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Carol H Tucker
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Be warned:in this very rich environment where you can immerse yourself so completely, your emotions will become engaged -- and not everyone is cognizant of that. Among the many excellent features of SL, there is no auto-return on hearts, so be wary of where your's wanders...
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a day for celebrating love
Today is the 3rd day of the 7th week, the 14th day of the 2nd month, the 45th day of 2017 [with only 313 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day
- Extraterrestrial Culture Day
- Extraterrestrial Visitor Day
- Frederick Douglass Day
- International Book Giving Day
- International Quirky Alone Day
- League of Women Voters Day -- founded in Chicago.in 1920
- Library Lovers Day
- National Call in Single Day
- National Condom Day
- National Cream-filled Chocolates Day
- National Ferris Wheel Day
- National Have a Heart Day
- National Organ Donor Day
- National Women's Heart Day
- Pet Theft Awareness Day
- Race Relation Day
- Read to Your Child Day
- Safer Internet Day
- Singles Awareness Day or Singles Appreciation Day
- Valentine’s Day
ON THIS DAY: In 748 the Hashimi rebels under Abu Muslim Khorasani took Merv, capital of the Umayyad province Khorasan, marking the consolidation of the Abbasid revolt. In 1778 the US flag was formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte rendered a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones. In 1779 James Cook was killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell applied for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray. In 1918 the Soviet Union adopted the Gregorian calendar (on 1 February according to the Julian calendar). In 1924 the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company changed its name to International Business Machines Corporation (IBM). In 1929 the St. Valentine's Day Massacre took place in a Chicago garage as seven rivals of Al Capone's gang were gunned down. In 1961 Element 103, Lawrencium, was first synthesized at the University of California. In 1989 Iranian Muslim leader Ayatollah Khomeini issued a death threat against British author Salman Rushdie and his publishers over the book Satanic Verses. In 1990 the Voyager 1 spacecraft took the photograph of planet Earth that later become famous as Pale Blue Dot. In 2000 the spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker entered orbit around asteroid 433 Eros, the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid. In 2005 YouTube was launched by a group of college students, eventually becoming the largest video sharing website in the world and a main source for viral videos.
Years ago, when I was working at Commercial & Farmers Bank, Lola was my boss for a time. Each and every Valentine’s Day, she would bring in and distribute pieces of chocolate and single roses, saying that every woman deserved flowers and candy on this day. Lola and I had our differences and they were pretty profound, but this little act of kindness that made everyone smile is what I always remember on this day….
Whether you are celebrating alone or with someone, I hope you have something sweet to eat and something good to smell today!
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