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Thursday, May 26, 2022 Volume 68 | Number 38
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THE DESERT MOBILE HOME NEWS CELEBRATING THE DESERT COMMUNITIES FOR 65 YEARS
Palm Springs Air Museum honors the fallen on
Memorial Day with Air Fair and Flower Drop
In This Issue
Walk Faster, Live Longer......................2 Summer Reading Program...................4 Pet of The Week..................................6 Facts About Memorial Day....................9
By Alison Elsner
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ach year the Air Museum pays special tribute to our country’s fallen comrades who valiantly represented our country throughout various wars, paying the ultimate price for our freedoms. The dedication ceremony highlights their military service with a fly-by and flower drop of over 3,000 red and white carnations from a B-25 Mitchell bomber. Visitors will be able to pick up a flower to take home. The Air Museum has been staging the flower drop since the museum was founded in 1996. The white carnations are intended to honor veterans who died in World War I, World War II, and the Korea and Vietnam Wars, and the red carnations honor those who died in more recent conflicts such as Desert Storm, Iraq and Afghanistan. One of the special aircraft on display will be the PB4Y Privateer, similar in size to a B-29 Liberator. In addition to the air show, which gives visitors the rare opportunity to see real vintage aircraft in action, the event will showcase a Lincoln custom armored limousine which was used to transport President Franklin Roosevelt and President Harry Truman from 1942 to 1946. The vehicle will be
• Idaho is the only U.S. state to explicitly declare that cannibalism is illegal. • In Germany, folks who urinate in the streets are called “wildpinklers,” meaning “free pee-ers.” • Gorillas sing happy songs while they eat -- louder when enjoying a favorite food.
1. U.S. STATES: Which state is the smallest in land area? 2. MEDICAL: What is a common name for the medical condition called hyperlipidemia? 3. PSYCHOLOGY: What is the abnormal fear represented by peccatophobia?
displayed courtesy of the Petersen Automobile Museum. Attendees can look forward to live music, food and beverage vendors and other activities in addition to overhead flights. More details will be announced closer to the day of the event. The Palm Springs Air Museum features over 70 flyable and static aircraft on display in four hangars including: the Pacific (Navy) Hangar with exhibits and aircraft used by the Navy in the Pacific Theater during World War II; the European (Army) Hangar which features exhibits and aircraft used by the Army in the Europe during World War II; the smallest hangar which contains the B-17 Flying Fortress, the Berger Youth
Exploration Center (including a F-16 Flight Simulator), the General Kenneth P. Miles Aviation Science Center and Freedom Fighters’ Café; and the Major General Kenneth P. Miles Hangar, which houses the Cold War, Korea and Vietnam War aircraft exhibits.
• Talk about election fraud! In 2013, police in the Maldives arrested a coconut for loitering near a polling station during the presidential election. The fruit’s offense? Locals feared it might have been imbued with a magic spell to influence the election, as there was a Surah (chapter from the Quran) written on it. The coconut was released upon being found to be fake.
screaming, furniture crashing and a man shouting: “I’m going to kill you, you’re dead! Die! Die!” When the law arrived on the scene they found, however, not a typical case of domestic violence, but a frenzied attempt to kill a spider.
• Alarmed neighbors of a couple in Sydney, Australia, called the police after hearing a woman
The Palm Springs Air Museum Memorial Day Air Fair and Flower Drop is held on Monday, May 30 at 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Air drops starts at 1 p.m. General admission is $20. Seniors, veterans, retired military, teenagers (13-17) $18. Military and children under 12 are free. The air museum is located at 745 N. Gene Autry Trail, Palm Springs. For more info call 760-778-6262 or visit palmspringsairmuseum.org.
• Now here’s a good reason to call your plumber: A leaky faucet dripping once every second can waste up to 3,000 gallons of water in a year -- enough for 180 showers! (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc.
4. FOOD & DRINK: What fish is the basis of Worcestershire sauce? 5. GEOGRAPHY: Nuuk is the capital of which island constituent country? 6. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Which state has produced the most presidents? 7. ART: In which major city would you find the Uffizi Gallery? 8. MOVIES: What is the main setting of the “Mama Mia!” movies? 9. MYTHOLOGY: What is the name of the Greek god of wine? 10. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: Where is the rock formation called Giant’s Causeway located? (c) 2022 King Features Synd., Inc.
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