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Holiday posters index | April | May | June | search site | |||
| May Observances: | poster links | resource links | ||
| Teacher Appreciation Month | National Education Association | |||
| Asian Pacific American Heritage Month | Great Asian Americans posters | Asian Pacific American Heritage Assoc | ||
| National Egg Month (World Egg Day is 2nd Fri. in Oct.) |
food posters | American Egg Board | ||
| Neurofibromatosis Awareness Month | diseases posters | Nat'l Neurofibromatosis Foundation | ||
| Older Americans Month | aging maturity posters | Administration on Aging | ||
| Physical Fitness & Sports Month | Presidents Council on Physical Fitness & Sports | |||
| Tennis Month | United States Tennis Assoc | |||
| Better Hearing & Speech Month | hearing anatomy posters | Am Speech-Language-Hearing Assoc | ||
| Trauma Month | health posters | American Trauma Society | ||
| Alcohol Awareness Month | dangers of alcohol poster | US DHHS & SAMHSA Clearinghouse- Alcohol & Drug Information | ||
| Mental Health Awareness Month | health practioners posters | National Mental Health Association | ||
| Huntington's Disease Awareness Month | health posters | Huntington's Disease Soc. of Am | ||
| Better Sleep Month | Better Sleep Council | |||
| Historic Preservation Month | architecture posters | National Trust for Historic Preservation | ||
| First Week of May | ||||
| Teacher Appreciation Week & Teacher Day May 3, 2005 (Tuesday of first full week of May) | educators posters | National Education Association | ||
| Child Nutrition Employee Appreciaton Week | Kiss the Cook | American School Food Service Assoc | ||
| National Hospital Week | health posters | National Hospital Association | ||
| National Safe Kids Week | safety posters | National Safe Kids Campaign | ||
| National Safe Drinking Water Week | hydrosphere posters | US EPA Ground & Drinking Water | ||
| Be Kind to Animals Week | animals & pets posters | American Humane Society | ||
| National Wildflower Week | flowers posters | Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Cntr | ||
| Second Week of May | ||||
| National Nurses Week - always celebrated 5-6 to 5-12 commemorating Florence Nightingale Birthday | health practioners posters | American Nurses Association | ||
| National Nursing Home Week - always begins with Mother's Day | American Health Care Association | |||
| Police Week | C.O.P.S. site | |||
| National Stuttering Awareness Week | health practioners posters | Stuttering Foundation of America | ||
| Third Week of May | ||||
| Emergency Medical Services Awareness Week | health practioners posters | |||
| Safe Boating Week | ||||
| Fourth Week of May | ||||
| International Pickle Week | food posters | Pickle Events & History | ||
| May Holidays | ||||
| May 1- May Day (always 5-1) | May Day poster | May Day Traditions Beltane (modern Irish for May) |
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| May 5 - Cinco de Mayo | Mexico posters | Cinco de Mayo Resource File | ||
| May 5 - Children's Day, Japan | Japan posters | Children's Day Lesson Ideas | ||
| Mother's Day - 2nd Sun May (May 11, 2008) | Mother's Day posters | Mother's Day History | ||
| Pentecost/Whitsun (Western) 50th Day after Easter - May 11, 2008 (5-31-2009, 5-23-1020) | Christianity posters | Pentecost Celebration & History | ||
| Memorial Day - Celebrated Last Monday in May | Memorial Day poster | |||
| May Notable Dates | ||||
