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Carol H Tucker

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2016 heads out


"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,


Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit

Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,

Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it." 

~  Omar Khayyám 


 



Well this is it – the last day of 2016.  The 7th day of the 52nd week, the 31st day of the 12th month, the 366th day of 2016 [+ one second], and:

  • Global Champagne Day
  • Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
  • Look On The Bright Side Day
  • Make Up Your Mind Day
  • New Year's Eve – AKA First Night, Bisperás ng Bagong Taón, Ōmisoka, and the first day of Hogmanay
  • New Year's Eve Banished Words List
  • New Year's Dishonor List
  • One Voice Day
  • Universal Hour of Peace Day
  • Unlucky Day
  • World Peace Meditation Day
  • The eighth Night of Chanukah
  • The seventh of the Twelve Days of Christmas (Western Christianity)
  • The sixth day of Kwanzaa (United States)
ON THIS DAY:  In 406 Vandals, Alans and Suebians crossed the Rhine, beginning an invasion of Gaul.  In 1600 the British East India Company was chartered.  In 1638 the Lunar eclipse in Huron country [Ontario, Canada] panics natives, who place blame on Jesuits.   In 1759 Arthur Guinness signed a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.  In1790 Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today, was published for the first time.  In 1796 – the incorporation of Baltimore as a city.  In 1853 a dinner party was held inside a life-size model of an iguanodon created by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Sir Richard Owen in south London, England.  In 1857 Queen Victoria chose Ottawa, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.  In 1878 Karl Benz, working in Mannheim, Germany, filed for a patent on his first reliable two-stroke gas engine, and he was granted the patent in 1879.  In 1879 Thomas Edison demonstrated incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.  In 1907 the first New Year's Eve celebration was held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in Manhattan.   In 1929 Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians played Auld Lang Syne to usher in the New Year for the very first time, in their first annual New Year's Eve Party at the Hotel Roosevelt Grill.  In 2004 Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft), officially opened.  In 2009 both a blue moon and a lunar eclipse occurred.  In 2011 NASA succeeded in putting the first of two Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory satellites in orbit around the Moon. 

Like Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Eve can be a bit lonely.    I wish I had words of wisdom to impart that would uplift and inspire, or maybe a witty story or two sending us into the New Year with laughter on our lips.   Instead I am frittering away the day, playing with fireworks [if you say Happy New Year on Facebook it responds with a display], reading other people who have summarized the year [funny or not], cleaning up my stash in Diablo III [season 8 ended last night] and pondering whether or not to party again this year in Second Life.    But tonight like every year,  I will stay up to bid the old year farewell and welcome the new one -- it is said that “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves” [Bill Vaughn].....

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