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Robert Wadlow of Alton Ill., at almost 9-feet, was the tallest person ever recorded. Officially, he was 8-feet, 11.1 inches. He died in 1940 at the age of 22. Bone fragments found in Castelnau-le-Lez, France, however, indicate that someone may have reached 11-feet, 6-inches back in Neolithic times.
Rebecca Warren Falls Short, Joe Gale Wins — With 96 percent of the state-wide vote in as of 11:45 p.m., May 21, Rebecca Warren is about 25,000 votes behind second place Christylee Peck who has about 337,000 in the Republican Superior Court primary.
Two seats are being contested for 10-year terms on the court which is the intermediate appellate court for most matters in the state.
In first place is establishment choice Megan King who has about 357,000 votes. Ms. King received a last minute endorsement form President Trump.
Somebody must have been nervous.
In better news, incumbent Joe Gale appears to be the top vote-getter in the GOP Montco Commissioner race at, unofficially, 16,233. Unfortunately his brother Sean is about 1,649 votes behind second place Fred Conner who ended up, unofficially, with 16,114 votes in the five man race. Dean Eisenberger got 14,454 votes and France W. Krazalkovich got 5,909 votes
Conner was the establishment favorite.
Gale and Conner will face on Nov. 5 Democrat incumbents Val Arkoosh and Kenneth E. Lawrence, Jr., who has been dogged by allegations of committing a rape.
The top-votegetter of the minority party is guaranteed a seat on the board.
In best news, though, Republican Fred Keller crushed Democrat Marc Friedenberg to win a special election to Pennsylvania’s 12 District Congressional seat that was strangely vacated by Tom Marino in January.
Keller got, unofficially, 78,844 votes to Friedenberg’s 33,244. votes.
The country with the most camels living free in the wild is Australia. Really. There was about 300,000 of them in 2013 and the growth is 10 percent per year.
Pennsylvania Primary Election 2019 — Today, May 21, is primary election day in Pennsylvania. Poll hours are 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
It’s an odd numbered year so on the ballot will be races for municipal offices, school board seats, and state and local judges.
Cross-filling is allowed in school board and county judicial races so voting for party recommended persons is advised in these matters if one is unaware of the candidates.
The most relevant state-wide race is for Superior Court judge. In the Republican Primary two seats are being contested for 10-year terms on the court which is the intermediate appellate court for most matters in the state. We strongly urge bullet voting for Rebecca Warren. Bullet voting means only voting for a single person despite being eligible to vote for another. Rebecca will not be appearing on most GOP sample ballots.
Concerning the Montgomery County Commissioner Republican Primary, we urge votes for Joe and Sean Gale.
Ever hear of Plovdiv, Bulgaria? You should have. It is oldest continuously inhabited city in Europe. Arguably, anyway. Some will say that Argos, Greece beats it. Plovdiv is thought to have been founded about 6,000 B.C.
The military began using a phonetic alphabet in 1913. The original designations that remain are Mike for M and X-ray for X.
The deepest mine in the world is the Mponeng Gold Mine southwest of Johannesburg in South Africa. The operating depth averages between 2.8km to 3.4km. That would be about 1.7 to 2.1 miles.
Actually, Eight of the worlds’ 10 deepest mines in the world are in South Africa The others are in Ontario, Canada. The South African ones produce gold. The Canadian wones produce nickle (Creighton) or copper and zinc (Kid Creek).
Craftsmen Production Returning To US — The business section of yesterday’s (May 17) The Wall Street Journal had some good news we haven’t seen mentioned in other outlets.
Stanley Black & Decker Inc. is moving its production of Craftsmen wrenches from China to Fort Worth, Texas. It will employ 500 persons to make 10 million wrenches and 50 million sockets annually. Robots and fast forger presses will boost output about 25 percent above the older machines they used in the PRC.
The American Indian spent a fair share of his time outdoors and his home didn’t have screens. How did he handle mosquitos? Mud and, depending on where he lived, bear fat or rancid alligator fat.
Who was Simeon T Webb? He was Johnathan Luther “Casey” Jones’s fireman when the Cannonball Expressed crashed on April 30, 1900 in Vaughan, Miss. He survived. His description of what happened is what the song is based upon.