| b. 5-1-1672 - Joseph Addison, author | Joseph Addison print | Joseph Addison Resource File | ||
| b. 5-1-1830 - Mother Jones, activist | Mother Jones magazine | Mother Jones Bio | ||
| b. 5-1-1852 - Martha Jane Cannary, notorious woman | Calamity Jane grave site print | Calamity Jane Resource File | ||
| b. 5-1-1881 - Teilhard de Chardin, visionary | Teilhard portrait poster | Teilhard CP Links for Learning | ||
| b. 5-1-1923 - Joseph Heller, author | Catch-22 poster | Joseph Heller Resource File | ||
| b. 5-2-1660 - A. Scarlatti, composer | A. Scarlatti print | A. Scarlatti Resource File | ||
| b. 5-2-1729 - Catherine (II) the Great | Catherine II poster | Cathrine II Resource File | ||
| b. 5-2-1843 - Elijah McCoy, inventor | Great Black Innovators poster series | Elijah McCoy Resource File | ||
| b. 5-3-1469 - Niccolo Machiavelli, philosopher | Machiavelli print | Machiavelli Resource File | ||
| b. 5-3-1898 - Golda Meir, statesperson | Heroes of 20th Century poster series | Golda Meir Resource File | ||
| b. 5-4-1825 - Thomas Henry Huxley, biologist | Thomas Henry Huxley print | Thomas Henry Huxley Resource File | ||
| b. 5-4-1827 - John Hanning Speke, explorer | John Hanning Speke print | John Hanning Speke Resource File | ||
| 5-4-1886 - Haymarket Riot, Chicago | Emma Goldman poster | Haymarket Riot Resource File | ||
| b. 5-5-1813 - Søren Kierkegaard, philosopher | Søren Kierkegaard print | Søren Kierkegaard Resource File | ||
| b. 5-5-1818 - Karl Marx, philosopher | Karl Marx print | Karl Marx Resource File | ||
| b. 5-5-1846 - Henryk Adam Aleksandr Sienkiewicz, Pseudonym: Litwos, author | Litwos print | Henryk Adam Aleksandr Sienkiewicz Resource File | ||
| 5-5-1961, Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into space. | astronauts posters | Alan Shepard Resource File | ||
| 5-5-1992, 27th Amendment to US Constitution - No law, varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives, shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened. | Bill of Rights poster series | Admendments to the Constitution | ||
| b. 5-6-1856 - Sigmund Freud, | Sigmund Freud posters | Sigmund Freud Resource File | ||
| b. 5-6-1856 - Robert Peary, explorer | Explorers posters | Robert Peary Resource File | ||
| b. 5-6-1880 - Ernst Kirchner, artist | Expressionists prints | Ernst Kirchner Resource File | ||
| b. 5-6-1915 - Orson Welles, actor | Orson Welles print | Orson Welles Resource File | ||
| b. 5-6-1931 - Willie Mays, baseball player | Willie Mays poster | Willie Mays Resource File | ||
| 5-6-1937 - Hindenburg Exploded | History Through a Lens: Hindenburg Disaster poster |
Hindenburg Disaster History | ||
| b. 5-7-1812 - Robert Browning, poet | Robert Browning print | Robert Browning Resource File | ||
| b. 5-7-1833 - Johannes Brahms, composer | Brahms posters | Johannes Brahms Resource File | ||
| 5-7-1915 - Lusitania sunk by German sub | WWI posters | The Sinking of the Lusitania | ||
| b. 5-8-1884 - Harry S Truman, US President | Harry S Truman print | White House Bio, Harry S Truman | ||
| b. 5-8-1902 - Andre Lwoff, biologist | Andre Lwoff print | Andre Lwoff Resource File | ||
| b. 5-9-1800 - John Brown, abolitionist | John Brown print | John Brown Resource File | ||
| b. 5-9-1949 - Billy Joel, composer | Billy Joel Rolling Stone cover | Billy Joel Resource File | ||
| 5-10-1869, First Transcontinental Railroad completed | History Through a Lens poster series: The Railrood: East & West Shaking Hands | Transcontinental Railroad History | ||
| 5-11-1858 - Minnesota, 32nd State | Minnesota posters | All About Minnesota | ||
