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Today is the 2nd day of the 2nd week, the 8th day of the 1st month, the 8th day of 2018, and:
Argyle Day
Bubble Bath Day
Earth's Rotation Day
Midwife's Day or Women's Day
National Clean Off Your Desk Day
National English Toffee Day
National JoyGerm Day
National Man Watcher's Day
National Weigh-In Day
National Winter Skin Relief Day
Show and Tell Day at Work Day
"Thank God It's Monday" Day ((said no one ever – especially since it is the first full work week in a while))
War on Poverty Day -- as part of his "Great Society" LBJ declared the war in 1964. In 2002 George W. Bush celebrated by signing into law the No Child Left Behind Act.
World Typing Day -- first celebrated in 2011, it aims to encourage people to express themselves via written communication and also in commemoration of the Malaysian Speed Typing Contest
On this day in ...
1547 – The first Lithuanian-language book, Simple Words of Catechism, is published in Königsberg.
1735 – Premiere performance of George Frideric Handel's Ariodante at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
1828 – The Democratic Party of the United States is organized.
1835 – The United States national debt is zero for the only time.
1889 – Herman Hollerith is issued US patent #395,791 for the 'Art of Applying Statistics' — his punched card calculator.
1973 – Soviet space mission Luna 21 is launched.
1981 – A local farmer reports a UFO sighting in Trans-en-Provence, France, claimed to be "perhaps the most completely and carefully documented sighting of all time".
1994 – Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov on Soyuz TM-18 leaves for Mir. He would stay on the space station until March 22, 1995, for a record 437 days in space.
Quote of the day:
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
~ Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Theoretical physicist
On social media, the group was asked one of those “getting to know you” type questions: “I wonder how many of you got into trouble for reading. As in: reading in school, when you weren't supposed to. Or reading at home, when you were a kid, and ditto.” My reply? “All. The. Time.”
I was one of those kids who didn’t learn to read until I was in the 1st grade, in fact, I was initially tracked lower because I didn’t know how to read! Don’t know why my parents didn’t think reading readiness was as important as “healthy play” but there you have it. But in elementary school, the teachers used to like to have us read one at a time, outloud and that drove me absolutely crazy because the kids all read so SLOW. As a result I was always finished the story and reading something else, or sneaking in a library book or a book from home and reading it instead of the assigned story. Not all of those readers were silly – through them I met Paul Bunyan and Sherlock Holmes [the Speckled Band] and read O’Henry, developing a lifelong love of short stories. At home? My parents were exasperated beyond words by my preference to stick my nose in a book versus going outside and playing. I’m sure my constant refrain of “I’ll do it when I finish this chapter” didn’t help at all. I was limited to one book or magazine a day and punished by having all reading material taken away when I didn’t adhere to that regime.
I remember talking to Dr Wall, the pediatrician, worried because my kids weren’t picking up books. He looked at me thoughtfully and asked me what I did when I had free time. I admitted that I had a habit of grabbing a book but my then husband liked to watch TV. He asked if the kids saw me reading, and I said I guessed that they did. He then told me not to worry, they would grow up understanding that reading was a pastime – and they did. I have to admit, neither of them read as much as I did and still do though. I don’t know what my life would’ve been like without my 2nd Life in books and imagination….
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