From the Grim Reaper book of days, Today in History, and Wikipedia
(GR, TH, W)
June 1
GR: 1. Lancaster CA and PA, 2. Pen and pencil are actually etymologically unrelated, and neither relate, of course, to Pennsylvania, 3. Olga! (oh lord god almighty), 4. James Buchanan was the only unmarried US president, (and the cannon thing), pres number 15, died age 77, 5. JB like Joe Biden, (or Justin Bieber or Jeremy Bentham), 6. William Penn wrote ‘No Cross, No Crown” (a “christian classic of theological literature”), 7. Baldwin and victorious skinheads, 8. Napoleon II’s kid (NELB), was speared 17 times by Zulus in South Africa, TH: 9. birthday of distilled whiskey (1495), by Friar John Cor, in Scotland, 10. bowling, the bowline, and Anne Boleyn, 11. Quakers, earthquakes, and wakes, 12. teachers, treachery, and to each is his own, 13. floss like a boss, 14. magnetic North Pole, when first determined (1831), was on the west coast of the Boothia peninsula, but now it's on Ellesmere Island, 15. "Libyan Sybil", 16. sybil in the sense of multiple personalities, or ancient greek oracle/prophetess?, 17. multiple personalities is not schizophrenia, 18. Sojourner Falsity!, s.j. , 19. seismograph measures sighs, size, and psys!, 20. Fists of righteous harmony (boxers), and the way of the intercepting fist (Jeet Kune Do), and, of course, fists of fury (Bruce Lee movie), and fisting, 21. feast or fast, 22. is this your first festival?, 23. Dreyfus affair (and an affair with Julia Louis-Dreyfus), 24. easy does it, Emile Zola, 25. Art is dead - Grosz, God is dead - Nietzsche, Roe is dead -SCOTUS, 26. an ulcer in Tulsa; race riot and railroad and ronald reagan and rest/relaxation and rolls royce and respiratory rate and relaxation response, 27. D-day, a day of death, 28. The appalling fall of Nepal, 29. Geostrategic superpowers (nations) and superheroes with superpowers (comic books), 30. Brigham Young (mormon leader) and Carl Jung (Swiss psychiatrist), 31. Am I related to Nelson Riddle (american musical conductor)?, 32. mm, tasty marilyn monroe, 33. a pat boone and jelly sandwich, 34. Ron Wood, but I wouldn't, 35. Alan's Morisette in the a.m., W: 36. Genghis Khan like gingham curtains, 37. I'm fond of Alfonso, 38. driving my rig through Riga, 39. The Livonian order lives on, 40. itching to sample the new batch of scotch, 41. Tom the Ottoman, 42. Roundheads, like Charlie Brown, 43. Samurais and Sumuroy, 44. STD, secret treaty of dover, 45. Roland, Poland, and Oland, 46. covenant, a bond or agreement with God, (not a witch's coven of ants), 47. Sweet 16, and Tennessee, 48. navy plebes and plebiscites, 49. Navajo ho, 50. tabulating cans of tab, 51. pitcher balks in the balkans, 52. HH, Herman Hollerith, holla back girl, 53. Brandeis and a brand of ice, 54. a ruckus with the Royal Ulster Constabulary, 55. bombs, poo, and Bombay, Poona (Mumbai, Pune), 56. Concrete, and islands: Hong Kong and Crete, 57. "Four horsemen of calumny - fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smear" -(republican) Margaret Chase Smith, 58. Chinchaga and chinchilla, 59. the fall of de Gaulle, 60. CNN (cable news network), 61. what are chemical weapons if everything is made of chemicals? 62. Terry Nichols (OK city bombing co-conspirator), Guinness world record holder: 161 consecutive life terms (!), 63. mortars and more mortality, 64. "in the shit" - a. Vietnam war, b. ninja assassin below.
June 2
GR: 1. (Lou) Gehrig, hi greg!, 2. Kaufman, coughing, 3. Amdg (for the greater glory of god), omdb (over my dead body), imdb (internet movie database), 4. Christogram of the jesuits looks like the word ‘shit’, 5. AND the salvation of humanity, TH: 6. PT boats and PT Barnum, and point blank, 7. mstab (manufacture, sale, transport of alcoholic beverages), 8. James Gibbs (patented chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine, 1857), and Andy Gibb (plus Barry, Robin, and Maurice), barmy, 9. IR, international relations, industrial revolution, infrared, iridium, 10. Halides, Hallidie, and holidays, 11. googly-eyed mark, and Guglielmo Marconi, and macaroni, 12. MT, mark twain, margaret teshara, empty, military time, motor trend, marianas trench, masoretic text, massage therapy, music therapy, muay thai, 13. Samuel Langhorne Clemens, and Salt Lake City, and sea-launched cruise (missile), 14. LC, lower case, elsie, leonard cohen, law corporation, liquid crystal, lines of code, landing craft, lewis and clark, legion of christ, library of congress, 15. throngs singing songs (thong tha thong..), 16. hm, hindu-muslim, 17. QE2 takes the coronation oath, (also a floating hotel in Dubai), 18. dirty marquis de sod, 19. stan Laurel and oliver Hardy, Thomas Hardy (wrote about the "indifferent force that inflicts the sufferings and ironies of life") and Laurel Aitken ("godfather of ska"), 20. Sir Edward Elgar, and the holy SEE, see (19:5:5=2, like jesus, 10:5:19:21:19), W: 21. an awkward talk with my aunt (in Antioch) about the ontological status of the aunty-christ, and auks, 22. orders about borders, 23. Rouen-nation: France, 24. bishops and shopping for bicycles, 25. lacrosse and the crucifix, 26. a quarter is cheap rent for quarters, 27. Gordon Riots, Gilda Radner, Grim Reaper, 28. Reign of terror, and my phone in error about rain, 29. deacon Deakin, 30. CIA and the Indian Citizenship Act, 31. somber king Umberto, 32. Oceanus Procellarum (on the moon) means 'ocean of storms' (but the moon has hardly any atmosphere), 33. Luis Monge, mongol monkey, 34. Shah of Iran, and Shaw, and sha-na-na, 35. the face of the earth, and tornado outbreaks, 36. Turkey becomes Turkiye.
June 3
GR: 1. SD, Stephen Douglas (stupid dumb, satan devil, sick diseased; santo domingo, san diego, santo daime), 2. Franz Kafka, coughing, (died, aged 40), 3. My knowledge of the Tallahatchee is patchy, TH: 4. HSHS, Hernando de soto high school, 5. Sara smoking a gasper, Junipero Serra and Gaspar de Portola, 6. full up on pie, and Philippi (WV), 7. Bizet, getting busy, 8. Roald Amundsen and Roald Dahl, 9. from less than 4 days ('35) to less than 5 hours (crossing the Atlantic, French ocean liner Normandie, and Concorde supersonic airplane), 10. morganatic marriage, morgan horse, more gin!, 11. Fauves are my faves, 12. pissed off at the Palomar Observatory, 13. gorging on celery, kale (George Ellery Hale), 14. seeking psych secrets, 15. 100's xx and thousands arrested (Tiananmen,'89), 16. Henry Shrapnel (a name that lives in infamy), 17. UCD and Jefferson Davis, 18. Ransom Eli Olds, and REO speed wagon, paying a ransom, news, 19. Josephine, Joseph, Josette, Jose, and Joe, 20. Tony Curtis, and Andrea (classmate), 21. Curtis Mayfield, born in June, 22. Irish iris, 23. Michael Bolton, Michael Burton, Michael B. Jordan, 24. ASS, american soul singer, 25. Deniece Williams and Duke of Windsor, dow jones, dowsing rod, W: 26. gladiator, glad he ate her, 27. Minnesota, Hernando de Soto, and soda, 28. soda and yoda, south dakota, and Yo! district attorney, 29. car in an alley, and carrack captured by a galley, 30. New Deal, New Delhi, and New Dorp (nude eel, nude Ellie, and nude orp), 31. suffering folk of Suffolk, some pain in Spain, 32. Humen, China and the human chin, and Hanover, 33. grease on the concrete, greek Crete, 34. Unalaska? ask the UN if it's part of Alaska, or just an optical Aleutian, 35. Anna summited Annapurna!, 36. Hue are you, owl? hoo hoo, 37. working for NASA is a gas, 38. Crow Indians and Croatians, 39. Sikhs at Harmandir, harmed and sick, 40. Unzen, how very zen, 41. terra nullius, nobody's land; not no-man's land, 42. S and M, Serbia and Montenegro (now separate), 43. chillin' in Jilin, 44. driving my Acura in Accra, 45. vampire sips a sit-in protest.
