SERIOUSLY?

A group of scientists in Uruguay announced that they had successfully modified the genetic makeup of a group of sheep to make them glow in the dark.

EAT A QUARTER POUNDER, WALK FOR TWO HOURS

Posting calories on restaurant menus hasn’t done much to convince diners to order healthier fare and eat less. But a new study has found that labeling food with a different number—the amount of time you would have to briskly walk to burn it off—seems to be effective. (click below to read more)

EYE CAMP GIVES THE GIFT OF SIGHT

By Suman Ramesh, a member of the Rotary Club of Lago-Palm Grove Estate, Lagos, Nigeria

Seeing the joy on people’s faces when they receive their sight back is an unforgettable experience.
Every year, the Rotary Club of Lagos-Palm Grove Estate, Lagos, Nigeria, sponsors an eye camp with medical staff from the Eye Institute in Navsari, India, treating nearly a thousand patients in the Nigerian states of Lagos and Ogun spread over 10 days. Patients are screened and pre-surgery tests conducted for four to five weeks prior to the camp, drawing crowds of needy people, many of them suffering cataracts and similar eye conditions. (click below to read more)

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TODAY IN HISTORY

MAY 23

1430		Burgundians capture Joan of Arc and sell her to the English.
1533		Henry VIII's marriage to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void.
1618		The Thirty Years War begins.
1701		Captain William Kidd, the Scottish pirate, is hanged on the banks of the Thames.
1785		Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals.
1788		South Carolina becomes the eighth state to ratify U.S. Constitution.
1861		Pro-Union and pro-Confederate forces clash in western Virginia.
1862		Confederate General "Stonewall" Jackson takes Front Royal, Virginia.
1864		Union General Ulysses Grant attempts to outflank Confederate Robert E. Lee in the Battle of North Anna, Virginia.
1900		Civil War hero Sgt. William H. Carney becomes the first African American to receive the Medal of Honor, thirty-seven years after the Battle of Fort Wagner.
1901		American forces capture Filipino rebel leader Emilio Aguinaldo.
1915		Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1934		Gangsters Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are killed by Texas Rangers.
1945		Heinrich Himmler, the head of the Nazi Gestapo, commits suicide after being captured by Allied forces.
1949		The Federal Republic of West Germany is proclaimed.
1960		Israel announces the capture of Nazi Adolf Eichmann in Argentina.

AND I QUOTE

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

- John F. Kennedy 

ON THE ROAD

This aerodynamic 1930s trailer is back for the first time in decades, now outfitted with Wi-Fi, Libeco bedding, and Chilewich floors. It’s so slick, it “makes an Airstream look about as design forward as a dogcart.” $100,000, bowlusroadchief.com 

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TODAY IN HISTORY

MAY 22

1246		Henry Raspe is elected anti-king by the Rhenish prelates in France.
1455		King Henry VI is taken prisoner by the Yorkists at the Battle of St. Albans, during the War of the Roses.
1804		The Lewis and Clark Expedition officially begins as the Corps of Discovery departs from St. Charles, Missouri.
1856		U.S. Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner with a cane for Sumner's earlier condemnation of slavery, which included an insult to Brooks' cousin, Senator Andrew Butler.
1863		Union General Ulysses S. Grant's second attack on Vicksburg fails and a siege begins.
1868		The "Great Train Robbery" takes place as seven members of the Reno Gang make off with $98,000 in cash from a train's safe in Indiana.
1872		The Amnesty Act restores civil rights to Southerners.
1882		The United States formally recognizes Korea.
1908		The Wright brothers register their flying machine for a U.S. patent.
1939		Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini sign a "Pact of Steel" forming the Axis powers.
1947		The Truman Doctrine brings aid to Turkey and Greece.
1967		The children's program Mister Rogers' Neighborhood premiers.
1972		Ceylon becomes the Republic of Sri Lanka as its constitution is ratified.
1985		Baseball player Pete Rose passes Hank Aaron as National League run scoring leader with 2,108.
1987		An Iraqi missile hits the American frigate USS Stark in the Persian Gulf.
1990		In the Middle East, North and South Yemen merge to become a single state.

TRIVIA

What was the name of the first airplane successfully flown at Kitty Hawk by the Wright Brothers?
(click below for the answer)