| b. 5-11-1888 - Irving Berlin, composer | Irving Berlin print | Irving Berlin Resource File | ||
| b. 5-11-1892 - Margaret Rutherford, actress | Margaret Rutherford photo | Margaret Rutherford Resource File | ||
| b. 5-11-1894 - Martha Graham, dancer | Martha Graham poster for Lucifer by Miro | Martha Graham Resource File | ||
| b. 5-11-1904 - Salvador Dali, artist | Salvador Dali posters | CP Links for Learning - Dali | ||
| b. 5-11-1918 - Richard Feynman, physicist | Richard Feynman print | Richard Feynman Resource File | ||
| b. 5-12-1820 - Florence Nightingale, nurse |
Women Who Dared I poster-• Florence Nightingale |
American Nurses Association | ||
| b. 5-12-1842 - Jules Massenet, composer | Jules Massenet posters | Jules Massenet Resource File | ||
| b. 5-12-1845 - Gabriel Faure, composer | Gabriel Faure print | Gabriel Faure Resource File | ||
| b. 5-12-1936 - Frank Stella, artist | Frank Stella print | Frank Stella Resource File | ||
| b. 5-13-1707 - Carolus Linnaeus, biologist | Carolus Linnaeus print | Carl Linnaus Resource File | ||
| b. 5-13-1717 - Marie Theresa of Austria | Marie Theresa portrait | Marie Theresa Resource File | ||
| b. 5-13-1886 - Alexandre Sakharoff | Sakharoff print | Sakharoff Resource File | ||
| b. 5-13-1950 - Stevie Wonder, musician | Stevie Wonder poster | Stevie Wonder - The Definitive Collection | ||
| b. 5-14-1914 - Joe Louis, boxer | Joe Louis print | Joe Louis Resource File | ||
| b. 5-14-1925 - Patrice Munsell, opera singer | Patrice Munsell TIME | Patrice Munsell Resource File | ||
| b. 5-15-1567 - Claudio Monteverdi, composer | Monteverdi print | Claudio Monteverdi Resource File | ||
| b. 5-15-1826 - Henri Mouhot, explorer | Henri Mouhot print | Henri Mouhot Resource File | ||
| b. 5-15-1856 - L. Frank Baum, author | L. Frank Baum poster | L. Frank Baum Resource File | ||
| b. 5-15-1930 - Jasper Johns, artist | Three Flags 1958 print | Jasper Johns Resource File | ||
| b. 5-16-1886 - Douglas Freeman, historian | Douglas Freeman TIME | Douglas Freeman Resource File | ||
| b. 5-16-1891 - Richard Tauber, opera singer | Richard Tauber print | Richard Tauber Resource File | ||
| b. 5-16-1898 - Tamara de Lempicka, artist | Tamara de Lempicka print | Tamara de Lempicka Resource File | ||
| b. 5-17-1749 - Dr. Edward Jenner | Edward Jenner print | Edward Jenner Resource File | ||
| b. 5-17-1866 - Erik Satie, composer | Erik Satie print | Erik Satie Resource File | ||
| 5-17-1954, Brown v Board of Education Topeka, KS, the United States Supreme Court rules "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." | Landmark Supreme Court Decisions posters | Background on Brown v Board of Education | ||
| b. 5-18-1788 - Hugh Clapperton, explorer | Hugh Clapperton print | Hugh Clapperton Resource File | ||
| b. 5-18-1830 - Karl Goldmark, composer | Karl Goldmark print | Karl Goldmark Resource File | ||
| b. 5-18-1883 - Walter Gropius, architect | Bauhaus poster | Walter Gropius Resource File | ||
| 5-18-1896, Plessy v Ferguson, the United States Supreme Court approved de jure racial segregation in public facilities, and ruled that states could prohibit of the use of public facilities by African Americans. | Landmark Supreme Court Decisions posters | |||
| b. 5-18-1901 - Vincent de Vigneaud, biologist | Vincent de Vigneaud print | Vincent de Vigneaud Resource File | ||
| b. 5-18-1902 - Meredith Willson, composer | Music Man print | Meredith Willson Resource File | ||
