¹t Better Carl Zimmer - May 5, 2008 Frequently Updated Blogs & Podcasts Philip Coppens Cosmic Log - Alan Boyle UFO Mystic - Bishop & Redfern Loren Coleman - Cryptmundo The Heavy Stuff Reality Sandwich Beyond the Blog Parapsychology Blogs PsyBlog Blogs & Publications Archaeological Institute of America Biblical Archaeology Fortean Times New York Times New York Times Science Oprah.com Scientist.com Science Blogs Guardian.com Smithsonian.com Space Review UFO Digest


BOTANY    Flowers 'wave' at passing insects BBC - May 8, 2008


BRAIN


BREAST FEEDING Breastfeeding Associated With Increased Intelligence Science Daily - May 6, 2008 Breastfeeding Rates Up, Along With Guilt Live Science - May 6, 2008


BUSINESS Oil surpasses $125 per barrel ahead of US driving season AP - May 9, 2008 10 Work-at-Home Jobs AOL - May 8, 2008 America's Fastest Dying Industries AOL - May 8, 2008 Blog: Why Warren Buffett views his job as similar to painting the Sistine Chapel Fortune - May 7, 2008 100 Best companies to work for in 2008 Fortune - May 7, 2008 Chrysler Promises $2.99 Gas for 3 Years AOL - May 6, 2008 Updated Daily Associated Press Business Week CNN NY Times USA Today


CARS Plane-car hybrid that will revolutionise the way society works BBC - May 8, 2008 Tesla rolls out its long-awaited electric sports car PhysOrg - May 3, 2008 Where is gas the cheapest? AOL - May 2, 2008    Diesel Nano-Fix - from The Next Step Live Science - May 3, 2008


COMPREHENSION Comprehension Climbs When You Slooooow Doooown Wired - May 9, 2008


CONSCIOUSNESS What We Know (and Hate) About Consciousness Live Science - May 2, 2008


CROP CIRCLES Crop Circles 2008 CCC Tenn.: First American Crop Circle - May 5th CCC - May 8, 2008   Crop Circles Google Videos Crop Circles Google Images


DINOSAURS China: Dino-Era Bird Fossil Found; One of Oldest Known National Geographic - May 6, 2008


EARTH Innovative technology provides insight into what¹s below the Earth¹s surface PhysOrg - May 5, 2008 'Dynamic duo' develops framework for Earth's inaccessible interior PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 History of Ancient Supercontinent's Breakup Detailed Live Science - April 29, 2008 Earth's Hum Sounds More Mysterious Than Ever Live Science - April 21, 2008 Google Earth Google Earth powerful, though tricky to use PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 Google Earth


EARTHQUAKES Major Earthquakes in Japan - 6.2, 6.8 IRIS - May 9, 2008 USGS Ongoing Updates and Links


ECOLOGY How cleaning up America dried up the Amazon New Scientist - May 8, 2008


EGYPT


ELECTION 2008 Obama plans to declare victory May 20 Yahoo - May 8, 2008 The Five Mistakes Clinton Made TIME - May 8, 2008 Election Center 2008 Yahoo News Election Center 2008 CNN Politics


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EMOTIONS Humans: The Strangest Species Live Science - May 3, 2008 Researchers explore altruism's unexpected ally -- selfishness PhysOrg - May 2, 2008


ENTERTAINMENT Star Jones Lashes Out at Walters AOL - May 8, 2008 Oprah Winfrey - Barbara Walter's Secret Confession AOL - May 7, 2008 Free Readings Astrology - Monthly Facade: 5 Types of Free Readings Love Compatibility Free Test By Zodiac Sign Omikuji - Pick a Card Ziriya Message Board


EVOLUTION Platypus Genome Reveals Secrets of Mammal Evolution National Geographic - May 8, 2008


FACE Why Face Symmetry Is Sexy Across Cultures And Species Science Daily - May 8, 2008 Face Analysis Physignomy Crystalinks