June 4
GR: 1. Remains in Maine, 2. Toxic mercury treatments (take the cure out of mercury), 3. Casanova wrote a 4545 page autobiography, 4. Leaning tower of pizza, TH: 5. good wishes, and good witches, 6. bitches and snitches, riches or ditches, 7. lewd and de-luded, 8. an expert on exports, 9. phallus fallacy, 10. faster, bastards!, 11. psychodynamics, psycho die nam icks, 12. the pungent odor of Puget sound, 13. thole catholicism, 14. thiol and sacred heart, 15. the Sierra Club was founded "to make the mountains glad" (and sea air), 16. MW, merriam-webster, and minimum-wage, 17. Urkel irked in Turkey, 18. my nose went on strike (had to picket), 19. aware of dell computers in Delaware, 20. rights, rites, and writings, 21. Ryder cup and drivers, 22. Rochester and Chester, cooked, 23. drought doesn't rhyme with ought, doctor, 24. doctor in and doctor out, 25. Midway Island and Middletown, CA, and Kate, 26. Kobe Bryant and Kobe (of beef fame) Japan, 27. A.D. anno domini, and Angela Davis, 28. Did Idi have e.d.? (erectile dysfunction), 29. Capt. Kirk, and a slam dunk, in Dunkirk, 30. the illustrations make me ill, 31. PS, Patience Strong (real name! : a british poet and journalist), 32. actors and actresses go ack, 33. the heaviest human was around 1,400 pounds, 34. Dr. Ruth Westheimer's birthday ('28) (she's alive, 94), 35. Mick Jagger and Andrea Jaeger, and Chuck Yeager, on a jaegermeister jag, 36, Cecilia Bartoli on the c.b. radio, W: 37. lightning destroyed by fire (act of God!) the steeple of St. Paul's cathedral in London, which is never rebuilt, 38. rock 'em sock 'em, in Osaka, 39. Acadians and Akkadians, 40. Puget sound and the sound of puking, 41. KGB and the Kingdom of Great Britain, 42. sardines from Sardinia, 43. don't laugh at general Lafayette! (or slight Dwight), 44. do camels like caramel?, 45. Fort Pillow and the PLO, 46. Quadricycle, aka a car, (gasoline powered automobile), 47. minimum wage was originally 25 cents an hour, (in 1938), 48. Gal in the CIA, from Galicia, 49. amendment, amen! Suffrage, suffering? ratification by rats?, 50. gentleman agents, 51. koo day ta!, 52. a peach to each on the beach, 53. Finland, and the land's end, 54. Tongan bongos, 55. Medina, ND and Mecca, Indiana, 56. a phone Kahl, from Gordon, 47. a hex on hexogen, 48. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini suffered 5 heart attacks in 10 days, 49. Tiananmen (between 241 and 10,000 dead), 50. a loofah from Ufa.
June 5
GR: 1. Jessie Sharp wasn’t, (no helmet, no lifejacket, no body), 2. O. Henry began writing while in jail (life gives you lemons…), TH: 3. Villainous Villon (French poet), 4. Mark in his den (in Denmark), 5. honky tonk bar in Tonkin, 6. 72% of the american men who fought in World War I were draftees, 7. what a bunch of bullion, 8. degenerate Jenny, 9. sinful synthetics, 10. cyber-tigers on the Tiber, 11. Secretary of State, sos, 12. alleged to be on a ledge, 13. seedy combat duty, 14. easy Sue, on the Suez, 15. Sirhan Sirhan and Boutros Boutros-Ghali, 16. sing a tune about Neptune, 17. Federico Garcia Lorca eaten by an orca, 18. Bill Moyers in the shit, W: 19. on crack and in pain in Krakow, 20. woe and worry in Worringen, 21. Palermo and Salerno, 22. Ming dynasty and Wyoming, 23. in a pickle? Eight ships of the Royal Navy have been named HMS Pickle, 24. BHS and Harriet Beecher Stowe, 25. boarding with a bored Lizzie Borden, 26. proscription of conscription!, 27. Elvis Presley "scandalized the audience with his suggestive hip movements" on the Milton Berle Show, (lol), 28. badum-pum! the lake Bodom murders, 29. IG, Indira Ghandi, inspector general, immunoglobulin (antibody), IG Farben, Ig Nobel prize, 30. Tank Man and Tank Girl, 31. Congo, ongoing, 32. Wanda is from Uganda (or is it Rwanda?), 33. Bagels from Begles, 34. Bagua, Peru - Bhagwan drinks aqua, 35. playing guitar with catarrh in Qatar.
June 6
GR: 1. "Show me a sane person, and I'll cure him for you" -Jung, 2. analytical psychology, and anal at cal, TH: 3. 1816 was a "year without summer" because of Tamboura, near Bali, which erupted in a series from 1812 to 1815, blocking sunlight, 4. chairman of the Cherokee, 5. The YMCA was for young, male, christians (when founded in 1844), (old atheist women are welcome, now!), 6. Bombay, bombing the bay, 7. sitting U.S. president, taking a stand, 8. mainland, and Maine land, 9. ARK, ayatollah ruhollah khomeini, and noah's bagels, 10. Golden Temple of Amritsar, and GTA, grand theft auto, 11. Ashmolean museum, in ashes, 12. Ashby and Atascadero state hospital (And Ashley), 13. God and Boris Godunov, 14. Passing the AP test (Alexander Pushkin), 15. Thomas Mann's woman (Katia), 16. Christ in a Chrysler! jumping jeezus on a pogo stick!, 17. drinking a Guinness with Roy Innes, W: 18. batman in Kathmandu, 19. mystikos, a dignity with mystique, 20. Gustav Vasa and la raza, in Gaza, 21. at least 50 volcanoes have erupted in Alaska (in "historical time"), 22. SEA, securities and exchange act, 23. operation overlord, oh lord, is it over?, 24. St. Gabriel mountains, a saint AND an archangel (huh), 25. Ariel (angel, 'lion of god') Sharon, aerial, 26. Mengele exhumed in Brazil (AOD), 27. Mongolia scores a goal! Mon-gooooooool-ia, lol, 28. In 2002, an asteroid explodes over the mediterranean, with a force (slightly) more powerful than the Nagasaki atom bomb (fat man).
June 7
GR: 1. saucy manner, from all that salsa, 2. acidic comments, told on acid, TH: 3. tards, tortillas, and the treaty of tordesillas, 4. SP, seafaring pioneers, from spain and portugal, prescribe and sell (birth control pills). 5. Louis XIV, norteno, and sun king, drank sunkist, 6. Versailles and Verse eye for an eye, (Leviticus 24:19-21), leviti-cuss, 7. pissed off Episcopalians, 8. La Sagrada Familia, and sangre, 9. halloween, late treats, and the lateran treaty, 10. b.s. about the Belmont Stakes, at your peak at the Preakness, furby (toy) at the Kentucky derby, 11. Bjorn Borg, you will be assimilated, 12. eating candy with a dandy, 13. eating mulligan with Robert Mulliken, 14. thinking about the Pulitzer Prize at the urinal, 15. Rocky Graziano and Rocky Balboa and Rocky and Bullwinkle and raging bull, 16. taking Prince's fingerprints, W: 17. was Theodosius atrocious? ferocious? supercalifragilisticexpialadocious?, 18. Siege of Jerusalem, Sino-Japanese, Stonewall Jackson, s.j., 19. me and you, menu and Udine, 20. Udin and Odin, 21. nobility from Grenoble, Chernobyl, and Paso Robles, 22. eating boba in Manitoba, 23. called by cholera, 24. lions in the sewer? the Lyons-Seward Treaty, 25. Erica in Arica and America, 26. inhibition, exhibition, prohibition, and the temporal leader of the temperance movement, 27. losing the Lusitania, 28. VC, Vatican City, the Viet Cong, Victoria Cross, Vassar College, 29. King Haakon, hack on!, 30. Operation Opera destroys Osiraq (nuclear reactor) in Iraq, 31. do you know Dawei (Myanmar)?
