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1. THIS DAY IN WORLD WAR 2 (26th May
1944)
In Germany...
In a speech to assembled generals and officers at the Platterhof Hotel, Hitler states that it is necessary to annihilate all Jews in order to win the war.
In France...
The French Resistance sabotages a hydroelectric power station
In Yugoslavia...
Christian Wirth, a major organizer of the the euthanasia of disabled people in Germany before the war and then in the extermination of Jews in Eastern Europe in concentration camps, is assassinated by Yugoslav partisans.
In Italy...
British 8th Army and US 5th Army advance northward towards Rome
USN light cruiser Brooklyn and two destroyers bombard German positions at Ardea north of Anzio
New Zealand Prime Minister Fraser arrives to tour the front
In the Pacific...
IJN submarine RO-108 is sunk by USN destroyer escort England
Japanese vessel Chiyo Maru is sunk by USN submarine Tambor
Japanese vessel Sanyo Maru is sunk by US submarine Cabrilla off the East Indies
USN Task Group 57.8 destroyers bombard Mille Atoll
In New Guinea...
US 158th Infantry Regiment attack with naval gunfire support around Maffin airfield to expand the Arare-Toem beachhead
In China...
USAAF transport aircraft are transferred from 10th Air Force to airlift supplies to Chinese Y Force on the Salween front
In Burma...
Reinforced by fresh troops airlifted in, US and Chinese forces are engaged with Japanese defenders around Myitkyina
Chindit brigades move into the hills east and west of the rail line south of Mogaung
In India...
Japanese 33rd Infantry
Division and Indian 17th Infantry Division are heavily engaged around Buri
Bazar and Bishenpur south of Imphal
Today's Air Raids...
Ludwigshafen, Germany by RAF Bomber Command
Northern France
Fighter patrols by RAF 2nd Tactical Air Force
Military targets and transportation routes by US 9th Air Force
Lyons, Grenoble, Nice, and military targets in Southern France by US 15th Air Force
English Channel minelaying by RAF Bomber Command
Bihac, Yugoslavia by US 15th Air Force
Emidj Island by US 7th Air Force
Bougainville Island on military targets by US 15th Air Force
Wewak, New Guinea by US 5th Air Force
Biak Island and the Wakde Islands by US 5th Air Force
Rabaul and military targets on New Britain by US 13th Air Force
Balikpapan, Borneo offshore minelaying by US 5th Air Force
Yangtze River, China on river shipping by US 14th Air Force
2. TODAY IN MY LIFE
Blogging
A sh*tload of ironing!
Missus Time
Meditation
Me Time
Twitter Followers = 1,748 (no change)
Nonfollowed
eliminated = 0
Unfollowers
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New followers = 0
3. TODAY'S SELF-OBSERVATION
With my defence for tomorrow's Weekend Job meeting finalized, I can forget about it for today and focus on more domestic things like ironing! With the recent run of bad weather I could get nothing dry so finally resorted to the radiators and put the backlog of three batches of laundry on them, cranked up the central heating, opened all the windows, and today everything's clean and dry!
Apart from cleaning (which I do anyway) I don't mind domestic chores. I will happily spend half a day today with iron in hand. It's actually quite therapeutic if you accompany it with music or a DVD.
I've concluded that life is like tennis - it's only ever about the next ball coming towards you, and the overall result is the composite effect of how you dealt with all those balls. You need to combine the attitude of dealing with things as they come day by day with a clear purpose and intention for life. Then, your response to each little event will add up to fulfilling that purpose.
4. TODAY'S QUESTION FOR YOU
Is your life heading in a useful and purposeful direction?
5. TODAY'S WEATHER IN BRADFORD
Dry and sunny in the morning
Cloud will build in the afternoon and it will be dry and cloudy thereafter
A south-easterly breeze will swing north-easterly over the evening
Max Temp = 15 degC
Min Temp = 11 degC
Sunrise at 04:50
Sunset at 21:19
6. TODAY'S ONELINER
I think it’s wrong that only one company makes the game Monopoly. :D
7. NOW THAT'S FUNNY!
Johnny Depp on The Fast Show - very funny!
8. TRIVIA
Evolution occurs fastest when conditions are harsh, as only the best adapted survive. Intelligence evolves where as well as being harsh, the environment is continually changing. Only those intelligent enough to learn from experience and utilise resources in different ways will survive as conditions change.
Mankind's predecessor, Homo Erectus evolved into its current form, Homo Sapiens, after such conditions were the case in Africa between 500,000 and 250,000 years ago.
Human Beings have since proved incredibly resilient. Around 70,000 years ago a natural global catastrophe (the eruption of the Toba supervolcano) in the middle of the last Ice Age, nearly wiped out the entire human population leaving only around 100,000 survivors. There is some evidence that the population may even have dropped to as low as 2,000, concentrated around modern Cameroon in Africa. Once conditions improved around 50,000 years ago, human population increased rapidly, and spread all over the planet.
The end of the lce Age around 12,000 years ago, conditions became stable and favourable, allowing human beings to rise to their dominant position today.
9. ZEN WISDOM
When you devote yourself to achieving your goal, you will not be
bothered by shallow criticism. Nothing important can be accomplished if
you allow yourself to be swayed by some trifling matter, always looking
over your shoulder and wondering what others are saying or thinking. The
key to achievement is to move forward along your chosen path with firm
determination.
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