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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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Today is the 5th day of the 11th week, the 16th day of the 3rd month. The 75th day of 2017 [with only 283 shopping days left before Christmas[, and:
- Absolutely Incredible Kid Day
- Black Press Day
- Campfire Girls Day
- Companies That Care Day
- Curlew Day
- Everything You Do is Right Day
- Freedom of Information Day
- Goddard Day
- Lips Appreciation Day
- National Artichoke Heart Day
- No Selfies Day
- Oranges and Lemons Day
- St Urho's Day
And this date is slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday according to Wikipedia, but here we are!
ON THIS DAY: In 597 BC the Babylonians captured Jerusalem, and replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king. In 1521 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Philippines, where he was killed by natives the following month. In 1621 Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greeted them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." In 1649 Jesuit priests Jean de Brébeuf and Gabriel Lalement were tortured to death by Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) invaders at St-Louis; the two will be canonized in 1930. In 1850 "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne was published. In 1870 the first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky premiered. In 1894 Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed. In 1900 Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete. In 1916 the 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing crossed the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa. In 1926 Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts. In 1958 the Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding. In 1968, during the Vietnam War, the My Lai Massacre was carried out by United States troops under the command of Lt. William L. Calley Jr. Also in 1968 General Motors produced its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado. In 1989 a 4,400-year-old mummy was found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
Quote of the day:
“Ideas aren't magical; the only tricky part is holding on to one long enough to get it written down.”
~ Lynn Abbey, writer
I do a lot of my thinking and reflecting while I am driving – there is something about being encased in a car, with no other distractions other than the road and the other drivers, that makes my mind start chewing on things. Sometimes it goes way over the top too. Seriously, if my mind was an actor, I would either accuse it of grossly over-acting or comment that it was chewing up the scenery! I often talk to people, sometimes venting on a personal level and sometimes declaiming my opinions in ringing terms. And then I get out of the car and tackle the zen of small tasks, and that brilliant dissertation that I orated in the car fades away into wisps and shreds of memory and I am left blinking and groping, grasping at the lingering remains….
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