June 8
GR: 1. toilet paper and tom paine, apple juice and andrew jackson, 2. BONO and the battle of New Orleans, 3. Chu Lai, chewing on the lie that Sharon Lane was a hero, and not what she thought she was: just a nobody, an ordinary person, who happened to be the first servicewoman killed in the VW, TH: 4. Muhammad ibn Abdallah, prophet of Islam, died in 632 (born about 570), 5. Koran, Quran, corps anne, 6. bawdy tale of bodies in an Audi, 7. riot over rye, 8. please follow protoplasm protocol, 9. don't slight Dwight, 10. Mikey likes it, but Ike dislikes, 11. Dust Bowl, Super Bowl, and tree boles, 12. a bowl of oatmeal before bowling, 13. Francisco Franco wasn't French, 14. The Wright brothers and Frank Lloyd, 15. Beau Geste and infinite jest and Jess T, 16. Barbara Bush and BB king, 17. Joan Rivers and stream of consciousness, and Creek Indians, and Ricky Lake and Billy Ocean, and Mel Brooks, 18. Holy See and holy sea, fishers of men, 19. fancy Nancy, 20. sinful Sinatra, on the island of Sumatra, W: 21. The House of Godwin, 22. Loki and Laki (volcano in Iceland), 23. James Madison, mad at his (adopted) son, 24. Cult of the Supreme Being (French state religion, a form of deism intended to replace both RC and CR, roman catholicism, cult of reason), which rose and fell with Robespierre, 25. Brad Pitt and Karen, and the Pitcairn islanders, 26. secedes and succeeds and sows seeds, 27. compelling data from compiling statistics, 28. iniquity and antiquity, 29. NRA, national rifle association, and the chinese KMT national revolutionary army, 30. Jarvik heart and Narvik, Norway, (elvegard is a village!), 31. Austria is a long way from Australia, 32. 1984 was published in 1949, 33. taking a peek at Topeka, 34. Jheri curls, and James Earl Ray.
June 9
GR: 1. the bagpipe didn't originate in Scotland (traced to ancient Asia), TH: 2. Nero, in Reno, with O-ren, 3. Hong Kong, King Kong, and Michael Kong (classmate), 4. JJJ, James j. Jeffries, 5. Dashiell Hammett, and Kirk, 6. dashing, dashboard, on dasher and dancer, 7. Norway surrendered to Germany? No way!, 8. sour misery in Missouri, 9. nerd from Nuremberg, 10. rubella- ay, there's the rub, 11. Edward and Ken Norton, 12. Labour Party (pro women in labor), 13. haha, here's the weapons inspection team, 14. Cole Porter, communist party, capital punishment, and cerebral palsy, 15. Michael J. Fox and Fox News and foxy lady, 16. daffy, donald, daisy, scrooge, huey, dewey, louey (ducks!), like Quang, 17. Richie Rich and Uncle Scrooge and Silver Spoons, 18. daisy duck and daisy duke, dazed and confused, dizzy gillespie, W: 18. oligarchy, ollie have you seen my car keys?, 19. Battle of Toulouse? Odo won, Moors lost, 20. JC, Julio-Claudian dynasty, Jacques Cartier, 21. River medway, the medication way, meditation on yahweh, and going with the flow, let yourself go, slow and low, that is the tempo, 22. all wars are sad, but the Second Anglo-Dutch, especially, 23. I wish I'd seen the schooner sooner, 24. bulgogi, Bulgaria, bulge, and Bulganin, 25. ICA, immaculate conception academy (in SF, where my mom went), international council on archives (unesco), 26. Broad Peak, one tall broad, 27. LBJ declares a NDM for RFK, (national day of mourning), 28. dabbling in terrorism, and are gone, in Arghandab, Kandahar.
June 10
GR: 1. Spencer Tracy, censor racy, Sojourner Truth, burn your tooth, TH: 2. S and W, smith and wesson, satanism and witchcraft, both in MA, 3. Manhattan and men in hats, and hattie McDaniel, 4. The "old pretender" operation (op), 5. lightning and darkning!, 6. Oxford, Cambridge, Oxbridge, Camford, 7. Nick on Muni in Munich, 8. what's your beef with beef?, 9. JC, Joseph Conrad, 10. Chuck Yaeger, yay, 11. is Ai Kiu intelligent?, 12. detente and nightly taunting, 13. haves and have-nots, and Vaclav Havel, 14. heart sorbet? Gustave Courbet, 15. Saul Bellow and Sol above, 16. pp and bm, and prince philip mountbatten, 17. Judy Garland said, "be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of somebody else" (she was an actress!) (I'm Jesse, not JC, and not trying to be), 18. RM, Robert Maxwell, Real Madrid, rhesus monkey, rose marie, W: 19. the klepto stole my clepsydra, 20. Copenhagen can't cope, but it's copacetic, 21. Council of Trent Reznor, 22. Bear island is not swarming with bears, 23. Bridget Bishop wasn't considered one, ("detestable witchcraft and sorceries") 24. Jacobites, Jake bites, 25. King Buddha of Siam (Thailand), 26. collapse of a landslide dam (lsd?) kills 100k in china in 1786, 27. manly Yusuf Karamanli, 28. times on the Thames, 29. where-uh is Tarawera? New Zealand, 30. Why isn't Guantanamo Bay (NSGB/Gitmo) cuban? (the cuban gov considers the american occupation illegal), 31. Sharif ain't sheriff, 32. socialist, so cia list, 33. dr. Bob Smith and Bill Wilson, AA by BnB, 34. Chaco war over choco-taco's, 35. fashionable fascism, 36. Saab's first auto (now defunct, Swedish tears), 37. pc, progressive conservatives, 38. EPA, equal pay act, environmental protection agency, 39. pilot sucked from a cockpit (not a joke), 40. Pol Pot and Son Sen, (Khmer Rouge leader and his defense chief); Pot ordered the killing of Sen and 11 of his family, (the Cambodian genocide killed 1.5 to 3 million people).
June 11
GR: 1. JW, Jehovah's Witnesses, John Wayne (nearly 200 films), John Weissmuller, 2. Duke was the name of a dog he had as a boy, 3. Howard Hughes and happy hall, hehe haha hoho, highness and holiness, his and hers, heaven and hell, history and hydrogen, heil hitler, hulk hogan, hitchhiker, hip hop, holding hands, high hopes, household, happy hour, haunted house, happy holidays, health hazard, hard of hearing, hogan's heroes, Herbert hoover, Henry Hudson, high hurdles, head honcho, hello handsome, hedda hopper, TH: 4. king james III (of Scotland) stabbed by an assassin disguised as a priest, (watch out for those priests), 5. eating caramel on a caravel, 6. King Henry VIII had six wives, 7. life is rife at the reef (and there are riffraff on the roof), 8. I discovered a discotheque, 9. polo, po-high, and polio, 10. LCL, liquid crystal laser, less than container load, lady chatterley's lover, 11. Galapagos islands were named from the spanish word for saddles, because the shells of the giant tortoises there reminded visitors of them, 12. TMV, true market value, Timothy McVeigh, making a killing, 13. Terre Haute means "high land" (in French), 14. JC, John Constable, 15. Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to US congress (related to Mike?), 16. Richard Strauss composed Elektra (neighbor), 17. omg, O is in the ozone, 18. Tracy Fannin (classmate) and Nikolai Bulganin, and Anais Nin, 19. shooting Bannon out of a cannon, 20. JC, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, 21. Gene Wilder had some wild dna (born Jerome Silberman), W: 22. more birds in Moravia, 23. emperor of tang, lol, 24. Fakhkh!!, 25. JC, James Cook, 26. turtles, tortoises, and terrapins, 27. carapace and plastron, 28. Queen Draga (no joke), (draginja obrenovic), and drag queens, drama queens, dowager queen, Dairy Queen, 29. the beastly free french forces!, 30. Edwin Armstrong and fm, Frank Morris (escaped Alcatraz), JC, John and Clarence (Anglin), AM, Antonio Meucci, 31. Thich Quang Duc (tick-quack duck?) self-immolates, excuse my lack of vietnamese diacritics, 32. (Walter Seifert) attacking an elementary school with a flamethrower?!?, geezus. 33. Sindhis sinfully jeering mohajirs?, 34. chitty chitty bang bang in Chittagong, Bangladesh, 35. a white russian cocktail (mudslide) and mud pie (chocolate dessert).
