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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 lot to remember
Today is the 3rd day of the 22nd week [I thought that was last week – yeah, I should’ve checked….], the 30th day of the 5th month, the 150th day of 2017, and:
- Loomis Day -- DC dentist, Mahlon Loomis, received US patent number 129,971 titled “An Improvement in Telegraphing” on wireless telegraphy in July of 1872.
- My Bucket's Got a Hole in It Day -- celebrate by appreciating the imperfection of a leaky bucket, or by repurposing one into something useful. You could also celebrate by buying yourself a new, fully functional one. Or, perhaps, by enjoying the Hank Williams song
- National Mint Julep Day
- Shavout -- a major Jewish festival held on the 6th (and usually the 7th) of Sivan, fifty days after the second day of Passover. It was originally a harvest festival, but now also commemorates the giving of the Law (the Torah).
- Water a Flower Day
ON THIS DAY: In 70 Titus and his Roman legions breached the Second Wall of Jerusalem; Jewish defenders retreated to the First Wall while the Romans built a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres. In 1539 Hernando de Soto landed at Tampa Bay Florida with 600 soldiers with the goal of finding gold. In 1588 the last ship of the Spanish Armada set sail from Lisbon heading for the English Channel. In 1631 the Gazette de France, the first French newspaper, was published. In 1868 Decoration Day (the predecessor of the modern "Memorial Day") was observed in the United States for the first time (by "Commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic" John A. Logan's proclamation on May 5). In 1932 the National Theatre of Greece was founded. In 1971 Mariner 9 was launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars. In 1982 Cal Ripken Jr of the Baltimore Orioles played in the first of a record 2,632 consecutive major league baseball games.
Today is the actual date of Decoration or Memorial Day, something that has been celebrated for 149 years.
Got me wondering – just how long has my country been embroiled with one conflict or another? I turned to the list of conflicts cited in Wikipedia -- and quite frankly, I was a bit shocked. If you tally up the years the US was not involved in one conflict or another, internally or externally, it would seem that in 241 years of existence, the US has only been at peace for about 27 years [or only 11.2% of the time], and the longest space of time between conflicts has been six years. That is a lot of dead soldiers to remember and morn... Sadly, I don’t think that track record is unusual amongst the powers of the world – it would appear that homo sapiens definitely has issues with getting along with each other, neh?
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