FASHION    Stars and Superheroes Sparkle at Museum Gala New York Times - May 6, 2008 The Jeans Scene AOL- May 5, 2008    'Everyday Style' Video AOL - May 5, 2008


FEUL SOURCES Newly Discovered Water, Oil And Gas Locations Surveyed In Afghanistan Science Daily - May 2, 2008


FOOD Secret Found: What Makes Food Look Tasty Live Science - May 7, 2008


GENETICS New cancer gene found PhysOrg - May 8, 2008 Why beauty is an advert for good genes Times Online - May 8, 2008


GREECE


HEALTH & ALTERNATIVE HEALING Needle-free device delivers pain-free analgesia Reuters - May 5, 2008 Health Stories in the News Yahoo Health Stories in the News CNN


HISTORY 15 Historical Events That Fascinate Us May 2, 2008


HOMES - APARTMENTS Feng Shui - Selling Your Home AOL - May 5, 2008 Cutting cleaning time to minimum AOL - May 2, 2008 Bargain Cities for First-Time Buyers AOL - May 2, 2008 Top 5 mistakes home buyers make AOL - May 2, 2008 From Empty Apartment to Sumptuous Sanctuary AOL - May 1, 2008


HUMAN INTEREST    Dad sees son's birth via Web CNN - May 8, 2008 114-Year-Old Man Takes Longevity Keys to the Grave Live Science - May 8, 2008 China: The Amazing Story behind the 256 Year-Old Man EG - May 4, 2008 Civil War cannonball kills relic collector MSNBC - May 3, 2008 Stuck in machinery, man uses big toe to call 911 MSNBC - May 3, 2008    The man who grew a finger BBC - May 1, 2008


ICEBERGS


INSTANT MESSAGING Instant messaging -- a new language? PhysOrg - May 2, 2008


INTERNET Beyond 15 minutes of fame: Internet celebrity Telegraph.co.uk - May 2, 2008


ISRAEL Israel celebrates its 60th with pride, but also uncertainty AP - May 8, 2008 Israel Wikipedia


JOBS Cool jobs for men AOL - May 2, 2008 Canon to build new factory in US, create 1,000 jobs PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 13 Things You Should Do Before You Quit Your Job AOL - May 1, 2008 Hiring Leaps in Public Sector AOL - May 1, 2008


LONGIVITY 114-year-old man takes keys to longevity to the grave MSNBC - May 8, 2008


MARINE BIOLOGY Male seahorses are nature's Mr. Mom, researchers say PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 Colossal Squid Has Glowing "Cloaking Device," Huge Eyes National Geographic - May 2, 2008 8 Supersize Sea Monsters ABC - May 1, 2008


MAY 2008 May 20 - Full Moon 29º Scorpio May 20-26 - Fleet Week NYC May 21 - Sun in Gemini May 26 - June 19 Mercury Retrograde May 26 - Memorial Day


MAYA


MUSIC Music Reduced to Beautiful Math Live Science - May 7, 2008


MYANMAR    Myanmar - Cyclone Nargis - Breaking Stories Yahoo - May 9, 2008 Myanmar - Cyclone Nargis - Breaking Stories & Videos CNN - May 9, 2008 Myanmar Breaking Stories NY Times - May 9, 2008 Blog: What 100,000 people mean ... Anderson Cooper 360 - May 8, 2008 Amazing photos of cyclone from space ABC - May 8, 2008 100,00 deaths and counting AOL - May 8, 2008 Ghosts and smell of victims haunt survivors of the Burma cyclone Times Online - May 8, 2008    Myanmar - Cyclone Nargis - Breaking Stories Yahoo - May 8, 2008 Myanmar¹s Delta: Water World New York Times - May 7, 2008 Corpses Float Through Flooded Myanmar AOL - May 7, 2008 How Do Cyclones, Hurricanes and Typhoons Differ? Live Science - May 6, 2008 Burma Wikipedia


NATURAL DISASTERS Natural disasters from space ABC - May 8, 2008 The Worst Natural Disasters Ever Live Science - May 6, 2008