June 12
GR: 1. Frances and Moses, eff 'm, TH: 2. burros, burritos, and boroughs, 3. Al Capone eats corn pone, 4. 82 gones at the '55 LeMans, 5. Nelson Mandela, son, man, mandala, 6. David Berkowitz, burked in Berkeley?, 7. Heidi, hi D, 8. prime ministers on prime day, 9. Anne Frank, and Joe Frank, frankly, incensed and myrrh-derous, 10. Jim Nabors' neighbors, 11. Chick Corea plays Korea, 12. priming the pump with prime numbers? wha, W: 13. Blackheath (area in SE London), and Heath White (SI classmate, r.i.p., changed his name, to - sorry, forgot) and white heath (plant), 14. Mao and the Maori, 15. relaxation, meditation, healing, and sleep (rainfall sounds for), 16. bad sinner, and Badi VII, king of Sennar, (sudanese kingdom), 17. Emilio Aguinaldo, education abroad, Babylonian god (aka Enki), early action (college admissions), 18. focusing on foes and folks in Phocaea, 19. There's a saint who died at age 9 (Jacinta Marto), 20. Patrick, Patricia, and Cleopatra, 21. Darth Vader (ho-brr) and Obergefell, 22. Bryan Allen (pilot of Gossamer Albatross), and Brian and Ellen, the brains behind Elle, 23. a chorus of yelling at Boris Yeltsin, 24. Warmbier and warm beer, 25. Omar Mateen, om, 26. Sunnis with a sunny outlook, Shiites with a shitty one; Salafists with raised fists.
June 13
GR: 1. AG, attorney general, alexander the great, al gore, ancient greek, amazing grace, ali g, author's guild, arthur guinness, andy griffith, allen ginsburg, andy gibb, artificial gravity, ambiguously gay, anti-gas, 2. DH, darla hood, designated hitter, doubleheader, die hard, dirty harry, dental hygiene, deer hunter, deadhead, dining hall, domestic helper, 3. Our Gang, OG, obstetrics and gynecology, original gangster, TH: 4. Ernest Shackelton, earnestly avoiding being placed in shackles, 5. throwing at the throat, 6. the ebbing tides of apartheid, 7. atomic reactor? Tom? your reaction?, 8. Francois Mitterand, eff 'm!, 9. William ate his butler, 10. simple simon, gaudy god, 11. Christ, Christo, Chris, and Christine, (I met a guy who called himself 'Tofer'), W: 12. winding up the wind, for a win, 13. casino and cocina (kitchen), 14. religious freedom, religion- really GI on, free the dumb, free cheese (edam), 15. angry tangerines in Tangiers?, 16. goofy Sufi, 17. SP, Savoy Palace, 18. selling the celibate, 19. feral and foral, 20. Bora Bora and Bibi (netanyahu) and Khoikhoi and it's its and bobo, and baba o'reilly, 21. ticker-tape, tank-tops, time-travel, tit for tat, and tater tots!, 22. airhead is a military term, lol, (a type of lodgment, like bridgeheads and beachheads, -not head on the beach-), 23. Thurgood Marshall and good Thor, with his hammer, protecting mankind, martial, 24. King Fahd, hello mudda, hello fadda..., 25. military engagements and marital engagements, wed: worst ever defeat, 26. marital and martial, 27. ciao chess coup and Ceusescu, 28. AA in Anchorage, Alaska, 29. Fukuoka airport and Phuc Yu, and Klaus Fuchs, 30. Anti-BM treaty (ha), ballistic missile, 31. dad in a body bag in Baghdad, hell in Hillah, kooks in Kirkuk, (2012), 32. the vandal can't handle the scandal.
June 14
GR: 1. dropped by dropsy, 2. Benedict Arnold, BA, bachelor of the arts, British Airways, blood alcohol, barium, breathing apparatus, "BA" Baracus (Mr. T character on A-Team), TH: 3. reason for treason: I'm the son of a tree, 4. kdvs logo and headquarters!, 5. frozen assets, like popsicles and ice cream, :-), 6. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of the World, and to the unity for which it stands, one planet, over/under (your choice) god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all!, 7. Buddhist clinging (to power), journalist attached (to the armed forces), 8. HBS, harvard business school, harriet beecher stowe, 9. Margaret Bourke-White, in her bmw, 10. SFR, star-forming region, single family rental, swiss family robinson, 11. Trump tromping on a tramp, 12. trimpe (artist of hulk and wolverine), in tremp (spain), W: 13. a cat named Nick, in Munich, Henry the Lion mews, 14. Barons hiking cairns with Aaron and Erin, 15. Royalists v. Parliamentarians, both forms have their advantages, 16. Stars and Stripes, not nazi, 17. mob, and mutiny on the bounty, 18. Charles Babbage, babbling about cabbage, 19. Sarawak, Sara - that's whack, 20. GOP, German occupation of Paris, 21. DDE and DDT, ike and infamous insecticide, 22. ugh, under god, 23. RT, regional transit, rafael trujillo, reaction-time, russia today, 24. reading all the books from the Index Librorum Prohibitorum (1557-1966).
June 15
GR: 1. Polk's folk, dissing dysentary, 2. Slocum woke 'em and soaked 'em, (1021 xx of 1400 in 1904), TH: 3. Syrians, ass, and assyrians, 4. The Divine Comedy (DA) and Infinite Jest (DFW), 5. peasants' revolt - pleasant or revolting?, 6. "doctrines and practices" (to each his or her own?), 7. constitutional constituents, 8. shinto shins and toes, 9. Atlantic antics, 10. Le Havre and have-not, 11. Jack Nicklaus wore a necklace?, 12. break a piñata on mount pinatubo, 13. law of the land, lol, 14. Edward the Black Prince wasn't, 15. Jim Henson and Josiah Henson, 16. Greg likes to listen to (Edvard) Grieg, 17. Jim Belushi likes sushi, 18. Helen Hunt, hellishly hunted, 19. Courtney Cox and a knee to the groin, W: 20. Assad is Syrian, not Assyrian, 21. insurgents against sergeant Sergius, 22. King Charles the Simple, with an inferiority complex, 23. Pretenders, pretending to be pre-teens, 24. Bilbo Baggins takes a bow in Bilbao, 25. The Onon river goes on and on, says The Onion, 26. VW, vickers wellington, too, 27. writing haiku in Pleiku, (Vietnam), 28. Queen Noor, (Lisa Halaby, just for the halibut), issue: 2 princes and 2 princesses!, she went to Princeton, 29. viagra and Niagara Falls, 30. FF, french fries and Francisco Franco, four five, foo fighters, fast and furious, family feud, false flag, frequent flyer, fast forward, 31. South Seas, not nazi, 32. NP, nanga parbat, nurse practitioner, no problem.
June 16
GR: 1. Keanu, Steve, Christopher, and George are all unrelated - Reeve, Reeves, (and Reavers), 2. Superman into S and M, TH: 3. Lambert and mint jelly, 4. language describing languid languishing in prison, in Langley, 5. Homer hits one, 6. Wellington, sicking a ton, 7. pissing during Waterloo, 8. pinafore and pineapple (pina) for me, 9. Joyful James Joyce, 10. SMC, st. mary's college, and stock market crash, 11. I bought my Mazda from an ad in Pravda, 12. Anne Frank and Frank Anne Stein, 13. hung in Hungary, 14. the nerve of Nureyev, how rude, 15. In '89, 4 golfers shot holes-in-one on the same hole on the same day of the U.S. Open, played in Atlanta, Georgia (!), 16. VT, TV, and Valentina Tereshkova, and transvestites, 17. Jesus Christ, oh my god, Joyce Carol Oates, (not a pen name), 18. movers and Shakur, 19. Bill Gates and Bernhard Goetz, 20. Wintun Indians in the winter, and award-winning wine, 21. Kerry Wood and Karen Carpenter, 22. Erich Segal and Steven Seagal and Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 23. Roberto Duran, r and d, Duran Duran, needing a doctor, 24. Katharine Graham, cracker, 25. the opera singer operating system, 26. the 48 hour day of Nelson Doubleday, 27. Peugeot and stinky Joe, W: 28. sassy Sasanians, 29. inherit the air, heir to error, 30. Roger's rangers, 31. an altar on Gibraltar, 32. defeat, de-feeted? ouch!, 33. Allah Bund ("dam of god"), goddamn, god am, 34. LAT, Los Angeles times, living apart together, LaMarcus Anna Thompson, 35. a 14 year old was executed by electric chair (1944), posthumously pardoned, 36. Soweto, spirit of (19)76!, 37. people died at Daiat, 38. Bhutan institutes a total ban on tobacco, 39. utterly kind, in Uttarakhand.
