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Carol H Tucker

Passionate about knowledge management and organizational development, expert in loan servicing, virtual world denizen and community facilitator, and a DISNEY fan

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Today is the 7th day of the 7th week, the 17th day of the 2nd month, the 48th day of 2017 [with 310 shopping days until Christmas], and: 
  • Independence Day: Kosovo from Serbia in 2008
  • My Way Day
  • National Cabbage Day
  • National Cafe au Lait Day
  • National Champion Crab Races Day
  • National Indian Pudding Day
  • National PTA Founders' Day
  • National Public Science Day
  • Random Acts of Kindness Day -- The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation (RAK) was founded in 1995 in the US as a nonprofit headquartered in Denver, Colorado.  Random Acts of Kindness (RAK) day began in 2004 in New Zealand
  • Who Shall I Be Day
  • World Human Spirit Day
  • World Whale Day
On this day in …

1600 – The philosopher Giordano Bruno is burned alive, for heresy, at Campo de' Fiori in Rome.  He proposed that the stars were just distant suns surrounded by their own exoplanets and raised the possibility that these planets could even foster life of their own (a philosophical position known as cosmic pluralism) and insisted that the universe is in fact infinite and could have no celestial body at its "center".

1753 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.

1863 - The International Red Cross was founded in Geneva.

1867 – The first ship passes through the Suez Canal.

1904 – Madama Butterfly receives its première at La Scala in Milan.

1933 – Newsweek magazine is first published.

1959 – The first weather satellite, Vanguard 2, is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.

1965 – The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the "Sea of Tranquility" would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.

1968 – In Springfield, Massachusetts, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame opens.

1869 - Founding of the Canadian Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals; today's Humane Society

1972 - President Nixon departed on his historic trip to China.

1972 – Cumulative sales of the Volkswagen Beetle exceed those of the Ford Model T.

1980 – First winter ascent of Mount Everest by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.

1996 – World chess champion Garry Kasparov beat IBM supercomputer "Deep Blue," winning a six-game match in Philadelphia.

1996 – NASA's Discovery Program begins as the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft lifts off on the first mission ever to orbit and land on an asteroid, 433 Eros.

2018 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 36 mins 20 secs of light-travel time from Earth
 

I spent the day with my granddaughters, and was struck again by what the current interests of preschoolers:  My Little Pony is still alive and kicking, Peppa Pig, Sofia the 1st, the Octonauts, Daniel Tiger and something calledCookieSwirlC interspersed with the occasional Disney movie, dominates the time they have with “screens”. 

When my kids were growing up, it was all about Big Bird [and the invisible Mr. Snuffleupagus], Cookie Monster, the Count, Maria, Bob and the entire ensemble.   My son’s favorite character was Oscar the Grouch, and he knew the trash song by heart at a very early age.  My daughter loved Bert and Ernie, oatmeal and rubber ducky and all, and still hangs their ornaments on her Christmas tree.  My favorite was always Grover, ever since he confided sadly that it wasn’t easy being Grover.  I was intensely disappointed that my teenagers categorically refused to go to the theme park when it opened back in 1980!    Sesame Street sure has changed a lot since the days it was on every morning in our house along with Mr. Rogers, Captain Kangaroo, and The Electric Company!  I am not at all fond of what I have seen of Elmo, Mr. Hooper is long gone, Bob seems to have lost his Linda, many other regulars seem to have departed [only Susan is left], and you have to subscribe to see the show these days – it moved from PBS to HBO two years ago.  So even though my granddaughters and I sing Rubber Ducky every bath time, it doesn’t look like I’ll ever get to actually see Sesame Street….

 

 

 

Unless I go by myself…...


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