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5 DEC 2017
Today is the 3rd day of the 49th week, the 5th day of the 12th month, the 339th day of 2017, and:
- AFL-CIO Day -- The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL–CIO in 1955
- Bathtub Party Day
- Columbian International Day of The Reef
- International Ninja Day
- International Volunteer Day
- International Volunteer Day for Economic & Social Development
- Krampusnacht
- National Blue Jeans Day [not the same as Denim Day] -- wear jeans to communicate support of gay rights.
- National Communicate With Your Kids Day – how do you interact with your kids?
- National Commute With Your Baby Day – it ain’t easy
- National Sacher Torte Day -- a specific type of chocolate cake, or torte, invented by Austrian Franz Sacher[1] in 1832 for Prince Wenzel von Metternich in Vienna, Austria
- Repeal Day – Prohibition in the US came to an end when when Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st amendment
- World Soil Day
- World Trick Shot Day
On this day in....
1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, the second largest island in the Caribbean after Cuba (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
1766 – In London, auctioneer James Christie holds his first sale. I rummaged about, but cannot find out what was sold or for how much other than he had pictures.
1848 – In a message to the United States Congress, President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California. There is no record of him saying "thar's gold in them thar hills!"
1901 – Walt Disney, American animator, director, producer, and screenwriter, co-founded The Walt Disney Company, was born. He died in 1966
1905 - Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen telegraphs from Eagle City, Alaska, that he had successfully navigated the Northwest Passage on his ship Gjoa, but his feat was of little economic value – the first cargo ship didn’t get through until 1969
1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa. Would he be allowed to immigrate today? Maybe….
1952 – A cold fog, that came to be known as The Great Smog, descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow. The air pollution was mainly caused by burning low-grade, sulphurous variety of coal to keep dwellings warm and to power plants. It is estimated the following pollutants were emitted each day during the smoggy period: 1,000 tonnes of smoke particles, 140 tonnes of hydrochloric acid, 14 tonnes of fluorine compounds, and 370 tonnes of sulphur dioxide which may have been converted to 800 tonnes of sulphuric acid. The air above London still hasn’t completely recovered.
1964 – Lloyd J. Old discovered the first linkage between the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) and disease—mouse leukemia—opening the way for the recognition of the importance of the MHC in the immune response.
2017 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 35 mins 01 sec of light-travel time from Earth
Been a while since I checked out the writing prompt of the day….
339. Pick Me Up:What do you do when you need a pick me up?
Well now that is a good question, especially this year, what with the news making me wonder about the country I live in, my daughter facing major surgery [and they are only keeping her overnight!?], and my usual angst about being widowed turning the holiday season decorations slightly gray. Do I do something different during the holidays than I usually do? Not particularly. I work on thinking about what is going right instead of what is going wrong. I try and keep busy in a way that doesn’t exhaust me either physically or emotionally [that isn’t very easy this time of year]. Because I have blood sugar issues, the solace of comfort foods is denied to me – this is a real downer since freshly baked bread has always been my downfall. Learned that when I was working part-time in the bakery for three years in high school and the start of college.—after working around them most donuts, cakes and cookies didn’t mean that much and I could do without them [well maybe not without Russian Teacakes and peanut butter cookies] more or less, but fresh baked bread and rolls? From the smell to the taste, I have been hooked for the past 52 years….. *coughs* Kinda strayed from the topic at hand, didn’t I? Mostly I dive into my 2nd Life – not just by heading in world, but also books, the world of my imagination that calls out to me, allows me to be immersed, permits me to travel through time and space, leaving the cares and woes of everyday life behind so that after the interlude I can reenter everyday life feeling renewed and refreshed.
But nothing beats the smell of freshly baked bread, not even a freshly cut Christmas tree – although it is pretty close!
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