June 17
GR: 1. Kate Smith was afraid of being underground (even in death), TH: 2. God and Charles Gounod, 3. Sir Francis Drake, a duck and a rake, 4. red coats make easy targets, 5. national gnashing of teeth, 6. Mount Lassen blew in 1917, Mount St. Helens erupted in 1980, 7. Amelia, making a meal of ya, 8. it's an Icelandic thing (Thingvallir, Althing), 9. heroic Hirohito, 10. cagar, cigar, in Chicago, 11. Golda Meir, golden goddess (or foreign minister, anyway), 12. OJ Simpson, and Samson, 13. nuclear pronounced new-klee-ur (arsenal, you arse), 14. John Wesley, founder of Methodist church (not JW's), and Wesley Snipes, (martial artist, but not a sniper, I think), 15. my telescope is bigger than your telescope, 16. John Robert Gregg, Irish inventor of shorthand, and justice John Roberts (Chief Justice, US Supreme Court), 17. Gore and Igor, 18. Red Foley and James Brown, colorful singers, 19. Barry Manilow, and bury man low, 20. Ralph Bellamy and Bill Bellamy, 21. Supreme Court, the supremes, supreme pizza, and global supremacy, W: 22. a pope was arrested!, (Martin I), 23. corn-fed and the Cornish, 24. Nova Albion (archaic name for Britain), the name given to California by Sir Francis Drake in 1579, 25. Mughal mongol monkey muggle?, 26. Shah Jahan, s.j., 27. Mumtaz Mahal, and eminem, mutatis mutandis, marilyn monroe, etc., 28. Samuel Wallis (sighted Tahiti) and Wallis Simpson, 29. kookoo for Cocoa Puffs in Cucuta, Colombia, 30. Taku forts (china) and tacos, 31. merchandise from Murchison, NZ, 32. Eugene like eugenics, 33. Jordan has hang time, but not maritime airtime, 34. hussies and Hussars, 35. Arabs rub the air? Americans have merry cans? Russians in a rush? Irate Irish and hateful Haitians? Hungry Hungarians? Mexicans in Mecca? etc etc.
June 18
GR: 1. Ethel and ethyl, Barrymore and Rosenberg, TH: 2. Samuel Johnson, s.j. (lexicographer), 3. WC Fields and Winston Churchill, and workers compensation, 4. Akihito likes maki tuna, 5. athlete mashup: Jim Palmer and Arnold Schwarzenegger and Arnold Palmer, 6. Kay Kyser and Kaiser, 7. pros and cons of Sammy Cahn and Khan and prostitute and public relations officer, 8. PMC, Paul McCartney and private military contractor and professional-managerial class, 9. IR, Isabella Rossellini and international relations, iridium, infrared, and IR baboon, 10. Black Hills and White Mountains and Blucher and Redmond and Orange Free State and Yellowstone and Greenbriar and Violet Beauregard and purple drank, and indigo girls, and P!nk, W: 11. dared to kill in County Kildare, 12. Pate and the battle of Patay, 13. puree and Perree, 14. empress dowager sushi?, 15. wussup, University of Philippines?, 16. James Joyce and William Joyce (lord haw-haw), 17. The Muhammad Ali dynasty was overthrown by Egyptian revolution of 1952, (the boxer, Cassius Clay, was born in '42), 18. BB, Benjamin Britten, 19. SALT was the opposite of an assault, no?, 20. Bahais in Iran sentenced to death and hanged for their beliefs, (1983).
June 19
GR: 1. burying Barrie (Peter Pan author), Barry eats berries, TH: 2. Going fishing for Salman, 3. Green Party and Red Square, 4. AA (austrian archduke) Maximilian was worth a million, max, 5. Hail California and hotel california, Saint-Saens and assassins, 6. a meal out of Camille, 7. hot to trot, with Trotsky, 8. diploma and diplomacy and dipping low, 9. Berlin and Merlin, 10. selective service nazis, and sing sing, 11. I miss orange julius (do they still exist?), 12. Kuwait, can you wait?, 13. Tritton's tank and Triton missile, 14. (1862) slavery outlawed in all of US (and territories), (1865) all slaves in TX are freed (Juneteenth), 15. odd Audrey dislikes vaudeville, 16. Guy Lombardo and Gal Friday, 17. Blaise Pascal feeling blasé, on easter, 18. Wallis Simpson, dow, duchess of windsor, making wind, and Wallace and Grommett, and Marsellus (pulp fiction), 19. S and P, science and philosophy, 20. King James VI and I was the same person, go figure, 21. pencils and penicillin, pens and peninsulas, 22. Romancing the stone? wha? geologists love rocks, but.. W: 23. Apollo Creed and the Nicene (nice scene?), 24. Earl Erling, 25. Earl of Pembroke, broke, brother can you spare a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee, 26. Gansu earthquake and ginsu knives, 27. The Trees by Rush, and Battle of Seven Oaks, and Ents, 28. Hobos from Hoboken, NJ, 29. dreadlocks, the feeling of dread, and Dred Scott v. Sandford, Sandford and son, Stanford, 30. NY, NY and Queretaro, Queretaro, 31. Mussolini puts mousse in his hair, shoots a moose, and becomes a muslim, 32. Spokane, spoke Anne, 33. Mayadin Syria, and Maya Rudolph, and mayan chocolate, 34. Sing Sing and Ed Edd and Eddie, ding dong, 35. Estimated Time of Arrival for ETA separatists to arrive in hell, 36. indigenous, you dig?, 37. killed at al-Khilani (mosque, Baghdad), 38. sheesh, Shishou, 39. FAT areas (federally administered tribal), in Pakistan (tan backpack?, full of food).
June 20
GR: 1. General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana (galsa!) had one funeral for his leg (1842), and for the rest of him, (in 1876), TH: 2. great seal of the United States (an eagle, not a seal), 3. E Pluribus Unum (out of many, one), so EE is out of ecstasy (lol), 4. racy talk from the aristocracy, 5. moms from Guam, dads from Chad, 6. Jim Hines wears Hanes, 7. chinese chicken? Han hens, hon!, 8. awkward talk about Jacques Offenbach, 9. Candy and Sugar Ray Leonard are sweet, 10. Lillian Hellman wrote a play about mayonnaise? man a's? Mayo Clinic?, 11. Wilson's airhead brain (castaway), and Brian Wilson, 12. Boxer rebellion (china, 1900), and Muhammad Ali, "I ain't got no quarrel with the Vietcong" (1967), convicted of draft evasion, and stripped of his heavyweight title, 13. Orpheus and Morpheus on the wharf, 14. lyre, liar: she don't lie, cocaine -Clapton, little lies -FM, Fleetwood Mac, W: 15. Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Hopkins, Adolf Hitler, Attila the Hun, Anne Heche, Austria-Hungary, 16. using an uzi at Uji, 17. a really weird story from 1631 (Sack of Baltimore), a slave raid of a village in Ireland, by Algerian pirates, 18. Conventions and convents and abbeys and Abba, and abbasids, 19. No remorse, Samuel Morse, 20. ICA, imperial chinese army, 21. film shootings (bang!), 22. God, out of order: Gustavo Diaz Ordaz.