| b. 5-18-1920 - Karol Jòseph Wojtyla, religious leader | Pope John Paul II posters | CP Links for Learning- Pope John Paul II |
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| b. 5-18-1920 - Reggie Jackson, baseball player | Reggie Jackson photo | Reggie Jackson Resource File | ||
| b. 5-19-1744 - Queen Charlotte | Queen Charlotte portrait | Queen Charlotte Resource File | ||
| b. 5-19-1861 - Nellie Melba, opera singer | Nellie Melba TIME Magazine print | Nellie Melba Resource File | ||
| b. 5-19-1879 - Nancy Witcher Langhorne Astor, Viscountess Astor, feminist | Lady Astor print | Lady Astor Resource File | ||
| b. 5-19-1925 - Malcolm X, civil rights leader | Malcolm X posters | CP Links for Learning - Malcolm X | ||
| b. 5-19-1930 - Lorraine Hansberry, author | Lorraine Hansberry Resource File | |||
| d. 5-20-1506 - Christopher Columbus, explorer | Columbus posters | Christopher Columbus Resource File | ||
| b. 5-20-1799 - Honoré de Balzac, author | Honoré de Balzac print | Honoré de Balzac Resource File | ||
| b. 5-20-1806 - John Stuart Mill, philosopher | John Stuart Mill print | John Stuart Mill Resource File | ||
| b. 5-20-1882 - Sigrid Undset, author | Sigrid Undset print | Sigrid Undset Resource File | ||
| b. 5-20-1946 - Cher, singer & actress | Cher photo | Cher Resource File | ||
| b. 5-21-1471 - Albrecht Dürer, artist | Albrecht Dürer posters | Albrecht Dürer Resource File | ||
| b. 5-21-1844 - Henri Rousseau, artist | Henri Rousseau bio poster | Henri Rousseau Resource File | ||
| b. 5-21-1921 - Andrei Sakharov, author | Andrei Sakharov print | Andrei Sakharov Resource File | ||
| 5-21-1927 - Lindbergh flew across Atlantic | Charles Lindbergh with the Spirit of St. Louis, 1927 Fine-Art Photo |
Charles Lindbergh Rssource File | ||
| b. 5-22-1688 - Alexander Pope, poet | Alexander Pope print | Alexander Pope Resource File | ||
| Richard Wagner posters | Richard Wagner Resource File | |||
| b. 5-22-1844 - Mary Cassatt, artist | Mary Cassatt posters | CP Links for Learning - Mary Cassatt | ||
| b. 5-22-1858 - Arthur Conan Doyle, author | Arthur Conan Doyle print | Arthur Conan Doyle Resource File | ||
| b. 5-23-1734 - Friedrich Anton Mesmer | Mesmer portrait | Mesmer Resource File | ||
| 5-23-1788 - South Carolina becomes 8th state to ratify U.S. Constitution | South Carolina posters | South Carolina History | ||
| b. 5-23-1790 - Jules Dumont d'Urville, explorer | d'Urville print | Jules Dumont d'Urville Resource File | ||
| b. 5-23-1810 - Margaret Fuller, author | Margaret Fuller portrait print | Margaret Fuller Resource File | ||
| b. 5-23-1910 - Franz Kline, artisit | Franz Kline serigraph | Franz Kline Resource File | ||
| b. 5-23-1925 - Joshua Lederberg, biologist | Joshua Lederberg print | Joshua Lederberg Resource File | ||
| b. 5-23-1933 - James Brown, Godfather of Soul | James Brown print | James Brown Resource File | ||
| b. 5-24-1819 - Queen Victoria Canadian Victoria Day is celebrated the Monday prior to May 25 (5-19-2008, 5-18-2009, 5-24-2010) |
Queen Victoria print Canada posters |
Queen Victoria Resource File Canadian Heritage |
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| b. 5-24-1878 - Lillian Gilbreth, engineer | Lillian Gilbreth poster | Lillian Gilbreth Resource File | ||
| b. 5-25-1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, author | Ralph Waldo Emerson posters | CP Links for Learning - Emerson | ||
| b. 5-25-1878 - Wm. 'Bojangles' Robinson, dancer | Wm. 'Bojangles' Robinson poster | Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson Resource File | ||
