May

This resource contains a short presentation on the month of May.
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May Presentation

This is an informative and fully editable 95-slide PowerPoint presentation on the month of May. It focuses on:

How May got its name, things associated with May – flowers hawthorn, Lily of the Valley, Zodiac signs- Taurus and Gemini, birthstone, May quotes by Virgil, Edwin Way Teale, Charles Macklin

May sayings and folklore - ne’er cast a clout till May is out, washing face in Hawthorn dew on May 1st leading to life- long beauty, marry in May and you’ll rue the day

Special Days in May – May Day, Feast of St Joseph, Ascension Day, National Smile Month, Pentecost, Buddha Day (Wesak), Eurovision Song Contest, VE Day, Oak Apple Day

Notable Birthdays – Tony Blair, Catherine the Great, Bing Crosby, David Beckham, Golda Meir, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, George Clooney, Robert Browning, Johannes Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Eva Peron, Irving Berlin, Salvadore Dali, Florence Nightingale, Edward Lear, Stevie Wonder, Mark Zuckerberg, Gabriel Fahrenheit, Pierce Brosnan, Sugar Ray Leonard, Omar Khayyam, Pope John Paul II, Pete Townshend, Richard Wagner, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Laurence Olivier, Bob Dylan, Ian Flemming, John F. Kennedy, Steven Gerrard, Clint Eastwood.

Inventions / Launches – Coca-Cola, Cornflakes patented.

Notable Events – Empire State Building opened, Tony Blair became Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher first woman prime minister, Amy Johnson’s flight to Australia, Eiffel Tower opened, Channel Tunnel opened, Roger Bannister broke 4 minute mile, Nelson Mandela South Africa’s first black president, Sir Winston Churchill became PM, Bob Marley died, first Formula One , first McDonald’s opened, Napoleon Bonaparte made Emperor of France, Anne Boleyn beheaded, unexplained darkness on Eastern Canada and parts of USA, Amelia Earhart flew across Atlantic, Charles Lindbergh’s flight from Paris to New York, strongest earthquake ever recorded in Chile, first electric telegram sent by Samuel Morse, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing reached summit of Everest, Joan of Arc burned at stake.

The PowerPoint also contains hyperlinks to Berlin’s Alexander’s Rag Time Band, Brahms Lullaby, Tchaikovsky’s Sugar Plum Fairy, Bannister’s sub 4-minute mile race and Churchill’s broadcast on end of World War II.

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