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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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does Throwback Thursday mean I get to throw it back?
Today is the 5th day of the 23rd week, the 8th day of the 6th month, the 159th day of 2017 [with only 199 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Best Friends Day
- Betty Picnic Day
- Jelly-Filled Doughnut Day
- Name Your Poison Day
- National Caribbean Amercian HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
- Upsy Daisy Day
- World Brain Tumor Day
- World Oceans Day – first celebrated in 1992 , coinciding with the Earth Summit held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
On THIS DAY: In 218 with the support of the Syrian legions, Elagabalus defeated the forces of emperor Macrinus at the Battle of Antioch: In 632 Muhammad died in Medina. In 1794 Robespierre inaugurated the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large organized festivals all across France. In 1824 Noah Cushing received a patent for a wool washing and fulling machine, the first patent issued in Canada. In 1856 a group of 194 Pitcairn Islanders, descendants of the mutineers of HMS Bounty, arrived at Norfolk Island, commencing the Third Settlement of the Island. In 1887 Herman Hollerith applied for US patent #395,781 for the 'Art of Compiling Statistics', which was his punched card calculator. In 1912 Carl Laemmle incorporated Universal Pictures. In 1918 a solar eclipse was observed at Baker City, Oregon by scientists and an artist hired by the United States Navy. In 1949 George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four was published. In 1959 the USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempted the delivery of mail via Missile Mail ((it was an idea that would not take off….)). In 1966 the National Football League and American Football League announced a merger effective in 1970. In 1972 nine-year-old Phan ThịKim Phúc was burned by napalm, an event captured by Associated Press photographer Nick Ut moments later while the young girl is seen running down a road, in what would become an iconic, Pulitzer Prize-winning photo that helped shape anti-war sentiments. In 2004 the first Venus Transit in well over a century took place, the previous one being in 1882 [the last one happened 06.05.2012 and the next one won’t be until 12.10. 2117].
Writing prompt #159 -- Miss Manners: Write using the words “please” and “thank you”.
I have started and stopped writing several times – it says something about my tone of mind at the moment that every single time I write either, it comes out snarky or with a snarl. You see, I think that one of the real problems today in our homes, in our workplaces, in our public places, is that we don’t got no manners no more. In the end, I think Henry Higgins at the right of it as he differentiated between manners and etiquette ….
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