| b. 5-25-1929 - Beverly Sills, opera singer | Beverly Sills TIME cover | Beverly Sills Resource File | ||
| b. 5-26-1877 - Isadora Duncan, dancer | Isadora Duncan posters | CP Links for Learning - Isadora Duncan | ||
| b. 5-26-1895 - Dorothea Lange, photographer | Dorothea Lange print | Dorothea Lange Resource File | ||
| b. 5-26-1899 - Aaron Douglass, artist | Aaron Douglass poster | Aaron Douglas Resource File | ||
| b. 5-26-1926 - Miles Davis, musician | Miles Davis print | Miles Davis Resource File | ||
| b. 5-27-735 - Saint Bede the Venerable | Bede the Venerable print | Bede the Venerable Resource File | ||
| b. 5-27-1837 - "Wild Bill" Hickok | Hickok & Calamity Jane print | |||
| b. 5-27-1871 - Georges Rouault, artist | Expressionists prints | Georges Rouault Resource File | ||
| 5-27-1937 Golden Gate Bridge opens | Golden Gate print | Golden Gate Bridge History | ||
| b. 5-27-1907 - Rachel Carson, environmentalist & author | Rachel Carson posters | CP Links for Learning - Carson | ||
| b. 5-27-1923 - Henry Kissinger, statesman | Henry Kissinger poster | Kissinger Biography | ||
| b. 5-28-1738 - Dr Joseph-Ignace Guillotin | Guillotin print | Joseph-Ignace Guillotin Resource File | ||
| b. 5-28-1879 - Vanessa Bell, artist | Vanessa Bell print | Vanessa Bell Resource File | ||
| b. 5-28-1888 - Jim Thorpe, athlete | Jim Thorpe photo | Jim Thorpe Resource File | ||
| b. 5-28-1917 - John F. Kennedy, author | John F. Kennedy print | White House Bio, John F. Kennedy | ||
| b. 5-29-1736 - Patrick Henry, patriot |
Patrick Henry poster | Patrick Henry Resource File | ||
| 5-29-1790 Rhode Island, 13th State, last of the original colonies to ratify US Constitution | Rhode Island posters | Rhode Island History | ||
| 5-29-1848 - Wisconsin, 30th State | Wisconsin posters | Wisconsin History | ||
| b. 5-29-1874 - G. K. Chesterton, author | G. K. Chesterton print | G. K. Chesterton Resource File | ||
| b. 5-31-1887 - Saint-John Perse (Alexis Leger), author | Saint-John Perse portrait | Saint-John Perse Resource File | ||
| b. 5-31-1819 - Walt Whitman, poet | Walt Whitman posters | CP Links for Learning - Whitman | ||
| May Facts & Tidbits | ||||
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The name May possibly derives from Maia the Roman Goddess of Increase, in Japanese May is called Satsuki. |
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| Astrological Signs | Astrology | |||
•  Taurus: April 21 - May 21 |
• Taurus poster • Taurus, the Bull Ecard |
cardinal, fire, personal; "I want," action oriented, pioneering, assertive, "me" first, enthusiasm, leader, competitive, selfish, head/brain; assertive, impulsive, head down; imaginative, sensitive, distracted. | ||
| • Gemini: May 21 - June 21 |
• Gemini poster • Gemini, the Twins Ecard |
mutable, air, personal; "I think," curious, talkative, sociable, duality, mercurial, whimsical, intelligent, superficial, hands/arms; logical, inquisitive, superficial. | ||
| Birthstones | ||||
| • Emerald: fertility and joy, prophecy and clarity. |
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• Birthstone (U of Washington) • Emerald Resource File |
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| Flowers | ||||
| • Lily of the Valley - meaning, "You will find Happiness." • Hawthorn - be sure to keep your cold weather clothing out till the Hawthorn blooms! |
• flower posters | • Lily of the Valley Resource File • Hawthorn Resource File |
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