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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beladona Memorial 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...
Today is the 4th day of the 43rd week, the 26th day of the 10th month, the 300th day of 2016, and:
Horseless Carriage Day -- in 1869, the inventor and mechanic and the first automobile driver on the American road Frank Duryea is born on a farm in Washburn, Illinois
Intersex Awareness Day ((guess I needed an awareness day because I had to google the difference between intersex and androgynous but I still am not sure I get it))
Lung Health Day
National Day of The Deployed
National Mincemeat Day
National Mule Day ((did you know a mule is the offspring of a male donkey [AKA a jack] and a female horse [AKA a mare}, and are more common than hinnies, the offspring of a female donkey [AKA a jenny] and a male horse [AKA a stallion]?))
National Pumpkin Day
Worldwide Howl at the Moon Night
ON THIS DAY: In 306 Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki was run through with spears in Thessaloniki during the Christian persecutions of Diocletian and Galerian. In 1670 Louis Gaboury was jailed for eating meat during Lent in Québec, Canada. In 1785 the first Spanish Jacks were delivered to Boston US as a gift from King Charles III of Spain delivered -- George Washington then began breeding them in the US. In 1825 the Erie Canal opened with passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie. In 1861 the Pony Express officially ceased operations. In 1863 the Football Association, the oldest football [AKA soccer] association in the world, was formed in London. In 1881 Wyatt Earp, his two brothers and "Doc" Holliday confronted Ike Clanton's gang in a gunfight at the OK Corral in Tombstone, Ariz. In 1968 Soviet cosmonaut Georgy Beregovoy piloted Soyuz 3 into space for a four-day mission. In1975 the first World Conference of Indigenous Peoples took place in Port Alberni, Canada, with several hundred delegates from 19 countries to discuss social, economic and political justice; the preservation of aboriginal cultural identity; and natural resources and the environment. In 1977 Ali Maow Maalin developed a rash in Merca district, Somalia -- the last documented natural case of smallpox (The World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider this date the anniversary of the eradication of smallpox, the most spectacular success of vaccination).
I exceeded the character limit for the blog post by telling my story, so I am posting this separately