My Notes May 2026 Week 1

Polar bears are the largest bears on Earth.

Males weigh more than a half ton and measure up to 3 m tall when standing.

Females patrol an area of 100,000 square kilometers.

The mother bears need a large area to protect their young from other bears and to find food.

Mother bears’ milk is about fifty percent fat.

The longest distance swam by a polar bear is 685 km over a period of nine days straight.

National Nurses Week begins each year on May 6 and ends on May 12.

May 6 is also National Nurse Day and May 12 is the birth date of Florence Nightingale.

In 1854, Florence and 38 volunteer nurses that she trained, and 15 Catholic nuns went to a hospital in the Crimean War.

She lowered the death rate of wounded soldiers from 42 percent to 2 percent.

She opened the first nursing school after the war.

“X marks the spot” means “the location of a certain point.”
X marks the spot for where you are on the map.

“You bet (your boots / your life)” means “of course.”

You bet your life I am angry with him.