June 21
GR: 1. Niccolo Machiavelli's last words were, "I desire to go to hell and not to heaven. In the former place, I shall enjoy the company of Popes, Kings, and Princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks, and apostles" (He still received Last Rites, though), TH: 2. Galileo and ac/dc: commanded by Inquisition to "abjure, curse, detest" his Copernican view (sun at center, not earth; heliocentric); 3. Cyrus Hall McCormick (chmc, church mind control), invented reaping machine, grim reaper reaps what he sows, 4. investments and investitures, in vests, sharp dressed men, carrying knives, 5. Ferris Bueller, first Ferris wheel in 1893 ('Columbian' exposition, in Illinois (?); why called Columbian? answer: celebrating 400 years from Columbus arriving in New World), 6. federal coffers, coffins, coffee, and coughing, 7. hey! pray to sway Yahweh, 8. Okinawa was really not okay, 9. hm, Houghton-Mifflin, miffed, 10. smokers that assent to S and M?, 11. calculating sums in the summertime, sometimes, 12. Ray Davies and the SF Davies symphony hall, 13. wailing whales off Wales, 14. Jean-Paul Sartre artfully writing a tart, don't start with the bart farting, 15. Martha reads Siddhartha, 16. Daniel Carter Beard was weird, 17. Jane Russell in the hustle and bustle, Las Vegas story, Suzanne's loss, spanish for 'The Meadows', 18. Bruce Hornsby and Charles Edward Horn, and horny whorin', 19. trumpeting Trump, 20. Judy Holliday (born in 1922) was in Born Yesterday; June 21 is not a US holiday, but IS International Day of Yoga, 21. Benazir Bhutto, butt and toe, kicking ass, 22. pow-wow, prince william of wales, 23. play ball! meatballs, eyeballs, gonads, and ballistics, ballet, uniball pens, and bawling babies, 24. Bali, Baltics, and Balkans, W: 25. BMW, battle of white mountain, Czech! 26. aging on the Aegean, 27. Winnipeg, and winning Peggy, 28. Orkney islands, orca, and ork knees?, 29. PUP, polytechnic university of the philippines, woof!, 30. Pablo Escobar (Colombia), and the Khobar Towers (Saudi Arabia).
June 22
GR: 1. Judy Garland unrelated to Merrick, 2. Judy (born Frances Gumm) died of an accidental overdose of barbiturates, age 47 (her LA Times obituary listed her illnesses as: hepatitis, exhaustion, kidney ailments, nervous breakdowns, near-fatal drug reactions, overweight, underweight, and injuries suffered in falls), She had 5 spouses and 3 children, 3. Eng-land and Chang-land, too (siamese twins, american: they bought slaves, and had 21 children), 4. duke of Monmouth on Mon-day, 5. fisher king, bishop John Fisher, beheaded by king Henry VIII, 6. 18,000 Cherokees sold out by 100 representatives; tribal law decreed the death penalty for transferring land without the approval of the majority; OK okay?, 7. (1931) 131 Mafiosi are sentenced to life terms, in Italy, 8. golf, gulf, olfactory elves, alf, and milfs!, 9. Mark David Chapman and McD, 10. 1990 earthquake kills 40k (on Iranian-russian border), 11. remarkable, Erich Maria Remarque, AQWF, 12. Salinger and Dillinger, 13. LRon Hubbard and Hubbell telescope, 14. Gene Wilder and Billy Wilder, 15. AML, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, abandoned mine lands, 16. Joe Loss and Mai Nguyen, 17. Happy Days and hippy daze, 18. Pete Maravich in the p.m., 19. mayor, merry, ill, saint, reap, weep, and Meryl Streep (and MS, Microsoft), 20. Papp produced the pirates of penzance, W: 21. teutonic tudors in tupelo, playing tuba, 22. sadomasochism, sweeping and mopping, Serbia and Montenegro, standard model, 23. Unalaska and Unzen, firearm inquiry: ask about uzi, 24. Livonians in Liverpool, 25. freakin' sneak peak at the beacon of bacon, 26. a unique uncle Zeke week, 27. take a leak where it reeks, or in the creek, geek , 28. dom requires sub: seeking meek, 29. Tim Duncan, (Lonzo, LiAngelo, LaMelo) Ball, Chris Webber, 30. riffraff from Raphia, 31. Seleucids are so lucid, 32. listening to Massive Attack, and celebrating Mass, in Macedonia, 33. Perseus lost his purse, 34. Heidi Klum and Krum and R. Crumb and Miette, 35. reciting verse to Nikki in Versinikia, 36. the hungry beat the hot dogs (Hungarians best E Frankish), 37. Fatahillah and Fatah, 38. sisal and Sisak, 39. Ottomans run out of gas, 40. heated controversy about the sun, 41. Galileo Galilei, Vladimir Vladimir, gal Friday, galant Galahad, and global administrative law, and Gal Godot, 42. Trebek from Quebec, on a trek, 43. Loki's lackeys, 44. Trail of tears, ocean of sorrow, way of weeping (basal, emotional, and reflex), nation of gnashing, 45. trying on tyranny, 46. Daiquiri, Cuba and banana republics, 47. Euston and Houston, 48. tech and Mary of Teck, 49. armistice and arms, mist, ice, 50. iration, vibration, bagration, and rationality, 51. Nguyen Cao Ky, don't have a cow, man, 52. Diego, i.e. god, 53. Wherever I go, Hugo and (Fernando) Lugo. hugs and Lugers, 54. The Russo-Circassian war lasted 101 years (!); the longest war, however, was the Reconquista, which lasted 769 years.
June 23
GR: 1. Henry Hudson, with his son and 6 loyal crewmen, were set adrift without water or provisions, never to be seen again, by a mutinous crew, who weren't hanged because they claimed to know the NW passage (the purpose of their trip), although GR says this passage is only possible for submarines or ice breakers; however, google says ("during the summer, a route through the arctic opens up" -2021), TH: 2. Phil from Philadelphia ate his fill, 3. Sholes invented (was granted a patent for) the typewriter, shoals and soles and souls, 4. Montmartre, "mount of mars" (a hill in Paris), unlike Olympus Mons, (an actual Martian mountain), 5. Wile E. Coyote and Wiley Post, 6. Monterey Bay Aquarium and Marine World Africa USA, (now 6 flags discovery kingdom...the 6 flags represent Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, USA, and CSA: the 6 countries that had control over some or all of the US State of Texas; where the first park of the 6 flag corporation opened: 27 properties in North America, now), 7. You can run, but you can't hide, from Eric Heiden, 8. Usain Bolt is faster than Michael Johnson, 9. Desmond Tutu was not named after a ballet dress (and the derivation of that is unknown), (anglican) archbishop of Cape Town, the town where superman got his cape :-), (landed in Kansas), 10. Touring the mind of Alan Turing, 11. Bob Fosse, a fossil, 12. AK rifle and Dr. Alfred Kinsey, 13. Antoine Joseph Sax, inventor of saxophone (not phone sex), 14. Scientologists want Clarence to be clear, 15. guten tag, Gutenberg!, 16. was OJ ever juiced? (on ped, performance enhancing drugs), 17. Eddie Money and Johnny Cash and Julie Coin (French tennis player), Luke's lucre, W: 18. Empire of the Sun (exonym, Japan), and emperor Sun Quan (china), 19. playing tympani in Trapani, 20. raunchy french and phlegmatic flemish, 21. Dragut, commander of the ottoman navy, dragging his guts around, 22. Acadia, Arcadia, Akkadia, 23. 3k defeat 50k at the battle of plassey, 24. Robert Clive and all that jive, served with chives, 25. Government Printing Office and the GOP, 26. IOC, international olympic committee, and information operations center/analysis group, 27. Cal Arts Institute, Alameda County Industries, chia pets, and the CIA!, 28. Garcia and Lupicia, 29. Bonn, Germany and Sorbonne in Paris, 30. Doiran is not in Iran, 31. Victoriano Huerta (Huerta means 'vegetable plot'), 32. Pancho's poncho, 33. Is that a Sears poncho?, 34. Henry Larsen and Gary Larson, 35. tha Taft-Hartley Act, dawg, 36. "the big U", ocean liner (passengers, pleasure cruise, hospital ship), 37. Antarctica is a science preserve (SP), 38. That's a tasty (Warren E.) Burger!, 39. Space Station, not nazi, 40. decathlon combines 4 runs, 3 jumps, and 3 throws, (100m, long jump, shot put, high jump, 400m, 110m hurdles, discus throw, pole vault, javelin throw, 1500m), 41. Talents in Talence, skilz, 42. Brexit passed 52% to 48%, (2016).
