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Show May, 1979 Spring's last born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with twinkling feet. And, gold locks In breezy Play, Half teasing and half tender to repeat, Her song of May. -Susan Coolidge. May, which probably derives its name from Maria, the mother of Mercury, is the last full spring month. It's a particularly pleasant month in the United States and most countries. TO US IN the United States May also means Kentucky Derby Month, Memorial Day in most of the states, the end of school. May Day, Mother's day (May 13th) and Armed Forces Day (May 19th). In addition, interesting anniversaries an-niversaries occur in May. Do you remember the most important? im-portant? One concerns May 7th. It was on May 7th, 1915, off the Old Head of Kindsdale, on the coast of Ireland, that the Lusitania was sunk by a German U-boat, causing the loss of 1,150 lives. THIS WAS one of the tragedies which finally brought the United States into world war I against Germany. Harry S. Truman, 33rd President, was born on May' 8th in 1884. On May 10th the first trans-continental railroad met at Promontory Point, Utah, in 1869. The first permanent English settlement began at Jamestown, James-town, Va., on May 13th, 1607, when 105 colonists settled in that small port city. AND, ON MAY 20th, 1927, Charles Augustus Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field, New York, and made a nonstop non-stop flight to Paris-a heroic achievement which thrilled the world. |