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Today is the 4th day of the 41st week, the 11th day of the 10th month, the 284th day of 2017, and:
"You Go, Girl" Day
Emergency Nurses Day
General Pulaski Memorial Day
International Day of the Girl Child
International Top Spinning Day
Myths and Legends Day
National Bring Your Teddy Bear to Work and School Day
National Coming Out Day
National Food Truck Day
National Fossil Day
National It' My Party Day
National Pet Obesity Awareness Day
National Sausage Pizza Day
National Stop Bullying Day
National Take your Parents to Lunch Day
Southern Food Heritage Day
Stop America's Violence Everywhere Day
Quote of the day:
"True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only."
~ Francois duc de La Rochefoucauld, French author of maxims and memoirs
Sounds like advice to de-clutter your prose and communications. Not too sure how I feel about this as polished rhetoric is pretty much inimical to babbling, and babbling is what I do best. That and asking questions…..
So, what do you thiink about trimming things here in the blog? Should I keep culling the history pages and listing what happened on this day that I find interesting? Or is just another list not something you are interested in reading about? Like today -- back in In 1582 – this day doesn’t even exist in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain because they switched to the Gregorian calendar. Back in those days, when a Pope issued a papal bull most of the Western world paid attention because they were all officially Roman Catholic, so ten whole days just disappeared from the calendar as they jumped from Thursday, October 4th to Friday October 15th overnight. Are you the slightest bit impressed t know that in 1767 the surveying for the Mason–Dixon line separating Maryland from Pennsylvania was completed? That is the unofficial divide between the North and the South on the East Coast, you know. Or how about the fact that in 1910 Theodore Roosevelt became the first US president to fly in an airplane. He flew for four minutes with Arch Hoxsey in a plane built by the Wright brothers at Kinloch Field (Lambert–St. Louis International Airport) in St. Louis, Missouri. The press was not impressed. Do you want to know that NASA launched a moon probe the year after the Russians shocked the world with Sputnik? It was 1958 -- a lunar probe called Pioneer 1, but it fell back to Earth and burnt up. They did better a decade later, in 1968 NASA launched Apollo 7, the first successful manned Apollo mission, with astronauts Wally Schirra, Donn F. Eisele and Walter Cunningham aboard. Do you care that 42 years ago today the NBC sketch comedy/variety show Saturday Night Live debuted and is apparently still ruffling feathers today?
Maybe I should stop just listing thing and go back to the kind of discussion of things that happened on this day in history like I just did. Don’t know precisely when I went to the list, but babbling is much more interesting I think
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