June 24
GR: 1. Grover Cleveland, over, 2. Super Grover!, 3. GC (#24)'s last words were, "I have tried so hard to do right,", TH: 4. A Swiss was inspired by a bloody battle between Austria and France, in Italy (!), 5. JHD, Jean Henri Dunant, John Herbert Dillinger, 6. irked by the IRC, 7. smoking a lot of camels at Camelot, 8. Winston Churchill smoked Winstons? (he was known to smoke between 8-10 cigars a day; sometimes, as many as 15), 9. Brandi drinks brandy, 10. taking the ugh out of Marlboro, 11. improved gunpowder, du Pont makes his point, 12. pierced by Bierce, 13. Horatio Kitchener, what's goin' on in the kitchen?, 14. burying your car in Khartoum, 15. Jack Dempsey, and Garrett (on CR staff with me), 16. the chief chef, 17. Fangio's fangs, 18. gargoyles, oil, and royally loyal to Hoyle, 19. Billy Casper, pro golfer, haunting the PGA, 20. Jeff Beck, and Becky, what the heck, 21. Onizuka fires a bazooka, 22. leggy Peggy in the army, 23. ashes, America's sweet-heart, 24. Mary Pickford, in a Chevy, 25. Robert the Bruce, Bruce the Jen, and Jenny Craig, W: 26. Nepo sign (open, upside down) and Julius Nepos, 27. Battle of Moira is the "largest battle in the history of Ireland" (Maura, Mora, Myra, Moira; Mare of nightmares, Moria of dwarves), 28. Nancy from Nantes, 29. Cedynia and Sardinia, 30. war between mother and son (!): Battle of Sao Mamede, (son won), 31. Anabaptist Munster and baptizing little monsters!, 32. Mad cow in Macau, 33. fun at the bay of fundy, 34. Jesus' godfather, lol, 35. Neman river and Neiman Marcus, 36. hickory dickory dock, and Chick Corea, in Chicora PA, 37. Siam becomes Thailand (1939), 38. Battle of Mang Yang pass (ring to it, like gang-bang).
June 25
GR: 1. Little Big Horn and little big burgers, 2. Custard's last stand!, 3. Crazy Horse, mad cow disease, and batty bats, TH: 4. bananas are appealing to Robert Peel, 5. Sandwich, Massachusetts (!), a tasty town, 6. Society of Friends, in SF (and worldwide!), 7. Baudelaire and Bo knows, 8. crazy horse, manatee sanity, calm and tranquil cat, 9. General Dwight D. Eisenhower (D for David) 's mom was a JW, whose beliefs require conscientious objection (!), 10. Soul music in Seoul, Korea, 11. an emphasis on Memphis, 12. twilight zone, and the temple of zeus, 13. Danny Glover is a lover of hovercraft, 14. Frank Budd, and his buddhist buddy, 15. World Cup, Super Bowl, excellent fork, super spoon, lol, 16. Roy the viceroy, 17. George Orwell was the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (or/or), 18. Sidney's kidney, 19. Willis Reed and Reed college (which doesn't have varsity athletics), named after Simeon Gannett and his wife, Amanda; red, ruddy, reid, reading, and paper from papyrus, given name or surname, 20. Eddie Floyd and Pink Floyd, 21. Carly (Elisabeth) Simon's car? (Legend in your own time, lol), 22. Jimmie Walker and George, Sharon Runner, 23. blogging and plogging (picking up litter while jogging), 24. Anthony Bourdain and ants, honey, and bored Danes, 25. George Michael's real name was Georgios Kyriocos Panayiotou (gotta have faith? PC, protestant christian, and a jewish grandmother); Panay is a phillipine island, 26. Dikembe Mutombo, muttering something about Congolese tombs, Anne-Sophie Mutter, 27. Campbell and the bell at camp (royaneh), W: 28. Frank, defeated by Burgundy (says the AA historian), 29. Diet of Augsburg (Augie eats burgers), 30. PB and J, plantations, british, and Jamaica, 31. constitution, eaten by rats; ratified!, gratified, 32. Mogao caves/grottoes, aka "caves of the thousand buddhas", a system of 500 temples, (China), 33. Igor Stravinsky drives a firebird, bird in the sky, bird in this guy, 34. Gr, Great Reunion of 1913 (50 years after US Civil War) wasn't acrimonious, actually (in remembrance of "splendid valor"), 35. are missed, armistice, 36. Sonny and Cherbourg, 37. Indira in dear India, 38. come and Gandhi, 39. rainbow flag makes its gay-bu in 1978, 40. slo and cro leave yugo, ('91).
June 26
GR: 1. fridge in Phrygia, 2. apostate prostate, 3. the Persian version, 4. Mass assassin, "massassination", Catholic bloodbath, "Cath-bath", TH: 5. Pizarro was bizarre at the bazaar, 6. slurp the purple drank and usurp the purple robes, 7. York (peppermint patty has a white filling) and Lancaster (red, like blood), Lancaster and Tudor (two door?) houses won the 40-year civil war, 8. Pizarro murdered (Incan king) Atahualpa, and was killed in turn, 9. stabbing the establishment, 10. AMI, aztec, mayan, incan, 11. slow, lazy, mellow Russians, 12. easy does it, go slow, 13. carne, cars, and carnage, 14. To Big Bertha (German howitzer), Paris says, "don't you come around here, anymore," 15. Gold Rush and Silver sleepy?, 16. New Order and Hitler, 17. Joe Louis vs. Joe Walcott, and Trader Joe's Joe-Joe's, 18. Nelson and Abner Doubleday, 19. the Messerschmitts made a mess, going willy-nilly over Europe, 20. Casablanca and the White House, 21. lore about Peter Lorre, 22. Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Babe Ruth, and a. golf, b. baseball, c. basketball, d. track and field, e. boxing, and Luisa Madrigal!, (Encanto character), 23. Laurie Lee (man), and Sarah Lee, merrily, 24. Claudio Abbado, and audio (abba, bad, much ado), 25. Pearl S. Buck and pbs, 26. Knopf Doubleday Penguin Randomhouse, so random, double you, knock knock, dumb penguins running through my house? argh!, W: 27. LG, Larry n' Greg, Lev Grossman, Lucky-Goldstar, Life's Good!, 28. Augustus adopts Tiberius, Augie has a beer, 29. Caesar, Kaiser, czar, tsar, Caesarean section, seize her!!, 30. Sasanian? so sane!, 31. Shugendo, a folk religion founded by En no Ozuno, 32. Mizuno (mitts) and ozone (layer), 33. I drank two tonics, 34. Three simultaneous Popes! (double-schism, 1409), 35. the roads in Rhodesia, 36. Ottomans driving autos, man, 37. Pizarro is bizarro, 38. business at the bazaar is good, 39. Stephen Bathory and Elizabeth Bathory, 40. Safavid readers, 41. back to Baku, 42. crucial cruelty, 43. hankering to do banking and go to Nanking, 44. smile! you're at the Science Museum in London, :-), 45. Wilhelm at the helm, 46. Harbord and Hubbard at Harvard harbor, 47. "spray gun" and Ronald Reagan, 48. Egypt and Lawrence of Arabia, Peggy T and Larry, and Bessarabia, Jess (tesh)ara, 49. Grumman Hellcat, and healthy catholics, amen, 50. Osuchy and such, 51. Shirley Jackson, s.j., 52. UPC, universal product code, united presbyterian church, 53. AIM, American Indian Movement, sight site, 54. citation and excitation, 55. Hamad bin Khalifa deposes Khalifa bin Hamad (son replaces father, in a bloodless coup, in Qatar), 56. Ani and al Thani, 57. Sodomy with Saddam, 58. timorous in E Timor, 59. Where's the Waldo Canyon? Colorado Springs, Colorado.
June 27
GR: 1. Mormon harmony, 2. in the form of a Mormon!, (Wonder Twin powers, activate!), 3. Moroni was a moron?, 4. Joseph Smith, founder of COJCOLDS, was killed by a mob who stormed the jail he was incarcerated in (!!), 5. X Games and the crying game, 6. Chernobyl wasn't noble, it contaminated thousands of miles surrounding it, 7. Auschwitz, cow-shwitz, and wit about ow, sh, it, like silence=death, 8. a. if you must sweep the streets, do it as Michelangelo would have swept the streets -MLK jr. ; b. I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble (ele-gant) - Helen Keller, 9. Newbery Medal for excellence in children's literature (starting in 1922), 10. Potemkin and kin on pot, 11. Joshua Slocum, sailed his sloop Spray 46,000+ miles (first solo circumnavigation, 1898), 12. Edward Gibbon, and Ook (lol), (Terry Pratchett reference), 13. Jen in debt, in Dettingen, 14. blind and deaf, that's bad, 15. Antoinette Perry, Luke Perry, Steve Perry, dodge parry thrust, actress and broadway producer, tony award (fashionable among wealthy or stylish people), 16. H Ross Perot, waiting for Godot, 17. manly Errol Mann, (football player), 18. Joseph P. Allen IV (astronaut, did Allen spot any aliens?), 19. Bob Keeshan, captain kangaroo, and Burger King, yes kangaroo meat is a thing (almost no fat), W: 20. Ragu pasta sauce and the Republic of Ragusa, (Dalmatia, today's southern croatia), crows and Dalmatians, 21. Thomas Flamank, flamer, danced flamenco, 22. Thirteen protestants burned at stake for their beliefs? I doth protest, 23. Otto, NC (auto, no car? weird), 24. chair key worriers de-feet brits, 25. Joseph Smith, Joshua Slocum, s.j., 26. mob is bom, backwards, 27. campaign, the camera sees your pain, 28. pogrom pompom program, 29. barbaric barber of Barbarossa, 30. Irma walks the berm in Burma, 31. Me n' Mary in Myanmar, 32. dissolves parliament? weird expression, like they were all placed in vats of acid, 33. shake your booty in Djibouti, 34. Sarin gas, in Sara? Aum Shinrikyo attack (in '94), 35. Chancellor, Prime Minister, Premiere, President, uhhhh... 36. Did Robert Mugabe have a hobby?, 37. Godavari, India? very godly!