OCEANOGRAPHY    Australia: Undersea "Wind Farms" Tested National Geographic - May 2, 2008 Scripps Oceanography Research pegs ID of red tide killer PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 Oxygen depletion: A new form of ocean habitat loss PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 Ocean Dead Zones Growing; May Be Linked to Warming National Geographic - May 2, 2008 Rocks under the northern ocean are found to resemble ones far south PhysOrg - April 30, 2008 Scientists discover new ocean current PhysOrg - April 30, 2008


PALEONTOLOGY Ancient sea creatures 'dressed up' in space diamonds Times Online - May 8, 2008


PHOTOGRAPHY & NEWS Touch screens added to newest digital photo frames MSNBC - May 2, 2008 Quantum camera snaps objects it cannot 'see' New Scientist - May 2, 2008 AOL CNN Yahoo National Geographic


PHYSICS Researchers demonstrate for the first time how light squeezes through small holes PhysOrg - May 8, 2008 The Light of Silence PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 The stability of quantum systems is essential for any engineering at the quantum level. High-flying Electrons May Provide New Test Of Quantum Theory Science Daily - May 1, 2008


PLATYPUS    Platypus genetic code unravelled BBC - May 8, 2008 World's Strangest Creature? Part Mammal, Part Reptile Live Science - May 8, 2008    Platypus Google Videos Platypus Wikipedia


POWERBALL Couple Claims $180m Powerball Jackpot AOL - May 7, 2008


RELATIONSHIPS Breaking Up Not So Hard, Study Finds Live Science - May 2, 2008


ROME


SCIENCE Selection of Abstracts and Online Articles SSE


SIGNS Lost in Translation: Awkward Signs from Around the World AOL - May 7, 2008


SLEEP Too Much, Too Little Sleep Can Hurt AOL - May 8, 2008


TECHNOLOGY Munch-o-matic: Scientists Develop The Artificial Mouth Science Daily - May 6, 2008 Strap-On Helicopter Could Offer Solo Flying Experience PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 Electronics' 'missing link' found BBC - May 1, 2008 Real Trekkie Tricorder Invented Live Science - April 30, 2008


TREES Unique and interested trees Scientists to capture DNA of trees worldwide for database PhysOrg - May 2, 2008 Trees Wikipedia


UFO'S When E.T. phoned home, where did he call? MSNBC - May 8, 2008 Blog: Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa and the Alien Agenda Fate - May 8, 2008 Plasma-powered flying saucer New Scientist - May 6, 2008 Man pushes creation of panel to prepare city for space aliens RM News - May 4, 2008


VIDEOS ABC ABC News AFP News AOL BBC News CNN FOX News Google Live Science National Geographic New York Times Reuters Science Daily Yahoo YouTube


VISION    Bionic Eye Unveiled National Geographic - May 8, 2008


VOLCANOES Chile Volcano's impact seen hundreds of miles away NN - May 9, 2008 Though the eruption has been continuous, it increased at midnight Wednesday, powered by a massive explosion, then returned to its steady discharge of ash, officials said. Chile Volcano Chaiten Google News & Videos - May 9, 2008 Chile Volcano Chaiten Google News & Videos - May 9, 2008 Amazing photos of volcano Chaiten from space ABC - May 8, 2008 Chile Volcano Hurts Animals, Farms National Geographic - May 8, 2008 Images: Chile Volcano Erupts With Ash, Lava, Lightning National Geographic - May 7, 2008 Volcano in Chile spews lava and blasts ash 12 miles into sky National Geographic - May 6, 2008    Chile volcano blasts ash 20 miles high, forcing evacuations AP - May 6, 2008 Images AP - May 6, 2008 Vog - volcanic smog - kills plants, casts a haze over Hawaii AP - May 5, 2008 Volcano in 1600 Caused Global Disruption, Study Suggests Live Science - May 5, 2008


WOMEN A first for Saudis: Mozart performed publicly and women come AP - May 3, 2008


WYOMING Wyoming Air Pollution Rivals Big Cities Live Science - May 8, 2008 Wyoming Wikipedia



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