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a Tuesday of no particular note
Today is the 3rd day of the 42nd week, the 17th day of the 10th month, the 290th day of 2017 [it’s too close to be funny so I’m not telling you how many shopping days until Christmas this year anymore], and:
- Black Poetry Day ((a day for poetry to celebrate the color black, a day for poetry about blacks, a day for poetry by blacks, or a day to write poetry about your dystopian vision))
- Four Prunes Day – you can rely on these dried plums to keep you regular and they make really moist bread too
- Information Overload Day
- International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
- Mulligan day -- since the 1920’s, in golf, a mulligan happens when a player gets a second chance to perform a certain move or action. I think I like the idea of having a day devoted to do-overs whether it is an old relationship or just a hobby that you put down
- National Edge Day
- National Face Your Fears Day
- National Pasta Day
- National Pharmacy Technician Day
- Pay Back A Friend Day
- Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity
- Spreadsheet Day
- Wear Something Gaudy Day
- World Trauma Day
On this day:
In 1814 – Eight people die in the London Beer Flood. Yup, you read that right -- there was a fatal flood in London of beer, over one million litres in volume and in a tidal wave at least 15 feet high.
In 1933 – Albert Einstein flees Nazi Germany and moves to the United States. Actually he was already in the US and when Hitler came to power he didn’t return because he was Jewish. The fact that the Nazis ridiculed his Theory of Relativity and specifically denounced him had a lot to do with that decision. He did return to Europe, and renounced his German citizenship while staying in Belgium in March, returning to the US in October to take a position in Princeton
In 1965 – The 1964–65 New York World's Fair closes after a two-year run. More than 51 million people had attended the event -- my mother and I went to see it the summer of '65, one of the few outings that I can recall going on with her. We traveled up for the day on the train. I remember the Parker Pen exhibit where I ended up with my pen pals; walking through the GM giant automobile motor; It's a Small World; and Mom fussing because the Maryland pavilion was serving crab cakes on hamburger rolls instead of properly on crackers.
In 1973 – OPEC imposes an oil embargo that lasted until March 1974 against a number of Western countries, considered to have helped Israel in its war against Egypt and Syria. Do you remember sitting in line to get gas, when you could only buy on certain days depending on your license plate number [odd or even last digit] and the Christmas without lights?
In 2017 -- NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 28 mins 33 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Picture of the day: I couldn’t find the original source of the picture, but it is all over the wallpaper sites!
Quote of the day:
“We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.”
~ Henry Ward Beecher
I remember having this conversation with the CEO at Commercial & Farmers Bank, in the lunchroom. The point I made as he reflected on his past, was that in his life he had X amount of KSA. If his mother had stayed with the coal miner she divorced, then that KSA would’ve only taken him so far. But because she went back to his grandfather, who was a university professor, he started much further up on the social scale and that same KSA took him to where he was. Got chewed out by the executive secretary for that one because Roberta, bless her heart, thought it was disrespectful of me to talk to him like that, but Jack understood what I meant and agreed with me. Unbeknownst to me, I was describing the advantages of starting from a place of privilege; I was just explaining why I wasn’t particularly impressed by titles or position.. Never have been. Never will be.
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