June 28
GR: 1. James Madison (#4) was small: 5'4, weight 100 lbs, 2. BHS, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sarajeveo, start of WWII (which has been estimated to be "7 times as destructive as the 901 major wars that preceded it"), (does destructive mean deadly? lives or property/value/money?), TH: 3. Samuel de Champlain, chaplain, Chaplin, Chapman, chaps, champs, chimps, 4. Catherine the Great, Peter the Great, the Great Lakes, the great communicator, great america, Great Britain, Great Barrier Reef, Great Depression, Great Dane, Great Leap Forward, Great Plains, great pyramid, great rift valley, great society, great white shark, great Scott!, Greta Garbo, 5. sobriquet, tourniquet, and banquet; bank wit, 6. Leroy Anderson, Louis Armstrong, and Los Angeles, in la-la land, 7. Amos n Andy, African-Americans, and Alcoholics Anonymous, 8. John Foster Dulles wasn't very exciting, 9. Pele and pelear (to fight, in spanish) and Pe (Pierre), 10. Malcolm X, the tenth (j/k), no longer a Little (slave name), 11. protest and criticism is PC, 12. The Citadel, taking a stand, 13. Evander Holyfield, eh? him and VVG (Vincent Van Gogh), and the Bible story about Jesus reattaching the ear of the soldier, 14. human rights records and tapes and cds (haha), 15. Ronnie Coleman and a muscular RC church, (he's a "devout christian"), devil out!, Godin (musical instrument company), and Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe, defriend or Defoe, fb unfriending, 16. Adolf Hitler and Austria-Hungary, ah-ha (no laughing matter), 17. Ng, king, of England, or something, 18. Sir Peter Paul Rubens, and Paul Reubens (pee-wee Herman), 19. Jean-Jacques Rousseau's trousseau (ooh, so), 20. Ashley Montague and Andre Caplet, 21. South Pacific, musical, geographic region, and (another) S and P, Slim Pickens, 22. Luigi Pirandello and mellow yellow, 23. bored in a bordello, 24. Paul Broca, don't tase me, bro!, W: 25. "More jello!," he bellowed, 26. Earl of March, and the May queen, 27. Thou shalt not kill? marine corps says Corfu!, 28. Ionian ions? Moluccan molecules?, 29. nutty about Newcastle upon Tyne, 30. disbanded? we weren't a band!, 31. "wholly fictitious and fraudulent" (fun phrase), 32. spoonerisms and the Spooner Act, 33. Teddy in a teddy, lol, 34. Serbs in the suburbs, Croats where my ho at?, Slovenes and quickening, 35. the germ of the gay rights movement in germany, love parade, 36. mercenaries immersed in merciless air/breeze, Ares/Aries.
June 29
GR: 1. Hulk Hogan and Hogan's heroes, and Jayne Mansfield and Jane Russell, TH: 2. GT, globe theatre; JT, John Toland (author), (Jesse and Greg Teshara), 3. ay! el dolor! (mission dolores, in SF: 'dolor' means physical or mental pain or distress. weird name. answer: Our Lady of Sorrows creek was nearby; who is the lady of sorrows? 'marian', not too merry, a reference to Maria), 4. Charlotte Bronte married a priest (curate) (over her father's objections), 5. Reno and Renault, 6. Prohibitionist Silas C. Swallow (!), 7. springs go Boing! oingo boingo! bingo! bing crosby, bing search, Boeing, oh boy, 8. Santa Barbara, the saint, of doubtful historicity (historical authenticity), 9. USI (16- United States of Indonesia! now, it's ROI, republic of Indonesia) (34 provinces) (17,500+ islands), 10. High-powered Hiram Powers, 11. Goethe and Goethals, 12. William James (pragmatist psychologist and philosopher, brother of Henry James) and William James Mayo (clinic founder), 13. The little prince (book), and the big kahuna, (hawaiian shaman, movie), 14. Nelson Eddie sang Rose Marie, 15. Frank Loesser, lesser loser, 16. Naming Michael's car "Stokely" (ha), 17. Katie and KT (Kwame Ture), Knight Templar, W: 18. Yahweh? no way! (kingdom of) Wei!, 19. Dordrecht, wrecked, 20. begging for mercy from Skanderbeg, 21. Athens, Athos, pathos, math os, 22. self-granted autocephaly, 23. Prime minister of Amazon, 24. Muhammad Ahmad, (mad mad moo ham ah-ha), 25. Sudan, Sue and Dan, sedan, sunday, 26. Hyde Park and Jekyll drive, 27. Sasquatch from Saskatchewan, 28. ruthlessly robbing ruthenium from ruthenia, 29. army fighting for Armi (Kuusela), first Miss Universe, (1952), 30. death penalty "arbitrary and inconsistent" and "cruel and unusual", (but still bad even if it wasn't, imo), 31. Mikhail Baryshnikov reminds me of/ looks like Anthony Hopkins, 32. sea shells on Seychelles (but named after Louis XV's minister of finance, Jean Moreau de-), 33. Sampoong dept. store, and shampoo.
June 30
GR: 1. Soyuz XI, use soy!, eleven-K-killed: 3 xx cosmonauts had their "blood boiled", TH: 2. The Tunguska event in 1908 hit Siberia with 2000 times the force of the bomb that leveled Hiroshima (Little Boy), 3. MLKjr.'s mother was slain, too (in 1974), by a gunman as she played organ at a Baptist church in Georgia, 4. Mike Tyson eats bison, and vacuums with a dyson, my son!, 5. Patton Oswalt and Lee Harvey Oswald, and Stephen S. Oswald, 6. Rupert Jee and Rupert Graves (not in one, just yet), 7. Walter Ulbricht, another brick in the wall, 8. sss, sir Stanley Spencer, English war artist in both world wars (not a nazi), 9. Nicaea is a very nice place, 10. very into slavery, and slayer, and tex avery, 11. I favor knavery to slavery, 12. Lena Horne and Billy Strahorn, horny, W: 13. Swiss cantons and cantonese, mandarin and Mandingo, 14. I challenge you to a joust! you think I jest?, 15. just the gist of Jess T, 16. the earl's girl, 17. doing curls to attract the girls, 18. Clifford jumped off the cliff, 19. reading Tartuffe at the University of Tartu, 20. The Immortal Seven really weren't, of course, 21. Seven Years' War and the Seven Year Itch, 22. palages- the 7 deadly sins: pride avarice lust anger gluttony envy sloth, 23. Blue Jacket (shawnee war chief), Redcoats (opposite of camouflage), and Yellowjackets (wasps, not bees), and full metal jacket (Stanley Kubrick movie), 24. Michelin tires in Michigan for Mitch, again, 25. Guiteau, gitmo, git' 'r done, gizmo, 26. a meal under a tree in Montreal, 27. made in a glade in the shade, 28. special relatives, you are special today, and special relativity, 29. Nate Dogg and Warren G (regulate) and Warren G Harding, 30. Abyssinia has nothing to do with an abyss, I think, 31. Corvette (chevy) and corvette (boat), 32. now and laters (candy), and NOW (national organization for women), 33. Glasgow, glass jaw, go ow, 34. A 14 year old girl, Bahia Bakari, is the only survivor of 153 people on board a plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean in 2009 (!!), (just the way the cookie crumbled, as they say), 35. Mohamed Morsi, and Modest Mouse, mm.
